Boris and the Brexit Gaffe.

[Notch7]

There are some on here whose hatred of Boris has clearly become a mental health issue, I urge them to seek help.
Littlejohn sums it up nicely.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Boys in the Bubble are in a ludicrous fit (msn.com)

This is another one of those days when it’s difficult to know where to start. Never underestimate the ability of our political class to disappear up their own backsides.

As hypersonic bombs rained down on Ukraine, the Westminster village spent the weekend convulsed in a ludicrous fit of faux outrage over Boris and Brexit.

The catalyst was a speech the Prime Minister gave in Blackpool, in which he had the audacity to say the vote to leave the EU in 2016 demonstrated the British and Ukrainian people shared a belief in freedom and the right to self-determination.

It was blindingly obvious that Boris was talking about a common aspiration, not drawing parallels between a democratic peacetime referendum and armed resistance to an unprovoked foreign invasion.

As the Health Secretary Sajid Javid said yesterday: ‘I don’t think in any way he was connecting the situations in Ukraine and the UK. Most normal people listening wouldn’t have drawn that conclusion.’

Trouble is, when it comes to the political class you’re not dealing with normal people. You are dealing with a cohort of blinkered self-obsessives for whom Boris and Brexit-bashing is their default position.

With depressing predictability, the Bubble went ballistic, demanding that Johnson apologise and withdraw his remarks. The Twittersphere and the airwaves lit up like the night sky over Kyiv.

Ian Blackford, the porky pub bore who leads Wee Burney’s Toytown Tartanistas at Westminster, called the speech ‘morally repugnant’. Embittered Tory Remoaners, denied career advancement under Boris, piled in. Her Majesty’s Official Opposition had an attack of the vapours.

That paragon of veracity Alastair Campbell — Lord Dodgy of Dossier and a man who knows all about illegal wars — took time off from banging on about his mental health issues to accuse the Prime Minister of ‘debasing’ himself.

Back to the puzzle factory, Ally.

Remoaners were given free rein by the BBC to peddle their false narrative. On Not The Andrew Marr Show, Sophie Raworth allowed Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves to deliver an uninterrupted party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party.

When it was Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s turn, Raworth tried five times to get him to disown Boris’s remarks before moving on to the more pressing business of tackling the cost-of-living crisis. Even then, she couldn’t let him go without asking whether Boris should resign if he gets a fixed-penalty notice over Partygate. Don’t these people ever take a day off?

The Guardian breathlessly reported the ‘fury’ of superannuated Eurocrats Donald Tusk and Guy Verhofstadt, who curiously enough described the Prime Minister as ‘insane’.

In tomorrow’s Guardian: What Bears Do In The Woods — Exclusive! Two serious Sunday newspapers decided the fake furore over the speech was the most important story in the world over the weekend.

Underlying all this bogus ‘controversy’ was the clear implication that if only Britain had voted to stay in the EU, the Russian invasion would never have happened.

Don’t blame Putin, blame Boris.

That decrepit old federast Michael Heseltine said: ‘I am ashamed the country that within my lifetime saved European democracy has now absented itself and others must now determine Europe’s response.’

Time for your nap, Hezza.

On the contrary, Britain has led the European response, sending tens of millions of pounds worth of arms and support to Ukraine and rallying international backing for tough economic sanctions. Our Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has played a blinder. We couldn’t have done more, short of military intervention.

Boris may be a pariah in the imagination of his political enemies at home, but he’s a national hero in Ukraine — the most popular politician after their President Zelensky.

Sadly, the Boris-bashers can’t see beyond their own domestic hatred and jealousy. Elsewhere, the usual suspects are lining up to attack the Tories for not taking in enough refugees, ignoring the fact that, Ireland aside, Britain is the furthest point west from Ukraine.

They also disregard the 150,000 British people who have responded magnificently to the Government’s appeal to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the war.

Oh, I almost forgot. It has also been reported in the most censorious terms that on the night before the Russian invasion the Conservatives held a fundraising dinner in London.

Boris turned up for ten minutes and gave a brief speech before making his excuses and leaving.

What is the point of this story? That a dinner which must have taken months to organise should have been cancelled on the off-chance that war might break out in Ukraine the following morning?

Talk about clutching at straws.

Surely it’s not too much to hope that at a time of international crisis, with Ukraine in flames and a nuclear-armed dictator threatening to ignite World War III, our navel-gazing political class might forget their petty, point-scoring parochial prejudices and take their heads out of their own backsides for five minutes.

Only a fool would post such utter tripe to support their argument.

Filly, you are really soiling yourself now

 

[JohnD]

 

[The Samaritan]

Only a fool would post such utter tripe to support their argument.

Filly, you are really soiling yourself now

Why be so nasty to the poster???
Just shows you've lost the argument

FYI, to me Boris is a clown.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

 

[JP_]

The Tories seem to be on an anti-EU crusade at the moment. The Spring budget was full of allegations that the EU was the cause of our problems that the Tory budget was now fixing. They are just building up the idea in the public's minds that the EU is bad, so no matter how **** things get over the next year for UK voters, people will still think the Tory party are the ones trying to make it better. Even though they are the cause of most of our problems.

New Tory slogan:

Blame the EU. Blame Covid. Blame the War.

 

[The Samaritan]

The Tories seem to be on an anti-EU crusade at the moment. The Spring budget was full of allegations that the EU was the cause of our problems that the Tory budget was now fixing. They are just building up the idea in the public's minds that the EU is bad, so no matter how **** things get over the next year for UK voters, people will still think the Tory party are the ones trying to make it better. Even though they are the cause of most of our problems.

New Tory slogan:

Blame the EU. Blame Covid. Blame the War.

Which planet you living on???

 

[JP_]

Which planet you living on???

Obviously a different one to you!

 

[The Samaritan]

Obviously a different one to you!

Looks like you are on Uranus judging by your delusional posting.

 

[ajohn]

He effectively related the EU to Putin's Russia. A typically stupid thing to say as his own party knows. These come out now and again.

It's just an indication of the result of choosing a leader likely to help win an election rather than being truly fit for the job. He is a newspaper columnist well used to saying what ever he likes to suite his narrative. In some respects that reflects on the top strata of the Tory party - well used to getting away with saying all sorts of things aimed at achieving their agenda. Often far too simplistic with no mention of the implications. Even the spring budget has a number of them.

 

[JP_]

He is a newspaper columnist well used to saying what ever he likes to suite his narrative

Yeah, and being sacked for it. Twice.

About time he scored a hat trick.

 

[JP_]

Looks like you are on Uranus judging by your delusional posting.

Which bit did you find delusional?

 

[The Samaritan]

No one taught you manners!!!!!!

 

[fillyboy]

He effectively related the EU to Putin's Russia. A typically stupid thing to say as his own party knows. These come out now and again.

Is it that stupid though John?, given that Renault have resumed car production in Russia and the remaining countries are still buying oil and gas from Russia at the moment.

I know that alternatives for oil/gas need to be found, and given that Saudi/UAE aren't even taking phone calls from Biden that's not going to be easy, personally I suspect the reason for the release of the 'ungrateful one' from Iran has a lot more to do with bringing more oil on line from Iran than the sack of money we gave back to them, well, that and a return to the deal that allows Iran to have nukes in 2.5 years time.

 

[fillyboy]

Yeah but what are the grown ups talking about?

 

[JP_]

the remaining countries are still buying oil and gas from Russia at the moment.

So is the uk. Should we just turn the heat off, close businesses, factories, schools?

The eu are united in standing up the Russia, something they made very clear in their last meeting.