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Boris the PM - a new beginning

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Hitdaball said:
Someone’s got to pay for all those free bus passes 😜
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There's a 'perk' I'm still 'looking forward' to! I'll be smiling knowing that it's your greater taxes than mine - in spite of your previous assertions/implications - that are paying for most of it!
 
Hitdaball said:
Don’t hold your breath BoJo will have them means tested before the year is out 😆...
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You've obviously never been to a 'local' Conservative meeting! The hair, of those who still have some, looks like Boris's, so he wouldn't dare upset his 'core' followers!

Hitdaball said:
... Anyway far too difficult getting the staff bags up the steps.
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You have (relevant) experience?
 
Foxholer said:
You've obviously never been to a 'local' Conservative meeting! The hair, of those who still have some, looks like Boris's, so he wouldn't dare upset his 'core' followers!


You have (relevant) experience?
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I have got the bus with my carry bag and half set , if having a few pints.
Would not fancy carrying a staff bag anywhere.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Dear Megasteve Esq.
Salmond is long gone and I think you would be pushed to find any serious anti English [as a nation] comments by the mainstream Independence bloggers. [other than replying to individual 1966 zoomers, German/Foreigner haters, EDF, Britain First, UKIP and other English far right organisations :love:]
Note the double spacing after the full stop.
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Britain First and UKIP are not English far right organisations. There’s a clue in their names that they are not English.

Britain First was founded by Jim Dowson from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

UKIP was founded by Alan Sked from Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland.
 
Looking like the default position will be a general election before Halloween. Johnson will lie and bluster his way through past an incompetent Jeremy Corbyn led challenge. Any promises made during a forthcoming election campaign of the future milk and honey would soon be forgotten once he consolidated his position.

Scotland will see a surge in support for the SNP in this scenario.
 
Lyle77 said:
Looking like the default position will be a general election before Halloween. Johnson will lie and bluster his way through past an incompetent Jeremy Corbyn led challenge. Any promises made during a forthcoming election campaign of the future milk and honey would soon be forgotten once he consolidated his position.

Scotland will see a surge in support for the SNP in this scenario.
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Just a normal election then.
 
Lyle77 said:
Looking like the default position will be a general election before Halloween. Johnson will lie and bluster his way through past an incompetent Jeremy Corbyn led challenge. Any promises made during a forthcoming election campaign of the future milk and honey would soon be forgotten once he consolidated his position.

Scotland will see a surge in support for the SNP in this scenario.
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Latest Westminster seat predictions are for a wipeout of Labour AND Tories in Scotland. Wow
LibDems to retain their 4 seats the rest SNP.
A poll commissioned by the Government before the announcement of the Tory leadership has never been published, I wonder why?
 
Lyle77 said:
Looking like the default position will be a general election before Halloween. Johnson will lie and bluster his way through past an incompetent Jeremy Corbyn led challenge. Any promises made during a forthcoming election campaign of the future milk and honey would soon be forgotten once he consolidated his position.

Scotland will see a surge in support for the SNP in this scenario.
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May was universally chastised for being 'robotic' and ineffectual; at least its clear what BJ's stance is and he has pretty quickly tasked his cabinet with doing stuff. He's also forced Corbyn to declare a position (of sorts) so if a GE is called then there'l be some clarity of choice.

Most of the 'spending' seems to be in needed infrastructure so could prove to give a good RoI. At least if it all comes to nought there will some benefit from the investments.
 
...the new beginning indeed as we are led, now charging it seems, towards the cliff-edge of a No Deal Brexit by someone who likes to portray himself and be seen by others as a present day Churchill. And he can do so through one characteristic of the privately educated - the ability to portray themselves with confidence and self-belief as intelligent and worthy of being followed - but it's an act - a game - played by those I read described as Bluffocrats.

And on Johnson the Bluffocrat PM I reflect on my grandfather's view of Churchill - his view was not of the 'heroic figure and leader' who provided a focus with words of encouragement and fighting spirit during WWII. No - my grandfather had no time for Churchill and saw Churchill as the self-serving reckless aristocratic figure that he was, the person who was the prime advocate of the action that led to the catastrophe that was Gallipoli - a catastrophe that my grandfather found himself in the middle of being in the BEF sent out by Churchill. And my grandfather never forgave Churchill for that - no matter what 'leadership' he might have shown during WWII. What set my grandfather's view of Churchill was the recklessness in the face of the terrible risk that Churchill knew that Gallpoli and the Dardanelles presented.

So today we have BJ - WC incarnate in who we have faith - the acolytes proclaim. And we look to the words of Boris deP Johnson from November 2016 for guidance...

"In the words of our great prime minister... I understood that Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a Titanic success of it."

And yet - his unmeant but so apt analogy is coming to pass. His acolytes know and indeed tell us how difficult it will be for some as BJ sets a course and has UK steaming towards the iceberg.

“The price to be paid in taking Gallipoli would no doubt be heavy,” Churchill wrote, “but there would be no more war with Turkey. A good army of 50,000 and sea-power—that is the end of the Turkish menace.”

And so it came to pass - slaughter, failure and no end to the Turkish menace.

The lessons of history we are encouraged to learn from - but today very many in the country of ours seem blind to history and our leaders very own Gallipoli's and Dardanelles...no - they are happy to follow the Bluffocrat.
 
Pro Zach said:
Britain First and UKIP are not English far right organisations. There’s a clue in their names that they are not English.

Britain First was founded by Jim Dowson from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

UKIP was founded by Alan Sked from Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Ooops. Scottish ground breaking radicals then, not nasty English Fascists 😁
 
drdel said:
May was universally chastised for being 'robotic' and ineffectual; at least its clear what BJ's stance is and he has pretty quickly tasked his cabinet with doing stuff. He's also forced Corbyn to declare a position (of sorts) so if a GE is called then there'l be some clarity of choice.

Most of the 'spending' seems to be in needed infrastructure so could prove to give a good RoI. At least if it all comes to nought there will some benefit from the investments.
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Do you not suspect the hand of Dominic Cumming behind the surge of the 'old but now new' infrastructure developments.
I suspect many of Johnston supporters will be ' blinding optimistic' but others will be 'yea, believe that one when we see it'.
No mention of how these will be funded, especially as he plans to cut taxes for the rich.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Really, Farage founded UKIP and the other horrible lot looks like it was founded by NI fleg wavers.
Pretty pointless reply as you well know that both parties have zilch appeal in Scotland
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Oh dear... Perhaps you should look deeper into the facts before posting things like this as much as Farage is a tool. He is not the founder of UKIP.. Alan Sked (born 22 August 1947, in Cathcart Scotland) is a British academic and politician. He is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics, founded the party now known as the UK Independence Party and has stood as a candidate in several parliamentary elections.

Britain First is a British fascist political organisation formed in 2011 by former members of the British National Party (BNP). A part of the far-right, the group was founded by Jim Dowson, an anti-abortion and far-right campaigner, who originates from Lanarkshire, Scotland.
 
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