Lazy, lazy Boris

Urmstongran

I’m gutted about that. I liked AN’s questioning style. He wouldn’t let interviewees wriggle of the hook. Shame he’s gone. Probably not ‘woke’ enough for the BBC in its present form.

Johnson ran away from Andrew Neil last December.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZATuljaRxs

Neil isn't "woke". I don't agree with much of his politics, but he's a hard-hitting journalist, who actually knows Johnson. Neil was once Johnson's boss at the Spectator.

Firecracker123

Love him or hate him, I actually love him, Boris has a stomping 80 seat majority, Starmer really is irrelevant.

79 since yesterday.

79 since yesterday.

Technically, I understand, it's 78, because the opposition has gained one.

However, Lewis is a staunch tory and Brexiter. I suspect that he may vote with the government on some issues.

griwstuff I didn’t say AN was at all ‘woke’ - I think he’s the polar opposite! It’s the BBC whose ‘woke’ agenda isn’t being followed by him. I shall miss his style of presentation. A lone voice.

I shall miss Miss Molly too, Urmstongran.
It was funny when she used to fall asleep on politicians' laps, they were obviously very boring!

He had his briefs joke ready and waiting and he is too slow witted to realise that the timing was spectacularly wrong. He seems to be misjudging the mood recently, what with that and the care homes remark. If he loses his popularity as a jolly chappy, he has nothing left to fall back on.

Angela Eagle's reaction when she heard Boris Johnson had been made Foreign secretary must have been echoed by half the country. He turned out to be the worst ever Foreign Secretary so the Tory Party made him leader.

www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2016/jul/14/theyve-made-him-foreign-secretary-boris-johnsons-elevation-stuns-angela-eagle-video

Urmstongran

griwstuff I didn’t say AN was at all ‘woke’ - I think he’s the polar opposite! It’s the BBC whose ‘woke’ agenda isn’t being followed by him. I shall miss his style of presentation. A lone voice.

I apologise! I missed out a "not". I know Andrew Neil isn't "woke", but I doubt very much if that's the reason his show has been axed. Johnson is frightened of him - maybe because he knows too much.

Urmstongran You are seriously deluded (or about 20 years out of date) if you think the BBC has a "woke" agenda.

Ilovecheese

He had his briefs joke ready and waiting and he is too slow witted to realise that the timing was spectacularly wrong. He seems to be misjudging the mood recently, what with that and the care homes remark. If he loses his popularity as a jolly chappy, he has nothing left to fall back on.

I actually think there's something medically wrong with him. Did you see his uncontrollable leg shaking in Parliament when Rishi Sunak was speaking? Or his inability to say "contact tracing"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwxFbcNJVtU

I thought his leg shaking was just his jealousy of Rishi Sunak needing an outlet.

However much some on here despise the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister they still have a 10 point lead over Labour in the latest U Gov poll!

The PM said I am aware of the report I would have been concerned if he had said I am unaware of the report .

As much as I'd like to claim second sight, lemongrove, unfortunately it was blatantly obvious.

Should we start a book on the date the Tory party bins him?

We all get our words a bit twisted sometimes ! It’s quite common but the rest of us are not being recorded at the time.

Give Boris a break for goodness sake. He and the government are doing a fantastic job under such difficult circumstances.

Yes I’m sure some mistakes have been made but on the whole they have coped brilliantly.

It doesn’t help to have these endless sniping threads.

How about showing some optimism, some positivity if some of you know the meaning of the words!

“ He and the government are doing a fantastic job under such difficult circumstances.”

Examples please JE ?

I'm pretty sure Boris no more reads GN threads than Meghan and Harry do. Fear not JE.

Sunak’s generous packages?

Yes, Ug, it looks a bit like Rishi has discovered something of a socialist agenda. Whatever next?

It is possible that the PM has not fully recovered from the virus and the strain of being accountable is taking its toll.
His answers at PMQs rarely address the question asked but instead turn into stock phrases. For example, the Leader of the Opposition is accused of supporting the government last week but criticising it now, with the usual addition of a reference to briefs. The Leader of the SNP is dismissed with a reference to wanting to break up the union regardless of the question asked. The PM is visibly relieved when it is the turn of Tory MPs to ask friendly questions. PMQs is becoming unbearable to watch.

Parsley3

It is possible that the PM has not fully recovered from the virus and the strain of being accountable is taking its toll.
His answers at PMQs rarely address the question asked but instead turn into stock phrases. For example, the Leader of the Opposition is accused of supporting the government last week but criticising it now, with the usual addition of a reference to briefs. The Leader of the SNP is dismissed with a reference to wanting to break up the union regardless of the question asked. The PM is visibly relieved when it is the turn of Tory MPs to ask friendly questions. PMQs is becoming unbearable to watch.

But he's PM. He should be on top of it all. Can you imagine Thatcher or Blair not being able to cope with the matter of fact questioning he gets? Even May would have done better and known what she was talking about.

Urmstongran

Sunak’s generous packages?

Exactly ??

suttonJ

Yes, Ug, it looks a bit like Rishi has discovered something of a socialist agenda. Whatever next?

Ah! So that's why some very rich people have got even richer during the pandemic? And some 3 million have received nothing? And local authorities are struggling to cope with the needs of those who are recovering?

Sunak hasn't discovered a socialist agenda. He had no choice. He's done the easy bit. Let's see what he does over the next few months or years, when unemployment really does hit the economy and there's pressure to reduce the debt.

Meanwhile, he's got to factor in the enormous cost of Brexit. All the time, the next election will be getting closer and he's going to have to fulfil some of the promises of the "new" ex-Labour seats, without taxing the traditional Tory shire voters more.

GrannyGravy13

Urmstongran

Sunak’s generous packages?

Exactly ??

What? Getting the Bank of England to push some buttons? That's easy. Wait for the fall out!

JenniferEccles

We all get our words a bit twisted sometimes ! It’s quite common but the rest of us are not being recorded at the time.

Give Boris a break for goodness sake. He and the government are doing a fantastic job under such difficult circumstances.

Yes I’m sure some mistakes have been made but on the whole they have coped brilliantly.

It doesn’t help to have these endless sniping threads.

How about showing some optimism, some positivity if some of you know the meaning of the words!

I know the meaning of the words very well, thank you. I know the meaning of emptiness, hypocrisy and mindless too.

"Selfish", "smug" and "blinkered" are also on the list.