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Booing Boris. AIBU to say he deserved it?

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newnamethanks · 03/06/2022 15:04

I'm not a boo-er, it doesn't come naturally to me. Yet thinking of the photo of the queen, alone, at her husband's funeral contrasted with his snivelling 'apology' for tolerating depraved behaviour in his workplace together with his other contemptuous behaviour over the course of parliament, I'd have found it hard to resist. His presence just seems like adding more insult to injury.

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DuncinToffee · 05/06/2022 00:15

People cheered for Lee Mack and Stephen Fry tonight....

Tandora · 05/06/2022 08:16

Most of the country are sick to the back teeth of party gate , it would be a very strange boss who didn't attend a leaving do at work

ehhhh??? Not when said boss had just passed a law banning leaving do’s and making attending them a criminal offence.

mum2jakie · 05/06/2022 09:34

AmaryIlis · 05/06/2022 07:47

Great news. I hope all those in Tory seats are feeling very very uncomfortable! Mr Johnson is no longer the people's favourite cheeky chappy.

itsgettingweird · 05/06/2022 09:43

Tandora · 05/06/2022 08:16

Most of the country are sick to the back teeth of party gate , it would be a very strange boss who didn't attend a leaving do at work

ehhhh??? Not when said boss had just passed a law banning leaving do’s and making attending them a criminal offence.

Quite

DuncinToffee · 05/06/2022 09:54

Grant Shapps got the memo

Grant Shapps asked about the footage of crowds of royalists loudly booing Boris Johnson, replies that: "there were also people cheering and you're not asking why they did that."

Jason118 · 05/06/2022 09:55

They were cheering the boos.

MrsSkylerWhite · 05/06/2022 09:59

hattie43
Most of the country are sick to the back teeth of party gate , it would be a very strange boss who didn't attend a leaving do at work .

Even old Keir was doing the same .

Very childish to boo and today wasn't the right occasion or place“

no, most of the country really isn’t.

have you listened to Any Questions/Any Answers, Question Time, any number of Vox pops on national and regional news programmes, lately?

The majority of people are furious.

itsgettingweird · 05/06/2022 09:59

DuncinToffee · 05/06/2022 09:54

Grant Shapps got the memo

Grant Shapps asked about the footage of crowds of royalists loudly booing Boris Johnson, replies that: "there were also people cheering and you're not asking why they did that."

It's a really weak argument isn't it.

It's like asking why there's an increase in shoplifting and the response being "there is also people who pay for their shopping"

It seems to be a tactic of ignoring what's happening by pointing out the opposite also happened.

Their lack of responsibility is beyond anything I've seen before.

Peregrina · 05/06/2022 10:04

We don't know that Keir Starmer was doing the same. As far as I am aware none of his staff have been issued with FPNs. Until he and his staff are, we have to assume that they weren't partying.

I can well imagine though that Starmer isn't likely to confuse a party with work, but which Johnson has trouble with.

ClaudineClare · 05/06/2022 10:16

Are the Tories hoping for or against Starmer getting a FPN, I wonder? It is not good for the Tories either way, really.

cakeorwine · 05/06/2022 10:16

They should ask "Did it surprise you to hear booing of the Prime Minister from Royalists at St. Paul?"

Volterra · 05/06/2022 10:17

It’s all sounding a bit desperate isn’t it?!

DuncinToffee · 05/06/2022 10:24

Volterra · 05/06/2022 10:17

It’s all sounding a bit desperate isn’t it?!

Yes

He might as well have said 'I heard no boos' or rather 'I do not believe those were boos'

SerendipityJane · 05/06/2022 10:52

DuncinToffee · 05/06/2022 10:24

Yes

He might as well have said 'I heard no boos' or rather 'I do not believe those were boos'

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There are no cameras here ....

itsgettingweird · 05/06/2022 11:00

ClaudineClare · 05/06/2022 10:16

Are the Tories hoping for or against Starmer getting a FPN, I wonder? It is not good for the Tories either way, really.

Well yes for a number of reasons.

And not just to do with the gathering.

It's the fact Boris has come out and said he didn't get fined because it was a gathering reasonably expected for work.

If KS is fined when the rules were much more relaxed for gathering with work colleagues during a campaign (not for goodbye drinks and speeches) it'll not only make even more of a mockery of him but highlight the failings and bias in the met even further.

SerendipityJane · 05/06/2022 11:12

It's the fact Boris has come out and said he didn't get fined

Er, wasn't Boris issued an FPN ?

Clavinova · 05/06/2022 11:19

They should ask "Did it surprise you to hear booing of the Prime Minister from Royalists at St. Paul?"

One of the royalists has identified himself - Clement Jacquemin, a French citizen who has lived in the UK for 21 years. He mentions Brexit before Partygate - wishes France still had its royalty and claims he is leaving the country because of Boris Johnson;

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/spectator-booed-boris-johnson-jubilee-b2093474.html

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newnamethanks · 05/06/2022 11:23

One. Gosh, he was very loud.

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cakeorwine · 05/06/2022 11:23

Wakefield by election coming up soon
Rumours that 54 letters have been reached.

It's going to be an interesting few months

SerendipityJane · 05/06/2022 11:25

cakeorwine · 05/06/2022 11:23

Wakefield by election coming up soon
Rumours that 54 letters have been reached.

It's going to be an interesting few months

I believe, in Imperial, 54 letters is "a Boris" ?

ClaudineClare · 05/06/2022 11:31

Clavinova · 05/06/2022 11:19

They should ask "Did it surprise you to hear booing of the Prime Minister from Royalists at St. Paul?"

One of the royalists has identified himself - Clement Jacquemin, a French citizen who has lived in the UK for 21 years. He mentions Brexit before Partygate - wishes France still had its royalty and claims he is leaving the country because of Boris Johnson;

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/spectator-booed-boris-johnson-jubilee-b2093474.html

So? None of that negates the huge amount of booing. Johnson is toast, unless a miracle occurs at the by-elections.

Clavinova · 05/06/2022 11:37

newnamethanks
One. Gosh, he was very loud.

Did he come with friends, or is he a 'loner'? More than happy for you to link to anyone else identified from the crowd.

Volterra · 05/06/2022 11:39

Just been having a long conversation with my Stepmum about it all. Her and my Dad were huge Boris fans and she was saying that it is a very small comfort to her that Dad isn’t around to see the pictures of him during the time when people were dying alone as he would have been really upset and furious.

She’s livid and can’t understand why he won’t do the decent thing in her book and resign. Feels that who takes his place is something to be sorted once he is gone, that he should just go now and all her friends and family think the same. Not a conversation I thought I would ever have with her.

itsgettingweird · 05/06/2022 11:39

SerendipityJane · 05/06/2022 11:12

It's the fact Boris has come out and said he didn't get fined

Er, wasn't Boris issued an FPN ?

Yes 1. For the birthday gathering/party.

However all the other events where he was photographed drinking with colleagues and making speeches he was found to be within the law and not fined. He said they were work events and allowed. He said he was mixing with these people in the office anyway.

Therefore if KS is fined it will be found he is guilty of breaking the same laws Boris wasn't found guilty of breaking. Except when KS held his gathering during campaigning the rules were more relaxed.

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