tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post6149364136625892244..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Boris Eurovision - Nul PointsTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-45771036924069397042017-09-17T11:38:37.882+01:002017-09-17T11:38:37.882+01:00I don’t think BJ has an imminent coup in mind. I t...I don’t think BJ has an imminent coup in mind. I think he’s trying to play a longer game. To recap:<br /><br />Pre-referendum he’d argued on both sides of the Brexit question. His loyalty isn’t to any particular pro or anti-Brexit position, simply to the idea that chaps like Boris Johnson ought to be running things. It seems plausible, given his panicked expression when Leave won, that he’d seen a vacancy for himself as the charismatic leader of the disgruntled anti-Cameron Eurosceptics. He expected them to be on the losing side, so he wouldn’t have had any responsibility for actually making anything happen, but he could have stoked the Brexit Barmy Army’s simmering resentment by spinning more bullshit stories about straight bananas, then leading them over the top as his private army to mount a parliamentary coup against his old Etonian rival.<br /><br />Well, it didn’t work out that way and he was beaten to the top job by Theresa May. But, judging by his shocked expression after the result, he already knew what a poisoned chalice the next leader would be handed, as the one tasked with delivering a set of undeliverable promises, so he was probably secretly relieved not to get the top job – at least for the moment.<br /><br />Against this background, I’d interpret his latest piece of grandstanding as follows:<br /><br />1. He still believes that Brexit is a poisoned chalice, which will probably finish off any leader who tries to deliver it.<br /><br />2. The delay, confusion and chaos of the first 6 months of the A50 process have confirmed what a political disaster awaits Theresa May when she has to either to perform a humiliating climb down, or crash the UK economy.<br /><br />3. Therefore he’s happy for her to stay in post for long enough to take the blame for whatever flavour of catastrophe emerges from the Great Brexit Bake-Off.<br /><br />4. He never intended his Brexit vision to actually be delivered (which is why he didn’t even bother to come up with anything that might actually happen in the real world) – it’s simply there for the record, so when Theresa May crashes and burns, he can claim that he was supporting her and trying to steer her towards a Brexit that was successful and “glorious”, but she ignored his brilliant advice and mucked everything up.<br /><br />5. Once Theresa May has been thoroughly discredited, he imagines himself again at the head of a Eurosceptic army, which will take over. <br /><br />6. I imagine that his calculation is still that he won’t have to actually deliver any of the Brexiteers’ madder ideas - before the referendum, he calculated (wrongly) that losing the referendum would absolve him of responsibility for delivering on his promises. Now, he probably thinks that after a chaotic Brexit he can tell everybody that, much as he’d like to give everybody a unicorn, Theresa made a hash of Brexit and that’s why you can’t have nice things and, by the way did I mention that all the bad things are somebody else’s fault?<br /><br />Fortunately, I don’t think his plan will ever come together – he’s made enemies of too many colleagues, and his charm is wearing thing among voters who increasingly see him as an unreliable buffoon, rather than the eccentric clever cornflake he pretended to be.Andrew Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14541926954531770980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-79279063787332964802017-09-17T11:16:31.954+01:002017-09-17T11:16:31.954+01:00***A buffoon for all seasons***
Isn't he rich...***A buffoon for all seasons***<br /><br />Isn't he rich?<br />With so many jobs<br />We here, just looking amused <br />At his latest hit job<br />Send in the clown<br /><br />His latest big lie<br />The Barclays approve<br />Telegraphs his intentions<br />Of making his move<br />No 10 for the clown<br /><br />Just when we thought Gove had hobbled his cause<br />Maybot gave him the key, foreigners he now bores<br />Making his case with his casual lies <br />Sure of Murdoch<br />As democracy dies<br /><br />Isn't it strange?<br />Isn't it fun?<br />Minority government, no ideas, on the run <br />And of the No 10 clowns<br />Choose the biggest big clown<br /><br />Why bother?<br />He's thererobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-77474466514422559532017-09-16T14:34:45.014+01:002017-09-16T14:34:45.014+01:00The politest comment I've heard about Boris is...The politest comment I've heard about Boris is that he's an educated idiot.<br />Still, my sis-in-law thinks he's brilliant and that the sun shines out of one or other of his orifices.<br />So that counts for something doesn't it.Ferdy Foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-39757498903199135912017-09-16T14:02:44.725+01:002017-09-16T14:02:44.725+01:00The fellow is an embarrassment for Homo sapiens ne...The fellow is an embarrassment for <i>Homo sapiens</i> never mind the UK.<br /><br />A classic public school moron of the worst type. An obese Rees Mogg. Just another tory.<br /><br />God knows what the Europeans really think of him, but won't say for diplomatic reasons. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-22547133440677279482017-09-16T13:07:02.864+01:002017-09-16T13:07:02.864+01:00Am I being dim, Tim? Penultimate para: who's l...Am I being dim, Tim? Penultimate para: who's leaning on him and why wouldn't the fools want him to be their standard-bearer?<br />A.Robot (Mrs)noreply@blogger.com