The Politics Thread

...or telling the President of the Virgin Islands to stop acting like such a ****.

Meanwhile, in Madrid...

I've got a suggestion for how to greet their fans when they show up at Wembley in a few weeks...

 

Because they are underfunded, the police in the DRC only investigate offences where:
a) the victim is rich enough to pay them to do it.
b) the perpetrator is rich enough to pay them to let them off.
c) a government minister has put pressure on them to do so.

Is the UK trying to adopt the Congolese model?

 

Playing in traditional home kit would be a start, as that club
is now FAR away from the traditions and respect that caused
St Nicholson to make our UEFA kit all white in homage to them.

 

They'll want to invade Gibraltar next......

 

This x100

 

The only good Trump can do is get into a leaking boat and sail off into the Pacific or the Atlantic, I don't care which ocean he chooses as long as his direction is towards the middle.

 

Atlantic.
Into the Bermuda Triangle.

 

Mind you, as someone wishing to protect the oceans, I would be worried about the environmental disaster caused by the gallons of **** that would continue to pour from his mouth!!

 

...and that performing monkey of his who stands In front of the press and reads the Trump script! What's her face.

 

I dont know who is worse Trump or Boris They both have mental health issues and dangerous idiots...

 

Boris is funny Trump is just thick

 

This country would be so much better off if they realised that Boris Johnson isn't funny, he's just another Mario Balotelli: we're endlessly told he's a "character" when he's actually a nasty piece of **** that is given so many excuses to continue being a nasty piece of ****.

 

My comment is at the level of :

When someone steps in a piece of **** we laugh. It doesn't mean we think the **** has value it means the **** is now on your shoe and you have to deal with it.
Do not confuse my laughter with support. Boris is an aid to getting people to stop voting Tory as they have in the past. In other words they need to wake up and smell the ****.
I don't intend to spend my life crying so some laughter will take place at inappropriate times, after which I'll change my shoes.

 

The worst thing about Boris is that he spent several years normalising the current generation of Tories because his buffoon act was seen as making "good TV" so he was trotted out on HIGNFY and the like for several years and gained popularity as people thought he was a posh WC Fields, and that went a long way to getting him the Mayor of London gig - and it's telling that Boris ummed and ahhed until as late as possible before announcing his intention to stand which quite conveniently got him a lot of press, which happens to sound an awful lot like what he was doing in the leadup to the EU Referendum.

Going back to the "good TV" point for a second, it's notable that the most obvious example of this trope is how the worst ****ehawks on The Apprentice are kept on in spite of their obvious incompetence being displayed as the producers know the audience will be rooting for their inevitable failure if it happens later on - and I think we can all guess which Apprentice candidate in particular, who also got a career off the back of being "good TV", that I'm referring to here...

 

The analogy is not so good, as bib boy was a nasty
piece of work in his day job, in full view of the public.

Boris is said to be a nasty piece of work in politnik
land, which is well outside the gaze/interest of the
electorate.

 

Boris' contrived haplessness and buffoonery is irritating, not funny.
He's gold for the Tories though. Some people don't see him as a central figure behind for Nasty Party's increasing nasty and divisive policies, but as some upper class twit from an Ealing comedy.
Although they've got him sussed in places like Liverpool - he's not lovable, fluffy, daft Boris there - especially after he accused them of "wallowing in their victim status."

 

Here's the thing: his nastiness was in the full view of the public through a combination of some remarkably bigoted comments made in his columns - but even back then he was getting the same "Oh, Boris...!" response he does now.

 

That's the Paul Scholes defence - it doesn't matter if he goes in for some career-ending challenge (again), it's only Scholsey, ha ha.

 

Rees-Mogg gets it, too. Pair of utter arseholes, both of whom want us to return to darker days.
Alexander de Pfeffel can't hack a proper job, resigning from his first after a week, then being sacked twice as a journalist for literal fake news.
He's a cheat, a liar, a racist, a homophobe and he was happy to get a fellow journalist beaten up, as long as he wasn't implicated:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/darius-boris-and-a-blast-from-the-past-1658043.html

 

Are you the very epitome of the occasional visitor. Need you back to up the IQ of the Chelsea board!