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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 24, 2019 9:54:01 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 24, 2019 10:15:58 GMT 1
In case anyone missed it, DUDE refers, as the Guardian reported, to the "cringeworthy moment in his victory speech when Johnson outlined his plans for the country in acronym form: “Deliver Brexit, Unite the UK, Defeat Corbyn, Energise Britain”.
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Post by ssshrew on Jul 24, 2019 10:35:13 GMT 1
Just awful will do for me!!
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Post by salop27 on Jul 24, 2019 11:09:09 GMT 1
Labour Party and others are having fun trying to whip up some hate and fear comparing the two. I can't see Trump suggesting an amnesty on illegal immigrants like Johnson has in fact Boris is pretty Liberal compared to most Conservative mps and definitely more so then calamity May.
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Post by venceremos on Jul 24, 2019 13:13:05 GMT 1
In case anyone missed it, DUDE refers, as the Guardian reported, to the "cringeworthy moment in his victory speech when Johnson outlined his plans for the country in acronym form: “Deliver Brexit, Unite the UK, Defeat Corbyn, Energise Britain”. Imagine being the person that came up with that acronym. What a proud moment ... Johnson is too divisive a figure to unite the country. Despite the free pass he gets from his metropolitan media chums (how ironic is that?), I don't think he can bridge the divisions. He may win an election, or not, but that's not the same thing.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 25, 2019 0:26:36 GMT 1
So austerity is over. Everything done in the last few years may be reversed. Every cabinet minister changed. Police numbers to be upped, social care to be provided, even the oldies telly licence being talked about as being declared free again. It's a populist agenda, but how long can it last? A quick election maybe?
Maybe we aren't going to be run by the accountants anymore, well, until the rest of the worlds accountants put their foot down and we end up broke.
Seems to have a likeness to the sort of spending philosophy that the Tories criticise Labour for.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jul 25, 2019 3:39:25 GMT 1
There is always enough money for political priorities that is why tax cuts happen and services collapse and why the stock of safe UK govt assets held by the private sector has increased so substantially in the last nine years.
But that doesn't mean austerity is over: that won't happen until Chinese middle class salaries catch up.
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Post by northwestman on Jul 25, 2019 9:28:13 GMT 1
There’s nothing more guaranteed to make you depressed than to be told to be optimistic by a narcissistic fantasist. A man you wouldn’t trust to do the shopping, let alone run a government.
Telling half the UK they could basically sod off is a strange way of going about uniting the country.
Johnson went on to make a few mindless promises about social care, schools and hospitals that he had no idea how to fund, even if he ever intended to keep them. Like any sociopath who doesn’t believe anything, Boris makes everything he says sound equally unconvincing. He concluded by saying he was going to get a good deal because the EU was going to give him everything he wants because everyone always gave Boris what he wants.
Once inside No 10, Johnson could let the real fun begin. The man who has made a career out of disloyalty is notoriously thin-skinned when anyone dares even gently challenge him. Now he could show his real talent. No one could come close to him for holding grudges. Jeremy Hunt would be waking up to find a horse’s head in his bed and dozens of others would be publicly kneecapped. Out would go anyone with any semblance of self-respect and decency. In would come a cabinet shaped in his own image. A cabinet of s**ts, charlatans and shysters. One in which having been previously sacked for lying was almost a precondition.
(John Crace, The Guardian).
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Post by Chief Inspector Swan on Jul 25, 2019 13:10:38 GMT 1
Just awful will do for me!! Is that because of the exclamation marks?
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