[Politics] Johnson resigns from parliament

[mikeyjh]

The dissection of Johnson's resignation letter on Broadcasting House this morning is well worth a listen:

BBC Radio 4 - Broadcasting House

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

www.bbc.co.uk

There's a long opening piece with Steve Richards and someone who used to work for Johnson, and it comes towards the end of that.

I thought Paddy went a bit easy on Guto Harri (Wonder why he let's people mispronounce his name ), his line that Johnson was being forced out by the committee is so easily countered by the fact that they were appointed by parliament and that the commons would have a vote on the outcome. It's call Taking back control Gito

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Like you, I'm no fan of them, but think you're being a little unfair on their leaders there.
Thatcher was brilliant enough to pursue a project that transformed the country but, since her, I don't think you can question the integrity and competence of Major, Cameron or May in fulfilling the role. Even Sunak has restored some credibility in extremely difficult circumstances. It's only Johnson and Truss, and they were both thrust upon us ultimately by the membership (although the MPs did play an earlier role).

I agree with most of this but would need to question May's competence. In particular I think Major gets a bad rap undeservedly.

 

[The Clamp]

If I were an employer and an applicant gave me a CV that had 2 previous dismissals for lying, a provable back catalogue of, if not outright racism, then highly dubious comments about various ethnic minorities, a history of adultery, including, while his wife was undergoing cancer treatment, a term as an elected official that included some huge wastage of the public purse, and employing his mistress as a publicly paid consultant, who he also took on publicly funded’work’ trips, I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have employed him.

But, the Conservative and Unionist Party did, and what’s more, they gave him the top job where he was able to facilitate the looting of an entire country.

So, who should take the lion’s share of the blame?

I think we can probably go with the term racist. He referred to black people as bearing “watermelon smiles”.

That fat f***ing mobster should be buried under sidings on a remote stretch of the HS2 somewhere along with the rest of the criminal organisation he had the stones to try and pass off as a government.

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

I think we can probably go with the term racist. He referred to black people as bearing “watermelon smiles”.

That fat f***ing mobster should be buried under sidings on a remote stretch of the HS2 somewhere along with the rest of the criminal organisation he had the stones to try and pass off as a government.

Given up on the ploughing fantasy I see.

 

[lawros left foot]

Like you, I'm no fan of them, but think you're being a little unfair on their leaders there.
Thatcher was brilliant enough to pursue a project that transformed the country but, since her, I don't think you can question the integrity and competence of Major, Cameron or May in fulfilling the role. Even Sunak has restored some credibility in extremely difficult circumstances. It's only Johnson and Truss, and they were both thrust upon us ultimately by the membership (although the MPs did play an earlier role).

This is why I’ve said Conservative leaders rather thanPMs.

Duncan-Smith, Hague,and Howard maybe would have been worse PMs than any of the others, we’ll never know. I quite like Hague, as a person, I don’t think he had the ‘right’ stuff to be a competent Prime Minister though. As you say, Thatcher did change the country, not for the better, IMO, all her flagship policies, from the sale of council houses, the almost total privatisation of the public owned utilities, etc, the deregulation of financial markets, have all, to some degree, been shown to be disastrous for the ordinary people of the country.
To give her , her due, even she didn’t attempt the privatisation of the NHS which her successors seem to be pursuing with such enthusiasm.

And, I include one recent Labour PM in this.

 

[The Clamp]

I mean, honestly! If we take a step back and look at the crooked f*** ups running Britain now and recently.

They make Dick Turpin look like a viable option for Chair of the Christmas Club.

 

[The Clamp]

Given up on the ploughing fantasy I see.

Never.

 

[jcdenton08]

Given up on the ploughing fantasy I see.

I have lots of fantasies about ploughing things, but mine never include pasty middle aged posh white men.

 

[lawros left foot]

I mean, honestly! If we take a step back and look at the crooked f*** ups running Britain now and recently.

They make Dick Turpin look like a viable option for Chair of the Christmas Club.

The Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain is the most successful organised crime syndicate in our history.

