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Do Britons want Boris Johnson back as an MP?All Britons: 24% do / 67% don't2019 Con voters: 46% do / 46% don'thttps://t.co/kuaJeV6oUm pic.twitter.com/hHZWVtzaDz
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Boris Johnson refuses to rule out return as MP as Tories face electoral wipeout
Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who quit last year after a damning report into Partygate, hinted a return to frontline politics was possible in the long-term future
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-refuses-rule-out-32569621
Westminster sexting and the honeytrap | The News Agents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PAykuJgs5I
Former PM spent several weeks itching, and says some claimed Dilyn, Boris Johnson’s dog, was the main suspect
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/12/liz-truss-no-10-was-a-prison-infested-by-fleas/ (£££)
Worth noting if you play along with HIGNFY.
I am not optimistic for a Starmer government, and despise Streeting already. I am not looking forward to it at all. I really am not willing to tactically vote for it, even if the price is my Tory MP surviving as part of the rump opposition.
As for Conservative MPs who fell for him, do we mean chumps like these three?
Hope they were never put in charge of anything important- their judgement is clearly terrible.
He very much lacked a 'behind the scenes' person to make it all happen for him. His person was Dominic Cummings and it wasn't a success.
He did however have a few redeeming qualities, which is more than we can say for the current incumbent.
this week. He is not the Statesman genius he thinks he is. He reminds me a lot of Osborne.
Laying Leicester to win the Championship seems free money. Lay for promotion too.
They had Yorkshire less than 200 for 6 and still couldn't bowl the buggers out cheaply.
If we can't beat a side as rubbish as Yorkshire this is going to be a loooong season.
What are you talking about?
I also think the public might eventually see through him once he gets more exposure when Labour are in power. He won’t be able to hide his jockeying to take over from SKS and it will put a lot of people off. He’d probably be better off in the Tory party weirdly where he could press all the right buttons despite the policies being not his natural hinterland, like Blair in reverse.
https://x.com/9newssyd/status/1779043438521991271
Just a thought, if we end up owning Iran with the US, Paul Kigame can f*** off, we'll have our own depository for asylum seekers.
Exam question from the 2070s or so, framed around a fake quote:
'The worst thing about Brexit was that it made Boris Johnson Prime Minister'. Discuss.
But not until the 2070s.
Rubio (Gang of 8): Barring some last minute development Iran is going to attack #Israel. The response and risk of escalation will depend on what and how they attack.
Against what the Iranians might be lobbing the system will be Arrow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(missile_family)
One of the largest parliamentary majorities, got Brexit done after interminable wrangling, was mandling (sic) the pox when became a casualty himself, only to emerge to take up the reins again, then laid low by all too human failings.
Posterity will look favourably on him.
Another morning another day of horror unfolds
Or as a result of the spiral of “we will do what our opponents are too soft to do”. See the Mexican drug war.
(Tacitus on Emperor Galba)
Only probably in Latin. And plenty of people had doubts in advance which pretty much came to pass. But one should try to be charitable.
got Brexit done after interminable wrangling, it's a shitshow.
was mandling (sic) the pox when became a casualty himself, couldn't follow his own rules, blatant disregard for the safety of himself and others.
only to emerge to take up the reins again, in as much as he ever held them.
then laid low by all too human failings, amazing it didn't happen sooner.
BoZo's history will be written as a cautionary tale, not a heroic epic...
Of course for some folk this will overcome their instinctive Germanophobia and they’ll be slapping their flippers together at any criticism of the state of Israel characterised as antisemitism and being shut down.
https://x.com/JKSteinberger/status/1778923497638478030
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHSKLtpUASU&list=PL8D1D31CF82B4C287&index=3&pp=iAQB
Why was my brain suddenly recalling a spoof interview from 2 decades ago that I’ve not though about in years?
It would be interesting to know. I should add that I don't think there's an obligation to put your "permanent" address, or even where you're living most of the time. If you wanted to put a correspondence address or if you maintained a home separate from your husband's and you wanted to put his address as yours to keep things simple, I don't think you'd be breaking the law.
Terry Jones ring a bell?
Still we have Keir and Wes to look forward to soon! 😈
Message for Keir: one out of two ain't bad (Arsenal aren't going to win the league either)
“Football: if it’s about anything then it’s got to be about something. And that something is football”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13303179/Britains-Gibraltar-concessions-Spain-just-reach-post-Brexit-deal-Red-Arrows-trip-axed-Madrid-warned-hostile-act-threatened-retaliation-visit-HMS-Queen-Elizabeth-cancelled-appease-Spaniards.html
Not only have they managed not to deliver any of the promises, they have instead displayed the very worst behaviours that aggravate voters - open lies, massive corruption, and then arrogant aggression about anyone who holds the mirror up.
