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Just imagine in the midst of pandemic with tens of thousands dead and yet more tens of thousands who are going to die. A comedian joked about letting the bodies piled high
Joking
It wasn& #39;t a comedian
It was the Prime Minister
Just imagine in the midst of pandemic with tens of thousands dead and yet more tens of thousands who are going to die. A comedian joked about letting the bodies piled high
Joking
It wasn& #39;t a comedian
It was the Prime Minister
I want to introduce you to a comedy clip of Jimmy Carr
Where he tries to determine where people find a joke too offensive
It has gone too far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_OA3rEdp0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Where he tries to determine where people find a joke too offensive
It has gone too far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_OA3rEdp0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Oh and here& #39;s an article from a historian about bodies piled high https://scottmanning.com/content/8-ancient-accounts-of-bodies-piling-up-in-battle/">https://scottmanning.com/content/8...
First I will put up his rebuttal of the alleged comments
I don& #39;t want Boris to feel like he is - how did he put it to children - gets "abused" by journalists https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/1386675691941416960">https://twitter.com/TheNewEur...
I don& #39;t want Boris to feel like he is - how did he put it to children - gets "abused" by journalists https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/1386675691941416960">https://twitter.com/TheNewEur...
I want you to close your eyes
Close them
Pretend you are blindfolded
Pretend you are Michael Gove and you can hear no evil
(We will come back to Michael later)
Close them
Pretend you are blindfolded
Pretend you are Michael Gove and you can hear no evil
(We will come back to Michael later)
I want you to imagine you are
The leader of a nation
You can be a President
You can be a Chancellor
You can be a First Minister
You can be a Prime Minister
You can even be King of the World
Hell you can even be First Lord of the Treasury
You choose your title
The leader of a nation
You can be a President
You can be a Chancellor
You can be a First Minister
You can be a Prime Minister
You can even be King of the World
Hell you can even be First Lord of the Treasury
You choose your title
Imagine the weight of your office
The responsibility you carry
As leader of a nation
In normal times
That would be a weight to bear
In the middle of a pandemic
That weight would be even more so
The responsibility you carry
As leader of a nation
In normal times
That would be a weight to bear
In the middle of a pandemic
That weight would be even more so
I have the deepest of thoughts and prayers for any leader that is trying to navigate their nation through a global pandemic
It is not easy
It is tough
There are no easy choices
It is not easy
It is tough
There are no easy choices
So as the leader of a nation
Would you say out loud
"let the bodies pile high"
"let it rip"
Would you say out loud
"let the bodies pile high"
"let it rip"
Imagine saying either of those things out loud
Worse
Imagine as a colleague
Imagine as a civil servant
Listening to a leader of a nation saying that out loud
AND doing NOTHING
Worse
Imagine as a colleague
Imagine as a civil servant
Listening to a leader of a nation saying that out loud
AND doing NOTHING
So I have deliberately
Within the previous posts
Not given you a date or context to the circumstances in which those comments were made
My question would be
Why would the context matter?
Within the previous posts
Not given you a date or context to the circumstances in which those comments were made
My question would be
Why would the context matter?
If you are going to say
"let the bodies pile high"
How high is high?
At what point does the pile become too high?
Where would you like the pile to be located?
At the doors of No10, at Chequers, on Parliament Green
Where?
"let the bodies pile high"
How high is high?
At what point does the pile become too high?
Where would you like the pile to be located?
At the doors of No10, at Chequers, on Parliament Green
Where?
Similar questions to "let it rip"
What is "it" ?
Define "rip" ?
Who is going to suffer from the "rip" ?
What is "it" ?
Define "rip" ?
Who is going to suffer from the "rip" ?
If you can make the comment once https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1386932155675258880">https://twitter.com/GMB/statu...
https://twitter.com/AlexofBrown/status/1387013403106029573">https://twitter.com/AlexofBro...
Why not more than once?
Does the frequency of the comment matter?
Does where he make the comment matter?
Does whom he makes it to matter? https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1386980847593705472">https://twitter.com/DPJHodges...
Does the frequency of the comment matter?
Does where he make the comment matter?
Does whom he makes it to matter? https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1386980847593705472">https://twitter.com/DPJHodges...
Just a reminder from November 19th 2020
Again - close your eyes
Imagine a Prime Minister refusing to meet bereaved victims from his rule
Again - why would your reaction to that alter based on the political affiliation of him (or of you)? https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1329340098115227648">https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys...
Again - close your eyes
Imagine a Prime Minister refusing to meet bereaved victims from his rule
Again - why would your reaction to that alter based on the political affiliation of him (or of you)? https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1329340098115227648">https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys...
I would put this here
As a reminder
Of the cost of a funeral service
But hey amidst the blessed sunlit uplands of austerity, brexit and covid
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/worrying-picture-isolation-numbers-paupers-funerals-soar">https://inews.co.uk/essential...
