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Have we turned the corner now Boris has gone?

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Natasha Whittam
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Sluffy

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If this forum is a barometer of anything, then it was quite noticeable the change we saw when Boris climbed to the top of the greasy pole by linking up with Cummings and against the odds (and common sense) won the Brexit referendum.

It was the first time I'd notice real anger and hatred on here and a clear divide and unbridled aggression to those who took opposite views on the outcome particularly those who wanted to remain.

That anger and hatred grew even more when Boris overthrew May and triumphed in the election with an  80 seat majority.

From then on the unacceptable became the norm both in Johnson's behaviour and from one or two on here - in Johnson's case the illegal closing of Parliament, the tragic and harmful to the economy for many years to come of the botched Brexit agreement with the EU, and the unworkable NI Protocol that Boris forced through - just in order to say 'he got it done'!

From the on it has been a catalogue of lies, deceit, the wilful breaking of rules, norms and standards - and of defending the indefensible (the latest and one that finally brought him down - 'I forgot he was a well known and active, sex pest'.
!).

Now that he's gone (sort of anyway) will things get back to something like normal - for instance meaningful negotiations over NI, the end of the Rwanda experiment, closer ties with the EU - and more honesty, public standards, a return of morals and ethics, people 'doing the right thing' when it is required of them?

I guess a great deal depends on who the next PM is - the likes of Truss, Patel, and other close 'Borisistas'  will no doubt not change much if anything policy wise but are the more likely to be voted in by the good folk of the 'shires' when they get the final say in the leadership election (don't forget is was THEM who voted for Boris and not Hunt to be PM) but I'm hoping for someone much less tainted from close proximity to Johnson to spring a surprise and win -I'm not sure that will really happen though.

So is the worst of the fuck you that we've endured for the last 3 or 4 years attitude finally ended at No 10 or will it be business as what is now considered 'as usual'?

What do you think?

What do you want for the future?

Starmer in No 10 perhaps (if Durham police haven't nailed him!)

Natasha Whittam

Natasha Whittam
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Sluffy wrote:It was the first time I'd notice real anger and hatred on here

You're clearly forgetting the 'DIE BITCH DIE' incident.

boltonbonce

boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Natasha Whittam wrote:

You're clearly forgetting the 'DIE BITCH DIE' incident.
And Magoo sending two lesbians to capture, and hold me hostage, during the forum hostilities then taking place.
I still suffer nightmares.
I can't look at a caramelised sausage without my eyes watering.

Sluffy

Sluffy
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Natasha Whittam wrote:
Sluffy wrote:It was the first time I'd notice real anger and hatred on here

You're clearly forgetting the 'DIE BITCH DIE' incident.

That was Amos over on Burnden Aces wasn't it?

boltonbonce

boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Sluffy wrote:

That was Amos over on Burnden Aces wasn't it?
I was thinking about BA the other day, and I can't for the life of me remember what my forum name was.

Sluffy

Sluffy
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boltonbonce wrote:
Sluffy wrote:

That was Amos over on Burnden Aces wasn't it?
I was thinking about BA the other day, and I can't for the life of me remember what my forum name was.

It wasn't Bruce F. by any chance was it?

boltonbonce

boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Sluffy wrote:

It wasn't Bruce F. by any chance was it?
Very Happy NO.

Sluffy

Sluffy
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Walkden White then?

boltonbonce

boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Sluffy wrote:Walkden White then?
No. This will drive me mad. It's like forgetting a password. Not that it matters. Those days are long gone.

I've matured. What a Face

wanderlust

wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Will we turn the corner and "get back to normal"? I don't think so because we aren't the same country that we were before. The damage can't just be undone, even if we finally get off this path of self-destruction.

The "new normal" is life in a more isolated, divided, indebted, poorer, less competitive, declining and generally nastier Britain now and I don't think we'll be seeing satisfaction levels anywhere near what they were ever again.

I'm depressing myself just thinking about it.

Sluffy

Sluffy
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wanderlust wrote:Will we turn the corner and "get back to normal"? I don't think so because we aren't the same country that we were before. The damage can't just be undone, even if we finally get off this path of self-destruction.

The "new normal" is life in a more isolated, divided, indebted, poorer, less competitive, declining and generally nastier Britain now and I don't think we'll be seeing satisfaction levels anywhere near what they were ever again.

I'm depressing myself just thinking about it.

You might as well stick your head in the oven with that kind of attitude.

I clearly wasn't talking about money or wealth which basically seems all you ever bang on about - how worse off we are, blah, blah, blah...

It's 'oh woe' with you all the feckin time.

You must be an absolute blast to be with in real life...

What I obviously was talking about was a return to a semblance of honesty, integrity, accountability, public service, credibility, believability, trust, confidence. morality and all that you would expect of those elected to high office.

I can't believe Johnson so openly and blatantly got away with all that of which he did.

I couldn't believe my own eyes, watching sycophant after sycophant not only allowing him to do so but every time rally around and supporting him when they clearly knew he was in the wrong, and had been constantly lying and deceitful.

Have we no one left who we can believe in anymore, has that all gone now, or was it just an aberration, down to one 'bad apple'?

I like to think it was and normal service will return but I rather think that one bad apple has already rotted the barrel.

Jenrick - dodgy planning approval
Rishi - American Green Card
Pincher - sex pest
Patel - bully
Cameron - Greensill
Mone - non disclosure PPE contract company ownership
Cummings - eye sight test.
Patterson - lobbying
Parish - tractor porn
Khan - convicted of sex assault
Cox - second job

...and those are the ones we know about that I can thing of off the top of my head ffs!

