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A thread to catalogue the eloquence, dignity, diplomacy and wisdom of Boris Johnson

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What is it about Johnson in a suit?

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here resembling Matt Lucas looking like he’d slept in it.
 
TheDecameron said:
What is it about Johnson in a suit?

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here resembling Matt Lucas looking like he’d slept in it.
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I know that area of Carbis Bay beach well. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble not to say hard work to get those stones and planters all that way over sand just for a photo shoot. The beaches in the distance are where we go for surfing amongst other things.

When we go back in September I'll have to stand in the same place sans stones and planters.........

Cheers,

DV
 
The Observer tackles him straight on today, but I guess the source will alienate some? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/13/observer-view-boris-johnson-g7-summit
There are also broader consequences of Johnson’s actions. This G7 summit serves as a useful reminder that the international cooperation needed to confront the biggest global challenges is fostered on trust, friendship and personal relationships. His approach to diplomacy instead centres around dishonesty, tearing up compromises and threats of unilateral action. He will greatly diminish Britain’s role in the world and its ability to help broker the international action so urgently needed to address climate catastrophe, microbial resistance and the threat of another pandemic.

But there is perhaps no greater indictment of Johnson’s premiership than his determination to put picking a symbolic fight with our European allies ahead of the stability and security of a part of the UK. The nation will continue to pay the price for the incompetent and dishonourable way he is choosing to govern Britain.
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Boris is like a particularly difficult teenager, who keeps falling out with people and can't understand why. He slags off person A, who's friends with person B, and is baffled when person B is unhappy with him.
 
Are there signs that old spaffer is losing his lustre?

Probably not yet as the groundless optimisim Kool Aid is still strong stuff and after all, "he's such a larf old Boris."

The country will have to see even more damage perhaps, but some of the chickens are flapping home to roost. This bumbling charlatan has no vision or economic philosophy just an incontinent urge to say what he thinks people in front of him at any given time want to hear.

It all has a price.

"When Boris Johnson recently pledged to buy a new royal yacht and set up a 21st-century version of the postwar Marshall Plan to fund green growth in the developing world, the ideas were hailed in Downing Street as evidence that post-Brexit Britain is playing a global leadership role again. A picture was painted of a royal flagship touring the world as a visible symbol of Britain’s soft power, drumming up trade.

The only problem? Key people had no idea the announcements were going to be made and no one in government now wants to pay for them. Under the surface, both have instead become high-profile symbols of growing tensions at the top of government over public spending, which now threaten to dominate Whitehall for the next six months."

His addiction to grandiose projects that never materialise or end up costing the tax-payer knows no bounds. Meanwhile.....

“No one in the Treasury had a clue about the new Marshall Plan until it appeared in the media,” said a senior Whitehall official. That included the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Insiders say no spending request has even been received. A No 10 source admitted: “The Treasury seems to be getting increasingly irritated that we keep announcing things without telling them.”

Then there is having to pay for it all. Perhaps Johnson can set up a trust as for his flat re-decoration.

"There are only three places money can come from: spending cuts elsewhere, more borrowing and higher taxes. The first has been closed off as a source of significant revenue. Johnson and Sunak have pledged there will be no return to austerity. Higher borrowing, which Johnson seems to favour, will become increasingly perilous. Inflation rose last week to 2.1 per cent, “higher than the Treasury was expecting”, a government aide said. That will push up interest rates and the cost of government borrowing. “That’s one of the many risks that it’s my job to worry about,” Sunak told Neil.

Which leaves the rest to be funded from tax rises. The Tory manifesto included a triple tax lock, with a promise not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT. The chancellor is also telling colleagues he does not want to raise personal taxation. “He is fundamentally of the view that raising taxes on families at a time like this is the wrong thing to do,” a source close to him said."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...who-only-wants-to-spend-spend-spend-h6lkdslk8
 
SteveS1 said:
Are there signs that old spaffer is losing his lustre?

Probably not yet as the groundless optimisim Kool Aid is still strong stuff and after all, "he's such a larf old Boris."

The country will have to see even more damage perhaps, but some of the chickens are flapping home to roost. This bumbling charlatan has no vision or economic philosophy just an incontinent urge to say what he thinks people in front of him at any given time want to hear.

It all has a price.

"When Boris Johnson recently pledged to buy a new royal yacht and set up a 21st-century version of the postwar Marshall Plan to fund green growth in the developing world, the ideas were hailed in Downing Street as evidence that post-Brexit Britain is playing a global leadership role again. A picture was painted of a royal flagship touring the world as a visible symbol of Britain’s soft power, drumming up trade.

The only problem? Key people had no idea the announcements were going to be made and no one in government now wants to pay for them. Under the surface, both have instead become high-profile symbols of growing tensions at the top of government over public spending, which now threaten to dominate Whitehall for the next six months."

His addiction to grandiose projects that never materialise or end up costing the tax-payer knows no bounds. Meanwhile.....

