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Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:03 - Jul 8 by SydneyRs
Are you talking about Boris or Starmer when you refer to originally being anti brexit?
Starmer has no choice now, it's irreversible for quite some time despite obviously taking the country backwards.
It's obvious who I'm referring to - Stop the humdrum. Starmer has no choice about what? Evidence suggests Starmer will be doing everything he possibly can to take us back in. And the EU will be more than happy to collaborate in fcking us all over. I suppose that's when I'll be joining you in fcking off to Australia.
"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 15:24 - Jul 8 with 2151 views
It was much simpler than that. Johnson was always known as a serial liar. It came to a head over Pincher. The story changed twice a day and wphen he couldn't lie about it any more he sent juniors out on the media round to lie on his behalf. Then hours later he shafted them.
At last Tory MPs got fed up with the obvious lying. 58 resignations finally did for him.
I don't really care where places him but hope for someone more honest. Even for a politician.
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 15:30 - Jul 8 with 2125 views
Bye bye bye Johnson on 14:02 - Jul 8 by SheffieldHoop
That's how elections work. I know the remain-focused government of the day set up the referendum so that they would get the result they wanted, but even they never had the foresight to insert the "If leave wins they have to win by at least 5 million votes" clause
They had the backing of the elites, political and cultural, 80% of Cameron's cabinet backed remain, multiple letters signed by multiple hundreds of celebrities. Anyone who came out as a leaver was generally abused in public discourse, James Dyson for example.....Anyone on the remain side was celebrated. Even Corbyn did his whole "Lets Remain and fight for better" schtick - Convincing nobody. I do also think that it was timed fairly well for remain, the majority would arguably have been much larger if they'd called it in 2008.
The message as to what was expected of us plebs was loud and clear. As it was for the AV referendum a few years prior. Except this time, the will was too strong, too many people too fcked off by years of lies and neglect.....And while the media can do all they want to try and present Brexiteer politicians/values as unelectable/immoral, most people don't take any notice, we know they are lying so it's easy to ignore it.
Not a problem with those that voted 'to leave' but very nieve to think that it was the the Remain side that alone turned 'the vote to the 'leave side' lots of murky goings on in elections in the UK & I include Trumps victory in that.
But then it was only the Remainers that were against the 'plebs' , there is plenty of evidence that the Brexit side were being financed from dodgy sources.
Johnson/Tories and Trump are fraudsters on the highest scale, both should be in jail but then the plebs wouldn't have got their 'day of glory' would they ?
We I know won't agree but maybe having such a blinkered view, stops you really looking into just how and why elections over the last few years have been turned on their head.
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:20 - Jul 8 by LimehouseR
The Scientists, the NHS and the countless volunteers delivered the vaccines and it was largely orchestrated by them and not the Tory government who would tell you otherwise. They were too busy making their friends richer with sub standard PPE and taking the credit for it all. My reference wasn't to the pandemic specifically anyway it was to the financial state we now find ourselves in.
You cannot for a second convince a rational person that Kier is in the same stratosphere of dishonesty, sleaze and corruption as Johnson is! 126 fines issued to Downing Street MPs and officials... 0 issued to Starmer. The daily mail went on about that curry gate incident for WEEKS trying to convince people he was just as bad and have failed miserably in their witch hunt. Johnson partied along with his cronies while most people abided by the rules and made countless painful sacrifices. You cannot trivialise it considering his position, responsibility, the times we were all going through and the fact they made the lockdown rules themselves and then broke them all. Name me another British Prime minister who has had a criminal charge enforced on them whilst in office?!
Changing your mind over Brexit is not dishonest. I don't agree with him but it is a case of we are in the throws of it now and people voted for it so let us get it done but in a better way than it is currently being managed. Threw him out for racism? Doesn't sound dishonest to me. It would be dishonest if he hadn't thrown him out? Which is what Johnson did with Pincher. He instead promoted him. Johnson has famously written racist comments and made xenophobic statements by the way which are easy to find on the internet, I won't repeat them here.
Anyway I am aware this is one of those conversations whereby neither of us will agree on much I imagine so I will leave it at this. Plus NorthernR doesn't need more wasted hours worrying about the content of this message board when there is sunshine and beer to enjoy this weekend!
All the best Sheffield. I hope we can at least agree that supporting QPR is both a joy and a chore etc!
Haha yeah, I worked on the vaccine rollout myself and would also like to take as much credit for it as possible. But the truth is I just configured the pay rules so that the (ahem) 'volunteers' running the vaccination hubs could get paid.
The fact is, we acquired more vaccine doses much more quickly and efficiently than practically any other nation. Sure we can go through the articles of the time and argue about who did what, but you have to admit that the vaccine rollout was a success, particularly when compared with our EU neighbors.
