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

[Martin Alvito]

TBF I am not sure this is true - two things Johnson has probably learned from Trump is that when you entangle the press and get them invested in your campaign / government then they acquire a responsibility (including criminal) for what has gone on, and that in a divided country you can rule from a small minority of the electorate provided you can scare a larger minority into thinking they've got to go along with it or see the other lot in power.

The press is, at a minimum, enabling the cult of personality thing. The criminal aspects of the situation with respect to the media and Jan. 6 are not something I've spent a lot of time thinking about, but you're correct that it does put the press in a bind when it comes to turning on someone the way they turned on Nixon.

I can't speak to the Thatcher thing from a particularly large dataset, but it seems analogous to the folks I've spoken with regarding Reagan over here from the relatively limited dataset that I have. Johnson is obviously very different than Thatcher, moreso than Trump is different than Reagan. Johnson is a well-educated and well-spoken narcissistic buffoon. Thatcher was enormously capable. Trump is a poorly spoken narcissistic buffoon. Reagan was perhaps a narcissistic buffoon, but he was quite good at assembling personnel, pointing them at an objective, delegating and dealing with the media.

I do agree with others that the Tories don't have much of a bench waiting in the wings. It will be interesting to see whether or not they realize that.

 

[LinekersLegs]

So cheese and wine will be served

 

[peteblue]

No.

Shall we see how the by election goes.

If the Tories lose you will claim that Starmer will win the GE. If the Tories win, with a usually reduced by-election majority, you will claim that Starmer will win the GE. If the Tories win with a similar majority you will accuse them all of being idiots or something. Meanwhile everyone else is just getting on with their lives, getting ready for Christmas if we are allowed one and watching the numbers of booster jabs rising……

 

[summerisle]

If the Tories lose you will claim that Starmer will win the GE. If the Tories win, with a usually reduced by-election majority, you will claim that Starmer will win the GE. If the Tories win with a similar majority you will accuse them all of being idiots or something. Meanwhile everyone else is just getting on with their lives, getting ready for Christmas if we are allowed one and watching the numbers of booster jabs rising……

Spoken to the 67.2 million people have you ?

 

[Thomasc]

 

[ste d' indica]

anyway, I think we can now all agree that ‘partygate’ is now yesterday’s chip paper……

Maybe Thursday's now eh?

 

[peteblue]

Maybe Thursday's now eh?

Which one is Boris…..

 

[ste d' indica]

Which one is Boris…..

Leadership. Governance and accountability. Responsibility in command. Y'know... stuff like that.

 

[peteblue]

Leadership. Governance and accountability. Responsibility in command. Y'know... stuff like that.

So when that Labour MP was accused of planning to throw acid in another’s face, you think it should be Starmer and not she who should resign…oh and shes still an MP……

 

[Kurt.]

You always need to remove the head of the poisonous snake

 

[peteblue]

Leadership. Governance and accountability. Responsibility in command. Y'know... stuff like that.

Indeed. Sack the miscreants …….

 

[ste d' indica]

So when that Labour MP was accused of planning to throw acid in another’s face, you think it should be Starmer and not she who should resign…oh and shes still an MP……

 

[Thomasc]

So when that Labour MP was accused of planning to throw acid in another’s face, you think it should be Starmer and not she who should resign…oh and shes still an MP……

Oh Pete

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Maybe Thursday's now eh?

Yuk buffet food to boot. No doubt from a catering company which some poor sods had to tidy, all covered in their pathogens .


Oh dear poor Shaun Bailey...

Ex-London Mayor candidate Shaun Bailey quits policing committee

An image taken on the night last December shows Shaun Bailey (pictured) standing in the middle of a crowd of some 24 people huddled closely together at Conservative Party HQ.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Maybe Thursday's now eh?

I'm sure what's more arrogant... Having these parties or taking photographs of said parties?