BoJos conference speech

I’m sure this lazy, fat, lying, dim witted sack of shit is the just the guy to lead us into this new utopia.
Absolute bell end of of a human being.

 

And that’s the problem - no viable alternative.

 

For all his faults - and there are many - when they give him a chance to do that sort if thing he's bloody good. It's style over substance for the most part but it's cohesive, sensible and most of all positive.

He's in an almost unique position because he's separated himself from Cameron and May through Brexit so can almost shrug off the previous failings of the Conservative party without actually saying it and present himself as being a new broom.

 

Agree. But at the minute that's all he has to do.

While Labour also has no meaningful policies he can play the game purely on rhetoric, cohesion, sidebites and optimism and he'll win hands down every time.

The high wage, "levelling up", Britain First type of message is working relatively well without any more specifics that they're giving. He's also got the positivity of the vaccine, economic growth, putting money into social care/NHS and the fact his main opposition were pro-lockdown and covid hasn't reached the projections all play into his favor without him needing to go much further.

It looks like he's very happy to let his ministers do the policy stuff and he'll just stand up and do the people friendly messaging bit. Which probably isn't a bad choice.

 

This was the claim of the left and the Brown supporters as they undermined and got rid of Blair claiming they could do better, They have never been in power since, Like Blair you can like or hate Boris but it would be foolish to write him off as foolish, He wins elections and it is an art some do not realise

 

Boris was brilliant, just need some action now....

 

Johnson is a brilliant campaigner and rabble rouser. But utterly incompetent at planning or implementation.

 

His tenure as mayor of London says not, He improved the lot of Londoners no end with his housing and transport policies

 

The idea that the Tory Party, of all people, have deliberately created a scenario to engineer a high wage economy is beyond laughable.
Who smashed the trades unions to prevent workforces from effectively protecting their members' living standards?
Who do you think it is that have been paying the poverty wages for the last ten years, to force down costs, keep prices low and maximise profits? It's the self same companies that pay squillions into Tory Party coffers every year and pay big bucks to Tory politicians for an occasional few hours in their boardrooms. The low wage employers are the Tory Party and their backers.
When the labour shortages embolden what's left of the unions to strike for higher wages, will the Tories be cheering them on? When higher wages cause price hikes on food and consumer goods, will the Tories be shouting, 'hurrah'? Of course not.
The Tories have always represented the interests of employers rather than employees, whatever bogus rhetoric they're currently spewing out for the gullible. Anyone who thinks they've suddenly turned into the champions of high wages is either tripping or born yesterday.

 

Much of what was implemented in his tenure had already been set up by Livingstone. What exactly did Johnson do that 'improved their lot no end'?

 

Despite all you say workers and pensioners have always been better off under a Tory government and as Blair famously told the Labour party conference when elected leader " You cannot let the past determine your future "

 

Really? Are you seriously saying that most ordinary working people were better off under Heath and Thatcher than they were under Wilson and Blair? Sorry, but that's nonsense.

 

He delegates to his ministers who then show that they are not up to the job...