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HipChick

(25,485 posts) Fri May 6, 2022, 12:33 AM May 2022

Will the UK Elections results finally bring Boris Johnson down?

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Will the UK Elections results finally bring Boris Johnson down? (Original Post) HipChick May 2022 OP

One can hope. herding cats May 2022 #1

he's gotten legitimate (and probably justified) credit stopdiggin May 2022 #3

I can't say for certain. People over there seem like they still haven't had enough Carlitos Brigante May 2022 #2

Labour pulling ahead HipChick May 2022 #4

herding cats

(19,566 posts)

1. One can hope.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2022, 12:43 AM

May 2022

Either way it's fun to imagine his mindset tonight.

Boris has been working hard in Ukraine to try and fend off any uprising by showing his strength there. It was obvious he comprehended how in danger he was politically when he went there and toured Kiev.

stopdiggin

(11,336 posts)

3. he's gotten legitimate (and probably justified) credit

Reply to herding cats (Reply #1)

Fri May 6, 2022, 01:33 AM

May 2022

on that one point. (and it's an important one, just as the Ukraine conflict is an important european and global inflection point). guess it's really too bad that the man has been such an assh*t about virtually everything else down through the years.