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He's the best political journalist we have at the moment. The dearth of talent on the left, by contrast, is remarkable. Not sure what happened there.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And, when all that went on, he tried to lie his way of of that, too.
Watch PM refuse to apologise for ‘spaffing’ slur on child abuse inquiry and pretend he has contacted Jo Cox’s family
A lawyer representing Rotherham child abuse victims said the PM had “juvenile thinking."
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the fucking state of that
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I gave them their bribe and they didn't give me anything in return 
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Give me back my £200,000, major donor tells Tories
Controversial telecoms mogul Mohamed Amersi takes on Conservative party over exclusion from elite gatherings and auction prizes never received
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
That line from the thick of it springs to mind: “disconnected to the point of autism”
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
A ' magic show' with penny morduant!I gave them their bribe and they didn't give me anything in return
Give me back my £200,000, major donor tells Tories
Controversial telecoms mogul Mohamed Amersi takes on Conservative party over exclusion from elite gatherings and auction prizes never received
Watch this £200,000 disappear , KAZAM.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
It’s not like he’s going to be in the job for more than a couple of days so isn’t worth making a fuss over. I wonder if he’ll split the severance pay with Johnson. Nice little earner for two days work.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
He seems to have won a whole new bunch of supporters
Far right celebrates after Johnson repeats ‘Savile slur’ in parliament
Far right celebrates after Johnson repeats ‘Savile slur’ in parliament
When Munira Mirza resigned her note said they'd discussed using the line and decided against it. She said she quit because he still couldn't help himself.
So it wasn't an off the cuff remark, or him lashing out because people were having a pop at him. It was a premeditated, 1st degree slur. It's straight out of Trump's playbook and we can expect to see more of the same as he tailspins toward totalitarianism or obscurity.
Trump came very close to a coup, and may yet succeed. They're saying that he'd likely get the Republican nomination. They're not out of the woods yet, and we're Hansel and Gretel.On the plus side Trump lost after doing all of that shite
I think as an experiment in right wing populist rhetoric, it's failed pretty badly.
The Johnson/trump comparisons don't really work imo. They're very different people, and their relationship with the populist base is also very different - trump is a latter day messiah to those qanon people in a way Johnson just isn't for their equivalent here.
What's happened here is that Johnson has managed to hitch his wagon to the most widely loathed people in the country, the people who've spent the last year assaulting NHS workers, mobbing vaccine centres, chasing down journalists and the like. They are universally loathed by everyone who isn't them, and the only political capital available from them is to politicians who oppose them. Why anyone would invoke them any other way is beyond me, its an obviously losing tactic.
The Johnson/trump comparisons don't really work imo. They're very different people, and their relationship with the populist base is also very different - trump is a latter day messiah to those qanon people in a way Johnson just isn't for their equivalent here.
What's happened here is that Johnson has managed to hitch his wagon to the most widely loathed people in the country, the people who've spent the last year assaulting NHS workers, mobbing vaccine centres, chasing down journalists and the like. They are universally loathed by everyone who isn't them, and the only political capital available from them is to politicians who oppose them. Why anyone would invoke them any other way is beyond me, its an obviously losing tactic.
ska invita
back on the other side
I expect because its above all about smearing Starmer and amplifying those slurs rather than building a base within antivax circles - which has succeeded Id say - the association between Starmer and Saville has been amplified
Supine
Newt Member
The guy was shouting all sorts of stuff, including magna carta and freemen of the land madness. If anything I think it makes Starmer look like a serious politician and it makes people see the anti vax / freemen / conspiracists associated with Johnson. Not a bad thing hopefully.
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