He was just showing his quirky side when he hid in the fridge. When he took the phone off the guy he was just having a laugh and it was hilarious, tbf.
I'm not sure if you're taking the piss or are just a WUM. If that had been your son would you have laughed at the PM making a joke of the fact he was lying on a floor waiting for a bed while being administered oxygen? You're as funny as Johnson.
As they say, 'funny because it's true'. Those entranced by the character that is Boris will always find someone else to blame when things go wrong .... ... whether it's the RHA, the fishermen, the Irish or the EEC there's always someone to carry the can. As long as he strides along manfully for the cameras and grins his cheeky grin they'll cheer h to the rafters.
This is the problem when they become more celebrity than leader. Prime minister role reminds me of a headmaster, they're either strict with an air of "I'm all about business",you must call them Sir, and the very site of them commands an air or respect or the headmaster you can call by their first name, bit of a laugh, dresses casual and tries to be everyone's mate. The latter of that example is they one that seemingly can never do wrong.
As you can see from the raft of the latest TV programmes modern life is basically an endless popularity contest. Whether it's baking cakes, dancing on ice or eating ostrich knackers people want the winner to be the one they chose at the start, regardless of how talented they may be. This is why some Sunderland supporters declare one of our players useless and refuse to change their minds when proved wrong. But that's life and we just have to live with it. I want every new PM to make things better for us all, you'd be daft to want them to fail.
It should come as no surprise that Brexit has caused problems. While there have been some benefits to it, and may well be more, its pretty obvious that fundamental changes to the way we interact with our neighbours would cause some sort of problem, somewhere along the line. Plenty of industries warned of it. Even for Brexiteers (which I wasn't), it can't be that much of a surprise. Boris is just doing himself more harm by lying about these things.
The fundamental problem with Brexit was always that benefits would take years but the deficits would be immediate. I forecast it would take 10 years to get back to where we were ... ... I was totally wrong, it'll be twice that. Brexit was supposed to be 'oven ready' but, at the moment, we're rubbing sticks together and trying to get a fire started.
So there's a bit of both going on while we readjust, then? I don't think anybody will be surprised by that, at all. Me personally, I haven't felt the benefit or negative of anything through Brexit, yet. I've seen it blamed for a lot of things but that has always been the case from remainers willing it to fail. Although they'll deny that, it is most certainly true.
Yes, I'd say that was the case and, like you say, not a surprise at all. Which is why I think it would be better if the government held their hands up and said as much. I think Smug is right that the benefits might not come to the fore until we're much further down the line. In the meantime, we have to go through the adjustment process. Sure, the government could have done some things differently but we would still need to go through that process.
Some benefits are coming to the fore, you have already admitted that yourself... Nissan closing down in Spain and coming over opening up more employment is certainly just one of them. It all depends on what angle we want to look at it from.
On the subject of cheap goods, low wages linked to industrialisation. Most folks from in and around Durham, may recall that after one particular horrendous loss of life in a coal mine, (around Blyth iirc), it became law to have 2 pit shafts in GB, this was in the 19th century. Currently coal mines in China (which are mostly privately owned!) Often only have 1 shaft. Injuries and deaths are common. Wages are very low both in the mines and factories, powered by coal fired power stations. China is the world's biggest polluter, or it might be USA? There was a time, even when I was young, when clothes were expensive and were darned/mended, or your mother would knit your jumpers. Now as clothing from China is very cheap, in relative terms as cheap as it has ever been we just throw stuff away, nip down to say primark/tkmax etc and renew. Harvesting food in this country has been done for a while now by cheap migrant labour. It has been ages since the October half-term was called potato picking week. I definitely agree, with Brexit, Covid19, global warming measures necessary (also history tells us at some point the Chinese exploited workers will rebel at some point) it is going to be a few decades before the world's (and the UKs) economies settle into the new norm.
Yeah, I meant the benefits outweighing the negatives. At the moment there seems to me to be some of one and some of the other. I didn't vote for it but I'm willing to be open minded about it.
yeah, I was a labour remainer but accept the country decided to leave. What I don't like are tories lying and blaming everyone else for the mess they've been warned about was coming due to Brexit but have done nothing about.
