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The Words of Wisdom of Boris Johnson - Foreign Secretary

Crazyface said:
How dare you! This is what the people who voted out think (what Boris said), so he's sticking to his guns and still saying what we want him to say. Good for him. And the Proseco thing is true. Italy are selling shed load of the stuff to us over here as it is now THE goto drink of the Ladies (a la Pub Landlord voice). Sure we sell a few fish over there, but nowhere near as much as the booze the Italians are shipping over. So if they want to keep on selling it to us, they'd better play ball.
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I see the 27 countries to one reply has been missed out.

Johnson is an embarrassing fool.
He may have got away with it in some parts of the UK but the rWorld is not so stupid.
 
Crazyface said:
How dare you! This is what the people who voted out think (what Boris said), so he's sticking to his guns and still saying what we want him to say. Good for him. And the Proseco thing is true. Italy are selling shed load of the stuff to us over here as it is now THE goto drink of the Ladies (a la Pub Landlord voice). Sure we sell a few fish over there, but nowhere near as much as the booze the Italians are shipping over. So if they want to keep on selling it to us, they'd better play ball.
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And there you have it, that's why the EU need to play ball. The sad thing is, many believe this to be true.
 
Val said:
And there you have it, that's why the EU need to play ball. The sad thing is, many believe this to be true.
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Like the rest of the rubbish and lies spouted by Bojo they believed about the benefits and impact of leaving. But there you go - it's what the people - yes 17.4million of them - wanted. Though it seems to be completely forgotten that 16.1 million voted to stay. And that's a lot of folks whose wishes are being completely ignored or dismissed as irrelevant.

I reckon TM is just waiting until BoJo has embarrassed her and the UK sufficiently that she can get shot of him. Just imagine that we were a Gove's breath away from having BoJo as PM and Andrea Loathsome as Chancellor. God help us. And it would have been what 'the people' voted for. And we get berated if we even suggest that some leavers were a bit misguided in their decision-making and views. Ah well.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Like the rest of the rubbish and lies spouted by Bojo they believed about the benefits and impact of leaving. But there you go - it's what the people - yes 17.4million of them - wanted. Though it seems to be completely forgotten that 16.1 million voted to stay. And that's a lot of folks whose wishes are being completely ignored or dismissed as irrelevant.

I reckon TM is just waiting until BoJo has embarrassed her and the UK sufficiently that she can get shot of him. Just imagine that we were a Gove's breath away from having BoJo as PM and Andrea Loathsome as Chancellor. God help us. And it would have been what 'the people' voted for. And we get berated if we even suggest that some leavers were a bit misguided in their decision-making and views. Ah well.
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Us 16.1 million lost a yes/no vote, not a proportional vote. Why can't the winners ignore us? I just don't get this Brexit-lite that so many want. And what sort of stance will the rest of the EU take if the UK go into the negotiations all cuddly and soft? Declare Article 50 and get stuck into negotiating. As we've heard from the German Finance Minister this week, they want the UK's contributions up till 2030. They're desperate for the UK to be in or still contributing = the U.K. are in a reasonable position to negotiate a decent exit.

As for TM just waiting on BoJo embarrassing her... she didn't have to give him a cabinet post. Your point on this just smacks of paranoia and conspiracy.
 
Do we have to restrict this thread to just the stupid things that Boris Johnson has said or can we bring in things from other politicians as well?

Such as this maybe from August 2014........

"Shetland is on the cusp of another oil boom" - Nicola Sturgeon.

Well that was a mighty fine prediction there.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Do we have to restrict this thread to just the stupid things that Boris Johnson has said or can we bring in things from other politicians as well?

Such as this maybe from August 2014........

"Shetland is on the cusp of another oil boom" - Nicola Sturgeon.

Well that was a mighty fine prediction there.
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Don't know why you are bothering yourself about a politician from a different country. She's not even a Westminster MP. She's the leader of a Scottish party and FM of Scotland. And what she predicts about Scotland's future economy is frankly really none of your business - so I wouldn't let her utterances worry you - you should have enough to concern yourself with with the dysfunctional mob in charge in Westminster and the shambles that is Brexit.

