Boris Johnson

[Section_31]

Said it before but rehabilitating Tories is a cottage industry. Everyone coos over the likes of that Baroness Warsi on Question Time. Portillo has his 'post boxes of Britain' shtick and Osborne - the architect of austerity and all the deaths and misery it unleashed, has a podcast with Balls, Hancock has been on about two reality shows already. 

 

They all have these road to Damascus moments when their Parliamentary careers are up. The fact we tolerate it is another example of how interlinked the media is with our diseased politics. 

 

 

[Gnasher]

15 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Said it before but rehabilitating Tories is a cottage industry. Everyone coos over the likes of that Baroness Warsi on Question Time. Portillo has his 'post boxes of Britain' shtick and Osborne - the architect of austerity and all the deaths and misery it unleashed, has a podcast with Balls, Hancock has been on about two reality shows already. 

 

They all have these road to Damascus moments when their Parliamentary careers are up. The fact we tolerate it is another example of how interlinked the media is with our diseased politics. 

 

 

 

Agree with your general point but I'd take Warsi over this cunt any day of the week.

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Gnasher said:

Ofcom ate the real cunts here.

You need a bit of that.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Arniepie said:

Boris Johnson: Former prime minister to host GB News show - BBC News

How many times does he want to get fired?

[TD_LFC]

Wonder if he'll make it past next week, Osborne seems to think the messages being shown to the Covid enquiry next week won't be pretty. 

[ZonkoVille77]

2 hours ago, Arniepie said:

Boris Johnson: Former prime minister to host GB News show - BBC News

 

Everything's a fucking joke to that sentient tin of Spam. The last thing anyone needs these days is his minced up grid on the TV trying to rewrite history.

[Jack the Sipper]

He's actually got a few positions he argues for (whether he believes in them or not is besides the point) that are like a red rag to the brutes that watch that shite, namely net zero and HS2. Apparently, the Mail, who he currently does a column for, are pissed of with him for banging on about them.

 

There's also the issue of the forthcoming election, which might make things interesting. Even though GBNews are to the right of most Tories (which takes some doing these days) they'll almost certainly be campaigning for them in whatever ways they can. Will Johnson, who still feels sore about the way he was removed and Sunak in particular, toe the line?

[Jack the Sipper]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Said it before but rehabilitating Tories is a cottage industry. Everyone coos over the likes of that Baroness Warsi on Question Time. Portillo has his 'post boxes of Britain' shtick and Osborne - the architect of austerity and all the deaths and misery it unleashed, has a podcast with Balls, Hancock has been on about two reality shows already. 

 

They all have these road to Damascus moments when their Parliamentary careers are up. The fact we tolerate it is another example of how interlinked the media is with our diseased politics. 

 

 

 

Hard to believe now, but Portillo was seen as hard-right, the heir to Thatcher, a real cold shameless cunt, and he played on it too. Now he's trundling around the country on steam trains in pink suits talking to old folk about where to get the best scones in the Mendips. Jonathan Aitken was another one. 

 

I can only imagine what fate has lined up for Braverman.  

[Kepler-186]

Braverman will be presenting the GB News version of The Running Man in the next 10 years. Migrant “stop the boats” specials. Trade Unionist Marxist Scum team ups getting dropped by the New Den. Sponsor your favourite Met Police hit squad. Buy the gear online. And the great British public will lap it up. 

[JohnnyH]

[Bruce Spanner]

16 minutes ago, Kepler-186 said:

Braverman will be presenting the GB News version of The Running Man in the next 10 years. Migrant “stop the boats” specials. Trade Unionist Marxist Scum team ups getting dropped by the New Den. Sponsor your favourite Met Police hit squad. Buy the gear online. And the great British public will lap it up. 

 

[Anubis]

I imagine his show will appeal to the lowest common denominator.

 

 

[Kevin D]

I don’t like him.

[Kepler-186]

52 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

 

[Arniepie]

2 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

Wonder if he'll make it past next week, Osborne seems to think the messages being shown to the Covid enquiry next week won't be pretty. 

Yep 

Him and Cummings both fired off a load of misogynistic texts apparently. 

It won't make a blind bit of difference.

