PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[teuchter]

If you did an opinion poll of "do you think UK politicians in general are honest or dishonest" I wonder how different the numbers would be.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

If you did an opinion poll of "do you think UK politicians in general are honest or dishonest" I wonder how different the numbers would be.

I think you may have a point there in that I'd expect "dishonest" to score highly. That would lead me to wondering the less quantifiable question of just how much Boris Johnson has personally done to skew the general perception.

 

[teuchter]

I think you may have a point there in that I'd expect "dishonest" to score highly. That would lead me to wondering the less quantifiable question of just how much Boris Johnson has personally done to skew the general perception.

I don't know but wouldn't be surprised if the effect was negligible.

 

[Wilf]

I think you may have a point there in that I'd expect "dishonest" to score highly. That would lead me to wondering the less quantifiable question of just how much Boris Johnson has personally done to skew the general perception.

New Labour and Blair did a good job of presenting themselves as honest and clean, in contrast to the tory sleaze of the Major years. That was cynical as fuck and the gloss wore off very quickly. As did the idea of an 'ethical foreign policy', lol. This time round Labour don't seem to be even establishing a clean politics image (at least in a way that breaks through). Maybe that's a sign of the times and the tides that produced the Brexit vote, but also it's Labour/kieth's general shitness. In fact the starmer years have been ones of studiously avoiding open goals, on this as so many issues.

 

[JimW]

If you did an opinion poll of "do you think UK politicians in general are honest or dishonest" I wonder how different the numbers would be.

This is a good point; just did a quick search on Corbyn as i think even people who disliked him thought him more honest than the general run and that does seem to have been the case: https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/corbyn-...politicians-cameron-leads-other-pm-attributes That was done just after he became leader so expect it changed pretty rapidly too.

 

[teqniq]

Oh dear;

 

[Ax^]

 

[Weller]

All so depressing that they all seem to get away with this shit Î often get pissed off as aging punk that nothing has changed much and we seem to be going backwards but this lot are really taking the piss

 

[Mezzer]

Oh dear;

Can someone post this link on Naddine Dorris' Twitter account?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Ouch, he's not going to like that.

His defence is essentially that he is an idiot. An idiot who did not understand the rules he wrote. “It wasn’t obvious to me.” It was the media’s fault. His advisers’ fault. Sue Gray’s fault. The salad’s fault. Harriet Harman’s Twitter account’s fault.

That the committee kept their exasperation under control is admirable. After leaving politics they could hire themselves out to explain to recalcitrant toddlers why they need to put their coats on.

Whatever the committee decides to do next, though, doesn’t matter. Johnson might get suspended from the Commons, he might fight a by-election he might lose. Whatever. That’s a sideshow.

The thing that signalled that it’s over for Johnson came at just after 2.20pm on March 22, 2023, when just 22 Tories joined him in voting against Rishi Sunak’s attempt to clear up the mess he left in Northern Ireland. It’s a sign that most Conservatives, like the public, have already left him. And he didn’t even get to raise a glass and deliver a few words to say goodbye.

That's hardly surprising, he's caused too many problems, he'll not be coming back.

‘His defence is he’s an idiot’: our writers’ verdicts on Johnson

archived 22 Mar 2023 22:11:22 UTC

archive.ph

 

[Lorca]

Oh dear;

She should've followed up with 'but who would still vote for him?'

 

[savoloysam]

I've got extra beer in for tomorrow afternoon, I am looking forward to a few hours of him squirming.

Boy did he squirm too, the twat.

 

[two sheds]

No Lies of the Day yet? Introduced by Lineker and Wright would be good.

 

[Mezzer]

Can someone post this link on Naddine Dorris' Twitter account?

Never mind, even Dorris can't miss this now as it's in The Telegraph: https://archive.ph/wip/kkwbE

Watch: Not a single Question Time audience member believes Boris Johnson told truth to Partygate hearing

Awkward moment on BBC One show when Fiona Bruce asks studio of Conservative voters for their verdict

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

A complete pisstake that he has hit us up for his defence at the Privileges Committee hearing:

Boris Johnson rakes in £5m in 6 months after leaving office

The former prime minister has made over £25,000 a day in outside earnings since he left Downing Street

www.opendemocracy.net

 

[brogdale]

Someone likes him...