"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:41 - Jul 8 with 2068 views
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:36 - Jul 8 by SheffieldHoop
Haha yeah, I worked on the vaccine rollout myself and would also like to take as much credit for it as possible. But the truth is I just configured the pay rules so that the (ahem) 'volunteers' running the vaccination hubs could get paid.
The fact is, we acquired more vaccine doses much more quickly and efficiently than practically any other nation. Sure we can go through the articles of the time and argue about who did what, but you have to admit that the vaccine rollout was a success, particularly when compared with our EU neighbors.
But was that his decision or a government one?The order to send people from hospitals to care homes to kill others there was either down to him or his government,but I never heard him say that it was all his idea. You can’t take personal credit for the successes and blame others for the failures.That’s what all politicians do,but he’s the worst culprit.
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 15:45 - Jul 8 with 2036 views
Jeez, are we back to the Iraq war again? Absolutely nothing to do with the current political situation of course, but just for the hell of it, let's look at how the commons vote went:
84 Labour MPs voted against and 69 abstained. 2 Conservatives voted against and 17 abstained.
Boris Johnson voted for. Keir Starmer wasn't an MP so it's nothing to do with him. The last leader of the Labour Party however, voted against.
There's no question a Conservative government would have done exactly the same thing, so to use it as a partisan stick with which to beat Labour is absurd. Especially in the context of attempting to defend Boris Johnson.
Not a problem with those that voted 'to leave' but very nieve to think that it was the the Remain side that alone turned 'the vote to the 'leave side' lots of murky goings on in elections in the UK & I include Trumps victory in that.
But then it was only the Remainers that were against the 'plebs' , there is plenty of evidence that the Brexit side were being financed from dodgy sources.
Johnson/Tories and Trump are fraudsters on the highest scale, both should be in jail but then the plebs wouldn't have got their 'day of glory' would they ?
We I know won't agree but maybe having such a blinkered view, stops you really looking into just how and why elections over the last few years have been turned on their head.
Yeah, I do follow Carole Cadwalladrs regular retractions for all the things she's got wrong. I dunno why some lefties think that working-class people were manipulated by Facebook ads.....Just further evidence that you see us as beneath you. Too stupid to tell real from fake.
The issue with that point of view is that we actually live in the areas that feel the impact of mass immigration and so we vote based on what we see on the high street and the busses, rather than what we see on facebook.
"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:41 - Jul 8 by stowmarketrange
But was that his decision or a government one?The order to send people from hospitals to care homes to kill others there was either down to him or his government,but I never heard him say that it was all his idea. You can’t take personal credit for the successes and blame others for the failures.That’s what all politicians do,but he’s the worst culprit.
"That’s what all politicians do,but he’s the worst culprit."
So, what's your point? He's good at politics?
"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:54 - Jul 8 with 2001 views
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:23 - Jul 8 by SheffieldHoop
It's obvious who I'm referring to - Stop the humdrum. Starmer has no choice about what? Evidence suggests Starmer will be doing everything he possibly can to take us back in. And the EU will be more than happy to collaborate in fcking us all over. I suppose that's when I'll be joining you in fcking off to Australia.
The evidence of recent weeks is the complete opposite of this. Despite apparently having no policies they’ve had a good go at addressing the toxic issue that is Brexit with a plan to “make it work”. They’ll clearly never get through to people who weirdly have to fight about it forever but we are out of the EU and not rejoining it any time soon no matter how many culture wars over this will inevitably be created every election the government can get away with using it to distract from everything else.
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 15:57 - Jul 8 with 1992 views
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:54 - Jul 8 by Watford_Ranger
The evidence of recent weeks is the complete opposite of this. Despite apparently having no policies they’ve had a good go at addressing the toxic issue that is Brexit with a plan to “make it work”. They’ll clearly never get through to people who weirdly have to fight about it forever but we are out of the EU and not rejoining it any time soon no matter how many culture wars over this will inevitably be created every election the government can get away with using it to distract from everything else.
Yeah I wouldn't take Kier Starmer's words as "Evidence"
Starmer who wanted us to remain in the European medicines agency after Brexit - Got called out on it by Boris in the middle of the hugely successful vaccine rollout - Starmer claimed Boris was lying.........And then actually it turned out Starmer had said at least twice that the UK should seek to remain in the European Medicines Agency. But that doesn't make the headlines.
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"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 16:27 - Jul 8 with 1893 views
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 16:13 - Jul 8 by SheffieldHoop
Yeah I wouldn't take Kier Starmer's words as "Evidence"
Starmer who wanted us to remain in the European medicines agency after Brexit - Got called out on it by Boris in the middle of the hugely successful vaccine rollout - Starmer claimed Boris was lying.........And then actually it turned out Starmer had said at least twice that the UK should seek to remain in the European Medicines Agency. But that doesn't make the headlines.
