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The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
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.
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.
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.
// 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.
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.
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.
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.
//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?
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?
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.