I suspect the reality is that he was too lazy to make sure he was fully briefed. Of course, he probably also doesn't accept that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was really on holiday. After all, she didn't meet any foreign government ministers.

 

!!!!

 

:kink:

 

Full front page Mirror headline demanding mad May sack him.

Going back to the original point, why on earth would 'training journalists' be considered a crime, let alone one that would add 5 years onto a sentence?

Going back to the original point, why on earth would 'training journalists' be considered a crime, let alone one that would add 5 years onto a sentence?

 

nasty regime not keen on open democracy. Plenty of those about in the world...

Ok, we have ANOTHER (third?) BORIS Johnson gaffe just in these last two weeks.

 

"Boris Johnson has "sparked outrage" by appearing to back Spanish bullfighting, the Mirror reports. The paper says the foreign secretary dubbed attempts to ban the event "political correctness gone mad"."

 

TheMirror is goin at him again, god bless them. The blundering oaf is now showing his bloodthorsty, out o touch, old, sinister side again. Young Spanish largely HATE bullfighting. It is an archaic and brutal bloodsport. Banning it however is an internal Spanish matter, although it brings huge intetnational disrepute, especially when the pro-union lot try to stop Cataluña from banning it in their territory :o

 

For Boris to stick his oar in and to say animal suffering is just 'political correctness gone mad' shows he lives in a different world and is callous. This will bring MORE shame on thr UK, esp with Spanish youth and other countries. Every time this moron speaks, as - inexplicably - foreign secretary, it looks like he speaks for the UK and sets the UK's stance on issues.

 

Well past time for him to go.

 

He just gets more and more disgusting.

 

And oops, even THE SUN NEWSPAPER is calling him 'bungling Boris' and wanting him to get thr sack! One of their top stories is how the Spanish mps were 'fuming' and 'antagonised' and calling him a 'clown' after he lectured them on keeping the 'sport'!! P.R DISASTER.

Ok, we have ANOTHER (third?) BORIS Johnson gaffe just in these last two weeks.

 

"Boris Johnson has "sparked outrage" by appearing to back Spanish bullfighting, the Mirror reports. The paper says the foreign secretary dubbed attempts to ban the event "political correctness gone mad"."

 

TheMirror is goin at him again, god bless them. The blundering oaf is now showing his bloodthorsty, out o touch, old, sinister side again. Young Spanish largely HATE bullfighting. It is an archaic and brutal bloodsport. Banning it however is an internal Spanish matter, although it brings huge intetnational disrepute, especially when the pro-union lot try to stop Cataluña from banning it in their territory :o

 

For Boris to stick his oar in and to say animal suffering is just 'political correctness gone mad' shows he lives in a different world and is callous. This will bring MORE shame on thr UK, esp with Spanish youth and other countries. Every time this moron speaks, as - inexplicably - foreign secretary, it looks like he speaks for the UK and sets the UK's stance on issues.

 

Well past time for him to go.

 

You know why he doesn't get fired, right?

Now Gove has decided to stick his oar in and make matters worse. When asked in an interview this morning what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran, he answered "I don't know". He must have known he would be asked about it, so we can only assume that he thought pleading ignorance was a better idea than being seen to criticise Johnson. Clearly Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's future is not something they wish to see interfere with their unbending ambition.

Now Gove has decided to stick his oar in and make matters worse. When asked in an interview this morning what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran, he answered "I don't know". He must have known he would be asked about it, so we can only assume that he thought pleading ignorance was a better idea than being seen to criticise Johnson. Clearly Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's future is not something they wish to see interfere with their unbending ambition.

 

Benefit of the doubt. He really IS ignorant, alternatively.....

 

(that's always been my theory :lol: )

 

Mind you, he probably wants to support Boris Johnson as much as he did in the leadership campaign when he stabbed him in the back and was thrown into the political cold until it became helpful to Mad May to have him on side in her wild-eyed quest for a WTO Hard Brexit excommunicated UK.

 

"Nothing has changed!" she shrieked after the general election, her harpy wings flapping in the cold still air, "Nothing. Has. Changed."

 

Looks like you have to actually try to do the PM's job in secret to get sacked. Everything else is acceptable.

Amazingly, this thread has been quiet for a whole two months. It can be revived now though. It is being reported that Johnson twice managed to confuse Yemen and Lebanon in a Cabinet meeting. How much more evidence is required before his supporters accept that this fat lump is too lazy to bother reading his briefing papers?

