PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

"I think the insensitivity surrounding all parties' approach to asylum and immigration has a lot to say for the rise in not only anti-Semitism but any form of racism directed at immigrants. All parties have been responsible for not dealing with the issue in an appropriate manner.

Asked about Labour's stance on immigration she sighed and said: "I have to be very careful what I say here. I'm disappointed by the fact that they are playing to other parties' policies in order to discuss it all. Whereas the Labour Party in the past have been so strong and so active in combating and standing up for themselves, I'm surprised that on this particular issue, it's unfortunate that it's been played into."

2005 luciana berger otm

Asked whether he and his brother are “like” the Milibands, Boris Johnson said: “Absolutely not. We don't do things that way, that's a very left-wing thing ... only a socialist could do that to his brother, only a socialist could regard familial ties as being so trivial as to shaft his own brother.

“I mean, unbelievable. Only lefties can think like that ... they see people as discrete agents devoid of ties to society or to each other, and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people.”

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Honestly this is a big gift to election campaigning - “not even his own brother trusts him”

!! re Jo Johnson

love 2 imagine future family dinners etc

https://www.hbo.com/content/dam/hbodata/series/succession/episodes/s2/succession-s2-ka-1920.jpg

Gauntlet now thrown down to other anti no deal ministers, especially in cabinet. If the prime minister’s own brother is willing to resign and stick the knife in out of conscience, the question will be, why can’t they?

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 5, 2019

Jo!!

after ref campaign his sisters brats were already booing: "you've stolen our future uncle boris" at least he will have more time to concentrate on the kids now.

brexit ref i meant to say obv

The first example of a politician stepping down to spend less time with their family? https://t.co/PxPZ7ufTBg

— Theresa Griffin MEP (@TheresaMEP) September 5, 2019

lol

All we need now is for Boris to be savaged by his Welsh rescue dog - and, no, I don't mean Nigel Evans.

this is worse than when ed miliband betrayed his brother

Guardian still has the Boris Domestic tape.

If Jess Phillips was any use at all she’d start a very pointed women’s health conversation about HPV and cervical cancer.

Actually I watched a video of Phillips' performance yesterday and thought -- though I don't like or trust this person in an way -- this would actually be good useful material for campaigning against BJ and for a Labour government -- if only she actually wanted a Labour government.

I quite like the fact that both JP and Peter Mandelson are temporarily refraining from attacking the Labour leadership.

Absolutely astonishing twist - one tory insider texts to say ‘he’s killed him’ https://t.co/fK3clhKNCz

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 5, 2019

xp
Mandy has a quite close friendship with Milne in recent times apparently.

they are both total wastemen so probably true.

Lolico replying to Laura K, worst troll ever

How? In what sense?

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) September 5, 2019

This is an absolutely amazing twist, though also pretty soap opera worthy. Who even knew he had a brother before this?

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I don't find it very amazing at all.

I think it's a bit odd that JJ was serving in the BJ government, but it seems quite logical that he wouldn't continue now.

It has been pointed out that he hasn't been very clear about when he's resigning or what from.

Perhaps shades of Zac Goldsmith -- someone who can stand down because he doesn't need the money and isn't very interested.

lol Fred

Who even knew he had a brother before this?

or, indeed, a father

xxp Most of the people on this thread. He has a sister too who's on the remain side.

Only one Johnson sibling has a life outside the public eye.

Rachel Johnson actually had the self-regard to literally announce to an usher at my friend’s event that she was ‘a VIP’.

yeah and like boris she's a tedious exhibitionist

He even has a number of children (exact number disputed)! One of them is good at cricket and one isn't

Dont get too excited about youngsters enrolling to vote. Happened in Australia too for the gay marriage plebiscite, and then in the election just afterwards the scumbag tories still strolled back in again. And we have compulsory voting and proportional representation.

those scumbag tories didn't try to withdraw australia from the ICC or something

Lj did u play cricket w/ the son good at cricket or not good at cricket?

surely with compulsory voting there's no reason to get excited about people registering to vote?

Lj did u play cricket w/ the son good at cricket or not good at cricket?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:18 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

both, on different occasions

the one who was good has a sort of world-striding colonialist effectiveness to his body language. the part of BJ that's a naturally confident translator of ancient greek and a social engineer who made himself prime minister

the one who was bad was utterly feckless. that's another part of BJ obv

ru sayin he gave zero fecks

I think it's a bit odd that JJ was serving in the BJ government

I had thought JJ might not back his PM bid given their differing Brexit stances, but given that (iirc) he did and got a ministerial post, I was surprised that he backed down now

so Fred can continue plotting the Johnson family tree, JJ's wife Amelia Gentleman did some good investigative articles about what turned into the Windrush scandal and other aspects of UK immigration policy

(I have no other opinions on her in general and am pretty sure someone will be along any moment to point out she's bad not good)

xps to JM last time it happened here young people came out in numbers and took the Tory majority away

nobody can be both married to a tory mp and good, but she's probably about as close as it gets

her dad david is good not bad if you like good book coverart:

https://maraid.co.uk/images/blog/2016/04/dg-04.jpg

^^^recent bojo footage

"Only a socialist could regard family ties as being so trivial as to shaft his brother" - Boris Johnson on the Milibands, 2013

xp I always like to see an illustrated Penguin cover <3

surely with compulsory voting there's no reason to get excited about people registering to vote?

since they didn’t bother to vote once they’d sent a letter saying “yes ppl should be allowed to get married,” it obv was worth getting excited when it looked like they would make a difference

like, you’re SUPPOSED to vote, but the army don’t come to yr house & frogmarch every single citizen to the polls

anyway the australian tories are now introducing legislation literally allowing you to say gay ppl should be burnt to death as long as you also claim you love jesus, so good job young non-voters

obv the situation is more promising in the UK as the kids are signing up in order to actually vote

What’s happening to BoJo is what was supposed to happen to Trump. It probably would have if the Dem leadership wasn’t stuck in the 90s.

— Jeremy Gilbert (@jemgilbert) September 5, 2019

like, you’re SUPPOSED to vote, but the army don’t come to yr house & frogmarch every single citizen to the polls

91% turnout is lower than I had imagined and does still leave some room for improvement, but we're around the 70% mark here, there's way more scope

what does that mean? collapsing under the weight of its own contradictory political forces ?

@comrade_alpha

tbh my "bojo will never be pm" was based on the known existence w/i the tory party of a significant never_bojo faction -- who are now apparent manifesting is useful, unlike the never_trumpers

lol or whatever i meant in actual english