Johnson says tempers need to calm after Brexit furor

Boris is another jerk who must go. He, like Trump, is doing Putin's dirty work, whether wittingly or not. There's no place for crass, boorish people in high office. The only difference between Boris and Trump, is that Boris should know better.

An absolute insult to the memory of Jo Cox and an absolute disaster for British politics.

But this contempt for people and rules, this lack of empathy is the very ethos of the ruling class. Especially the old Eton boys.

Johnson says "only Brexit could resolve deep divisions among lawmakers and across the country" That's a funny argument. Isn't it the very Brexit itself that is all the cause of this furor of divisions? ’

Pot calling the kettle black. Johnsons strategy is to stir it up.

Can't believe a PM who has lost all of his first seven votes is still around.

Odious individual

"We do need to bring people together and get this thing done," Johnson told BBC TV. "Tempers need to calm down and people need to come together because it is only by getting Brexit done that you will actually lance the boil of the current anxiety.

Hear hear!

Lets have another election so that the MPs can reflect the will of the majority of the people!

But this contempt for people and rules, this lack of empathy is the very ethos of the ruling class. Especially the old Eton boys.

While each person should be judged on merits and not background, the old Bullingdon mob types, ‘Dave’ Cameron, Gideon Osborne and De Fluffy head Johnson, do things with a breezy contempt and arrogance. They never grew out of this.

This attitude has no place in government.

Tempers will calm the moment this charlatan disappears from view.

See also photo for glimpse of Nigel-Nigel-Hyphen-Hyphen-Stroke-Money stifling a yawn.

Britain is falling down, falling down, falling down~

British politics is embarrassing. The aggressive Brexit plotters. Corbyn's trade union bullies. Cameron dropping everyone in this mess.

David Cameron bears a lot of responsibility for this. We are left with lunatics like Johnson, Cummings, and Farage. Labour are not much better.

The country has been split in half by a 52/48 decision. This is more like 48/52 today but such a crucial decision should never be first past the post. You would need at least 60% of the vote.

The only way out is a second referendum and encourage the whole nation to vote on it. And it would have to be at least 60% to win it.

Rest in peace Jo Cox. Johnson will regret using your name.

David Cameron bears a lot of responsibility for this. We are left with lunatics like Johnson, Cummings, and Farage. Labour are not much better.

Yes. Labour did better than expected in the last election but they should be thrashing this s###show in the polls, and the fact that they aren’t reflects badly on Corbyn. Incompetents like Thornberry aren’t helping either.

Get your act together.

Jim, Keir Starmer is the only hope. He is more of a David Miliband Labour type. Starmer has been trying to make some moves but Corbyn is protected by a large gang of militants and I heard they have made threats to Starmer. But even if Starmer lead Labour into government look at the lunatics behind him.

Cummings is absolutely contemptible, Rowena Mason (The Guardian):

More on Labour MP Karl Turner confronting Dominic Cummings in Portcullis house just now.

Turner said the PM's language was unacceptable and whipping up hatred, causing MPs to get more death threats overnight (including himself).

Cummings response? "Well vote for a deal then."

Meanwhile, a man has been arrested for an attack on the office of Labour's Jess Philipps.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/26/man-arrested-outside-office-of-labour-mp-jess-phillips

The language from the tories is becoming more populist and now Johnson aides are prediction riots if Brexit doesn't go through (according to The Times). Cumming's has said he's enjoying this. Which is odd, given his crowd were always against fear mongering, until now.

We'll see if his enjoyment continues when gammony anger is followed by dissident Republicans doing their thing.

Yes. Labour did better than expected in the last election but they should be thrashing this s###show in the polls, and the fact that they aren’t reflects badly on Corbyn.

I think it reflects more on the insidiousness of the right-wing press in the UK, along with all the bots and black box stuff going on on social media since the Brexit campaign. Their role in this is huge.

