Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

[MillionMilesAway]

I will be very surprised - he earns a boat load from his side giggs. He also comes across as a self entitled tw@t which doesn't normally play out well with a ministerial role.

Could be, it allows him to attend cabinet at the moment (was downgraded from a cabinet seat a few years ago). I don't think the job would immediately prevent him running his hedge funds, and would allow him to keep an eye on Javid!

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

And some of his friends are probably black.

They probably are . I don’t know him personally do you ?

 

[mcfc1632]

Everyone I know in the public sector has retired at 55. A tax threshold raise would raise more in Tax - are you aware of that?

In the late 90s/early 00s, when I used to manage bids for outsourcing contracts, I was shocked at the T&Cs enjoyed

Soooo many were able to take generous early retirement packages - sometimes with their length of service 'made up' so that they could receive the maximum pension. Voluntary redundancy packages were also very generous.

I know that times have changed now and Ts&Cs are not so generous - indeed, I am sure that in a lot of cases the balance may have gone too far the other way

I am certainly not someone that has any axe to grind or is at all 'anti-Civil Service' - I have recruited many staff from the CS, as by far some of the highest quality and hardest working employees that I have come across.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Ah right, Is this the "I'm not a Racist i employ black people line"

I'm with you now.

Yeah racist Nazi facist white supremacists they put people they are are supposed to hate and keep down into the very top jobs in the U.K.

It’s the old anyone who isn’t a hard leftie is a racist and and a Nazi.

He is a posh buffoon I will give you that

We will see later in the next 24 hours how racist he is .

You never know you might get your wish and it is fully of middle aged white men and so you can come on here and get angry .

 

[Blue Hefner]

Ian Hislop sums him up well:

“When he [Johnson] says ‘optimism’, he means ‘I haven’t got any ideas’.

“When he says ‘we need to be positive’, it means ‘I’ve got no plan’.

“When he says ‘oh it’s very simple’, it means ‘I haven’t read any of the detail’.

“These are not sustainable positions.”

 

[cibaman]

I will be very surprised - he earns a boat load from his side giggs. He also comes across as a self entitled tw@t which doesn't normally play out well with a ministerial role.

He would find it very difficult to turn down Treasury Secretary. He's complained often enough about the Treasury trying to sabotage Brexit, if Johnson appoints him to this job his role would be to act as the Brexiteers' inside man fighting the civil servants.

It probabaly wouldnt be a long term appointment before he concocted a reason to retire from the government to resume making money.

 

[mcfc1632]

Fella we need to get away from that, the lower paid top the bill no need to separate into groups.

Agreed - and especially the lower paid that do not enjoy the same protections other do

Anyway - best get back on topic

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Yeah racist Nazi facist white supremacists they put people they are are supposed to hate and keep down into the very top jobs in the U.K.

It’s the old anyone who isn’t a hard leftie is a racist and and a Nazi.

He is a posh buffoon I will give you that

We will see later in the next 24 hours how racist he is .

You never know you might get your wish and it is fully of middle aged white men and so you can come on here and get angry .

He might be posh, K, but he's far from being a buffoon. Let's see how responsibility leaves the buffoonery behind?

 

[west didsblue]

He might be posh, K, but he's far from being a buffoon. Let's see how responsibility leaves the buffoonery behind?

You're right in one respect. The buffoonery is all show which gets geriatric duffers to like him. There is no doubt that he is very intelligent and calculating, however the strong impression I get from him, is that it's all about him and everything else is irrelevant. He'd throw anyone or any position straight under a bus if it were to benefit him personally. If ditching Brexit meant that he would stay as PM for a few years, he'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Boris about to appoint Dominic Cummings as a special adviser, former Gove man and brexit realist. He's not a fan of the ERG, this is from him:-

Those of you in the narcissist-delusional subset of the ERG who have spent the last three years scrambling for the 8.10 Today slot while spouting gibberish about trade and the law across SW1 – i.e exactly the contemptible behaviour that led to your enforced marginalisation during the referendum and your attempt to destroy Vote Leave – you are also in the pirate category. You were useful idiots for remain during the campaign and with every piece of bullshit from Bill Cash et al you have helped only Remain for three years. Remember how you WELCOMED the backstop as a ‘triumph’ in December 2017 when it was obvious to everybody who knew what was going on – NOT the cabinet obviously – that this effectively ended the ‘negotiations’? Remember how Bernard Jenkin wrote on ConHome that he didn’t have to ‘ruin his weekend’ reading the document to know it was another success for the natural party of government — bringing to mind very clearly how during the referendum so many of you guys were too busy shooting or skiing or chasing girls to do any actual work. You should be treated like a metastasising tumour and excised from the UK body politic

Promising all things to all people is a consistent theme with brexit. Someone isn't going to get what they want and this move suggests Boris will start upsetting the brexit nutters in the ERG.