Does Boris Johnson continuing survival piss annoy you?

@ImJack BoJo represents almost perfectly a new type of politician – you can find them in virtually every country, but he is really the embodiment.
He's completely shameless. For no reason whatsoever would he decide to resign.
It's [u]not[/u] true that he is a [u]liar[/u]. He's below a liar. In contrast to the liar (who must have some regard for the truth in order to artfully subvert it), he has no such concern or constraint. What he says is an arbitrary mixture of [u]facts, truth and fakery[/u] - designed in such a way that the mix is useful for [u]him[/u]. He is not concerned at all with how things really are, he is neither [u]for[/u] nor [u]against[/u] truth. He may say factual things, but not because they are factual. Truth is simply no category in his thinking. (In philosophy, this epistemological category is called "bullshit".)

@helenS Very perceptive. I’d only add that some of the things he says he geniuinely believes to be true, even though a moment’s research or thought would demonstrate that they are not.

@ImJack Far from being the worst Prime Minister in modern history, he’s not as bad as his immediate predecessor.

@MartinII I don't know. I can't look into his soul. I'd leave that to God.

@MartinII He is far worse than Teresa May - in every way -she had integrity, but was compromised by the ultra right wing elements of the tory party.

@ImJack He's not as bad as Thatcher. She was a heartless monster. Boris is only a heartless idiot.

@MartinII she was hamstrung by Johnson and his cohorts at everyturn

@HarrietteSpeedy the Witch as she is known by in most decent communities

@HarrietteSpeedy she was terrible i remember going to shcool in the heart of the miners strike
calling for mt friends on the way and their dads were sat at home because they couldn't work
no money no food no hope. all because of her way or no way

@HarrietteSpeedy Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister since - well Churchill, though he’s a special case. And she certainly wasn’t heartless, though she sometimes sounded as if she were.

@ImJack I agree she had integrity, but she was hopelessly incompetent and delivered nothing. There are no ultra right wing elements in the Tory party. But there are some right wing ones, thankfully, and May’s refusal to listen to them was one of her many failings.

@SW-User That was Arthur Scargill’s fault, not Margaret Thatcher’s.

@MartinII five million unemployed; industries devastated; communities destroyed; Falklands War allowed to keep her in power.
Monster
A nightmare.
Disgusting creature

@SW-User Well, she's in Hell now, where she belongs.

@MartinII Thatcher forced it - the buck stops with her. A verminous vicious right wing monster.

@HarrietteSpeedy I’m not going to argue politics with you, which would clearly be a waste of time. But your language disgusts me. I hope, on reflection, you will see fit to withdraw it.

@HarrietteSpeedy Verminous, vicious and monster are childish epithets. But what’s wrong with being right wing? Or left wing, for that matter?

@MartinII Childish but true - and not sufficiently strong for a woman who destroyed so much and ruined so many lives in her crazy attack on the unions.