| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit 10:06 - Apr 25 with 1689 views | nodge_blue |
Taken from the Times today. An extract from a book about Johnson and Brexit on the night of the vote. Im not sure how anyone can read that and not see it as a complete f*** up that was all abut his political ambitions. He **** the country over just to get power.
"Johnson was finding it hard to think straight. He had been up all night watching the television at his Islington home. Only towards dawn did he realise that Vote Leave would actually win. He disappeared to bed for 20 minutes but came back and paced around in a Brazilian football shirt and misfitting shorts looking ashen-faced and distraught. “What the hell is happening?” he kept saying. Then a pang of guilt struck him when he saw pictures of Samantha on the television looking utterly distraught. “Oh my God. Look at Sam. God. Poor Sam.” Soon after, stopping in his tracks, a new thought struck him: “Oh sh1t, we’ve got no plan. We haven’t thought about it. I didn’t think it would happen. Holy crap, what will we do?” Still muttering, he went off to write the speech he knew he would in no time have to deliver.
Those who knew Johnson intimately say they had never seen him more frightened and dismayed than at this moment of triumph. Crowds were shouting angrily outside his house: “People who had patted him on the back when he had been mayor were now screaming at him.” He made it out to the car and his driver shot off down the road but had to stop at a red traffic light at the end. Aides by his side screamed for the driver to shoot straight through the lights, but he refused. “The crowds began banging angrily on the windows and roof. Boris looked terrified. He stared dead ahead, sensing that from this moment on, everything had changed.” |  |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:09 - Apr 25 with 1257 views | Whos_blue |
And this is supposed to calm our nerves?!?
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| Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness. |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:17 - Apr 25 with 1232 views | brazil1982 |
Who is the author, and how do they know what Johnson was wearing? |  | | |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:30 - Apr 25 with 1189 views | nodge_blue |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:17 - Apr 25 by brazil1982 |
Who is the author, and how do they know what Johnson was wearing? |
Extracted from Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, to be published by Atlantic Books on May 4 at £25. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:43 - Apr 25 with 1156 views | noggin |
Are you sure it was a Brazil shirt and not Norwich? Surely that would be far more fitting, given the story. |  |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:44 - Apr 25 with 1151 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:30 - Apr 25 by nodge_blue |
Extracted from Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, to be published by Atlantic Books on May 4 at £25. |
You see, that's a Brexit bonus right there. |  |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:45 - Apr 25 with 1143 views | noggin |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:44 - Apr 25 by BanksterDebtSlave |
You see, that's a Brexit bonus right there. |
It would have been 17 quid, pre brexit. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:49 - Apr 25 with 1122 views | nodge_blue |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:43 - Apr 25 by noggin |
Are you sure it was a Brazil shirt and not Norwich? Surely that would be far more fitting, given the story. |
They've got no plan either. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:55 - Apr 25 with 1114 views | noggin |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:49 - Apr 25 by nodge_blue |
They've got no plan either. |
Plus the fake feelings of grandeur, based on absolutely nothing. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:15 - Apr 25 with 1080 views | MattinLondon |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 10:30 - Apr 25 by nodge_blue |
Extracted from Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, to be published by Atlantic Books on May 4 at £25. |
You get a discount if you buy online and type in ‘Sovereignty’ just before you press buy. |  | | |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:16 - Apr 25 with 1078 views | nodge_blue |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:15 - Apr 25 by MattinLondon |
You get a discount if you buy online and type in ‘Sovereignty’ just before you press buy. |
I hear that edition comes with a blue cover | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:18 - Apr 25 with 1072 views | MattinLondon |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:16 - Apr 25 by nodge_blue |
I hear that edition comes with a blue cover |
The front cover of that edition was designed by a French firm and printed in Poland. | | | |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:21 - Apr 25 with 1062 views | blueasfook |
Next week on Things That Never Happened... |  |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:24 - Apr 25 with 1051 views | WeWereZombies |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:21 - Apr 25 by blueasfook |
Next week on Things That Never Happened... |
Or things that have been leaked by Carrie Johnson as she prepares for divorce... |  |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:25 - Apr 25 with 1050 views | noggin |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:21 - Apr 25 by blueasfook |
Next week on Things That Never Happened... |
LOL | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:26 - Apr 25 with 1047 views | MattinLondon |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:21 - Apr 25 by blueasfook |
Next week on Things That Never Happened... |
Brexit never happened? That god for that - the idiots didn’t take over after all. [Post edited 25 Apr 2023 11:26]
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:27 - Apr 25 with 1039 views | nodge_blue |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:21 - Apr 25 by blueasfook |
Next week on Things That Never Happened... |
didn't you see the look on his face later that day with Gove? Like the pair of them were about to cry.
