PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[Steel Icarus]

Edgelord schmedgelord

 

[Cid]

Boris Johnson. Seriously Boris Johnson?

I think the phrase rhymes with clucking bell.

Look, we've had a PM who tried to get the same deal past parliament 3 times, came close to losing an election called specifically to increase her mandate and utterly failed to unite her party, or create any semblance of cross-party agreement. Before that we had a guy who will be most remembered for sticking his dick in a dead pig and blithely walking into brexit. There weren't any non-shit options. I mean there weren't really non-shit options before that either, but yeah...

 

[killer b]

who is dan douglas, and why should we care what he thinks?

 

[Idris2002]

Edgelord schmedgelord

I'll see your edgelord and raise you this twat:

 

[killer b]

who is alexander brindle, and why should we care what he thinks?

 

[marty21]

Why do these ministers resign?
If they had an ounce of political ability they would stay in post and argue and fight to put forward their points.
Though this scuttling off into the back-benches and muttering whilst projectile tutting is what I should expect from the spineless hypocrites.

For some (Boris, Hezza ) it was because they had leadership ambitions and that is easier from the back benches.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'll see your edgelord and raise you this twat:

Melting pot of backgrounds is he

 

[agricola]

Why do these ministers resign?
If they had an ounce of political ability they would stay in post and argue and fight to put forward their points.
Though this scuttling off into the back-benches and muttering whilst projectile tutting is what I should expect from the spineless hypocrites.

A lot of them - Hammond certainly - were going to get sacked anyway, so they may as well get their digs in first.

 

[Sprocket.]

For some (Boris, Hezza ) it was because they had leadership ambitions and that is easier from the back benches.

In about three months, maybe?

 

[killer b]

guys, surely there's enough dickheads with wrong opinions on urban for us to argue with without having to go in search of randoms to shout at on other platforms?

 

[Dillinger4]

He's only here to immanentize the eschaton

 

[Sprocket.]

A lot of them - Hammond certainly - were going to get sacked anyway, so they may as well get their digs in first.

Of course this also highlights the desperate situation their party is in.
The job of uniting the party let alone the country will never be completed.

 

[Idris2002]

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Melting pot of backgrounds is he

He's more machine now than man.

 

[Idris2002]

He's only here to immanentize the eschaton

The worse, the better, as Lenin taught us.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

who is alexander brindle, and why should we care what he thinks?

Someone who has suffered a catastrophic brain injury, by the looks of things.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Twitter schmitter

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Twitter schmitter

twitter ye not.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I mean if we're collecting bad takes it is not hard to find them. Here's one I just saw for instance which is epically bad:

 

[agricola]

Of course this also highlights the desperate situation their party is in.
The job of uniting the party let alone the country will never be completed.

Without winning a General Election (and replacing a lot of MPs who currently hold safe seats) its hard to see how he can do anything, especially leaving the EU on October 31st - unless the plan is to have a Parliamentary vote on May's deal vs no Brexit at all, lose it, and then fight an election on "who runs the country??!?!?!?" outrage-terms shortly afterward.

 

[killer b]

Twitter schmitter

Sometimes it's worthwhile to read a tweet by someone who's opinion matters, or someone who's posted something useful or important on twitter - just posting random bad takes by no marks no-one here has heard of or cares about is weird though.

 

[SpookyFrank]

No one's gonna resign the whip this side of October. All the empty threats and week mutterings will be shown to be just that. Party beats country.

Could be another tory MP done for being a sex pest or an expenses cheat mind you.

 

[xenon]

Could be another tory MP done for being a sex pest or an expenses cheat mind you.

Yeah but even if so, that still leaves IIRC, a working majority of 3. According to Theo Usherwood on LBC yesterday.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yeah but even if so, that still leaves IIRC, a working majority of 3. According to Theo Usherwood on LBC yesterday.

His current working majority is two.

Tories excluding speaker have 310, DUP has 10 = 320
Labour 245, Lib Dem 12, SNP 35, Plaid 4, Green 1, 15 independents = 317
3 Sinn Feins don't take their seats

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Without winning a General Election (and replacing a lot of MPs who currently hold safe seats) its hard to see how he can do anything, especially leaving the EU on October 31st - unless the plan is to have a Parliamentary vote on May's deal vs no Brexit at all, lose it, and then fight an election on "who runs the country??!?!?!?" outrage-terms shortly afterward.

Do you think he has ever had any kind of plan beyond 'get into power'? As mayor of London, it was clear he had no plan beyond getting in. Seems the same with this. Bit like for Cameron, the position is there to be obtained for itself, to have the world reflect back at you your own bloated self-regard, not in order to do anything. You get in, then you worry about staying in.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

guys, surely there's enough dickheads with wrong opinions on urban for us to argue with without having to go in search of randoms to shout at on other platforms?

Here here. I don’t mind sharing tweets if they are actually useful on here but we can’t end up with a “why urban has gone down the pan” thread, ffs.

 

[8115]

Is it armageddon yet?

 

[Idris2002]

Here here. I don’t mind sharing tweets if they are actually useful on here but we can’t end up with a “why urban has gone down the pan” thread, ffs.

There's a case for disabling the "embed tweet" function, but I don't think that the tweets in a light hearted thread like this one are actually Exhibit A where that case is concerned.

 

[agricola]

Do you think he has ever had any kind of plan beyond 'get into power'? As mayor of London, it was clear he had no plan beyond getting in. Seems the same with this. Bit like for Cameron, the position is there to be obtained for itself, to have the world reflect back at you your own bloated self-regard, not in order to do anything. You get in, then you worry about staying in.

I doubt he could have got the support he did, from the people he did, without them having some confidence of what he was going to do.

Its almost impossible to see him attracting support from elsewhere in the Commons (though nothing can be ruled out of course), and pushing through a worse deal than May's isn't very likely without some form of extreme threat, so that only leaves a general election.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Twitter is a bad take machine. Unfortunately if anything urban is more mature about it than mainstream journalism is now, where "someone says a thing! but uh oh looks like some twitter users don't like it!" is considered a story.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Look at his face just after it was announced he'd won. Terrified at the thought of actually having to do some work. (Jeremy Cunt behind him quite enjoying the moment )