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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 18, 2022 18:50:49 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jan 18, 2022 19:07:36 GMT
Spin it, baby, spin it.
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Post by casimira on Jan 18, 2022 19:24:45 GMT
Pathetic. Reminds me of a really bad rendition of an adolescent having been caught acting out and confronted with the facts desperately trying to weasel his way out of doing anything wrong.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 18, 2022 19:33:01 GMT
Does anybody else find it weird to wear a tie inside one's shirt?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 18, 2022 19:36:45 GMT
They all do it. Cameron used to do it.
It’s so it doesn’t dangle inside any incision...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2022 21:11:34 GMT
When my dad would come home from work for lunch, he would stick his tie inside his shirt while eating, but not sort of wadded the way Boris has his. Of course Daddy would remove the tie and smooth it immediately after eating & before going back to work.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 19, 2022 6:26:18 GMT
Pathetic. Reminds me of a really bad rendition of an adolescent having been caught acting out and confronted with the facts desperately trying to weasel his way out of doing anything wrong. Quite. I can't now remember which mess it was, but it's quite some time since ut occurred to me that, essentially, he's " Just William" (after he's dismantled the clock with no clue as to how to put it together again).
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Post by questa on Jan 19, 2022 7:27:28 GMT
Strikes me as arrested development at about 15/16 years old. Now stuck where parties and outings are not so common. Raises the bully boy tendencies, blames others for mistakes he has made.
He is probably the class snitch as well
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Post by mossie on Jan 19, 2022 8:35:41 GMT
He is your typical public school boy, "pay attention to me you oiks, do as I say not as I do"
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2022 5:31:19 GMT
I'm sure that were are all relieved that the PM has said once again that he is sorry. That should do it, then. Back to business as usual.
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Post by mossie on Feb 1, 2022 7:57:59 GMT
I have two names for him, Boris the Bullshitter, and Boris the Bounder. Just watch him flounder as he attempts to bound his way out of this latest f... up.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 1, 2022 9:10:33 GMT
Just hung up with an Englishman. He said he had a handover from her colleague that was short. I pretended to understand hangover (connection, connection), and he told me he never had one. I countered by saying that when we saw how Bojo was behaving, it was hard to believe. The guy was actually really embarrassed... My french colleague found it funny, until the conversation veered towards Waterloo and i told him what a good trashing the French's got there...
🤣🤣🤣
All that during a business teams meeting... i am really crazy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 1, 2022 14:57:00 GMT
Boris the Bounder. Just watch him flounder Now this rhyme will be going through my head all day!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2022 15:07:25 GMT
And I thought it was all sorted.
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Post by casimira on Feb 1, 2022 16:06:51 GMT
Watching a grown man behave in that manner especially a grown man in power, seeing him squirm gives me a perverse sense of pleasure. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever.
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Post by lugg on Feb 1, 2022 19:53:38 GMT
It is an absolute shit show . But part of me ... ( have I said this before? if so I apologise)... wants him to carry on as there is a good chance he will take the Tories down with him. Although, a few of the MPs have earned my respect recently. Cummings is a slippery fish ....he has a mission and its focussed on Carrie as well as the floundering bounder. May is just delighted with it all but I do think she has integrity and there are a couple of Tory MPs who seem half decent as they try to challenge him.
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Post by questa on Feb 1, 2022 23:57:30 GMT
For too long the British Parliament has rested on the laurels of a few members who were educated, passionate in their sense of duty to the nation and Empire and kept in touch with the common people. The parliament was organised enough to be able to run an Empire that covered " half the World's lands and peoples." Elizabeth 1 was Known to boast about "MY Parliament".
Yet today the UK governance is in the hands of untrained fools and self seeking morons. People who leave their duties behind them and think they can just show up when the bells ring, who think it is acceptable that the life preserving laws don't have to apply to them.
So what went wrong? How in the name of Heavens did UK vote in the current pathetic specimens. The point is...they didn't. Unless you have compulsory voting you do not get a fair picture of a country's actual wishes.In an electorate of 40,000 voters Candidate A is presumed to have won the seat with a score of 18,000. Candidate B polled 15,000. Failure to vote = 33000. i.e.these voters have elected a candidate that the majoraty don't want and the newly elected member is on his/her way to Westminster. Of course there are good people who work diligentally, are open in their dealings with others and have the makings of a statesman/woman.
