Even if impolitic:
Boris Johnson asked: ‘Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway?’ during Covid
Making that only the second useful question assked after Jesse Norman’s “How much will this cost?”
Even if impolitic:
Boris Johnson asked: ‘Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway?’ during Covid
Making that only the second useful question assked after Jesse Norman’s “How much will this cost?”
To get rid of you, Boris.
The logical flaw in that, Steve, is: why would they want to get rid of him? He was pushing the green agenda, he was presiding over record illegal immigration, he was going to support Ukraine, and he was quite easily browbeaten over this.
@Interested: Brexit.
And perhaps even a residual fear that his scepticism about Received Wisdom might injure the Received Wisdomers.
@dearieme
I suppose – as a punishment, you mean? I still think – based on the number of Tory voters who still appear to think that ‘Boris’ is a loveable rogue who can safely be relied upon to stick it to the lefties, despite all evidence to the contrary – that hanging onto him would have been better than what came next.
But then I suppose I’m still slightly stuck in the old paradigm, that there are two competing parties, when in fact there is only one uniparty really.
They used to use bread and circuses to distract us from the politicians – now the politicians are themselves purveyors of bread and circuses, actors in a daily soap called Westminster.
Interested – The logical flaw in that, Steve, is: why would they want to get rid of him?
That’s only a logical flaw if you ignore what they did. Because they did use Covid to get rid of Boris.
They were, in fact, trying to fuck Boris and the British public over Brexit while he was in intensive care.
So the theory fits the facts. As for “why” Boris was Trump’d (run out of politics on a rail by weaponised officials), you’ll note that we’re no longer expecting the government to do anything remotely conservative and the curse of “populism” (voters thinking they have a say in how they are ruled) has been defeated in Airstrip One.
The last 13 years have been the Blue leg of a relay race. They’re about to smoothly hand over the baton to the Red team, as planned. The ultimate destination is the physical destruction of your ethnic group.
It’s the gaslighting that’ll drive you mad
The majority of people in this country wanted to Leave the EU and have been consistently voting for less immigration, less tax, and less woke for the last 13 years straight.
But turn on your telly (actually, don’t) or browse the internet or listen to our unelected Indian midget PM, and you’re beaten over the head with the false impression Britain is an African country that loves deviant sex and paying taxes.
You’re not the weirdo. They are.
That’s actually my point, Steve. There is no real blue or red team, and Johnson is one of them. Getting rid of him – though he hasn’t actually been got rid of, of course – is just another bit of the smoke and mirrors. It didn’t have to be done, it was just done to give mongs something to laugh and gibber about in between watching football or ‘Corrie’.
Just because it’s a uniparty & they all have the same agenda, that’s no reason for them not to fight like rats in a sack. Possibly more so. Remember, politics is never about policies & always about politicians’ individual interests.
Interested – That’s actually my point, Steve. There is no real blue or red team, and Johnson is one of them.
Not anymore, obvs.
You or I may think Boris is a fat, useless twat, and we’d probably be correct. But to the powerful people he alarmed and offended by winning a landslide majority off the back of Brexit, mobilising the plebs was unforgivable.
Remember – Brexit is supposed to be unpopular. Imagine how fucking annoyed they were at billions of pounds worth of incessant Rejoin propaganda was kicked in the balls by British voters in 2019.
That’s why, unlike disgraced loser former PMs such as Theresa May and Call Me Dave, he wasn’t even allowed to send a couple of his mates to the Lords.
He’s been Trump’d. Blackballed. Cast out of the kitchen supper set. If he keeps being annoying, they’ll debank him.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for who gets the chop here in Oz.
After all, they insisted on pushing a referendum for us to approve of being second class citizens and we didn’t. No doubt someone’ll be blamed for it. As well as us, I mean.
” There is no real blue or red team, and Johnson is one of them. Getting rid of him – though he hasn’t actually been got rid of, of course – is just another bit of the smoke and mirrors. It didn’t have to be done, it was just done to give mongs something to laugh and gibber about in between watching football or ‘Corrie’.”
It was Brexit Derangement Syndrome. It didn’t matter that Boris was doing pretty much all the things the Big State Blob wanted. He’d rebelled against them over Brexit, and that would never do. He was contaminated, he was not a True Believer, he was a potential source of more Brexit style apple cart upsetting. He had to go, to be replaced with someone who loved Big Blob, and could be trusted to implement everything they want unquestioningly.
Which is why Truss had to go as well. To be replaced with a Davos Man placeholder, Rishi Sunak, and then Starmer.
Steve,
Boris did it to himself by not saying “fuck off, we’re keeping things open”. Within a couple of months it was obvious that this killed old and sick people. There were even ways to mitigate that – they stay at home and volunteers deliver boxes of food or medicine.
Boris, like most of the Conservatives is weak. They go along with the civil servants. They forget they work for us, not them.
@Steve – “winning a landslide majority”
Boris didn’t win that majority – Corbyn did it. Given the choice was between them, the electorate probably did choose wisely.
A good number of conservative holds in 2019 were due to Farage’s decision to put the country first and not contest Tory held seats which could have split the Brexit vote thereby letting the Lib Dem’s in (despite Boris giving him f-all of nothing in return).
Corbyn certainly helped as well.
@Western Bloke
Within a couple of months it was obvious that this killed old and sick people. There were even ways to mitigate that – they stay at home and volunteers deliver boxes of food or medicine.
What really (mostly) killed old and sick people was first the withholding of prophylactics and treatments (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, others) and then – once they were admitted to hospital – the medical ‘care’ they received (withholding antibiotics, for the secondary infections which were often the actual cause of death, ventilation, midazolam etc).
We knew this from the Diamond Princess – a plague ship stuffed to the gunwhales with thousands of elderly people, many of them ‘Covid-positive’, who were confined to their cramped cabins, fed shite, treated abysmally, for weeks… and yet not one of them died until the ship was finally allowed to dock and they went to hospital.
Even then, almost no-one died, and those who did were very old and had just been subjected aboard ship to the most stressful and unpleasant treatment imaginable.
The political decision making had little to do with it. Once the teachers decided that that weren’t going into work for the duration it was game over as millions of parents needed to be home to look after their kids. After that lockdown was inevitable.