He said he would rather see bodies piled high in the streets and had piss ups when people couldn't see dying relatives,and fucking morons still grovel at his feet.

[redinblack]

22 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

Yep 

Him and Cummings both fired off a load of misogynistic texts apparently. 

It won't make a blind bit of difference.

He said he would rather see bodies piled high in the streets and had piss ups when people couldn't see dying relatives,and fucking morons still grovel at his feet.

When they were having the election amongst the Tory Party as to who would take over, Hunt or Johnson I was out in the car and had Radio 4 on. They asked various geriatrics and nearly dead people who should get it, and this fellah says "he makes me laugh so I'll vote for Boris"  I knew then we were fucked.

[redinblack]

Perhaps if GB News just renamed itself Twat Channel it would be immune from Ofcom sanctions as it would be saying openly and honestly what it was about, made by, financed by and viewed by Twats. But completely transparent.

[Gnasher]

He was a larf 

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/06/15/boris-johnson-deliberately-misled-uk-parliament-over-covid-lockdown-parties-investigation-finds/

 

 

[Arniepie]

the enquiry going,understandably,under the radar but some explosive stuff coming out.

 

even by the march, the government had no plan to deal with the pandemic.

they have basically acknowledged they deleted the whatsapp messages without explaining why 

 

Keith says Johnson held a meeting with Lord Lebedev, the Evening Standard owner, that week. He asks what it was about.

Reynolds says he was not there. He says political advisers attended, and he says he would not normally ask what was discussed at a political meeting.

Q: Did you ask him why he was holding the meeting when he had more urgent matters to deal with?

Reynolds says he cannot recall if he said that or not. But ultimately it was for the PM to decide, he says.

[littletedwest]

1 minute ago, Arniepie said:

the enquiry going,understandably,under the radar but some explosive stuff coming out.

 

even by the march, the government had no plan to deal with the pandemic.

they have basically acknowledged they deleted the whatsapp messages without explaining why 

 

Keith says Johnson held a meeting with Lord Lebedev, the Evening Standard owner, that week. He asks what it was about.

Reynolds says he was not there. He says political advisers attended, and he says he would not normally ask what was discussed at a political meeting.

Q: Did you ask him why he was holding the meeting when he had more urgent matters to deal with?

Reynolds says he cannot recall if he said that or not. But ultimately it was for the PM to decide, he says.

Obviously nothing suspect in this

[Arniepie]

Just now, littletedwest said:

Obviously nothing suspect in this

he has to check in with his handlers at some point

[Arniepie]

fucking hell

 

Hugo Keith KC starts by asking about WhatsApp messages showing that Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, said in July 2020 that Boris Johnson was advocating an approach that would be “Trump-Bolsonaro level mad and dangerous”. At the time Johnson was pressing to lift lockdown restrictions quickly.

Martin Reynolds says, as he argued before lunch, that Johnson blew hot and cold.

Keith quotes from further exchanges, when in October 2020 Case said Johnson’s behaviour was making the UK look like “a terrible, tragic joke”.

And he quotes from messages not previously seen in which Johnson is described as “not exactly a consistent interlocutor” and “weak and indescisive”.

[Arniepie]

chaos, and misogyny' in Covid decision making, inquiry told

Keith says Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary at the time, wrote a report in May 2020 proposing a different structure to deal with Covid. He says the report described “dysfunctionality, lack of discipline, chaos, and a significant degree of misogyny” in how meetings were run and decisions were taking place.

[Section_31]

This is why I hate the people who voted for Johnson. Like Trump,  he was a known quantity. If you'd said to anyone "if there's a pandemic a year from now, how will he handle it?" They'd have said he wouldn't turn up to meetings, lie a lot, and be disorganised and lazy. And hey ho, he was....and people died.

[littletedwest]

7 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

This is why I hate the people who voted for Johnson. Like Trump,  he was a known quantity. If you'd said to anyone "if there's a pandemic a year from now, how will he handle it?" They'd have said he wouldn't turn up to meetings, lie a lot, and be disorganised and lazy. And hey ho, he was....and people died.

The maddest thing is people after saying he got us through covid like he was Churchill. He bounced from one fuck up to another costing lives and money.