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

[Aberblue]

I've just watched it again. His body language also looks relaxed and truthful. And that speaks louder than words.

Anyway, as you say, if he is to be criticised, then opponents should be doing better than this.

On here, mocking a man for having a stammer and a hobby? That's cheap, desperate mud-slinging. It's probably too late in the day to stop Boris, but the leftie media are going to have to up their game if this is the best they can come up with.

He's been criticised for many more serious things, including but not limited to being sacked from jobs because of lying; endangering that poor woman imprisoned in Iran; his many examples of incoherence in interviews; his apparent inability to provide answers to questions on specifics; his reputation for being inattentive and haphazard in previous posts; his crude answers to very reasonable questions about cuts to the Fire Services when mayor of London; his expensive blunders in the same post which have been listed many times.

As for character issues, last weekend's domestic incident wouldn't have received the same media attention if it wasn't part of a pattern of chaotic behaviour.

As for the "leftie media", I take it you're not including the Sun and Daily Telegraph, which have turned into cheerleaders for Johnson.

 

[peteblue]

Not that it will bother you @peteblue but historically we’ve exchanged posts and I’ve always liked you but honestly .... you’re becoming a parody of yourself .... gonna start calling you pete66 soon

No mate, neither you nor I have ever changed, but some on here use this word ‘parody’ as a form of insult. I would never insult you.....

 

[peteblue]

Quite the headscratcher this one.

The implication that Boris Johnson isn't apart of said elite being a highlight.

Just nonsense.

Not really. There are powerful people and forces that wish us to remain in the EU based on political belief and self economics. These are those I refer to as the elite. Obviously Boris is in a similar class to these people and his ‘payment’ for his services is to become PM. It is a payment I am willing to make to deliver the vote of 17,400,000 fellow citizens....

 

[Kurt.]

No mate, neither you nor I have ever changed, but some on here use this word ‘parody’ as a form of insult. I would never insult you.....

I apologise... my intention was not to insult you .... but come on.... you’re better than the persona you’re portraying of late ... and I’m guessing you know it too my friend

 

[Walken]

I've just watched it again. His body language also looks relaxed and truthful. And that speaks louder than words.

Anyway, as you say, if he is to be criticised, then opponents should be doing better than this.

On here, mocking a man for having a stammer and a hobby? That's cheap, desperate mud-slinging. It's probably too late in the day to stop Boris, but the leftie media are going to have to up their game if this is the best they can come up with.

It's you that sounds desperate

 

[Agent Blue]

He could have just said 'I make airfix kits' and then talked about buses. The only excuse I will allow is if the thing that immediately sprang to mind was something that he couldn't possibly admit to and with each second that passed this sort of image was flashing up distracting him:

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Couldn't resist.

 

[Agent Blue]

I've just watched it again. His body language also looks relaxed and truthful. And that speaks louder than words.

Anyway, as you say, if he is to be criticised, then opponents should be doing better than this.

On here, mocking a man for having a stammer and a hobby? That's cheap, desperate mud-slinging. It's probably too late in the day to stop Boris, but the leftie media are going to have to up their game if this is the best they can come up with.

And here's me thinking that Gove had cornered the market in cheap,desperate mud slinging. God, I so wish that Spitting Image was still going, if ever a politician was made for caricature it's him.

 

[johnblue23]

Tory hopeful filmed telling party members NHS 'needs reform'

"Asked by one party member what he would do with the NHS, Johnson told the crowd the health service was a “crowning glory” but was “not getting the kind of support and indeed the kind of changes and management that it needs”, suggesting he as prime minister would aim to undertake an overhaul of the health service.

He said Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, had once helped him get elected president of the Oxford Union as a student, and together they would “sort things out”.
In remarks that may alarm those opposed to another reorganisation of the NHS, Johnson said: “It needs more money but where you are absolutely right is that it needs reform.”

What reforms? Further and deeper privatisation and selling the NHS to the US health corporations for a trade deal.

"At the garden party, Johnson got cheers and cries of “you’re the man for the job” as he told members that his plan was to “get Brexit done, relaunch our party as the party of modern progressive conservatism and then get ready to wallop Jeremy Corbyn”. Asking for their support, he also promised to “knock Jeremy Corbyn into a cocked hat where he belongs” in an apparent sign his sights are fixed on an election".

Ah. "Knocked into a cocked hat". No mumbo jumbo from this 'straight talking man of the people'. It's desperate times for the Tory establishment in this country and the best they can come up with is Johnson. Or Hunt for that matter or any of the others. The anti Corbyn fan club would rather have Johnson and his 'keep Corbyn out at all costs' 'he is the only Tory that can beat Corbyn'. The buffoon Johnson is a perfect fit for a Tory PM. A Johnson led Tory party at a general election will be the greatest boost the Labour.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

He wasn't 'incoherent' in any way whatsoever. You can understand every word that Boris says. Yes, he has a bit of a stutter, and he is of course a bit eccentric. But to criticise him for this interview is extremely petty.

