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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Told him right to his face.
steve2470
(37,468 posts)steve2470
(37,468 posts)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 brothers not running.
Meanwhile, a man branded Johnson crazy to his face. Ouch.
steve2470
(37,468 posts)T_i_B
(14,805 posts)A nice idea in theory at Tory central office, but not in reality.
steve2470
(37,468 posts)calimary
(84,504 posts)Well-deserved!
VERY well-deserved.
Thought you were gonna be Cock o the Walk, eh, Boris?
Just lovely, isnt 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)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)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)He was heckled persistently by a guy with admirable vocal projection:
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"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
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The heckler was eventually ejected. But it wasn't over yet:
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@JimMFelton
Trip to the north going well is it Johnson?
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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 Im proud of it. Lets see whos in the job the longest."
McGovern later felt driven to apologize for her remarks:
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@stephbreakfast
At a non BBC event I was hosting today, I made a light hearted remark after the Prime Ministers 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)That whilst I was in Rotherham at that time, that wasn't me heckling.
turbinetree
(25,375 posts)and tory concept of libertarian bs, and he really is full of his Brexit shit....................good on her................
CTyankee
(65,200 posts)T_i_B
(14,805 posts)Nationalism killed it.
steve2470
(37,468 posts)I really hope she is not harassed by the local RW nuts.
SWBTATTReg
(24,270 posts)and more hecklers etc. showing up at rump rallies...he is losing control of the situation that he alone created.