The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

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  • haydeehaydee Shipmate Posts: 10
    It was to respond to search engines that would have otherwise brought up a search on 'Boris Johnson bus' that resulted in his lie - on the Brexit bus - of £350 million per week going to the NHS instead of the EU.
  • haydee wrote: »
    It was to respond to search engines that would have otherwise brought up a search on 'Boris Johnson bus' that resulted in his lie - on the Brexit bus - of £350 million per week going to the NHS instead of the EU.

    :lol:
  • Is anyone out there reading Johnson's 'memoirs' in the Daily Wail?
    The BBC website has reported only a few snippets. Hmmmm....
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.
  • The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.

    I think that's an indication of the sheer off-this-planet fuckwittery of him.
  • The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.

    The key phrase in there being 'he claims' -- this is someone who was sacked from previous columnist jobs for making things up.
  • There's a set of galleries in the Rijksmuseum dedicated to the Anglo-Dutch wars which are quite fun, they can be summed up as "Yo, Britain, we whupped your sorry ass!".

    Given that the Dutch defended Schiphol so savagely that they couldn't use it themselves for wrecked German aircraft, they are the last people I'd cross.
  • I wonder what they'd have cooked up if our gallant PM had invaded...
    :flushed:
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    And of course, if you attack a member of NATO - you are not just attacking one country …

    We’ve got a pandemic, what do we need ? WW3
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2024
    Well, the bodies would have piled up, just as he wished.
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.
    Wasn't he bragging about how great the UKs vaccination programme was, calling it a benefit of Brexit? Is this an admission that the EU was able to make deals with vaccine manufacturers that put them ahead of the UK, and the UK would have had a better vaccine programme if we were still in the EU?
  • And of course, if you attack a member of NATO - you are not just attacking one country …

    I don’t actually think that holds if you’re a NATO member that attacks another NATO member (though when they sorted the protocols for what happens in those circumstances they were more likely envisaging one or other of Greece or Turkey attacking the other one).

    Either way it’s not the ‘one in all in’ you get from invoking Article 5 when it’s an external aggressor.

  • Which obviously doesn’t just mean ‘ok, do it’ either
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2024
    The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.
    Wasn't he bragging about how great the UKs vaccination programme was, calling it a benefit of Brexit? Is this an admission that the EU was able to make deals with vaccine manufacturers that put them ahead of the UK, and the UK would have had a better vaccine programme if we were still in the EU?

    Good point.

    I doubt if even Johnson would be so stupid as to actually authorise an invasion of the Netherlands, and even if he did, the Forces might well raise the fairly obvious objections...

    What a dipstick the man is. Get thee back to thy Ditch, thou Fool!
  • Throw the aggressor out of Nato and then all pile in? That would work.

    I don't think Bozzymandias has ever quite grasped the idea that there are some occasions when a joke (if that is what it was) is inappropriate.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.
    The key phrase in there being 'he claims' -- this is someone who was sacked from previous columnist jobs for making things up.
    There's a bit in Chesterton where he says, if that's what he says he'd do when he's lying the thing he's trying to cover up must be horrific.

  • Chesterton never knew Johnson (lucky Chesterton - would that the rest of us could say the same), but O! what fun he would have had with Johnson's vapourings and posturings...

    The invasion of the Netherlands would make an interesting film, methinks, of the Graveyard Humour genre.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    You cannot bribe or twist -
    Thank God! - the British journalist,
    But seeing what the man will do
    Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
  • Dafyd wrote: »
    The Guardian this morning reported on a bit where he claims he contemplated invading the Netherlands to get their Covid vaccines. The mind boggles.
    The key phrase in there being 'he claims' -- this is someone who was sacked from previous columnist jobs for making things up.
    There's a bit in Chesterton where he says, if that's what he says he'd do when he's lying the thing he's trying to cover up must be horrific.

    Well yes, the thing missing from most coverage is the bit where he was quite willing to let large numbers of the public die.
  • I was one of those awkward members of the public, but I refused to accommodate him.

    I daresay I'll die on Starmer's watch, but it may be that he and his ministers will at least be trying to improve my lot whilst I disappear into Death's Dream...
  • Which is weirder, that Johnson thought it might be a good idea to invade the Netherlands and steal their vaccines or, if that wasn't true (something equally believable) that anyone should exist who thinks that spreading such a story about oneself might reflect well upon one and enhance one's reputation?

  • Not sure, but, in any case, weird describes him well.
  • Enoch wrote: »
    Which is weirder, that Johnson thought it might be a good idea to invade the Netherlands and steal their vaccines or, if that wasn't true (something equally believable) that anyone should exist who thinks that spreading such a story about oneself might reflect well upon one and enhance one's reputation?

    I assumed he was trying to boost the mad eccentric angle that he sometimes plays for laughs.
  • Enoch wrote: »
    Which is weirder, that Johnson thought it might be a good idea to invade the Netherlands and steal their vaccines or, if that wasn't true (something equally believable) that anyone should exist who thinks that spreading such a story about oneself might reflect well upon one and enhance one's reputation?

    I assumed he was trying to boost the mad eccentric angle that he sometimes plays for laughs.

    I think his euroskeptic sycophants will love the notion that he considered it. He still has a devoted fan club. This story in the Mail gets picked up by the rest of the Media and 'Boris' sells more books.

    I think it's as simple as that. Playing to the fanclub and selling books.

    There is an alternative theory that I saw on Twitter that made me laugh out loud: His ghost writer puts these stories in, knowing that he'll never actually read it. I think it's not that but it made me chuckle.

    AFZ
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