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They are inherently meaningless theatre unless they are accompanied by pledges to vote no confidence
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To be honest - and this is probably me being in a rare moment of generosity - wouldn't you expect all these resignations and trying to spin it as "jumped before pushed" is pretty weak sauce?
It feels a bit like when the interim Shadow Cabinet resigned when Corbyn won the Labour leadership. The Sensibles were frantically spinning it as a wave of protest resignations but in reality it was "You see the word 'Interim' in the job title?"
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The latest
<insert name> resigns before Johnson sacks him/her.
is Philip Hammond.
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The ellipsis is doing interesting work there
[URL="https://twitter.com/asankin/status/1153864141225938944?s=21"]https://twitter.com/asankin/status/1153864141225938944[/URL]
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And the least surprising news of the day, racist prepared to offer political deal to racist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49092692
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Christ
We've got Fred fucking Scuttle for Prime Minister
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/24/world...ster-10449281/
Wanker
Twat
Racist
Cunt
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
In addition, we need to be aware of the dangers of the non-clown successor. I personally don't think Trump or Johnson is a fascist but they clearly have underlings who are neo-fascist, including Stephen Miller and Don junior. There has to be a watch on how those evil pricks climb the ladder. Johnson's cabinet is going to be more important than how he leads it, especially as he's likely to be a lazy prick who delegates all the work.
However, discourse is important and if thresholds of racist language are being crossed in a way that signals it is OK for the political leader of the nation to incite violence against Muslim women, resistance has to focus on that. Where we may need a rethink is on whether Trump's belief that airports existed in 1776 is worth more than a moment's light relief. It's not going to change one vote, any more than Johnson clowning around is going to alter one opinion unless voters have really never seen him before.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 24-07-2019, 04:29.
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Good piece on Johnson and why not getting distracted is very importnat
When such a figure rises to political leadership the instinct of particularly the more established parts of the left is to point out their various transgressions. The public are directed towards the lies and scandals that make them unfit to govern, or towards the norms that they are eroding. In due course we will be told that Boris Johnson too has sullied the office of Prime Minister—even though it is the filthier aspects of the office’s history, covered by a blanket of imperial nostalgia, that make a figure like Boris Johnson possible in the first place.
In Italy and America, this eventually became politics by prosecution. Berlusconi was engaged in a soap opera of court appearances, appeals and legal spats. Trump was subject to the Mueller inquiry. Both produced plenty of evidence of wrongdoing, neither brought their man down. In fact, they provided each protagonist with a stage from which they could denounce a deeply unpopular political establishment.
We have already seen one unsuccessful attempt to bring Boris Johnson before the courts. In the coming weeks and months, this will likely become a prominent theme of the anti-Boris campaign in the media, with revelations about his personal finances or conduct with Vote Leave prompting excitable commentators to proclaim they have finally found the scandal that will bring him down.
Boris Johnson, meanwhile, will use this as part of a project to polarise British politics entirely on the basis of a Brexit culture war. He will rail against the ‘Remain establishment,’ caricatured as a transnational liberal elite with little connection to ‘British values.’ And if this doesn’t work, he will push the boat out further—engineering a controversy about some group he wants to demagogue, maybe Muslims, or migrants, or old favourites like the trade unions.
This is what Boris Johnson wants British politics to look like for the foreseeable future: Boris and anti-Boris, where he sets the agenda with his public performances while his opponents desperately try to react. Meanwhile, politics is evacuated of debate over the kind of policies that might improve working people’s lives.
But that is not how it has to be. The Tory leadership campaign made clear Boris Johnson’s greatest weakness. When cornered by his bid’s lack of substance and forced to announce a policy, the best Johnson could do was propose a massive tax cut for the rich. Realising how poorly this had played in a country with massive inequality and the longest wage stagnation since the Napoleonic Wars, he soon backed off these plans.
Within weeks, however, he reverted to form—telling an audience of Tory members that he “couldn’t think of anyone who stood up for bankers” more during the financial crash. “I defended them,” he said, “day in, day out.”
Even a lifelong right-winger like Theresa May was forced to conclude that the party would need to move left on the economy after overseeing a decade of austerity. Her speech on assuming the premiership sounded at times almost social democratic. Johnson’s, by contrast, offered hardly any reference to the economy at all—save for a bizarre line at the end which attempted to inspire the audience with an offering of full-fibre broadband.
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Open to suggestions, but Le Parisien headline was quite good.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
Other than being far too drunk to try to fuck anything that crossed his eyeline.
The syphilitic old scrote.
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Primark is an Irish company, founded here by Galen Weston in 1961. The headquarters is here, the first shop is on O'connell st in Dublin. Yer man is the richest man in Ireland, though it is unclear how much time he spends here. The name needs to be changed. You may as well call him the O'Neills pub, or the Ryanair Churchill. Kerrygold at a push.
There is a very strong argument to be made that churchill was massively worse than johnson, in all the ways that we think Johnson is bad. Other than being far too drunk to try to fuck anything that crossed his eyeline.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 23-07-2019, 17:09.
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Primark got me out of a hole in Berlin. I doubt Boris will be able to say that.
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Dunno. Primark is a pretty terrible shopping experience focusing on cheapness and Churchill was a self-aggrandising thug who rewrote his own mythos.
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as it got lost before the fold I think the new thread title is an insult both to Primark and Churchill
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