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It is increasingly for pissing out of at my age mate.
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It is increasingly for pissing out of at my age mate.
The perfect fumble
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You're right, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't know mine was there, I haven't seen it since the 80's!
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The perfect fumble
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If Boris gets in it'll be our national sport.
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He is in but as discussed, the countdown clock to his departure has begun before he is even crowned.
The shitshow that is our domestic politics right now will all be worth it in a year or 2 hopefully as a new way emerges that ditches the status quo and we can all look back with some fondness to this period.
He's done an interview for his old paper The Spectator.
You could not make some of these up. He even describes us as "Oppidan Britain" (an Eton term for those who didn't get the best scholarship). At least I think that's what it means. Man of the people, and all that. Anyway, some gems:
‘My determination burns with a magnesium brightness to get it done and to deliver.’
In Boris Johnson’s mind, the question of how the UK and the EU solve the Irish border question is ‘going to be the shape of the answer to the entire problem of how the UK can come out of the EU while retaining frictionless trade’. (That Remainer fabrication.) Apparently the Irish border is just a "microcosm" of "the problem that will be expressed at every UK/EU frontier when we come out" (i.e. the Irish border is a microcosm of the sea).
About Ruth Davidson's reaction to the tax cut for higher earners: ‘I’m amazed this should be a taboo subject in the Conservative party.’ A minute later, ‘We’ll be able to get on with the fantastic agenda of bringing the country together with a programme of what I call modern Conservatism, what we used to call “One Nation Conservatism”'.
There was one bit I frankly don’t believe. “But what also happened (in London) was people at the bottom end got richer faster. Their life expectancy increased, as a proportion more than those at the top”. Disparity in wealth in London boroughs is among the worst in the country. (It’s one of the reasons Leave won – rich Tories live longer.)
And one bit I really didn’t get: ‘For three years, we have failed to get across why we believe in free markets’. I must be missing the point here – we’re trying to get out of a free market.
And a true Monty Python moment: ‘We have to do three things: deliver Brexit, unite the party, unite the country and defeat Corbyn. And I think I am best placed to do all three.’ Whatever happened to ruthless efficiency? He did later repeat it, and said, ‘Or, in this list, four – but who’s counting?’
The interviewer has a nice memory:
...people are counting as well as costing his various promises and digging up comments he made as a journalist. Often in articles he wrote for this magazine, which he edited from 1999-2005. Rather than defend each article, Boris has responded by asking for forgiveness for anything that he has written before he came to office that might have caused offence. A departure from the last article he wrote as editor of this magazine was to rail against apology. “The Spectator surrenders to no one,” he said. “The Spectator is always right”.
By now the Spectator is taking the piss as much as the Guardian would:
What about health regulations that stop many restaurants serving rare burgers? ‘Can you not order rare hamburgers now?’ he asks. ‘Why the hell not? That’s ludicrous, that can’t be true.’ This burning injustice would be swiftly addressed.
You could not make some of these up. He even describes us as "Oppidan Britain" (an Eton term for those who didn't get the best scholarship). At least I think that's what it means. Man of the people, and all that. Anyway, some gems:
‘My determination burns with a magnesium brightness to get it done and to deliver.’
In Boris Johnson’s mind, the question of how the UK and the EU solve the Irish border question is ‘going to be the shape of the answer to the entire problem of how the UK can come out of the EU while retaining frictionless trade’. (That Remainer fabrication.) Apparently the Irish border is just a "microcosm" of "the problem that will be expressed at every UK/EU frontier when we come out" (i.e. the Irish border is a microcosm of the sea).
About Ruth Davidson's reaction to the tax cut for higher earners: ‘I’m amazed this should be a taboo subject in the Conservative party.’ A minute later, ‘We’ll be able to get on with the fantastic agenda of bringing the country together with a programme of what I call modern Conservatism, what we used to call “One Nation Conservatism”'.
There was one bit I frankly don’t believe. “But what also happened (in London) was people at the bottom end got richer faster. Their life expectancy increased, as a proportion more than those at the top”. Disparity in wealth in London boroughs is among the worst in the country. (It’s one of the reasons Leave won – rich Tories live longer.)
And one bit I really didn’t get: ‘For three years, we have failed to get across why we believe in free markets’. I must be missing the point here – we’re trying to get out of a free market.
And a true Monty Python moment: ‘We have to do three things: deliver Brexit, unite the party, unite the country and defeat Corbyn. And I think I am best placed to do all three.’ Whatever happened to ruthless efficiency? He did later repeat it, and said, ‘Or, in this list, four – but who’s counting?’
The interviewer has a nice memory:
...people are counting as well as costing his various promises and digging up comments he made as a journalist. Often in articles he wrote for this magazine, which he edited from 1999-2005. Rather than defend each article, Boris has responded by asking for forgiveness for anything that he has written before he came to office that might have caused offence. A departure from the last article he wrote as editor of this magazine was to rail against apology. “The Spectator surrenders to no one,” he said. “The Spectator is always right”.
By now the Spectator is taking the piss as much as the Guardian would:
What about health regulations that stop many restaurants serving rare burgers? ‘Can you not order rare hamburgers now?’ he asks. ‘Why the hell not? That’s ludicrous, that can’t be true.’ This burning injustice would be swiftly addressed.
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gordondaviesmoustache
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There is never any good excuse for not having a regular wank.
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Exactly what i said to the wife at half five this morning as i woke her whilst ahem.....exercising.
gordondaviesmoustache
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Yeah, she hates that :-)
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gordondaviesmoustache
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I've now had the opportunity to watch his interview with Andrew Neill.
Absolutely astonishing this fucking fraud is almost certainly going to be PM.
Absolutely astonishing this fucking fraud is almost certainly going to be PM.
bluethrunthru
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Yeah but TBF what you saw probably only joined up a few stray dots on your page anyway - you knew well enough beforehand what this man is.
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Seen the clip now it was chingford celebrating the scouts and was a crowd of boy and girl scouts singing it
gordondaviesmoustache
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No stray dots in sight. Absolutely astonishing, nonetheless.
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Len Rum
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TBF, I did not mention Tory Party members - I would be very surprised if there are more than a couple.
I said: "I would suggest that the majority of Leave supporters on BM are not established Conservative voters."
So my point stands - I would suggest that the number of Tory voters on here are a small minority and they do not all support Leave - also, I suggest that the number of people that are 'staunch Boris Supporters' = either zero or can be counted on one hand. I have no memory of seeing such staunch Boris posts.
In fact you support the point I was making - that a lot of Leavers on here are casually considered to be Conservative voters and/or Boris supporters - it is simply not true.
George Hannah
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Boris is a permanent pantomime act