The Corbynista Year

I notice that Boris gave a stirring speech yesterday in the Tory conference, which is just what this country needs at this time of leaving the basket case of the EU! Instead we have the wishy washy May, who we all know will get Jack Shit out of the EU plonkers! People perceive Boris as being stupid and indeed slightly mad, but oh how he would shake things up. On the other hand, Corbett is perceived as being almost normal by many! When in reality, he is so far removed from...well reality, that he should join the Labour party! Wait a minute...

I'm guessing you're a remainer Rob? Which means you are quite happy to let our Theresa sell this country down the river with her watered down version of Brexit! I on the other hand don't really care who does it as long as they fight our corner, which she is clearly not doing! Yes, Boris is certainly a strange character ( that's what this country needs though, someone with character ) but give me him any day to fight our corner, or Nigel   or even Corbett...Well, maybe not Corbett! 

We were never going to get out of the EU without a brouhaha of course, as can be seen at the moment. Hopefully, the EU will implode before too long...Catalonia...Mass Immigration...seemingly it owes 20 Trillion (which it will expect us to pay of course)...I could go on! The EU is a basket case, if only we had a basket case to get us out of it...wait a minute!

I was more interested in what you said about Boris Johnson, Reg. Brexit/Remain, left/centre/right, British/foreign. There's plenty across the political spectrum who view him in the way I described. The latest Conservative backlash against him really only serves to highlight the point.

Sorry to hear AJ that you consider the Conservative Party to have too many 'Reds in the Bed'. You'll be decrying multi-leader UKIP as lefties soon. That's if you haven't already.

Yeah. Was surprised there was still anyone thinking he was doing a good job after this week of all weeks, tbh. Each to their own.

Heseltine was far more principled compared to the shifting sands that is BJ. He stepped down from a cabinet position in 1986 and challenged leadership from outside that cabinet after four years, resisting the clamour of others from within his parliamentary party to challenge a leader growing in unpopularity from 1989 to his eventual role, after both the resignations of Lawson and, most importantly Howe, in her downfall in November 1990. He stood for something, whether you agreed with his stance or not. BJ stands for absolutely nothing but himself. He is considerably later to the Brexit party than Reg's mate Corbett, and merely adopted Brexit as part of a leadership strategy to challenge his old student debating Bullingdon understudy and upstart, Cameron, and is bickering from inside this Cabinet.

Heseltine resigned from cabinet as he disagreed with the position of the leadership. BJ? Heseltine was published extensively already on potential differences that might emerge with his own position on Europe and his party leader before entering office and when his leader's views and his own clashed over Westland in 1986, he took his leave and resigned from office. He wasn't the only one to do the same. By contrast, BJ is a f**k**g coward and would shit himself if his bluff was called and he was crowned before the current mess of Brexit reaches 24 months.

BJ's impassioned pro-immigration comments immediately after the referendum result with the only audience being preached to his leadership voting parliamentary party colleagues and his reactivation of the bullshit NHS cash windfall bus pledge recently merely underline his unprincipled and opportunistic nature. He wants a distance from this mess while sat at the Foreign Office. Look at him cowering and showering his praise of May tonight while he assesses which of the half who want her gone and which of the half who want him gone might sway at a later date. He's already working on a strategy to counter May's promised Florence speech revision promised by her for Tuesday. All while still holding a position in her cabinet.

No, the Heseltine comparison might have similarity on the surface, Flo, but you are talking about two very different characters here imo. Interesting that it is Heseltine that the news are going to for sound bites about BJ presently, though. Him and Ken Clarke.

None of the established political parties particularly come out of the Brexit debacle with much credit. Conversely, BJ is only interested in what credit he might get out of his party from it. Currently, they are seeing through the shifting sands of his naked ambition and game play. Never mind - the student debate enthusiast and national embarrassment will keep on coming, I'm sure. It's all a Bullingdon Club game to him, after all.

1. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959354/Boris-voted-Brexit-spite-David-Cameron.html

2. In his Sunday Telegraph article today, Mr Johnson added that only "nutters" in the party want to oust the Prime Minister, saying he backed her to secure a "great and successful Brexit".

1. Unprincipled opportunistic 2. Coward

BJ on Sunday.

It's the right wing press writing this stuff. In the case of the Sunday Telegraph, it's BJ himself.