PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[Wilf]

Paid by the union barons! He's pulling out all the classics now isn't he, absolutely desperate even against Starmer's beigeness.

Surprised he didn't throw in 'get back to Russia'.

 

[tommers]

Why don't they type that "dear Prime Minister" bit as well?

Always so big too, like they're over compensating or proud of their handwriting.

 

[killer b]

Peter Oborne pretty much one the money here, for me at least:

Boris Johnson is finished. But will the rotten system that created him fall too?

I can't really get past the opening sentence of the second paragraph tbh

The United Kingdom was long admired for its gentle tolerance and respect for the rule of law.

 

[teqniq]

I can't really get past the opening sentence of the second paragraph tbh

The United Kingdom was long admired for its gentle tolerance and respect for the rule of law.

Yeah fair enough that is pretty derisory but he says a lot of other things which are imo, nail on the head.

 

[chilango]

I haven't watched PMQs in years (decades probably) but in doing so right now I'm astonished at just how bumbling and rubbish Johnson is under 'pressure' from Starmer.

I've obviously no time for Starmer, but he flattened him there.

Not that it makes a shred of difference to anyone or anything mind.

 

[xenon]

"The Charge of the Light Weight Brigade" OK I give Starmer that

I missed that one. I thought a sinking ship deserting The Rat was quite good.

 

[billy_bob]

What's your preferred scenario?

• Ceausescu speech from the balcony
• Musso going full spectrum George Formby
• Gaddafi in a drain
• Saddam in a hole

All good. Asphyxiation in a fridge has a certain charm, too.

 

[teqniq]

 

[Wilf]

I haven't watched PMQs in years (decades probably) but in doing so right now I'm astonished at just how bumbling and rubbish Johnson is under 'pressure' from Starmer.

I've obviously no time for Starmer, but he flattened him there.

Not that it makes a shred of difference to anyone or anything mind.

Yep, I'm no fan of Parliament watching or even Parliamentary politics, but when John Smith and then even Blair used to wipe the floor with John Major, it felt like it had some significance. Suppose it fitted into a wider attack that was being mounted by the opposition.

 

[Rob Ray]

Oof, Javid going full tilt with his resignation, basically saying Boris's team outright lied to a senior minister.

 

[Elpenor]

Blackford is so much better at this.

He should quit politics and do the working mens clubs, decent comic timing.

 

[Plumdaff]

Javid far more damaging than anything in PMQs

 

[neonwilderness]

Javid far more damaging than anything in PMQs

How many times has he said "team" though?

Spoiler

 

[cupid_stunt]

Shouts of 'bye Boris' at the end of Javid's speech.

 

[Supine]

I haven't watched PMQs in years (decades probably) but in doing so right now I'm astonished at just how bumbling and rubbish Johnson is under 'pressure' from Starmer.

I've obviously no time for Starmer, but he flattened him there.

Not that it makes a shred of difference to anyone or anything mind.

Starmer had been beating Johnson at PMQ’s consistently since he took over.

Like you say, doesn’t even get seen by the vast majority of voters.

 

[Rob Ray]

Starmer has never learned (or had the personality to exploit) that the only way PMQs ever raises an eyebrow is when it's entertaining theatre with actual feeling behind it. Which is why Corbyn at the dispatch box coincided with the most watched period BBC Parliament ever had.

 

[cupid_stunt]

PMQs are over, back to the resignations.

 

[steveo87]

Chris Bryant needs a cuddle. Oh, won't someone give Chris Bryant a cuddle?

 

[petee]

"He's right behind me, isn't he."

 

[killer b]

Starmer has never learned (or had the personality to exploit) that the only way PMQs ever raises an eyebrow is when it's entertaining theatre with actual feeling behind it. Which is why Corbyn at the dispatch box coincided with the most watched period BBC Parliament ever had.

Come now. Corbyn may have had some strengths as the leader of the Labour Party, but providing entertaining theatre at PMQs was not one of them. The high viewing figures for BBC parliament during his tenure were because there was some sense in which what was debated in that period could result in a defeat for the government, and the massive constitutional crisis that was going on.

 

[bimble]

Javid far more damaging than anything in PMQs

that really was a pretty good speech i think. And never heard the place so packed & quiet.

 

[philosophical]

Javid could’ve saved time by calling Johnson a cunt.
Has anybody ever been called a cunt in the House of Commons?
I would like so see more stuff like this.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Where’s Patel?

Pulling the wings off insects.

 

[Rob Ray]

Come now. Corbyn may have had some strengths as the leader of the Labour Party, but providing entertaining theatre at PMQs was not one of them. The high viewing figures for BBC parliament during his tenure were because there was some sense in which what was debated in that period could result in a defeat for the government, and the massive constitutional crisis that was going on.

Oh he wasn't a good speaker but there was a sense of drama and real feeling about it, which kept it vaguely interesting. Starmer on the other hand has all the feeling of a sensory deprivation tank.

 

[contadino]

that really was a pretty good speech i think. And never heard the place so packed & quiet.

It sounded like a leadership pitch to me.

 

[maomao]

It sounded like a leadership pitch to me.

For all Johnson's faults, Javid would be worse for the average person in this country.

 

[elbows]

Javid flubbed one of the key lines in his speech and had to repeat a corrected version, oops.

 

[killer b]

Oh he wasn't a good speaker but there was a sense of drama and real feeling about it, which kept it vaguely interesting. Starmer on the other hand has all the feeling of a sensory deprivation tank.

the sense of drama was down to the political moment - brexit mostly - rather than Corbyn though

 

[Rob Ray]

the sense of drama was down to the political moment - brexit mostly - rather than Corbyn though

Corbyn's rise, the curiosity around him, the palpable hatred of the Tories (along with his own backbenches) for his presence and the presence of active vaguely left-wing rhetoric as a significant factor in the House were all contributors to the drama, I'd argue. I don't think Brexit alone was driving it.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Johnson 'confident he still has the support of backbenchers. '