Johnson is copying the Trump playbook. However, Trump is President, not a PM who needs parliamentary support to get anywhere. Johnson's position is far weaker. Unless he can goad the opposition into a self-defeating move, his only hope of an Oct 31 Brexit is some peculiar legal maneuver that the opposition cannot see coming. His last peculiar legal maneuver, proroguing Parliament, was a disaster, and the courts and the Speaker are clearly not willing to play along on Johnson's side. If Johnson cannot force Brexit through by Oct 31, electoral support for the Tories will suffer badly.

Keir Starmer is the only hope. He is more of a David Miliband Labour type. Starmer has been trying to make some moves 

Ugh, just what Labour needs. More bland liberal Blairites.

There needs to be a credible socialist alternative to the Conservatives. Not just another tory-lite scenario that blighted the country under the center right with New Labour.

Any political party that wants to succeed must have a creditable policy agenda left/right .I would not put to much faith in polls, one need to be aware that the statistical margin of error entails that the only true factor is when the voter enters polling booth.

Please I am a degenerate political flutterer lost five figures on the 2016 UK-EU referendum.

This Parliament is an obscenity, a disgrace. Time is ripe for change. A General Election could bring that change. I have no problem with politicians beating each other black and blue. I do have a issue with the Jo Cox saga. Johnson should apologise and mean it.

Yes. Labour did better than expected in the last election but they should be thrashing this s###show in the polls, and the fact that they aren’t reflects badly on Corbyn.

I think it reflects more on the insidiousness of the right-wing press in the UK, along with all the bots and black box stuff going on on social media since the Brexit campaign. Their role in this is huge

That’s certainly in the mix but it’s nothing new. The media had the knives out for Corbyn before the last election and he performed pretty well. I’d add that the supposedly left wing Guardian didn’t help by piling in with the rightist press with anti-Corbyn attacks ( screw you Guardian and your constant requests for money ).

Since then, Labour has gone backwards. Some MPs have buggered off, Corbyn was dithering over what Labour’s stance on Brexit is and he’s got incompetent clowns around him humiliating themselves in front of the country.

Corbyn has to take a lot of blame for this.

Toasted, the Leftist Socialist Labour alternative has failed more than the Tories. Its a disaster that Corbyn has failed to gain power.

Like it or not the last time Labour had a landslide government was under Blair. Which tells you everything.

The electorate just do not trust a left wing socialist Labour party. Since the 1970's the working classes have shifted en masse from the Labour party to the Tories and UKIP etc.

Ugh, just what Labour needs. More bland liberal Blairites.

This is national politics - it is exactly what Labour needs if they are serious about forming government.

I'm a socialist just like you - but the majority of the electorate would never vote our politics into government.

It is time that the LIbDems came to the fore.

The Tories suck under Johnson and Corbyn is like a wet lettuce,UKIP is just a bunch of thugs craving for the 'glory days' just like those sad rightists in Japan......time for the LDP.

I would vote for the LibDems or the Green Party - neither have done anything wrong.

Johnson says "only Brexit could resolve deep divisions among lawmakers and across the country" That's a funny argument. Isn't it the very Brexit itself that is all the cause of this furor of divisions? ’

The problem with arguing that Britain’s leaving the EU is the cause of the current divisions is that not leaving will not make anything better. It is actually worse because their was a democratic election and the people as a whole decided to leave. Delaying the will of the people for so long is what is extreme and divisive. The remain side is being duplicitous and attempting to undo an election ( a common theme in world politics these days).

their was a democratic election and the people as a whole decided to leave. 

There was a non-binding referendum. That’s not the same as an election. It’s essentially a government run poll. You know, those polls that your team claim are all deep-stake fake news MSM lies and cannot be trusted.

StrangerlandSep. 27  08:32 pm JST

"their was a democratic election and the people as a whole decided to leave. "

There was a non-binding referendum. That’s not the same as an election.

Indeed not. Furthermore in the general election that followed a year later the people as a whole voted for a majority of MPs who supported staying in the EU or leaving with a sensible negotiated deal. Some people won't get that notion into their heads though. I suspect they're in favour of no-deal Brexit because that's what Donald Trump wants so he can take some credit for something. After all he's not doing much winning these days.