How will history recall the reign of Bad King Boris? | Stewart Lee | The Guardian

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  1. > I am trapped on a dying island ringed by a shadow of human shit and Brexiters took away my right to escape it.

    This is a hell of a piece – tell us how you really feel Stu.

  2. I think this is a magnificent piece of writing. It’s perfect, and I can’t believe we haven’t already taken to the streets. I wish Joe Strummer was still with us.

  3. He was just following orders of the globalists. Choose someone else from a different party, and they too will be part of the same cabal.

  4. > The fact is that Johnson, something of a vile jelly himself if the truth be told, is a massive psychopathic bastard. And if you support him, or voted for him, you must be either evil or ignorant. Either way, thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood; you are a knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue… you are not worth the dust that the rude wind blows in your face. And you smell as well, probably. So it’s no wonder no one wants to kiss you and they’ve all got printed T-shirts saying so.

    I could be wrong on this, but I think he’s very annoyed.

  5. In reality long term, he probably won’t be remembered for much to be honest. Every PM except the ones who did 3/4 terms, tend to be remembered for just one thing. Long term Boris will only be remembered for one of; Brexit provided we don’t re join in the future, Ukraine provided they don’t lose to Russia, the pandemic providing we don’t have a series of other pandemics and possibly being the first PM to be fined for law breaking unless one in the future actually gets jail time for a very serious offense.

    Examples of PM’s and what they are remembered for, if they are remembered, by the majority of the public:

    Anthony Eden – Suez.

    Brown – combatting the 2008 Recession.

    Blair – Iraq War.

    Disraeli – extending votes to the working classes or creating Queen Victoria empress of India.

    Lord John Russell – Great Reform Act/extension of the vote.

    Sir Robert Peel – Formation of the Police.

    David Cameron – Brexit Referendum.

    Winston Churchill – WW2.

    Neville Chamberlain – Appeasement.

    Edward Heath – Miner’s strike.

    Obviously you get exceptions who were controversial like Thatcher who are remembered for a variety of things. Obviously some students of history, politics and other members of the public remember PM’s for various things. But in terms of the general public they tend to remember one thing only, if anything at all. Some of those I mentioned like Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, Edward Heath etc some people won’t even know who they are.

  6. He is not done yet though. With so many saying he will be back shortly, including himself, I suspect he might become the Comeback Kid and grace us with his presence after Truss proves herself to be a disaster. If that does not work then he will be remember poorly, with many refusing to ever admit they backed him. Only those who are further to the right will think he was a good PM.

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