So fret ye not about NS - you can let the Scottish electorate do that.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
We 16.1million can be ignored - as we currently are - but what way is that to reach anything nearing a consensus or reconciliation that is surely required. For the current way that the 16.1m are being ignored will just leave resentments and anger festering. And if Brexit doesn't go well, the 16.1million will be furious.

Brilliant way for Theresa Might to be a 'one nation' Prime Minister. If she wants to be one then her government best start listening to the 16.1million.
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The losers, providing there's a decent majority, are ignored after every GE. What's different? And please don't split semantics about it a decision that affects generations, not just 5 years. The time span isn't relevant, the deals are.
 
Hobbit said:
The losers, providing there's a decent majority, are ignored after every GE. What's different? And please don't split semantics about it a decision that affects generations, not just 5 years. The time span isn't relevant, the deals are.
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I don't see how you can compare the referendum with a GE. Whatever government is elected is expected to make every effort to do its best for all of the people and not just those who voted it in.
The referendum was a shambles and I won't weary everyone with a repetition of all the lies and distortions. What we have now is a decision which is not going to deliver a positive result for the majority. Job losses and inflation are a certainty. The remainers and, I suspect, a lot of leavers can see this.Why on earth this significant proportion of the population should sit on their hands, I do not understand.
 
hors limite said:
I don't see how you can compare the referendum with a GE. Whatever government is elected is expected to make every effort to do its best for all of the people and not just those who voted it in.
The referendum was a shambles and I won't weary everyone with a repetition of all the lies and distortions. What we have now is a decision which is not going to deliver a positive result for the majority. Job losses and inflation are a certainty. The remainers and, I suspect, a lot of leavers can see this.Why on earth this significant proportion of the population should sit on their hands, I do not understand.
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Unless I'm much mistaken I did compare it to a GE. Having experienced countless years of seeing the northeast of England ignored by successive governments I guess firsthand experience trumps your naivety.
 
hors limite said:
I don't see how you can compare the referendum with a GE. Whatever government is elected is expected to make every effort to do its best for all of the people and not just those who voted it in.
The referendum was a shambles and I won't weary everyone with a repetition of all the lies and distortions. What we have now is a decision which is not going to deliver a positive result for the majority. Job losses and inflation are a certainty. The remainers and, I suspect, a lot of leavers can see this.Why on earth this significant proportion of the population should sit on their hands, I do not understand.
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Perhaps you could explain exactly where these jobs will be lost as they are such a certainty?
 
I don't believe I am aware of anyone who voted for Brexit based on the utterings of BoJo [or Farage for that matter]... Nearly everyone, I know, had made their minds, on which way to vote, long before the guff started... Spoken by both sides in the run up to the vote I might add...
 
MegaSteve said:
I don't believe I am aware of anyone who voted for Brexit based on the utterings of BoJo [or Farage for that matter]... Nearly everyone, I know, had made their minds, on which way to vote, long before the guff started... Spoken by both sides in the run up to the vote I might add...
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Really? I would have said that, like them or not, they were both very key voices in influencing people to vote for Brexit. Even I as someone firmly on the 'not' side, would admit they did it very well.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Really? I would have said that, like them or not, they were both very key voices in influencing people to vote for Brexit. Even I as someone firmly on the 'not' side, would admit they did it very well.
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You are overlooking that, down here, we had suffered BoJo [as our Mayor] long enough to know he's not to be taken too seriously... And, as I said previously, folk had long made their minds up on their voting preferences... Can't think of many [any in fact] that changed sides during the campaign... I feel you may well have too higher opinion of the nasty boys...
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Don't know why you are bothering yourself about a politician from a different country. She's not even a Westminster MP. She's the leader of a Scottish party and FM of Scotland. And what she predicts about Scotland's future economy is frankly really none of your business - so I wouldn't let her utterances worry you - you should have enough to concern yourself with with the dysfunctional mob in charge in Westminster and the shambles that is Brexit.

So fret ye not about NS - you can let the Scottish electorate do that.
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Did I miss IndyRef2 in Scotland where they voted to leave the UK. I must have slept through that as I was convinced that Scotland was very much still a part of the UK and as such the economy of Scotland is still linked to that of the rest of the UK. So how is it none of my business if their leader is spending like a drunken sailor on a night out subsidised by the rest of the UK? Unless and until Scotland votes to leave the UK then what that poisonous little cow says, thinks and does is very much my concern, and that of every other UK citizen.
 
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