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uziq wrote:

genuinely astonishing. since the start of this year every month has had a controversy that would have ended any previous government that had some decency and decorum. truly our own trump.

What I like most is that the most shambolic disasters which have affected the entire nation don't matter - the gay fright of conservative MPs is the clincher

Brexit - Don't care
Brexit shambolic no-deal - Ah never mind
Covid shambolic response - yawn
100Bn in covid funds directed to cronies - nope
Boning the skank in the Foreign Office - ?
Trying to get said skank a 100k govt job - How does this matter
Partying while people are dying - So what
Cosying up to Russian oligarchs - How is this news?
Taking cash from donors to fund his lifestyle - Not interested

Hold on, some guy might fondle my balls? OK this is beyond the pale, Johnson has to go.

wow, two astoundingly bad takes there. "gay fright" and "indians who smell of curry".

g r o w  u p.

people sympathized with the victim of the recent sexual abuse, by the by. the problem was johnson's downplaying of it and the casual carelessness of his whip/disciplinary staff, who seemed to think in an antiquated way that gay men can't 'suffer' abuse because they rather 'like' that sort of thing. easy win for keir and his team – they were literally all at pride events last week for photo-ops. couldn't make a bigger blunder, frankly, at the tail end of several sex scandals.

Hold on, some guy might fondle my balls? OK this is beyond the pale, Johnson has to go.

johnson gave him a crucial role within the party; he was a 'lever' on intra-party bad behaviour (of which johnson was presiding over plenty). sexual abusers and gropers thrive off the power they have over subordinates and people who can't back away; like any boss in any workplace, they know that their underlings are risking their entire livelihood and career if they 'speak out'. johnson KNEW this person's proclivities and yet STILL put him in the whip's position, responsible for MPs entire careers and workplace welfare. that's an astoundingly poor choice; or, looked at another way, sheer cynical evil. johnson joked about the man's reputation, which has been well established inside westminster for years, so i'm inclined to read it as the latter ... he installed a known sex-pest as a gatekeeper within his party. as i said in my earlier post: this downfall started at the very top, with all the bullying and rule-flouting culture that boris/cummings instilled. period.

i think the foreign office blowjob and 100k job were far more grave and frankly far more serious, but through a weird sort of gentleman's agreement the entire establishment would rather skirt it than drag THAT through the press and international scrutiny. it's almost unmentionably bad. clinton-lewinsky squared.

Last edited by uziq (2022-07-07 03:02:39)

raab as inter-rim PM until the conservatives sort out the leadership contest. the guy has no soul and is a charisma-free zone, but he's the best possible choice right now. plus, he got some practice at it when johnson was dying of covid for a brief while.

there are no good leadership candidates. best would be for some old-guard from may's era to step back into the fold. lord frost or jeremy hunt or someone.

liz truss has been doing a good job of staying off the tv and avoiding all comment. she’s been playing a long game of positioning herself as a thatcher-type, all iron will and quiet dominance. it has the added benefit of not allowing any gaffes or stupidities to escape to the public. she might be a sleeper hit. even whilst all this has been going down she’s been mysteriously ‘on a plane somewhere’. most controversies she has skirted without comment by simply being somewhere else.

none who would ever get my vote, anyway. especially the lot who have disgraced themselves with the bojo era.

Last edited by uziq (2022-07-07 04:00:28)

So apparently all of this is because some gay guy got a bit handsy with some other men? And that brought down one of the U.K.'s most beloved politicians? Ridiculous. Score a other win for the political correctness machine.

uziq wrote:

there are no good leadership candidates. best would be for some old-guard from may's era to step back into the fold. lord frost or jeremy hunt or someone.

Its hilarious we're now looking back with fondness for Teresa May, she was fucking useless.

liz truss has been doing a good job of staying off the tv and avoiding all comment. she’s been playing a long game of positioning herself as a thatcher-type, all iron will and quiet dominance. it has the added benefit of not allowing any gaffes or stupidities to escape to the public. she might be a sleeper hit. even whilst all this has been going down she’s been mysteriously ‘on a plane somewhere’. most controversies she has skirted without comment by simply being somewhere else.

I could get behind Liz Truss.

Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

there are no good leadership candidates. best would be for some old-guard from may's era to step back into the fold. lord frost or jeremy hunt or someone.

Its hilarious we're now looking back with fondness for Teresa May, she was fucking useless.

largely hobbled by the fanatics in her own party who wanted, for some puzzling reason (not altogether unlinked with russia, methinks) a 'hard brexit' and years of national toil and decline.

may's deal seems eminently sensible from this vantage point, down in the canyon with a broken ankle that's fast filling up with a flash flood.

she led a disastrous election campaign, that's true. a miscalculation, though, in the grand scheme of things. she didn't encounter a single controversy or breach of the ministerial code. BoJo's executive term was pockmarked with them. she at least seemed to evince some principles beneath all the chilly froideur and awkwardness.

he's a little creepazoid, isn't he. i honestly could not imagine anyone i know from his generation/peer group in my life making remarks of that level about indians. 'they smell of curry'. tee hee! honestly it's like he was neglected as a child.

I've heard the same thing from multiple landlords - never rent a property to an indian.

How the fuck are they going to get the smell out of No. 10?

Erm, people I know who rent out houses?

Putin wins if Boris falls.