Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

[davek]

It would be genuinely nice if some would do that after that performance in the HoC tonight, which was truly shameful in every degree of the word.

Say what you want about Corbyn (and I do), but he wouldn't respond to several heartfelt appeals to moderate language as it gets MPs sent death threats with the word "humbug".

You just have to be a decent human to see he was disgusting tonight. I'd go as far to say that there's something actually legitimately wrong with you in the head if you thought he did nothing wrong here.

He's a very selfish, disgusting person.

Jo Cox slaughtered on the streets and Johnson calls it humbug.

Not even kidding, btw: the Tory supporters on here really should be condemning this, but they seem as drunk on this type of attitude as Johnson and his cohorts.

Sad to see...VERY sad to see.

 

[Tubey]

@Moomin

Benefit of the doubt and I hope he was talking about prior to that as it was quite late on in proceedings. He may not have been aware of that part of the debate.

But if he was, then yeah, I think there's something wrong with him in the head. I know it sounds 'extreme', but that's genuinely how I feel - to me it's demonstrating a lack of common human decency to agree with a PM - a man whose words have power - responding to MPs legitimately and correctly fearful of death threats as a result of his language as 'humbug', and continuing to use said language. It would have cost him nothing to stop; he didn't.

 

[Tubey]

Jo Cox slaughtered on the streets and Johnson calls it humbug.

Not even kidding, btw: the Tory supporters on here really should be condemning this, but they seem as drunk on this type of attitude as Johnson and his cohorts.

Sad to see...VERY sad to see.

I'm not kidding either. And I'm quite famously not exactly a Labour activist on here.

It's not political for me, really isn't. I find the man, Boris Johnson, to be a complete and utter... insert word here... for what he said tonight. Repeatedly.

 

[davek]

I fear that we are moving into a situation where there will be an excuse to put the military on the streets in the name of law and order....and round up dissidents who are against a dictatorship.....Scary times.

I think first we'll see the right wing street gangs Johnson and co. are leaning on in their abandonment of democracy attacking their opponents physically on a large scale. They verbally do so now, and it;s a very short step to mass physical assaults. That's the next step here, imo.

 

[davek]

I'm not kidding either. And I'm quite famously not exactly a Labour activist on here.

It's not political for me, really isn't. I find the man, Boris Johnson, to be a complete and utter... insert word here... for what he said tonight. Repeatedly.

Well said mate.

 

[Amw79]

The question is who is on top. Parliament, HoC and HoL and the Queen, or a Court made up of unelected justices. The HoC can introduce a law that forbids the ten year old SC, a court of appeal only, from making judgements on various issues. It can also get rid of the SC just as it established it......

The gymnastics you’re doing here is incredible.

The question was who is on top, but is it the executive or Parliament. The SC made a formal constitutional principle, out of the well understood existing constitutional position, that Parliament is sovereign, and the executive is answerable to it.

The irony shouldn’t be lost on you that the SC have confirmed that we have a constitutionally sovereign parliament, and that the UK (not EU) judiciary is responsible for the adherence of law.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Blinded, even Kuenssberg has described Johnson response to Corbyn as 'paltry'... There is Punch and Judy one liners and constructive questions.

I don't really care what she thinks, from my point of view and being unbiased as someone who hates Johnson, is he deflected the questions. He never gives straight answers to hard questions anytime so there is nothing new there, but he didn't give a beaten performance. Or slip up with a sentence dropping him in it that could have been blown up. The Mail/s*n etc. will call him defiant in the face of a remainer coup. So despite him unlawfully proroguing parliament we are still where we were before.

I'm afraid it wasn't damaging enough to turn his own supporters off.

 

[john jako]

That is absolutely insane about what he said about brexit and Jo Cox. This is a new low for him and he has hit a lot of lows before.

 

[Amw79]

Jo Cox slaughtered on the streets and Johnson calls it humbug.

Not even kidding, btw: the Tory supporters on here really should be condemning this, but they seem as drunk on this type of attitude as Johnson and his cohorts.

Sad to see...VERY sad to see.

Exactly this. We’re now in the Trump phase of “I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and not lose a single vote”.

 

[marnie]

That is absolutely insane about what he said about brexit and Jo Cox. This is a new low for him and he has hit a lot of lows before.

Not an FFFING CLUE.tHIS MAN IS A CLOWN.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Exactly this. We’re now in the Trump phase of “I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and not lose a single vote”.

Their supporters don't care and it appears most brexiteers are so bloodthirsty for it that they'd not bat an eyelid either.

 

[Amw79]

Their supporters don't care and it appears most brexiteers are so bloodthirsty for it that they'd not bat an eyelid either.

This is where we are. People prepared to accept any behaviour as long as it comes from “their side”.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Jo Cox slaughtered on the streets and Johnson calls it humbug.

Not even kidding, btw: the Tory supporters on here really should be condemning this, but they seem as drunk on this type of attitude as Johnson and his cohorts.

Sad to see...VERY sad to see.

Exactly this. We’re now in the Trump phase of “I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and not lose a single vote”.

Its like a horror movie how we are now mirroring America and Trump.

No matter who I supported, liked or respected, if they come out with that line I would be disgusted in them.

With these Boris/Trump followers, there is literally no line to cross.

 

[Tubey]

This is where we are. People prepared to accept any behaviour as long as it comes from “their side”.

It's not the same thing and it really is a false equivalency to claim it (a no mark rapper is VERY different from the PM), but Slowthai holding up a severed head of Boris Johnson was just as disgusting and wasn't called out by 'Remain' this week.



This should be condemned by everyone.

So yes, they need some introspection too, but Johnson's position and power puts what he did beyond the pale, regardless of your politics.

 

[Amw79]

Its like a horror movie how we are now mirroring America and Trump.

No matter who I supported, liked or respected, if they come out with that line I would be disgusted in them.

With these Boris/Trump followers, there is literally no line to cross.

This is it. I’m traditionally a labour man, but happy to call out Corbyn’s faults, and not blindly accept anything he says.

People will now jump through hoops to defend the indefensible. The trump/boris phenomenon has been a long time in the making, back to Boris’s meetings with Steve Bannon.