Rishi Sunak’s job, as leader of the Conservative party, was essentially to move the party out of Boris Johnson’s shadow. He failed to do so, and is now cursed by its malignant presence. It is why Sunak is now going to be attacked by his own side for ever failure and perceived failure, and Johnson grinning from the sidelines.
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Telegraph article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/10/boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-call-first-election/
Kwarteng article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/11/bring-back-boris-johnson-kwasi-kwarteng-tells-rishi-sunak
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Your last observation Phil is a phenomenal insight, you’re right it’s all about positioning for after the inevitable defeat…even if it whatever any rebels now advocate only hastens that defeat.
The Shadow of Your Lies When you say Goodbye.
But is Boris smart enough to win out over his ego? Given the chance?
One of the age-old complaints against God in the Bible is why things always work out so well for wicked people. Johnson being the par- excellent 21st century example.
Phil, why don´t you write a history of the Tory govt 2010 -2024?
I also remember Kwasimodo giggling in Westminster Abbey at the Queen's funeral! An embarrassing weirdo.
4:15 "An opposition that did not adapt to their own campaign…"? Phil, you forget that we were there. The party was being torn apart by internal tension between the leadership and a ruthless bunch of right-wing loons who would prefer to lose the most crucial general election for decades than submit to someone whose leanings were mildly left of center. To the point where they manufactured a crisis out of thin air in order to both discredit the party and its leader. Read the Labour antisemitism 2014-19 report, the EHRC report and the findings of the Forde report one after the other and it paints a dreadful picture of a minority group within the party pulling every dirty trick they could to get their own way.
I sometimes wonder why you and your compatriots are so set against Corbyn, when it was the anti-Corbyn group that truly lost us access to the single market and forced the leadership's hands in the opposite direction regarding Brexit. Rather than allowing rational discussion following the referendum, they turned it into yet another tool in their anti-socialist arsenal. If it weren't for them Labour may well have won in 2017 and we'd at worst be living with a soft Brexit and benefiting from Labour's prosperity plan.
Okay, so we're stuck with the aftermath of this shit show and have to work with what we've got, but can we not at least serve the truth and acknowledge the damage done by these idiots, so we can begin to work on damage limitation and try not to alienate those who should be our allies?
Is that Boris “The Liar” Johnson ?!?! 😡😡
Good old Boris Johnson..the man who screw up Ukraine deal😅😅😅 no more Oxford trash time to out labour and tories
Please Bring Johnson back “ t shirts for sale for charity as they were worn by every opposition MP in the commons
You really need to consider what that guy was saying about the vaccine and Bridgen about excess deaths. How the media has ignored it . This is the next scandal
Remember Phil, that the Conservative party elected Johnson as its leader in July 2019 knowing him to be dishonest, conspiratorial, selfish, wasteful, contemptuous and corrupt. It chose him because it regarded his ability to persuade (deceive) enough voters to support their candidates as an asset more valuable than his character defects. And that same culture Johnson introduced and practiced in government, influencing colleagues with little integrity and less shame to do likewise. Including Sunak. To remove that influence, a change of staff and approach from top to bottom is necessary.
Sunak would be better calling Charlie Chuck and using the slogan 'Donkey for PM… We had one before…' 😂
Any prime minister has to live in the shadow of his predecessors. However, when the current incumbent has absolutely no talent for the job, that legacy is disastrous; and it is doubly disastrous when his predecessors were equally useless nonentities.
"Like the wallpaper sticks to the wall
Like the seashore clings to the sea
Like you'll never get rid of your shadow
You'll never get rid of me
Let all the others fight and fuss
Whatever happens, we've got us" Taken from the song Me and My Shadow. I reckon this song was written for those two clowns who dared call themselves PM.
boris told lies but that was the only way to keep there coalition together
It's a big enough shadow.
I think the return of the Ignoramas Lard Arse would be even better for
Labour, bring it on🤣🤣
Another win for Putin in having Boris wreck the UK government and economy as well as dividing the EU.
Джонсон “won” his elections based on pathologically lying.
They must be desperate to bring back a toss pot like that
Starmer is trapped in Corbyns shadow
Surely Johnson can’t still be a paid up Tory member, Sunak should’ve expelled him. Someone else probably pays his membership though, like the rest of his entitled life.
The only certainty we have about what Johnson will do is that it won't involve any hard work.
The people currently leaning towards Reform UK generally love Johnson and would go back to the Tories if he came back
Bring back Bellendus Maximus. Please LOL
CONservatives run by CONmen
Sacked three times for LYING. Lying should have consequences, not being brought back into Politics. Austerity and Brexit the Silent Killers in our Midst, and THEY think Tax cuts are a good idea.
nobody can have you seen the size of him? 😂
I expect that following any prime minister as an unelected party leader leaves the new leader as a pale substitute in many party members eyes. Couple that with weak and unimaginative leadership and an obvious tendency to pander to various extreme groups within the party in order to stave off the threat of revolt, leaves almost everyone dissatisfied. Sunak was doomed from the start.
1:31 UPDATE: He wasn't lucky.
Johnson can't come back to Parliament anyway, can he? Didn't he resign in a huff after the privileges committee report damned him? If I recall correctly, he walked out of Parliament before a vote on the committee's report that would have suspended him for ninety days or so. So he can't just come back as if nothing ever happened, can he?
Putin outed Boris on Tucker Carlson as a war monger. And just before the interview is broadcast he’s trying to get the youth to join the military to be cannon fodder!!!
Why is Rishi Sunak so disliked by the Tory grassroots? Quite simple. It's a case of "…we're not racists but…". To misquote the Daily Mail.
Sunak is Johnson’s shadow. That’s all he ever can be. Not the greatest epitaph.
AND…. Today the Ides of March we have the news 'Britain is in a recession.'
Just replied and for some reason my message has disappeared. Not going through it again. To summarise: BOJO, Covid, callousness, lies, parties, when we could not visit family in hospital. Previous daughter scared because she was dying of cancer and I could not be with her. She was moved to the wonderful Wakefield Hospice, not funded by the government, reliant on fund-raising and donations. My previous daughter was frightened and I tried to.reassure her. She went into a deep sleep and died in the early hours. Hate Tories
Boris our great leader. 😊
If Dodge Johnson gets back in. That will show the state of the voters. Gullible and stupid.
Tory strategist: "Who could have possibly predicted that unleashing Brexidiocy and emboldening fascists could ever turn round and bite us?"
Labour strategist: "If just another two hundred Tory MPs slap their spad round the face with their wangers, we're golden."