Finally A P M With The Balls To Tell It Like It Is.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49348072
Yes, collaborators is the correct term, bang on Boris.

[murraymints]

yup !

[Peter Pedant]

the point being
politicians habitually lie thro their back teeth
and are only in it for the loo-loo

well said 3T !

[Peter Pedant]

o god someone is gonna ask what lu-lu is, innit?

[Togo]

It is about time someone told the anti British democracy brigade a bit of home truth. Hammond has lied and made false predictions for the last 3 years, in an attempt to thwart our chosen path. He is a EUSSR lickspittle. Now they are being forced to show their true colours instead of hiding under a false flag. Another 5th columnist who is fearful of being served his just deserts.

[Old_Geezer]

High time it was pointed out by government since many choose not to admit it.

[wolf63]

Like her or loathe her Mrs T had more balls than all of our PMs.

I used to like Boris, as Mayor of London, he seemed to thrive. Then he was a remainer (as am I) and he jumped ship. I lost some respect for him at that stage.

If he is not just saying what we want to hear he might be good for the country. Only time will tell.

[agchristie]

//The prime minister said the EU had become less willing to compromise on a new deal with the UK because of the opposition to leaving in Parliament.//

I don't agree with that statement. The EU have not budged one iota and have given no indication that their position will change.

I wish Boris well, I really do, but the person who can walk on water will be the one who achieves a new deal.

[retrocop]

Conveniently ignored by some as Brexit draws closer.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7351931/Employment-hits-record-high-32-81million-average-pay-pre-Brexit-boost.html


Despite Brexit and may be because of.

[david small]

I’m starting to get a tingle of anticipation re Boris.
Will he deliver? He’s certainly shaking the tree a little.
Look at the rotten apples falling out.

[agchristie]

Exposing the 'rotten apples' does nothing to advance the cause for a new deal.

Boris is under massive pressure to deliver and he shouldn't be wasting his energies on matters of much less importance.

[Theland]

If we lost WW2 then that would be the end of democracy.
Why support the Eu where we have no say over the Commission or Council Of Ministers?
Can't imagine why freedom loving Brits want to give up freedom?
And Major decided to give us no say over Maastricht or Lisbon. A true pudding.

[Old_Geezer]

" The EU have not budged one iota "

Sort of supports the claim then. Otherwise they could have compromised, but they've still not. All a bit late now anyhow.

[Togo]

Consider this.

//Notice how Hammond takes a swipe at ‘unelected people pulling strings’, meaning Dominic Cummings, while glossing over the existence of actual, unelected string-pullers in the EU. Moreover – we should have expected this – he’s full into “The EU won’t like it” mode. We know by now that this was and is the way Whitehall has thwarted every negotiating initiative.//
//The three weeks Johnson has been working on Brexit are obviously far too long already – weeks clearly being longer than years, in Hammond’s estimate.//
//Hammond rolls out the ultimate Project Fear item – the break-up of the Union, garnished with the old smear of Leavers being ‘Little Englanders’. This says more about Mr Hammond than about Brexit. He is so full of fear, so frightened of losing the cosy nannying from Brussels that he’d rather trample on the will of the people.//

Do read what you can of the link....some of it is paywalled but interpreted for us. Took me all afternoon to confirm what I already knew. Hammond is a... (use your own 4 letter epithet)

From Behind the Paywall.

https://independencedaily.co.uk/from-behind-the-paywall-arch-remainer-philip-hammond-in-his-own-words/?utm_source=mailpoet&;utm_medium=email&;utm_campaign=INDEPENDENCE+Daily+Newsletter1

[Theland]

He is a dangerous treacherous assassin.
I hope he is thwarted.
I believe he has an eye on a top job in the EU

[jim360]

Not even close to bang on. Shameful for a Prime Minister to invoke the language of internet trolls. People who don't want to support a No Deal Brexit, given all the signs that it will be harmful, are far from collaborators. People who still think Remaining in the EU is best for the country are not collaborators either.

Instead he's just given licence to some to continue using such disgusting slurs as Quisling, etc etc. Awful and wrong.

[naomi24]

Yes, collaborators is the correct term. Mrs May and her cronies very clearly had no intention of leading this country out of the EU. I sincerely hope Boris succeeds.

[Theland]

To Remainers- what about democracy?

[jim360]

Which bit of signing Article 50, negotiating a withdrawal agreement, taking a hard-line stance on Brexit, trying to stop Parliament voting on it at all, and then offering up the same deal multiple times, gave you any sort of impression at all that May was trying to stop Brexit?

It's utter revisionist nonsense, it really is. As to "collaborators" -- that's even more nonsense, and unworthy of the office of PM. Doesn't belong on Answerbank either, but at least here nobody holds actual power. Johnson has chased the office of PM all his life, and now that he's got it he's abusing it daily. He'll let even you down in the end, but for now he shames the office he craved.

[naomi24]

Oh dear. For once it's not going Jim's way. Let's hope it continues in that direction. :o)

[New Judge]

//People who still think Remaining in the EU is best for the country are not collaborators either.//

Possibly not, Jim. But they are losers - i.e. they were on the losing side of the referendum. This country hasn't had many national referendums but the results of the few that we've had have been immediately and unconditionally respected. This one should be no different but there is now a broad church whose members began by saying that they are arguing over what form Brexit should take but have now progressed to an outright opposition to Brexit with a pledge to prevent it. SO what's so different about this one?