Boris Johnson-Prime Minister (Vol 8)

[cgt2]

S600BSB said:

Didn't know Widdecombe was still alive.

I literally was about to type the exact same sentence.

[Short Grain]

cgt2 said:

S600BSB said:

Didn't know Widdecombe was still alive.

I literally was about to type the exact same sentence.

Often seen spouting crap on Jeremy Vine's show on c5. I catch it now and again and spend the odd hour shouting at the tv! Gets the blood flowing and increases my abusive vocabulary.

[Spare tyre]

DeejRC said:

Isn’t Mone under a proper police investigation currently? It hasn’t been dropped I don’t think?

Again, more wasted rescource

When my car gets nicked, granny gets punched etc, not a sausage

I appreciate it needs investigation, but it shouldn’t happen in those circles

[greygoose]

Spare tyre said:

DeejRC said:

Isn’t Mone under a proper police investigation currently? It hasn’t been dropped I don’t think?

Again, more wasted rescource

When my car gets nicked, granny gets punched etc, not a sausage

I appreciate it needs investigation, but it shouldn’t happen in those circles

To be fair her alleged fraud involved millions of pounds.

[cgt2]

ONE person in the QT audience supports Boris in a Tory voting area...

Yet he remains delusional in his belief that the majority of the country is with him.

[cirian75]

cgt2 said:

ONE person in the QT audience supports Boris in a Tory voting area...

Yet he remains delusional in his belief that the majority of the country is with him.

Watched that, that was catastrophically bad.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

S600BSB said:

Didn't know Widdecombe was still alive.

It is with deep regret that we have to confirm that she is.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

bhstewie said:

Good grief.

Nicely balanced panel there.

[768]

cgt2 said:

ONE person in the QT audience supports Boris in a Tory voting area...

Yet he remains delusional in his belief that the majority of the country is with him.

I'm not sure that audience is notorious for being representative.

[monkfish1]

ChevronB19 said:

Spare tyre said:

How much more tax payers money can be wasted on this stuff, bonkers

You think a PM (allegedly) lying isn’t worth investigating?

Sorry, *that’s* bonkers.

Hmmm. A valid point, except that they all lie, most of the time. Both PM and MP's

Why the interest in this particular lie?

If we are going to investigate lies, lets do them all.

[Mrr T]

monkfish1 said:

Hmmm. A valid point, except that they all lie, most of the time. Both PM and MP's

Why the interest in this particular lie?

If we are going to investigate lies, lets do them all.

That's not true. Politicians may answer a different question, give an answer which is ambiguous, even waffle. BJ is different while most of his speeches are waffle when asked direct questions he will some times give a clear and direct answer. The problem is many times that clear answer is a lie.

Politicians try to avoid direct lies because you will frequently be caught out. As has been the case with BJ.

[Blue62]

monkfish1 said:

Hmmm. A valid point, except that they all lie, most of the time. Both PM and MP's

Why the interest in this particular lie?

If we are going to investigate lies, lets do them all.

It’s been done to death and unless you’ve been living under a rock or diet exclusively on the Daily Bile, you’d know that what our former PM has been up to is without precedent.

The stories are everywhere if you could be bothered, which you obviously can’t. He is Just William holding the catapult behind his back, a cunning, clever confection of a human being without a conscience and with only one single interest in life, himself.

I hope he really is gone this time, but I fear not.

[Escort3500]

Blue62 said:

monkfish1 said:

Hmmm. A valid point, except that they all lie, most of the time. Both PM and MP's

Why the interest in this particular lie?

If we are going to investigate lies, lets do them all.

It’s been done to death and unless you’ve been living under a rock or diet exclusively on the Daily Bile, you’d know that what our former PM has been up to is without precedent.

The stories are everywhere if you could be bothered, which you obviously can’t. He is Just William holding the catapult behind his back, a cunning, clever confection of a human being without a conscience and with only one single interest in life, himself.

I hope he really is gone this time, but I fear not.

Exactly. We all know that most politicians of all hues and at all levels lie; to varying degrees it’s a default setting.

However, the frequency and seriousness of self-serving Johnson’s lies take it to a much higher level than most in Parliament

[TorqueVR]

Stolen from the Sean Connery Joke thread
The Johnson Defence
"Your Honour, although my client was wearing a balaclava and brought his own shotgun he was unaware he was attending a bank robbery"

[Garvin]

Escort3500 said:

Exactly. We all know that most politicians of all hues and at all levels lie; to varying degrees it’s a default setting.

However, the frequency and seriousness of self-serving Johnson’s lies take it to a much higher level than most in Parliament

A “much higher level”? Really? You consider Boris’ porky pies a higher level that Blair’s 45minute deployment of WMDs and off to war we go!

[Rumblestripe]

Garvin said:

Escort3500 said:

Exactly. We all know that most politicians of all hues and at all levels lie; to varying degrees it’s a default setting.

However, the frequency and seriousness of self-serving Johnson’s lies take it to a much higher level than most in Parliament

A “much higher level”? Really? You consider Boris’ porky pies a higher level that Blair’s 45minute deployment of WMDs and off to war we go!

Ah, the plaintiff cry of Johnsonista.

"what about they cry, WHAT ABOUT!"

Blair, you may have noticed is no longer PM, no longer an MP.

[sugerbear]

Garvin said:

Escort3500 said:

Exactly. We all know that most politicians of all hues and at all levels lie; to varying degrees it’s a default setting.

However, the frequency and seriousness of self-serving Johnson’s lies take it to a much higher level than most in Parliament

A “much higher level”? Really? You consider Boris’ porky pies a higher level that Blair’s 45minute deployment of WMDs and off to war we go!

this is laughable, the tories would have done exactly the same, they wouldn't have sided with the French, they would have even more accommodating of the Americans demands than Blair was.

[JagLover]

sugerbear said:

this is laughable, the tories would have done exactly the same, they wouldn't have sided with the French, they would have even more accommodating of the Americans demands than Blair was.

It is highly debateable though whether they would have issued such a blatant lie as the 45 minute dossier though. That is more the Campbell school of spin, later satirised in "In the loop".

[Bannock]

JagLover said:

sugerbear said:

this is laughable, the tories would have done exactly the same, they wouldn't have sided with the French, they would have even more accommodating of the Americans demands than Blair was.

It is highly debateable though whether they would have issued such a blatant lie as the 45 minute dossier though. That is more the Campbell school of spin, later satirised in "In the loop".

I personally know the guy who was Michael Howard's PR back in the day. I'm confident he'd have been worse than Campbell, had Howard won an election and given him the chief political advisor's role. I mean the fker was on Blind Date once, in dungarees and no shoes.

There you go, there's some equally pointless and baseless speculation to go along with yours.

[Garvin]

Rumblestripe said:

Garvin said:

Escort3500 said:

Exactly. We all know that most politicians of all hues and at all levels lie; to varying degrees it’s a default setting.

However, the frequency and seriousness of self-serving Johnson’s lies take it to a much higher level than most in Parliament

A “much higher level”? Really? You consider Boris’ porky pies a higher level that Blair’s 45minute deployment of WMDs and off to war we go!

Ah, the plaintiff cry of Johnsonista.

"what about they cry, WHAT ABOUT!"

Blair, you may have noticed is no longer PM, no longer an MP.

The Blairista is unmasked!

The challenge was about higher levels and seriousness that referred to all politicians. You obviously consider Blair’s misdemeanour which significantly damaged the UK less serious than Boris’.

Edited by Garvin on Friday 24th March 11:01