Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

[George Hannah]

He's only made it to Downing Street as you've had a national nervous breakdown. Wrong man in the wrong place at the right time.

He's our Siegfried and you're his Brunhilde

 

[The perfect fumble]

The Boris bounce has the Tories around 30% with Labour not far behind, that's not as encouraging as it seems for the Tories. Johnson needs to get over 40% to win, how's he going to do it? For all those who think Corbyn is toxic, there's a clear path for him to win, there isn't for Johnson.

Time and again polls show that there is a greater pool of potential voters for Labour than the Tories, Labour went from 25% to 40% in 2017 and had that campaign gone on a week longer, the result might well have been very different. This might surprise the Corbyn haters, but Labour is in better shape now than then.

Johnson is a marmite politician, you either love him or loathe him, his supporters might think that's a strength, it's not, he will find out quite quickly there's a ceiling to his support, he knows this, that's why he's promising sweeties like the duplicitous huckster he is and wandering the north like a lost sheep

Johnson has nailed his colours to a hard Brexit, remainers clearly won't vote for him, but neither will soft brexiters, and neither will a sizeable chunk of the electorate that see him as a slimy liar.

Strange as it might seem, but if he does goes to the polls, it will be Johnson that looks for all the world the extremist and Corbyn the moderate.

Corbyn might, of course, drop the ball during an election, but I doubt it. Corbyn has weaknesses, but campaigning isn't one of them and Labour has a slick ground game the Tories simply don't have.

If undecideds win elections, Johnson is going to find there aren't many undecided about him.

We might be seeing peak Boris, or pretty close to it.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

He's only made it to Downing Street as you've had a national nervous breakdown. Wrong man in the wrong place at the right time.

You are of course correct, but nonetheless it's still incredible, and a good yardstick as to the extent of the national nervous breakdown.

His timing has been impeccable. You wonder if that Gove, Johnson bust-up when May got elected leader was a set up; although no-one forced her to call a general election, so maybe that theory is a little outlandish., but it would go some way to explain their rapprochement and Gove's return to high office.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The Boris bounce has the Tories around 30% with Labour not far behind, that's not as encouraging as it seems for the Tories. Johnson needs to get over 40% to win, how's he going to do it? For all those who think Corbyn is toxic, there's a clear path for him to win, there isn't for Johnson.

Time and again polls show that there is a greater pool of potential voters for Labour than the Tories, Labour went from 25% to 40% in 2017 and had that campaign gone on a week longer, the result might well have been very different. This might surprise the Corbyn haters, but Labour is in better shape now than then.

Johnson is a marmite politician, you either love him or loathe him, his supporters might think that's a strength, it's not, he will find out quite quickly there's a ceiling to his support, he knows this, that's why he's promising sweeties like the duplicitous huckster he is and wandering the north like a lost sheep

Johnson has nailed his colours to a hard Brexit, remainers clearly won't vote for him, but neither will soft brexiters, and neither will a sizeable chunk of the electorate that see him as a slimy liar.

Strange as it might seem, but if he does goes to the polls, it will be Johnson that looks for all the world the extremist and Corbyn the moderate.

Corbyn might, of course, drop the ball during an election, but I doubt it. Corbyn has weaknesses, but campaigning isn't one of them and Labour has a slick ground game the Tories simply don't have.

If undecideds win elections, Johnson is going to find there aren't many undecided about him.

We might be seeing peak Boris, or pretty close to it.

I hope you're right, but I don't share your optimism.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The Boris bounce has the Tories around 30% with Labour not far behind, that's not as encouraging as it seems. Johnson needs to get over 40% to win, how's he going to do it? For all those who think Corbyn is toxic, there's a clear path for him to win, there isn't for Johnson.

Time and again polls show that there is a greater pool of potential voters for Labour than the Tories, Labour went from 25% to 40% in 2017 and had that campaign gone on a week longer, the result might well have been very different. This might surprise the Corbyn haters, but Labour is in better shape now than then.

Johnson is a marmite politician, you either love him or loathe him, his supporters might think that's a strength, it's not, he will find out quite quickly there's a ceiling to his support, he knows this, that's why he's promising sweeties like the duplicitous huckster he is and wandering the north like a lost sheep

Johnson has nailed his colours to a hard Brexit, remainers clearly won't vote for him, but neither will soft brexiters, and neither will a sizeable chunk of the electorate that see him as a slimy liar.

Strange as it might seem, but if he does goes to the polls, it will be Johnson that looks for all the world the extremist and Corbyn the moderate.

Corbyn might, of course, drop the ball during an election, but I doubt it. Corbyn has weaknesses, but campaigning isn't one of them and Labour has a slick ground game the Tories simply don't have.

If undecideds win elections, Johnson is going to find there aren't many undecided about him.

We might be seeing peak Boris, or pretty close to it.

Said this all along - the Johnson fan club in the Tories couldn't grasp he wasn't even universally popular with his own party so how the fuck they think he can win a GE is beyond me. As the summer drags on and his spending promises are revealed to be more expansive than those made by Labour then the idea Labour would bankrupt the country become redundant. The more the EU just blank his desperate pleas to enter into negotiations the more impotent he looks and the more and more businesses and forecasters point out the economic disaster they are about to visit upon the UK with their No Deal Brexit then the less and less likely he is to increase that 30% - indeed many hardliners will move back to the BP on the basis that they are being let down by Johnson thus diluting his electoral reach still further.

He is loading all six chambers with a round and come the autumn he will be obliged to spin the cylinder knowing when he puts it to his temple there are no empty chambers in his GE plan and he leads the death cult to oblivion.

 

[hgblue]

The Boris bounce has the Tories around 30% with Labour not far behind, that's not as encouraging as it seems for the Tories. Johnson needs to get over 40% to win, how's he going to do it? For all those who think Corbyn is toxic, there's a clear path for him to win, there isn't for Johnson.

Time and again polls show that there is a greater pool of potential voters for Labour than the Tories, Labour went from 25% to 40% in 2017 and had that campaign gone on a week longer, the result might well have been very different. This might surprise the Corbyn haters, but Labour is in better shape now than then.

Johnson is a marmite politician, you either love him or loathe him, his supporters might think that's a strength, it's not, he will find out quite quickly there's a ceiling to his support, he knows this, that's why he's promising sweeties like the duplicitous huckster he is and wandering the north like a lost sheep

Johnson has nailed his colours to a hard Brexit, remainers clearly won't vote for him, but neither will soft brexiters, and neither will a sizeable chunk of the electorate that see him as a slimy liar.

Strange as it might seem, but if he does goes to the polls, it will be Johnson that looks for all the world the extremist and Corbyn the moderate.

Corbyn might, of course, drop the ball during an election, but I doubt it. Corbyn has weaknesses, but campaigning isn't one of them and Labour has a slick ground game the Tories simply don't have.

If undecideds win elections, Johnson is going to find there aren't many undecided about him.

We might be seeing peak Boris, or pretty close to it.

Peak Boris? We’re 4 days in lol. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

 

[aguero93:20]

Peak Boris? We’re 4 days in lol. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

You're right. Peak Boris will probably be quitting 2 days before a GE after realising he won't win.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Peak Boris? We’re 4 days in lol. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

I think you'll find this is as good as it gets.

 

[hgblue]

I think you'll find this is as good as it gets.

The next few weeks are going to be fun on here ;)

 

[bluethrunthru]

The next few weeks are going to be fun on here ;)

YouGov have his popularity as +31% and -47% - its going to be great though most of us are in danger of cracking ribs laughing and incontinence brought on by laughter as the truth dawns on you Tories