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"People have died because of austerity, and you've got the cheek to come here and tell us....." (Original Post) steve2470 Sep 2019 OP
Good for her Sherman A1 Sep 2019 #1
"Please leave my town" steve2470 Sep 2019 #2
Peak British Moment As Boris Johnson Gets Heckled At... A Garden Centre steve2470 Sep 2019 #3
Public singing "You're a liar" at Boris Johnson steve2470 Sep 2019 #4
That's at a retail park near where I live T_i_B Sep 2019 #13
video montage of Boris being heckled steve2470 Sep 2019 #5
SWEET!!! calimary Sep 2019 #10
Local control bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #6
One good thing about BoJo. I'm old and I no longer give a shit about my appearance. 3Hotdogs Sep 2019 #7
Johnson's speech in Rotherham didn't go well. Denzil_DC Sep 2019 #8
I would just like to point out.... T_i_B Sep 2019 #14
He is the current Margaret Thatcher just a lot more dangerous with his outright racist views turbinetree Sep 2019 #9
Like a Monty Python routine... CTyankee Sep 2019 #11
Tory libertarianism is dead T_i_B Sep 2019 #12
longer video of same incident, with her name steve2470 Sep 2019 #15
I love it! Deserves it too. If only rump was heckled as much, but I'm seeing more... SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #16

steve2470

(37,468 posts)
3. Peak British Moment As Boris Johnson Gets Heckled At... A Garden Centre
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 04:48 AM
Sep 2019
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-garden-centre-heckled_uk_5d1a04a8e4b07f6ca580da18

He may be the bookies favourite in the race to replace Theresa May in Number 10, but Boris Johnson received a less-than-warm welcome on the campaign trail in Kent.

Stopping off at a garden centre near Sevenoaks on Monday, the wannabe prime minister was probably expecting a nice chat with some OAPs.

Instead, the silver-haired crew had another kind of greeting for Johnson.

“Good luck with your preposterous ideas,” one woman shot at the former foreign secretary before adding: “Shame your brother’s not running.”

Meanwhile, a man branded Johnson “crazy” to his face. Ouch.

T_i_B

(14,805 posts)
13. That's at a retail park near where I live
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 11:08 AM
Sep 2019

A nice idea in theory at Tory central office, but not in reality.

calimary

(84,504 posts)
10. SWEET!!!
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 07:37 AM
Sep 2019

Well-deserved!

VERY well-deserved.

Thought you were gonna be Cock o’ the Walk, ‘eh, Boris?

Just lovely, isn’t it. The West is now crawling with Russians with ill intentions, and the Brits are now stuck with a PM named Boris...

bucolic_frolic

(47,365 posts)
6. Local control
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 05:58 AM
Sep 2019

We are being ruined by national governments and global corporations. We need to go local with community banks, planning commissions, democracy.

3Hotdogs

(13,485 posts)
7. One good thing about BoJo. I'm old and I no longer give a shit about my appearance.
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 06:40 AM
Sep 2019

I no longer comb my hair in the morning.

"This is my new Boris Johnson look."

People nod and go on.

Denzil_DC

(8,008 posts)
8. Johnson's speech in Rotherham didn't go well.
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 06:50 AM
Sep 2019

He was heckled persistently by a guy with admirable vocal projection:



BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics

"Maybe get back to Parliament" - Boris Johnson heckled during speech in Rotherham

The PM was asked why he wasn't recalling MPs and "sorting out the mess you created?" https://bbc.in/2m9EvS1

[Twitter video]


The heckler was eventually ejected. But it wasn't over yet:



James Felton
@JimMFelton

Trip to the north going well is it Johnson?

[Twitter video]


Compere BBC presenter Steph McGovern, as Johnson left the stage to stony silence, then a smattering of very forced applause at her encouragement: "I'd just like to point out, I AM a girly swot, and I’m proud of it. Let’s see who’s in the job the longest."

McGovern later felt driven to apologize for her remarks:



Steph McGovern
@stephbreakfast

At a non BBC event I was hosting today, I made a light hearted remark after the Prime Minister’s speech. Sorry that this caused offence to some. That was absolutely not my intention.


Johnson, on the other hand, has yet to apologize for shafting the country, dismantling democracy, lying to the queen, lying in this very speech about having earlier said that the police spending £60 million on investigating historic child sex abuse cases was "Spaffing money up the wall", and generally being a lying git.

T_i_B

(14,805 posts)
14. I would just like to point out....
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 11:10 AM
Sep 2019

That whilst I was in Rotherham at that time, that wasn't me heckling.

turbinetree

(25,375 posts)
9. He is the current Margaret Thatcher just a lot more dangerous with his outright racist views
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 07:12 AM
Sep 2019

and tory concept of libertarian bs, and he really is full of his Brexit shit....................good on her................

SWBTATTReg

(24,270 posts)
16. I love it! Deserves it too. If only rump was heckled as much, but I'm seeing more...
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 12:27 PM
Sep 2019

and more hecklers etc. showing up at rump rallies...he is losing control of the situation that he alone created.

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