Trouble is...Where are they now they are needed?
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 4, 2022 15:32:58 GMT
I saw that Boris Johnson reassured his staff at N° 10 that "change is good." He doesn't seem to think, though, that the statement might apply to him. I am wondering how long all of this can last. I suppose that if covid suddenly goes away, everybody a lot of people will decide that the uproar was of no importance. And he may be right on that score.
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Post by biddy on Feb 4, 2022 15:44:32 GMT
I have read so many articles recently on how Boris won't survive - and yet he continues on.
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Post by questa on Feb 4, 2022 22:26:40 GMT
I have read so many articles recently on how Boris won't survive - and yet he continues on. and on, and on....
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Post by Kimby on Feb 5, 2022 3:35:22 GMT
I have read so many articles recently on how Boris won't survive - and yet he continues on. and on, and on.... Kinda like Trump. Even when he’s gone he’s still there.
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Post by casimira on Feb 5, 2022 16:59:20 GMT
All narcissistic sociopaths thrive on publicity negative or not. They wear it like a badge of honor. The mainstream media emboldens them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 5, 2022 17:34:49 GMT
One of the questions, although not particularly British, is what percentage of people automatically admire transgressive politicians.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 8, 2022 17:50:41 GMT
His days are numbered. Clinging on by the skin of his teeth atm and gathering his 'allies' around him. It hasn't occurred to him that the voters want him out. This generation of politician really seem to think that the voters have no say, that they can run the country for their own gain simply because of the power they wield.
With energy prices increasing by 50% and a bloody ridiculous scheme to 'help out', the price of food, transport etc going through the roof I think that there will be a raft of strikes by public sector workers soon...especially the health and social care workers.
The government has a scheme to 'help' us pay our energy bills. In October, whether we want it of not, EVERY householder will have £200 cut from their energy bill. This is a loan and is NOT optional. Over the next 4 years £50 (at least) will be added to every annual bill, irrespective of whether you actually received the loan at all.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2022 18:13:28 GMT
That sounds quite ludicrous. In France they gave a 100€ "energy cheque" to all of the lower income people and are planning another distribution for people who need to use their vehicles to work (or get to work), but of course this is harder to calculate.
Seen from a distance, Boris seems to be holding on more firmly than I expected, but it is true that the political establishment surrounding him is so far from reality that I'm sure he is getting lots of positive feedback ("don't worry; it will all blow over."). Perhaps he is hiding a bit behind the Queen? Nobody wants a huge scandal during her jubilee, I suppose.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 8, 2022 18:14:14 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2022 18:23:15 GMT
Yes, I saw that on Sky News and the BBC. What a cheap move to use the ghastly Jimmy Savile trump card with such complete dihonesty! Maybe the PM would like to start a QAnon annex on Downing Street?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 8, 2022 18:23:30 GMT
All pensioner households receive a £200 cold weather payment, dunno when that was introduced...before Boris anyway. The less well off, even folk with jobs, are struggling atm. The cost of basic foods has rocketed. There was a government campaign in summer 2020 to encourage people to go back to pubs and restaurants to get the economy going again 'after covid' the slogan being 'Eat Out to Help Out'...offering a big discount on eating out. Currently the slogan doing the rounds is Eat Nowt to Heat the House
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Post by questa on Feb 8, 2022 22:57:04 GMT
Yep! Oz is in the same predicament. Hospitality and Tourism industry is receiving financial aid and buckets of aid for health and social, but it will have to be given back at some stage.We have a Federal election in 3 weeks, so far it has been a Mud slinging festival to call the PM a liar and bully (and nut job...but we knew that)
My local member is a leftish leaning Independent who is on the ball with his electorate. Young chap with kids and so far has managed to keep his promises, votes in a bloc of other Independents to "keep the bastards honest".
(Back in the 70's, Don Chipp,a minister in the conservative party, formed a new party, 'The Australian Democrats', When a reporter asked him why start a third party, Don replied "To keep the bastards honest". The rest as they say, is history)
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 9, 2022 6:21:17 GMT
All pensioner households receive a £200 cold weather payment, dunno when that was introduced...before Boris anyway. Gordon Brown's first budget, in 1997.
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