In deciding not to stand, Boris Johnson has shown rare statesmanship and, by deciding that he is not the right person to be Prime Minister, demonstrated an unexpectedly shrewd judge of character.
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Bollocks. He knew he is finished. There was a very good article in the Grenuad recently explaining why he was buggered following DC's resignation. He's not daft and knew he'd been outmanouvered when DC said it was up to the next PM to invoke article 50. I'll try and dig it out as it has proven to be correct.
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I wonder if Boris's situation is a bit like that of Prince Charles? Everyone assumes he desperately wants the top job but actually he realises that it would cramp his style and in many ways he prefers the freedom to pursue his own somewhat individualistic agenda.
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Nope. He wanted to be PM and didn't want to wait so he backed Brexit in the full understanding that he would narrowly lose. Then he'd come charging in as the Conservative leader with credentials to really fight with the EU. It would have all worked if it hadn't been for those pesky kids. (Well actually not the kids at all but the old folk, racists and intellectually challenged)
Here's the bit I was looking for:
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
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If he ... pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements.
I would of course expect the Grauniad to believe that the End of the World would occur if we quit the EU.
What the Grauniad and all the other trendy-lefty gullible twits fail to notice is that NO ONE likes the EU - even the Remainians only want to stay in because they think that makes it more likely that it will reform. It won't. It can't. And it doesn't want to.
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I have a very good customer who is a City boy, well man now. I think he is a hedge fund manager. I asked how it affected him. He just shrugged and said "it went a bit mad for a bit but other than that... and anyway cheap money is always a good thing". I'm not sure I really understood but anyway he paid for his £800 wine order and strolled away quite happy. Although he's a "banker" he's a lovely chap and I'm quite happy to feed off crumbs from the rich man's table. (I think it's called trickle down)
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"Boris Johnson has shown rare statesmanship"
No he hasn't.
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If only.
It's not like Boris to back off when going full steam (and apologies for the imagery). He doesn't stop just because of some fuzzy logic. There's something else going on - a bribe, a threat, only time will tell whether it's a gong, lack of gong, something from the Bullingdon Club - we don't know
You heard the unsubstantiated allegations here first
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OK, since you ask (Warning - boring for most readers)
What pension cheque? All my retirement income sources are paying out already. Are you referring to:
The various annuities, which are either flat-rate or escalating?
The various company pensions, which are all RPI-linked??
The 'triple-locked' state pension?
The property rents?
The tax-free return from the investments in my ISAs?
The tax-free, RPI-linked, guaranteed-for-25-years income from my solar panels?
I have, indeed, thought abut my retirement income. And that thought is, essentially, 'Tee-hee!'.
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OK OP, your wish is my command. Enjoy:
(Warning - boring for most readers)
What pension cheque? All my retirement income sources are paying out already. Are you referring to:
The various annuities, which are either flat-rate or escalating?
The various company pensions, which are all RPI-linked??
The 'triple-locked' state pension?
The property rents?
The tax-free return from the investments in my ISAs?
The tax-free, RPI-linked, guaranteed-for-25-years income from my solar panels?
I have, indeed, thought abut my retirement income. And that thought is, essentially, 'Tee-hee!'.
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This is a slightly better Downfall take on it, IMHO, though both are good:
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In stark contrast to the smugness - I was working at a place a few weeks ago when a poor chap in his 50's keeled over a few yards away from me with an obvious massive coronary. First aiders and paramedics did what they could but it seemed pretty obvious that the poor fellow died where he fell on a factory floor. The chap was an agency worker and possibly scared of taking time off whilst feeling ill lest he be dismissed. (Although I couldn't state with any degree of certainty that he actually did feel unwell prior to the fatal occurrence.) Smugness has a way of biting you in the arse and complacency ought to be ranked among the seven deadly sins. Is this what we've become as a nation? There but for the grace and all that...
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