Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

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  • I saw him described as a bumbling haystack of lies, which I rather liked.
  • Here's the bumbling haystack spouting some kind of extreme-capitalist/proto-fascist rhetoric.
  • Gee D wrote: »
    Being as polite as I can, that was a very silly post.

    You're right, and I apologise. No disrespect to the ANZACs was intended.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Can’t remember if I posted this here. Last week one Evening Standard headline was “Boris wants to be the people’s PM”. I laughed hard.
  • Jane RJane R Shipmate
    edited December 2019
    All PMs are supposed to be 'the people's PM', in the sense that they are supposed to govern for the good of the whole nation. Presumably he just wants to be popular, as usual, but nobody could possibly love him as much as he loves himself.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    I got the impression it was the latter. We would love him because of his great policies and that he got Brexit done. Sorry not sorry Boris
  • I keep reading 'PM' as short for 'Post-Mortem'... :innocent:
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Funny thing is, the “People’s PM” sounds to my ear like a weird throwback to Blairism. Our Tone was always going on about the People’s everything but the kitchen sink.

    I’m willing to believe that this is unintentional and due to ignorance on Boris’s part.
  • One People, One Nation, One Boris. :vomit:
  • I can certainly believe Boris capable (if that's the right word) of ignorance.

    Which 'people', anyway? Certainly not mine...nor of all those who did NOT vote tory.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Funny thing is, the “People’s PM” sounds to my ear like a weird throwback to Blairism. ...
    It makes me think of "the People's Princess," and what a mess she was.


  • StephenStephen Shipmate Posts: 49
    I keep reading 'PM' as short for 'Post-Mortem'... :innocent:

    He-he! Why am I reminded of ' thine adversary the devil' ?

  • If the press were even handed in applying pressure, there'd now be reams of newsprint demanding that Johnson denounce Britain First, asking why he hasn't denounced them yet, and then floating all the various episodes in which people in his party had been associating with the far right.

    But they aren't, so there won't.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Shipmate
    edited December 2019
    And a great deal more coverage of the content of his novel, 72 Virgins.
  • Presumably they were virgins before he met them...
    :naughty:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited December 2019
    I have besought Santa to bring The Mad Mophead a hairbrush for Xmas.

    I hope my beseechings are more efficacious than were my prayers to Any Gods There Be to send Mophead to perdition.

    One feels one has to do something - anything - to mitigate the Evil of the coming Dark Years.
  • I have besought Santa to bring The Mad Mophead a hairbrush for Xmas. [...]
    What about a ... heart?

  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Or a brain
  • Or indeed courage (at least to face TV interviews...)
  • What about a travelling fridge to hide in?
  • Not sure that fits with the "wizard of Oz" theme! Also it shouldn't be encouraged!!
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    How to get a good review for your book? Edit the paper the review appears in - priceless.
  • Dunno about the rest of you, but I have deleted the link to 'BBC News' from my desktop, and refuse to even glance at the headlines of the so-called 'newspapers' in my local supermarket.

    Head in the sand? Maybe, but my blood pressure just will not cope with the sight of this hateful man on the front page of everything, for the foreseeable future.

    I will continue to support (however feebly) various more enlightened (aka left-wing) channels, which oppose the egregious Piffleglum, and his minions. More than that, I cannot do.

    Perhaps 2020, instead of being the beginning of the Dark Years, will see the opening of that Most Blessed Ditch?
  • Yes, I have pulled back from political stuff at the moment. I don't want to read about the buffoon at the moment, and I have been ignoring Trump for ages. Also, I have no wish to watch Labour picking over its entrails. This may be irresponsible of me, but I have had a bellyful with Brexit, and related idiocies.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Can anyone recommend a morning radio programme? I've rather gone off Today; Radio 2 is too relentlessly jolly, and I have no interest in sport so 5Live is out.
  • Eigon wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a morning radio programme? I've rather gone off Today; Radio 2 is too relentlessly jolly, and I have no interest in sport so 5Live is out.
    Is this for the radio alarm? Something like LBC should do the job, especially if Mr Farage is on ... nothing better for getting you to leap out of bed to turn it off.


  • Eigon wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a morning radio programme? I've rather gone off Today; Radio 2 is too relentlessly jolly, and I have no interest in sport so 5Live is out.
    Is this for the radio alarm? Something like LBC should do the job, especially if Mr Farage is on ... nothing better for getting you to leap out of bed to turn it off.


    but the cost of replacing the radios & the windows you throw them out of may be prohibitive.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Depending on where you live, you could try one of the local stations. They usually have a long breakfast time programme, and as a lot of the news is local, there's less national stuff on them.
  • Enoch wrote: »
    Depending on where you live, you could try one of the local stations. They usually have a long breakfast time programme, and as a lot of the news is local, there's less national stuff on them.

