The Hypocricy Of Boris

[diddlydo]

So how does he square his getaway to Mustique with his new year message re being "friends and equals"? Frankly, it stinks.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/24/boris-carrie-jet-off-mustique-new-year-holiday-11955639/

and

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/31/lets-be-friends-boris-johnson-new-year-message-remainers

[Theland]

Me? Anybody who cares about the poor.
There has been no compassion in politics for years, from Cameron / Clegg, Cameron, and then May.
They worshipped austerity like it was a new religion, and when it didn't work, they gave us, yes, more austerity.
The economics of the madhouse.

[Togo]

Little explanation for you. Champagne Socialist only want champagne available for themselves and their cronies, whereas the conservative thinkers amongst us think that is rather a good tipple for everyone who has earned it. Do you understand the difference?


Though not.

[Atheist]

I think you didn't understand me, Togo.

[Theland]

Togo - How does that work, when it works?
It has not worked so far has it?

[Togo]

//It has not worked so far has it?//

You mean of course that it hasn't worked for you. Then your backstop is blame everyone else and get a can of white lightning open.

//I think you didn't understand me, Togo.//

You have been as wrong as that on many occasions I'm sure. I understand you far better than you are comfortable with. Just swallow your own poison and shush for a while. :))

[Theland]

Togo - What are you talking about?
Worked for me?
What makes you say that?

[naomi24]

Diddly, //Too many traditional Labour voters lent their vote to Boris because they wanted Brexit and for no other reason//

Not so. Do you want to live in a country resembling the USSR, or East Germany, or current day Venezuela, or the former Yugoslavia? No? Well neither do the people who voted Conservative - and for very good reason. Get your head out of the sand and get with the times. Your brand of politics is finished - and hallelujah to that!

[tonyav]

I would have preferred a Labour government because they look after the working man

Labour doesn't represent the'Working Man' though, and the 'Working Man' has made it obvious that they don't want a Corbynist government.

[naomi24]

//I would have preferred a Labour government because they look after the working man //

Right! That's why the last time they were given the chance they abolished the basic rate of income tax designed to help the low paid, rifled the working man's pension pot, and sold the country's gold reserves at knock down prices. You people live either in ignorance or denial. I've never sure which.

Theland, since when did austerity affect you? You were a high earner so, apart from receiving the State pension which others seem to manage on without moaning continually as you do, where's the pension that ought to be attached to your years of lucrative earning?

[sevenOP]

My, my. Such a 'contentious' thread, careful it doesn't banned.

[naomi24]

^Smarting. Never mind.

[Theland]

Yes Naomi you are quite right.
I have my state pension and a company pension.
Left to my own devices I would be quite comfortable, but over the years I have stepped,in to help my kids who are not as well off as me.
But I don't thank any Tory,policies for my lot, and have witnessed like many have, the running down of the services we cherished.

[naomi24]

You don't thank Tory policies for your lot, Theland? What is your 'lot' and what do you expect society to give you? You're not unique. Most people help their children - and most have no expectation from society to buoy them up because most take responsibility for themselves. Stop playing the martyr. It doesn't wash.

[sevenOP]

Naomi -- "^Smarting"

About what Naomi ??

[Theland]

Ha ha martyr? You kidding me?
No police on the streets, cuts to council services, a creaking NHS, schools showing the strain, especially primary schools where six of my grandkids attend.
Lots more to add to the list, but your ignorance of real life is breathtaking.
You need to take,off the rose tinted glasses.
All is not well.

[naomi24]

All is not well - and it never will be well - at least to your satisfaction, Theland.

[Theland]

Your privelege blinds you.

[sevenOP]

Naomi -- "^Smarting"

About what Naomi ??

Can of worms got your tongue, Naomi ?

[naomi24]

I don't have privilege. What we have we've worked for.

[naomi24]

Sorry sevenOP. I didn't think your question was serious. Let's just say 3rd ... or is it 4th? ... avatar within an alarmingly short space of time. A busy bunny - if not a happy one. :o)