> Refusing to be drawn on how much a pack of Pampers nappies cost, Mr Johnson said: “I wake up every day thinking about what we can do to help people through this period, just as we helped people through COVID.
Oh, those people are fucked then, particularly the elderly and the poor.
Boris “£800 a roll wallpaper – says his £150k salary is chicken feed – was paid £250k a year to write proven fiction for the Torygraph” Johnson is out of touch with regular people? Colour me shocked.
In seriousness – this isn’t a shock to anyone, they know *for a fact* he’s clueless and they voted him in anyway. They love the billionaire Chancellor – because they believe wealth=success.
Doesn’t matter that generational wealth has been the only way to change class in more than a lifetime – that those who are successful in business are *by definition* lucky due to the material, social and market conditions which came into place totally outside of their control in order to *make* their business successful – that the heyday that they are referencing was the *manufacturing* base which their fiscal and social policies have forced out *by design* – or indeed that the entire concept of wealth=success is a self-serving aspirational myth designed specifically to prevent the questioning of the aristocracy, landed gentry and other inherited wealth’s legitimacy in the face of the establishment of Human Rights & the spread of education, which bolstered support for the ideas which underpin the values we were raised to uphold (by a curriculum *they wrote*) IE equality, freedom, justice – you know, the very qualities on which the West was supposedly founded, or at the very least, defended from fascism.
None of that matters – what matters is protecting “what’s yours” (or more accurately, what’s their’s). Even though “they” made it in almost every instance, without exception, by the ruthless exploitation of a geographical or demographical subsection of the British population – usually a few generations ago.
The reason this country is in such a mess is the ideological oxymoron at the centre of “conservative” politics. It’s the reason Johnson flirts with fascism – because there is no convincing the whole of an educated population to vote for their own oppression.
The great irony of our time is that civil servants, academics and medical staff – *intellectuals* – are both prevented from having a public political opinion, and publicly derided, dehumanised and homogenised for exercising what little political capital they have, fighting for the most *basic* things. A sensible society takes heed of the advice of experts. And we wonder why it’s all such a mess.
The man spent £800 on a roll of wall paper, he doesn’t even know what it is to be in touch with the general public
Tbh I would bet at least 75% of MPs couldn’t state the price of 5 everyday items and get it correct.
Need to cut their salaries to bring them into the real world.
Johnson has old money, those types do not have to economise. He will just move some money around and be fine. He has never had to worry about not having money, nor the price of something, he can always pay whatever the price is. None of that would be an issue if he had a trace amount of empathy in his system to spare with the public.
> Mr Johnson said: “I wake up every day thinking about what we can do to help people through this period, just as we helped people through COVID.
Johnson thinks about what he can do to increase his own PR stock, not what he can do to actually help anyone.
I mean it’s one banana Nick. How much could it cost? Twelve pounds?
Ask for donations?
He econimises by getting some other dickhead to pay for it in the hope he’ll do them a favour some day
He doesn’t pay for anything himself does he?
£250k is chicken feed, his £100+ salary isn’t enough for him to live on…
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Tell me how he’s in touch with us.. He doesn’t live on the same plane of existence as the rest of us.
Some sceptical part of me can’t help but worry that the reason the cost of living crisis is such a huge media clusterfuck is because the Tories are purposely digging in on it to gain even more favour when they give Boris and his cabinet the boot and provide an actually popular solution.
“Look! Not only did we get rid of the people who caused the mess, we cleaned it up too! We’re heroes! Vote for us in the next GE”
Out of touch? He clearly doesn’t know.
You live your experience, that’s how you know stuff. He has never lived on a breadline at any point in his life like so many of the parliamentarians of any party.
Like so many dumb humans, gobshyte rules over fact.
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> Refusing to be drawn on how much a pack of Pampers nappies cost, Mr Johnson said: “I wake up every day thinking about what we can do to help people through this period, just as we helped people through COVID.
Oh, those people are fucked then, particularly the elderly and the poor.
Boris “£800 a roll wallpaper – says his £150k salary is chicken feed – was paid £250k a year to write proven fiction for the Torygraph” Johnson is out of touch with regular people? Colour me shocked.
In seriousness – this isn’t a shock to anyone, they know *for a fact* he’s clueless and they voted him in anyway. They love the billionaire Chancellor – because they believe wealth=success.
Doesn’t matter that generational wealth has been the only way to change class in more than a lifetime – that those who are successful in business are *by definition* lucky due to the material, social and market conditions which came into place totally outside of their control in order to *make* their business successful – that the heyday that they are referencing was the *manufacturing* base which their fiscal and social policies have forced out *by design* – or indeed that the entire concept of wealth=success is a self-serving aspirational myth designed specifically to prevent the questioning of the aristocracy, landed gentry and other inherited wealth’s legitimacy in the face of the establishment of Human Rights & the spread of education, which bolstered support for the ideas which underpin the values we were raised to uphold (by a curriculum *they wrote*) IE equality, freedom, justice – you know, the very qualities on which the West was supposedly founded, or at the very least, defended from fascism.
None of that matters – what matters is protecting “what’s yours” (or more accurately, what’s their’s). Even though “they” made it in almost every instance, without exception, by the ruthless exploitation of a geographical or demographical subsection of the British population – usually a few generations ago.
The reason this country is in such a mess is the ideological oxymoron at the centre of “conservative” politics. It’s the reason Johnson flirts with fascism – because there is no convincing the whole of an educated population to vote for their own oppression.
The great irony of our time is that civil servants, academics and medical staff – *intellectuals* – are both prevented from having a public political opinion, and publicly derided, dehumanised and homogenised for exercising what little political capital they have, fighting for the most *basic* things. A sensible society takes heed of the advice of experts. And we wonder why it’s all such a mess.
The man spent £800 on a roll of wall paper, he doesn’t even know what it is to be in touch with the general public
Tbh I would bet at least 75% of MPs couldn’t state the price of 5 everyday items and get it correct.
Need to cut their salaries to bring them into the real world.
Johnson has old money, those types do not have to economise. He will just move some money around and be fine. He has never had to worry about not having money, nor the price of something, he can always pay whatever the price is. None of that would be an issue if he had a trace amount of empathy in his system to spare with the public.
> Mr Johnson said: “I wake up every day thinking about what we can do to help people through this period, just as we helped people through COVID.
Johnson thinks about what he can do to increase his own PR stock, not what he can do to actually help anyone.
I mean it’s one banana Nick. How much could it cost? Twelve pounds?
Ask for donations?
He econimises by getting some other dickhead to pay for it in the hope he’ll do them a favour some day
He doesn’t pay for anything himself does he?
£250k is chicken feed, his £100+ salary isn’t enough for him to live on…
​
Tell me how he’s in touch with us.. He doesn’t live on the same plane of existence as the rest of us.
Some sceptical part of me can’t help but worry that the reason the cost of living crisis is such a huge media clusterfuck is because the Tories are purposely digging in on it to gain even more favour when they give Boris and his cabinet the boot and provide an actually popular solution.
“Look! Not only did we get rid of the people who caused the mess, we cleaned it up too! We’re heroes! Vote for us in the next GE”
Out of touch? He clearly doesn’t know.
You live your experience, that’s how you know stuff. He has never lived on a breadline at any point in his life like so many of the parliamentarians of any party.
Like so many dumb humans, gobshyte rules over fact.