Boris's in tray ???

[230TE]

Byker28i said:

230TE said:

Passive-aggressive isn't a good look for Remainers. There seems to be a fair bit of it about at the moment, understandable I guess. You guys will be feeling as badly bruised as I felt in 1997. Take heart: the Blair government wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared, life went on. The same applies to Brexit. It'll be OK.

LOL the Blair government was terrible, so many broken promises, cancelled road projects and bypasses and then left the country with Gordon Brown to make Blair look good, witgh the result that we had years of austerity to pay off all their mismanagement. Someone has a very short memory.

I didn't say it was good, just that it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

[PositronicRay]

powerstroke said:

Apart from Brexit Hopefully the White elephant AKA HS2 will be up there what else do we want dealt with ???

I think they need HS2 more than ever now, public spending + promises to the North make it most desirable.

[eccles]

Byker28i said:

230TE said:

Passive-aggressive isn't a good look for Remainers. There seems to be a fair bit of it about at the moment, understandable I guess. You guys will be feeling as badly bruised as I felt in 1997. Take heart: the Blair government wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared, life went on. The same applies to Brexit. It'll be OK.

LOL the Blair government was terrible, so many broken promises, cancelled road projects and bypasses and then left the country with Gordon Brown to make Blair look good, witgh the result that we had years of austerity to pay off all their mismanagement. Someone has a very short memory.

You clearly have a very short memory if you can't remember the reasons why Blair got in in the first place!

[tangerine_sedge]

Byker28i said:

230TE said:

Passive-aggressive isn't a good look for Remainers. There seems to be a fair bit of it about at the moment, understandable I guess. You guys will be feeling as badly bruised as I felt in 1997. Take heart: the Blair government wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared, life went on. The same applies to Brexit. It'll be OK.

LOL the Blair government was terrible, so many broken promises, cancelled road projects and bypasses and then left the country with Gordon Brown to make Blair look good, witgh the result that we had years of austerity to pay off all their mismanagement. Someone has a very short memory.

Are you saying that all those things that Boris is promising won't be delivered and that we'll just have some fiddling around the edges and BRiNO?

[psi310398]

i4got said:

Or alternatively 4 with his first wife and one with an ex-girlfriend. Not radically different to many people. Bit judgey.

I don't think he had any with his first wife - the fragrant Allegra Mostyn-Owen - IIRC.

[psi310398]

Byker28i said:

LOL the Blair government was terrible, so many broken promises, cancelled road projects and bypasses and then left the country with Gordon Brown to make Blair look good, witgh the result that we had years of austerity to pay off all their mismanagement. Someone has a very short memory.

And a not-so-small matter of an illegal war, launched with bad faith, that wasted and damaged countless servicemen's (and families') lives and, IMV obvs, still made this country a considerably less safe place to be as a consequence.

Snake oil salesmen are not confined to the right-leaning parties.

[Ian Geary]

eccles said:

steveatesh said:

A good start to balancing the economy between north and south....

Why just the North? Why doesn't the rest of the country get a chance?

Because "the north" is everywhere that isn't London (or Cambridge)

[voyds9]

S100HP said:

No can do comrade. Not pro Labour but pro EU and don't want to leave but there is nothing we can do now except look forward to saying "we told you so". Nice one, Workington man.

Read this article earlier. Workington man said: "I’m not daft. I know Boris isn’t going to do anything for me but at least he’s committed to making Brexit happen. That’ll do for now.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gen...

You might just get what the Remainers promised, out means out with No Deal

[plasticpig]

anonymous said:

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There have been plenty of young left-wing idealistic radicals in universities for over a hundred years. Most of them grow out of it and become far more cynical and conservative. Some even become Tory politicians.

[Dromedary66]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Not stuffing the dirt poor working class that voted for him in labour heartlands

He probably knows that once Brexit is done they will go back to voting labour. It really was a one issue election.

[98elise]

anonymous said:

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She sounds like my Nephew. Not from a rich background but certainly middle class. He's a rabid Corbyn supporter and had a Facebook meltdown when the exit poll was announced.

