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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Ciaran, Apr 20, 2020.

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  1. DUNCAN DONUTS

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    Johnson has served his purpose he got Brexit done as promised , and pulled an absolute blinder scrapping all the coof nonsense.

    If Sir Rodney was in power we would be like Canada New Zealand and Australia clinging on to mandates .

    Like pretty much most EUROPEAN UNION countries.
     
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    Other than the moustache and Hairy back she's quite ****able
     
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    She's a ****ing commie **** that should go and live in a commie country.

    Decent pair of legs though.
     
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    So what about the black lives matter people?
    when they rioted and burnt looted and murdered where they little "blm"?
    and then the leader of Black Lives Matter stole all that money from Black Lives Matter was that Black Lives Matter or black lives matter?
    Who was doing the violent protests in London? Black Lives Matter or black lives matter?
    When Sky had Black Lives Matter on the screen and footballers had Black Lives Matter on their shirts was it Black Lives Matter or black lives matter?
    If the Conservative Party decided to confiscate everybody's money and throw acid over people they dont like would conservatives still support them?
    Has Femi thought any of this through?
     
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    And you believe him? A Labour/Lib Dem/SNP coalition ( Latest opinion polls would give them a 110 seat majority) would get back in like a rat up a drainpipe.
     
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    Derp.
     
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    Unfortunately for the lefty spastics clinging to the hope of rejoining the EUROPEAN UNION, there's more chance of Orange Hitler returning to the White House...
     
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    .................or Emanuelle Macaroni becoming relevant.
     
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    HUGO RIFKIND
    Of course Remainers are out to get Johnson

    Dark warnings about secret plots miss the point that anyone sensible would want to destroy the architect of Brexit
    Hugo Rifkind

    Monday February 14 2022, 9.00pm, The Times
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    Is it a Remainer plot? In rode Sir John Major last week with a speech at the Institute of Government, delivering yet another kick to the dishevelled head of our prime minister as the Downing Street party hangover continues. He joins other former senior Tories, such as Lord Heseltine, Lady May and perhaps a couple more, and some are beginning to wonder what they all have in common.

    “By spooky coincidence,” writes Nigel Jones in the Spectator, the bulk of MPs who have sent or plan to send letters of no confidence in Johnson also come from “the wringing wet Remainer wing of the party”. Daniel Johnson in the Daily Mail goes further and includes Nicola Sturgeon as if, were it not for his stance on the European Union, the leader of the SNP would be prepared to take the old Etonian Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom quite to her bosom.

    Let us not, though, sneer. The idea that Partygate attacks could be a Remainer plot has also been suggested by the culture secretary Nadine Dorries, and she knows all about plots because she’s written 16 novels, including one in which a hospital porter says the immortal line, “one of our own has been murdered in a graveyard, had his dick hacked off and fed to a cat”. And you know what? She’s got a point. They all do. Because if it is not a Remainer plot then it damn well should be.

    Look. There was a reason that Boris Johnson made for such an effective champion of Take Back Control and then Get Brexit Done, and we all know that it was not his sober risk/benefit analysis of differing modes of integration with the global marketplace. Right? In my view — and I downgrade it to “a view” merely to be conciliatory — it was because he is an opportunist, unbothered by consequence. It was because he tells people what they want to hear, when they want to hear it, and feels not a shred of responsibility for what follows. And if you were appalled by this character trait in 2016, if not before, and then again in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, then I dare say you will be appalled by it now, too. And if not, then not.

    This is not a secret. It is not some titbit of insight about the PM, grasped only by those in the know. Everybody knows, just as everybody knows that the broad vacuousness on display in cabinet today springs directly from his determination that post-Brexit Britain should be governed predominantly by people who — feasibly apart from him — genuinely believed that we had made the right choice. Or, at least, who had no qualms about pretending they did. I could list names, but you might as well list them yourself. We all know that these are not glory days.

    True, we have a foreign secretary who once declared that leaving the European Union would be “a leap into the dark” leading to “years of complication and risk” before learning to defend the transparently indefensible. This, of course, being a core Johnson regime skill that has grown ever more farcically vital in the days of booze suitcases and perplexingly funded golden wallpaper.

    At least she seems to be enjoying herself. It’s Kwasi Kwarteng and Nadhim Zahawi who break my heart; the sadness in their eyes. On TV, both have that hangdog vibe pioneered by Matt Hancock, purest Kendall Roy from Succession, of men forcing themselves to keep going as a self-loathing punishment for how far they’ve already gone.

    Spare a thought also for Michael Gove, who dramatically balked at the last minute at the idea of a man of Johnson’s character becoming prime minister in 2016, and who now spends his life watching himself be proven right on a daily basis, while having to pretend that he wasn’t. Even more fascinating, suddenly, is the position of new communications chief Guto Harri, who worked for Johnson for four years at London’s City Hall. In 2016, he wrote that the “dream of Brexit is a wild fantasy, and curiously at odds with what Boris used to believe” and only last month — last month! — he was on the BBC describing the party fuss as a “toxic” situation of “people who made these laws, and prescribed these laws to the rest of us, and then did not live by them”. His job now is to convince Britain not to agree with him.

    True, not all of Johnson’s critics are Remainers. There is also Dominic Cummings, best understood as the human version of the venomous arachnid in the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog. (Look it up.) There are also European Research Group hard Brexiteers such as Steve Baker and Andrew Bridgen, who seem to move according to rhythms and influences simply unknowable to the rest of us, which I suppose might have something to do with the moon.



    In the main though, yes indeed, they are Remainers. This is because, when they are Conservatives, they are the only Conservatives who can say that none of this is their fault. They are people who know that Boris is Brexit and Brexit is Boris, and that neither could have happened without the other. Who, sometimes, are even unwilling to indulge the lie that a Britain heading for Brexit could have ended up being led by a sane, sober, responsible cool-headed technocrat who had genuinely wanted it, because that couldn’t have happened, because there weren’t any.

    Who not only know, but will also admit, that it is no coincidence that a government with one terrible idea as its raison d’être has ended up being led by another one. So is there a Remainer plot? Well, you have to bloody hope. All power to them.
     
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