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Blossomtoes · 31/01/2022 21:16

@TomPinch

No - they support him because they're a bunch of second-raters who only care about their own personal advancement and whose only hope of getting it is Boris Johnson.

They know what they're doing.

But they don’t. Everyone who has openly supported Johnson will be irrevocably tarnished when he’s gone.

Peregrina · 31/01/2022 21:24

But they don’t. Everyone who has openly supported Johnson will be irrevocably tarnished when he’s gone.

I sincerely hope so. It will be no loss whatever to see Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Raab, Patel, Truss and lightweights like Dories cleared out.

itsgettingweird · 31/01/2022 21:27

@babybythesea

I was particularly impressed by how keen Johnson is to ‘learn lessons.’ Bit confused by what lessons he thinks he needs to learn though. I mean, if he needs to learn not to break rules he put in place then I’m not entirely sure he can cope leading the country. If that’s not the lesson, then what is the lesson he’s so keen to learn?

Can I also use this as a defence? If I steal, can I earnestly say that I will definitely learn that stealing us not a good idea?

It’s a bit like some of the five year olds in my class. Very enthusiastic but not altogether sure what they are supposed to be doing. Or why. Or how. Still, enthusiasm for learning is really important. Now he needs to learn the lesson well away from public office where he can do so much damage.

Funnily enough I was thinking very similar.

He has to learn by the mistakes he made - which he can't admit to making - because right they are investigating if he was in his own flat in November. He couldn't possibly comment if he was their - but he'll learn from it

And yes to kids saying because they've learnt it. I work SN education. The kids know my look - but often have no idea why I'm giving it. They have to stop, then we have to have a conversation about why I've said stop, and why it isn't a good idea to do it again! But these are seems with MLd/ SLD!

comfortablyfrumpy · 31/01/2022 21:30

@the80sweregreat

Have to wait for the Met now This report took weeks , that one will be even longer I suppose

I think we need to get AC-12 to widen their remit and get called in. Steve and Kate would get to the bottom of the whole thing in 6 weeks...

Blossomtoes · 31/01/2022 21:33

Six weeks? Six days more like. The Led by Donkeys films are so perfectly pitched.

TomPinch · 31/01/2022 21:34

It's the naughty schoolboy all over again. I wonder just how many times and how many people he's told that he's 'learned some lessons'.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 31/01/2022 21:34

@Peregrina

But they don’t. Everyone who has openly supported Johnson will be irrevocably tarnished when he’s gone.

I sincerely hope so. It will be no loss whatever to see Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Raab, Patel, Truss and lightweights like Dories cleared out.

Quite.

And then we can move on from moving backwards.

comfortablyfrumpy · 31/01/2022 21:39

@Blossomtoes

Six weeks? Six days more like. The Led by Donkeys films are so perfectly pitched.

I was working on one episode per week

Yes, LBD did great versions!

CovidCorvid · 31/01/2022 21:43

Even Hancock eventually resigned after breaking the rules and he could also argue that if he worked with Gina every day then snogging her was no more of a covid risk.

I think what Boris has done is worse and he’s clinging on.

WanJames · 31/01/2022 22:20

Following

Jellykat · 31/01/2022 22:26

I never ever thought i'd see the day when i agreed with Theresa May!
Her comments today were spot on..

derxa · 31/01/2022 22:28

@Alexandra2001

How ridiculous. I was dead against Brexit. I support Ruth all the way She's a Tory peer by the way

I don't know anything about what the tory party or voters are like north of the border, clearly they are very different breed to the English versions.

RD has always struck me as a decent person who would probably make very good leader of the labour party in England!

Which is why i suggested she may well have not voted conservative.

We're a very different breed up here. Our local MP is www.davidmundell.com/ A dear lovely man who came out as gay but his family support him. I met him once at Hogmanay with my DF. BorisJ has no traction up here at all.

Tealightsandd · 31/01/2022 22:33

Fun times ahead - with Twelve Homes Silent But Deadly Rishi Sunak as PM....

Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire.

cakeorwine · 31/01/2022 22:41

Anyone see the Nadine Dorries interview on Channel 4?

booplefloof · 31/01/2022 22:56

Words fail me.

Again.

echt · 31/01/2022 23:05

@cakeorwine

Anyone see the Nadine Dorries interview on Channel 4?

Just watched it on YouTube.

Bloody hell.

So glad I've maintained my vote in the UK.

TomPinch · 31/01/2022 23:14

Just watched it too. Good grief

HalfwomanHalfcookie · 31/01/2022 23:17

I wonder if she believes she comes across well in these interviews.

cakeorwine · 31/01/2022 23:24

If anyone has seen the comedian Rosie Holt on Twitter, this could well be one of her sketches

Curiousmouse · 31/01/2022 23:26

I was struck by reports of the meeting he held with MPs afterwards, in which he tried to appeal to them by saying he'd cancelled a discussion with Putin to talk to them. I wonder how that went down. I bet plenty of them basked in that! And worse.

Peregrina · 31/01/2022 23:42

Erm, I thought he was leading the West's response to Putin? So first step, cancel a phone call because you are in the shit yourself.

Piggywaspushed · 01/02/2022 06:52

The lovely Nadir still has not replied to a letter I wrote to her about the 'not parties'.

Alexandra2001 · 01/02/2022 06:58

We're a very different breed up here. Our local MP is www.davidmundell.com/
A dear lovely man who came out as gay but his family support him. I met him once at Hogmanay with my DF. BorisJ has no traction up here at all

Interesting guy, i think he was once on R4 .... Good he wants action on empty/2nd homes, our MP Sheryll Murray is too busy building her property portfolio to care about her local area.... sounds more English LibDem then a English Tory.

Aside i had to search the page to find out what party he represented, the word conservatives was tucked away in the top left corner, no surprise if the Tory leadership is as disliked as you say.

Alexandra2001 · 01/02/2022 07:04

@Curiousmouse

I was struck by reports of the meeting he held with MPs afterwards, in which he tried to appeal to them by saying he'd cancelled a discussion with Putin to talk to them. I wonder how that went down. I bet plenty of them basked in that! And worse.

Putin is only going to listen to the Americans, Europe simply hasn't got the means or the will to make any serious attempts at curtailing Putins behavior.

London isn't called Londongrad because of the Govt's tough stance on Russian laundered money.

Anyway, i thought BJ telling the faithful he almost died of CV was pretty sick tbh, its just another lie, anyone who really had almost died wouldn't then risk getting it again, on multiple occasions :(

He took resources from the NHS that could have been used to treat someone who was genuinely ill, not someone who was there for PR purposes.

itsgettingweird · 01/02/2022 07:14

May should be interesting. My ds is yr 13. Not yet 18 til summer but plenty of his friends are already 18.

They've started discussing the elections. They all had a hatred of trump and never liked Boris but now they are furious. I think people have forgot m ton this cohort.

What I'm hearing from them all is how they missed their GCSEs, missed 2nd term of college and still have no safety measures. They basically know they have done very little for education with regards actual measures. To now find whilst they did all this Boris was having parties is rankling even more. I imagine anyone in the 18-21 age group doing a levels and starting college is feeling very similar.

It seems he's forgotten the opinion of the next generation in this - he's been focusing on his current voters.