PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[cupid_stunt]

I am amazed at how many seem to be following it on the BBC, when Sky is so much better, IMO.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Plenty Tory types want him gone immediately. GE on the way i reckon.

Not a chance.

 

[elbows]

Starmer’s move now.

All the tories he just wound up by going on about the herd are likely to set a fast timetable now.

 

[spitfire]

Adam Boulton on Sky is being a lot more cynical re the speech and the potential outcomes. Rigby was a bit emo.

 

[eatmorecheese]

That 'herd mentality' line was classic narcissism. A thing of terrible beauty

Keep going you pathetic cunt

 

[bimble]

What were you expecting?

I think i was hoping madly for some different tone of voice from that one, like he might try to be statesmanlike or something, or look sad. instead it was exactly the same upbeat hollow shitfest as every other time i've ever had to hear him speak.

 

[redcogs]

out of the land of midnight and shadows we were returning to walk the morning liyiyite :-D

 

[cupid_stunt]

Alan Boulton on Sky thinks there's a good chance the party will whittle it down to two, the least popular will drop out, and a new leader will take over before the summer recess, meaning bye, bye Boris.

This, of course, is the logical thing to do now.

 

[platinumsage]

what would need to happen for them to just install Raab now ? Is his role as stand-in only activated if the PM has an unfortunate accident or something?

He stays until there's a new Tory leader. The 1922 committee could arrange for a new one to be appointed next week with e.g. a fixed 3 month term until the proper leadership election is completed.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I think i was hoping madly for some different tone of voice from that one, like he might try to be statesmanlike or something, or look sad. instead it was exactly the same upbeat hollow shitfest as every other time i've ever had to hear him speak.

Oh, no wonder you were disappointed.

 

[platinumsage]

Alan Boulton on Sky thinks there's a good chance the party will whittle it down to two, the least popular will drop out, and a new leader will take over before the summer recess, meaning bye, bye Boris.

This, of course, is the logical thing to do now.

No chance IMO. They tried that with May and it masked her election campaigning deficiencies, so they won't be in a hurry to do it again

 

[bimble]

He stays until there's a new Tory leader. The 1922 committee could arrange for a new one to be appointed next week with e.g. a fixed 3 month term until the proper leadership election is completed.

oh. that sounds like it might happen next then.

 

[MickiQ]

Cunt is playing for time watch this space

 

[philosophical]

He means a herd….of snakes?
But the correct term is a den or a pit, and he is supposed to be an educated wordsmith.

 

[billy_bob]

Of course he has. But right now his brand is toxic. He'll benefit in the long run, for sure. But I suspect that right now he's too skint to voluntarily take the £80k pay cut and move out.

He's been trying to get Tory grandees and party donors to pay for everything such as decorating, a nanny to look after his child and a tree house for said child.

He currently doesn't have the means to keep himself in the style to which he and 'Carrie Antoinette' have become accustomed.

At best, the most he can hope for at this precise moment in time, is to sign a book deal and get a big advance.

His phone isn't ringing off the hook right now with companies offering him consultancies and seats on the board.

He'll probably get lucrative gigs in future, but not right now. If he was being offered big bucks elsewhere, he would've walked by now, because his track record, personally and professionally has demonstrated that at his core he's always about self-interest.

The fact that he hasn't walked sooner, that he's being pushed by record numbers of ministers/PPSes resigning and lobbying for him to leave is highly suggestive that he doesn't have a better offer on the table.

I just don't buy this. He hasn't left sooner because he's spent his life believing beyond doubt that he deserves to be wherever he is and wherever he wants to be. And because he's a populist and is gambling on the fact that many of the people who voted for the party under his leadership will still prefer him to the ministers who've deserted him, most of whom the average person won't have even heard of. And even if he doesn't have ready access to vast amounts of cash, he's born and bred at the heart of the establishment and supremely well connected: the idea that he has to stay put or he won't have anywhere to live is ludicrous.

 

[cupid_stunt]

No chance IMO. They tried that with May and it masked her election campaigning deficiencies, so they won't be in a hurry to do it again

No one knows, although Boulton is more of an expert than us lot.

 

[contadino]

Cunt is playing for time watch this space

Yeah. This. There's plenty of steam left in this runaway train.

It's all still a joke to him.

 

[rubbershoes]

I think i was hoping madly for some different tone of voice from that one, like he might try to be statesmanlike or something, or look sad. instead it was exactly the same upbeat hollow shitfest as every other time i've ever had to hear him speak.

Statesmanlike lol.

 

[Artaxerxes]

BBC newsfolk seem to be uncritically reporting how obviously disappointed BJ is about not being able to continue with his noble, ambitious and massive programme of nation-benefiting achievements.

Can anyone name a single concrete thing the lazy cunt has achieved in office, or a time when he showed any signs of having any plan whatsoever for one?

Exposing how deeply embedded rape culture is in Westminster?

 

[Pickman's model]

BBC newsfolk seem to be uncritically reporting how obviously disappointed BJ is about not being able to continue with his noble, ambitious and massive programme of nation-benefiting achievements.

Can anyone name a single concrete thing the lazy cunt has achieved in office, or a time when he showed any signs of having any plan whatsoever for one?

showing how wrong people have been for decades in seeing neville chamberlain as the worst prime minister of the last hundred years

 

[billy_bob]

Exposing how deeply embedded rape culture is in Westminster?

showing how wrong people have been for decades in seeing neville chamberlain as the worst prime minister of the last hundred years

You're quite right. I've gravely underestimated him.

 

[bimble]

It's all still a joke to him.

Yep thats what it was with the speech, the smirk hasn't moved from his face at all, same smug half laughing expression as its always been. Probably nothing could ever move it then. Quite fascinating as a specimen of a human but would like to never see again.

 

[Wilf]

He means a herd….of snakes?

In normal circumstances, it's astonishing that a PM could refer to a cabinet member as a snake and then to the parliamentary party as a herd. Tory MPs will be irked by the latter, but it's no more than passing midge bite in the mire johnson has created. I mean, fucking hell, gove is a snake and we've seen tory mps behaving exactly like a herd in the last 48 hours. But still.

 

[redcogs]

I am amazed at how many seem to be following it on the BBC, when Sky is so much better, IMO.

our tv still on 405 lines

 

[killer b]

it's astonishing that a PM could refer to a cabinet member as a snake and then to the parliamentary party as a herd. Tory MPs will be irked by the latter,

It seems odd he'd do this, considering he wants them to let him stay til september.

 

[cupid_stunt]

our tv still on 405 lines

Shame the last VHF 405 line transmitters were switch off back in the 1980s.

 

[redcogs]

"Even if things seem dark now, our future together is golden.." His parting shot. Even Rasputin died eventually, this fucker plans to be around indefinitely

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

"Even if things seem dark now, our future together is golden.." His parting shot. Even Rasputin died eventually, this fucker plans to be around indefinitely

If he left parliament and got a real job he might actually have to do some work. God forbid.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

My fear here is that, seen from the pov of the Conservative Party, Johnson represents another successful chapter, an unbroken link in power from 2010.

First they had to 'share' power with the libdems, but it wasn't sharing at all and it destroyed the libdems to be part of it. Then they solved the internal eurosceptic problem with the Brexit vote, neutralising UKIP at the same time, then they solved the remainer problem with Johnson. Each time they have been able to jettison the incumbent mid-term with time to regroup and win the next election. If they do that again, then from a CP point of view, Johnson will have been a success.

 

[redcogs]

Shame the last VHF 405 line transmitters were switch off back in the 1980s.

Mere detail - pedant. The signals are very slow where i live, taking several years to reach our aerial