Boris's Shield

[gulliver1]

Is Boris running out of people to shield him, to hide his own incompetence
He refused to sack Cummings for breaking the rules when he drove to Barnard Castle for an eye test. He refused to sack Hancock for rule breaking (ETC). He supports Robert Jenrick for helping a millionare Crony.
He supports Bully Prity Patel .
And supports utterly useless gavin Williamson. These are his get out clauses to blame when things go wrong. It's never Boris's fault.

[ToraToraTora]

maggie: "Surely if they dumped their leader they would still have a 78 seat majority, just a different (better?) person at the helm?" - yes they would but they'd have an angry public, and and angry ex PM, plenty of MPs would lose their seats at the next election. You see the one thing you lefty types cannot grasp is that despite your whinings and the media's plonkery the PM is popular in the country and Tories are not sentimental, they want to hang on to their seats at all costs, if that means dumping a leader they'll do it, in this case it means NOT dumping a leader.

[pastafreak]

Maggie's question is still unanswered. Why label all who disagree as leftie?

[maggiebee]

TTT please stop calling me a "lefty type". You're probably right that the Tories will not dump their leader - why would they when they can do anything they like without censure. All the sleaze leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but for the moment I will just suck it up and wait.

[Atheist]

maggie... TTT loves Johnson because he sees that Johnson is in charge and he loves whoever is in charge. Once Johnson is not in charge, then TTT will have to find another hero. TTT would have loved Adolf when Adolf was in charge.

[ToraToraTora]

Godwins laws right there! PMSL! have fun lefties.

[gulliver1]

18.53 . You can always tell when TGT is losing an argument Maggie, when he starts calling people
"Lefties"

[Atheist]

Bye, TTT.

[gulliver1]

Boris prospered by
Fooling some of the people all of the time....and
All of the people some of the time .

[gulliver1]

But all the people aren't prepared to be fooled by Boris all the time....... Suddenly Boris is Mortal.......

[Peter Pedant]

I am used to it - the industry boss I worked in / for
was never wrong ....
just how things were

[theshedman]

If anyone on here disagrees with gulliver he says they have been radicalised. Is this really any different. People should be allowed to vote for whoever they want without being labeled one thing or another. Some of us change if we don't agree with what a party says they are going to do.

[carolegif]

I think Boris won’t be leading the Tories at the next election. Not sure who it will be. They will win though unless Labour sorts itself out. It is not good to have no real opposition.
Looking at the Batley and Spen bye election, Labour are having a rough time of it with all the factions squabbling between themselves. They need a stronger leader.

[gulliver1]

When Boris has gone, and people looks back on the reign of " Boris the Cynical manipulator."will they say that Hancock was his watershed.

[JimF]

"They need a stronger leader."

Unfortunately no-one in the PLP even remotely fits that description.

[JimF]

His 'watershed'? His 'Waterloo', maybe? Or are you trying to be really clever and you really meant 'Watergate'?

[gulliver1]

20.13 Call it what you like Jim , why not. I do.