 

[rogersix]

Given up on the ploughing fantasy I see.

i've not

 

[The Clamp]

i've not

I keep digging more and more space.

 

[rogersix]

I keep digging more and more space.

i keep a huge one, ready

 

[TheJasperCo]

I think we can probably go with the term racist. He referred to black people as bearing “watermelon smiles”.

That fat f***ing mobster should be buried under sidings on a remote stretch of the HS2 somewhere along with the rest of the criminal organisation he had the stones to try and pass off as a government.

Purely playing my inimitable role of Devil's advocate, do you share similar feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon, her recent arrest and her party under investigation for *allegedly* misappropriating public donations?

BJ, certainly a cretin displaying very strong psychopathical traits. But morally, how different are these examples for you?

 

[PeterOut]

You may have good reasons for bringing Nicola Sturgeon into a discussion about the Boris Johnson debacle.
However, please read the article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65323861 carefully, and consider whether discussing the situation regarding Nicola Sturgeon is a good idea - and particularly the potential consequences for individual posters and owners / moderators.

 

[BrianB]

Tell me it ain't true ?.

And for anyone who assumed that meritocracy might play a part in the honours system, a long-standing parliamentary hairdresser, Kelly Dodge, gets a gong for doing... Mr Johnson's hair.
Yes, you read that correctly. Mr Johnson's mop.

 

[Motogull]

Tell me it ain't true ?.

And for anyone who assumed that meritocracy might play a part in the honours system, a long-standing parliamentary hairdresser, Kelly Dodge, gets a gong for doing... Mr Johnson's hair.
Yes, you read that correctly. Mr Johnson's mop.

Does Kelly have a neurological condition that means abnormal hand control?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I agree with most of this but would need to question May's competence. In particular I think Major gets a bad rap undeservedly.

Major lost control of the venal element in his party who, in the end, were all posing outside their country piles for the cameras, with the loyal wife with a rictus smile, declaring their plan to spend more time with their family. He did a decent job attempting to quell the anti-EU 'bastards' but ultimately failed.

He was also a hypocrite, championing 'family values' while shagging Edwina Curry.

 

[cjd]

Amazing...a 13 year old girl survives a plane crash in the colombian jungle, that kills her mother and all adults on board. Somehow, she manages to keep her three siblings alive, in a snake infested jungle for 40 days...one of whom is only one year old.

This old fat C*** Johnson, couldn't even refrain from setting an example about parties during Covid.

 

[The Clamp]

Like all true narcissists, Johnson will be fuming at the idea he has been found out but even more incensed that he is an irrelevance. Hence all the “I’ll be back” rhetoric everytime he is forced to resign.

But the thing about people like him is they are extremely resilient. Each incident like this will only strengthen his resolve to not get caught again. Once he’s licked his wounds he will regroup, gather himself and start running a new con somewhere.

Who knows what it will be, it may be wildly different to anything he’s done before. Because he has no discernible talent or genuine passion for any role he takes on, it doesn’t matter to him what it is. So long as he’s highly visible, is being bank rolled by someone else and has a circle of sycophants who mistakenly believe he will repay them for their loyalty, he’ll be up to his old tricks somewhere.
He is unlikely to disappear for long. Or to put it more pointedly; he is unable to disappear for long.

 

[rogersix]

Like all true narcissists, Johnson will be fuming at the idea he has been found out but even more incensed that he is an irrelevance. Hence all the “I’ll be back” rhetoric everytime he is forced to resign.

But the thing about people like him is they are extremely resilient. Each incident like this will only strengthen his resolve to not get caught again. Once he’s licked his wounds he will regroup, gather himself and start running a new con somewhere.

Who knows what it will be, it may be wildly different to anything he’s done before. Because he has no discernible talent or genuine passion for any role he takes on, it doesn’t matter to him what it is. So long as he’s highly visible, is being bank rolled by someone else and has a circle of sycophants who mistakenly believe he will repay them for their loyalty, he’ll be up to his old tricks somewhere.
He is unlikely to disappear for long. Or to put it more pointedly; he is unable to disappear for long.

it will be amusing to see what he does next as he has a LOT of outgoings