You Were Done .....Allright.

[gulliver1]

Boris addresses a crowd at a meeting in London. And was left looking even more Baffled than he usually looks, after he asked for a show of hands on whether they thought leaving the EU was a good idea.
.......................... Almost no one raised their hand...................

[bobbinwales]

He was Bafgled with a capital B...not just ordinary baffled.
Someone may find a link to give us a clue

[ToraToraTora]

Pining for Boris again!
Gully ❤️ Boris.

[bobbinwales]

Found it. Hull Metro

[10ClarionSt]

Tora:
"Pining for Boris again!"
In a way, yes. He'd certainly be a vote-winner for Labour.

[douglas9401]

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/practically-no-one-raises-then-hands-when-boris-johnson-asks-a-conference-if-brexit-was-a-good-idea/

[douglas9401]

https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/02/boris-asks-crowd-if-brexit-was-a-good-idea-almost-no-one-raises-their-hand-18375107/

[naomi24]

I can't work out how people failing to raIse hands in response to a question equates to 'You were done'.

[Prudie]

FGS, do you not know that it was the country that voted to leave the UK not Boris who pushed it through ignoring everyone.

[Prudie]

Leave EU I meant, unfortunately typo as I was *** off while tapping..

[drmorgans]

Can we vote on Boris leaving the UK?

[ichkeria]

Did Boris Johnson seriously say that the Windsor Framework was “not taking back control”?
When it actually gives the EU LESS “control” then his own version.
It would be odd indeed if he and the DUP ended up sole camp members on this given he betrayed his promise to them at the outset.

[naomi24]

He did say that because it's true. Sunak is plying this as though we're completely free at last of the EU - but we're not.

[Old_Geezer]

This "Windsor Framework" is a great big steaming pile of EU droppings. It achieves nothing spectacular, fiddling with sound bite stuff, whilst leaving all the main problems cemented in place.

[drmorgans]

Isn't one of the main reasons for trying to achieve a trade deal with the EU, other than the obvious one of making trading with some of our biggest customers easier and cheaper, to avoid a "hard" border between Northern Ireland and the Republic?

[Old_Geezer]

That can be achieved in a number of ways, none of which include a border within the UK. Ideally the EU can make whatever checks it wants when goods have entered the EU/RoI. They need not expect another nation to do their checking for them, nor do they need to check at the Irish border. I'm sure minimal paperwork can accompany goods to state origin/standards and that info should cover.

[youngmafbog]

//Sunak is plying this as though we're completely free at last of the EU //

Is that true or just your take on it?

I pointed out the other day that the devil is always in the detail and it would not be the end point but a step in the right direction - and it is.

[naomi24]

That's how it comes across to me.

[nicebloke1]

I never thought that getting a pork sausage across a border, would be more difficult than getting an immigrant across. :o>

[ichkeria]

I am not sure what it will take to make people realise the following:
because of the situation in Ireland and the general desirability of avoiding some sort of border on the island, it isn't possible to bring about a situation where N Ireland is totally "free" of EU rules of some sort or another, because in order to achieve the above N Ireland and Eire need to have the same trading and access to the single market.
This means there ARE differences between GB and N Ireland.
When Theresa May did her original agreement, she had to ask Arlene Foster and the DUP to approve it as she needed their votes in parliament. Foster said no, and so we had the idea of the "backstop" which displeased many.
When Boris Johnson won his 80 seat majority, he no longer needed to care what the DUP thought, and hence we had the NI protocol which he "claimed" (to be polite about it), was something other than what it really was. This soon became apparent as it was implemented.
So after a long stand off people of goodwill have done the best they can try as far as possible to square an unsquareable circle. Like all compromises it doesn't give everyone what they want, but the alternative is that we don't get an agreement. Rishi Sunak appears to be taking us back to the days when we did things by compromise instead of peeing everyone off by our confrontational attitude. And the EU have responded accordingly. Both sides were being unreasonable, but people like Steve Baker says this is as good as it gets, similarly David Davis, IDS, Andrea Leadsom and many others, as they all, being Brexiters, not unnaturally want Brexit to actually work.
Boris Johnson's attitude is really disappointing.

[nicebloke1]

Lets face it Sunak has got everything Boris hadnt. He looks like a PM,talks and presents himself like a PM. No one in the EU could ever take Boris serious, he became a laughing stock to most.