> “Parish shouldn’t have resigned,” one MP said. “He should have just gone away with his wife for a few weeks and then come back to the job. I don’t know why the girls had to speak out like that.”
> Another suggested the witnesses would “feel like a turd in the swimming pool” after the party’s defeat in Tiverton . . .
> Another backbencher warned Mr Johnson: “He will have to reset the Government in the next two or three weeks – he cannot let this go on into the summer.”
> A third suggested that “the donors are going to kick off” and demand a change of leadership given that their funding is not leading to positive results. The defeats came only a few days after a lavish ball at the V&A Museum, where one wealthy Tory supporter paid £120,000 to have dinner with Mr Johnson, David Cameron and Theresa May . . .
> “It’s like a disease,” one MP told i. “The Prime Minister is infecting the Cabinet, and if the Tory party doesn’t act in the next six months we will all be infected by him.
The article also includes some desperate, ludicrous spin from No10, presumably for “balance”:
> members of the Prime Minister’s team [of professional liars] pointed the finger at the media for “feeding people a diet of Partygate” in recent months. Mr Johnson is “focused almost myopically” on the economy and cost of living, a source [dissembled], but “whenever he tries to set out a policy story he’s interrupted”. The [reality-hostile] insider added: “The endless reportage and Kremlinology of Partygate is nonsense.”
Accusing the women who spoke out of causing the defeat in Tiverton and Honiton is the most Tory thing ever. Total lack of acknowledgement of wrong doing, anger at those who pointed out wrong doing.
Of all the things to be “shell shocked” or horrified by over the last twelve years, the Conservative Party have certainly picked one that shows their priorities.
The entire Conservative Party are a fucking disease. A plague on humanity.
I really hope he stays, let the party eat itself from the inside. All he can do it keep spiralling down and dragging the rest of the Conservatives with him so carry on, maybe in the next election we can get a proper leader.
Tories still not looking in the mirror.
Why do Tories tend to be five to ten years behind anyone else at realising what’s happening or about to happen?
This isn’t just a one time thing either. They were told their Brexit was going to cause economic damage, and the failure of British businesses and British competitiveness. They were told pandering to pensioners would make them start to lose safe seats as those pensioners expired. They were told union busting would erode the stability and safety of workers, causing crime expenditure for the taxpayer. They were told that eliminating NHS managers would put too much non-medical workload on front line care providers. They were told handing out billions to oil companies would, again, cause expense for the taxpayer for no return. The list goes on, and I’d prefer not to be typing until 3pm.
They realised and showed some, at least basic level, of regret for all of these things, yet all of it was predictable and predicted by the experts in the fields.
Is there some cognitive defect, a lack of cause and effect processing, among the Conservative party?
Like trump? Corrupting all around himself?
He’s going to completely destroy the Tory party, and I’m going to love every single second of it.
I hope he stays in power at this point, they shouldn’t just get to replace their leader and wipe the slate clean for a THIRD time in a row.
I mean, the party plotted, engineered and mindlessly supported his rise to leadership and decimation of cabinet capabilities, knowing full well he is one of the most worthless people to ever enter politics so enjoy all that reaping.
Boris Johnson didn’t make them vote Brexit
They did that themselves
They knew he was a charlatan without ethics
They voted him as their leader
And Johnson is saying he won’t change and that the abortion ruling in America is awful. How can anyone be so wrong and so right in one day?
Why are these gormless out of touch twats in anyway shell shocked? We’re not stupid we can see what’s been going on despite the best efforts of the Daily Mail to cover it up and distract us by blaming everyone else.
He is, but not for the reasons they think:
> “It’s like a disease,” one MP told i. “The Prime Minister is infecting **the Cabinet**, and if the Tory party doesn’t act in the next six months we will all be infected by him.”
Actually – like Trump – Johnson is a disease infecting the entirety of British politics. He’s patient zero of post-shame politics, and a walking destructive precedent normalising overt corruption, horrifying irresponsibility and misplaced voter priorities.
> _Mr Johnson is “focused almost myopically” on the economy and cost of living_
Erm… in what way? He’s doing his best to start a trade war with the EU. Is he focussed on fucking it up even more than he already has??
Long may Boris continue to ruin the Tory party. Good guy Boris!
Aw man if only they had a chance to vote out the pm. Oh well…
Lots of people reckon the main problem with Boris Johnson is stupidity or narcissism (which has become the go-to insult of modern times; but it’s a common trait, and there’s a continuum).
