D-Day for Johnson?

Because he picked a political nomad to advise him and even he saw through his ineptitude.

 

He's a dead man walking, but the rest of them realise there's plenty of time before the next election so they may as well let him take the flak for the cost of living crisis before sticking the knife in.

 

I've watched today's events unfold with a feeling of numb bewilderment. How on earth can this abomination of a human being still be in power?

I left my job of 31 years in June 2020. There was no leaving do, no chance to say goodbye to longstanding colleagues and friends, nothing. I had three relatives die in the May to July 2020 period in Barnsley Hospital and a care home with no chance to see any of them one last time.

There was more spine in our midfield last season than these 358 amoebic fawning eunuchs that were elected with blue rosettes on.

 

Could be some truth in that.

Though I think he genuinely believes he can talk his way out of any blame he has for people struggling to make ends meet.

 

He's worse than a great fat stinking greasy floating turd that can never be flushed away down the shitter. An excuse for a PM.

 

Call me a pessimist, but.........

In another two years it is possible that the economy may not look quite as desperate as it does now. Ukraine may not be settled, but it may well normalise as a stalemate. Inflation may reduce, if only by dint of the higher prices becoming 'baked in', with the RPI/CPI reducing. Renewable energy investment will have increased. The current economic issues will recede in the memory, just as 'Partygate' has been allowed to. Johnson will fight another election on spurious claims that Starmer/Labour want to take us back into the EU. Although the Tories are behind at the moment, I can see Johnson being voted back in. I don't want this to happen, but when you look at the attitude of voters in vox pops, focus groups, etc, I can see it happening. I don't think Labour can do anything about all this until fatigue with the Tories sets in. It took 18 years from 1979. We are only 12 years in.

 

I absolutely believe he thinks he's done nothing wrong. That everyone is against him. That he can't understand why people aren't fawning over him and giving him adulation galore. I'm sure a psychologist would have a field day with his flaws and imaginary constructs he's created to view the world and shield his fragile mind.

It's this that makes him so incredibly dangerous as he has no morality and isn't framed by what the vast majority of people are. And indeed, he's content to change things to remove scrutiny and challenge because he's too fragile to take it. You only have to see the head shaking followed by sheer rage that he displays at PMQ's when he is challenged.

There is no guilt, no remorse, no contrition. You can actually see the confidence growing in him, which is perverse considering everything. At first he was timid of Starmer. Scared by a legal mind. He stepped warily. But as time went by, he realised he could still lie and nothing could be done. The same in the commons. The same to journalists. He has grown comfortable telling wild lies and nobody stopping him. They get more and more outrageous. but even basic things he lies about now. It's like watching a regressed child. Trying to be popular.

The more fantastical he gets as the public will feel the exact opposite of his bizarre notion of what Britain is today, going unchallenged by his cabinet and most of his backbenchers, the jarring contrast will be too much for the electorate, even despite the right wing media propping him up.

He's done for, whichever way it happens, whenever it happens.

 

Sorry did you mean to post this in the Putin thread... oh wait...

 

The sweetener I mentioned:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61584546

 

I think on balance, given the way in which we hold elections and decide who should represent us and run the country, the majority of the voting public gets the government it deserves. Apologies to voting Scots and the Welsh who are dragged along as part of the UK. Perhaps we need proportional representation, so your vote counts whether you are a died in the wool Conservative in a labour heartland or a socialist in a leafy Tory shire?

 

By the dictionary definition, this is a conservative country:

conservative - 'averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.'

That just about sums up the mindset of many people. They believe in long held (usually imagined) traditions and a mythical history of superiority. They’re insular because they live on an island so they don’t like people who come from other places.

As you say, the vox pops. Most are appalled by what Johnson has done but, fearing change, they will continue to vote Conservative.

 

The government didn't take long in pushing forward with more cynical changes to try and prevent scrutiny and challenge.

Dept for Culture Media and sport... or Nadine Dorries.... is launching a "review" into the impartiality of the BBC. Quite.

 

Have you noticed that Mrs Johnson has not been seen, with him or anyone recently?

 

That’s a valid view of the ‘typical’ Brit.

However we are also renowned for our sense of fair play, and right wing fiscal policies such as those of post Heath Tories are not popular with the British public.

So whilst Tory small c conservatism is very popular, and whilst we will nod through little Englander policies, some quite ‘radical’ left wing views are also very popular.

So whilst we want ‘less forriners’ having a share of our collective wealth, we do want our collective wealth to be shared more equitably.

Unfettered capitalism is a very minority view, and whilst the Tories have managed to normalise hatred of trade unions, virtually no one is happy that our taxes are subsidising employment of companies earning billions in profit. We’re socially conservative but economically liberal.

 

Not sure if this has been posted already, but if you haven't read it yet it's worth 5 minutes of your time. Some of the quotes are hilarious.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ons-partygate-remorse-lasts-all-of-30-seconds

 

I read it yesterday. The writings of Dunt, Crace and Marina Hyde are just about the only good things to come out of this government car crash. The last two in particular.

 

The Grauniad's sketch writers are very readable.

 

Listening to Rachel Reeves today when she said "out of touch and out of time"



I couldn't help but think of this song.