Understanding he duplicitous waffle no matter how it's delivered, and now his supporters are calling Nick Ferrari a lefty journalist for grilling him, which is similar to saying Tim Cahill is a Kopite...

Not sure if it's embarrassing or laughable his campaign manager Duncan Smith are going full on Trumpian. And with his 31st October pledge, we are almost dead cert election, enough to make every Tory stutttter.

 

[dwightschrute]

 

[degsy]

Tory hopeful filmed telling party members NHS 'needs reform'

"Asked by one party member what he would do with the NHS, Johnson told the crowd the health service was a “crowning glory” but was “not getting the kind of support and indeed the kind of changes and management that it needs”, suggesting he as prime minister would aim to undertake an overhaul of the health service.

He said Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, had once helped him get elected president of the Oxford Union as a student, and together they would “sort things out”.
In remarks that may alarm those opposed to another reorganisation of the NHS, Johnson said: “It needs more money but where you are absolutely right is that it needs reform.”

What reforms? Further and deeper privatisation and selling the NHS to the US health corporations for a trade deal.

"At the garden party, Johnson got cheers and cries of “you’re the man for the job” as he told members that his plan was to “get Brexit done, relaunch our party as the party of modern progressive conservatism and then get ready to wallop Jeremy Corbyn”. Asking for their support, he also promised to “knock Jeremy Corbyn into a cocked hat where he belongs” in an apparent sign his sights are fixed on an election".

Ah. "Knocked into a cocked hat". No mumbo jumbo from this 'straight talking man of the people'. It's desperate times for the Tory establishment in this country and the best they can come up with is Johnson. Or Hunt for that matter or any of the others. The anti Corbyn fan club would rather have Johnson and his 'keep Corbyn out at all costs' 'he is the only Tory that can beat Corbyn'. The buffoon Johnson is a perfect fit for a Tory PM. A Johnson led Tory party at a general election will be the greatest boost the Labour.

I've said it before, the plan is to get Bozzer in to do the wet/dirty work on Brexit then Corbyn, then roll him...probably unwittingly helped by Bozzer himself as he is a scandal waiting to happen.
Though there is always a chance, if Bozzer has decent advisers he actually listens to, he might get his retaliation in first.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Tory hopeful filmed telling party members NHS 'needs reform'

"Asked by one party member what he would do with the NHS, Johnson told the crowd the health service was a “crowning glory” but was “not getting the kind of support and indeed the kind of changes and management that it needs”, suggesting he as prime minister would aim to undertake an overhaul of the health service.

He said Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, had once helped him get elected president of the Oxford Union as a student, and together they would “sort things out”.
In remarks that may alarm those opposed to another reorganisation of the NHS, Johnson said: “It needs more money but where you are absolutely right is that it needs reform.”

What reforms? Further and deeper privatisation and selling the NHS to the US health corporations for a trade deal.

"At the garden party, Johnson got cheers and cries of “you’re the man for the job” as he told members that his plan was to “get Brexit done, relaunch our party as the party of modern progressive conservatism and then get ready to wallop Jeremy Corbyn”. Asking for their support, he also promised to “knock Jeremy Corbyn into a cocked hat where he belongs” in an apparent sign his sights are fixed on an election".

Ah. "Knocked into a cocked hat". No mumbo jumbo from this 'straight talking man of the people'. It's desperate times for the Tory establishment in this country and the best they can come up with is Johnson. Or Hunt for that matter or any of the others. The anti Corbyn fan club would rather have Johnson and his 'keep Corbyn out at all costs' 'he is the only Tory that can beat Corbyn'. The buffoon Johnson is a perfect fit for a Tory PM. A Johnson led Tory party at a general election will be the greatest boost the Labour.

And Simon Stevens said yesterday that no deal would be a right ballsache for the NHS

Stevens: Government must re-boot ‘no-deal’ Brexit plan ‘within weeks’

Ministers must act "very, very soon" to re-boot contingency plans for a no deal Brexit if the NHS and suppliers are to be ready for the UK to crash out of the EU on 31 October, NHS England's chief executive has warned.

www.hsj.co.uk

 

[dead_soft]

He wasn't 'incoherent' in any way whatsoever. You can understand every word that Boris says. Yes, he has a bit of a stutter, and he is of course a bit eccentric. But to criticise him for this interview is extremely petty.

He does not have a stutter, he stumbles over his words. They are very different things, the stumbling is one of two things: an affectation to create posho charm, or because he is constantly inventing things

 

[orchard]

He does not have a stutter, he stumbles over his words. They are very different things, the stumbling is one of two things: an affectation to create posho charm, or because he is constantly inventing things

It was all very weird really, one can be modest/humble about the level of attainment reached pursuing one's hobbies, but this wasn't that at all. One ought to be on a home-run discussing what one does in detail, both enthusing and describing, but that was also absent...

 

[peteblue]

I apologise... my intention was not to insult you .... but come on.... you’re better than the persona you’re portraying of late ... and I’m guessing you know it too my friend

Merely pointing out that Boris is likely to end up as PM, and I think I’ve got a better than 50% chance of being right......