You mean Johnson is a snake oil salesman con artist, who’s duped the British public?
… My current average weekly cost tells me…that was a lie.
Kinda reminds me of all those Pepperridge Farm memes the Yanks seem so fond of.
People actually like ‘Boris’. Just sit with that for a while… No-one cares if he lied or whatever because all politicians lie and he’s a proper lad. Again, people like Boris. Really let that sink in.
He promised a lot of things, so many things:
350million a week for the NHS
cheaper electric & gas
Northern Ireland border ‘absolutely unchanged’
Trade with the EU will be tariff-free and involve minimal bureaucracy
Britain will take back control of its fisheries
New trade deals, and access to a European trading zone ‘from Iceland to Russia’
Continue cooperating on security issues and counter-terrorism
Financial protection for farmers who get cash from Brussels
Continued participation in EU science research schemes, deeper cooperation on scientific collaboration, plus increased funding for science
and more….
Most of the reason behind energy price rises is not Brexit though. It’s a global problem.
My monthly bill in 2019 was £81….its currently £165
Trouble is the pandemic is a perfect cover for everything now…for morons at least…
Tbf it doesn’t seem to me to be a Brexit issue that is causing gas prices to be insane, rather it’s an issue of monumentally poor infrastructure planning by successive governments.
Failure to build sufficient dispatchable energy generation (primarily nuclear), decommissioning existing gas storage infrastructure, subsequent over-reliance on wind and imported energy from France (ironically generated with nuclear) and now a refusal to nationalise the failing suppliers even when they’re as big as Bulb. Brexit may account for a tiny part of the problem but France is getting pretty pissed off with having to supply power to the rest of the EU even without the UK.
To be fair – much of the current energy squeeze is *not* Brexit related. Gas demand in Asia as factories fire back up, Russia throttling supplies, a major fire at one the largest energy interconnectors to France, etc etc.
Brexit remains a terrible idea and Boris remains a terrible “leader”, but there are a lot of compounding reasons for the energy situation…
> “The NHS will be stronger, class sizes smaller, and taxes lower.
> “We’ll have more money to spend on our priorities, wages will be higher and fuel bills will be lower.
> “Leaving the EU is a great opportunity for us to take back control of our borders, our economy and our democracy.”
This is very Borisy rhetoric – it’s the sort of thing that he says almost tongue-in-cheek because it’s so timeless for politicians to make such promises, and because it’s obviously untrue and yet the public, also timelessly, lap it up.
Note also the use of triplets – NHS, school sizes and taxes in the first line, borders, economy, and democracy in the last. You could argue that priorities, wages and fuel bills in the second line is also being used the same way – the triplets make these phrases sound complete, fulfilling and satisfying.
Even if he didn’t write it, I can hear Boris saying this tripe.
You’d think someone who told all those lies would be better at lying, wouldn’t you?
Is there even any logic behind this statement? Surely we’d have less bargaining power by leaving the EU?
Big shock professional con artist Alexander DePfeffel Johnson lied. This man has no regard for this country, its people or anything except himself.
Flashback to when the world wasn’t in the midst of a global pandemic and supply chain crisis.
Just another oven ready promise….just another oven ready lie.
Policies and morals don’t win elections. Slogans and lies do. Next election, King Boris will be in and and once again the british public will be butt fucked by the CONS.
What’s that a politician lying brhhhbrraahhhbbbrrrreeeehhhh
Boris breaks all his election promises!
MSM: *crickets*
Katie price gets banned from driving again!
MSM: OMG! FRONT PAGE NEWS! ALSO EMILY ATACK DUMPS GREALISH!
The first mistake was believing Johnson.
The second was thinking a finite resource would get cheaper as time went on, demand went up and supply decreased.
The writing has been on the wall for years but people seemed ignorant to how vulnerable our supply was to Russian geopolitics and war in the Middle East. The EU has been affected the same way we have, however we now have to face this alone and not with 26 member states backing us up. We are in a much more vulnerable position as a result and it once again shows why being a figurative island is no longer a viable strategy.
His greatest asset is his lying. For God knows he doesn’t know how to do fuck else.
What this guy and his party has done to this country is horrible and unprecedented. Inflation at 6% Cost of living through the roof, tax increase, NI increase, rent increases, restrictions and lockdowns even after double dose and boosters etc etc
I have 8 months left on my UK permit and then I am off. It was not supposed to end this way but I feel like living in an abusive relationship.
People like his racism and misogyny too much to worry about their gas bills apparently.
Can we stop blaming Boris and blame the conservatives? This is how they always win.
Johnson told an untruth? Oh my goodness, that’s awful, how terrible, etc.
I hate Boris but the simple fact is that you are now paying for your “green revolution”. The grid runs on 50% gas most of the time due to their being no solar power at night. You cannot store and run the grid with lithium batteries it is not possible.
Lack of investment in North Sea Gas due to “carbon” has caused dependence on Gazprom the Russian distributer.
Flashback to this cringe tweet right before Covid hit the UK… was supposed to be about how Brexit was going to be fantastic I guess. What a disaster:
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You mean Johnson is a snake oil salesman con artist, who’s duped the British public?
