In the ancient world it was possible to make a living out of being a ‘parasite’ turning up to events and parties and abusing your hosts hospitality and their good manners that prevented them from asking the parasite to leave.
The Greeks knew it as strip or retire. To have an opinion, to play the game meant you had to have an element of personal risk.
If you want to comment on the wrestling and have your views respected then strip off and wrestle or else retire and stay silent.
This analogy is used by way of noting that the notion of shame is gone in public life. Trump destroyed the sanctity of the truth and Johnson has destroyed shame.
A man without shame cannot be hurt, cannot be excluded or shunned though his own actions.
In his lack of shame Johnson is invincible it seems. If he goes it’s because his own people don’t want him. Not because he has the decency to end it all.
Fair is fair, he never lied about who he was or what he would do. His sudden fall from grace is the public being fickle, not him being “exposed”.
Anyone who knows his history knew he was a self serving duplicitous cunt.
its the fact that majority of his party want to be part of his cult and continue to support a man with no morals, no regrets , no integrity and no plan other than his greatest hits of lies and his own self preservation.
roll on the next scandal, they don’t care as we are just fools in their eyes.
Until people demand blood, he won’t because he does not have to. As immoral as he been, there is no law saying he must now resign and man without shame is not going to do so. The idea that we can politely ask Johnson to resign is laughable and it is a waste of time to line up every MP to have them say the same pointless statement.
He’s just playing the waiting game. Some other issue will provoke public outrage. Partygate will be old news soon enough. We move on.
Of course there may be a not insignificant section of the population that did the exact same thing, ignored lockdown restrictions, held social events, or as we saw recently, were involved in massive furlough fraud.
There will only be a rump remaining, particularly of those people who were unable to visit dying relatives during lockdown that will still consider it an important issue.
I fully expect the majority to react with “God, are you still going on about that?”
The Prime Minister and his government have been accused of treating the public with contempt.
Perhaps they should be.
Didn’t fool me and I didn’t vote for him. It’s the people who voted him in that are the idiots here imo.
I’d be very surprised if anybody looked at old BoJo and said “he’ll be a great Prime Minister”. Ask I recall when he took over, we all basically thought we’d be fucked and he’d be useless.
We just didn’t realise quite how bad that would be.
Boris is above the law and protected by The Met. Why would he resign?
Can we talk about his ridiculous hair cuts for a second? Who is doing this to him???
It’s insane to me that two of the world’s nuclear powers suddenly decided, “Yeah, Trump and Boris would be perfect right now.”
I am shocked but not surprised after seeing how labour was under Blair. Politicians are like cars all come out of the same factory just a different badge and different paint
But one cannot be a leader without being thick skinned…
That the Telegraph printed his (Kier’s) speech in its entirety was fucking amazing, as was making it a front page prominent story.
I think perhaps they have just woken up to the reality.
He’s right. Boris will survive till 2025 because he doesn’t have the humility and decency of politicians that came before and resigned for a tenth of Boris’s debauchery. Hell even Cameron and May showed a respectful streak with their resignation over their perceived failings and misgivings.
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In the ancient world it was possible to make a living out of being a ‘parasite’ turning up to events and parties and abusing your hosts hospitality and their good manners that prevented them from asking the parasite to leave.
The Greeks knew it as strip or retire. To have an opinion, to play the game meant you had to have an element of personal risk.
If you want to comment on the wrestling and have your views respected then strip off and wrestle or else retire and stay silent.
This analogy is used by way of noting that the notion of shame is gone in public life. Trump destroyed the sanctity of the truth and Johnson has destroyed shame.
A man without shame cannot be hurt, cannot be excluded or shunned though his own actions.
In his lack of shame Johnson is invincible it seems. If he goes it’s because his own people don’t want him. Not because he has the decency to end it all.
Fair is fair, he never lied about who he was or what he would do. His sudden fall from grace is the public being fickle, not him being “exposed”.
Anyone who knows his history knew he was a self serving duplicitous cunt.
its the fact that majority of his party want to be part of his cult and continue to support a man with no morals, no regrets , no integrity and no plan other than his greatest hits of lies and his own self preservation.
roll on the next scandal, they don’t care as we are just fools in their eyes.
Until people demand blood, he won’t because he does not have to. As immoral as he been, there is no law saying he must now resign and man without shame is not going to do so. The idea that we can politely ask Johnson to resign is laughable and it is a waste of time to line up every MP to have them say the same pointless statement.
He’s just playing the waiting game. Some other issue will provoke public outrage. Partygate will be old news soon enough. We move on.
Of course there may be a not insignificant section of the population that did the exact same thing, ignored lockdown restrictions, held social events, or as we saw recently, were involved in massive furlough fraud.
There will only be a rump remaining, particularly of those people who were unable to visit dying relatives during lockdown that will still consider it an important issue.
I fully expect the majority to react with “God, are you still going on about that?”
The Prime Minister and his government have been accused of treating the public with contempt.
Perhaps they should be.
Didn’t fool me and I didn’t vote for him. It’s the people who voted him in that are the idiots here imo.
I’d be very surprised if anybody looked at old BoJo and said “he’ll be a great Prime Minister”. Ask I recall when he took over, we all basically thought we’d be fucked and he’d be useless.
We just didn’t realise quite how bad that would be.
Boris is above the law and protected by The Met. Why would he resign?
Can we talk about his ridiculous hair cuts for a second? Who is doing this to him???
It’s insane to me that two of the world’s nuclear powers suddenly decided, “Yeah, Trump and Boris would be perfect right now.”
I am shocked but not surprised after seeing how labour was under Blair. Politicians are like cars all come out of the same factory just a different badge and different paint
But one cannot be a leader without being thick skinned…
That the Telegraph printed his (Kier’s) speech in its entirety was fucking amazing, as was making it a front page prominent story.
I think perhaps they have just woken up to the reality.
He’s right. Boris will survive till 2025 because he doesn’t have the humility and decency of politicians that came before and resigned for a tenth of Boris’s debauchery. Hell even Cameron and May showed a respectful streak with their resignation over their perceived failings and misgivings.