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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail has an article written by Boris Johnson (behind their pay-wall), with the following headline.
‘BORIS JOHNSON: I bet Maggie's portrait is glad it no longer has to share an office with Starmer Chameleon - the only PM in history to look at the world through sleaze-tainted specs’
Can any ABers name another recent PM involved in sleaze – such as partying away in 10 Downing St. during covid lockdowns (and lying about it); having been found to have lied to MPs on an unprecedented scale (by the HoC privileges committee); has on at least 5 occasions got a woman (not his wife) pregnant; has been sacked by The Times newspaper for making up quotes; has been sacked by the Tory party for denying he’d had an affair (which he had) – I could go on and on and on.
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Would that, by any chance, be the same Boris Johnson who changed his publicly-stated political views to wherever he thought that the most votes would lie?
i.e. the Boris Johnson who, in 1999, wrote: "I am a raving Euro-federalist . . . a pro-European of the most violent, dyspeptic and incurable disposition" but who then later campaigned for Brexit.
My post from another thread;
Just under two years ago, the UK Conservative Party made the ridiculous decision to oust former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. What followed was a disastrous election defeat for the party and a new Labour government.
With mass riots, pensioners set to freeze, people being arrested for tweeting, mass infrastructure projects cancelled, tax rises coming, and Labour capitulating to the unions, I don’t think many of us realised how good we had it under Boris Johnson.
Yes, there were challenges, but those challenges were not ones the UK faced alone.
There was an ambition to level up communities that traditionally have been left behind with bold infrastructure projects that would encourage growth – many of which are now cancelled.
There was far less division, people weren’t being arrested for tweeting, our pensioners weren’t being left to freeze in the winter. Everywhere Boris Johnson went, ordinary people flocked to him. We had great relationships with our allies and we were global leaders – whether it be the vaccine roll-out or our role in supporting Ukraine.
Now we are a laughing stock. Politicians around the world are mocking us for the horrendous crackdown on free speech we have seen under Labour.
It is absolutely ridiculous that we got rid of a Prime Minister for doing something as simple as eating cake in the office just for him to be replaced by a new government that is watching on as our country falls apart at the seams.
I hope the politicians that brought down Boris, many of them now out of a job themselves, sit there and think – was this all worth it over a bit of birthday cake?
Although I lived through the Wilson governments, I don’t recall him; partying away in 10 Downing St. during covid lockdowns (and lying about it); having been found to have lied to MPs on an unprecedented scale (by the HoC privileges committee); has on at least 5 occasions got a woman (not his wife) pregnant; has been sacked by The Times newspaper for making up quotes; has been sacked by the Labour party for denying he’d had an affair (which he had) – but I was quite young at the time.
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Behind the pipe-smoke there lay a randy old goat 😊
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