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Fascinating insight
He doesnât make me feel better, actually he makes me feel ill.
Letâs hope he makes another gaffe, comme dâhabitude.
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The buffoon was on WATO on Radio 4 this lunchtime - just could not answer a straight question, talked over the interviewer and STILL claims that the solution to the Irish border question is âeasyââŚbut refused to say how or why.
We are on the road to oblivionâŚ
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Once again the Conservatives are just going for someone they perceive will beat Jeremy Corbyn and/or fĂźhrer farridge in an election and not âin the national interestâ but their own.
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Donât see a good ending for Johnson, assuming he gets into No 10 and:
Calls a GE - Tories get wiped out, see Peterborough.
Looses confidence motion - leads to GE - see above
Tries to renegotiate - gets told to go forth so:
Resurrects Mayâs deal - gets lynched by own party
Revokes A50 - gets lynched by everyone
Blows out with no deal - pat on back for about 20 seconds then:
Realises we werenât joking about âProject Fearâ, crawls back to Brussels asking for deal - gets lynched by own party.
Soldiers on to 2022, the country is a mess and the Tories get wiped out at the ballot box - gets lynched by own party.
May will wind up being remembered as only the 2nd (or even 3rd) worst PM of our era.
Like May, Johnson craves power. Like May he should be careful what he wishes for (and very careful not to end sentences with prepositions 
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In fact I donât think it matters which candidate gets to No 10 - things will most likely pan out as above.
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At least fellow Europeans can see the state the UK is in:
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Iâm having a little difficulty with the translation thereâŚâŚ
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I donât have much more than a spattering (a few unrelated words) but that headline makes sense to me.
Is it a parody?
google translated:
The big clusterfuck of the Tories Leaving the EU could have disastrous economic and social consequences for Britain. Theresa May tries to prevent him halfheartedly.
Yup. Maybe thatâs the reason for the half-heartedness. It suits her purpose (as if there was any other reason May does anything).
Thatâs a very good point, it never occurred to me that revenge could be her motive, but it makes very good sense.
âHell hath no fury like a woman scornedâŚâ.
I favour Hanlanâs razor: âNever attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetenceâ
There is no other explanation.
Yeah, I got the gist without Google 
May, as they say, is an ex Prime Minister, she has ceased to be, if she wasnât nailed into No 10 until her successor pries her free sheâd be running through fields of daisies, or wheat, or something.
Is there any evidence sheâs trying to prevent anything other than just hanging on waiting to pass the poisoned chalice to the next incumbent?
As I said, it doesnât really matter who gets in - Johnson would crash and burn fairly quickly - he lacks the skills required for the premiership and I think he would be exposed early on (though he is not without the capacity to do some spiteful harm in the role). Someone like Hunt might, in other circumstances, have made a decent PM but he is also starting off with the wrong ideas. Heâd last longer but still fall foul of the prevailing parliamentary and electoral arithmetic - the wildcard, of course, is Stewart but I donât think he will upset the apple cart by getting elected. At least he would not actually loose face by asking for a further extension.
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Many politicians aspire to be PM without having the capability to pull it off, vanity often gets in the way and the country is left with a poor leader. If you then throw in an unsolvable puzzle such as Brexit chaos ensues and everything grinds to a halt. I believe that rather than just be âanointedâ Johnson (or whoever) should immediately face a GE after being made leader, that way the country gets to voice their approval or disapproval.
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Oh dear Paul, I now have a sickening image of May running in slow motion through a field of wheat with a Cadburyâs Flake in her handâŚready to give BoJo a ??? you can insert your own thought here 
Iâd rather not, ta very much 
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Sunflowers not wheat.