Stabbed in the front by Gove.....
Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson
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peteblue
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Hammond is finished, he’s done his worst to frustrate Brexit but knows his time is up. It’s just like changing a football manager, all of the coaches and hangers on will be swept out.......
davek
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The people he was addressing are Johnson and the Tory's problem.
They're estranging themselves form the very people they gain power to serve.
That's some trick they've pulled off, the Tory Brexiteers.
Toast
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Whenever I think of Boris I think of the opening (& closing) scene in Forrest Gump where the feather is blown around in all directions.
I say that because Boris just meanders through, taking the path of least resistance following whatever is popular at the time. There is no real plan and where he lands depends more on outside environmental factors than anything he is controlling. He can look to be going in one direction and then suddenly whoosh, he has gone completely the opposite way.
Obviously they aren't exactly the same as the feather has more integrity and substance than Johnson, but to me at least it seems a valid comparison.
I say that because Boris just meanders through, taking the path of least resistance following whatever is popular at the time. There is no real plan and where he lands depends more on outside environmental factors than anything he is controlling. He can look to be going in one direction and then suddenly whoosh, he has gone completely the opposite way.
Obviously they aren't exactly the same as the feather has more integrity and substance than Johnson, but to me at least it seems a valid comparison.
gonetomorrow
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Boris must be getting controlled by someone. He's surely incapable of functioning on his own.
Cool_Blue
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This may or may not be true, but it will take a lot for him to be worse than Theresa May, a woman so far out of her depth on the world political stage it was embarrassing for ‘this once great nation’
I was told yesterday that Boris never actually said that.... it was written by somebody else who presented it on his behalf...... not sure if that’s true or not... either way he is still a holocaust of a man.
You have to have sneaky respect for Bozzer (and/or his advisers) just for the tactical dark arts they used on Gove.
But it won't matter if the Pope was in charge calling ramadans left right and centre, until all the cross party remainers fall in line with the will of the people...whose opinion, rightly or wrongly, they asked for...not much will change.
But it won't matter if the Pope was in charge calling ramadans left right and centre, until all the cross party remainers fall in line with the will of the people...whose opinion, rightly or wrongly, they asked for...not much will change.
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"Controlled" is perhaps too strong a word, but he is almost certainly getting well-funded and well-supported by someone.
Look at how Trump referred to him during his visit - with Hunt the only other one of the candidates praised, and the others (especially Gove) ignored. Or see how the usual agents of the right (the papers, Guido, the more prominent thinktanks etc) are all pro-Boris and have been since long before it started. The best example though is the level of resources he has devoted to a campaign that he was always the favourite for - the base in Lord North Street, the amount of phonebanking they were doing even then, or the speed with which people "exposed" the two Muslim blokes from the debate (and then how little the stories they put out were questioned, even though one was demonstrably nonsense and the other extremely questionable) which strongly suggests dedicated research / rebuttal teams.
The worst part of the right of our politics is awash with money at present. It isn't just Johnson - the Brexit Party's rise strongly suggests a considerable amount of money was on hand before they ever opened to the £25 "supporters", and the visible wealth of the likes of SYL and Hopkins is unexplainable by normal means - and it is something that urgently needs to be sorted out because it has destroyed one of the main parties and is being used to cripple the other one. The think-tanks they have established and funded in some of the most expensive postcodes in London tout their ability to change Government policy, and appear numerous times a day on our news shows.
We all know where the vast majority of this money comes from, and why they are doing it (especially now) - what matters is that all of us here, left and right, work to stop it because it will destroy our country. In more enlightened times people would see it as treasonous, the act of a country that wants to do us harm.
gonetomorrow
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People have been brainwashed into believing Johnson is PM material. He could be deciding whether to take us into armed conflict for heavens sake.
It's like waking up on a hospital trolley to discover the man about to perform your operation is wearing a clown's costume.
Worst prime minister this country has ever had.
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