[Politics] Johnson resigns from parliament

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sadly, you lost me at wanting to escape from a sex dungeon. I mean...really??

I was thinking less Soft Cell and more Josef Fritzl

 

[birthofanorange]

I was thinking less Soft Cell and more Josef Fritzl

Yes, although both enjoyed tainted love.

 

[pocketseagull]

The producers of Have I got News for You have a lot to answer for (not only Boris, Farage too) Really do wonder what Hislop and Merton think of the roles they played.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The producers of Have I got News for You have a lot to answer for (not only Boris, Farage too) Really do wonder what Hislop and Merton think of the roles they played.

I think the plan was to mock them for public entertainment. I recall that it worked. Johnson fessed up to criminal activity and lying about it. It is perhaps time that these episodes were rerun.

 

[A1X]

 

[pocketseagull]

I recall that it worked.

That it built up the cult of 'Boris is a legend' and he went on to become London Mayor and then Prime Minister perhaps shows that it didn't.

 

[Rdodge30]

I just hope that when I start getting a bit slow in the old mind tank I have sufficient wit to give up trying to be a player and settle for good old spectatorship.

….. turns seaward to watch ship that has already sailed disappear towards the horizon/sunset

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

That it built up the cult of 'Boris is a legend' and he went on to become London Mayor and then Prime Minister perhaps shows that it didn't.

You think Johnson owes his career to an appearance on HIGNFY? Him, Charles Kennedy, Ken Livingstone, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Kinnock, Roy Hattersley, Gerald Kaufman, Rhodes Boyson (etc., etc,) and Paula Yates, presumably.

He hosted the show twice in 2002 and 2003. Later it was hosted by Des Lynam.

No, he's had the Mail and Sun on 24 hour nosh alert for 20+ years. HIGNFY was not responsible for his rise. I'm not a fan of after timing and, given the range of other guests and presenters over the years, including repeat stints by Ken Leninspart, I am disinclined to accuse Merton and Hislop of contributory negligence, let alone willful promotion.

There are others I'd shoot first. Let's start with 'call me Dave' Cameron.

 

[Hugo Rune]

You think Johnson owes his career to an appearance on HIGNFY? Him, Charles Kennedy, Ken Livingstone, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Kinnock, Roy Hattersley, Gerald Kaufman, Rhodes Boyson (etc., etc,) and Paula Yates, presumably.

He hosted the show twice in 2002 and 2003. Later it was hosted by Des Lynam.

No, he's had the Mail and Sun on 24 hour nosh alert for 20+ years. HIGNFY was not responsible for his rise. I'm not a fan of after timing and, given the range of other guests and presenters over the years, including repeat stints by Ken Leninspart, I am disinclined to accuse Merton and Hislop of contributory negligence, let alone willful promotion.

There are others I'd shoot first. Let's start with 'call me Dave' Cameron.

You can tell which papers are still on his side.

Every paper’s front page tomorrow (including the Telegraph and Times) refer to him as Johnson or Mr Johnson. With the exception* of the Mail, Express and Sun. It’s then ‘Boris’ or ‘Bojo’. The illusion of him being a lovable rogue just disappears if you refer to him formally with his surname, the bubble bursts.

Edit - * The Star refers to him as Bozo.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You can tell which papers are still on his side.

Every paper’s front page tomorrow (including the Telegraph and Times) refer to him as Johnson or Mr Johnson. With the exception* of the Mail, Express and Sun. It’s then ‘Boris’ or ‘Bojo’. The illusion of him being a lovable rogue just disappears if you refer to him formally with his surname, the bubble bursts.

Edit - * The Star refers to him as Bozo.

Indeed. I have carefully avoided referring to him by his second name (his first is Kerfuffle or something) for years.

Never invest a troll/gimp with anything that acknowledges a degree of humanity.

The Star, in its attitude to Johnson, sounds like my cat and its attitude when it encounters another cat - not sure whether to worship it, kill it or f*** it.

 

[clapham_gull]

The rise of Johnson has nothing to with his appearances on panel shows. The vast majority of his supporters would never watch the programme.

He was right time, right place when he won the London Mayoral elections (when Ken went fruitcake) and was persuaded to do so by Camamoron because they couldn't find anyone else.

He had the Olympics in London which greatly helped, so his profile became somewhat global.

( His performance on St Johns Road post Clapham Junction riots was full on wanker, but that never made South East News or CBS )

For someone so appalling as Johnson, you need a bit of luck as well.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yes, although both enjoyed tainted love.

This is darkly funny.

 

[Happy Exile]

Perhaps timely to raise again that Johnson was widely reported to have been denied access to official secrets when he was Foreign Secretary because he couldn't be trusted and was friends with too many questionable Russians whom he'd meet breaking protocol without officials present. Including one currently sanctioned by Canada for "directly enabling" the war in Ukraine, who is an ex-KGB colonel, who Johnson nominated for a peerage and the Lords and celebrated his election win with. Yet I'm sure many Johnson supporters somehow overlook this massive concern for national security and consider themselves patriotic.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Newsnight last night was quite a sight to behold. They needed three Tories on to one Emily Thornberry.

Lack of balance you might think but it was soon clear they were representing three totally different wings of the Tory party.

Maybe that’s the strategy. Become so divided that you need half an army of Tories for every interview.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Good old NSC ..

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Yet one of those sheep is Ivan Lyons - following any Tory leader.

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

Indeed. I have carefully avoided referring to him by his second name (his first is Kerfuffle or something) for years.

Never invest a troll/gimp with anything that acknowledges a degree of humanity.

The Star, in its attitude to Johnson, sounds like my cat and its attitude when it encounters another cat - not sure whether to worship it, kill it or f*** it.

The Star have been referring to him as Bozo/Bozo the Clown for a while.

I see the front pages occasionally.

 

[Lever]

Johnson did what Johnson habitually does... run from consequences. Remember......

Boris Johnson trip on day of Heathrow vote cost taxpayer £20,000

The ex-foreign secretary failed constituents when he went to Afghanistan, says shadow chancellor

www.theguardian.com

and no doubt there are more. The man is cowardly, totally unfit to associate himself with his hero Churchill


Where is @MouldyBoots when you want her/him to defend the indefensible?

 

[worthingweird]

Love the way the lefties are so abusive...

 

[zefarelly]

running from consequences is the Tory way.

I'm sure they have more half arsed wannabe shepherds waiting in the wings.

What's always concerned me more is the amount of blinkered ignorant sheep in this country.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It's astonishing that we've 'progressed' from a liar, cheat and charlatan...to a lettuce....and to a fraud like Sunak, in such as short space of time, yet there are still people that would vote this lot in, again.
There must be something in the water, 'cause folk aren't really that mad.....are they?

Raw sewage, thanks to these ****s.