As a reminder
Of the cost of a funeral service
But hey amidst the blessed sunlit uplands of austerity, brexit and covid
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/worrying-picture-isolation-numbers-paupers-funerals-soar">https://inews.co.uk/essential...
And *also*
http://www.theweek.co.uk/71031/paupers-funerals-could-return-to-uk-say-mps">https://www.theweek.co.uk/71031/pau...
http://www.theweek.co.uk/71031/paupers-funerals-could-return-to-uk-say-mps">https://www.theweek.co.uk/71031/pau...
Here is Liz Truss alongside the words of Margaret Roberts (you know her right - the Iron Lady )
Any time the Conservatives say "build back better" or "level up" ask them from what and from WHOM? https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1320685911500345345">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
Any time the Conservatives say "build back better" or "level up" ask them from what and from WHOM? https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1320685911500345345">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
Here is also Liz Truss on an uncomfortable chair and how desperate and enfeebled open global Britain is https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1384824451339063304">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
For those who put pictures of the Queen in their zoom background
Do ask them
Why were they ok with lying to Her Majesty to unlawfully prorogue Parliament?
Do ask them
Why were they ok with lying to Her Majesty to unlawfully prorogue Parliament?
I did write a thread once
Where I compared Trump& #39;s attempt to interrupt the operation of the US legislature
By his insurrection
And compared it with Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson of course was *successful* in his usurpation of Parliament https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1348593396005351424">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
Where I compared Trump& #39;s attempt to interrupt the operation of the US legislature
By his insurrection
And compared it with Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson of course was *successful* in his usurpation of Parliament https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1348593396005351424">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
For those who put the union flag in their zoom background
Do ask them
Why did they vote for the Northern Ireland Protocol that puts a border in the Irish Sea that no unionist could support https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1184738823420502016">https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys...
Do ask them
Why did they vote for the Northern Ireland Protocol that puts a border in the Irish Sea that no unionist could support https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1184738823420502016">https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys...
But hey
We have normalised lying to the Queen
As easily as we have normalised lying to the nation
We have normalised spaffing on the union as easily as spaffing on a mistress paid out of the public purse
The "new normal" eh
We have normalised lying to the Queen
As easily as we have normalised lying to the nation
We have normalised spaffing on the union as easily as spaffing on a mistress paid out of the public purse
The "new normal" eh
So
Getting back to Jimmy Carr
The reason I chose his video clip was that he was exploring the question of at what point do you turn away from a joke
And say no
That is offensive
That went too far
Getting back to Jimmy Carr
The reason I chose his video clip was that he was exploring the question of at what point do you turn away from a joke
And say no
That is offensive
That went too far
Now
I am not going to focus on who paid for Boris Johnson& #39;s redecoration of Number 10
You know that
He got a Tory party donor to pay for it
Only because he got caught out
And got shamed into it and had no other viable route
Did he *eventually* pay for it himself
I am not going to focus on who paid for Boris Johnson& #39;s redecoration of Number 10
You know that
He got a Tory party donor to pay for it
Only because he got caught out
And got shamed into it and had no other viable route
Did he *eventually* pay for it himself
I am not going to focus on a PM who INTERFERED into the investigation into bullying allegations against a Home Secretary
Who suppressed the report
And ordered his MPs to form a protective square not around the victim but around the bully https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1367507825082195974">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
Who suppressed the report
And ordered his MPs to form a protective square not around the victim but around the bully https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1367507825082195974">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
There are so many stories with Boris Johnson
So so many
My question is not on them
Again
You know what he was, is and what he says and does
My question is:
At what point would you have an issue with something he says or does?
So so many
My question is not on them
Again
You know what he was, is and what he says and does
My question is:
At what point would you have an issue with something he says or does?
Now I realise when I ask this question
I would also ask you - does your reaction alter based on who he is, what party he represents or on how you voted?
If so - that says so so much more about you than him
I would also ask you - does your reaction alter based on who he is, what party he represents or on how you voted?
If so - that says so so much more about you than him
Now I could do what Jimmy Carr does and start off low
On the historic words and actions of Boris Johnson
And build up from them
And see where your threshold is
At what point do you turn away from his words or his actions
There is so much
I just don& #39;t have the time
On the historic words and actions of Boris Johnson
And build up from them
And see where your threshold is
At what point do you turn away from his words or his actions
There is so much
I just don& #39;t have the time
You already know what he is
Those who know *BEST* what he is
Are those who enabled him in his party
To voters who voted for him
You knew what he was, is and always will be
A liar
A cheat
A racist
A nativist
A charlatan
Self serving
Corrupt
Amoral
Incompetent
Those who know *BEST* what he is
Are those who enabled him in his party
To voters who voted for him
You knew what he was, is and always will be
A liar
A cheat
A racist
A nativist
A charlatan
Self serving
Corrupt
Amoral
Incompetent
After all
Jacob Rees Mogg cannot answer a simple question
Does Boris Johnson have a moral compass
Not a question on where does it point
Simply if he has one
And Jacob knew this before he elected Boris Johnson leader
Jacob Rees Mogg cannot answer a simple question
Does Boris Johnson have a moral compass
Not a question on where does it point
Simply if he has one
And Jacob knew this before he elected Boris Johnson leader
As Amber Rudd put it https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1298192/Amber-Rudd-Boris-not-man-want-driving-home.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/new...
