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Not to believe Johnson about Putin

54 replies

Zonder · 30/01/2023 22:24

Does anyone? Doesn't it seem odd he has suddenly told this story? Is he just being wheeled out to deflect from Zahawi? Is he just trying to get attention? Or has he just remembered the story and feels it needs to be told?

So, IABU - brave Johnson, must have been a bit scary to get a phone call like that
IANBU - load of piffle to distract us all

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paintitallover · 30/01/2023 22:39

YANBU. I thought it myself. Although I think the cause is his own PR.

ilovesooty · 30/01/2023 22:39

I don't believe anything he says about anything.

Discwriter · 30/01/2023 22:40

Most coherent I've ever heard him. So decided that it must be a...lie.

Theimpossiblegirl · 30/01/2023 22:41

Hasn't he got a book coming out?

I can't imagine a Tory telling porkies about anything for their own gain, so it must be true.

9thFloorNightmare · 30/01/2023 22:41

Seems like he is copying Haz. I bet if for attention.

Jux · 30/01/2023 22:45

I think as soon as the Russians deny somehting you can take it to be true. Or true enough.

Windbeneathmybingowings · 30/01/2023 22:46

Boy who cried wolf. I always assume anything he says now is false.

antwacky · 30/01/2023 22:49

I wouldn't trust him to tell me what the weather outside was like. Its so easy to tell when he's lying, his lips move..

Tinkerbyebye · 30/01/2023 22:52

Personally if Russia denied it I am tempted to believe it’s true

OneTC · 30/01/2023 22:55

I don't think you'd be "or something like that" about that time someone threatened to missile you to death

WeAreAllLionesses · 30/01/2023 23:10

ilovesooty · 30/01/2023 22:39

I don't believe anything he says about anything.

This. Absolutely this.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 30/01/2023 23:13

Very tricky as I wouldn’t believe a word from either Johnson or Putin(or the russian “government” generally).

There must be a way in which they’re both lying. Perhaps they didn’t speak at all?

ReedRite · 30/01/2023 23:13

I wouldn't believe anything Putin said either, tho!

Thedogscollar · 30/01/2023 23:20

ilovesooty · 30/01/2023 22:39

I don't believe anything he says about anything.

Absolutely this. He is a compulsive liar with no shame.

Iam4eels · 30/01/2023 23:23

Boris Johnson could tell me the sky is blue and I'd still feel the need to look up and check.

He's a complete and utter fantasist.

PeekAtYou · 30/01/2023 23:24

I smell bullshit too.

minou123 · 30/01/2023 23:30

A man goes into heaven and there he meets Jesus.
He asks Jesus what that broken clock is there for. Jesus says "that is Mother Teresa's clock it has never moved because she has never lied".
"There is Abraham Lincolns clock. He has .lied twice so it has moved twice."
"Where is Boris Johnson's?" ask's the man. Jesus answers "it is in my office, I am using it as a ceiling fan."

flummocksed · 30/01/2023 23:35

I see no reason not to believe him. He was interviewed for a documentary about Putin. They interviewed other former PMs too, so I expect they'll be trailing more quotes. To be fair, the headlines were more sensationalist than the actual quote, which made it clear Putin was just blabbering.

batterseaparkfireworks · 30/01/2023 23:45

Theimpossiblegirl · 30/01/2023 22:41

Hasn't he got a book coming out?

I can't imagine a Tory telling porkies about anything for their own gain, so it must be true.

Yes. In a desperate need to stay relevant, so anything goes

ForestMountainsDesertOcean · 30/01/2023 23:46

He's famous for lying.

Forever42 · 30/01/2023 23:49

He could be telling the truth but as he's lied so many times in the past people just assume he's not telling the truth, which makes it easy for the Kremlin to discredit him. The politician who cried Wolf....

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 30/01/2023 23:52

Is it bad I don’t care either way?

LaurieFairyCake · 30/01/2023 23:55

Hilariously it will be recorded but of course he won't have access to release it Grin

Its obviously the only truth he's ever told

itsnotmeitisactuallyyou · 30/01/2023 23:55

BJ full of lying shite which he has proven many times

Teaandtoast3 · 31/01/2023 00:14

I don’t believe a word either man utters. Load of shite, smoke and mirrors.