Boris’ meltdown at PMQs

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Gove is underhand and is a blatant liar. He gets away with it because he appears mild-mannered, but he's actually ruthless.

^^This!

Maybee and Alegrias. I would. have thought anyone would prefer someone genuine, or ‘ real’ in your words, to lead our country. I see Boris as being obvious, you get what you see. Someone’ polished’ is not necessarily that, more a sheep in wolves clothing.
I don’t know why I like Boris, but I’ve always been very discerning. Whether I’m right or not, I don’t know. I do know I’m not alone, because he was voted in! It would be difficult for anyone to say precisely, why they like or don’t like someone they don’t know. All I do know is, I’m fairly satisfied, as much as anyone can be, that this government are doing the best they can regards Covid.
I hope this has answered your questions. I shall not be returning to this thread, as, as I said before, I don’t usually get involved in the political ones. Too much scope for people to get angry. It’s just my opinion, and I respect you for yours.

DiscoDancer1975 I hope you don't feel I was getting at you, I was genuinely interested in why you liked Johnson and if it was enough it make you vote differently to usual.
You are of course entitled to your opinion and I'm sure voted for the party you feel will do the best job.
I have a deep concern that in this country we now vote for the most popular person and not the person we think would be best suited for the job, that was the source of my question. Thank you for taking the time to answer.
You won't be surprised to read that I can't abide the man or his party and think they are leading us into an abyss....but that's my opinion

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

Winnie-the-Pooh

That should be referenced “Russ”

Aww, you didn’t offend me at all Alegrias. We’re supposed to be able to talk on differences of opinion without getting rattled. So thank you?. You’re probably right about this government, we’ll just have to wait and see. Maybe what should happen is, everyone gets to have ‘ a go’, for 6 months, and the best performer wins?! We might all be pleasantly surprised.

I’ve just realised I got my earlier post the wrong way round. Should have said ‘ wolf in sheep’s clothing’! I’m surprised it wasn’t spotted?

I'm struggling to see a link between liking Johnson and being discerning. I cannot see that he has any of the qualities need to be PM, but maybe that's just me.

Did you actually watch his latest performance during PMQs DiscoDancer?

Good post Whitewave - that's how I think of Johnson.
The problem is, before he was even elected London mayor, many people thought he was a brilliant intellectual so would save the country.
We're only getting to know now his real capabilities.

For goodness sake...leave DiscoDancer alone. She’s tried to explain her point of view, and that should be that. We don’t all have to agree.

DiscoDancer1975 referring to your post at 15:50. Thanks for that.
A sheep in wolves clothing - I've known a few of those in my time. Maybe their bark is worse than their bite.

I’m just amazed that he pulled the wool over electors eyes at the last election, he was a proven liar then, who blustered his way through everything. Murdoch did a good job of propaganda for him.

The Tories are a disgrace putting him up as a candidate, they knew exactly what he was like, another performance at PQ like that will see him go. It’s going to be a poisoned chalice again but I guess Gove will want it.

Boris got away with at the last election because it was all about Brexit, he is the one who get us out at whatever cost. OK JC wasn't popular but how do we know he couldn't have done a better job during the pandemic? All I can really say is the Tories will have Boris out at a blink if they think they will lose votes. And god help us next year.

Are people still putting their boys down for Eton? Boris has proved such a poor advertisement for the school I would have thought they would be looking elsewhere. Wasn't he supposed to be a leading light of the debating society and yet he has trouble stringing words together to make a sentence?

“ Wasn't he supposed to be a leading light of the debating society and yet he has trouble stringing words together to make a sentence?.

The difference is that now he is accountable for what he says and cannot pull figures out of thin air.

Davidhs

“ Wasn't he supposed to be a leading light of the debating society and yet he has trouble stringing words together to make a sentence?.

The difference is that now he is accountable for what he says and cannot pull figures out of thin air.

But he isn’t and does!!

He was President of the Oxford Union in the 80's that is supposed to be a top notch debating Society.

Does the President have to be a top notch debater, though? Or just a Good Egg?

Anyway, that was 30 years ago. He's clearly lost any debating skills he might have had. Lying has done him proud for decades, so why bother to put any intellectual effort into anything now?

I see that Johnson furiously blamed his team for his poor performance at PMQs last week ??

He has ordered them to find as much personal stuff as they can to attack Starmer.

What a sad little man he is. He can’t win the argument intellectually because he is not quick witted enough, so he resorts to name calling.

I suppose there are some who will be convinced by this, but only the not terribly bright I would have thought.

It’s a poor tactic as we know there is far more dirt to dish up on Johnson.

Starmer wouldn’t dish the dirt he has higher moral standards than that.

He has more than enough material attacking Johnson on his abysmal record. Who said “when they go low we go high”? ?

PMQs should be exactly that in order that parliament and the wider public can clarify the government action etc.

Johnson is unable to answer anything!! It is a terrible indictment of his lack of ability.

Johnson tried to the astonishment of all sides of the House by accusing Starmer of supporting the IRA.

That backfired like a rocket, which led Johnson to be questioned about his performance by the 1922 committee.

Johnson did not prove to be the bigger man and apologise when he was shown to be entirely wrong.

The issue of incompetence comes up time and time again.

Comment by a senior Tory -former cabinet minister.

“I thought it was as bad a performance as I have seen from a prime minister in that environment. He has a problem, which is, fundamentally, that he doesn’t have the qualities to do the job properly. He doesn’t work hard enough, he is not on top of the detail, and he doesn’t have a clear vision and sense of direction on most issues, he is being found out”

And so say all of (most) us???

Johnson is due to appear before the Liaison committee on 16th September.

As I recall he got quite a grilling, for which he was totally unprepared, last time. I wonder if he'll do any better this time?

What is required now is for Kier Starmer to become much more pro-active in his attack on Johnson and the actions of this government.

By example, while Johnson was all over the media this week in regard to HS2, Starmer should have been at Dover with all those trucks in the background emphasising to the media and all in Britain what will occur if delays hit those trucks due to a no-deal exit from the EU.

Starmer now seems to be waking up in regard to how he should present himself and the Labour Party as opposition leader. His decision to now address the TUC conference later this month will be in the minds of very many the most important speech in regard to the future of the Labour movement that there has been in over a century.

However, matters are now moving and Starmer once more has a chance to unite the Labour Party and the wider Labour movement once again.

If that is achieved then Britain will have a real alternative party of government, as now it is just beginning to look as if this government could fall long before the next general election is due.