Speccy: Boris Johnson’s ‘method’ isn’t working

[Borg Refinery]

Farage isnt going anywhere soon , i have said this for a few years now. He knows at the least , the minute his back is turned both tory and labour will have the uk back in the eu in the blink of an eye.

Good luck to him i say.

Another party getting stuck in the mix at election time might just start holding lab and tories feet to the fire over domestic issues in england , and feck up the extremely dodgy FPTP system and comfortable "safe seats" electing benchwarmers to the commons for the two cheeks of the same arse westminster party as sheep calls them.

Sir keir knight of the realm starmer isnt going to solve englands problems if elected. Like sleepy joe in yank land , he will merely exacerbate them.

Agreed on all that, but it doesn't alter the facts of Nigey selling everyone out in Dec 19 and of him wanting to abolish the NHS.

[johnofgwent]

And there was I thinking "the Boris method isn't working ? What ! Is the girlfriend pregnant again ....??"

[Thomas]

You honestly believe Nige would honour a promise he made once elected to reform us to PR? That is unbelievably naive after he sold out the whole Brexit Party in 2019.

"Boris said he would sort it out."



I would vote for someone who seemed genuine in reforming us to PR. That excludes Nigey.

Farage isnt going anywhere soon , i have said this for a few years now. He knows at the least , the minute his back is turned both tory and labour will have the uk back in the eu in the blink of an eye.

Good luck to him i say.

Another party getting stuck in the mix at election time might just start holding lab and tories feet to the fire over domestic issues in england , and feck up the extremely dodgy FPTP system and comfortable "safe seats" electing benchwarmers to the commons for the two cheeks of the same arse westminster party as sheep calls them.

Sir keir knight of the realm starmer isnt going to solve englands problems if elected. Like sleepy joe in yank land , he will merely exacerbate them.

[Borg Refinery]

LOL do you think we would vote Nigel in with a landslide and bring in direct democracy and shut down the Westminster party once and for all

You honestly believe Nige would honour a promise he made once elected to reform us to PR? That is unbelievably naive after he sold out the whole Brexit Party in 2019.

"Boris said he would sort it out."



I would vote for someone who seemed genuine in reforming us to PR. That excludes Nigey.

[Sheepy]

LOL do you think we would vote Nigel in with a landslide and bring in direct democracy and shut down the Westminster party once and for all Dyno, we wouldn't dare, the Neo Liberals would have kittens.
We would have done it at the last election, but Boris said he would sort it out. On the amusing side Sir Starmer reckons he should take notes from Joe and the unelected Lords think they have a second wind, politics is hilarious.

[Borg Refinery]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-s-method-isn-t-working/amp

Is the Boris Johnson 'method' reaching the end of the road and if it is, can the Prime Minister find a new one – or is he altogether done for?

The method, by all accounts deployed across more than one facet of the Prime Minister's life, involves issuing a series of charmingly delivered apologies for things not having turned out as he'd led his audience to believe they would.

Each apology is immediately followed by a new pledge that matters will take a decisive turn for the better very soon. And thus does the PM buy himself more time in which to extricate himself from scrapes.

On Thursday he was at it again during a Downing Street press conference called to sugar the pill of a second national lockdown.

'This is not a repeat of the spring,' he said, 'these measures are time-limited... these rules will expire and on the second of December we plan to move back to a tiered approach. There is light at the end of the tunnel.'

Yet anyone who has been paying proper attention surely thinks there will be another tunnel very soon.

In mid-March the PM told us: 'I think, looking at it all, that we can turn the tide within the next 12 weeks and I'm absolutely confident that we can send coronavirus packing in this country.'

A week later, announcing the first lockdown, he promised: 'I can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.'

In mid-June, upon the expiry of his 12-week timeframe, he moved the goalposts a little, adding: 'We went through the peak and... flattened the sombrero... We've turned the tide on it. We haven't, yet, finally defeated it.'

By mid-July he was telling us: 'We know more about the virus – we understand the epidemiology better and our intelligence on where it is spreading is vastly improved. That means we can control it through targeted, local action instead...It has to be right that we take local action in response to local outbreaks – there is no point shutting down a city in one part of the country to contain an outbreak in another part of the country.'

Three weeks ago, when repelling Keir Starmer's call for a second national lockdown, he said that such a thing would end up 'once again shattering our lives and our society'.

Three weeks... 12 weeks... December 2... light at the end of the tunnel... the cheque, my friends, is in the post...

The evidence is starting to roll in that it isn't working anymore. Disillusion is spreading fast and the PM's promises are counting for less and less – especially among small business owners who spent money to become 'Covid secure' only to be shut down again anyway.

A new YouGov poll showing the Tories have dropped to 35 per cent – decisively below the 40 per cent floor they have had since Boris became Prime Minister – makes ominous reading.

While that same poll showed Labour still stuck at its own 40 per cent ceiling, the really worrying sign for the Tories was a rise in Brexit Party support to 6 per cent, despite that party being unprompted, unpublicised and an almost redundant brand.

It hardly takes a genius to appreciate that once Nigel Farage and his lieutenant Richard Tice have their new Reform UK brand in the field, they are highly likely to eat much further into the Tory score.

And what will Boris Johnson's response be? To keep on making promises he is in no position to guarantee in order to try and win forgiveness from an ever-shrinking pool of the chronically gullible? As the old saying goes: fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

The Prime Minister finds himself in a relatively unusual position of having risen to the very top of his trade only to discover that a flaw in his technique is seriously undermining him. One is put in mind of the golfer Nick Faldo who won a string of tournaments but identified, mid-career, that a weakness in his swing would prevent him from fulfilling his potential. Faldo, who has a fanatical attention to detail, went away for six months and completely rebuilt that swing, returning to greater success than ever.

The Johnson technical weakness was starkly – even forensically – explained in the Commons by Starmer after the second lockdown was announced: the Prime Minister has a tendency to over-promise and under-deliver.

So he needs to abandon that engrained habit, which served him so well for so long, because he is being found out. Being PM means not always being loved, liked or even forgiven, but instead having the strength of character to accept that winning grudging respect is often as good as it gets.

The moment has come for him to wean himself off the art of short-term political seduction and focus instead on a substantial period of delivery. As the Victorian actress Mrs Patrick Campbell once remarked in a different context: it is time to find solace in the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.

WRITTEN BY
Patrick O'Flynn

Brexit Party support up 6%, Tory support down to 35%.

Absolutely poor display by Boris in every area here. He really needs to resign.

The Tory party and Lab might be displaced by a resurgent Reform UK party with Farage as PM, which will be so bad. So bad. They're going to be the worst, so sick. Sad!

Very sick guys!

But he does want to abolish the NHS though.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-nhs-might-have-to-be-replaced-by-private-health-insurance-9988904.html%3famp