“No one in the Treasury had a clue about the new Marshall Plan until it appeared in the media,” said a senior Whitehall official. That included the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Insiders say no spending request has even been received. A No 10 source admitted: “The Treasury seems to be getting increasingly irritated that we keep announcing things without telling them.”

Then there is having to pay for it all. Perhaps Johnson can set up a trust as for his flat re-decoration.

"There are only three places money can come from: spending cuts elsewhere, more borrowing and higher taxes. The first has been closed off as a source of significant revenue. Johnson and Sunak have pledged there will be no return to austerity. Higher borrowing, which Johnson seems to favour, will become increasingly perilous. Inflation rose last week to 2.1 per cent, “higher than the Treasury was expecting”, a government aide said. That will push up interest rates and the cost of government borrowing. “That’s one of the many risks that it’s my job to worry about,” Sunak told Neil.

Which leaves the rest to be funded from tax rises. The Tory manifesto included a triple tax lock, with a promise not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT. The chancellor is also telling colleagues he does not want to raise personal taxation. “He is fundamentally of the view that raising taxes on families at a time like this is the wrong thing to do,” a source close to him said."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...who-only-wants-to-spend-spend-spend-h6lkdslk8
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Dogberry said:
I quite liked that "no 10 is a branch of the entertainment industry with BJ" says Cummings.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-stumbled-into-politics-says-dominic-cummings
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I like that he expanded on this by saying (my bold)
“The most valuable commodity in gvt is focus and the PM literally believes that focus is a menace to his freedom to do whatever he fancies today, hence why you see the opposite of focus now and will do til he goes …”

Earlier in the lengthy thread, Cummings was asked if he saw Johnson more as a hedgehog or fox, a reference to a celebrated Isaiah Berlin essay that categorised people into those who inhabit one central idea and those with a broader view.

He replied: “Neither, he’s a pundit who stumbled into politics and acts like that 99% of the time but 1% not – and that 1% is why pundits misunderstand him/underestimate him.”
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SteveS1 said:
Are there signs that old spaffer is losing his lustre?

Probably not yet as the groundless optimisim Kool Aid is still strong stuff and after all, "he's such a larf old Boris."

The country will have to see even more damage perhaps, but some of the chickens are flapping home to roost. This bumbling charlatan has no vision or economic philosophy just an incontinent urge to say what he thinks people in front of him at any given time want to hear.

It all has a price.

"When Boris Johnson recently pledged to buy a new royal yacht and set up a 21st-century version of the postwar Marshall Plan to fund green growth in the developing world, the ideas were hailed in Downing Street as evidence that post-Brexit Britain is playing a global leadership role again. A picture was painted of a royal flagship touring the world as a visible symbol of Britain’s soft power, drumming up trade.

The only problem? Key people had no idea the announcements were going to be made and no one in government now wants to pay for them. Under the surface, both have instead become high-profile symbols of growing tensions at the top of government over public spending, which now threaten to dominate Whitehall for the next six months."

His addiction to grandiose projects that never materialise or end up costing the tax-payer knows no bounds. Meanwhile.....

“No one in the Treasury had a clue about the new Marshall Plan until it appeared in the media,” said a senior Whitehall official. That included the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Insiders say no spending request has even been received. A No 10 source admitted: “The Treasury seems to be getting increasingly irritated that we keep announcing things without telling them.”

Then there is having to pay for it all. Perhaps Johnson can set up a trust as for his flat re-decoration.

"There are only three places money can come from: spending cuts elsewhere, more borrowing and higher taxes. The first has been closed off as a source of significant revenue. Johnson and Sunak have pledged there will be no return to austerity. Higher borrowing, which Johnson seems to favour, will become increasingly perilous. Inflation rose last week to 2.1 per cent, “higher than the Treasury was expecting”, a government aide said. That will push up interest rates and the cost of government borrowing. “That’s one of the many risks that it’s my job to worry about,” Sunak told Neil.

Which leaves the rest to be funded from tax rises. The Tory manifesto included a triple tax lock, with a promise not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT. The chancellor is also telling colleagues he does not want to raise personal taxation. “He is fundamentally of the view that raising taxes on families at a time like this is the wrong thing to do,” a source close to him said."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...who-only-wants-to-spend-spend-spend-h6lkdslk8
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The Far North said:
I like that he expanded on this by saying (my bold)
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His style of government is a false promise here, a populist slogan there and he needs money, a lot of money to keep showering treats on his admirers. At some point there has to be a collision with fiscal reality- a Sunak or another less obvious challenger will move against him. Ah but Boris is popular about the land! and so was Thatcher but she was gone in an instant when the men in grey suits arrived for her, her 140 seat landslide counted for nothing. Dilyn isn’t the only one defecating on the carpet in Downing St and Boris will do it once too often.
 
TheDecameron said:
His style of government is a false promise here, a populist slogan there and he needs money, a lot of money to keep showering treats on his admirers. At some point there has to be a collision with fiscal reality
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The Romans popularised bread and circuses. Whenever the emperor ran out of money, the Praetorian guard would replace him and his head would go bouncing down the steps
 
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