Are these fifty lies just taken from the last week?
Feels like there’s a new one after every “No, Mr Speaker…, Please, Mr Speaker…, Allow me, Mr Speaker…, Mr Speaker…, I shall, Mr Speaker…, But but but, Mr Speaker…, I can’t Mr Speaker…”
Voters have a short memory. So long as restrictions being lifted in March doesn’t kill thousands more people it’ll be business as normal.
Look at how the news cycle went from 24/7 talking about PartyGate to near silence as soon as they were announced.
It’s hard to really care about all of the minute-by-minute coverage of this knowing that no matter what happens, Johnson is going to end up going on holiday for six months and then getting a new job where he makes twice as much money for a tenth as much stress, while whoever replaces him will be twice as bad where it counts but have twice as good PR thanks to all of the newspapers happily sweeping all of the government’s systemic failures away with him. Heck, just look at the title of this very article.
Like, I guess I’m mad at the hypocrisy and elitism, but even the spoken-of-in-hushed-whispers could-this-really-be-happening Ultimate Consequence is still basically a win for him and his party. This is broken.
Don’t need to read the entire article to confirm what we already know and have known for a long time- that Johnson is a liar.
But so what? This isn’t news, it’s been common knowledge for years (since before the 2016 Brexit referendum) exactly what type of disreputable, untrustworthy person Johnson is. If it was going to hurt him, it would have done so long ago.
The problem is that the English electorate were happy to support- and in 2019 gave an overwhelming election win- to someone like that.
Maybe that’ll change and they’ll grow sick of his schtick, but I won’t hold my breath. Over the past few years I’ve seen countless articles making good arguments explaining why he’s finally shot himself in the foot and will lose suport, only for them to be proven wrong repeatedly.
I’m not about to give them the benefit of the doubt that they’ll “see the light” until it actually happens, and even if- and when- they do, I won’t be giving them a cookie for finally coming to the self-serving realisation that supporting this openly-lying sleaze was a bad idea after years of enabling him.
The public should be allowed to vote online (securely someway with thier ID) and register no confidence or something similar. This prick is not going to go by his own accord, and the Tories are not going to push him.
I suppose I should be happy, as the Tories are destroying themselves and campaigning for Indyref for us here in Scotland.
Always worth repeating in case anyone is still unaware. For years, long before he was even Mayor of London, Johnson was infamous with civil servants for being the laziest, most disorganised and incompetent member of parliament they had ever been tasked to work with. His name was synonymous with always being late, not even bothering to read the most basic summaries of documents he was supposed to understand, and being too lazy to even pretend to do any real work (because he was focused on incomes from other jobs such as his journalism). Laughable enough that he was even elected Mayor of London, but to have this incompetent lying clown *running the country* throughout its most serious crisis since WW2…
And who enabled those lies?
They should be taking the entire party to account, they are just as complicit as he is.
How can we expect Sunak, Truss, Patel, Raab and the rest – those who have enabled him for years to suddenly became decent, moral and honest?
Th media seems scared to admit – t**he entire Tory edifice is rotten to the core.**
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Are these fifty lies just taken from the last week?
Feels like there’s a new one after every “No, Mr Speaker…, Please, Mr Speaker…, Allow me, Mr Speaker…, Mr Speaker…, I shall, Mr Speaker…, But but but, Mr Speaker…, I can’t Mr Speaker…”
> Boris Johnson’s 50 lies, gaffes and scandals
Pah, only 50? I make it [over 200 more than that](https://costofjohnson.com/).
Voters have a short memory. So long as restrictions being lifted in March doesn’t kill thousands more people it’ll be business as normal.
Look at how the news cycle went from 24/7 talking about PartyGate to near silence as soon as they were announced.
It’s hard to really care about all of the minute-by-minute coverage of this knowing that no matter what happens, Johnson is going to end up going on holiday for six months and then getting a new job where he makes twice as much money for a tenth as much stress, while whoever replaces him will be twice as bad where it counts but have twice as good PR thanks to all of the newspapers happily sweeping all of the government’s systemic failures away with him. Heck, just look at the title of this very article.
Like, I guess I’m mad at the hypocrisy and elitism, but even the spoken-of-in-hushed-whispers could-this-really-be-happening Ultimate Consequence is still basically a win for him and his party. This is broken.
Don’t need to read the entire article to confirm what we already know and have known for a long time- that Johnson is a liar.
But so what? This isn’t news, it’s been common knowledge for years (since before the 2016 Brexit referendum) exactly what type of disreputable, untrustworthy person Johnson is. If it was going to hurt him, it would have done so long ago.
The problem is that the English electorate were happy to support- and in 2019 gave an overwhelming election win- to someone like that.
Maybe that’ll change and they’ll grow sick of his schtick, but I won’t hold my breath. Over the past few years I’ve seen countless articles making good arguments explaining why he’s finally shot himself in the foot and will lose suport, only for them to be proven wrong repeatedly.
I’m not about to give them the benefit of the doubt that they’ll “see the light” until it actually happens, and even if- and when- they do, I won’t be giving them a cookie for finally coming to the self-serving realisation that supporting this openly-lying sleaze was a bad idea after years of enabling him.
The public should be allowed to vote online (securely someway with thier ID) and register no confidence or something similar. This prick is not going to go by his own accord, and the Tories are not going to push him.
I suppose I should be happy, as the Tories are destroying themselves and campaigning for Indyref for us here in Scotland.
Always worth repeating in case anyone is still unaware. For years, long before he was even Mayor of London, Johnson was infamous with civil servants for being the laziest, most disorganised and incompetent member of parliament they had ever been tasked to work with. His name was synonymous with always being late, not even bothering to read the most basic summaries of documents he was supposed to understand, and being too lazy to even pretend to do any real work (because he was focused on incomes from other jobs such as his journalism). Laughable enough that he was even elected Mayor of London, but to have this incompetent lying clown *running the country* throughout its most serious crisis since WW2…
And who enabled those lies?
They should be taking the entire party to account, they are just as complicit as he is.
How can we expect Sunak, Truss, Patel, Raab and the rest – those who have enabled him for years to suddenly became decent, moral and honest?
Th media seems scared to admit – t**he entire Tory edifice is rotten to the core.**