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Bruce Wayne said:
Come on Pete, you've got absolutely no idea if that will happen or not. He's given no indication what he would do if he was in Number 10, and indeed has little track record of making anything happen, much less for those in post-industrial towns. It's hard to imagine you operated your multi-million pound projects on a wing and a prayer yet you seem happy to have the country run on such a basis. I don't get it.
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Bruce, Boris will not be running anything. There will be ministers and civil servants to do that. Government, as you know is quite large. Boris as PM will set the tone, a can do attitude, an infectious form of optimism, and a broad strategic direction. The last thing we need is another PM who thinks they need to do everything. CEO’s set the strategy, others lead the delivery of projects via large and distributed teams of professionals. Horses for courses. Hunt meanwhile shows himself up by going on about how great a negotiator he is, and ran his own business. He ran a Micky Mouse training course data company that just happened to have excellent political support, it’s staffing and turnover was minuscule. Also he ran the NHS, who are not exactly renown for driving a hard bargain with suppliers, nor for putting value driving contracts in place. I just wish Boris or someone would ask him what were these large negotiations he has conducted, with whom and what were the outcomes, and also point out that running a country is not a one man/woman job.....
 
JimmyJeffers said:
lollol People saying ‘Boris’ is the man to negotiate with the eu with his ‘breath of fresh air’ and ‘can do’ attitude. How well did he do, negotiating the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe? This is the man we trust with the future course this country will take?!

Anyone staking their hopes on this fraud has truly lost their marbles.
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Or we could have the current Foreign Secretary as PM who has overseen the current debacle with Trump to the point where our closest ally would not speak or allow contact with our man in Washington. A situation never experienced before...
 
peteblue said:
Or we could have the current Foreign Secretary as PM who has overseen the current debacle with Trump to the point where our closest ally would not speak or allow contact with our man in Washington. A situation never experienced before...
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Overseen, as in tried to deal with the mess caused by whomever leaked the emails.

It's not the first time there's been a frosty UK-USA relationship.

Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1964-68

American Studies Resources Centre
www.americansc.org.uk
 
summerisle said:
Overseen, as in tried to deal with the mess caused by whomever leaked the emails.

It's not the first time there's been a frosty UK-USA relationship.

Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1964-68

American Studies Resources Centre
www.americansc.org.uk
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Then he failed in his overseeing didn’t he ?

Wilson keeping us out of Vietnam was the single best thing a post war PM did.......not quite the same thing though is it....
 
summerisle said:
That's ridiculous ; what was he supposed to do ? And if we're talking about ministerial responsibility there's a raft of Tories who have weasled out of their incompetence.
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Well, let’s see. He’s the Foreign Secretary, he could perhaps have had a word with May to speak to Trump, while speaking to his opposite number in Washington, instead of appearing on a TV programme. People would have understood and maybe even give him credit for it. Boris resigned from the same ministerial role because he felt strongly enough that the U.K. was doing a bad deal. Hunt has been there all the time, agreeing with everything, even the May deal, but now saying he can negotiate better. If he truly believed that then he should have resigned on a matter of principle. But he’s climbing the greasy pole in the only way he knows......
 
JimmyJeffers said:
lollol People saying ‘Boris’ is the man to negotiate with the eu with his ‘breath of fresh air’ and ‘can do’ attitude. How well did he do, negotiating the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe? This is the man we trust with the future course this country will take?!

Anyone staking their hopes on this fraud has truly lost their marbles.
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War with Sweden within a week.
 
peteblue said:
Well, let’s see. He’s the Foreign Secretary, he could perhaps have had a word with May to speak to Trump, while speaking to his opposite number in Washington, instead of appearing on a TV programme. People would have understood and maybe even give him credit for it. Boris resigned from the same ministerial role because he felt strongly enough that the U.K. was doing a bad deal. Hunt has been there all the time, agreeing with everything, even the May deal, but now saying he can negotiate better. If he truly believed that then he should have resigned on a matter of principle. But he’s climbing the greasy pole in the only way he knows......
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So you're now privy to the private conversations between the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary ? Fount of all wisdom you are.

Alexander Boris de Pfeiffel Johnson in honourable resignation shocker. lol
 
summerisle said:
So you're now privy to the private conversations between the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary ? Fount of all wisdom you are.

Alexander Boris de Pfeiffel Johnson in honourable resignation shocker. lol
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I love the way you jump to erroneous conclusions...
 
John Major has continued his recent campaign to make a fool of himself with a threat this morning to take the Government to court if it prorogues parliament to enable a No Deal Brexit to take place. Funny how Major didn’t have such a problem with proroguing Parliament when he abused his power to do so in 1997 in order to delay the publication of a highly embarrassing report into the “cash for questions” sleaze scandal involving his Government.....
 
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