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[Suzi & The Banned Cheese]

And you are carrying on as if something similar can't happen in the next 2.5 years.

Like I said, it's a long time.

You may be correct - but rightly or wrongly that not how the Tory party operates and you know it, Boris is toast.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Boris is toast.

Say it enough times I suppose...

 

[Suzi & The Banned Cheese]

You are clearly not a Tory.

 

[arthur]

Was it Sir Keith rather than rentagob Rayner today ?

Yes, Sir Keith it was. Spectator snap verdict:

His defence then deteriorated under surgical questioning from Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister was leaning heavily on two things: his apparently firm belief that the ‘bring your own booze’ gathering in his garden was a ‘work event’, and the fact that Sue Gray is still conducting her inquiry into the lockdown partying. The latter shows the desperation of the Prime Minister: Gray is not someone who can be nobbled, so leaning on her suggests he is just hoping he can delay things, rather than getting away with it once again.

Starmer told the Commons they were watching ‘the pathetic spectacle of a man who has run out of road’. The Labour leader will have heard more plausible explanations from drunks who are defending themselves in the magistrates’ court.

 

[arthur]

Presumably Sue Gray will be speaking to Johnson's chief of staff who was in post when this "(I thought this was a) work event" occurred. She will ask Cummings a) if Johnson knew that the "event" was planned and b) whether he, Cummings, advised him to forbid it. I imagine Dom will answer yes to both questions. I also imagine Johnson is acutely aware of this. If he's got any sense he'd resign, to spare himself further humiliation

 

[Grecian2K]

Maybe Boris should order the army to invade France? We could sort out the refugee problem properly then, as well as giving the frogs a good kicking. Boris would be crowned King. Good old England.

Nah...More likely to be next seen defending the Channel Islands against those perfidious EU taxmen who are trying to convert their hard-earned "sterling" into international currency into the dreaded Euros. Or the IoM to stop the paddywacks trying to reclaim some of that (alleged) Mone-Money?
And, if that fails there is always the repatriation of Calais...and after that? Who knows?? onward to Agincourt???

BARONESS TRUSS. O woe that we now have here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That are willing work to-day!

BOBO. What's she that wishes so?
My doxie? No, my fair Foreign Secretary;
If we were mark'd in Britannia Unchained to lie, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer immigrants, the greater share of money.
I will, I pray thee, allow not one poor foreigner more.
Unless they bring me personal enrichment

By Gove, I am not merely covetous for golden wall-hangings,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my lawns;
It yearns me not if men to whom my coat-tails cling;
Such sycophants dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offensive soul alive.

No, faith, my wish not a man from outside of England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As being wished their Prime Minister
For it's the only hope I have.
O, do not wish one more!

Rather proclaim it, Truss, through my Telegraph,
That if Rishi hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for cronies put into his purse;
We might well lie in that man's company
But he fears that his fellowship to die with us.

This day is call'd the feast of Boris.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand at the despatch box when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of the Johnson.
He that shall live this day, may not see old age,
Nor yearly on the garden feast with his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow is granny's burial"
But when will he next casts his vote and show his papers,
He'll say "This ID I earned on Bozza's day."

Old men still vote; and still shall still vote,
Remembering those advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our lies,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Boris the King, Triple Lock and Pensions,
Sleaze and Cronies, Taxes and Brexit—
Be in their Wetherspoon cups freshly refreshed.

This story shall the good man teach his son;
That Alexander De Pfeffer shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But he in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of muppets;
Who till to-day still share his lies with me
They shall be my brothers; be they ever so vile,
And this day shall share his condition;

And gentlemen in England now not a-lying on my government benches
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods high whiles I speaks
"That I was in Ilfracombe upon Saint Boris Day.

 

[fred binneys head]

You're the hardest working man on Exeweb, G2K

 

[Grecian2K]

You're the hardest working man on Exeweb, G2K

Thanks but not really Fred.

Eng Lit O Level back in 1970 I'm embarrassed to say.
(Mind you, always knew that, one day, some of that, dimly remembered and enforced Shakespeare, might come in handy )

Plus Ctrl C & Ctrl V helped as well

 

[arthur]

I fear Jinx is a lone voice among those who think like him. Rod Liddle, who would press most of the Jinx buttons, has written an article entitled
The sooner Boris is gone the better.

Here is an extract to demonstrate the soundness of Liddle's thinking (Lammy, Covid etc) and the conclusion he has drawn:

The attraction of Boris Johnson to the electorate was that he seemed ‘refreshing’ for a politician, a kind of village idiot waving around a pig’s bladder on a stick but somehow conversant in Latin. For the voters, choosing Boris was akin to the good people of Hartlepool electing a man dressed as a monkey as their mayor: an entertaining change and damn the consequences. That attraction, though, has evaporated and the sooner Johnson is gone the better, otherwise one day quite soon we will wake up to discover that David Lammy is our foreign secretary — an eventuality none of us, not even close members of Mr Lammy’s family, would find desirous.

The defence for Johnson will be that while his day-to-day competence is parlous, he gets the ‘big things’ right — such as Brexit, winning an election and at last ignoring the mentalist shrieking from the medical dementors in Sage (for which we should all be grateful). But it is no longer nearly enough. The sense of entitlement which led him to believe he would be an absolutely super prime minister now repels the ordinary voter, and for good reason. Once you have removed Boris’s popularity with the electorate, you have removed the entire point to the man — and there is nothing left.

 

[manc grecian]

Surely this party political broadcast on bbc1 should've been pulled