Cynical? Lazy? A bully? A hypocrite? Sure, Johnson is those things too. But above all, he’s just staggeringly vicious. He really is a piece of cruel and sneering work.
When he was writing for and later editing The Spectator, the mask used to come off frequently. This is a man who can start an article [‘You would need a heart of stone not to have been moved by the little Aids-ridden choristers’](https://archive.ph/iFZth) (Archive link to a 2002 Spectator article), and then demonstrate throughout the rest of the piece that he does, in fact, have a heart of stone, and a refined palate for other peoples’ suffering (especially if they’re black). He genuinely finds it comical, and hopes his reader does too.
Once again, this horrific article is from 2002, when Tony Blair was PM. It’s 20 years old. Boris Johnson he has never, ever hidden what sort of man he is.
Delicious headline. It’s delightful to read over and over again
Johnson ‘myopic’ focussing on the cost of living crisis. You fucking what? What’s he done to relieve it?
>‘Tory cunts are like a disease’:
FTFY. Not just Boris but every cunt member of the Tory party is complicit.
Is it better that he stays as PM until the general election?
Not only that, he like a cancer to the whole of the U.K.. He needs to but cut out and flushed down the toilet.
The Tories are pretty much hypocrites. Now that Boris is losing elections they claw at him suddenly. If he’d win, they’d love him still. What a bunch of hypocrites really.
Objectively speaking I think Boris’ biggest mistake was the partygate situation. Nobody understands why he was partying like a king while the common man in the UK was locked down at home because King Boris ordered them to stay there. That’s the kind of double standard and arrogance that will cost Boris dearly. Perhaps it is one reason why he only wants to talk about other countries, or why he keeps on flying away to other countries and make PR statements there, in order to “look good”. He is a big clown.
If only there was some mechanism to remove him! Perhaps some kind of vote, to show that they have lost confidence in his leadership.
I’m sure they’d have the courage to actually vote him out if such an opportunity arose /s
Democracy nowadays:
1. People elect a candidate based on promises.
2. Once elected, the candidate doesn’t do anything of what they promised.
3. Freshly elected candidate starts screwing the very people that elected them…
4. Repeat every few years!
Commonsense is by now an extinct species …
When the Tory party started directly using Trump strategies to win elections, etc. – it’s hardly a surprise when Boris develops the same cult of personality with people who have a mentality of the fucking 300 AD time period.
This past 6/7 years has genuinely broken the idea of democracy. It isn’t that, as a lefty, I disagree with the right wing but you put up with it and vote the next time. Now the right want to eradicate the opinions I have in some ideological wipeout. And any time the right don’t get their way (rare in the world these days), it is a conspiracy and they need to have a crusude.
The idea of disagreement is gone now. It’s full out culture war and I do not see how it can be fixed.
If the by-election is anything to go on I hope they keep Boris in to the election.
He is delusional and surrounded by yes men. Great it means the torys will self destruct.
He was loved when he gave them the “landslide” victory on the back of his being a “harmless, affable buffoon.”
Anyone with any knowledge of his history or who had critical thinking skills knew him to be a self serving, opportunistic, habitual liar and utter Tory cunt.
And how the latter were down to be correct.
Keep him on – he’ll veer from blunder to blunder, making the Tories ever more and more toxic.
Boris is fucking up so badly that Labour might win the next election, and then thinking they can win now decide not to introduce AV.. leading us back to more decades of Tory rule after the press manages to convince everyone that all the mess Labour is trying to fix was actually caused by them. Again.
No amount of hyperbole is going to force Boris to resign as he lacks a moral compass. He simply defines the new bar for what the next scandal that turns up and how he survives it. Grass root voters will always vote Tory and those who might change their mind are afraid of Labour under Starmer as they’re just another Tory-lite version. Better the devil you know as they say.
He’s like a dose of cream resistant crabs…nothing but a full clear out is going to shift him!
Boris is not a disease, he is a symptom. The disease is populism, and political desire for power at all costs.
Boris is the hot, steaming, liquefied shit blasting out of the arse of this country, but populism is the almost invisible bacteria that’s left us cowering and sweating in the toilet for hours on end.
The Tory party is the disease. A 12 year disaster and they are still pretending it’s just a few bad apples.
Ego, self-entitlement, and ignoring the will of the people is not a modern disease in politics though for many years we thought it was the lot of emerging democracies in Africa. But no, it has always been around, and it will always be a problem. Especially when the person won an election on charisma rather than substance.
