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I had the displeasure of meeting Liz Truss while deployed in Estonia, I can confirm she's a oval office and a moron, met Boris as well when he came over, weirdly soft hands when he shook mine but we weren't allowed to offer him food or a drink as he's a very messy eater. He seemed pleasant enough but we all know he's also a oval office.
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Is that not Boris' whole thing though. Absolute monster but very charming in person?
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Surely by now everyone can see through the paper thin facade of bumbling charm.
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Davey posted:But Johnson didn’t act alone. For three years, he has been backed to the hilt by more than 350 co-conspirators on the Conservative benches. They nodded along to every shameful lie. They gladly went on TV to defend the indefensible and excuse the inexcusable. They willingly trooped through the voting lobby in support of every disastrous policy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-has-resigned-what-now-our-panels-verdict Will never stop being funny that this person was in a Conservative cabinet that certainly did no better than Boris's for three years.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:we weren't allowed to offer him food or a drink as he's a very messy eater. Sorry... what? Was this something that his handlers specified beforehand? Would he just go full pig-at-the-trough mode? 
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lilljonas posted:How to resign without resigning. Huw Jenkins realised it 10 minutes later, in the middle of the first followup interview. Was pretty funny watching his expression go *ding* and then he pivoted from questioning the mp from bury about challengers to asking what he feels about boris remaining leader and pm indefinitely stev posted:Surely by now everyone can see through the paper thin facade of bumbling charm. iirc hes polling net unfavourable among 2019 conservative voters after the last scandal, and that's despite nobody landing the obvious "did you joke about "pincher by nature" while promoting handsy mcgropes to whip because you wanted a poo poo Beria knockoff locking the door on dissident mps?" line, the tories all seem to think he's genuinely going to cost them a ge Spangly A fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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Yes, but it'd be helpful to measure him by the sliding scale of this upcoming leadership contest. Is he a) just evil, b) evil and stupid, or c) evil and stupid and also unhinged? grobbo fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Is that not Boris' whole thing though. Absolute monster but very charming in person? Yeah pretty much, very disarming and seemed genuinely interested in what you had to say. Like you said though, monster behind the curtain.
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Who the gently caress is Ben Wallace?
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grobbo posted:Yes, but it'd be helpful to measure him by the sliding scale of this upcoming leadership contest. Is he a) just evil, b) evil and stupid, or c) evil and stupid and also unhinged? he wants even less troops so I'd vote for him, we're getting close to "catastrophic loss to students, tractors, and molotovs" level of staffing
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Matinee posted:Sorry... what? Dunno the drinks were because he would have hung around and they wanted him moving but I'm guessing the food is very much bacon sarnie territory
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Matinee posted:According to his wiki, Tugendhat is banned from entering China by the CCP. I wonder if the Czechs would let the Tugendhats sell their unesco world heritage villa restored for government money if he becomes PM.
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He's the greatest Prime Minister I've been alive for.
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Rarity posted:Who the gently caress is Ben Wallace? Defence Secretary.
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Matinee posted:Sorry... what?
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Rarity posted:Who the gently caress is Ben Wallace? Wikipedia posted:"Wallace faced criticism locally after it was revealed he had the fourth highest expenses claim of any MP in the UK in 2008, claiming £175,523 on top of his £63,000 salary."
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Seems pretty Prime Ministerial tbh
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As funny as it would be if was being coy about actually resigning, I'm struggling to see how that would make much strategic sense from his point of view. Surely it would just make it even harder for him to not stay on, as he'd then have to wade through all the arguments thrown at him for misleading people etc? Not that it's stopped him before, I suppose...
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Answers Me posted:As funny as it would be if was being coy about actually resigning, I'm struggling to see how that would make much strategic sense from his point of view. Surely it would just make it even harder for him to not stay on, as he'd then have to wade through all the arguments thrown at him for misleading people etc? Not that it's stopped him before, I suppose... this morning he didnt have a government, now he has a government it's not like he has good options available to stay on, he's been pretty hosed for a while, but he does now have valuable plotting time until monday
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Spangly A posted:this morning he didnt have a government, now he has a government He's put together a Suicide Squad
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Lid posted:He's gambling on the option that gives him more time. You know how the options were jump before you're pushed? He instead decided to try and build a bridge. He has no options so he took a possibility that a new option will emerge eventually.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Reminds me of that person who knew him at Eton and said he was notorious for not making a decision, leaving it until the last possible second, extending deadline after deadline, and when there was only one possible option left, doing that. Shame he probably doesn't have any access to firearms then
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https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1544983378134503424?t=ZWg5Sz_rNKle1FD8NjE3kA&s=19 Now hiring : slim 20yo interns who can do a few jobs
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Rarity posted:Who the gently caress is Ben Wallace? The greatest undrafted NBA player of all time, four time DPOY, championship winner with the Pistons, the only modern undrafted player to make the Hall of Fame.
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Tesseraction posted:A raw, red Johnson, standing mournfully and accepting the climax those around him had edged him towards. The Johnson weeps, as the ejection is finished 
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BBC vox pops: Karen in Scarborough says she's "tearful" after hearing of Boris Johnson's plan to resign. "It reminds me of the Lion King with the hyenas circling," she says.
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Borhs Johnson has resignated.
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Jippa posted:BBC vox pops: The hyenas were the good guys in Lion King.
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Polls probably pretty useless, but still lol: https://twitter.com/jamesjohnson252/status/1545033843480084482
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Remember he had to be kicked out of the Foreign Secretary place he was staying in, he just wouldn't leave until he was forced to.
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Matinee posted:Sorry... what? he'd get his urges mixed up and attempt to father his n-th child on a cheese and pickle sandwich
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Has anyone just tried asking him discreetly, hey if we make sure you can still have your shindig there will you just step down?
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hi guys, how many conservatives have been fired for sex crimes recently? isn't it like 4
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hemale in pain posted:hi guys, how many conservatives have been fired for sex crimes recently? isn't it like 4 Sky news should keep a running tally on-screen
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Some Tory twat summarising Boris's achievements on BBC just said he "Prevented a terrifying anti-Semite from reaching number 10" (thank you google for correcting the spelling of antisemite). Just absolutely taking the piss.
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Private Speech posted:Some Tory twat summarising Boris's achievements on BBC just said he "Prevented a terrifying anti-Semite from reaching number 10" (thank you google for correcting the spelling of antisemite). Yeah that was in Nadhim Zahawi (sp?) libellous letter earlier, apparently they're going for libel AND slander
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