Boris Johnson-Prime Minister (Vol 8)

[bitchstewie]

Don't be daft Turbo.

It's exactly as Rog said which is generally in politics if someone buys you something to the tune of £150,000 they're probably doing it because they expect something in return.

[Evanivitch]

turbobloke said:

don'tbesilly said:

Evanivitch said:

crankedup5 said:

Well at least the proposal wasn’t to be funded by the tax payer. Indicates Boris has every intention of staying in Number 10, and I suspect that the treehouse is handy propaganda to aid that process.

Yeah nothing says dictatorship like a £150,000 playhouse during a cost-of-living/housing/inflation crisis

Like the 4-year-old story about Carrie Symonds, this latest one (if true) about a playhouse is from Autumn 2020, perhaps you were struggling back then, but I don't think the UK was struggling back then in the same way as it is right now.

I guess you missed the part of the article stating it apparently occurred back in 2020.

Also it's got nothing to do with dictatorship at any time.

Possibly something to do with envy (not the item itself) or bash the rich (though it's hardly premiership footballer) or just the usual Grrrr Boris stuff from the tolerant illiberal vaguely left if it helps.

Hang on, we're genuinely suggesting that the thought of a play house which is the equivalent price of a first-time-buyer home in 3 of the 4 countries in the United Kingdom is envy politics PH is unreal

Autumn 2020, wasn't that after £Bn spent on furlough, PPE, NHS in crisis oh and eat out to done out. Of course, everything was fine according to the chancellor.




And as a reference, even Peter Crouch scoffed at the idea of a £50,000 slide for his kids

[turbobloke]

bhstewie said:

Don't be daft Turbo.

It's exactly as Rog said which is generally in politics if someone buys you something to the tune of £150,000 they're probably doing it because they expect something in return.

I wasn't replying to Rog.

I was replying to the 'dictatorship' bks as you can plainly see.

[bitchstewie]

turbobloke said:

I wasn't replying to Rog.

I was replying to the 'dictatorship' bks as you can plainly see.

The dictatorship stuff was bks just as much as your stuff about "envy politics" and the "tolerant illiberal vaguely left" was.

It's about people trying to buy power and influence by buying things for the Prime Minister as you well know.

[Mrr T]

JagLover said:

Mrr T said:

Not sure there will be much of a battle the 1922 committee represents private member of which a clear majority voted against BJ.

You know its all over when Con Home abandons you.
https://mobile.twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/...

You perhaps have the wrong link?

ConservativeHome said:

The Cabinet should tell Johnson that he should go voluntarily rather than risk being forced out: For better or worse, I didn’t urge Tory MPs to depose their leader – the downside was at least as large as the upside. But once two in five voted against him a) it became less likely that he will survive this Parliament; and b) it is hard to see how he can recover in the absence of an agreed political and economic plan. The case for the Cabinet advising him to go was strong at the start of the month and is more so now.

https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2022/06/double-defeat-the-conservatives-lose-wakefield-to-labour-and-tiverton-honiton-to-the-libdems.html

Woops. I certainly did. Thanks for correcting it for me.

[bigee]

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

[miniman]

Beyond delusional.

[Stuart70]

Listening to the R4 interview yesterday morning with our highly esteemed PM, his tone was very much, “come ahead if you think you are hard enough!”

[MrGTI6]

bigee said:

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

He's deluded!

[johnboy1975]

MrGTI6 said:

bigee said:

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

He's deluded!

Who had 2032 in the "When does Boris go" sweepstake?

[cuprabob]

johnboy1975 said:

MrGTI6 said:

bigee said:

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

He's deluded!

Who had 2032 in the "When does Boris go" sweepstake?

A certain Sir Kier Starmer, it would seem

[MrGTI6]

johnboy1975 said:

MrGTI6 said:

bigee said:

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

He's deluded!

Who had 2032 in the "When does Boris go" sweepstake?

I had 20:32.

[bitchstewie]

bigee said:

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

There is a bit of the emperor is naked about Johnson sitting thousands of miles away in Kigali talking about a third term and telling reporters he's listening to what people want whilst also highlighting with all of that that as he said he's not going to change his psychology.

