The Gift That Keeps On Giving

[douglas9401]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48721211

Melania MkII?

[david small]

Conjecture, speculation, rumours, gossip. Click bait from the Gruniad hack fest. No smoke without fire? Who knows? Am I bovered? Er No.

[agchristie]

Boris Johnson can look and sound as shambolic as much as he wants I don't care as long as he does the business domestically and internationally.

He can wear no tie, shirt hanging out, limp handshakes, sit with poor posture with legs akimbo, I place little importance to the finer points of etiquette.

Boris is going to be PM and he will make mincemeat of Corbyn & co.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Strange how a new puritanism has emerged which not only accepts, but embraces and praises all the moral evils excoriated by the 17th century set while creating a whole new canon of sin to castigate and punish.

The same conviction and display of personal virtue. The same contempt for the "sinner". The same zeal in hunting him down and "re-educating" i.e. punishing asnd humiliating him (for his own sake, of course, but also "pour encourager les autres").

But with the single difference which separates the former Christian bigots from their modern Marxist secular equivalents: Christianity allowed, at least in principle, the possibility of forgiveness and redemption.

[jim360]

// Boris Johnson can look and sound as shambolic as much as he wants I don't care as long as he does the business domestically and internationally. //

Well you're going to be disappointed on that front, I'm sure. He doesn't believe in Brexit any more than is convenient for him to get hold of the power he's manifestly always craved.

[Mamyalynne]

'ecky thump

[jim360]

Also I've no idea what v-e is going on about. We're talking about conduct befitting the holder of the highest office in the land. It's not a matter of puritan zeal to hope, and perhaps even demand, that people who hold high office should be better than this.

[Jackdaw33]

Putting it about a bit didn't do Lloyd George's career any harm.

[tonyav]

Wish there are a like button for that reply, Jackdaw.

I feel that right now that Boris is the best man for the job.

[Jackdaw33]

I agree. I wouldn't recognise Hunt if I tripped over him. I think we could be in for a very pleasant surprise with Boris.

[Old_Geezer]

Anyone who gets in and doesn't deliver on Brexit will find they've hit the Tory party a massive, possibly fatal, blow; and we can expect to see the Brexit Party getting a much larger Westminster voice come the next GE. Which is why I consider talk of Boris disappointing Brexit voters, if he gets in, very unlikely to be true.

Meanwhile I see the papers are making political capital all over their front pages by making a mountain out of a molehill. Must be a slow news period.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Which is why I consider talk of Boris disappointing Brexit voters, if he gets in, very unlikely to be true//

In order to avoid disappointment we have two cases, OG: a renegotiated deal which is separation without vassalage and war reparations, or out with no deal. The EU will not accept the first, and Boris or Hunt haven't got the bottle to go for the second.

This leaves a fudge and the Tory party cuffed, and the main challenge to a Boris premiership which is how long he can defer a general election and keep his new flat. Without a real Brexit we know from the EU elections that the Tory vote has collapsed to less than 30%. Which gives the remain party (Corbyn) the reins of power, innit?

[vetuste_ennemi]

And Project Fear hasn't got off the ground yet, has it, until Chavez (or is it Maduro) step in to explain to the Jims and others how easily wealth can be destroyed by stupid policies.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Nobody, of course, is suggesting that noble-minded men like Chavez or Maduro intended to impoverish their countrymen, only that they did.

[youngmafbog]

By 'eck. A steaming row with the Mrs.

Well at least he stood up to her so perhaps he'll stand up to Tusk & Co unlike lilly livered May.

I dont give a jot about his home life besides the fact this is being blown up by the left wing neighbors who hate him - leaving anti Boris notes on his car etc.

[ladybirder]

Will be interesting to hear the recording. Another neighbour said he was speaking quietly and calmly and it was her who was screaming, shouting and throwing things.

[ToraToraTora]

so he had a domestic, big deal!

[jourdain2]

They'd had a big day, been to a party (probably a fair bit of champagne) and had a row - it's a new-ish relationship and this seems pretty normal to me. Every couple quarrels sometimes. Churchill used to get blotto, but did the job he needed to do - then there's Lloyd George, of course. John Major and Edwina …... I daresay the vast majority of our P.Ms. had colourful private lives. I'm fairly sure that Mrs. May did not have a colourful private life - 'nuff said? The question is 'Can he do the job?' I suspect that he can, brilliantly, but he's a politician so am prepared to be disappointed.

[Old_Geezer]

No point in bluffing when it's obvious it will be called. No deal has been the only honourable option for some time now. Devastating one's party's future might concentrate the mind on finding bottle.