Finally.. A politician acting like an adult...

[Spinflight]

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/03/boris-johnson-project-fear-hysteria-is-gripping-britain/

"Boris Johnson today condemns the government for failing to highlight the positives of Brexit and instead allowing "hysteria" to take hold following the referendum result.

In his first intervention since withdrawing from the Tory leadership race, Mr Johnson criticises the government for offering the public a "binary choice on the EU" without explaining how the country would move forward in the event of a Leave vote.

In an article for The Telegraph Mr Johnson says the failure to explain that Britain can have a "bright future" has led to protests by young people who now have irrational fear of life outside the EU."

The rest of them remind me of the Kevin and Perry sketch where he has to wash the car.

"It's soooooooo unfair!"

Cameron's resignation strop was deeply embarrassing, Clarke, Heseltine and Blair no better. Gove and May acting like children fighting over a favourite toy. The entire labour party realising they are on the wrong side of history, yesterday's men.

Utter contempt for the people of the UK laid bare.

Well done Boris.

Leave was in no way responsible for a plan, and that Remain should have

It's incomprehensible to me, this post hoc re-writing of history.

Until June 23rd, the Leave campaign were adamant that Cameron, the government and expert opinion were not to be trusted; everything they said or predicted was due to incompetence, corruption or deliberate lies (aka Project Fear). The empowering message to its voters was that they knew better and could do better than that Other Lot of : Hope Not Fear, Take Back Control, Make Britain Great Again.

From June 24 onwards, we are now being told that the Leave campaign not only trusted, but had expected, those same incompetent, corrupt and lying to take the UK out of the EU and indeed, Make Britain Great Again. No responsibility at all would lie with those who campaigned to Leave, whose purpose was entirely to get people to put a cross in a box.

The lack of any action or leadership from the ringleaders of the Leave campaign (apart from Nigel blazing a path for us in Brussels, but of course he was conveniently never part of the official Leave campaign) for the past week seems to have been glossed over - thank goodness for the petty infighting of our main political parties! And now that Boris has finished running away and returned to his day job of writing newspaper articles, we are meant to once again hail him as a visionary?

Has Boris done a proper media interview with a heavyweight interviewer since the referendum?

Boris is a fool for not asking that brilliant strategist and economy expert Farage. He's the one who knows how to do it.
And Germany will also be begging to keep trading freely with the UK. Begging.

So Boris is throwing peanuts from the safety of the gallery. The cricket must have been rained off or something.

"Utter contempt for the people of the UK laid bare."

I completely agree, Spinflight. Utter contempt is exactly what B Johnson has shown the people of the UK.

Elements

Beautifully articulated.

The most amusing thing so far today about potential "plans" is that one of the Tory party leadership candidates (Crabb), in conjunction with the current business secretary, Sajid Javid, has proposed something that as the Guardian live blog rightly commented "looks like undiluted Corbynism".

What a world eh?

Ha Ha Ha. Best Joke of the morning OP. At last a politician acting like an adult.....Boris. This one will probably have me laughing all day.

As soon as Boris heard people booing outside his house, he was out.

The only person Boris cares about is Boris.

He can go and fuck himself.

And there goes farage...resigned

What a bunch of cunts they really were.

I cannot think of another election in which the winner was not immediately all over the papers and broadcast media basking in his victory and - to quote the Leave campaign itself - "Taking back control". Boris - like T. S. ELiot's Mcavity - quite literally disappeared and - apart from the baying mob it - it seems that no one who would actually be in a position to do so actually wants to instigate Article 50. There is no plan. David Cameron didn't have one because he made it quite clear from the start he thought it was a bad idea (as bad as his idea to hold a referendum in the first place). He stepped aside to make room for someone who might reasonably be assumed to have a plan - ie the man who persuaded people living in the poorest areas of the country and so in receipt of the biggest EU payouts to vote out.

And there goes farage...resigned

Don't hold much stock in it, we all know how long a Farage resignation stands for

Farage has resigned again? How long for this time?

Whomever said "virus johnson is a professional troll" has is spot on!!! He is he is!

What a ridiculous cunt he is.

He is a twunt

And i agree with pretty much everything theElements has ever said on this issue

Including the deleted post and i have no idea what that actually said...

If i could just finf out what elements thinks about scooters on pavements and reclining seats on aeroplanes and we're golden

Johnson is all waah waah waah I couldn't be expected to come up with a plan, I'm not in government, I'm only a fabulously wealthy, supposedly intelligent man with members of government on my team and a huge network of contacts.

As we know, he had no plan because his campaign manager decided that an actual plan would lose them the vote, as he wrote in his blog last year. The issue of a plan should be swerved altogether with the cry that 'we're merely a campaign group'

Fuck the lot of them if they think that anyone sane will believe that you can campaign wholeheartedly and without any deceit for something that you don't have a clue how to implement.

Their campaign was lies and so are their pitiful excuses for why it's now all gone to shit.

It's their fault, the whole sorry mess.

At the moment, we are gazing in awe at the cognitive dissonance that the Leave side are saying the Remain side should have produced a post-Brexit plan and are also saying that the Remain side must not under any circumstances be involved in negotiating Brexit. This is the new thinking we must all get used to.

It's certainly taking scapegoat politics to its logical conclusion: nothing can ever be their fault or responsibility.

Haha Rufus! We may not be in agreement on those world-shattering issues

Spot on Nauticant!

Well that's the point isn't it. Remain must not have any input to the negotiations and if it then turns to shit in the years afterwards it'll be Remain's fault for being so negative.

Aaargh... please tell me he's not going to remove himself from all practical responsibility for Brexit AND critique others' (mis)handling of it from the sidelines?

Please can we deport him to a parallel universe where he's restricted evermore to making saucy after-dinner speeches to chuntering drunk Etonians?

remove himself from all practical responsibility for Brexit AND critique others' (mis)handling of it from the sidelines?

Hah, why not? Everyone else is doing it.

At the moment, we are gazing in awe at the cognitive dissonance that the Leave side are saying the Remain side should have produced a post-Brexit plan and are also saying that the Remain side must not under any circumstances be involved in negotiating Brexit. This is the new thinking we must all get used to.

It's a long time since I read 1984 but that sounds like perfect doublethink.

Anyway, they were all joking. Here's the plan:

• You are being hysterical and cowardly. You don't really like our great country.

• Way-hay we won! Now losers, you must hand over your plan for what happens next.

• What? You want some non-true believers to be involved in negotiating for our future? Outrageous! We control it, it's nothing to do with you.

• It's all gone wrong and you've spoiled our golden future with your negativity. So you must hand over your plan for what happens next.