Wish Boris would actually do some work.

Does Boris need to do any work when Cummings is running the country? I imagine Cummings et al want Boris out of the way so they've sent him on a grand tour of the UK to remind him what outer London looks like while they get on with the grown up job of wrecking the UK.

Not sure where the over 80% of people polled in Scotland about Trident DONT want it here comes from. That's not what the Scotland wide polls are saying, but maybe it was a poll in the National or on Wings over Scotland? I don't read either so may have missed it.

PS. He deserves to be damned!

I guess there's something in that. He couldn't organise a proverbial booze up, so maybe he should stick to being a stand up comedian.

Well in my little London town, my neighbours are Scotts ex-pats, Irish ex-pats, Chinese ex-pats, Romanian ex-pats, Polish ex-pats, Maltese ex-pat ( my favourite neighbour ) Welsh married to Irish ex-pats, Turkish ex-pats and that's just within a dozen houses either side of me and the same across the road. I suppose my husband was a London ex-pat when he had to work away from home.
As for Johnson, much as I dislike him and abhor the fact he is our PM, I do think he'd be damned by someone whatever he did. He was never going to be doing anything to improve our lot, and by flitting around he's maybe doing least damage?

I once worked somewhere, where one of the managers was never at his desk. This meant that other people had to take phone calls (yes, it was that long ago) and always said that this manager was busy or in a meeting.

After I'd been in the job a few months and was chatting with colleagues in the pub after work, I realised that this manager did almost nothing, apart from walk around the office block most of the day and hide in the toilet for long spells.

Everybody knew his face and it was true he probably knew everybody's names, but he delegated just about everything to assistant managers, who never got the credit and took the blame when anything went wrong.

After a while, it became clear that he was having a relationship with one of the assistant managers, who was effectively running the place.

Johnson has wanted to be PM for ages and has had loads of time to get his act together. It's become increasingly obvious that he hasn't really thought through anything and has "delegated" to Dominic Cummings, who is completely unnacountable to the electorate and seems to regard the whole thing as winning some game.

I can't understand why anybody would make excuses for Johnson.

They are not ex-pats then if they 'go home' after their shift.

They merely work away from home all week, as so many people have done and do.

Suedonim MOST of the workforce at Faslane and indeed almost ALL the workers involved in the nuclear subs are brought in weekly and go back south when their shifts are done Thats why they're destroying the area with multi storey flats so they can stay .
Perhaps we should all remember that this day in 1945 over 100.000 INNOCENT people were killed by the bombing of Nagasaki ..add that to the 240,000 killed on Hiroshima 3 days earlier and the total of the nuclear abomination is horrific .We .thats over 80% of people polled in Scotland about Trident DONT want it here .Boris was sticking two fingers up at us by his visit in his attempt to validate it .

Reminds me of those at work who permanently had a duster/cloth in their hand " to look busy " ! Headworkers.

A good leader delegates to his team according to their strengths and interests, that's why we have ministers who report back to him, probably on a daily basis. That leader then looks at the information provided to him and makes an informed decision. The Prime Minister cannot do everything and it is not his job to do so.

He has visited all the other leaders of the Union and spoken to other world leaders and the EU by phone and had many team meetings . He has also spoken to British companies, farmers etc. and visited an area in danger of flooding. He's been in the job for 17 days! Also, according to the photos, Larry seems to like him so he can't be all bad as cats are very discerning creatures!

I'm an English ex-pat too SueDonim
Many of my friends who live here in Wales are Scottish ex-pats

Oh dear, must not do any wooden spooning as on thread yesterday, some posters may take it seriously.

If he had ignored, for instance, the people of Whaley Bridge etc and not visited other places then he would be criticised for that.

Presumably he has a host of civil servants plus Cummings doing all the groundwork for him so that he can present new and exciting developments and ideas to the EU which are also on their hols at the moment.

Suedonim all part of the nastiness wrought by Brexit I fear. We had someone on here yesterday talking about 'pureblood' and then spluttering explanations when the accusations started. It is the same mind set as Trump's 'send her back'.

Interesting to learn that despite having lived in Scotland for 40-odd years I'm now regarded as an English expat. I wonder, are the many people from other countries who live in Scotland also expats? French expats, Welsh expats, Pakistani expats, American expats, Polish expats, Irish expats?

Not mentioned, but one visit was to Whaley Bridge.

MONica
Who can say TM did any better. Seem to recall she was always nipping off to see her friends???? in Europe. What that achieved we soon found out, sweet all.

yes Corbyn should be getting out and about, any effective leader of a decent opposition party would do so, but he is hopeless. It is the Perfect Storm at the moment, with maniacs running No10 and the cabinet and the weakest opposition ever, just sitting back, letting it all happen. You would think that this debacle was supported by everyone in the country, not a small, very small majority of those who voted.

Corbyn has to stay close to home.

MacDonald said he was going to put Corbyn in a cab and send him to Buck House. Waste of time as queenie is in Balmoral

Well at least he is getting out and about, seeing and listening to the UK residents.

If as the "press" are alluding to there is going to be a "snap election" why isn't Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour front bench out canvassing also?

I have been referring him to Johnson for quite sometime as I reserve first names for people I like. Paddyanne, be assured that many millions of us in England are unhappy with Brexit, unhappy with Boris, and very concerned about the economy, please don't assume that this fool and his policies have everyone's support just because he is English. Actually, from what I have seen, he has been booed wherever he has visited, certainly in Scotland and in Wales.

There's much on social media showing him being Booed in many places paddyann Strange how it never gets onto the mainstream news isn't it?

Sometimes he's referred to as Al,

Just don't call him Boris.

On mumsnet Brexit threads they call him Blow Job...

On twitter it's often Doris...

He didn't actually visit Scotland ,he may have landed her but his visit was the Nuclear base at Faslane ,peopled by mainly English ex pats .They'll shake his hand and smile .When he made it out of that safe zone to Edinburgh he was booed at eth door of Bute house by a decent ssized crowd for a weekday and decided to use the cowards way out and leave by the back door...he will forever be Back Door Boris here .A man we dont want from a party we didn't vote for, telling us it'll cost us half a BILLION pounds to leave a union we WANT TO STAY IN .Is England happy with his 6 billion bill ?

Just don't call him Boris.
It makes him sound like an amiable cuddly friendly teddy bear when he's actually a lying incompetent narcissisist - and a dangerous one to boot. He only cares about himself and his career.

Call him by his last name. That's how we talk about other politicians, innit?

Crisis? What crisis? Economy crashing, £ sinking faster than the titanic, division and uncertainty all around. Still that what Leavers “know” they voted for - so are all thrilled with the way things are going no doubt.