VIDEO – Johnson’s greatest flops: it’s been a bad week to be a Tory
The first full week of the general election campaign could not have gone worse for Boris Johnson.
It was like a re-run of the Conservative government’s greatest flops since it came into office in 2010, starting with Boris Johnson’s disgusting failure to respond to the flooding crisis in the north, and ending with the Bolton blaze, accelerated by cladding – two years after dozens were killed in Grenfell Tower.
The opinion polls might have said the opposite, but he started out in a terrible situation – caused by his own government’s misbehaviour over a period of years:
You're just a bunch of liars and spin artists pic.twitter.com/wHU1hmmU56
— Chelley Ryan #EnoughIsEnough (@chelleryn99) November 14, 2019
Mr Johnson tried to undertake a tour of the UK, but few members of the public seemed to want to talk to him…
Everywhere you go…… you always take the weather with you…. A catalogue of all the times Boris has been Booed.. https://t.co/P3E7dHUddt
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) November 15, 2019
… and many of the appearances seemed to have been arranged as if in secret.
https://twitter.com/WOODHEAP/status/1194869532038455296
His television appearances were a similar disaster, with the prime minister coming across as a stumbling zombie:
https://twitter.com/hardcastIe/status/1195267953610149888
It seems he’s hopeless if he hasn’t got a script. This radio interview is even worse:
The most incompetent interview you will ever hear. pic.twitter.com/o9Fj8oJERW
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) November 14, 2019
So, after the first full week of campaigning, this is the verdict:
A Glastonbury butcher wants to give Boris Johnson the chop #GE2019 🌹 #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/IbzusM0KjZ
— Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union (@BenClaimant) November 14, 2019
There are many more clips I could have used in this piece; there will be many more to come. I’m looking forward to seeing Mr Johnson cock up his response to the Bolton blaze, for example.
For voters everywhere, there can be only one conclusion: This man and his party must be removed from office on December 12.
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Like I wrote earlier this week, he’s making the same mistakes as May.
https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2019/11/13/boris-johnson-is-making-the-same-mistakes-as-theresa-may-did-in-2017/
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Johnson reminds me of Ben Swain from The Thick of It, whose disastrous bumbling appearance on Newsnight earned this comment from Malcolm Tucker; “who did your PR training, Myra Hindley?”