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« Reply #6330 on: Thursday, June 20, 2019, 19:35:15 » |
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So it will be Johnson, Corbyn and Farage. Three of the biggest tools in any walk of life in the last decade. We must be living in a chuckle brothers parallel universe. All it needs now is the criminal Blair to throw his hat in somewhere and we'll have them all in one place at the same time for our amusement.
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« Reply #6331 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 09:03:41 » |
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Fucking unbelievable (or I wish it was anyway). Four weeks or so away from becoming Prime Minister, Johnson still doesn't hasn't bothered to get to grips with the fundamentals of a no-deal Brexit. Still trying to peddle the fairy tale that we will not incur immediate tariffs under WTO rules because of the magic of GATT 24. Except it doesn't apply, as Mark Carney has had to explain to him. Again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/06/21/bank-england-governor-mark-carney-dismisses-johnson-claim-no/It's one thing to say we are going to leave and there will be economic consequences and we'll all have to accept that. But this is simply either lying (as Farage is doing) or just not bothering to understand the basics. He's four weeks off being Prime Minister and the supposedly all-new "serious" Johnson still can't be bothered to understand the issues. We are fucked. |
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #6332 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 11:21:51 » |
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He understands the issue, he’s just saying shit to get him voted
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« Reply #6333 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 11:36:32 » |
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He understands the issue, he’s just saying shit to get him voted
Really? Not seen any evidence of that. He has a track record of not bothering to read his brief or getting his head round the issues, because he can't be arsed to do the work. Just ask Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, still languishing in an Iranian jail thanks to his contempt for details. |
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« Reply #6334 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 11:44:57 » |
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His advisers understand the issue, they’re just letting him say shit to get him voted
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« Reply #6335 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 11:48:38 » |
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Johnson will be a figurehead. He will say things like 'Get it done!' and 'Do things!' and 'Pass the bottle, old boy!' The grown ups behind him will really be in charge, a bit like Trump. Johnson doesn't do detail or understand nuance. He won't be allowed near anything important.
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« Reply #6336 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 11:58:56 » |
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His advisers understand the issue, they’re just letting him say shit to get him voted
I'm sure they do. I'm equally sure he doesn't. |
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« Reply #6337 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 12:03:28 » |
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Johnson will be a figurehead. He will say things like 'Get it done!' and 'Do things!' and 'Pass the bottle, old boy!' The grown ups behind him will really be in charge, a bit like Trump. Johnson doesn't do detail or understand nuance. He won't be allowed near anything important.
Like they kept him away from the Garden Bridge? The illegal water cannons? Zaghari-Ratcliffe? Don't find the parallel with Trump gives me a lot of confidence tbh. |
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« Reply #6339 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 12:52:00 » |
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Johnson will be a figurehead. He will say things like 'Get it done!' and 'Do things!' and 'Pass the bottle, old boy!' The grown ups behind him will really be in charge, a bit like Trump. Johnson doesn't do detail or understand nuance. He won't be allowed near anything important.
If that is the case its going to rather disprove the oft quoted Brexiteer paranoia that the Civil Service are looking to scupper Brexit? |
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« Reply #6340 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 20:36:55 » |
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« Reply #6341 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 20:49:03 » |
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Yeah, made me laugh too. What crock of shit. Non story. Nothing to see. They’ll say he ate his hamster next. |
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« Reply #6342 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 23:18:43 » |
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Really?
The tabloids should ensure that, one way or another, Ms Symonds is kept in the manner she would like to be accustomed for some time at least. New posh sofa coming up for sure.
Expensive just after a divorce. Ouch!
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« Reply #6343 on: Friday, June 21, 2019, 23:25:34 » |
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Really?
The tabloids should ensure that, one way or another, Ms Symonds is kept in the manner she would like to be accustomed for some time at least. New posh sofa coming up for sure.
Expensive just after a divorce. Ouch!
Yes really. |
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« Reply #6344 on: Saturday, June 22, 2019, 06:46:58 » |
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I don't think that this sort of thing plays very well in Toryland. The membership, mostly older than Johnson himself, is not known for being socially liberal. It's the top story in just about every press outlet at the moment - even the right wing ones. Not good news for a candidate whose strategy seems to be to keep as low a profile as possible, avoid all scrutiny and then fly under the radar in to Number 10.
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