Johnson’s Government

He didn’t even know where Dover is.

This is the same Raab who, as Brexit prefect, didn't realise just how busy Dover to Calais route is. Bloody hell, the man is a fool

I think they’ve gone completely mad. The lunatics really are running the asylum now.

just so out of order and provocative!

And then he goes on, and other Tories, about how precious the Union is

This Tory idiot seems hell-bent on breaking up our two most precious Unions.

Oh no, is this our foreign secretary speaking? Truly shocking.

I think he may need a mental capacity assessment.

When you think Dominic Raab couldn’t get more stupid- this is a recent tweet of his

oh yes- but he seems a bit more competent and convincing (Alan B'Stard that is)

Here it is, you can skip the ad at the beginning.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeiGLSy-1zU

Am I the only one who think that Raab looks, acts, talks, sneers like Alan B'Stard, played so wonderfully by the late Rik Mayall? Will try and find a clip and post it on here

How about the 'undemocratic proroguing of parliament' [which it is....]

Exactly, Maizie, people don't care. It's like saying "cultural Marxist" (whatever that's supposed to mean). People automatically go "boo hiss" and feel revulsion.

Yes, I am sure they're being primed. There's been a spike in searches for it on Google. Apparently, it started on Monday. Raab appears to have been the first, but it's now appearing in official government documentation. I think somebody's been reading Goebbel's handbook.

The word "democracy" itself has been misused so much over the last three years that it's become meaningless as a concept.

I think that constantly using a phrase, especially one as vacuously meaningless as this one, 'normalises' it in many people's eyes. It has two Leavers' hate words in it, 'undemocratic' and 'backstop'. Who cares what it 'means'?

"Project Fear", as a way of dismissing well informed warnings of the dire consequences of leaving the union, particularly from experts, was another overused, but successful catchphrase, which was first used in 2014 by the SNP.

Yes I do agree that if it is constantly pointed out at every opportunity, the voters may begin to understand at how they are being manipulated.

Re 'undemocratic backstop'; Sajid Javid is in love with it. Do you think they are all being primed to hammer these phrases in the hope that we will believe them? Pathetic. What they don't seem to realise is that they come across as fools, not as serious politicians.

We must not forget 'the will of the people'!

Apparently, "turbo charge preparations" is another one to put on the Brexit Bingo card.

What a mess we are in.

There is an article in the Guardian showing how ‘Project Fear’ has become a reality.

Surely just saying it will all work out in the end will not cut it anymore.

Brexit, as I am sure it was designed to do, has split our country and I am not sure there is any way back. There are no winners and losers, we are all losers.

I don't think it's very funny either, Maizie, but I'm glad that people are cottoning on to the use of catchphrases. With a bit of luck, people will do to this one the same as they did with "strong and stable". It's being mocked on a number of threads on Twitter.

I agree Maizie

PS. I can't bear to watch any interviews with Cleverly, so you're one "undemocratic backstop" up on me ;-)

I'm not finding it a particularly funny joke, varian. It's mangling language to a point where it's meaningless but giving the Leave parrots a little mantra to regurgitate atcevery opportunity!

Manipulation of the electorate has never seemed so blatant...

Quite clearly, the Irish border concerns the Tories. Meanwhile, there are rumblings in Sinn Fein about it. Anybody think this might not end up very well?

I remember Ireland being mentioned in 2016, but our brave Brexiteers at the time didn't seem to have considered it.