He was absolutely horrified that Boris had stolen his future and he would not have a chance in life now. I'm not sure what he thought Corbyn was going to do for his job prospects.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

i4got said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Announcing that his girlfriend is pregnant, his 7th child, by a 4th mother, I think. Difficult to keep track.

Or alternatively 4 with his first wife and one with an ex-girlfriend. Not radically different to many people. Bit judgey.

Nope, none with his first wife, 4 with his second wife, and 2 with different girlfriends whilst still married to second wife (so we're told, unfortunately he refused to confirm or deny). If Carrie is pregnant (as the rumour mill suggests), that'll be a 3rd with a 3rd girlfriend, so 7x4. Ulrika Johnson gets all kinds of stick for 4x4, so 7x4, I think I'm quite entitled to judge.

[psi310398]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Nope, none with his first wife, 4 with his second wife, and 2 with different girlfriends whilst still married to second wife (so we're told, unfortunately he refused to confirm or deny). If Carrie is pregnant (as the rumour mill suggests), that'll be a 3rd with a 3rd girlfriend, so 7x4. Ulrika Johnson gets all kinds of stick for 4x4, so 7x4, I think I'm quite entitled to judge.

Has anybody suggested for a moment that he is not maintaining his brood without recourse to public assistance? If he isn't, what on earth business is this of ours?

[Teddy Lop]

plasticpig said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

There have been plenty of young left-wing idealistic radicals in universities for over a hundred years. Most of them grow out of it and become far more cynical and conservative. Some even become Tory politicians.

a lot of them haven't grown up, we've got friends in 30s and 40s, home owners who enjoy the trappings of everything from good single malt to exotic holidays who are completely blinded that they'd be the victims of the hate driven Marxist politics that they are so devastated have failed again.

Ironically the people with so much to lose are out thought by many with less who such politics should appeal to more! Then they have the temerity to call them the idiots!!

[plasticpig]

psi310398 said:

Has anybody suggested for a moment that he is not maintaining his brood without recourse to public assistance? If he isn't, what on earth business is this of ours?

If he is willing to break one sort of contract perhaps he is predisposed to break other sorts of contacts as well. Of course he could have had an open marriage but the circumstances suggest otherwise.

[psi310398]

plasticpig said:

If he is willing to break one sort of contract perhaps he is predisposed to break other sorts of contacts as well. Of course he could have had an open marriage but the circumstances suggest otherwise.

Are you seriously suggesting that anybody who is divorced should precluded from participating public affairs - all divorces, after all, being the breaking of lifelong contracts?

That is a seriously high standard for public life that you are setting.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

psi310398 said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Nope, none with his first wife, 4 with his second wife, and 2 with different girlfriends whilst still married to second wife (so we're told, unfortunately he refused to confirm or deny). If Carrie is pregnant (as the rumour mill suggests), that'll be a 3rd with a 3rd girlfriend, so 7x4. Ulrika Johnson gets all kinds of stick for 4x4, so 7x4, I think I'm quite entitled to judge.

Has anybody suggested for a moment that he is not maintaining his brood without recourse to public assistance? If he isn't, what on earth business is this of ours?

Has anyone confirmed he is supporting his children, both financially and pastorally? Isn't it a matter of public interest, how many children the PM has and how they are being supported? Unfortunately, whilst he refuses to disclose the information, we cannot check.

[Heaveho]

Dromedary66 said:

He probably knows that once Brexit is done they will go back to voting labour. It really was a one issue election.

It was a 2 issue election, and Brexit was playing 2nd fiddle. Corbyn was the main issue for many many voters. Even his own party privately admit that.

[Heaveho]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Has anyone confirmed he is supporting his children, both financially and pastorally? Isn't it a matter of public interest, how many children the PM has and how they are being supported? Unfortunately, whilst he refuses to disclose the information, we cannot check.

What would you do about it if you knew?

[Teddy Lop]

Heaveho said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Has anyone confirmed he is supporting his children, both financially and pastorally? Isn't it a matter of public interest, how many children the PM has and how they are being supported? Unfortunately, whilst he refuses to disclose the information, we cannot check.

What would you do about it if you knew?

go on and on and on about it some more, obviously its the key issue threatening the country in his mind.

Obviously we need someone who made a show of being really virtuous, I can think of a few 20th century leaders who did...