A Bit of a Boris Giggle

Much prefer him to KS.

I voted Conservative in 2019 as the alternative was so bad, it was the only choice at the time. Boris did get the country through Covid and stopped the economy collapsing with the furlough scheme, but certain revelations proved to be his downfall and we ended up with the dreadful Liz Truss. It was like Jeremy Corbyn's revenge seeing this happen.

How on earth can you blame Corbyn for everything ?

You mean Johnson?
Using the other name just perpetuates the myth that he is a well-meaning baffoon. He's not. Crooked and self-serving.
Remember those lucrative covid contracts that went to tory friends?
Probably many people who has studied Classics, ancient languages etc at Oxford could recite some myths in Greek
He can spot an anchor at 1 meter; about half of us also can on the television!

I thought this was going to be about Boris Becker!!! 😂

How any women can fancy him is totally beyond me, I find him totally repulsive. Where is that Charisma you see? He is like Trump to me, I only have to look at him. yak

Boris may well be a witty and charming dinner companion but he should never have been allowed anywhere near the reins of power. Far too unstable and self-centred.

Lizzie44

Boris may well be a witty and charming dinner companion but he should never have been allowed anywhere near the reins of power. Far too unstable and self-centred.

A narcissistic philanderer. Amongst other things.

MayBee70

Lizzie44

Boris may well be a witty and charming dinner companion but he should never have been allowed anywhere near the reins of power. Far too unstable and self-centred.

A narcissistic philanderer. Amongst other things.

This was meant to be a lighthearted thread!

There’s nothing funny about Johnson. imo.

MayBee70

There’s nothing funny about Johnson. imo.

Totally agree

MayBee70

There’s nothing funny about Johnson. imo.

Just your opinion though. Mine is very different.

It is hard to see anything amusing about a man who caused chaos in this country and indirectly led to the deaths of many due to his poor management of Covid in the early days, and afterwards.

And don't get me started on Brexit and his oven ready deals that also led to our current situation.

I just don't understand some people at all...

Always knew Boris would be PM. Hasta la Vista.

Calender girl I truly believe he was doom d to fail as he was hit by re it then months later covid and ukraine . As for the parties i think he was made a scapegoat . All I am glad it wasn’t Starmer as pm during covid he wanted to lock us down for far longer

ruthiek

Calender girl I truly believe he was doom d to fail as he was hit by re it then months later covid and ukraine . As for the parties i think he was made a scapegoat . All I am glad it wasn’t Starmer as pm during covid he wanted to lock us down for far longer

But he would have locked us down sooner as he would have listened to the warnings coming from Italy. And he wouldn’t have given people forewarning of lockdown thus giving people the chance to spend the weekend partying and spreading it. And probably wouldn’t have told people that he’d been shaking hands with people with covid. Didn’t he say he wanted to improve the health and diet of people in this country given that he’d realised his excess weight* was one of the reasons why he was so ill with covid? What came of that?
*and look at him now

Doom? He brought it on himself. Too slow to take us into lockdown, so they could have that horseracing event. Missing how many COBRA meeting because he preferred to sneak off to write his book?
And the lock down parties, when He Majesty was grieving at her husband's funeral.
All his own work.

Two pieces of journalism that stick in my mind are:

Max Hastings in June 2019: I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain

Jonathan Lis from August 2020: Boris Johnson: The Anti-Prime Minister

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/boris-johnson-the-mutant-algorithm

So many paragraphs in the latter stand out but a few here:

And so the key to this game is failure. Johnson does not set out to fail per se. Rather, failure is just another route to winning. He fails to prove the failure won’t hurt him. He sabotages things because he can.

Johnson wanted to become Prime Minister but never to be Prime Minister – at least, not in the formal sense of doing what leaders are appointed to do. For him, power is about breaking precedent, cheating the system, scoring the con to end all cons.

The thrill of failure is just that: a thrill. … When you are so purely solipsistic that only the self exists, you are capable of centring, considering, governing only for yourself. Cronies cling to you for the scraps of self-interest they can pluck in your wake. This is corruption at its most decadent: botching a crisis or destroying a national infrastructure not for political gain, nor even for financial reward, but ultimately for pure personal sport.

Now there’s someone just the same in the White House and another in the wings here in the UK behaving the same way.

That line Johnson wanted to become Prime Minister but never to be Prime Minister – at least, not in the formal sense of doing what leaders are appointed to do could be describing Farage. He wanted to be a Member of Parliament but doesn't want to do the work of a Member of Parliament. Heaven help us if he ever gets to number 10.

I bet Boris would be more fun in bed than Keir! 😉

I can picture KS in his stripey PJs, removing his glasses and putting them neatly on the side, then pulling the bedclothes up tight around his neck and switching the light off. 🤣

Oh Godfathers, what a thought!

No, not Keir, being being bed with Boris.

That is one of the most ghastly posts I’ve seen in a long while🤢🤢🤢

Whitewavemark2

That is one of the most ghastly posts I’ve seen in a long while🤢🤢🤢

Good grief…

Ladies - it IS supposed to be a Giggle thread. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

😁
I have heard the expression 'he laughed her into bed' but I'd still prefer Keir, thanks.