The banker loving, baby-eating Tory party thread (regenerated)

[chrisp65]

Utterly bereft of any sort of quality that makes you a basically decent person.

Just a self obsessed fat turd in a crumpled suit.

But the saddest thing for me, is how voters haven't seen through him decades ago.

 

[VILLAMARV]

People said he'd never win the London Mayoral thing too. Far too unpopular.......

[bickster]

50 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said:

People said he'd never win the London Mayoral thing too. Far too unpopular.......

The important popularity here though is with the MPs of his party not the general public

[omariqy]

Someone on my facebook championing for Boris or JRM to become PM and deliver the hard brexit we all want. How do you kill someone with emoticons? 

[Chindie]

1 minute ago, omariqy said:

Someone on my facebook championing for Boris or JRM to become PM and deliver the hard brexit we all want. How do you kill someone with emoticons? 

1. Fill screen with emoticons.

2. Place hand on the back of their head, and drive it forwards into the screen again and again until there's nothing left.

[VILLAMARV]

2 hours ago, bickster said:

The important popularity here though is with the MPs of his party not the general public

Unless they fancy a few years at it. Always voting on their principles over what's best for their own arse or what the whips tell them those Tory MP's eh

Also a bunch of career hungry sociopaths all hating the same career hungry sociopath should tell you something about internal hierarchical structures  

We did this yesterday in a different thread I think. Personally my opinion on all this is already stated. I noticed some favourable comments Towards Johnson from Trump today.

We will see.

[chrisp65]

Maria Cauliflower (or some such name) and Ben Bradley have quit as something or other in the tory party.

I think it's something to do with an extra bank holiday if we ever achieve brexit.

 

[Brumerican]

Strong and stable .

Coalition of chaos.

[ml1dch]

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

Maria Cauliflower (or some such name) and Ben Bradley have quit as something or other in the tory party.

The latter is that numpty who Corbyn threatened with legal action after Bradley accused him of selling secrets to the Soviets. And then got Tory donors to pay his way out of it.

Clearly scared of the bog-dwellers of Mansfield voting him out if he doesn't look like he's doing something.

[bickster]

2 hours ago, VILLAMARV said:

I noticed some favourable comments Towards Johnson from Trump today.

Talk about kicking a man when he's down. Boris ballsed up in a fit of pique, resigning yesterday and now he gets the kiss of death

[bickster]

30 minutes ago, ml1dch said:

The latter is that numpty who Corbyn threatened with legal action after Bradley accused him of selling secrets to the Soviets. And then got Tory donors to pay his way out of it.

Clearly scared of the bog-dwellers of Mansfield voting him out if he doesn't look like he's doing something.

He voted remain iirc and his constituents voted MASSIVELY to leave, he's trying to atone for his sins

[VILLAMARV]

1 minute ago, bickster said:

Talk about kicking a man when he's down. Boris ballsed up in a fit of pique, resigning yesterday and now he gets the kiss of death

We can only hope.

[PompeyVillan]

They're totally unfit for government, by their own admittance. 

They keep resigning either in disgrace or because they're unable on how to agree to run the country. It's a shambles. 

The average tenure of a minister in this government is about 3 months. Honestly, they couldn't have picked a worse election slogan than 'Strong and stable' could they? 

[bickster]

Boris even lied in his resignation letter.

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“If a country cannot pass a law to save the lives of female cyclists — when that proposal is supported at every level of UK Government — then I don’t see how that country can truly be called independent.”

That’s what Boris Johnson wrote yesterday in his resignation letter.

But he’s wrong.

What have female cyclists got to do with Brexit?
Mr Johnson is known for his sometimes-tangential anecdotes — as anyone who remembers his speech at the 2008 Olympics, in which he claimed the British invented table tennis under the name “whiff whaff”, will tell you.

But we were still a little surprised to discover that this parting missive on the issue of Brexit — which he was apparently still writing when Number 10 confirmed his departure — spends a lot of time on vehicle regulation.

The former Foreign Secretary wrote: “we seem to have gone backwards since the last Chequers meeting in February, when I described my frustrations, as Mayor of London, in trying to protect cyclists from juggernauts.

“We had wanted to lower the cabin windows to improve visibility; and even though such designs were already on the market, and even though there had been a horrific spate of deaths, mainly of female cyclists, we were told we had to wait for the EU to legislate on the matter.”

His concluding thought on the issue: “If a country cannot pass a law to save the lives of female cyclists — when that proposal is supported at every level of UK Government — then I don’t see how that country can truly be called independent.”

“Supported at every level of UK Government”?
That’s quite a compelling account of how the EU has stifled common sense policy-making by a national government. The problem is, Mr Johnson is wrong.

It’s true that when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson campaigned to introduce tougher rules on lorry safety to protect cyclists.

But he’s left out some key details.

For one thing, he neglects to mention that the regulations he’s talking about were in fact put forward by the European Parliament, and backed by 570 MEPs, with 88 voting against. He also fails to acknowledge that those laws have actually been passed.

More crucially, Mr Johnson is wrong to say that the laws in question were “supported at every level of UK Government.”

When the regulations were put forward by the EU, the UK government explicitly did not support the proposals.

A government spokesperson told BBC News in 2014: “Where we are not supporting European Parliament proposals, it is simply because they will not produce practical changes in cab design and could lead to additional bureaucracy for Britain.”

The European Council, which includes representation from the UK government, later adopted the directive.

Mr Johnson should know he is wrong
It’s curious that Mr Johnson has chosen this particular example to demonstrate what he sees as the problems with EU regulation.

Not only did he know that the European Parliament had proposed the laws, he also knew that the UK government opposed them — because he explicitly called out ministers on the issue at the time.

In January 2014, Mr Johnson said: “If these amendments, supported by dozens of cities across Europe, can succeed, we can save literally hundreds of lives across the EU in years to come. I am deeply concerned at the position of the British Government and urge them to embrace this vital issue.”

Perhaps in his hasty drafting, Mr Johnson has misremembered the exact chain of events.

A source close to Mr Johnson told FactCheck: “Boris called for change more than a year before EU measures came into force. If we had taken back control we could have implemented them immediately in order to save lives.”

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[Davkaus]

The minister complicit in state-organised manslaughter, Esther McVey, must be quite pleased for another distraction from her gross negligence and/or maliciousness. 

[snowychap]

5 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Maria Cauliflower (or some such name) and Ben Bradley have quit as something or other in the tory party.

I think it's something to do with an extra bank holiday if we ever achieve brexit.

 

That'll be this Ben Bradley:

 

[RunRickyRun]

Thanks Dave.

[Chindie]

And an enormous chunk of the country will vote for them again and again.

Nothing matters.

[VILLAMARV]

[NurembergVillan]