The I cant believe it’s not politics thread.

[RoboFox]

3 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Evil Jarvis Cocker is backing you know who 

 

 

Not surprising. Johnson is the only one thick enough to give the disgusting cvnt a job. 

[Unabomber]

It’s actually sickening that these cretins are backing Boris and being serious. It’s honesty more mental than a black mirror episode. 

[StanSP]

 

 

[Foxdiamond]

6 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Not surprising. Johnson is the only one thick enough to give the disgusting cvnt a job. 

If JRM is a supporter you know its wrong

[foxile5]

It'll be Boris 'he's my mate' Johnson and the country will showcase its supplicance to privileged folk by conveniently forgetting the 18 months of sleaze. 

 

I ****ing HATE this public. 

[Daggers]

It ought to be legal to kick the living shit out of anybody saying Johnson should become PM again. Anyone that terminally ****ing stupid clearly has more in common with land masses than sentient beings.

[MustardTiger]

BoJo 2: Electric Boogaloo

[urban.spaceman]

 

[RoboFox]

15 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

It'll be Boris 'he's my mate' Johnson and the country will showcase its supplicance to privileged folk by conveniently forgetting the 18 months of sleaze. 

 

I ****ing HATE this public. 

The cult of personality politics. 

 

People have short memories and low IQs.

 

Keep the electorate dumb, and keep the turkeys voting for Christmas.

[Dahnsouff]

32 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

It'll be Boris 'he's my mate' Johnson and the country will showcase its supplicance to privileged folk by conveniently forgetting the 18 months of sleaze. 

 

I ****ing HATE this public. 

Cannot decide if those that would vote for Boris would hate you or be indifferent to your hatred

[SecretPro]

1 minute ago, Dahnsouff said:

Cannot decide if those that would vote for Boris would hate you or be indifferent to your hatred

They don't live in the real world so I would suggest they just wouldn't notice.

[Jon the Hat]

20 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

The cult of personality politics. 

 

People have short memories and low IQs.

 

Keep the electorate dumb, and keep the turkeys voting for Christmas.

Most people aren’t very clever.  It’s a fact.

[Dunge]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

Evil Jarvis Cocker is backing you know who 

 

 

By “Bust”, I’m assuming he means Penny Mordaunt?

[kingkisnorbo]

Just incase anybody needed a reminder. 

[st albans fox]

Anyone who is bored  enough to read what I post on here will know that as soon as she was confirmed ahead of Mordaunt, truss would be  a holding PM for the return of boris. 
 

(she may not have realised this btw)

 

But it’s all happened way faster than his supporters planned. He still hasn’t had the standards and privileges investigation take place.
There is a huge risk that if he is chosen to lead again, that we just have more uncertainty and chaos as these hearings take place and potentially, he has to resign if he’s found guilty. 
 

I suppose his core support are calculating that he only has one chance to come back and they are screwed at the next GE if he doesn’t. So if he is forced out then they’ve lost nothing. They only care about themselves 

 

[HighPeakFox]

All of us writing here are way more politically and actually literate than vast swathes of the public. I often have had this with my family, they assume, wrongly, that everyone sees things as they do. 

 

I think most on here don't make that mistake, but I suspect we all underestimate the pig-headed ignorance that so many of our countrymen celebrate as a virtue, and wave it proudly like a flag. 

[Dahnsouff]

12 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

All of us writing here are way more politically and actually literate than vast swathes of the public. I often have had this with my family, they assume, wrongly, that everyone sees things as they do. 

 

I think most on here don't make that mistake, but I suspect we all underestimate the pig-headed ignorance that so many of our countrymen celebrate as a virtue, and wave it proudly like a flag. 

Perhaps or it could be that the high degree of sanctimony of the political party in opposition proliferates the behaviour, and actually encourages entrenchment

[SecretPro]

3 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Perhaps or it could be that the high degree of sanctimony of the political party in opposition proliferates the behaviour, and actually encourages entrenchment

Yes, people don't like to be wrong, or proven wrong.

 

My own parents fall into this category.

[Foxdiamond]

17 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

All of us writing here are way more politically and actually literate than vast swathes of the public. I often have had this with my family, they assume, wrongly, that everyone sees things as they do. 

 

I think most on here don't make that mistake, but I suspect we all underestimate the pig-headed ignorance that so many of our countrymen celebrate as a virtue, and wave it proudly like a flag. 

I too depair of our public. There are probably about 20% that never vote that would benefit from a Labour government or at least not Tories. Others seem to choose on the same basis as picking a favourite from an Ant @ Dec show. Funny though that Johnson was ridiculed by them. Can you imagine having to sack an employee for dishonesty only for the same bloke to reapply for the same job 6 weeks later.

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, SecretPro said:

Yes, people don't like to be wrong, or proven wrong.

 

My own parents fall into this category.

As do mine, conversations some times swiftly need to be taken in a different direction

[SecretPro]

11 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

As do mine, conversations some times swiftly need to be taken in a different direction

Sad though isn't it.

 

I can no longer talk Politics with them. In fact, most of the time I can no longer spend more than 15 minutes in their company as the void between us politically, socially, environmentally is just so vast that one way or another the conversations descend into conversations not worth having.

Edited 21 October 2022 by SecretPro

[Fazzer 7]

There are only 2 candidates rumoured to be standing with any credibility in my view. Sunak and Mordaunt. 

[fox_up_north]

16 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

Yes, people don't like to be wrong, or proven wrong.

 

My own parents fall into this category.

Which is a shame. I'm guilty of it and I actually think social media has worsened this. 

 

Get something wrong and own up to it? Plenty of pitchforks come out. 

 

I work in education. Mistakes are a daily part of the job. Getting things wrong helps you learn. It's ok to be wrong IF you learn from it. 

 

[RoboFox]

9 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

Sad though isn't it.

 

I can no longer talk Politics with them. In fact, most of the time I can no longer spend more than 15 minutes in their company as the void between us politically, socially, environmentally is just so vast that one way or another the conversations descent into conversations not worth having.

My best friend of 20 years votes Conservative. He, like me, comes from a largely working class family.

We barely talk politics, but I know he doesn't really follow it closely... He just "is" a Conservative voter and won't be swayed. There's no way he'd vote Labour I think largely because all of our other shared mates are raging lefties.

 

He's purched himself on his hill and that's it. He won't be proven wrong. I partly think he does it just to be antagonistic TBH.

[yorkie1999]

#BorisOrbust. What does that actually mean, it's obviously a play on shit or bust, so is Rees-Mogg saying if Johnson doesn't become leader, the party goes bust, or is the the country.