Boris's Brain is missing

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Mike Sales
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I may have posted this before, but the story so epitomises Johnson's M.O. that I risk repeating it.
The boy is father to the man.
When he was at Eton in the early 1980s, Boris Johnson did something that seems to have set the tone for the rest of his adult life.

Cast in the title role of a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II, he didn’t bother to learn his part.

The character of Richard II has 758 lines in his eponymously titled play. The part requires the actor to be on stage for most of the two-and-a-half hours running time. You can’t ‘wing’ Richard II. But Boris Johnson tried.

Pasting his lines on bits of paper about the place he hoofed the speeches and made up the rest – throwing in jokes whenever there was an awkward silence.

His father Stanley, who was in the audience, thought it was all ‘a hoot’. Nobody else did.

The other children who had spent hours attending rehearsals and learning their parts saw their hard work reduced to the ‘Boris show’. The headmaster, Eric Anderson, was furious.
Notice he leaves the mess for others to clear up, and expects to sail on regardless.
Cf. "No border in the Irish Sea."
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
reohn2
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"Levelling up" is just the lastest in a long line Torisms which means "this is what we're saying as we steal more of your money to stuff into our offshore accounts".
Johnson is only the latest in a long line of creepy liars spawned by a loaded system long past it's time for destruction and replacement.
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reohn2 wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 12:03pm "Levelling up" is just the lastest in a long line Torisms which means "this is what we're saying as we steal more of your money to stuff into our offshore accounts".
Johnson is only the latest in a long line of creepy liars spawned by a loaded system long past it's time for destruction and replacement.
I take it you’re not a fan.
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Oldjohnw wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 12:06pm
reohn2 wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 12:03pm "Levelling up" is just the lastest in a long line Torisms which means "this is what we're saying as we steal more of your money to stuff into our offshore accounts".
Johnson is only the latest in a long line of creepy liars spawned by a loaded system long past it's time for destruction and replacement.
I take it you’re not a fan.
I'd 'fan' the flames were the Tory party on a bonfire,the word scum doesn't begin to describe the obscenity that is the Tory Party.
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Stradageek
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Mike Sales wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 10:46am I may have posted this before, but the story so epitomises Johnson's M.O. that I risk repeating it.
The boy is father to the man.
When he was at Eton in the early 1980s, Boris Johnson did something that seems to have set the tone for the rest of his adult life.

Cast in the title role of a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II, he didn’t bother to learn his part.

The character of Richard II has 758 lines in his eponymously titled play. The part requires the actor to be on stage for most of the two-and-a-half hours running time. You can’t ‘wing’ Richard II. But Boris Johnson tried.

Pasting his lines on bits of paper about the place he hoofed the speeches and made up the rest – throwing in jokes whenever there was an awkward silence.

His father Stanley, who was in the audience, thought it was all ‘a hoot’. Nobody else did.

The other children who had spent hours attending rehearsals and learning their parts saw their hard work reduced to the ‘Boris show’. The headmaster, Eric Anderson, was furious.
Notice he leaves the mess for others to clear up, and expects to sail on regardless.
Cf. "No border in the Irish Sea."
Yup, all the evidence was there yet people still voted for him. He is just a lazy narcissist. As mayor of London it took him 2 years (and three dismissed incumbents) to find a deputy willing to do all the work while he swanned around doing nothing.

Ever noticed that at all the COVID briefings he only appeared when there was good news to tell?

More contemptible than Maggie Thatcher and possibly only marginally less dangerous.
reohn2
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Stradageek wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 12:40pm More contemptible than Maggie Thatcher and possibly only marginally less dangerous.
Yet!
EDIT:- though he no longer has any family silver to sell off.
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Levelling up explained: (and he's not telling porkies!)

Mike Sales
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reohn2 wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 1:00pm
EDIT:- though he no longer has any family silver to sell off.
What about the NHS?
A fine amount of land and buildings.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
Oldjohnw
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Mike Sales wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 3:44pm
reohn2 wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 1:00pm
EDIT:- though he no longer has any family silver to sell off.
What about the NHS?
A fine amount of land and buildings.
With Anne-Marie Trevelyan in charge of international trade I very much doubt that the NHS is safe.
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Looking (to me) as though Johnson has not actually "Got Brexit Done" but rather, because he failed to read the large print is now having to try and unwind things to start significant bits again. Trouble is he heralded the previous deal only to then start blaming others.

How does this reflect of the UK as a trustworthy country to do business with? Anybody else want to make legally binding agreements with our PM?

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reohn2
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Oldjohnw wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 4:33pm
Mike Sales wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 3:44pm
reohn2 wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 1:00pm
EDIT:- though he no longer has any family silver to sell off.
What about the NHS?
A fine amount of land and buildings.
With Anne-Marie Trevelyan in charge of international trade I very much doubt that the NHS is safe.
Oops sorry chaps how absent minded of me,I forgot the very soul of the UK is up for auction :( .....
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Jdsk
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reohn2 wrote: 14 Oct 2021, 9:03am https://youtu.be/YLa0hVOU0Us
And from the Prime Minister's Chief Adviser:
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https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/ ... 9623038982

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PhilD28
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An interesting article about the low wage economy and immigration (clue, immigration isn't to blame- so reducing it won't resolve the problem):

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ion-crisis
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