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

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And from the Times .........

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Superb. It is sadly so rare these days to see a Labour MP with the spine to speak the truth. An MP actually doing her job. Respect.
Further, seeing how three word sound bites have stuck in the public mindset over the last year or so wouldn’t it be wonderful if every day one opposition MP would stand up in the house and announce “Johnson - Tells - Lies”.
Take the hit for protocol breach and force the Tories into answering the charges.
 
The horrible problem is that Johnson has used Trump’s technique- his dishonesty is ubiquitous and people are numbed to it. He’d have to do something outrageous for his party to call him to account and I can’t see that happening because most of his Cabinet are cut from the same cloth.
 
The horrible problem is that Johnson has used Trump’s technique- his dishonesty is ubiquitous and people are numbed to it. He’d have to do something outrageous for his party to call him to account and I can’t see that happening because most of his Cabinet are extracted from the same turd.

FIFY.
 
Further, seeing how three word sound bites have stuck in the public mindset over the last year or so wouldn’t it be wonderful if every day one opposition MP would stand up in the house and announce “Johnson - Tells - Lies”.
Take the hit for protocol breach and force the Tories into answering the charges.
“Pants On Fire” has the advantage of not using the word ‘liar’. Opposition benches could just make sniffing gestures. Imagine one half of the commons shouting “what’s that smell?”, and “Fire, Fire, Fire”.

Gets my vote
 
“Pants On Fire” has the advantage of not using the word ‘liar’. Opposition benches could just make sniffing gestures. Imagine one half of the commons shouting “what’s that smell?”, and “Fire, Fire, Fire”.

Gets my vote
But that reduces it to Johnson’s infantile Eton common room level brouhaha that is his Commons behaviour.
 
“Pants On Fire” has the advantage of not using the word ‘liar’. Opposition benches could just make sniffing gestures. Imagine one half of the commons shouting “what’s that smell?”, and “Fire, Fire, Fire”.

Gets my vote

Or "Boris cries wolf".
 
Further, seeing how three word sound bites have stuck in the public mindset over the last year or so wouldn’t it be wonderful if every day one opposition MP would stand up in the house and announce “Johnson - Tells - Lies”.
Take the hit for protocol breach and force the Tories into answering the charges.
The opposition should make this a regular thing on every last day of parliament, just stand up one at a time and then go home early leaving just the tories sat alone for the rest of the day.
 
Every PMQ repeat back to him one of his lies, point it out and ask him to correct the record.
All six questions, every week, for as long as it takes for him to retract.
He never answers other questions anyway.
 
And from today's Guardian piece on the "rudderless" Boris https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ith-dominic-cummings-johnson-looks-rudderless
Carrie Johnson and policy director Munira Mirza are now the only members of the prime minister’s inner circle remaining since he won the leadership and general elections back in 2019.

“[Carrie]’s got strong views on people and we all suspect it matters whether you’re in her favour or you’re out of it,” said one Conservative MP who believes his prospects are being stymied.

He said the feeling among Conservatives was there was “no grip or political direction,” apart from that provided by allies of Carrie Johnson. These include Simone Finn and Henry Newman in Downing Street, plus a wider network of special advisers who are close to her, as well as Sajid Javid, now the health secretary.

“You can see with the people that you’ve got around him that she does have huge influence,” said a former Johnson adviser. Another described a fraught atmosphere inside No 10, with rival camps and complex loyalties. “It’s proper medieval-court stuff.
 
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