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Really doesn't matter what they get up to sadly, people are more interested in statues and dinghies.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
And whether the pubs are open
Yep, I'm afraid you're right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veg1960
Are the pubs open ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Veg1960
Well I never!;-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56863547
Time for the what's in it for me party supporters on here to put their hands over their ears and sing la, la, la very loudly maybe?
I’m shocked :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Johnson is a vacuum of integrity https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ing-street-row
full list ,my favourite is the badger watching one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...United_Kingdom
Tory Toff Cameron sticking his dick in a pigs mouth tops that surelyQuote:
Originally Posted by life on mars
Grieve is one of those tories I wish was in a centre left democratic party , he's wasted with the conservatives and all their barrel scrapingQuote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
What Johnson wrote when it was found that Peter Mandelson had taken an undisclosed home loan and was sacked from the Cabinet in 1998;-
“In the Ministry of Sound, the tank-topped bum boys blub into their Pils … for Mandy is dead, dead ere his prime!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...new-decor.html
Watched the BBC news channel from 7.00 to 7.15, surprisingly!! no mention of Mr Johnson's flat refurbishment funding or his comment about 'dead bodies piling up ..............rather than another lock-down'.
I just cannot fathom, how anyone can have a £30,000 A YEAR budget for renovating an apartment and for that to be nowhere near enough.
Just hold off on the wallpaper until next year and you'll get another 30 grand to spend on it.
What do you think Jeremy Corbyn would have spent on it?
Jezzie wasn't planning on living inside the building where so many Tories had trodden ( including the Labour Lite ones ) he had initially priced checked the large tent range at Millets , along with a blow up double sleeping bag , his canny plan was to utalise the spacious Downing Street rear garden .Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Latest poll shows the what's in it for me party extending their lead by one over Labour to eleven per cent - I had wondered if the Johnson/what's in it for me apologists on here had been totally silent in the two threads about sleaze and corruption because they were finally realising how rotten this Government is, but, no, it would appear that, as I suggested last week, what's in it for me voters are putting their hand's over their ears and shouting la, la, la as loud as they can to ensure they don't take anything of what's being said in.
For me, we're now getting towards a similar situation as America had with Trump, it's gone beyond party politics - the people governing the UK are not fit for purpose and you can only just hope that there will be an Emperor's new clothes moment when the penny drops for those who, unbelievably, still defend Johnson and co.
I think the difference between here and the US is the dominance of only two parties there and our electoral system. Trump ultimately failed because he could not break out much beyond the 40% or so of people who would support him through thick and thin. 40% core support here is the basis of a political landslide.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
On your broader point, covid still rules. The vaccination programme's success is likely to benefit incumbents not just in England but also Wales and Scotland. Thinks like the corrupt self-centred nature of Johnson's government and the impact of Brexit on things like Fish and Finance may not have the immediate impact they would in more normal times.
If Covid rules, then it seems that the first nine months of it in the UK doesn’t, because it seems that only what has happened since the vaccine was rolled out rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays
Apparently, well over fifty per cent of responders to that poll regard the what’s in it for me party as corrupt and sleazy, so it’s entirely possible that there are people who believe that party is corrupt and sleazy, yet still intend to vote for them. We’re getting close to the situation where Trump, probably rightly, said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and people would still vote for him.
There is an element of the Teflon Trump about Johnson - he thinks different rules apply to him, and on the evidence of the polls he may be right.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The vaccination bounce is massive (and has buried a year of stupidity and corruption from this government in the public's short attention span). But the other factor is the lack of an opposition (other than the nationalists in Scotland and Wales).
Starmer has sat on the fence, got his MPs to vote for the government or abstain where he should have opposed on grounds of principle as well as advantage, has demoralised and shut down large parts of the Labour Party (reneged on all 10 of his leadership election pledges, seen over 50,000 members leave, gagged and/or suspended officers of over 200 constituency parties, and countless other internal attacks whilst promoting non-Labour and Blairite influence).
The Lib Dems are irrelevant and anonymous.
Johnson has got a clear run!
We are back to the position where sections of the Tory press are more effective at holding the government to account on sleaze and corruption than the official opposition. No wonder the clown in No 10 is content to bluster it out.