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What's the current situation with vaccines in UK?
In France 81.5% of over 12s are fully vaccinated. The remainder, I presume, are vaccine sceptics.
The number of cases has shot up again, in the last few weeks, but ICU occupancy is only 16%.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 16:48 - Jul 8 with 1777 views
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 15:23 - Jul 8 by SheffieldHoop
It's obvious who I'm referring to - Stop the humdrum. Starmer has no choice about what? Evidence suggests Starmer will be doing everything he possibly can to take us back in. And the EU will be more than happy to collaborate in fcking us all over. I suppose that's when I'll be joining you in fcking off to Australia.
Mr. Speaker, was it two pages ago that the honourable member for Sheffield was bemoaning immigrants coming to the UK….(raucous howls)…and Mr. Speaker (more howls) Mr. Speaker, here he is saying: that if the UK returned to the EU, (rising howls), he’d be fcuking off to Australia!
(Bedlam and much waving of papers) Mr. Speaker the irony is not lost on this side of the house! And if upon getting there he notices a large number of Asian faces on one side of the street, and on the other side, angry men waving placards saying ‘We grew here. You flew here!’ (Huge noise in anticipation grows) Mr. Speaker I ask him…which side of the street will you go to?
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Mr. Speaker, was it two pages ago that the honourable member for Sheffield was bemoaning immigrants coming to the UK….(raucous howls)…and Mr. Speaker (more howls) Mr. Speaker, here he is saying: that if the UK returned to the EU, (rising howls), he’d be fcuking off to Australia!
(Bedlam and much waving of papers) Mr. Speaker the irony is not lost on this side of the house! And if upon getting there he notices a large number of Asian faces on one side of the street, and on the other side, angry men waving placards saying ‘We grew here. You flew here!’ (Huge noise in anticipation grows) Mr. Speaker I ask him…which side of the street will you go to?
It was a joke, directed at Sydney. I wouldn't move to Australia if you paid me. I simply couldn't survive on freezer food for that long.
Speaking of irony - How about an ex-pat Brit in Sydney, telling me, a working-class piece of shit supporting a woman and child in a studio flat on a council estate neighboring Heathrow airport, what I should vote for and why? Particularly when it comes to immigration.
But +1 for creativity anyway.
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"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 17:50 - Jul 8 with 1633 views
Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 16:54 - Jul 8 by SheffieldHoop
It was a joke, directed at Sydney. I wouldn't move to Australia if you paid me. I simply couldn't survive on freezer food for that long.
Speaking of irony - How about an ex-pat Brit in Sydney, telling me, a working-class piece of shit supporting a woman and child in a studio flat on a council estate neighboring Heathrow airport, what I should vote for and why? Particularly when it comes to immigration.
But +1 for creativity anyway.
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Good thing your other internet personas aren’t real otherwise it would be really cramped.
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Bye bye bye Johnson (n/t) on 18:21 - Jul 8 with 1561 views
Bye bye bye Johnson on 16:27 - Jul 8 by Esox_Lucius
Ah the old, lame whataboutery argument. Always a good fallback when you've got nothing.
I’d hardly call what the last Labour government did as nothing perhaps you and stranger things would like to tell that to all the people who suffered because of Blair’s ego and blatant lies But Yeah I suppose an illegal war built on a sham is lame to what Boris has done , The thing is no one is ever going to let you lot back in so maybe you need to accept it and stop getting narky
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 18:32 - Jul 8 with 1526 views
he should go immediately, not be allowed to stay a day an hour or minute longer. he is guilty as charge on all counts and the list is long. he blames all around him and the "herd" but it is him with the issues, look at the mess of his home life and people didn't see that as an issue and not how he would act as an MP or PM???????????? don't forget it was OUR MONEY HE THEW AT EVERYTHING , ours! and we will pay for many years to come . time to go now eff off
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Bye bye bye Johnson on 18:45 - Jul 8 with 3709 views
Bye bye bye Johnson on 18:22 - Jul 8 by paulparker
I’d hardly call what the last Labour government did as nothing perhaps you and stranger things would like to tell that to all the people who suffered because of Blair’s ego and blatant lies But Yeah I suppose an illegal war built on a sham is lame to what Boris has done , The thing is no one is ever going to let you lot back in so maybe you need to accept it and stop getting narky
Just to reiterate:
It was a free vote in the commons, not along party lines. Many more Labour MPS voted against than Conservatives. Boris Johnson voted for. I'll say that again in case you missed it.
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