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At the Foreign Office he was heard to muse as to whether Chancellor Angela Merkel had served in East Germany’s Stasi secret police. French president Emmanuel Macron was a “jumped-up Napoleon”. As for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, “Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them”.
Terrifying.
humptydummy Remainers ganging up on any leavers who don't share their views how predictable and sad, have the pms been flying lol. Pathetic really but par for the course. Yes Jo Swinson in my opinion is hideous and undemocratic.
What a ridiculous reply from Firecracker123 to be expected.
I hate Jo Swinson and not because she is a woman it is because she is dogmatic and humourless.
What an apt reply from a bigoted Remainer to be expected.
Firecracker- a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise
Hmm, not sure I would bother asking for or expecting a serious answer to your question from that source, Riverwalk
Why is Jo Swinson hideous? More sexist shite.
Who's she asked Corbyn or the hideous Jo Swinson ? how ridiculous
According to Andrew Marr on R4 this morning the queen has asked for advice on how to sack a prime minister.
I was wondering if he had cut his own hair in a fit of madness, as lunatics do. Or with a knife and fork. But let's face it; the Tory brexiteers don't care WHO delivers Brexit. The end justifies the means.
Interestingly. Johnson and Trump are both endangered by criminal charges. Softly, softy catchy monkey.
If Mr Johnson expects people to take him seriously, perhaps he should tuck his shirt in. I am considering starting crowdfunding to buy him a bottle of shampoo, a comb and a haircut.
Boris Johnson is now facing legal action over his part, as Mayor of London, in the loss of £43,000,000 of taxpayers money on the Garden Bridge scandal.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/garden-bridge-legal-bid-targets-boris-johnson/10044178.article?blocktitle=Garden-bridge-more-stories&contentID=16541
BJ has now been accused of channelling public funds into the coffers of a close "friend" when he was Mayor of London
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/22/boris-johnson-urged-to-justify-awarding-public-funds-to-close-friend-jennifer-arcuri
A letter sent to Boris Johnson’s dad during his time at Eton College has been making the rounds on social media – and it explains a lot.
Martin Hammond, who was Johnson’s housemaster and taught him classics, spotted early on that the former Foreign Secretary and prominent Brexiteer showcased a certain irresponsibility and inattention to facts.
Writing of him in a school report in April 1982, he said: “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies . . . Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”
A Letters of Note tweet detailing the correspondence has gone viral since being it was posted last month, garnering over 10,000 likes and 5,000 re-tweets.
Among the comments people pay tribute to the teacher’s perceptive nature, with one saying the letter “could have been written in 2018”.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/letter-to-boris-johnsons-dad-from-eton-college-resurfaces-online-and-it-explains-a-lot/25/03/
I was going to suggest that BJ is an example of Peter's Principle, where someone gets promoted to their level of incompetence, but when I look it up I discovered that it referred to folk who had been compentent at a lower level but when moved up just couldn't cope.
As far as I can see BJ has never been competent at any level, he has fooled around, cashed in on his contacts and elitist background and amused some folk by playing the clown.
He is now being found out big time and is about to get his comeuppence.
Indeed- and defying the Law, both Houses and HRH on 2 counts now- Yellowhammer AND No Deal. He can't survive long.
In fact, very clever of Bercow to go NOW- when the Tories have lost so so many members and are in a large minority and the father of the House, in effectively in opposition to Johnson- that way Leadsome and co can't choose who they want. VERY clever indeed.
I have no respect for anyone who makes stupid promises that he knows he cannot keep, just because an advisor tells him to do it, or only keep at the expense of sacrificing the future of our children's - and his.
Pig-headed stupidity is the best description.
Urmstongran, how can you stand by a man who is closing our Sovereigh Representative Parliament to shut opposition? And one who is now saying he will NOT obey the Law of sthis land- the requirements of BOTH houses and our Gracious HRH.
In the name of democracy by the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Holy Spectator.
Very ‘original’. growstuff
A Dutch cartoon with a take on Boris that none of us here have seen before!
What’s that word ...
? plagiarise
Anyway, adding nothing new.
I think it is called cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Love him or hate him you have to take your hat off to Boris.
He is doing everything possible to carry out his promise to leave the EU on the 31st Oct.
The remainers will not even concede that and thereby lies part of the problem.
A current and compliant Tory MP has said that if Boris does defy the law, which this MP thinks is highly improbably, many other Conservative MPs, including him, will resign from the party. This group is said to include some cabinet members.
And Johnson and the efg except the Canadians to fall over themselves to make Trade deals with the clown, it's enough to make one cry
Boris Johnson 'will be forced from power if he defies no-deal law'
If PM fails to comply with anti-no deal act, he could face jail, legal experts warn
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/07/boris-johnson-could-trigger-constitutional-crisis-over-brexit-law
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