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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Stephen Westmoreland » Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:16 pm

You can't be serious there Alan?
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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:30 pm

vote in my council ward 1100 labour 300 conservative

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Stephen Westmoreland » Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:57 pm

And the Conservatives won in my area. Fortunately had a good candidate replace another good one.
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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Simon Rogers » Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:24 am

So Boris Johnson is quitting being an MP.
Is this the end of Boris Johnson's political career?

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by John Townsend » Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:41 am

Do not write off the Cincinnatus of Uxbridge just yet!

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:20 pm

I did find his resignation statement refreshing. Normally, there are obsequious and hypocritical comments about the honour of serving etc., but he left fighting!

And John makes a good point...

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:05 pm

I am writing him off, nonetheless.

Actually think his party might be willing to "do a Corbyn" on him if it came to that.
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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by John Moore » Sun Jun 11, 2023 7:18 pm

Well at least we are had him as Prime Minister, bad though he was, rather than the alternative who made the Muppets look rational.

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Phil Neatherway » Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:56 am

I loved his comment thatn he didn't tell any lies. Surely the biggest lie of them all!

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Richard Thursby » Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:56 pm

Simon Rogers wrote:
Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:24 am
So Boris Johnson is quitting being an MP.
Is this the end of Boris Johnson's political career?
I expect that what happened to an Italian Prime Minister yesterday is the only way you will be certain of that.

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:28 pm

Richard Thursby wrote:
Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:56 pm
Simon Rogers wrote:
Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:24 am
So Boris Johnson is quitting being an MP.
Is this the end of Boris Johnson's political career?
I expect that what happened to an Italian Prime Minister yesterday is the only way you will be certain of that.
To be pedantic, former Italian Prime Minister. (Or do you retain the title after leaving office?)

The Wikipedia article on him is one of the longer ones I have seen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi

Rabbit hole (really, it is, don't spend too long looking at the examples there, it is madness-inducing!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages

For the record, as at the time of writing, the Silvio Berlusconi article is the 685th longest on Wikipedia:

"(hist) ‎Silvio Berlusconi ‎[329,756 bytes]"

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:48 pm

It did strike me ( not for the first time ) that the manner in which Berlusconi was replaced by Monti was remarkably similar to the replacement of Truss by Sunak.
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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Ronnie Burton » Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:56 pm

Definitely the end of his MP career. Will make money on writing on his time as Prime Minister. The worse Prime Minister in my time of 69 years

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Phil Neatherway » Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:59 pm

Worse than Truss?

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Re: Boris Johnson

Post by Richard Thursby » Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:02 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:28 pm
To be pedantic, former Italian Prime Minister. (Or do you retain the title after leaving office?)
My brief online search suggests it is not even correct to use the title in what I presume is the most widely used case (POTUS).