Boris Goes ( Finally )

[Peter Pedant]

Are you all dead out there ?
Boris has given his farewell speech

Boris lies as he leaves no 10 -listing his successes and strengths
in fact listing the problems he leaves lovely Liz

a lot of ideas said one hack, that have still to be realised

what do all the ABers think? once they have imbibed their coffee

[ToraToraTora]

Still waiting for an example of a porky.

[FatticusInch]

ToraToraTora
//Still waiting for an example of a porky.//

You’ve had plenty.
Time you stopped lying to yourself.

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-claims-forgot-chris-pincher-public-lied-to-1724416

Even worse, he’s terrible at it too.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/chris-pincher-boris-johnson-lies-donald-trump-b2115915.html?amp

[naomi24]

//The rules were either changed or they weren't - which was it? //

They were.

//To speed up the competition, the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers on Monday opted to increase the number of backers that a candidate needed from eight to 20, and ruled that they would need at least 30 votes to get past the first round. //

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/11/britain-new-pm-5-september-tory-leadership-rules-announced

[youngmafbog]

Wasting your time Naomi, the usual wont read and take in what you have shown as it doesnt fit the mantra.

[naomi24]

YMB, one does one's best to educate. ;o)

[Ellipsis]

They were the rules for electing a new leader, Naomi, not the rules for getting rid of the old one - rules that the Tories inflicted upon themselves, nothing to do with any lefties. The fourth Tory leader in six years, what a palaver. Nobody changed any rules to get rid of Boris, the Tories just applied the rules they already had ... like they did with Theresa May before him.

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, //Nobody changed any rules to get rid of Boris//

He didn't say they did. He was talking about the election of his replacement. How's your foot?

[Peter Pedant]

// YMB, one does one's best to educate. ;o)//
great idea Naomi - when do you start ?
ter daah !

Boris's great rule change above - it doesnt benefit or disadvantage him
so as Naomi might educate us with: "completely irrelevant"

however Boris rule change over the naughty MP
would have rendered a dirty corrupt MP - as innocent
( no wonder the people cried enough)

[Peter Pedant]

// He didn't say they did. // I thought it might come down to this.

BlahBlah XYZ - - I never said he was a paragon of truth -
oh OK you agree he is a damned liar - no I did NOT....
( famous words) I want to clarify what I said.....
..Blahblah not XYZ

The usual AB game

[MissTerious]

TTT. She may be but the biggest mistake in history has to be booting out the best PM since TGL because of a nonce and a slice of cake.

Absolutely agree. The rest of the word must be laughing at us!! It's pathetic.

[Ellipsis]

> He was talking about the election of his replacement.

No he wasn't, he was talking about his own downfall! Here is the start of the speech:

Well this is it folks

thanks to all of you for coming out so early this morning

In only a couple of hours from now I will be in Balmoral to see Her Majesty The Queen

and the torch will finally be passed to a new Conservative leader

the baton will be handed over in what has unexpectedly turned out to be a relay race

they changed the rules half-way through but never mind that now

[naomi24]

// in what has unexpectedly turned out to be a relay race

they changed the rules half-way through //

He wasn't in the relay race. Not even a good try, Ellipsis. You've made a bloomer. Accept it.

[Ellipsis]

Oh dear, you've lost the plot. "The baton will be handed over" - the baton he's talking about is the baton of leadership, being passed from him to Liz Truss. So he is in the relay race, just like Cameron and May before him, and now Truss after him. No rules were changed, the existing rules were applied.

[FatticusInch]

Boris is a proven liar, the Borstriches rail against the undeniable truth.
Lied to his previous employers, lied to his previous wives and mistresses, lied to the Queen, lied to the public, lied to Parliament.

That’s why his party got rid of him and a record number of ministers resigned in one day.

He’s a liar. End of.

[Peter Pedant]

I took
"they changed the rules" - as applying to his own downfall and election of a replacement

but I am quite prepared to be told he was doing a classic PP ( geddit? classic) - talk about X , slip in an a sly and botchy aside about Y, and then lurch back to X again

and then going on about Cincinnatus, ( much more like, Sejanus, caligula, nero , agripina and a few others you have no idea about) - I got the icky feeling Fastticus describes

[Peter Pedant]

the baton will be handed over
coming from someone who has clung onto the baton well beyond its slip-to-someone-else date

and well into the anyone-else date

voooommmittttt

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, //To speed up the competition, the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers on Monday opted to increase the number of backers that a candidate needed from eight to 20, and ruled that they would need at least 30 votes to get past the first round. //

Which bit of that^ don't you understand? He wasn't in the 'race'.

[Ellipsis]

Naomi, I understand all of that and more. It's quite clear that you don't understand Boris's speech, what he's referring to when he says

> and the torch will finally be passed to a new Conservative leader
> the baton will be handed over in what has unexpectedly turned out to be a relay race

The torch, the baton ... they're the same thing: the mantle of leadership, passing from him to Liz Truss.

[naomi24]

Ellisis, // I understand all of that //

In that case you'll understand that the rules were changed.

[Ellipsis]

Not the rules that lost Boris his job, which is what he was talking about.