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/9-bo...-mixes-11849144

 

It's a shame the Mirror haven't realised that the country dropped the definite article from its name decades ago, but I didn't want to link to the Mail or the Sun who have also reported this story. It's in the print version in the i but I couldn't find it on its rather limited website.

Amazingly, this thread has been quiet for a whole two months. It can be revived now though. It is being reported that Johnson twice managed to confuse Yemen and Lebanon in a Cabinet meeting. How much more evidence is required before his supporters accept that this fat lump is too lazy to bother reading his briefing papers?

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/9-bo...-mixes-11849144

 

It's a shame the Mirror haven't realised that the country dropped the definite article from its name decades ago, but I didn't want to link to the Mail or the Sun who have also reported this story. It's in the print version in the i but I couldn't find it on its rather limited website.

 

The Mail reported this one yesterday, but if I'd posted a Mail URL no-one would have read it. :rolleyes:

 

However, now you've heard about it elsewhere... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-52...ling-Boris.html

He's also claiming the UK pays the EU 433m a week, having got his sums wrong originally. It's called stumping up the lies with a new bigger lie. Obviously been studying Trump carefully..

He's also claiming the UK pays the EU 433m a week, having got his sums wrong originally. It's called stumping up the lies with a new bigger lie. Obviously been studying Trump carefully..

Some members of the Cabinet are paying a little game. They are trying to determine how big a lie they can get away with before being sacked.

He's also claiming the UK pays the EU 433m a week, having got his sums wrong originally. It's called stumping up the lies with a new bigger lie. Obviously been studying Trump carefully..

 

It's ironic that politicians get more attention when they do something wrong, than at any other time. :P

It's ironic that politicians get more attention when they do something wrong, than at any other time. :P

Is it not the same with most jobs?

Is it not the same with most jobs?

 

Yes, but most people's cock-ups don't make newspaper headlines. :P

Yes, but most people's cock-ups don't make newspaper headlines. :P

I think Boris subscribes to the notion that it's not a cock-up if it ends up as a newspaper headline.

Is it not the same with most jobs?

 

I'd agree with this. People hardly ever get praised for work in late capitalist neoliberal societies, unlike the 90s on Friends. Now it is a mistake supersedes EVERYTHING.

I'd agree with this. People hardly ever get praised for work in late capitalist neoliberal societies, unlike the 90s on Friends. Now it is a mistake supersedes EVERYTHING.

Are you actually a bot?

On the day that the French president has said that there should be no special deal for the City of London, the government needed a distraction. Naturally, they were able to rely on Johnson to provide it with his suggestion of a bridge over the Channel. Never mind the underfunded NHS, what we really need is a bridge over one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. A bridge to link the UK with the very countries the government is busy severing ties with. Please tell me we have been living in a Yes Minister episode for the past few years and that normality will be resumed soon.

On the day that the French president has said that there should be no special deal for the City of London, the government needed a distraction. Naturally, they were able to rely on Johnson to provide it with his suggestion of a bridge over the Channel. Never mind the underfunded NHS, what we really need is a bridge over one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. A bridge to link the UK with the very countries the government is busy severing ties with. Please tell me we have been living in a Yes Minister episode for the past few years and that normality will be resumed soon.

 

Original series, or the recent re-make?

On the day that the French president has said that there should be no special deal for the City of London, the government needed a distraction. Naturally, they were able to rely on Johnson to provide it with his suggestion of a bridge over the Channel. Never mind the underfunded NHS, what we really need is a bridge over one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. A bridge to link the UK with the very countries the government is busy severing ties with. Please tell me we have been living in a Yes Minister episode for the past few years and that normality will be resumed soon.

 

fits in well with his expensive London Garden Bridge farce which cost the taxpayer tens of millions with not a single brick of the "privately-funded" project being laid.

 

Who wouldnt want to spend untold hundreds of billions on the longest car park in the world as people drive to the UK only to find customs can't cope with turning most of them back to france, or the hordes of Calais immigrants walking over and abseiling down the last bit before customs?

 

More telling is how dumb journalists are for giving it column inches. He might as well have said I suggest the UK send me to Mars on a one-way rocketship. Both are equally plausible, and at least the latter would galvanise half the voting public to opt for it: Boris gets to be eternally famous, which is what he wants, and he can set up his own tax-free Marsdom while he counts his money. The rest of us get to never have him come up with hairbrained schemes that cost us money.