[Politics] Next Prime Minister

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

If Boris can be elected as mayor of left wing London, twice, there is a fair chance that the members of the conservative party will elect him as their leader, just like there is a fair chance that bears may take the occasional shit in the woods. The only people who can stop this is the tory MPs. Luckily they have no track record of making impulsive and irresponsible populist decisions designed to save their own backsides.






Oh.....

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

He probably meant the teachers at his old school or the senior nurses at his 'local' private hospital (not the likes of Bupa or Nuffield but the ones which the hoi polloi can't afford). My wife's a matron after 30 years in the profession and still isn't on £50k!!!

I didn't see the interview you are referring to but what would annoy me is if the journalist didn't challenge that answer by the member! If they don't challenge these statements then idiots will believe them to be true.

I agree entirely. And I also thought the journalist should challenge that statement. Poor from the BBC imo.

 

[Eeyore]

If Boris can be elected as mayor of left wing London, twice, there is a fair chance that the members of the conservative party will elect him as their leader, just like there is a fair chance that bears may take the occasional shit in the woods. The only people who can stop this is the tory MPs. Luckily they have no track record of making impulsive and irresponsible populist decisions designed to save their own backsides.






Oh.....

Incredible to read on the BBC that Johnson is being kept away from the campaign to avoid him saying something dumb.

The BBC reporting that he won't even be running the country anyway. Others will do that. Him being the charismatic figurehead.

It's like Trump II

So IDS finally gets the job after all...

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Incredible to read on the BBC that Johnson is being kept away from the campaign to avoid him saying something dumb.

The BBC reporting that he won't even be running the country anyway. Others will do that. Him being the charismatic figurehead.

It's like Trump II

So IDS finally gets the job after all...

It's Boris's to lose. The whole unedifying exercise has been gruesome - although there is pleasure to be had in watching them fight it out. In a way Boris is the only one honest enough in declaring that he'll redistribute to the better-off. Imagine the calibre of the contenders in a competition in which Johnson is the most honest?!

 

[Grombleton]

Hunt also clearly challenged.

Edited for you.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Isn't it funny how this shower have been inflicting misery and austerity on the country for the best part of 10 years and now are falling over themselves to promise all sorts of giveaways without any apparent regard for how such things will be funded.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Incredible to read on the BBC that Johnson is being kept away from the campaign to avoid him saying something dumb.

The BBC reporting that he won't even be running the country anyway. Others will do that. Him being the charismatic figurehead.

It's like Trump II

So IDS finally gets the job after all...

A blundering halfwit in "in charge" with sinister, evil characters pulling the strings behind the scenes? Sounds more like Dubya and Cheney / Rumsfeld. That went well though.....

 

[Grombleton]

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[Pretty pink fairy]

the stalling is coming to an end, So many disappointed Remainers on here LEAVE MEANS LEAVE
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Isn't it funny how this shower have been inflicting misery and austerity on the country for the best part of 10 years and now are falling over themselves to promise all sorts of giveaways without any apparent regard for how such things will be funded.

You're getting confused with Labour
regards
DR

 

[Grombleton]

You're getting confused with Labour
regards
DR

Yeah, because Labour are the party that have been in power for the past 10 years. Jesus Christ you're dim.

 

[studio150]

the stalling is coming to an end, So many disappointed Remainers on here LEAVE MEANS LEAVE
regards
DR

Other than the 108 times that Mrs May stood up in Parliament and said the UK would be leaving the EU on 29th March

 

[WATFORD zero]

the stalling is coming to an end, So many disappointed Remainers on here LEAVE MEANS LEAVE
regards
DR

Well, as became blindingly apparent

LEAVE didn't mean LEAVE on March 29th
LEAVE didn't mean LEAVE on April 12th

and

LEAVE won't mean LEAVE on October 31st

No matter how much you keep wittering on, my little cerebrally-challenged soppy old racist friend

 

[Gwylan]

If Boris can be elected as mayor of left wing London, twice,

I've seen this a few times now. I think it's true to say that London as a whole is slightly left of centre but not firmly so. The GLC was in operation for 22 years - split equally between Labour and the Tories. The mayoralty has been in place for 17 years and has been Labour for five (or nine if you count Ken Livingstone's first stint as Labour) and Tory for eight.

Johnson was lucky in his opponent too. He won the first time when Labour had been in government for 11 years and was running out of steam and was against Livingstone who had been mayor for eight years and was also looking like a has-been.

Amazingly, Livingstone was chosen again in 2012 - despite controversy about his tax affairs. Various members of his own party wouldn't canvass for him or even vote for him, so Johnson had a pretty straight run.

Yes, Johnson had to do well to win in a city that was more left than the rest of the country but it wasn't such a mind-blowingly difficult thing to do as his supporters are making out

 

[schmunk]

LEAVE MEANS LEAVE

MEANS MEANS MEANS

Regards
PP

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Yeah, because Labour are the party that have been in power for the past 10 years. Jesus Christ you're dim.

You've missed the point no surprise there Mr custard face , you'll need to change your avatar to egg on your face shortly
Regards
DR

 

[Razzoo]

Deckchairs = these 10 twats
Deck = Tory Party
Titanic = UK.

Iceberg = EU

 

[Gritt23]

Amazingly, Livingstone was chosen again in 2012 - despite controversy about his tax affairs. Various members of his own party wouldn't canvass for him or even vote for him, so Johnson had a pretty straight run.

Yes, Johnson had to do well to win in a city that was more left than the rest of the country but it wasn't such a mind-blowingly difficult thing to do as his supporters are making out

I don't think that is such a significant issue. Especially seeing as he won his first Mayoral election as an Independent having quit the Labour Party after Blair rigged it so that Dobson won selection over Ken. He didn't have any of the Labour Party canvassing for him that time, quite the opposite, they were trying to undermine his campaign. Didn't stop him.

 

[maltaseagull]

Isn't it funny how this shower have been inflicting misery and austerity on the country for the best part of 10 years and now are falling over themselves to promise all sorts of giveaways without any apparent regard for how such things will be funded.

Bit like Jeremy then?

 

[attila]

WHAT'S IN A NAME?
A lot.

If you refer to someone by their first name, when in comparable circumstances you call their colleagues by their surnames, it implies familiarity, indulgence, respect. If you have none of these feelings for the front runner in the Tory leadership contest, please don't call him Boris. Treat him like the others. McVey, Rudd, Gove, Johnson.

Johnson's manifesto is to cut taxes for the higher paid and leave the EU without a deal. I don't think it's possible to come up with two ideas simultaneously more divisive in our riven society and more disastrous for the poorest and most vulnerable in our communities.

Don't call him Boris, and ask your friends not to either. He's not your mate. He's not a bumbling, affable, scruffy, ruffle-haired charmer. He's a calculating, ruthless, cold-hearted class warrior for the super-rich. An utterly contemptible opportunist with a ridiculous sense of entitlement who, as Prime Minister, would take this country over a cliff. He's not even a Tory: when has a Tory said '**** business?' He's far more dangerous than that.

This 'Boris' nonsense is one of his most powerful weapons. It detoxifies him. He's not Billy Bunter, he's certainly not the Messiah, and he is most certainly not a very naughty boy. He is a thoroughly evil man.

And his name is JOHNSON.