Does anyone believe Boris Johnson?

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Johnson is claiming that he didn't know there were any issues with Chris Pincher before he appointed him back to the office Chris had previous quit over allegations of sexual harassment. Ministers have been wheeled out to defend Johnson's lack of knowledge (again).

Is there anyone apart from Nadine Dorries who actually believes this?

YABU - I believe Boris
YANBU - Boris is lying again and taking us all for fools

I wouldn't believe Johnson if he told me what the time was.

Are his lips moving?

Then no, I don't.

Story slowly changing the message again around Pincher. Boris didn’t know, Boris had some awareness. …

This government take us for fools. Gaslighting at it’s finest, sadly.

Everything Johnson says or does is to further his own ends, to make him moeny (directly or indirectly), he has a long history of lying, deception & obfuscation.

I am ashamed that he is PM of thus country, I fundamentally disagree with many of the policies & laws the tory government has enacted and I am astonished that there are not riots demanding the removal of this government.

So if most people now can see that Johnson lies non stop, have they realised that he sold a pack of lies about Brexit? Or are people still believing those lies he told? Wasn't even the EU straight bananas a lie made up by Johnson?

It has been proven time and time again that the man is a liar and a fraud.

Agree with the majority that he’s a proven liar and it’s therefore now very difficult to believe anything he says. Which is why he should have resigned. What use is a prime minister that the public don’t believe. 🤷‍♀️

He clearly has someone's backing and. Powerful protectors, most likely wealthy donors to the party. He lies we know he lies and he knows we know, he has the brass neck to live with it. He is there because he was believed to be the only contender who could deliver brexit. He will be gone when he is no longer useful to those who have the power to remove him,but he will leave a legacy showing the level of dishonesty and corruption we will tolerate.

What confuses me is why lie and then gradually backtrack when the information is so widely known that the lie was unbelievable? I get lying about something that isn't widely known and hoping to get away with it (though don't condone it). But lying was never going to work in this case.

Yup. It's the fault of the Tories and only the Tories that Johnson ever ended up in Downing Street. We the general public were powerless to prevent his accession, and it was obvious by the time they chose to install him exactly what he was.

He won't be long now though. Dead man walking.

Shocked I tell you!

Yadnbu
Still the 3% believe BJ - I’d be interested he hear why.

The thing is, he just elongates these negative stories by lying. We've had days of 'no he didn't know anything' turning into 'well, there were those rumours' before the evidence finally emerges that proves what we all knew all along. His Comms team must despair

The entire political news cycle is just whatever Boris Johnson's latest deceit/corruption is that he needs people to go out and lie for him over.

If he quit, we might actually be able to have a functional government start to sort out some of the issues facing the country.

And Boris is still lying. A peer has just published a letter to the standards committee saying that there was a complaint in 2019 against Pincher, it was upheld, and Johnson was briefed in person.

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I wouldn't believe Johnson if he told me the time.

Agree 100%.

Wasn't it when the Cummings stuff happened there was a line about "when you become the news ....."

That's not been trotted out for a while but couldn't be more relevant imo.

Absolutely

if he told me my eyes were blue I’d have to go and check

Unfortunately, you only have to look at the responses to any political story on Mumsnet/Twitter/Facebook/etc to see that a fair chunk of the population either do fall for it, don't care about it, or find it endearing.

I really wish there was some sort of mechanism in place that ensured the people who voted for a party were the ones to bear the brunt of any negative consequences from said party's rule. I'd even be willing to agree to them also being first in the queue for any benefits (not that the average person would ever see one from a tory government).

Of course I believe him. He is the Prime Minister and he does his best poor mite.

(The fact that so many people (in and out of work) are having to go to food banks - choose between heating and eating etc - has got nothing to do with him.) These people are obviously not working hard enough perhaps they could stop having baths/showers etc. Therefore joining the great unwashed.

Let them eat cake (currently Mr. Kipling cheapest on offer at Iceland mind - though you have to watch that as there are currently only three in the packet rather than fiv....etc)

One wonders why Mr Pincher bothered resigning this time when it appears he has got away with similar in the past with no consequence.

If Boris told me it was definitely definitely for sure wasn't my father I would instantly call my mother and scream what the hell!

If his lips are moving he’s lying. What mystifies me is the number of women who’ve believed him for long enough to have his children.

That'll be Nadine name changing again.

Johnson won’t even admit to how many children he has. His whole persona is built on lies. I’m not even sure that he has any concept of the truth.