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Mr Jinx

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So what'll happen first?

Russia invading Ukraine, China invading Taiwan or a new US President in the White House?
 

Mr Jinx

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Andrew Neill quite right to point out today that it was useful idiots Cameron & Osborne that opened the UK up to Chinese spies.
 

arthur

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I think you'll find Cummings was the puppet master pulling Johnson's strings in all of the above.
Long but fascinating article here about the Prince of Darkness. His analysis of our glorious leader entirely accurate imho

Cummings says there are two Boris Johnsons: what he calls Boris-Normal (Boris-N) and Boris-Self-Aware (Boris-SA). Boris-N is a lazy, self-indulgent chancer. He has no interest in policy, doesn’t bother to read his papers, has no idea how to chair a meeting, and cannot enter a room without looking for the exit routes. This Boris only cares about his own prospects and will do whatever it takes to bolster them. But that means that occasionally, when things get really sticky, a different Boris emerges. Boris-SA knows he’s hopelessly out of his depth and will do whatever he is told to survive.

This happened at the end of the 2016 Brexit campaign, when the previously shambolic Johnson was willing to follow the Cummings playbook to the letter once he realised his career was on the line. It also happened in the summer of 2019, when Johnson, terrified he would be the shortest-lived PM in modern British history, asked Cummings to bail him out, regardless of the cost. Boris-N cares obsessively about what people think of him. Boris-SA couldn’t care less how much he is mocked, so long as he ends up on the winning side.



 

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Enjoyed the observation that the proponents of Leave, now running No 10, wanted to be rule makers rather than rule takers.....
 

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So what'll happen first?

Russia invading Ukraine, China invading Taiwan or a new US President in the White House?
All three on the same day ?
 

Alistair20000

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Long but fascinating article here about the Prince of Darkness. His analysis of our glorious leader entirely accurate imho

Cummings says there are two Boris Johnsons: what he calls Boris-Normal (Boris-N) and Boris-Self-Aware (Boris-SA). Boris-N is a lazy, self-indulgent chancer. He has no interest in policy, doesn’t bother to read his papers, has no idea how to chair a meeting, and cannot enter a room without looking for the exit routes. This Boris only cares about his own prospects and will do whatever it takes to bolster them. But that means that occasionally, when things get really sticky, a different Boris emerges. Boris-SA knows he’s hopelessly out of his depth and will do whatever he is told to survive.

This happened at the end of the 2016 Brexit campaign, when the previously shambolic Johnson was willing to follow the Cummings playbook to the letter once he realised his career was on the line. It also happened in the summer of 2019, when Johnson, terrified he would be the shortest-lived PM in modern British history, asked Cummings to bail him out, regardless of the cost. Boris-N cares obsessively about what people think of him. Boris-SA couldn’t care less how much he is mocked, so long as he ends up on the winning side.



An excellent synopsis of the character that is Boris Johnson is that
 

Avening Posse

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So what'll happen first?

Russia invading Ukraine, China invading Taiwan or a new US President in the White House?
The more bullish or paranoid depending on viewpoint so called military experts in Oz think Russia moving on Ukraine and China moving on Taiwan at the same time is not beyond the realms of possibility. Make it harder for the US to respond etc
 

Suzi & The Banned Cheese

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The more bullish or paranoid depending on viewpoint so called military experts in Oz think Russia moving on Ukraine and China moving on Taiwan at the same time is not beyond the realms of possibility. Make it harder for the US to respond etc
Scary stuff! on a different perhaps less serious note how do the Aussie's view Boris's shenanigans or do they not care as it is nothing to do with them.
 

Hermann

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Michael Fabricant going full Trump this morning

 

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In RaWZ we trust....Amen.
“Hello...Is that the BBC ? I have a story if it’s a quiet news day 🤣

I saw him from a clip of Sky News on Twitter,i honestly thought that it was a spoof from Little Britain at first with Matt Lucas in a ‘syrup’

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