Brexit fallout

[Pete999]

BJ the new Foreign Sec, crikey how many more wars will we be waging?

 

[Eco Chap]

I did not vote for Amber Rudd to get a promotion! Cant we have a ballad for that too

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[Rpa07]

But interesting to read this thread in ten years time, see who read the crystal ball right.

Good point Midwest - but what a long time to wait, though the speed life is going by, it shouldn't be long.



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[Midwest]

Could be shrewd political manoeuvring by May. Either Boris is effective in his job as FS, and it keeps the Brexiters in her camp happy, or he makes a complete gaff of it, and she can kick him out to the political wilderness and forget about him for the rest of her term.

Perhaps she can be unscrupulous, like her predecessor?

 

[Marvo]

Boris, OMG. Will the last person out, please turn off the light.

BJ the new Foreign Sec, crikey how many more wars will we be waging?

I laughed yesterday when I read these two posts because I thought you were joking. It was only this afternoon watching the news when I learned that you weren't.

**speechless** You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. Boris Johnson........foreign secretary.....I'm truly speechless. I bet the politicians in the EU are really looking forward to welcoming and embracing him is his new role .

 

[Darkwood]

I laughed yesterday when I read these two posts because I thought you were joking. It was only this afternoon watching the news when I learned that you weren't.

**speechless**

Im willing to give him a chance, although he's got the tongue of a cheeky schoolkid which has led him to be painted as the baffoon, he is a very intelligent bloke and speaks several languages, he has a very healthy relationship with many countries, excluding the EU as he's not exactly there favourite at the moment lol.
I liked the clip of Labour challenger Eagle who was mocking boris the other night when she was interupted and told he was now the F.S. ... her reaction was funny.

 

[Octopus]

I laughed yesterday when I read these two posts because I thought you were joking. It was only this afternoon watching the news when I learned that you weren't.

**speechless** You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. Boris Johnson........foreign secretary.....I'm truly speechless. I bet the politicians in the EU are really looking forward to welcoming and embracing him is his new role.

Boris may have his "issues" but there are very few people on the Conservative bench with his skill with languages and don't forget 8 years as London Major will have brought him into contact with countless foreign officials.

 

[telectrix]

BJ will bring a breath of fresh air into parliament. his skin deep appearance as a buffoon is a smokescreen, hiding a wealth if intelligence. a bit like some of us on here. lol. :44:

 

[Octopus]

BJ will bring a breath of fresh air into parliament. his skin deep appearance as a buffoon is a smokescreen, hiding a wealth if intelligence. a bit like some of us on here. lol. :44:

Certainly need thick skin on here regularly!

 

[Midwest]

You lot are living on utopia.

 

[Adam W]

BJ will bring a breath of fresh air into parliament. his skin deep appearance as a buffoon is a smokescreen, hiding a wealth if intelligence. a bit like some of us on here. lol. :44:

It's a tactic which seems to work - nobody has a problem with a buffoon but they might feel threatened or just irritated by a know-it-all.
I expect we've all worked with someone who has an answer for everything, someone who tries to take charge when they haven't got a clue, someone who pretends to know more than they do, etc, and they're rarely popular on site.
Everyone likes the guy who fools around in a non-threatening way and makes everybody laugh.

 

[Marvo]

It's a tactic which seems to work - nobody has a problem with a buffoon but they might feel threatened or just irritated by a know-it-all.
I expect we've all worked with someone who has an answer for everything, someone who tries to take charge when they haven't got a clue, someone who pretends to know more than they do, etc, and they're rarely popular on site.
Everyone likes the guy who fools around in a non-threatening way and makes everybody laugh.

It might be a tactic that works in some work team environments or in a pub but I'm not sure a bunch of humourless EU politicians he's just given the middle finger to are going to be particularly enamored by his buffoonish nature.

 

[Adam W]

It might be a tactic that works in some work team environments or in a pub but I'm not sure a bunch of humourless EU politicians he's just given the middle finger to are going to be particularly enamored by his buffoonish nature.

Not everything is about the EU though - there's another guy in charge of the Breferexit stuff, and there's a good chance much of the rest of the world will be glad that the UK is no longer restricted to EU-approved trading.
It could well be that politicians in fact do appreciate a sense of humour, but have difficulty expressing one of their own.

 

[Adam W]

You lot are living on utopia.

:grouphug:

 

[Darkwood]

It might be a tactic that works in some work team environments or in a pub but I'm not sure a bunch of humourless EU politicians he's just given the middle finger to are going to be particularly enamored by his buffoonish nature.

You are right with the personal opinions but lucky for the UK we have the strongest hand and regardless of all the surface media that mocks him, the trade deals are beyond all that and no country will risk economic hardship to prove a point. France has a 12billion deficit trade with us, Frances President has been very vocal as have other EU members that we are going to be treated hard and not given a easy ride, but at a meeting today with us in the french parliment, they were virtually begging for our continued trade and friendship, considering their goverment are up for Elections as is Germany too, none of them would want to see 10's of thousands (france) to hundreds of thousands (germany) job losses by playing hardball.

The EU is trying to save face and avoid a domino effect, it needs to vocally appear to express we are going to suffer for leaving but behind the curtain that is far from the truth, its a catch 22 for all of us, if we vocally express the deals we get then the EU would suffer reputationally and their stock market would plummet further than it already has. this would effect our trade too so not entirely in our interest, if the EU express how harsh they are treating our brexit then it will eventually be proven as a gimmick as our world trade relations strengthen, the enemy for the EU is time as eventually as is happening, each member country will stand up against the EU machine through its population, this cannot be allowed to happen so guess what will happen next and is already in discussion ... New legislation and regulation that prevents member states using public opinion (democracy) to leave the EU, it would only be allowed through goverment majority and given that the EU has most countries over a barrel then this could not happen anymore.