    Or go the opposite direction and try the World Service. Usually when I am forced out of bed by a bouncing 3 year old at 5am there's something interesting before they hand over to radio 4 (we don't get digital here so I can only listen over the internet otherwise).
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    You could try Radio 3 whose commitment to news and current affairs is indicated by the fact that they once read the previous day’s news bulletin by mistake.
  • Eigon wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a morning radio programme? I've rather gone off Today; Radio 2 is too relentlessly jolly, and I have no interest in sport so 5Live is out.

    If you don't need to hear news, you could try BBC Radio 4Ex. From about seven in the morning till nine or ten, you get re-runs of 60's comedies, Goon Shows, The Navy Lark, I'm sorry I'll read that again, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson, and sometimes re-runs of more recent but still years old I'm sorry I haven't a clue, Music Quiz, Just a Minute etc. Also, sometimes Saturday's News Quiz or Dead Ringers. They'll tell you what time it is, but that's about the height of it.

    The older stuff sometimes comes with a warning for 'outdated attitudes', referencing sexism, racism and homophobia etc. But I've yet to hear anything that has truly offended me more than some of the stuff that gets churned out of the Houses of Parliament in recent years by our elected guardians of the People's peace.
  • I'd agree with the recommendation of the World Service, their early morning news programme has a wider variety and is less focused on the UK
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Local stations play too much LCD music. Non-BBC stations are worse as they intersperse it with adverts.

    Planet Rock is my general music station of choice. For talk it's still R4.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    When we were coming back to the UK for holidays, the first thing D. would do once we'd picked up the hire car was turn on the radio and say, "see if you can find Radio 4".

    If what was on didn't appeal, we'd try Classic FM, and if they were playing the Albinoni Adagio or the slow movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (which they usually were :naughty: ), we'd try Radio 3.
  • Radio 3 is my choice, as it DOESN'T thrust 'news' into your ears every thirty seconds or so...
    :grin:
  • I'm relieved to know that I'm not the only person who's taken to avoiding the news, though over the holidays we've had a largely politician-free period and I've started to listen to Radio 4 again. But not for long - by the end of the month we shall get the chorus of turkeys squawking in delight that Christmas is here at last, sigh.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Thanks for all the suggestions - the World Service sounds like the best bet for me, I think. I need something with occasional mentions of what time it is, so I get out of the house for work at the right time. Though I did try Radio Hereford and Worcester this morning, and that had the time, news headlines, and some chat between the presenters which was okay.
  • The only thing to be careful of is that, if memory serves, the world service gives times as GMT all year round.
  • Cummings (Johnson's SPAD) has a new blog up, which appears to be an attempt at recruitment. Amusingly, the type of person he describes as not wanting is a perfect fit for his boss:
    I don’t want confident public school bluffers. I want people who are much brighter than me who can work in an extreme environment. If you play office politics, you will be discovered and immediately binned.

  • That really wouldn't sound terrible based on that paragraph alone. Wow, it's like the sewer scene from It.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Cummings (Johnson's SPAD) has a new blog up, which appears to be an attempt at recruitment. Amusingly, the type of person he describes as not wanting is a perfect fit for his boss:
    I don’t want confident public school bluffers. I want people who are much brighter than me who can work in an extreme environment. If you play office politics, you will be discovered and immediately binned.

    Please, sir, what is a SPAD (aside from a World War I French biplane)?
  • SPecial ADvisor
  • Traditionally a partisan hack you manage to wangle getting on the civil service payroll.
  • An unelected bureaucrat pulling the strings of those who actually stood for election. An essential part of a government that complains about how other international organisations are run by unelected bureaucrats.
  • In railway-speak, SPAD is 'signal passed at danger', implying the imminent possibility of disaster...
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    de Pfeffel seems to want to become a popular PM. Ditching Cummface would help him towards this end methinks.
  • Boogie wrote: »
    de Pfeffel seems to want to become a popular PM. Ditching Cummface would help him towards this end methinks.

    I don't know, being able to blame the "evil advisor" for any failings (a bit like the noble women carrying small dogs they could blame for any unwanted smells) is a traditional way to maintain popularity. Arguably that was the part played by Alistair Campbell under Blair. Blair maintained his "teflon Tony" persona for a long time partly because all the knives were in Campbell's hands, not his.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Kittyville wrote: »
    SPecial ADvisor
    Thank you!


  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I can't quite explain why, but I don't think it ever occurred to me that Alistair Campbell was pulling Tony Blair's strings (he may have manipulated the way Blair's actions were reported, but that's presumably what he was paid for), but that's very much the way I see the relationship between Cummings and ABdePJ.
  • Piglet wrote: »
    I can't quite explain why, but I don't think it ever occurred to me that Alistair Campbell was pulling Tony Blair's strings (he may have manipulated the way Blair's actions were reported, but that's presumably what he was paid for), but that's very much the way I see the relationship between Cummings and ABdePJ.

    I would agree with that: Alistair Campbell became synonymous with the term Spin Doctor, but Cummings is rather more of an unaccountable Grand Vazir, and trying to run No. 10 and meddle in the running of the state.
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