Boris Johnson tells Macron: Donnez-moi un break over new pact

[Nick]

Hypocritical cow.

Angela Rayner 2019: Politicians should 'dial down language and act responsibly'

Angela Rayner 2021: 'We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07pmq61

she is getting severe pelters for it across social media , and rightly so.

Even her boss is distancing himself from her comments.

Anyway, this is about Boris flicking Macron the bird.

[Nick]

Yeah you do,they're both grandstanding and being born in back street Manchester or with a silver spoon Etonian bullingdon club where inserting your member in a dead animal thats jolly good fun and a spectator sport makes you who you are......and in the former it doesn't make you a slapper.

If you can't see the parallels then I can't help you.

You're mixing 2 different threads. This is about Boris telling Macron to get a grip, you're the only one being Angela Rayner into this.

[Thomas]

Hypocritical cow.

Angela Rayner 2019: Politicians should 'dial down language and act responsibly'

Angela Rayner 2021: 'We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07pmq61

she is getting severe pelters for it across social media , and rightly so.

[Thomas]

Yeah you do,they're both grandstanding and being born in back street Manchester or with a silver spoon Etonian bullingdon club where inserting your member in a dead animal thats jolly good fun and a spectator sport makes you who you are......and in the former it doesn't make you a slapper.

If you can't see the parallels then I can't help you.

I know what you are saying cromwell , but i have a slightly different take on it from nick and yourself.

What pisses me off about some in labour like rayner is the hypocrisy of calling a group of people collectively scum , but being the first to cry victimhood when the shoe is on the other foot.

Some tories are scum. Some labour snp and liberals are scum too. A cant is a cant no matter who you are or where you come from , never mind race religion colour creed or political affiliation.

The thing is though , if rayner likes to dish it out  , then she has to be prepared to take it back.

So if rees mogg or some other etonian tory calls her an old manc slapper who left school with more children than o levels , then we dont want to hear any of labours continual victimhood whining.

Theres an art to politics , and an art to insults , and rayner appears to be rather poor at both.

[cromwell]

Telling someone to get a grip and publicly calling someone scum?
Do you really need me to answer that?

Yeah you do,they're both grandstanding and being born in back street Manchester or with a silver spoon Etonian bullingdon club where inserting your member in a dead animal thats jolly good fun and a spectator sport makes you who you are......and in the former it doesn't make you a slapper.

If you can't see the parallels then I can't help you.

[Sheepy]

Telling someone to get a grip and publicly calling someone scum?
Do you really need me to answer that?

Well yeah I do, firstly what is the definition of scum and in what way was it being defined?

[Nick]

Well I don't care what macron thinks but is Boris winding him up much difference to Rayner doing the same to Boris?

Telling someone to get a grip and publicly calling someone scum?
Do you really need me to answer that?

[cromwell]

First off, who cares what Macron thinks. Also I'm fairly sure his intention was to wind up Macron.

Well I don't care what macron thinks but is Boris winding him up much difference to Rayner doing the same to Boris?

[Nick]

Using 'Franglais' in serious politics is disrespectful and I bet Macron thinks Johnson is a real 'rosbif' of the worst kind!

First off, who cares what Macron thinks. Also I'm fairly sure his intention was to wind up Macron.

[HDQQ]

Using 'Franglais' in serious politics is disrespectful and I bet Macron thinks Johnson is a real 'rosbif' of the worst kind!

[johnofgwent]

He did.

He told the French to f**k off.

It would have been nice if he had waited until next month (25th October in particular), but it looks as though Boris is back on form. 

Or the 21st. I admit both share a common factor in which superior military technology played a part. In reality farting in our general direction was never going to work, we stank like skunks already

[Borchester]

I don't need him to be popular - just do the job.

He did.

He told the French to f**k off.

It would have been nice if he had waited until next month (25th October in particular), but it looks as though Boris is back on form. 

[patman post]

His Franglais is a bit off though.


One gets a grip. One does not take it.


So gagnez un grip (in this case "gain" a grip)

My guess is that Boris's remark was for a wider English-speaking audience as there's no direct equivalent in French of "get a grip" — or my take on his meaning: "stop getting your knickers in a twist".     

Though I doubt even "arrête de tourner ta culotte" wouldn't atteindre le spot as a reproof...

[T00ts]

I just wish BJ could string a sentence together without his habit of trying to make what he is saying somehow more user friendly, as if by downgrading it he appeals to the masses. Yesterday it was ridiculous Frenglish and in the States it was reference to Kermit the Frog. All of which I am sure he thinks confirms him as a man of the people but in fact simply makes him and by reflection us look just a bit silly.
He either stands up on his hindlegs as a PM and gives it straight from the hip or he hits the backbenches, or preferably a newspaper column,  and plays the fool. The two simply don't sit well together. What really grates is the fact that he has perfectly acceptable French and has no need to either insult our intelligence or France's. I don't need him to be popular - just do the job.

[johnofgwent]

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654624

Which is a bit unfair because Macron is facing an election in six months and there is not a lot else he can do, other than throwing a queanie.

That said, kicking the frogs in the balls won't lose Boris any votes either 

His Franglais is a bit off though.


One gets a grip. One does not take it.


So gagnez un grip (in this case "gain" a grip)