Johnson and Gove are so vile, it's making me miss ol' Hameron. I couldn't agree with any of his policies but he was a capable politician.
I remember hating Cameron and Osborne with every fibre of my being ten years ago. They actually seem like halcyon days now. It's vomit inducing.Johnson and Gove are so vile, it's making me miss ol' Hameron. I couldn't agree with any of his policies but he was a capable politician.
Like Father, Like Daughter....Only Daddy liked more of the columbian import.....I'm sure if you look up 'sinister' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Gove. He makes my blood run cold as does his wife. But if it does happen he'll have to make sure his daughter stops trying to score weed on TikTok.
It will have made it more difficult, being PM means he can't just slip his close protection officers like he did while foreign sectary soIf the rumours are true, it's definitely not stopped the philandering. I'm wondering if he has overstayed his welcome and a coup is underway tbh. He seems absolutely neutered at the moment. I think the social distancing measures in Parliament means that he can't play to the gallery now and he is looking very much like the emperor's new clothes. Just nine short months ago he was a guaranteed votes winner and now he just looks like a liability. Normally, I'd be jumping for joy but with every new leader, it just gets worse doesn't it?
No, you'd see Rupert Murdoch pulling Gove's strings.I'm sure if you look up 'sinister' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Gove. He makes my blood run cold as does his wife. But if it does happen he'll have to make sure his daughter stops trying to score weed on TikTok.
If the polls start putting Labour consistently ahead of the Tory Party, then I expect Johnson will be toast, before he canWell seeing as Labour are now ahead in the polls the end must be nigh for Johnson?
Cameron wasn't that capable, he didn't pay too much attention to Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill until late in the game.Johnson and Gove are so vile, it's making me miss ol' Hameron. I couldn't agree with any of his policies but he was a capable politician.
You articulated this better than I ever could!I have friends in media who have seen him suddenly ruffle his very neat hair just before going live. All part of a very calculated strategy to look like a lovable eccentric. And depressingly it worked. No one seemed to mind that he’d been sacked from the Times for lying, peddled endless untrue anti-EU myths when working for the Telegraph, had been sacked from the shadow cabinet again for lying. And that’s not even getting into his racist language and constant philandering. And now some people are surprised he is a rubbish PM. He is probably the least suited for the office of any other PMs in living memory.
True, however his act before being PM is one thing, and appearing to be a buffoon when a pandemic and brexit are occurring make people think, 'Actually, he really is incompetent'.I don't believe that he's truly racist. I think that he wanted to appeal to the awful UKIP voter contingency so he started spouting the awful stuff he did about Muslim women etc. One of his former colleagues from The Spectator wrote a piece last week saying that this Boris isn't the real Boris. It's all an act. He's not a bumbling buffoon, he's very shrewd.
I'm not even sure Boris minds right now, I think he wants an excuse to get the hell out of that office.Well seeing as Labour are now ahead in the polls the end must be nigh for Johnson?
I don't believe that he's truly racist. I think that he wanted to appeal to the awful UKIP voter contingency so he started spouting the awful stuff he did about Muslim women etc. One of his former colleagues from The Spectator wrote a piece last week saying that this Boris isn't the real Boris. It's all an act. He's not a bumbling buffoon, he's very shrewd.
Mr Johnson stated: “No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”
Writing in the Telegraph in 2002, Johnson referred to a visit to Africa by the then prime minister Tony Blair.
"What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies," he wrote, referring to African people as having "watermelon smiles."
In a column written in 2002, Johnson wrote that British colonialism in Africa is "not a blot upon our conscience."
He added: "The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more."
Fair play to Beatrice - must be hyper-embarassing having that pair as parents. I'd want to be out of it for as much time as I could.I'm sure if you look up 'sinister' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Gove. He makes my blood run cold as does his wife. But if it does happen he'll have to make sure his daughter stops trying to score weed on TikTok.
He's a product of his class and generation which are a pretty racist group of people to be honest. There's no denying it. All of those awful things he wrote would have been perfectly acceptable amongst his peers and no doubt pretty widespread. And that's the problem.I don't know, he's written some appalling things.
Whether he is genuinely racist or it's just a product of his very privileged upbringing is possibly up for debate
30 yearsIt's still chilling to me. How long is that file closed for?
I feel the same, even they weren't as bad as the incompetent liars and cheaters in power nowI remember hating Cameron and Osborne with every fibre of my being ten years ago. They actually seem like halcyon days now. It's vomit inducing.
He was a good PM and Gordon Brown a fantastic and fair Chancellor, IMO. Sure Starts, Widened Maternity rights, Minimum wage, Instrumental in bringing about the Peace process in NI, Reduction of 50% in the teenage pregnancy rates by initiatives started by his government, bursaries for SW, nurses and many other key workers at university, I can go on and on. His government did really well until, like you say, his ego got massaged (and he was an egomaniac) and fell into bed with Bush.Tony Blair is a bloody odd one. I truly believed he was a good PM for the first few years... Until he got into bed with Bush.
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