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

[davek]

I said last year that he and Rees Mogg are living proof that a good education doesn't mean you are smart.

It's been less than a week and both of them, now under scrutiny, have been ruthlessly exposed for what they are; thick.

There's a reason Cameron and Osborne were the Bullingdon Club members who got the top jobs in front of Johnson: they were at least savvy. Johnson is just a big oaf who looks like what he is: an acute case of arrested development.

 

[roydo]

I said last year that he and Rees Mogg are living proof that a good education doesn't mean you are smart.

It's been less than a week and both of them, now under scrutiny, have been ruthlessly exposed for what they are; thick.

Quite. Ben Elton has been doing the PR this week for a new tour he is doing. Those that remember him as a stand up/TV host, will know how he was with politicians. He was asked if he would be doing similar with the current situation, and he said "Its obvious it (brexit) will get some mentions, but overall, you cant really poke satire and humour at people and situations that are more ridiculous in real life than anything I could make funnier" Kind off anyrate.

And he is right.

 

[The binman chronicles]

If there is some ambiguity to how many children you may or may not have then that should instantly rule you out of holding a job that is as serious as being PM. Unless of course he was a sailor in his teens...

 

[Caolam]

Boris seemed to have only one thing going for him, confidence. Little substance but loads of confidence. He has now managed to I still some moral fibre in Amber Rudd and she has quit. Where does he go now that the confidence has evaporated. Time for new leader me thinks.

 

[Socrates]

Boris seemed to have only one thing going for him, confidence. Little substance but loads of confidence. He has now managed to I still some moral fibre in Amber Rudd and she has quit. Where does he go now that the confidence has evaporated. Time for new leader me thinks.

Exactly.

It's where the phrases con man and con trick come from.

The con is confidence.

Johnson is Paul Newman in The Sting, Adrian Lester in Hustle.

The only one with the stones big enough to look the mark in the eye and say "Yes. Of course we'll deliver the bridge."

I wonder how many there are left that believe him?

Seems like quite a few judging by the circulation of that Corbyn chicken pic.

 

[Death]

Take the Johnson. Take it.

 

[orchard]

More resignations to come as he gets them to pledge unequivocally to a no deal?

 

[Walken]

The standard of leadership is so poor I'm expecting jagielka to take over next

 

[summerisle]

 

[tsubaki]

Sorry for the Mail link, but if anyone reads a more mental pro-Boris puff piece than this I will be amazed:

I wrote to Helen for weeks and then months, trying to get her to have a drink ‘so we can bring this unholy mess to a conclusion’.

I insisted that I’d had nothing to do with the leak. I travelled to the World Economic Forum in Davos, hoping that she might be there in her mink coat and knee-high sheepskin boots. I didn’t see her.

I did, however, see Boris addressing a lunch of British business leaders at the Belvedere hotel. After lunch, I cornered him in a corridor.

'Boris, good speech. Well done,’ I said.

'Listen, it’s about Helen. I know things haven’t exactly been easy for any of us, but can I make one thing absolutely clear?

'I want you to know that I had nothing to do with any of the press stories. What on earth had I got to gain?

'I wanted to marry Helen and bring up your daughter as my own. It was that simple.'

'Right… er… got it. Thanks for letting me know.'

And then we walked off in different directions.

 

[orchard]

Sorry for the Mail link, but if anyone reads a more mental pro-Boris puff piece than this I will be amazed:

Wtf is that?!

 

[tsubaki]

Wtf is that?!

Christ knows. There is a story there about Rees-Mogg that is almost as bad.

 

[orchard]

Christ knows. There is a story there about Rees-Mogg that is almost as bad.

Gosh

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So now they plan to run roughshod over convention and stand a candidate to oppose Bercow, because, they say, they want someone impartial in the role. Yeah right.

 

[jaycee]