UK General Discussion:The Rt. Hon Alex Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Populist Hero

[beesley]

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm sure I probably knew about breastfeeding before primary school, unless this is some bizarre thing linked to 'woke culture' scare stories. I'm not going to waste time finding out what he meant, however. What a pathetic and sad little man.

[Silent Hunter]

Has this guy gone completely crazy? Also, these kids will learn about it any from other kids.

[Zinneke]

Has this guy gone completely crazy?

That Rubicon was crossed a while ago :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQA2X4yvK_g

[Estrella]

Has this guy gone completely crazy?

That Rubicon was crossed a while ago :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQA2X4yvK_g

this is what happens when you can't sleep at two am

[cp]

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm sure I probably knew about breastfeeding before primary school, unless this is some bizarre thing linked to 'woke culture' scare stories. I'm not going to waste time finding out what he meant, however. What a pathetic and sad little man.

'Chest feeding' is a transphobic straw man argument about things being relabeled in the interests of gender diversity/inclusion.

[(no subject)]

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm sure I probably knew about breastfeeding before primary school, unless this is some bizarre thing linked to 'woke culture' scare stories. I'm not going to waste time finding out what he meant, however. What a pathetic and sad little man.

'Chest feeding' is a transphobic straw man argument about things being relabeled in the interests of gender diversity/inclusion.

Progressive activists said that they would not try to claim young children as having trans identities. That has turned out to be a lie. No doubt they will similarly push for euthanasia laws to be extended to terminally ill little children.

[Estrella]

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm sure I probably knew about breastfeeding before primary school, unless this is some bizarre thing linked to 'woke culture' scare stories. I'm not going to waste time finding out what he meant, however. What a pathetic and sad little man.

'Chest feeding' is a transphobic straw man argument about things being relabeled in the interests of gender diversity/inclusion.

Progressive activists said that they would not try to claim young children as having trans identities. That has turned out to be a lie. No doubt they will similarly push for euthanasia laws to be extended to terminally ill little children.

You might be surprised to find out what the word "terminal" means.

[Zinneke]

I don't know why but I burst out laughing at this :

https://twitter.com/NatashaC/status/1409478342026444800

Its such a Johnsonian moment in British politics.

[CumbrianLefty]

Is that the same Friday when number 10 said "the matter is closed"? Its just upthread FFS!

[afleitch]

To round out Pride

https://mobile.twitter.com/EdinRapeCrisis/status/1409448480339369985

Attacked in the comments.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Battersea_/status/1409426122564005893

Also attacked.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TPM_Journal/status/1405989775430107137

And so on.

Gender critical, transphobic and homophobic comments are now a daily occurrence, alongside attacks on Stonewall and inclusive education.

Expect rollbacks.

[NewYorkExpress]

Top Secret papers were left behind a bus stop in Kent by a senior Department of Defence official.

The government has said it is carrying out a thorough investigation into how classified defence documents were found at a bus stop in Kent.

Defence minister Jeremy Quin told MPs he was "very sorry" it had happened.

He said it appeared to be a mistake made by a senior official, and the person's access to sensitive material has been temporarily suspended.

The documents - which were handed to the BBC - contained details of HMS Defender and the military.

They were found in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent early on Tuesday morning.

In a statement to the Commons on Monday, Mr Quin said the documents included a paper that was marked "secret UK eyes only".

[Angel of Death]

At the risk of regretting this question, what kind of people read the Daily Express?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

At the risk of regretting this question, what kind of people read the Daily Express?

Pensioners who bought the paper in the old days when it was an ordinary mid-market Conservative tabloid and never got out of the habit.

[Conservatopia]

And people who have boring lives and therefore live for headlines like
"Royal SNUB as Queen arrives 10 SECONDS late for event" or
"Coldest winter ON RECORD with 80 FEET of snow" or
"EU on brink of COLLAPSE due to Charles Michel's BEARD".

[YL]

Gender critical, transphobic and homophobic comments are now a daily occurrence, alongside attacks on Stonewall and inclusive education.

Expect rollbacks.

There's definitely room for concern, especially about transphobia, but how representative are nasty people on Twitter?

[(no subject)]

Gender critical, transphobic and homophobic comments are now a daily occurrence, alongside attacks on Stonewall and inclusive education.

Expect rollbacks.

There's definitely room for concern, especially about transphobia, but how representative are nasty people on Twitter?

A lot more representative of the population at large than the tiny minority that identify themselves as “left” in a meaningful sense.

People with a well education or a high education are neither the average person or an ordinary person.

[CumbrianLefty]

This does seem to be a hobby horse of yours, but equally polling repeatedly shows that many things that would be considered "left wing" by anyone of sound mind have large (if not majority) support.

Right wing culture wars are intended, maybe more than anything, to obscure this reality.

[(no subject)]

People Lie to pollsters. Otherwise the Australian greens here in OZ who are strongly progressive would get a lot more share of the vote in national elections then the average ten to eleven percent they do.

[CumbrianLefty]

People Lie to pollsters

A very minor factor, at best.

(or, maybe more accurately - they *do* fib sometimes, but not in the way you imagine they do)

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The average member of the public views all the main players in that drama (trans people, allied activists, religious types, radfems, thuggish gay-bashers in it for their kicks) as varying degrees of oddball. The fierce Twitter debates are basically completely irrelevant to the lives of most people, including trans people.

[afleitch]

At the risk of regretting this question, what kind of people read the Daily Express?

Pensioners who bought the paper in the old days when it was an ordinary mid-market Conservative tabloid and never got out of the habit.

Under Rosie Boycott, during the first Blair term, the newpaper was from what I remember really quite good.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Can we expect a England beats Germany boost for Boris?

[Zinneke]

Can we expect a England beats Germany boost for Boris?

Well it take attention away from the Hancock affair that was threatening to become the latest national obsession.

[Silent Hunter]

Can we expect a England beats Germany boost for Boris?

Well it take attention away from the Hancock affair that was threatening to become the latest national obsession.

You could it say it was Hancock's half hour.

[beesley]

Can we expect a England beats Germany boost for Boris?

Well it take attention away from the Hancock affair that was threatening to become the latest national obsession.

You could it say it was Hancock's half hour.

Ahh... a man of culture.