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#2785926 28-Sep-2021 21:15

I don't follow UK news so I have to ask... am I mistaken or did Johnson help Australia, wiggle out of climate agreements and then go to the UN and spend a long time talking about how important climate change is?

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#2786066 29-Sep-2021 08:46

gzt: I don't follow UK news so I have to ask... am I mistaken or did Johnson help Australia, wiggle out of climate agreements and then go to the UN and spend a long time talking about how important climate change is?

Was the same speech where he told everyone they needed to 'grow up'?

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#2799625 22-Oct-2021 18:58

Brexiteers Not New Zealand Are "Taking Britain To The Cleaners"

Well they have done it to themselves, its hard not to smile.
I expect somewhere in the detail there will be room for British companies to acquire supply chain,
and make sure profits go offshore as happened last time, but we get a bite for ourselves.

Anyway not like there was not much thought to us when they joined EU and we got kicked to the curb.
After Britain had many years of preferential access and control of our markets.

We had all the rubbish of deals swapping our exports for Ladas etc.

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#2846947 12-Jan-2022 08:59

Do we need to start a countdown clock for BoJo?

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#2847937 12-Jan-2022 09:22

I never understand how politicians nearly always manage to grab defeat from the jaws of victory.

Johnson was flavor of the month after the last election with a massive majority and seemed to be completely in tune with the electorate. The epidemic then gave him the opportunity to lead from the front in the war against covid just like his hero Winston Churchill did in the war against the Nazis. He even got the sympathy vote when he was seriously ill with it.

But he and his advisors completely lost the plot. The Dominic Cummins saga was a joke. The guy should have been sacked the day the story broke but instead Johnson keeps him on even though Cummins excuses were beyond laughable.

Then there was the issue of renovating the Downing Street apartments and who paid for them which, although I think was a storm in a tea cup, was really badly handled.

Now there is the ongoing saga of the drinks parties at Downing Street during the toughest of the UK lockdown measures. What were him and his advisers thinking?

It's almost mirroring the rise and fall of Churchill who was rejected by the public at the next election although I don't think Johnson will get that far. But at least Churchill retained the the public admiration and affection even after he had lost power.

Johnson will leave the stage in disgrace.

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#2848048 12-Jan-2022 12:12

GV27:
Do we need to start a countdown clock for BoJo?

I don't know about that... He's like Berlusconi in that, looking in from the outside, all you can do is shake your head in disbelief, but he still keeps getting reelected.

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#2849263 12-Jan-2022 15:27

neb:
I don't know about that... He's like Berlusconi in that, looking in from the outside, all you can do is shake your head in disbelief, but he still keeps getting reelected.

The man's been fired from every job he's ever had for incompetence, dishonesty, or incompetent dishonesty and yet he keeps failing upwards. Also, FPP elections are literally cancer.

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#2861524 4-Feb-2022 08:23

Two senior advisors in No 10, resigned today over ridiculous comments Johnson made in Parliament on Monday trying to link opposition leader Starmer with the failure to prosecute Jimmy Saville after his death with child abuse.

Johnson really is the epitome of a dead man walking.

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#2861543 4-Feb-2022 09:06

I can't keep up with this. Two more have resigned including his Chief of Staff.

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#2861596 4-Feb-2022 10:26

SJB:

Two senior advisors in No 10, resigned today over ridiculous comments Johnson made in Parliament on Monday trying to link opposition leader Starmer with the failure to prosecute Jimmy Saville after his death with child abuse.

It was a very sordid thing to say but it shows how desperate he is to avoid criticism for the downing street parties. One law for them and another one for us - reeks of the class system !

The UK has rampant cost of living increases which, along with news like this, is pushing the conserves down in the polls:

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

Boris has got the UK into a pickle with the DUP in Northern Ireland trying to undo the agreement signed with the EU regarding import checks between GB and NI.

If the UK can't respect international law and treaties, why should any other country?

Boris has got 2 years till the next election but has to survive each night till then !

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2861639 4-Feb-2022 11:20

elpenguino:

It was a very sordid thing to say but it shows how desperate he is to avoid criticism for the downing street parties. One law for them and another one for us - reeks of the class system !

The UK has rampant cost of living increases which, along with news like this, is pushing the conserves down in the polls:

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

Boris has got the UK into a pickle with the DUP in Northern Ireland trying to undo the agreement signed with the EU regarding import checks between GB and NI.

If the UK can't respect international law and treaties, why should any other country?

I think people who work in an environment like Downing Street, no matter which country it is in, become detached from the rest of society so it literally doesn't occur to them they are doing anything wrong.

Johnson is a very poor man manager. He just operates as the PT Barnum of his political world and he chooses the wrong people to have alongside him. Why Dominic Cummings wasn't sacked when he lied thru his teeth about his lockdown breaches I'll never know.

UK is not alone in rampant cost of living increases - NZ is possibly worse.

The DUP is playing politics. There is an election coming up there and they want to appear to their potential voters that they are standing up for remaining tightly linked to the Union. It just means NI now has no devolved parliament and the province will be run from London.

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#2939404 7-Jul-2022 21:21

Soon to be ex-PM.

Boris Johnson to resign as Tory leader but remain as PM until autumn - BBC News

Boris Johnson is to resign as Conservative leader today, the BBC is told, following further ministerial resignations this morning.

But he plans to continue to serve as prime minister until the autumn to allow a Tory leadership contest to take place in the summer.

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#2939767 8-Jul-2022 13:42

Parliamentary summer recess coming up so him staying on for a while will have no impact.

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#2939780 8-Jul-2022 14:23

Wow, the papers and his Tory colleagues all rapidly turned against him. I see this isn't the first time he's been in trouble for lying.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2940165 9-Jul-2022 17:50

freitasm:
Soon to be ex-PM.

I dunno, Johnson is the canonical unflushable. No matter how many times you try, when the bubbles clear he's still floating there.

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