Why do Conservatives like Johnson?

Elvive

It means I thought your post was childish.

Elive. Are you suggesting that I need a dose of castor oil?
If only it were that simple a cure I would drink a couple of gallons and ask for more.

Crystalips: I am glad you have an allotment and I am sure you enjoy it. That precious time with nature is all too often taken for granted or ignored. I had a small garden that I started when I was 7 years old in a corner of Dad's garden. He told me that I had to look after it, which I did for the next 8 years until I could no longer manage it. Dad has had to take it over, but I still think of it as mine. Now I can only look at it. I grew tomatoes, peppers and carrots. Tried lettuces but the slugs got them! Enjoy yours, I wish I could manage mine.

Oh dear, not another corrupt MP, a Conservative one this time.
It rather evens the latest score.
At least the constituents have had a say since 2016.

Powys (containing the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire) voted fairly decisively to leave in the referendum, although they have previously returned a Lib Dem to Parliament.
I'm not sure that the Lib Dem will get in although Jane Dodds is a strong candidate - this could be interesting and more about Brexit than anything else.

The Brecon by-election could be the first real test for Boris Johnson

Or Jeremy Hunt!

maxdecatt Tourism isn’t the same as citizens rights, sorry ,but easy to get confused. But UK tourists will be worse off as the £ has crashed spectacularly since 2016 , funny that, nothing to do with Brexit obviously as that will be so marvellous. But as none of us will be travelling to the EU in your world , that won’t matter. I doubt if produce from my allotment will feed 60% of the nation, and I’d rather buy stuff from Holland, Spain, France, Italy than further afield, but that’s for environmental reasons, which you obviously have no understanding of, as you believe Boris is a green champion.


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This is pure gossip I’m afraid but it is relevant as it involves our potential next PM.

The police were called to the flat he shares with his latest squeeze because of the racket and apparent altercation taking place.

Must have been bad!

childish?

Hunt probably can’t believe his luck. All he’s got to do is keep his nose clean and the Bozo will do the job for him.

No it’s not gossip - it happened. Not very edifying.

And this

EXC: The Conservative Muslim chief has been expelled from the Tory Muslim group. Mohammed Amin tells me he has been expelled following an intervention by CCHQ because he criticised the 'moral integrity' of Boris Johnson:

This

Boris Johnson “get off my fucking laptop”
Carrie Symonds “You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.”

To the surprise of no one the Boris premiership is unravelling before it's begun ?

I would have thought that the people in the U.K. have every right to know of the sort of person the future PM is.

Only the rich can do this

So now Boris Johnson is considering applying for an injunction so that the recording of himself and Carrie Symonds arguing early this morning can't be released.

If it's nothing but a smear as his supporters are saying, what's the problem @BorisJohnson? Hmmmm

It was a domestic. He got red wine on her sofa. Wouldn't you scream at the bugger?

Nobody's business but theirs.

I’m beginning to think that his efforts to become the next PM is stuttering before it’s begun.

He refused the first debate, was rubbish in the second and now declined to appear in the third. Hunt will have to talk to himself.

A domestic at Johnsons flat, he and his new love ,police were
called, a recording was made by a neighbour

That's the end of him then ? He's 'orrible ! Whatever attracted the woman to him ? ( a Mrs Merton pun )

She was recorded screaming ‘get off me’ ‘get out of my flat’

The newspapers lead with it

Trump might look on Boris a little less dewy-eyed now. He's death on alcohol.

Please can we have a proper general election, combined with a simultaneous confirmatory vote on Brexit so that people can have a democratic say in who runs the country as well as a view on Brexit?

And... if possible, could we have proportional representation so a very small group of public school wallies don't make the decisions for those of us in the real world.

Pretty please.

You have to laugh, though, it was reported on ITV News that the neighbour had to turn down her tv - presumably so that she could hear the row properly and make a good recording!

If my neighbours were rowing I'd probably turn the tv up, not stand with a glass to the wall or recording it.

EV - Mrs Merton pun!

He got red wine on her sofa
I don't blame her for shouting!!

Well I think it’s a bit concerning to think that a neighbour has recorded an argument going on next door that is so clear, you can hear every word.

Nothing wrong in calling the police if they were genuinely concerned but once the police have clarified they found no concerns, what then exactly was the motive for contacting the press and passing on a private recording of someone in their own home, along with the crime number? Very strange neighbour behaviour.

Who was the neighbour? Gove? Hunt?

??

The soundproofing between the flats can't be very good.

I think if a woman - or a man - was in danger of being the victim of domestic violence, a concerned neighbour might call the police. But not record the incident and call the Guardian!

This reminds me a wee bit of the issues surrounding Charles Kennedy (except that Charles was an honourable, lovely man who was one of the best politicians to come out of Scotland). People hushed up and covered up for years, but in the end he needed honesty and help.

We are all entitled to private lives, but if you can't avoid spilling red wine on the sofa and tinking with your partner to the point where a neighbour became concerned, the very day you have won through against two major rivals and should be very happy and smug, how are you going to cope with pressure of the deepening crisis the country is in?

Boris's team have been doing him and us no favours keeping him under wraps.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/toffishness-and-twittishness-boris-johnhttps

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/boris-johnson-boasts-i-can-drink-an-awful-lot-at-lunch-just-like-my-icon-winston-churchill-9793478

General election now.