Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?

[Polisman]

So today, four days out from the election Johnson finally
admits there will be customs checks on Northern Ireland.

After 3 months of total obfuscation and lies. Unbelievable! Or maybe not so unbelievable..

[mercalia]

Boris Caligua Johnson's inspiration & background? ( oh for the good olde days) Yes it has happened before.

its a long video but very imformative and entertaining.

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[Mick F]

Who are you calling an oddity?

You claim to be left wing and anti Tory,but voted for the oddity of oddities,Anne Widdecombe on one single issue.
A more rightwing weirdo you couldn't wish to meet,homophobe,strictly anti abortion,weird rightwing RC beliefs.
But hey,she doesn't like the EU either so she's worth your vote

Who else could I have voted for?
Did you see who the candidates were in our constituency?
Who else were the candidates who wanted to leave the EU?

You can only vote for who are on the ballot sheet.

[reohn2]

Who are you calling an oddity?

You claim to be left wing and anti Tory,but voted for the oddity of oddities,Anne Widdecombe on one single issue.
A more rightwing weirdo you couldn't wish to meet,homophobe,strictly anti abortion,weird rightwing RC beliefs.
But hey,she doesn't like the EU either so she's worth your vote

Who else could I have voted for?
Did you see who the candidates were in our constituency?
Who else were the candidates who wanted to leave the EU?

You can only vote for who are on the ballot sheet.

If it were that bad I'd have spoiled the paper.

[roubaixtuesday]

Who are you calling an oddity?

You claim to be left wing and anti Tory,but voted for the oddity of oddities,Anne Widdecombe on one single issue.
A more rightwing weirdo you couldn't wish to meet,homophobe,strictly anti abortion,weird rightwing RC beliefs.
But hey,she doesn't like the EU either so she's worth your vote

Who else could I have voted for?
Did you see who the candidates were in our constituency?
Who else were the candidates who wanted to leave the EU?

You can only vote for who are on the ballot sheet.

You are saying that leaving the EU is so all consuming for you that it eclipses everything else.

If I found myself in such a position, I would ask myself why that issue was so all consuming to me.

[roubaixtuesday]

So today, four days out from the election Johnson finally
admits there will be customs checks on Northern Ireland.

After 3 months of total obfuscation and lies. Unbelievable! Or maybe not so unbelievable..

It's unbelievable that he's admitted something, yes. I would have expected him to happily carry on lying.

[reohn2]

If you suffer under the illusion the Tories have any kind of social conscience watch this short video:- https://youtu.be/zn_-0GDEgRg

[Tangled Metal]

Best political quote of the entire campaign: (on Johnson and his similarities to Trump)

'You've just replaced one overweight, lying blond sociopath with another.'

Maybe Trump is really Boris's dad? Thats where Boris gets his behaviour from? Doesnt Boris have an american connection? would explain why Trump dotes on Boris?

Boris had US citizenship by right of being born there. But as far as I know both of his parents are British, and they were only living there temporarily.

There's loads of secret Americans. It's causing a headache because many weren't aware of their citizenship nor the us law where their IRS can claim tax on earnings outside America on any us citizen. There's people drink $20k bills earning little more than minimum wage because of this unfair law.

You can cancel your American citizenship like Boris did following the passing of that American law but not many know about it. Once you get the bill cancelled citizenship is a drawn out process and not backdated I believe. AIUI a uk minister is in talks to get British citizens in this situation an exemption on the tax bill once citizenship cancelled.

[Tangled Metal]

Tories in Scotland are campaigning with images of Sturgeon. Seems boris is a turn off but not as much as Sturgeon in Tory / SNP marginals for many. Local Indyref topic plays more into Tory Scots favour than Brexit. Their leaflets apparently don't mention Brexit but do bring up Sturgeon and Indyref. With this in mind it's quite possible Tories hold on to seats up there. Not long now to find out.

The other issue is labour surge has stalled and I read somewhere that they're dropping back in some polls. Add in the fact that the 2017 surge in activist numbers is a very big change. Labour is simply not as strong in grass roots activism as in 2017. In fact many of the young labour and momentum sub groups have closed, disbanded or simply no longer supporting Corbyn. I think even the guardian has talked about that too so must be true.

Personally there's no good outcome of these elections so hold your nose and accept what comes out on Friday. Tory majority, Tory minority or a labour minority with every tom, dick and harry giving issue by issue support.

[Vorpal]

There's loads of secret Americans. It's causing a headache because many weren't aware of their citizenship nor the us law where their IRS can claim tax on earnings outside America on any us citizen. There's people drink $20k bills earning little more than minimum wage because of this unfair law.

You can cancel your American citizenship like Boris did following the passing of that American law but not many know about it. Once you get the bill cancelled citizenship is a drawn out process and not backdated I believe. AIUI a uk minister is in talks to get British citizens in this situation an exemption on the tax bill once citizenship cancelled.

The US and the UK have a tax exchange treaty which means someone on minimum wage does not pay taxes to the other country. The US will only tax earnings over the annual limit, which goes up each year. It's currently around $100,000.00

The problem is likely to be a penalty for not filing, rather than taxes owed.

[Paulatic]

Tories in Scotland are campaigning with images of Sturgeon. Seems boris is a turn off but not as much as Sturgeon in Tory / SNP marginals for many..

My message from David Mundell
There are no policies, there is no mention of Westminster, no mention of Boris apart from

Policies parties people come and go

No mention of what he has achieved for the area (sweet fa)
There is a picture of our cake eating ex Secretary of State there are also pics of NS and JC none of Boris.
NS is mentioned four times SNP are mentioned eight times JC and labour are mentioned twice. So you can see where they believe the threat lies I think there was only hundreds of votes in it last time.
To summarise the whole page is full of negativity and all about stopping things, about how good the last 300 years of union has been without a shred of evidence. Absolutely nothing about what a great future will hold with a Tory vote.

[Tangled Metal]

From a Unionist's POV independence is a very big negative. Just putting that out. That would make the SNP's promotional material negative too.

[Polisman]

Is this the car crash on film moment which finishes Boris's Tory ambition?

Shown photo of four year old boy, sleeping on the floor in an A&E under a pile of coats, with suspected pneumonia waiting for a bed. Boris doesn't care. Simple as that

Boris puts the reporters phone in his own pocket refusing to look at it, or comment. Hubris Boris, hubris...

https://mobile.twitter.com/joepike/stat ... 80736?s=12

[Bonefishblues]

Nope. It's like Trump says he could shoot someone and he'd still have 42% of the population vote for him.

[Polisman]

Nope. It's like Trump says he could shoot someone and he'd still have 42% of the population vote for him.

This is not the USA and Boris is a mere Poundland Trump. I said two weeks ago he would do something ridiculously stupid and damaging to the party. And true to form, the idiot performs.

If this gets traction, in an already very tight election (from 19 point lead to just 9 in three short weeks), it could just be enough to tip Boris, this ugly excuse for a human being and his uglier still cronies into the abyss.

Hubris. Had it coming all along. Utterly disgusting.