Boris Johnson admits he couldn’t understand SNP MPs speaking in House of Commons

by backupJM

36 comments
  1. >Boris Johnson has admitted he couldn’t understand the accents of some SNP MPs and would make up answers to their questions.

    >The former Tory Prime Minister said he would blag his way through questions from the Nationalists in the House of Commons with “very, very general” replies

  2. People do realise he says these things to fuck with people right? He is a professional troll. 

  3. This type of Englishman is selective in his understanding. I find people understand me just fine in Germany or the Netherlands, but when I encounter certain kinds of English people (generally better-off ones) they go to great efforts not to.

  4. On the other hand, Boris has never said anything worth listening to.

  5. He usually says these ridiculous things to cover something up in google searches. E.g talking about playing with toy buses, so people find that story before the image of him in front of a bus, and talking about a lump of cheese in the next room, so people don’t find a reference to his wine and cheese parties. I’m guessing there’s a story he wants to cover up.

  6. I wished I couldn’t understand him when he was in the House of Commons.

  7. In that case he’s an idiot.

    Or more likely trolling to put his name in the headlines again. Soon you’ll see his big come back to politics as a reform member. Fuck this opportunistic twat.

  8. He should clear his ears out

    But we know he’s taking the piss out of us, let’s not pretend when they say these things it’s in good faith

  9. Aah yes the English person who pretends to have problems understanding Scottish people even though they know fine well what we’re saying, I hate these people because they make the normal English people who listen to us look bad.

  10. Ever wish this waste of space would just do one?

  11. So it was only Scottish SNP MPs he couldn’t understand? Did he have a problem understanding Scottish MPs from other parties?

  12. He is somewhat right. Some of these mps are putting on thicker accent to boost their Scottishness

  13. He’s talking shite. He’ll say anything to ruffle a few feathers and get some attention.

  14. Check out former Kilmarnock MP Alan Brown speaking broad East Ayrshire in the Commons. Even I had to listen hard.

  15. I had trouble in trying to make sense of anything Boris was trying to say. 90% of it was just shite, the other 10% was dribble.

  16. That’s a bit rich coming from someone who sounds like a lawn mower that just won’t start no matter how many times you pull the cord.

  17. It’s about representation innit? If our accents were heard more commonly, everyone would be used to them.

  18. As opposed to these boarding school cunts who are so posh they speak like they’re gargling mouthwash. Its YEAR not YURR

  19. Imagine how happy we’d all be not being able to understand that fat blond turd.

    He’s a troll best to ignore him.

  20. Given the balding blonde Buffon mostly stammered and talked nonsense most of the time – nobody really understood Johnson.

    Will somebody tell this guy his comb over is getting worse.

  21. I don’t like to admit this but despite growing up in Glasgow after I spent years living in London then abroad I struggled for a bit when I came back.

    I remember standing behind 2 women in the queue at Tesco in Cumbernauld who were in full conversation and genuinely caught about 3 words of it.

    The thing is that if we’re honest the words we use, tones and inflections are really different to the type of English you hear in London or Sydney for example, this coupled with lack of exposure does make it hard for people to understand.

    But there’s a difference between just having difficulty and using that difference to imply superiority, which is exactly what Boris and many others do.

    There’s no such thing as superior accents/languages, just different ones.

    Plus let’s not pretend there’s no accent snobbery in this country, many of us are exactly the same with each other.

  22. I’m not surprised, I’m Scottish and can hardly understand a lot of the SNP muppets

  23. We can’t understand the drivvel you dribble down your chin either you coked up muppet

  24. There was a piece about this on Radio a few weeks ago.

    About class differences and how the system works against people who come from poor backgrounds.

    Lots of people for poor backgrounds talking about experiences going to posh schools or high level University’s. The kids from upper class would go out of their way to not understand an accent, like they would just phase out the second the person talked. Even when the accent was perfectly easy to understand.

    Makes the Tory government looking after and covering for their own people, even when they are twats making big mistakes. They have a huge “us Vs them” mentality. Also makes sense why they were getting hard at the thought of destroying the UK’s public sector for 14 years. Bloody peasants.

  25. To be fair, I can’t understand him without subtitles either

  26. Parliament is just a sham anyway, so it really didn’t matter.

  27. Not cause of the accent just cause what they say makes absolutely no sense 

  28. I never understood a thing that came out that cave goblins cunt mouth either

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