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Not fit to be prime minister

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Quizzer Tue 12-Apr-22 21:33:20

Compared to many people my disappointments during lockdown were not too bad.
Missing my golden wedding celebrations, not holding my new grandchild until he was nearly six months old. Not being able to have the other grandchildren to stay - they all live some distance away, not being able to attend a close friend’s funeral.
I, like most other UK citizens, stuck to the rules.
Boris and his cronies did not. They held drinks events and parties for pathetic, unacceptable reasons. How can they ever expect the electorate to respect them or their laws. How dare they think they still have a mandate to rule us?

Whitewavemark2 Wed 13-Apr-22 08:33:43

Michael Rosen ????
@MichaelRosenYes

Children,the man on the TV is our Prime Minister. He leads us. The way it works is that we have checks and balances to make sure he behaves properly. And if he doesn't? He's in trouble. No, he's not in trouble. Does that mean he behaves properly? I..er..he..er..he...it's...er...

Shandy57 Wed 13-Apr-22 08:25:15

Thanks for the link grannywannynanny. just had a look on Twitter, going viral.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 13-Apr-22 08:23:15

Grannynannywanny

Whitewavemark2

Led by Donkeys has done another excellent video

Bizarrely I didn’t find it funny just so very very sad at what has happened.

Please anyone who can put a link up

Thank you

I hope this link works. Well worth a watch.

twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1514121732537393153?s=20&t=FslFbe5MwfjihFiQg7hhEw

Oh thank you

Do watch it everyone.

Ladyleftfieldlover Wed 13-Apr-22 08:04:10

Fabricant. I can’t take anyone seriously who wears a Boris Johnson wig! Who actually voted for that very strange man? Back to Johnson - do some posters really think he ‘did’ Brexit? That disaster is causing so many problems and will continue to do so.

Happygirl79 Wed 13-Apr-22 07:58:12

We need to realise the message that we are now sending to our children if he is allowed to stay
It's OK to lie and cheat to get what we want and there are no consequences if we are caught out.
Not good

Grannynannywanny Wed 13-Apr-22 07:52:42

Whitewavemark2

Led by Donkeys has done another excellent video

Bizarrely I didn’t find it funny just so very very sad at what has happened.

Please anyone who can put a link up

Thank you

I hope this link works. Well worth a watch.

twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1514121732537393153?s=20&t=FslFbe5MwfjihFiQg7hhEw

Maggiemaybe Wed 13-Apr-22 07:52:41

I don’t personally know anyone who didn’t follow the rules and lives were made miserable by doing so. We had it easy compared to many, but couldn’t see and support our daughter who gave birth early by C section and had to look after a poorly baby in isolation with none of the professional and family help she should have had. So many new parents in this position. And meanwhile the leaders of this country were partying and mocking us all. Johnson is a disgrace and needs to go.

As for Fabricant - how far removed from reality would you have to be to think that school staff rooms have a bar in the corner?

volver Wed 13-Apr-22 07:47:57

Ah well, at least he's clean. confused

Except in that picture posted yesterday of course.

Allsorts Wed 13-Apr-22 07:44:49

I want him to stay, I admire how he dealt with Covid, despite the parties, I like how he is dealing with Ukraine, that far exceeds what others offer. No I think he’s made mistakes, but people like him, he’s affable and he’s an excellent strategist and motivator.Despite his somewhat thrown together appearance, he is always clean and polite and knows how to put people at their ease. Keir wines and has no charisma, just a suit, a good legal mind, he is excellent at law and technicalities, would want him to fight my side in a courtroom, nice man to have next door..He doesn’t inspire or motivate and has no ideas of his own. I thought John Major was uninspiring, a grey man. You don’t have to be perfect at everything, Look at Churchill and how he treated the miners, my father never forgave him, he acknowledged he bought us through the war and my father was active throughout it in the RAF., All Prime ministers or heads of state have some scandal going on, look at our royal family. Perfection is not possible.

Riverwalk Wed 13-Apr-22 07:44:20

He had a cheek mentioning Ukraine and Putin in his statement yesterday - this country is not at war, although he's desperately trying to be a wartime leader.

He's beyond contempt.