Tory MPs and the Lord Houchen are very fast to block people. Very fast. Not for disagreeing with them. For asking questions. Ask where the promised hospital is? Blocked. Ask why you're saying Brexit is good for local business when the local business group is showing with evidence that its bad? Blocked. Where is the money for my town you keep promising? Blocked.
Forget the coming election and think about the alternative scenario. The Tories actually had bothered to even try to find ways to invest in these forgotten towns. Not just up north. The transformation in the entire political spectrum. How did they get it so spectacularly wrong?
Cf "Kilroy was here" - rarely written by a chap called Kilroy.
Perhaps you have some bloke you've talked to that can enlighten us on the 'real' reason that a doctor & newly elected rector of Glasgow University was detained and deported?
For electoral purposes, you can have more than one 'permanent address', providing each has 'elements of' permanence. Though that is admittedly unusual, it's far from unknown.
So a discrepancy between permanent addresses registered for different matters isn't necessarily a massive gotcha.
Given they were (I think) in the same constituency, this seems an enormous waste of police time. And political attention.
And were unfortunate when two black swans turned up - Covid and Putin- which just made things worse.
Laura and the BBC warn of Labour chaos!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68805211
If the impartial BBC is worried, best stick with the Tories.
So either German officialdom has gone off the rails or …
What a very weird story, with seemingly dozens of MPs, staffers, and Westminster journalists involved, all starting with an unsolicited message saying that they met and flirted some time ago, but also all individual and with knowledge of their past movements and events they’d attended.
The weird thing is the lack of obvious motive - the person behind it could be anyone from a comedian, through a disgruntled staffer or journalist, to a foreign state agent trying to blackmail people.
The IT training aspect is also an interesting one (from a personal and professional perspective). It’s very difficult to detect these sort of things, especially among social people who spend their days meeting others, and where there is some knowledge of them, such as “we met at the X by-election last year”. The moral of the story has to be to be careful about all unsolicited messages, even if that might come across negatively to those sending them in good faith.
Oh, and I’ve said this a thousand times before, but get off WhatsApp.
Change the record.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/08/middle-class-lefties-wont-stop-labour-using-private-sector-to-cut-nhs-backlog-wes-streeting-says
Or
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-diane-abbott-private-health-wes-streeting-b2528033.html
Try analysing potential failure rather than blithely following Labour down white van man cul de sacs.
e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
It's a dead cat to ditract.
Meanwhile in perhaps the greatest example of Chutzpah* in recent times, Johnson has been deploring cronyism and politicians enabling their mates:
.@BorisJohnson: 'Without democracy governments will become corrupt and they will be run by an elite who will hand power to other members of that elite down the generations and that will have a terrible effect on the rule of law'
https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/1778796578792251747?t=yT5a2w0dpYU2Z1r-rzi1Dw&s=19
*best Chutzpah since a defendant on trial for murdering his parents pleaded for clemency on the grounds of being an orphan.
Clearly what he might have or would have said was considered a threat.
Even Karl Liebknecht got a few words out ("Down with the war. Down with the government") before he was arrested and jailed.
I've just spent half the night in hospital with our son. He's back home now, but the ambulance staff were excellent (*), as were the nurses and doctors who treated him. even our doctor's surgery, which I have often whinged about, saw him promptly yesterday with an emergency appointment.
We talk a great deal about broken Britain, but it works well - or even excellently - a lot of the time. But we need it to work well like this more of the time.
(*) Especially as they put "Pt in clean clothes. House tidy and clean" in their notes.
Mind you multiple housing lawyers telling Guido he was talking complete horseshit was fun to watch last night
Boris Johnson was enjoying himself in Canada, addressing a conservative conference. He told the guests it would be to everyone’s benefit if he were “back in power as soon as possible”. He added, apparently half in jest: “There’s not a day that goes by now where I don’t think the world would be substantially improved if that were the case.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-hopes-for-a-stroke-of-luck-but-voters-are-feeling-gloomy-85rm8jh6w
I don't like Rayner, nonetheless the establishment, be that Labour or Conservative biased are out to give her a kicking.
The immediate challenge for the NHS is its pisspoor, antiquated admin. Stupid paper letters rather than texts. Ring Up at Exactly 8am or Get Fucked. Only Pound Coins in the Car Park Meter. It is agony to use.
Hopefully Wes can start to sort it.