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A few quotes cherry-picked from the article:
> “Parish shouldn’t have resigned,” one MP said. “He should have just gone away with his wife for a few weeks and then come back to the job. I don’t know why the girls had to speak out like that.”
> Another suggested the witnesses would “feel like a turd in the swimming pool” after the party’s defeat in Tiverton . . .
> One senior Tory described the results as “horrific”, adding: “[Oliver’s words](https://nitter.net/OliverDowden/status/1540191893258207232) will resound throughout the party.”
> Another backbencher warned Mr Johnson: “He will have to reset the Government in the next two or three weeks – he cannot let this go on into the summer.”
> A third suggested that “the donors are going to kick off” and demand a change of leadership given that their funding is not leading to positive results. The defeats came only a few days after a lavish ball at the V&A Museum, where one wealthy Tory supporter paid £120,000 to have dinner with Mr Johnson, David Cameron and Theresa May . . .
> “It’s like a disease,” one MP told i. “The Prime Minister is infecting the Cabinet, and if the Tory party doesn’t act in the next six months we will all be infected by him.
The article also includes some desperate, ludicrous spin from No10, presumably for “balance”:
> members of the Prime Minister’s team [of professional liars] pointed the finger at the media for “feeding people a diet of Partygate” in recent months. Mr Johnson is “focused almost myopically” on the economy and cost of living, a source [dissembled], but “whenever he tries to set out a policy story he’s interrupted”. The [reality-hostile] insider added: “The endless reportage and Kremlinology of Partygate is nonsense.”
Accusing the women who spoke out of causing the defeat in Tiverton and Honiton is the most Tory thing ever. Total lack of acknowledgement of wrong doing, anger at those who pointed out wrong doing.
Of all the things to be “shell shocked” or horrified by over the last twelve years, the Conservative Party have certainly picked one that shows their priorities.
The entire Conservative Party are a fucking disease. A plague on humanity.
I really hope he stays, let the party eat itself from the inside. All he can do it keep spiralling down and dragging the rest of the Conservatives with him so carry on, maybe in the next election we can get a proper leader.
Tories still not looking in the mirror.
Why do Tories tend to be five to ten years behind anyone else at realising what’s happening or about to happen?
This isn’t just a one time thing either. They were told their Brexit was going to cause economic damage, and the failure of British businesses and British competitiveness. They were told pandering to pensioners would make them start to lose safe seats as those pensioners expired. They were told union busting would erode the stability and safety of workers, causing crime expenditure for the taxpayer. They were told that eliminating NHS managers would put too much non-medical workload on front line care providers. They were told handing out billions to oil companies would, again, cause expense for the taxpayer for no return. The list goes on, and I’d prefer not to be typing until 3pm.
They realised and showed some, at least basic level, of regret for all of these things, yet all of it was predictable and predicted by the experts in the fields.
Is there some cognitive defect, a lack of cause and effect processing, among the Conservative party?
Like trump? Corrupting all around himself?
He’s going to completely destroy the Tory party, and I’m going to love every single second of it.
I hope he stays in power at this point, they shouldn’t just get to replace their leader and wipe the slate clean for a THIRD time in a row.
I mean, the party plotted, engineered and mindlessly supported his rise to leadership and decimation of cabinet capabilities, knowing full well he is one of the most worthless people to ever enter politics so enjoy all that reaping.
Boris Johnson didn’t make them vote Brexit
They did that themselves
They knew he was a charlatan without ethics
They voted him as their leader
And Johnson is saying he won’t change and that the abortion ruling in America is awful. How can anyone be so wrong and so right in one day?
Why are these gormless out of touch twats in anyway shell shocked? We’re not stupid we can see what’s been going on despite the best efforts of the Daily Mail to cover it up and distract us by blaming everyone else.
He is, but not for the reasons they think:
> “It’s like a disease,” one MP told i. “The Prime Minister is infecting **the Cabinet**, and if the Tory party doesn’t act in the next six months we will all be infected by him.”
Actually – like Trump – Johnson is a disease infecting the entirety of British politics. He’s patient zero of post-shame politics, and a walking destructive precedent normalising overt corruption, horrifying irresponsibility and misplaced voter priorities.
> _Mr Johnson is “focused almost myopically” on the economy and cost of living_
Erm… in what way? He’s doing his best to start a trade war with the EU. Is he focussed on fucking it up even more than he already has??
Long may Boris continue to ruin the Tory party. Good guy Boris!
Aw man if only they had a chance to vote out the pm. Oh well…
Lots of people reckon the main problem with Boris Johnson is stupidity or narcissism (which has become the go-to insult of modern times; but it’s a common trait, and there’s a continuum).