 

[stavros]

It worked for Rebekah Brooks, who's now, erm, CEO of The Times' parent company.

 

[two sheds]

A punishment we can compare:

Margaret Ferrier should be suspended for 30 days for Covid breach, says MPs’ watchdog

Possibility of byelection in Rutherglen and Hamilton West after sanctions recommended for MP who took train in 2020 despite positive test

www.theguardian.com

Much less serious than going out partying and then lying to parliament about it, I'd have thought.

 

[xenon]

A punishment we can compare:

Margaret Ferrier should be suspended for 30 days for Covid breach, says MPs’ watchdog

Possibility of byelection in Rutherglen and Hamilton West after sanctions recommended for MP who took train in 2020 despite positive test

www.theguardian.com

Much less serious than going out partying and then lying to parliament about it, I'd have thought.

What’s the point now and why has it taken them three years?

 

[Wilf]

Whilst it should be the opposite, I suspect the tories will come up with the line that 'what johnson did wasn't as bad as Ferrier/didn't himself endanger lives'. Whilst that's wrong in every respect and there's also lying to their precious Parliament to consider, they will be looking for a way out that doesn't further split the party.

 

[Pickman's model]

Whilst it should be the opposite, I suspect the tories will come up with the line that 'what johnson did wasn't as bad as Ferrier/didn't himself endanger lives'. Whilst that's wrong in every respect and there's also lying to their precious Parliament to consider, they will be looking for a way out that doesn't further split the party.

Johnson is responsible for the deaths of thousands,like so many of his predecessors

 

[Wilf]

Johnson is responsible for the deaths of thousands,like so many of his predecessors

Yep and for that I heartily wish he'd died himself.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yep and for that I heartily wish he'd died himself.

yeh but in such a way no one could consider him a martyr, shitting himself to death or the like, found like stephen milligan with a ligature around his neck and an orange in his mouth.

 

[Wilf]

yeh but in such a way no one could consider him a martyr, shitting himself to death or the like, found like stephen milligan with a ligature around his neck and an orange in his mouth.

I quite like ironic, comeuppance deaths for politicians, so if it can't be Covid, I'd be happy if this were to be his fate:

Apparently in the poorer quarters of Naples they keep pigs gammon on their balconies. This one was on the fifth floor. It had grown too fat. The balcony broke. The pig gammon fell on your father the shitsock of an ex-prime minister..

 

[Wilf]

yeh but in such a way no one could consider him a martyr, shitting himself to death or the like, found like stephen milligan with a ligature around his neck and an orange in his mouth.

Only problem I have with this is that the tax payer would end up paying for the orange and the ligature. Oh, well, go on then, I'm nipping down to Morrisons in a bit, I'll see what they've got in.

 

[emanymton]

A punishment we can compare:

Margaret Ferrier should be suspended for 30 days for Covid breach, says MPs’ watchdog

Possibility of byelection in Rutherglen and Hamilton West after sanctions recommended for MP who took train in 2020 despite positive test

www.theguardian.com

Much less serious than going out partying and then lying to parliament about it, I'd have thought.

She was actually ill and waiting for a test result. So sorry I think this was worse.

Edit - in fact traveled after a positive test.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I quite like ironic, comeuppance deaths for politicians, so if it can't be Covid, I'd be happy if this were to be his fate:

if no pig/gammon gets hurt in the process I'll support this

thinking about it:
this is one of those conundrum thingymajig innit?

 

[hash tag]

This may interest some of you. I've seen some of it and it's quite cutting

This Exhibition is a WORK EVENT! — THE CARTOON MUSEUM

Since taking office, Boris has been THE MOST cartooned politician in the history of our country. To celebrate - or mourn that fact depending on where you fall - The Cartoon Museum has collected a diverse selection of political cartoons detailing the different phases of his career and the wider soc

www.cartoonmuseum.org

 

[equationgirl]

She was actually ill and waiting for a test result. So sorry I think this was worse.

Edit - in fact traveled after a positive test.

Not just travelled after a positive test but went to a church service and at least one other event.

 

[teqniq]

Thank fuck he seems to be yesterday's man (not tempting fate, I hope):

‘I’m the Führer, the king’: inside Boris Johnson’s chaotic world