Sadly
He was in charge as the UK faced a global pandemic
And to be honest
I am not surprised at Boris Johnson& #39;s incompetence
What I am surprised at
Is that no one in his cabinet, his government, his party were able to act as a check, counter or balance to his reign
He was in charge as the UK faced a global pandemic
And to be honest
I am not surprised at Boris Johnson& #39;s incompetence
What I am surprised at
Is that no one in his cabinet, his government, his party were able to act as a check, counter or balance to his reign
So
As Boris Johnson talks of "letting the bodies pile high"
How would you feel if that pile included you, your parents, your partner, your children, your friends?
Would that alter your view on "letting" that pile build?
As Boris Johnson talks of "letting the bodies pile high"
How would you feel if that pile included you, your parents, your partner, your children, your friends?
Would that alter your view on "letting" that pile build?
So the main question in this thread
Is to you
Why are you *OK* with "let the bodies pile high" or "let it rip"
What could Boris Johnson say or do that would make you question his words or actions?
Is to you
Why are you *OK* with "let the bodies pile high" or "let it rip"
What could Boris Johnson say or do that would make you question his words or actions?
Your reminder
There are over 150,000 dead
Christmas 2020
Well
There are over 150,000 dead
Christmas 2020
Well
The second strand of those comments from Boris Johnson
Is how those who KNOW what he is DEFEND and DEFLECT for him
Boris Johnson is afraid that at some point those who enable him or those who vote for him
tell which drives Boris more - greed or fear. https://twitter.com/JoeMurphyLondon/status/1387000423068930049">https://twitter.com/JoeMurphy...
Is how those who KNOW what he is DEFEND and DEFLECT for him
Boris Johnson is afraid that at some point those who enable him or those who vote for him
tell which drives Boris more - greed or fear. https://twitter.com/JoeMurphyLondon/status/1387000423068930049">https://twitter.com/JoeMurphy...
So
I could focus on your reaction to the "bodies pile high"
Because the people who are really afraid of that comment of "bodies pile high in their thousands"
Are Conservatives
They are afraid
Not for what it says about Boris Johnson
But what it says about them
I could focus on your reaction to the "bodies pile high"
Because the people who are really afraid of that comment of "bodies pile high in their thousands"
Are Conservatives
They are afraid
Not for what it says about Boris Johnson
But what it says about them
After all
They know exactly what an amoral cheating lying racist corrupt self serving charlatan they elected as their leader
Their fear now
Is not for what is best for country
But what is best for self, career and party
After all - losing your job in a pandemic is not nice
They know exactly what an amoral cheating lying racist corrupt self serving charlatan they elected as their leader
Their fear now
Is not for what is best for country
But what is best for self, career and party
After all - losing your job in a pandemic is not nice
So I want to focus on how his government and party behaved yesterday upon it
Because often it is not the original action that is fascinating but how people react
What is fascinating
Is the coverup
To borrow a movie quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ASBsQfXnw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Because often it is not the original action that is fascinating but how people react
What is fascinating
Is the coverup
To borrow a movie quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ASBsQfXnw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
So on Monday 26th April 2021
I want to know
How did Conservative MP& #39;s respond
After all
They formed a protective square for the Prittster
(some) of them came to the aide of Dominic
What did they do for their dear leader? https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1264636461577646084">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
I want to know
How did Conservative MP& #39;s respond
After all
They formed a protective square for the Prittster
(some) of them came to the aide of Dominic
What did they do for their dear leader? https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1264636461577646084">https://twitter.com/PandaScot...
So looking at what Conservative MP& #39;s spent Monday 26th April talking of
Liz Truss was hawking her usual shite https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1386617286698717188">https://twitter.com/trussliz/...
Liz Truss was hawking her usual shite https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1386617286698717188">https://twitter.com/trussliz/...
Many MPs were trying to flood social media with their local council campaigning https://twitter.com/MariaMillerUK/status/1386615717647298560">https://twitter.com/MariaMill...
Some were focusing on the easing of lockdown https://twitter.com/JamesDavies/status/1386617718338691073">https://twitter.com/JamesDavi...
One wanted to talk of moral duty (that was brave in my view) https://twitter.com/Royston_Smith/status/1386219700196085760">https://twitter.com/Royston_S...
Some were busy shagging the vaccine https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1386649444360273920">https://twitter.com/MattHanco...
Some were busy shagging the flag https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1386630168769400832">https://twitter.com/Conservat...
And shagging the flag some more https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1386627948929855488">https://twitter.com/GeorgeFre...