Cynical? Lazy? A bully? A hypocrite? Sure, Johnson is those things too. But above all, he’s just staggeringly vicious. He really is a piece of cruel and sneering work.
When he was writing for and later editing The Spectator, the mask used to come off frequently. This is a man who can start an article [‘You would need a heart of stone not to have been moved by the little Aids-ridden choristers’](https://archive.ph/iFZth) (Archive link to a 2002 Spectator article), and then demonstrate throughout the rest of the piece that he does, in fact, have a heart of stone, and a refined palate for other peoples’ suffering (especially if they’re black). He genuinely finds it comical, and hopes his reader does too.
Once again, this horrific article is from 2002, when Tony Blair was PM. It’s 20 years old. Boris Johnson he has never, ever hidden what sort of man he is.
Delicious headline. It’s delightful to read over and over again
Johnson ‘myopic’ focussing on the cost of living crisis. You fucking what? What’s he done to relieve it?
>‘Tory cunts are like a disease’:
FTFY. Not just Boris but every cunt member of the Tory party is complicit.
Is it better that he stays as PM until the general election?
Not only that, he like a cancer to the whole of the U.K.. He needs to but cut out and flushed down the toilet.
The Tories are pretty much hypocrites. Now that Boris is losing elections they claw at him suddenly. If he’d win, they’d love him still. What a bunch of hypocrites really.
Objectively speaking I think Boris’ biggest mistake was the partygate situation. Nobody understands why he was partying like a king while the common man in the UK was locked down at home because King Boris ordered them to stay there. That’s the kind of double standard and arrogance that will cost Boris dearly. Perhaps it is one reason why he only wants to talk about other countries, or why he keeps on flying away to other countries and make PR statements there, in order to “look good”. He is a big clown.
If only there was some mechanism to remove him! Perhaps some kind of vote, to show that they have lost confidence in his leadership.
I’m sure they’d have the courage to actually vote him out if such an opportunity arose /s
Democracy nowadays:
1. People elect a candidate based on promises.
2. Once elected, the candidate doesn’t do anything of what they promised.
3. Freshly elected candidate starts screwing the very people that elected them…
4. Repeat every few years!
Commonsense is by now an extinct species …
When the Tory party started directly using Trump strategies to win elections, etc. – it’s hardly a surprise when Boris develops the same cult of personality with people who have a mentality of the fucking 300 AD time period.
This past 6/7 years has genuinely broken the idea of democracy. It isn’t that, as a lefty, I disagree with the right wing but you put up with it and vote the next time. Now the right want to eradicate the opinions I have in some ideological wipeout. And any time the right don’t get their way (rare in the world these days), it is a conspiracy and they need to have a crusude.
The idea of disagreement is gone now. It’s full out culture war and I do not see how it can be fixed.
If the by-election is anything to go on I hope they keep Boris in to the election.
He is delusional and surrounded by yes men. Great it means the torys will self destruct.
He was loved when he gave them the “landslide” victory on the back of his being a “harmless, affable buffoon.”
Anyone with any knowledge of his history or who had critical thinking skills knew him to be a self serving, opportunistic, habitual liar and utter Tory cunt.
And how the latter were down to be correct.
Keep him on – he’ll veer from blunder to blunder, making the Tories ever more and more toxic.
Boris is fucking up so badly that Labour might win the next election, and then thinking they can win now decide not to introduce AV.. leading us back to more decades of Tory rule after the press manages to convince everyone that all the mess Labour is trying to fix was actually caused by them. Again.
No amount of hyperbole is going to force Boris to resign as he lacks a moral compass. He simply defines the new bar for what the next scandal that turns up and how he survives it. Grass root voters will always vote Tory and those who might change their mind are afraid of Labour under Starmer as they’re just another Tory-lite version. Better the devil you know as they say.
He’s like a dose of cream resistant crabs…nothing but a full clear out is going to shift him!
Boris is not a disease, he is a symptom. The disease is populism, and political desire for power at all costs.
Boris is the hot, steaming, liquefied shit blasting out of the arse of this country, but populism is the almost invisible bacteria that’s left us cowering and sweating in the toilet for hours on end.
The Tory party is the disease. A 12 year disaster and they are still pretending it’s just a few bad apples.
Ego, self-entitlement, and ignoring the will of the people is not a modern disease in politics though for many years we thought it was the lot of emerging democracies in Africa. But no, it has always been around, and it will always be a problem. Especially when the person won an election on charisma rather than substance.