Page 24 | Boris - new low

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 2022-02-01T16:50:34+00:00

Obviously he's running scared from his own side as well and Labour and the excellent contribution from Ian Blackford - no doubt Dennis Skinner would have done the same if still an MP. However, there was no need for Johnson to stoop to the level of more lies - this time trying smear Kier Starmer with untrue allegations about Jimmy Savile. [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60213975]]

OhYouBadBadKitten · 03/02/2022 21:53

Probably clearing their desk drawers of empties and fleeing the sinking ship.

Piglet89 · 03/02/2022 22:00

I mean, the question really has to be: what does Boris need to do in order to be required to resign as PM?

How wrong is wrong enough?

ClaudineClare · 04/02/2022 08:24

@Piglet89

I mean, the question really has to be: what does Boris need to do in order to be required to resign as PM?

How wrong is wrong enough?

What ever he does, short of something like murdering the Queen, his supporters will excuse him.

ClaudineClare · 04/02/2022 08:29

I think a lot of his supporters are either just too blinkered and stupid to see beyond Johnson getting the Brexit they so badly wanted "done". The rest are probably in deep denial and don't want to admit to themselves that they made a horrific mistake in voting for a Johnson-led Tory party.

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/02/2022 08:36

WindyState

There comes a point where you just have to accept that certain people are just fucking idiots and you are no longer surprised by what they do.

Boris passed that point about 20 years ago. He's an idiot, he does stupid things. Is the pope catholic?“

Yep, this. A slightly uncomfortably amusing guest on HIGNFY a good PM does not make. (Ian Hislop on the other hand ….)

Luckily for Johnson, stupidity also seems to be a common trait of the voting public.

Oh that Boris, what a character 🙄

Alexandra2001 · 04/02/2022 08:36

@ClaudineClare

I think a lot of his supporters are either just too blinkered and stupid to see beyond Johnson getting the Brexit they so badly wanted "done". The rest are probably in deep denial and don't want to admit to themselves that they made a horrific mistake in voting for a Johnson-led Tory party.

Apparently last nights (uncontested) by election attracted just a 24% turn out and the number of spoiled papers quadrupled.

Considering he was a well liked MP and the manner of his death, i was very surprised his replacement got such low support.

Maybe even his hardcore supporters are turning away from him?

SmallThingsEverywhere · 04/02/2022 08:41

@ClaudineClare

I think a lot of his supporters are either just too blinkered and stupid to see beyond Johnson getting the Brexit they so badly wanted "done". The rest are probably in deep denial and don't want to admit to themselves that they made a horrific mistake in voting for a Johnson-led Tory party.

I think your last sentence is spot on. A lot of people stubbornly don’t want to admit that they made a mistake.

DePfeffoff · 04/02/2022 08:47

Anyone who seeks to use the pain and distress of children to score a cheap political point, is beyond my contempt. Way, way below it.

Let alone someone who then dismisses their distress as "getting hot under the collar"

DePfeffoff · 04/02/2022 08:50

You've got to wonder about the poor sods who get appointed to fill the many empty seats at no. 10. Who the hell would want a job in a chaotic office where you know the person who is supposed to be in charge won't listen to you, won't take responsibility for his own incompetence, is lying and corrupt, and won't hesitate to push you under the bus in order to save his own skin the next time he inevitably fouls up?

Peregrina · 04/02/2022 08:54

I take it the by-election was David Amesses old seat? Not something to boast about winning when it's uncontested by the main parties with the ballot paper being made up of one person from the previous incumbent's party and a rag-tag of others.

DePfeffoff · 04/02/2022 09:06

Yes, it was. Very low turnout, substantial increase in spoilt ballots. I suspect that's the option I would have gone for if I lived there.

Peregrina · 04/02/2022 09:46

It looks like the 'none of these, Boris is a wanker' candidate came second.

BitOutOfPractice · 04/02/2022 09:48

Yes this is David Ames seat. One next to mine. They’d vote for a potato with a blue rosette on in these parts.

SueSaid · 04/02/2022 09:51

@BitOutOfPractice

Yes this is David Ames seat. One next to mine. They’d vote for a potato with a blue rosette on in these parts.

What an awful thing to say.

Peregrina · 04/02/2022 09:57

What an awful thing to say.

Similar jibes were made by the Whigs about the Tories - that they would vote for a pig with a blue rosette. I am surprised that you don't know this.

Blossomtoes · 04/02/2022 10:16

They certainly would round here.

ClaudineClare · 04/02/2022 10:36

What an awful thing to say

Why is it awful? It is true and very inoffensive.

Unlike "tank topped bum boys", "people... go around looking like letter boxes" and "flag waving piccaninnies".

jgw1 · 04/02/2022 11:03

@ClaudineClare

What an awful thing to say

Why is it awful? It is true and very inoffensive.

Unlike "tank topped bum boys", "people... go around looking like letter boxes" and "flag waving piccaninnies".

It is not something I would say at this time about that seat, given the circumstances of the by-election and that David Amess was by all accounts a decent MP.

SueSaid · 04/02/2022 11:08

'It is not something I would say at this time about that seat, given the circumstances of the by-election and that David Amess was by all accounts a decent MP.'

Exactly jgw. How nice we can agree on something.

Cornettoninja · 04/02/2022 11:10

I have to admit to lol’ing at hearing Boris has declared that numerous aides leaving is ‘part of his plan’ to address partygate and the underlying culture.

Oh you meant for this to happen. The spin is outrageous.

jgw1 · 04/02/2022 11:13

@JaniieJones

'It is not something I would say at this time about that seat, given the circumstances of the by-election and that David Amess was by all accounts a decent MP.'

Exactly jgw. How nice we can agree on something.

I think we also agree that it would be inappropriate for a 56 year old Prime Minister to have a birthday party when denying that to millions of children.

SueSaid · 04/02/2022 11:33

@Cornettoninja

I have to admit to lol’ing at hearing Boris has declared that numerous aides leaving is ‘part of his plan’ to address partygate and the underlying culture.

Oh you meant for this to happen. The spin is outrageous.

Well it does sound plausible or else they'd all be writing speeches like Mirza wouldn't they?

SueSaid · 04/02/2022 11:35

'I think we also agree that it would be inappropriate for a 56 year old Prime Minister to have a birthday party when denying that to millions of children.'

A bit of cake in an office for 10 mins isn't a party.

Do you often have 10 min parties?

Blossomtoes · 04/02/2022 11:36

Oh God, not this again.

Peregrina · 04/02/2022 11:37

I wonder why some of his ten minute parties are now under criminal investigation?