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Boris Johnson: a genuine concern...

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SteveT

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I quite agree with your concerns and did not intend to sound patronising, I just can't take them seriously at my time of life, but you are young and consequently have different values.

I think you will be older than me before the bnp are any type of force to be reckoned with, and that's really old.

  • 11 years later...
bignumber5

bignumber5

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I called it 11 years ago...



bignumber5 Wrote:

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> Is it just me that is really worried by Boris

> Johnson?

>

> The media focus seems to be stuck on the bumbly

> side, the loveable "he's a bit daft but not so

> bad" side, and glossing over the fact that he's

> hardcore right wing in a way that george dubya

> would be proud of. It really concerns me that many

> a-poorly considered vote will go his way from

> those who want a change from Ken and think Boris

> looks like a fairly safe and harmless alternative.

> Even today's revelation that a senior transport

> bod will quit if Boris takes office is still being

> played down, with no news show giving decent

> attention to exactly what about him it is that

> makes senior officals consider their position:

> which is more likely, being ashamed of being

> embarassed of working with bumbling boris, or not

> wanting to be associated with the administration

> of the 21st Century London-only Mrs Thatch?

>

> Thoughts?

Loutwo

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Nah you didn?t call it 11 years ago. Self congratulation won?t gloss over the fact he?s pretty much a one nation Tory trying to wear Thatcherite clothing, mostly because the chameleon is happy being disguised in whatever clothing suit his political purpose ie ?Brexit?...... next....


Louisa.

TheCat

TheCat

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Now, cards on the table, I have serious concerns over our new prime minister...I think he's self-serving and untrustworthy. He believes in nothing, but will promise you everything....


But.....here's an idea for labour and the lib dems: stop behaving as though Boris is Hitler with blonde hair.


You're making the same mistake the Tories did when they relentlessly went after Corbyn during the early days of his leadership. When the public finally got a proper look at him, during the 2017 election campaign, they were expecting Corbyn to be a gibbering communist lunatic, it quickly emerged that he was nothing of the sort, and from that moment onward it was impossible to make any dirt stick to him - the public had been lied to and misled, clearly this was an establishment plot to slander Jeremy and they weren't having it.


The same thing will happen if you keep banging the "He's a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic hatemonger who wants to kill the poor" line of attack. It's at best a gross exaggeration and is largely based on comments he made a decade ago, most of which have been taken wildly out of context. Don't dream that Boris won't be expecting the leftish media and Corbyistas to come at him with their clippings from articles he wrote in the noughties, and don't dream he won't have well-rehearsed rebuttals up his sleeve.


Focus on policy and you might do well, focus on Johnson's character and you're f@cked. Learn the lesson of 2017, and learn the lessons of Trump.....all the mass protests and moaning before he?d actually done anything just served to turn any potentially more liberal supporters off listening when there was something more tangible to protest about....


Rant over.

uncleglen

uncleglen

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I will be very interested to see how the awful situation surrounding the 'No Outsiders' primary school Equality Programme develops as, since Easter, there have been disruptive demonstrations outside Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, and this week outside a Notingham primary as they did not break up until today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-49110151

uncleglen

uncleglen

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fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> UG, nice to see you are so concerned about LGBT

> equality.


Having worked in several catholic 'institutions' in South London I am very concerned about LGBT equality and regularly donate to Stonewall.

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