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Lying to Parliament. Allowing his Health Secretary to murder 60,000 residents and staff of care homes. Committing to spend £1,000,000 per meter on a railway that we don't need. Appointing a Transport Minister who didn't know that Dover was a port, and was happy to give our money to a ferry company with no ships. Not sacking Dominic Cummings. Negotiating a trade deal that prevents trade in pies and sausages within the United Kingdom. I could go on, but I can't think of a single day in which BJ did anything useful or honorable. Corruption and incompetence at every level, with not a word of apology. Tony Blair got away with it because the opposition rather fancied a war and wanted to lick the nether regions of the Idiot Bush. Margaret Thatcher had the integrity to invite Galtieri to invade the Falklands, thus giving her a legitimate casus belli.
Lying to parliament about parties is a matter of opinion.
The care home thing can be put down to circumstance, it does tarnish the government, but as everyone has told me for 3 years it is a very unique time.
Hs2 is still supported and is going to be a great sucess.
He was doing something about the NI customs.
Alancalverd, does any politician, past or present, meet your lofty requirements
Looking further west I could name Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and George Bush senior as principled presidents, and the Trudeaux seem to have run a fair ship to the north.
Quote from: Petrochemicals on 09/07/2022 00:41:46Lying to parliament about parties is a matter of opinion. , no, a matter of fact. My grandmother used to say you can trust a thief but not a liar. If he won't tell the truth about something as trivial as whether he attended his own birthday party, what is the point of parliamentary debate and questions? This country is ruled by Parliament, not an unelected president.
QuoteThe care home thing can be put down to circumstance, it does tarnish the government, but as everyone has told me for 3 years it is a very unique time. No more unique than the Battle of Britain. The response: appointing a Tory donor with no medical or IT qualifications to head up a gigabuck scam called "track and trace", handing out contracts for defective PPE to friends who had no actual manufacturing capacity, and discharging infective patients into the care of the unprotected and vulnerable (a crime under the Geneva Convention), and "saving Christmas" by encouraging people to crowd into shops and pubs.
Quote Hs2 is still supported and is going to be a great sucess. Supported by those who have sold land to the taxpayer at inflated prices, or contracted to build a wholly unnecessary railway at a cost of £1,000,000 per meter - several times the cost of flying to the moon and 1000 times the average quote per meter for the proposed East-West (essentially, Oxford - Cambridge via Bedford) line. Incompetence or corruption? You choose. And why is the taxpayer subsidising what will become a private company?
Quote He was doing something about the NI customs. Having agreed in his "oven-ready" settlement to do exactly what he promised would not happen.
ying constitutes a conscious belief which boris maintains he did not have
]and you could blame Churchill for the bombing of Cove try similarly
It is still supported in parliament.
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/
Quote from: Petrochemicals on 09/07/2022 10:55:26https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/GHWB made one outstanding statement that puts him on a higher shelf than his wastrel son or Tony B Liar:"No president should commit ground forces unless he can tell them who they are fighting, what they are fighting for, how they will know they have won, and what will happen when they go home."And he didn't.
lying constitutes a conscious belief which boris maintains he did not have
Call me a cynic, but it seems to me that Boris Johnson has been used by the Conservative party to gain a majority and ousted from the job
What are Mr Johnson grave flaws?
Yep, got his son out of the war. (Vietnam)
Now Trump's "mini-me" in the UK has also exited the stage.Will he stage a come-back?