Of course it happened. The times wouldn't be printing this without a high degree of trust about its integrity. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:27 - Apr 25 with 1034 views | blueasfook |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:24 - Apr 25 by WeWereZombies |
Or things that have been leaked by Carrie Johnson as she prepares for divorce... |
Boris will be back. I wouldn't even bet against him having another shot at PM. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:28 - Apr 25 with 1029 views | WeWereZombies |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:27 - Apr 25 by blueasfook |
Boris will be back. I wouldn't even bet against him having another shot at PM. |
Pippa Middleton !! Blimey... | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:28 - Apr 25 with 1028 views | blueasfook |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:27 - Apr 25 by nodge_blue |
didn't you see the look on his face later that day with Gove? Like the pair of them were about to cry.
Of course it happened. The times wouldn't be printing this without a high degree of trust about its integrity. |
You mean the Rupert Murdoch owned Times?
Arf, rofl, chuckle, etc. | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:29 - Apr 25 with 1027 views | blueasfook |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:28 - Apr 25 by WeWereZombies |
Pippa Middleton !! Blimey... |
You would though, wouldnt you ;) | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:30 - Apr 25 with 1021 views | nodge_blue |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:28 - Apr 25 by blueasfook |
You mean the Rupert Murdoch owned Times?
Arf, rofl, chuckle, etc. |
I don't really have to point out the irony of your remark do I? | |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:33 - Apr 25 with 1009 views | MattinLondon |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:28 - Apr 25 by WeWereZombies |
Pippa Middleton !! Blimey... |
As a Brexit analogy, Boris will aim for Pippa Middleton but end up with Piers Morgan | | | |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 13:11 - Apr 25 with 877 views | Swansea_Blue |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 11:27 - Apr 25 by nodge_blue |
didn't you see the look on his face later that day with Gove? Like the pair of them were about to cry.
Of course it happened. The times wouldn't be printing this without a high degree of trust about its integrity. |
It tallies with something Sarah Vine  wrote about Gove. He was having kittens when they started to realise they had won, apparently.
Anyway, it's bleeding obvious they weren't prepared and had no plan. Even their most deluded sycophant can't have missed the ensuing political chaos. |  |
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| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 13:44 - Apr 25 with 847 views | Churchman |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 13:11 - Apr 25 by Swansea_Blue |
It tallies with something Sarah Vine wrote about Gove. He was having kittens when they started to realise they had won, apparently.
Anyway, it's bleeding obvious they weren't prepared and had no plan. Even their most deluded sycophant can't have missed the ensuing political chaos. |
Of course there was no plan. They didn’t understand the implications and didn’t know how anything in this country worked. What moved to and from the EU or how it operated? Nobody knew or needed to know. You don’t need to if you are in the Single Market and Customs Union. Something they didn’t know anything about it until it was explained one Sunday in 2018.
Larry the cat knew more than they did and nobody thought to ask him. He was busy anyway. There was no preparation by anyone. Nothing. The blame for that sits with the shiny faced chancer that was oiling his way around No 10 at the time. |  | | |
| To take our mind off the football - a bit of Brexit on 14:02 - Apr 25 with 806 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Ipswich could be in the champions league final in 2046 and this forum would still be banging on about Brexit in the lead up to Kick Off. |  | | |
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