Curlywhirly Wed 13-Apr-22 07:41:12

Well, I was a Council worker (as are teachers) and in recent decades, no alcohol was allowed on Council property. Drinking at work was a sackable offence. If we had a pub lunch, none of us drank alcohol, it was just a big no-no. Fabricant it talking through his hat.

Grannynannywanny Wed 13-Apr-22 07:35:47

hugshelp

I wonder how many people have jobs where getting pissed is a regular part of the job

According to MP Michael Fabricant it’s part of the normal work routine of nurses and teachers. In his defence of Johnson and his cronies yesterday he said nurses and teachers retire to the staff room at the end of a busy day to have a quiet drink. This is the link to what Fabricant said and the response from the Royal College of Nursing to his grossly insulting statement.

I hope his constituents remember this at the next election.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/prime-minister-michael-fabricant-rcn-downing-street-bbc-news-b994046.html?amp

DiamondLily Wed 13-Apr-22 07:35:27

He needs to go. Lying to Parliament is an immediate resigning or removal matter.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 13-Apr-22 07:18:39

Led by Donkeys has done another excellent video.

Bizarrely I didn’t find it funny just so very very sad at what has happened.

Please anyone who can put a link up

Thank you

Ladyleftfieldlover Wed 13-Apr-22 07:14:21

I agree, he has to go. PMs have been replaced in times of crisis before - Churchill replaced Chamberlain. As others have said, he should never have been PM in the first place. He is basically a lying charlatan with the morals of an ally cat.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 13-Apr-22 07:09:21

Ambushed by truth. And as Churchill once said, 'When ambushed by truth incontrovertible, you may resent it, you may deride it, but resign you must.'

TopsyIrene06 Wed 13-Apr-22 06:50:01

Straight out of Trump's playbook.

How dare people suggest we didn't follow the rules. I would have loved a hand to hold when I walked into the hospital for a major operation. Not even a 9 minute party when I got home. I feel very concerned about the future if this sort of behaviour becomes the norm. A world leader - what a joke.

vegansrock Wed 13-Apr-22 06:49:17

The priorities of this British person is that he should go.

pieinthesky Wed 13-Apr-22 00:56:08

He never was fit to be a Prime Minister and should never have got voted in. He was useless as Mayor of London, as Foreign Secretary he managed to get Nazanean Zaghari- Ratcliffe’s sentence lengthened and has lied continuously to the public about the benefits of Brexit. Just what is known about his private life should tell us that he is a man of very little moral integrity. He has no respect for the democratic system of government that has taken hundreds of years to be established in this country and thinks he can make and break laws whoever he feels like it. All the while he and his cronies are treating us with contempt and laughing in our faces. Anyone else in his position would be shamed by Partygate and being fined and would resign, but no he thinks he is better than us and will carry on just as he pleases. Hopefully now his supporters will realise what a dishonest person he is and force a vote of no confidence.

poshpaws Wed 13-Apr-22 00:42:45

I am constantly astonished, on Facebook threads, at the number of people who STILL admire that piece of shit.

If he won't resign, surely there must be some way to remove him?

hugshelp Wed 13-Apr-22 00:35:17

I wonder how many people have jobs where getting pissed is a regular part of the job - not to mention all the other ways these people take the piss rather than getting on with some bloody work.

LadyWee Wed 13-Apr-22 00:35:01

He and his government are a disgrace and an embarrassment to Britain and I am surprised there is not more outrage and a push for his resignation from others. Matt Hancock did resign and that was only mixing with one other person.

mokryna Wed 13-Apr-22 00:14:27

Not only partygate but there is a war going on, which the outcome will effect the whole of Europe, he is on holiday with the rest of parliament ?
Where are the weapons he promised?

BlueBelle Tue 12-Apr-22 23:33:36

Merylstreep I don’t care about your neighbours two wrongs don’t make a right
He MADE the bleedy rules
They have broken their own rules and not only that they have lied through their back teeth denying being there denying the parties existed That “hee hawing” woman caught on camera saying ‘hee hee’ we can pretend … is beyond contempt many of them should go starting with the blond one

Parsley3 Tue 12-Apr-22 23:09:50

MerylStreep you have been unfortunate if you live in an area where most of the people you know failed to follow the rules. However, your experience has nothing to do with the PM and the Chancellor being fined. They need to do the decent thing and resign.