… My current average weekly cost tells me…that was a lie.
Kinda reminds me of all those Pepperridge Farm memes the Yanks seem so fond of.
People actually like ‘Boris’. Just sit with that for a while… No-one cares if he lied or whatever because all politicians lie and he’s a proper lad. Again, people like Boris. Really let that sink in.
He promised a lot of things, so many things:
350million a week for the NHS
cheaper electric & gas
Northern Ireland border ‘absolutely unchanged’
Trade with the EU will be tariff-free and involve minimal bureaucracy
Britain will take back control of its fisheries
New trade deals, and access to a European trading zone ‘from Iceland to Russia’
Continue cooperating on security issues and counter-terrorism
Financial protection for farmers who get cash from Brussels
Continued participation in EU science research schemes, deeper cooperation on scientific collaboration, plus increased funding for science
and more….
https://infacts.org/johnsons-broken-referendum-promises-there-were-loads/
Most of the reason behind energy price rises is not Brexit though. It’s a global problem.
My monthly bill in 2019 was £81….its currently £165
Trouble is the pandemic is a perfect cover for everything now…for morons at least…
Tbf it doesn’t seem to me to be a Brexit issue that is causing gas prices to be insane, rather it’s an issue of monumentally poor infrastructure planning by successive governments.
Failure to build sufficient dispatchable energy generation (primarily nuclear), decommissioning existing gas storage infrastructure, subsequent over-reliance on wind and imported energy from France (ironically generated with nuclear) and now a refusal to nationalise the failing suppliers even when they’re as big as Bulb. Brexit may account for a tiny part of the problem but France is getting pretty pissed off with having to supply power to the rest of the EU even without the UK.
To be fair – much of the current energy squeeze is *not* Brexit related. Gas demand in Asia as factories fire back up, Russia throttling supplies, a major fire at one the largest energy interconnectors to France, etc etc.
Brexit remains a terrible idea and Boris remains a terrible “leader”, but there are a lot of compounding reasons for the energy situation…
> “The NHS will be stronger, class sizes smaller, and taxes lower.
> “We’ll have more money to spend on our priorities, wages will be higher and fuel bills will be lower.
> “Leaving the EU is a great opportunity for us to take back control of our borders, our economy and our democracy.”
This is very Borisy rhetoric – it’s the sort of thing that he says almost tongue-in-cheek because it’s so timeless for politicians to make such promises, and because it’s obviously untrue and yet the public, also timelessly, lap it up.
Note also the use of triplets – NHS, school sizes and taxes in the first line, borders, economy, and democracy in the last. You could argue that priorities, wages and fuel bills in the second line is also being used the same way – the triplets make these phrases sound complete, fulfilling and satisfying.
Even if he didn’t write it, I can hear Boris saying this tripe.
You’d think someone who told all those lies would be better at lying, wouldn’t you?
Is there even any logic behind this statement? Surely we’d have less bargaining power by leaving the EU?
Big shock professional con artist Alexander DePfeffel Johnson lied. This man has no regard for this country, its people or anything except himself.
Flashback to when the world wasn’t in the midst of a global pandemic and supply chain crisis.
Just another oven ready promise….just another oven ready lie.
Policies and morals don’t win elections. Slogans and lies do. Next election, King Boris will be in and and once again the british public will be butt fucked by the CONS.
What’s that a politician lying brhhhbrraahhhbbbrrrreeeehhhh
Boris breaks all his election promises!
MSM: *crickets*
Katie price gets banned from driving again!
MSM: OMG! FRONT PAGE NEWS! ALSO EMILY ATACK DUMPS GREALISH!
The first mistake was believing Johnson.
The second was thinking a finite resource would get cheaper as time went on, demand went up and supply decreased.
The writing has been on the wall for years but people seemed ignorant to how vulnerable our supply was to Russian geopolitics and war in the Middle East. The EU has been affected the same way we have, however we now have to face this alone and not with 26 member states backing us up. We are in a much more vulnerable position as a result and it once again shows why being a figurative island is no longer a viable strategy.
His greatest asset is his lying. For God knows he doesn’t know how to do fuck else.
What this guy and his party has done to this country is horrible and unprecedented. Inflation at 6% Cost of living through the roof, tax increase, NI increase, rent increases, restrictions and lockdowns even after double dose and boosters etc etc
I have 8 months left on my UK permit and then I am off. It was not supposed to end this way but I feel like living in an abusive relationship.
People like his racism and misogyny too much to worry about their gas bills apparently.
Can we stop blaming Boris and blame the conservatives? This is how they always win.
Johnson told an untruth? Oh my goodness, that’s awful, how terrible, etc.
I hate Boris but the simple fact is that you are now paying for your “green revolution”. The grid runs on 50% gas most of the time due to their being no solar power at night. You cannot store and run the grid with lithium batteries it is not possible.
Lack of investment in North Sea Gas due to “carbon” has caused dependence on Gazprom the Russian distributer.
Flashback to this cringe tweet right before Covid hit the UK… was supposed to be about how Brexit was going to be fantastic I guess. What a disaster:
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1212679425629859840