British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he speaks during a news conference in New Delhi, India. | POOL
Palma25/04/2022 09:48
I have never met Conservative Member of Parliament, Robert Largan and I will probably never will, but he summed up my thoughts on Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he said “I will not defend the indefensible.” Some Johnson-supporting newspapers have made light of the partygate allegations saying that it is much ado about nothing and “now is not the time for such petty issues when we have a war in Europe”. I may be old-fashioned but the person who sets the laws shouldn´t break them. Simple.
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Why do you keep banging on about this? We are in Mallorca, and I for one, would like to hear some serious comment on Mallorcan issues, of which, currently there are many contentious ones.
Johnson learned from Trump - get a few catchy slogans and just repeat them non stop. That's the level of political discourse now - a lot of people can't even be bothered to, or aren't intelligent enough to read complete sentences, so just use slogans. 'Get Brexit done' - repeat. 'Oven ready deal' - repeat. Etc etc Johnson is an embarrassment to the UK.
He says what they want to hear. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant. It's what they want to hear. Putin is a master at this. Johnson is good at it, but not near as good as Putin. Still, Britain (well, England) is a pretty gullible electorate. You just don't have to be all that good. Just tell them whatever they want to hear. It's worked so far.
Nothing will have to the clown, too many self serving as well as spineless MPs. If they had any dignity by now they would be rid of him. The guy was dismissed not once but twice from his job as a journalist yet people voted him with such a majority which is unless Tory Mps decide he will be staying on. I always repeat, people deserve the government they vote for. If Brits are so apathetic and do not look into the background of their chosen representative then ... well they deserve BoJo.
Jason interesting comparison you make of Johnson and Churchill. The Churchill myth still echoes with some but he was not perfect by any means. He was from a much different from working class Brits at that time, he once traveled through the London east end after a raid calling to the common people “we can take it “ the reply we’re the ones taking it mate” came from the street. Leadership is about settling example true but also practical needs prevail Downing Street is home and major government office how can you follow a badly written law in that environment. That said don’t impose poor legislation. A contest now would give a choice the French have just had least worse. The CAC has dropped nearly 3% some confidence vote that is. Other issues face the economic values and taking about now very stale cake won’t fix them