Hopefully sense and decency will now once again prevail post Johnson.

Fingers crossed anyway.

Norpig

Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

I don't want any Tory to be PM but seeing as that's not going to change anytime soon then i want someone who will just get on with running the country with no frills and certainly not a character like Boris.

If i had to pick one (which is like saying which is your favourite kind of shit to eat) then i would go with Javid as he seems the most sensible of the lot of them.

Natasha Whittam

Natasha Whittam
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

boltonbonce wrote:I was thinking about BA the other day, and I can't for the life of me remember what my forum name was.

Gobshite.

boltonbonce

boltonbonce
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Nat Lofthouse

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Gobshite.

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okocha

okocha
El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji Diouf

As so many Tories were prepared to sacrifice their principles to back the convict daily, I suspect that the country won't recover until it is governed by people with conscience, compassion and competence....in other words ministers from other parties.....plus Javid, if he will renounce his party and join another or stand as an independent.

Power without principles leads to despotic tendencies, as other countries prove. Let's not join them. Vote anything but Tory. Stop reading The Express or Sun/Mail/Telegraph. Fight for press standards.

wanderlust

wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

It's like Putin handing back Mariupol when he's finished with it and saying "you might want to give that 10 minutes, mate".

If it's integrity that is the issue, then the issue is with the entire party as they are the very people who voted Johnson in for the sole purpose of grabbing the populist vote - and thereby power - in the full knowledge that he is and always has been a lying dickhead, propped him up through lie after lie just to retain that power and keep their own jobs or get through the revolving door of ministerial office opportunities during his tenure.

Why would they do any of that if their primary concern was to serve the country?
Who amongst them hasn't sold any principles of integrity they may once have had down the river?

Sluffy

Sluffy
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wanderlust wrote:It's like Putin handing back Mariupol when he's finished with it and saying "you might want to give that 10 minutes, mate".

If it's integrity that is the issue, then the issue is with the entire party as they are the very people who voted Johnson in for the sole purpose of grabbing the populist vote - and thereby power - in the full knowledge that he is and always has been a lying dickhead, propped him up through lie after lie just to retain that power and keep their own jobs or get through the revolving door of ministerial office opportunities during his tenure.

Why would they do any of that if their primary concern was to serve the country?
Who amongst them hasn't sold any principles of integrity they may once have had down the river?

In reply to this and others, think of it the following way, using the forum as an example...

Before Brexit/Johnson, this place was fun to be on, we were all grown ups and whatever values, integrity, honesty, etc, etc, we had then manifested themselves on our behaviour upon here - it is unlikely that we've changed our lifetime core values in just a matter of three or four years - right?

However behaviour on here commencing from that time has been toxic - we've had hatred and anger, lies and duplicity.

So which is our true-selves?

If we remove the change agent - Johnson, his behaviour, the plunging standards of decency he set - do we revert back to what was normality or have we changed forever?

Now that Johnson doesn't cast a huge shadow over the government, will things change back to how things in terms of standards and integrity make a return again to the Tory leadership now.

If you think I'm being fanciful about all this then think of the Labour Party before Corbyn, how it changed during Corbyn, and how completely different it is now after Corbyn.

In simple terms people believe and act as they do for two fundamental reasons, the first is what they believe in, their core values and the second is the environment they are in, how everyone around them are acting and behaving, how things are being run, how they are being influenced to act and be.

So if you change the environment (the removal of Johnson) do you carry on in the same way as you are now (remember that behaviour has just been rejected by it being found to be to excessive to stomach in terms of being electable in the near future) or do you return to be how you used to be prior to the last four years or so?

Has morals and behaviour become irreversible over that time or had they simply been repressed in order to get through that period?

Will this forum change for the better again now that we no longer have Boris being Boris, or will the next leader be Boris mark 2 and the anger and hatred on here still continue?

Norpig

Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

I'm hoping Boris was a one-off and we can get back to boring Politicians who actually do their job.

Brexit has been the most divisive topic in this country in recent memory and has caused massive rows not just on here but in real life and on social media. Add to that the cartoon character Boris and it has all polarised the general public and will continue to do so for a long while yet. Brexit has not been done, just ask the people in NI if they think it's all fine and dandy.

Things should calm down when we get a new PM as none of the candidates could surely be as inept as Boris could they? (Unless Nadine runs for PM that is  Very Happy)

boltonbonce

boltonbonce
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Nat Lofthouse

Norpig wrote:I'm hoping Boris was a one-off and we can get back to boring Politicians who actually do their job.

Brexit has been the most divisive topic in this country in recent memory and has caused massive rows not just on here but in real life and on social media. Add to that the cartoon character Boris and it has all polarised the general public and will continue to do so for a long while yet. Brexit has not been done, just ask the people in NI if they think it's all fine and dandy.

Things should calm down when we get a new PM as none of the candidates could surely be as inept as Boris could they? (Unless Nadine runs for PM that is  Very Happy)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the Brexit vote should have required a vote of 60% for or against. I think supporters of both choices could have accepted that, and moved on.
But the vote was 51-48 which was always going to cause bitter arguments. The country was, and still is, split asunder.

okocha

okocha
El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji Diouf

Trying to pick the next Tory leader is like trying to find the best portaloo at Glastonbury....

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