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I wonder what he would think if he were arrested for drink driving and left in a cell with a homeless family without a phone or a chance for a wash till he got scabies. Would it be a bit of a cheek if he complained? On the other hand, if illegal immigrants are not allowed to have human rights...

Maybe the fat oaf can't count?

I assume that the non-loonies told Johnson he would be remembered as the man who destroyed the conservative party if he stood (and won the member vote - which he would have done). Half the parliamentary party would have resigned the whip, and plenty would have crossed the floor, had he returned...

Trus was to political leadership what Ali Dia was to premier league football. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11700/11980435/graeme-souness-reveals-untold-story-of-southampton-misfit-ali-dia-we-knew-he-was-hopeless

Well, I don't say such things very often, but well done the majority of tory MPs for rejecting Johnson and not letting him get his 100 nominations. Johnson didn't get his 100, which is why he has withdrawn his name. That way, as the bloke on the radio said "we will never now know for sure how...

Interrupting someone when they are giving a perfectly sensible answer is very poor show. Andrew Neil used to do it. Interrupting someone who is not answering the question is understandable but risky. It works only if it is clear the interviewee is not answering the question. Otherwise it makes...

When I had a leadership role in a research society I was given media training. One key part of this is we are told to remember what point it is we want to make, and, after complimenting the questioner for their interesting question (insight, and lovely blouse), you explain (mansplain) what the...

Yep. That's exactly what I thought when the blue rinsers backed thick Lizzie.

Keep travelling.....

And the eternal trope of the tory MP intent on surviving - lying. ???

You remind me of the joke about the 'master of sarcasm and wit'. A boy went to the circus and a clown whispered to him 'you are a horrible boy'. The boy cried all the way home. The next day he went to see his friend the 'master of sarcasm and wit'. He told him all about it and the 'master of...

As I listen to the end of our game and a valiant display, I do hope you are right. Sadly I'm confident you're wrong o_O

Don't do that ??? :wink: Yes, that was the one. And as we know in our dealings with America, it is wonderfully beneficial to have a Special Relationship, at least for the bigger of the partners for whom it costs nothing. What a guy :facepalm:

OK, no worries. I get you. I can see that the argument to rejoin may well be strengthened over time, but slowly, and not as a big 'elephant in the room' sudden realization in the minds of the pipple. My take is that it will be 10 years before the true effects of Brexit are clear and...

Interesting. I just hope that there are not 100 tory MPs who back him. If there are.....he will become PM again. The party members will see to that. Only the tory MPs can stop this from happening. Tories MPs who ditched Johnson either because they saw him as an election liability or because...

I would be truly astonished if Johnson advocating reversing Brexit. This would alienate his core support. If you take away 'get Brexit done' what's left? I know that some people thank him from saving us from Covid by his bold vaccine plan (with which his true involvement was zero) but try...

Local parties are reported to be telling their sitting tory MP that if they don't come out in support of Johnson they will be deselected. And we sneered at Militant local labour parties trying to deselect moderates back in the 80s...... In this regard, I would argue that local parties do have...

I have been resisting saying 'bring it on' so that the tories become yet more damaged. I am on record as saying a couple of years ago that it would be better to replace Johnson with someone competent so the country can recover, even if it lessens the chance of a Starmer win in the next GE...

Yes. One forgets that the tories continued to have sufficient sense to realize that no Brexit deal was possible right through the May era (which is why every plan was voted down). Unfortunately they then did the lunatic thing of deciding that even though no deal was possible, the solution was...

Quite. There is a poster whose user pic is Blair's face splattered with blood. That's on a par with all that Bobby Sands bollox that another (now perma-banned) poster used to use to promote his agenda, in my view. I suppose that when people write lies then other people can challenge them. It...