'It would be funny if it wasn't real life': readers on
Johnson's win
You have been reacting in the comments after Boris Johnson
beat Jeremy Hunt to become the new prime minister
Guardian readers, Laura McDermott and Matthew Holmes
Tue 23 Jul 2019 12.23 BST Last modified on Tue 23 Jul 2019
13.18 BST
‘If the Conservative
party can survive this ongoing debacle, it can surely survive anything’
The UK was cautioned “not to waste this time”, and instead
all its leaders have managed to achieve is anoint the biggest political
punchline of the last three hundred years as PM. If the Conservative Party can
survive this ongoing debacle, it can surely survive anything. CMN
‘This would be funny if it wasn’t real life, all our lives’
The good news is after Johnson there will not be an Etonian,
or Tory party in power for a long, long time. He is going to make those
institutions toxic for a while. This would be funny if it wasn’t real life, all
our lives.
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The bad news is we are probably going to go through the
closure of parliament and hard Brexit before we get to the good news. You know
with Trump in the White House and Johnson in Downing Street we might as well
dispense with the concepts of good news, bad news, fake news or whatever. By
the time this is over no one is actually going to believe it happened, it will
be taken as a joke, a cautionary tale, an apocryphal story. gavernism
‘A ramble of a victory speech with some attempts at humour
that fell flat’
Bit of a ramble of a victory speech with some attempts at
humour that fell flat. He sounds more like a self help guru than a Prime
Minister. paburke
He probably wrote that speech this morning in the car.
That’s the kind of work ethic that will turn things around I’m sure. Cicadoidea
‘I must have missed out on the sharing bit of the Tory
party’s instincts’
Johnson said in his victory speech that “Over time the
Conservatives have had the best instincts, and the best way of balancing
instincts, like the instinct to own your own home and keep your own money, and
the instinct to share.” I must have missed out on the sharing bit of the Tory
party’s instincts. I’ve not seen any evidence of it. I have seen greed and
selfishness when it comes to avoiding paying taxes but owning several homes.
Well it is all we can expect from the self-servative membership. The have voted
to give us drivel mixed with badly constructed Latin and Greek waffle to
impress the gullible. bytzer
‘Johnson has no mandate to govern us’
Even though we don’t directly elect our prime minister, an
internal governing party leadership change should always be followed by a
general election, unless the new leader intends to stick to the manifesto
policies which his predecessor was elected on. “No-deal” was definitely not in
the last Conservative manifesto as a policy commitment. Johnson has no mandate
to govern us. Marmaduke
‘Johnson might be the greatest thing to happen to the UK in
a long time’
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Johnson might be the greatest thing to happen to the UK in a
long time. The man has no principles. He just wants to be prime minister. I
seriously doubt he has any interest whatsoever in running the country – or
leaving the EU.
My money says, there will be a few weeks on hand wringing
and obfuscation interspersed with a liberal sprinkling of Latin. Then he will
have a referendum... and it will be presented as the only option as well as the
right thing to do, with a “fighting on the beaches” speech, and what he had
said all along. The phrase “on mature reflection” will be used. That will keep
him in government for until 2022 – job done. mcnerneyd
‘Someone must have pressed a self-destruct button in Parliament’
I’m devastated to hear that Johnson has been voted by
Conservatives to become PM. It’s unimaginable that such a chameleon and
seemingly buffoonish person could be voted in ... I have to think politicians
in the party have taken complete and utter leave of their senses to put him in
charge. Someone must have pressed a self-destruct button in Parliament. I pity
the country and the poor sods who have to endure the collapse of civility and
the economy. Judy Matheson
‘This just confirms the UK’s status’
I live in the Netherlands and the next PM is not huge news,
mainly because it will make no difference to the EU’s stance on Brexit. Any
coverage is about Johnson himself and his maverick status, a sort of Willy
Wonka as PM. The UK has been seen as a basket case for quite a while and
Johnson as PM just underlines this. ChasHurley
‘God help us all’
Theresa May was an appalling prime minister and it was right
for her to resign in disgrace. The Tories have truly sunk to scraping the
bottom of the barrel with their coronation of Johnson today. A man who lies
with such flagrant compulsion and literally cannot differentiate between his
own lies and reality. America has Trump, now we have Johnson. God help us all.
gbrading
‘Careful what you wish for’
For all those that wanted Theresa May out: good luck with
good old Boris Johnson. Be careful what you wish for. Jeffmnld
‘Down with this appalling, entitled insult to our democracy’
Decent effort by Mr Hunt. Good Lord, if that clown was only
able to persuade two thirds of an electorate compose exclusively of his natural
backers, the omens are good for this embarrassment to be short lived. Down with
this appalling, entitled insult to our democracy. CharliesApples
‘Please don’t play into his hands and call him “Boris”’
Please don’t call him just “Boris” or any other shortened
form of his name, like Bozo or BoJo tempting though it is: it plays directly
into his hands. His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, known to
his friends as Al.
“Boris” is Johnson’s preferred public name for himself
because it makes him sound warm and cuddly buffoon, and fits in nicely with his
carefully cultivated image as a tousled-haired overgrown and irrepressible
schoolboy engaging in jolly japes and fun wheezes. I’m convinced it’s why he’s
apparently so attractive to the blue-rinse brigade in the Tory party. Tony
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