Leopards and spots.

Delusional is being kind.

[roger.mellie]

bhstewie said:

bigee said:

I see our glorious leader is already planning for his 3rd term in office.....

There is a bit of the emperor is naked about Johnson sitting thousands of miles away in Kigali talking about a third term and telling reporters he's listening to what people want whilst also highlighting with all of that that as he said he's not going to change his psychology.

Leopards and spots.

Delusional is being kind.

Think about it, can you describe a faction of the Tory party to which Boris is a member? So why would any of those factions necessarily think he's their man?

I'm not going to over egg that point, it doesn't mean much, but if he's listening who is he listening to.

[pquinn]

bhstewie said:

Remarkable.

Boris Johnson planned £150,000 treehouse for son Wilf at Chequers

My main takeaway is that this was just another example of Boris having zero clue about the value of money or how to control his spending. Whether it's his personal cash or public funds he just has zero clue. I honestly think he must be innumerate.

The 3 term thing is just his usual disconnection from reality, and blind faith that blundering through will get him whatever he wants. Mostly because so far in his life doing whatever he likes has mostly worked, if he ignores the frequent expensive stumbles that have slowed but not deflected him.

[ChocolateFrog]

BBC News - Johnson will lead Tories at next election, says Brandon Lewis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61942509

I think that will seal the Tories fate. Starmer can keep doing what he's doing at the moment I.e. nothing.

Labour's election rhetoric will write itself.

I'll go for a 20-40 majority.

[bitchstewie]

pquinn said:

My main takeaway is that this was just another example of Boris having zero clue about the value of money or how to control his spending. Whether it's his personal cash or public funds he just has zero clue. I honestly think he must be innumerate.

The 3 term thing is just his usual disconnection from reality, and blind faith that blundering through will get him whatever he wants. Mostly because so far in his life doing whatever he likes has mostly worked, if he ignores the frequent expensive stumbles that have slowed but not deflected him.

My takeaway is that back in 2020 when this happened he was trying to get someone else to pay for a £150,000 treehouse for one of his own children whilst whipping his own MPs to vote against feeding other peoples children before caving in to Marcus Rashford.

[MC Bodge]

bhstewie said:

My takeaway is that back in 2020 when this happened he was trying to get someone else to pay for a £150,000 treehouse for one of his own children whilst whipping his own MPs to vote against feeding other peoples children before caving in to Marcus Rashford.

This man, and the sycophants that surround him, should never have been anywhere near power.

[roger.mellie]

ChocolateFrog said:

BBC News - Johnson will lead Tories at next election, says Brandon Lewis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61942509

I think that will seal the Tories fate. Starmer can keep doing what he's doing at the moment I.e. nothing.

Labour's election rhetoric will write itself.

I'll go for a 20-40 majority.

I wouldn't even know who Brandon Lewis was if he wasn't NI SOS. As he is and as I've seen more of him than I'd like to I consider him a pretty reliable extension of what Boris thinks rather than what others in the party think. I've joked Tim nice but dim before, he's not that, but he's very good at being uncritically on message. He'll say exactly the same thing about the next Tory leader if given the chance without batting an eyelid.

On the treehouse, yes being upsold a bullet proof treehouse for your perk residence and expecting it to be paid for by a donor is not an example of a profligate attitude to public spending, Boris would never spend a penny when he could spend somebody else's, but he's fking useless at knowing when to say no.

[Riff Raff]

ChocolateFrog said:

BBC News - Johnson will lead Tories at next election, says Brandon Lewis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61942509

I think that will seal the Tories fate. Starmer can keep doing what he's doing at the moment I.e. nothing.

Labour's election rhetoric will write itself.

I'll go for a 20-40 majority.

Can’t see a 20-40 majority myself. As I said in another thread In 97 Labour took 56 seats in Scotland. They are now pretty much SNP. I’m not sure the liberal Democrats will reproduce their recent by election form in a GE either. Labour may end up being the largest party, but short of the Tory vote imploding which I don’t think will happen if Boris goes (and isn’t replaced with another no hoper from the current cabinet) based on current polls I’d bet on a hung parliament. But my crystal ball is cloudy.