Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, this bloke has to be the worse British Prime Minister in living memory. Johnson's handling of the pandemic, Brexit, and his general idiotic behaviour since taking office makes him the number one incompetent to hold office since WWII. The question is; Why does the Conservative Party tolerate such a fool as Johnson, is there no one better?

Paul,

Nothing compares to the incompetence of Clement Attlee who labour party nationalised most industries leading to a slow but constant decline in the British economy to the point of bankruptcy.

It took Thatcher to unwind the cock up that they left behind.

Boris was going great, got the poms out of the disastrous EU, & got reelected with a huge majority, but then the wheels fell off.

First with the ridiculous carbon free by 2050, a total impossibility, known to any one with enough math to make change for a bus ticket.

Then he let the green blob stop the fracking of British gas. Now they are paying Russia so much for their gas millions can't afford to heat their homes.

Yes I agree, he has to go, & it is the sensible realists in his own party who are giving him the boot.

SM, Britain was bankrupted by massive war repreations to the US, lack of investment, along with their loss of empire. There were 5 Conservative PM's between Attlee and Thatcher.

What is your opinion of Bug Ridden Boris?

"I went to a part-T, I took along a bottle of boozzz, but I didn't know it was a booz part-T. I am feeling I'll, I think I will go for a lockdown."

A bunch of dill brains tried to run a Conservative Party at the last election here, voters were a wakeup and they recorded less than half a percent of the vote. Thanks be to god!

How bad is Boris?

Well Boris Johnson is nothing like Tony Blair
and David Cameron (rigid, cautious). Johnson
is lively, engaged, superficially disheveled
but in fact focused and watchful. He's very
different as PM of a country where politicians
tend to be self-serious and awkward.

He's made it quite clear in interviews that his
mission is to restore Britain's faith in itself.
Well he loves to put on a show, not unlike Trump
in that regard. Whether he succeeds in restoring
Britain's faith in itself - only time will tell.

Personally, I like this tornado of bonhomie.
Whether Britain does is another matter.

With his current policies Foxy, all he is going to do is turn the lights off, even before the last of the industry has left.

Just how that would restore Britain's faith in itself, I'm damned if I know.

Paul I agree whole heartedly with everything you said about Boris but!
The alternative is infinitely worse, an absolute and utter cluster!
Dare I suggest when Trump was replaced by Biden who hid from everyone all through the campaign and then magically won to so much acclaim the same is happening.
In Australia it is interesting that it almost seems like the ALP and LNP are equally odious, divisive and incompetent? I think it is time the majors are just not voted for and lets see what the minor parties can do. I do not see much there either but see no other option.

Pauliar,

Once again you have posted absolute bollocks. Britain never had to pay war reparations to the US. What they did have to pay back was the purchase of destroyers and other equipment prior to the US joining the war.

That Britain was financially in a bad way is not in dispute, but the extreme socialism imposed by Attlee doomed the UK industry to slow decline.

shonkyminister, again you begin with the name calling, note that Foxy. Even poor Australia had to pay to export such basics as butter and meat to Britain. Thousands of ten pound poms found their way to Australia. What the Germans didn't bomb out of them, the Yanks stole.

Don't mention Thatcher, she was a murdering war criminal.

Pauliar,

Adam Bandt is as much a murdering war criminal as Margaret Thatcher.

Your last post is complete bullsh1te. Do you get high before making up this BS?

"Britain was bankrupted by massive war repreations to the US"

Paul, for the umpteenth time, demonstrates that he understands as much about history as my budgie understands about General Relativity.

I like what Boris said when he was asked whether he
was a Tory?

" I think I'm basically a liberal conservative. I
believe in low tax, the spirit of free enterprise,
and in making sure that we as politicians create
the framework for business to produce the dosh that
we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the
longer we live, the more I think that we'll have a duty
to each other."

mhaze, I'm sure your budgie is smarter than you. At the end of WWII Britain's National Debt was a huge £27 billion, owed mostly to US private banks, it had little income and little prospect of repayment, the country was bankrupt. That's why Australia, Canada, NZ and others took so many Ten Pound Poms. We're you a TPP?

Just about every country in Europe recovered more swiftly than the UK, but then they weren't saddled with hard core socialism.

Paul,

Yes the UK owed money to the US. Just as they had done after WW1. But it was debt, not reparations. Reparations are something a defeated foe pays to a victor when the defeated foe caused, or is said to have caused, the conflict.

You used the term because in the addled back-blocks of your mind, it carries a negative connotation and you spend your life attaching negative connotations to anything USian. The needs of your ideology override the needs for historic truth.

mhaze, the US not only won the physical war, they also won the economic war as well. Britain was one of the big loosers of the economic war. The difference between the wars, after WWI Britain was in a economic position to meet debts through empire etc. After WWII it was in a bankrupt state, somewhat different. BTW the British Capatalist had hoped WWI would last until 1922, they were doing so well, most disapointed when it finished in 1918.

Paul,

Twist and turn, fudge and obfuscate all you want. But the fact is there were no reparations between Britain and the US after WW2. You shot your mouth off....just admit it.

"BTW the British Capatalist had hoped WWI would last until 1922"

More Marxist rubbish.

IM,

As I said in another thread, sometimes Pauliar's posts are so incoherent and nonsensical that it appears that he is high as a kite.

shonky, I give you credit, that last post of yours is an original, but unfortunately for you, wrong. Not a cut and paste job where you claim the knowledge is from your feeble brain. That one was from your feeble brain.

In 1916 British industralists had calculated that there was £60 profit just in basic kit for each replacement sent to the Western Front.

Dead soldier = replacement = £60 profit.

Have you guys read anything on the sacking of the great Jack Lang. It had it's origins in NSW debt owed to British bond holders from WWI. Australia borrowed money from the Poms to fight their Pommy war.

You guys need to read more.

What Boris and the Poms do is none of our business.

The very same people who want us to republicanise ourselves away from Britain are the first to drag up what's going on in the UK, probably in an attempt to take our minds off what their own sort is doing to wreck Australia.

One good thing we could learn from the Johnson government is its recently announced move against the BBC, which is aimed at having that parasitical disgrace operating on a prescription only basis by 2027. This means it is curtains for the Beeb because, as in Australia, nobody wants to pay for it. The ABC rates below Channel 10.

Morrison might be toast, but moving on the ABC would certainly do him no harm.

ttbn, I thought you would want to retain the ABC, for the day when you can listen to rousing speeches by Fearless Leader in between recitals of Wagner. What more could you ask for.

You'ar only dirty because it was the BBC that exposed this piece of Conservative puss as a hypocrite and a liar.

Since Dangerous Doctor Donald got the boot, Bug Ridden Boris has been the West's biggest political embarrassment. Now the Conservative clown has be caught out playing the party boy at number 10, whilst the rest of the nation was in strict Covid lockdown. In typical conservative fashion Bad Boy Boris thinks the rule are made for the working class gutter snipes, not an elete Conservative like himself. Much like the way the Coalition acts in Australia.

RESIGN BORIS!

This is compared to Simple Sarah and Bozo Bandt of the Gangreens?

shonky,

Just like with the hypocritical liar Morrison you try ridiculous deflection as a defense. How pathetic!

Pauliar,

You are without doubt the worse liar and fraud on the site.