| The apple never falls far from the tree.... 11:05 - Nov 29 with 1217 views | Herbivore |
Just saw this on the BBC:
"Stanley Johnson - the father of Boris Johnson - appeared on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme this morning.
Asked about a viewer's tweet calling his son "Pinocchio", Stanley Johnson replies: "Pinocchio, that requires a degree of literacy which I think the great British public doesn't necessarily have."
The presenter asks what he means by that.
"I don't want to get into that... they couldn't spell Pinocchio if they tried," says Mr Johnson.
"Well can you spell Pinocchio?" he adds.
"I think it is utterly absurd and wrong that you can read out on air a tweet coming in from one of your readers on air which calls the prime minister a liar... I think it's amazing you can do that.""
Quite a bit to unpick there. The general contempt for the British public and their level of intelligence stands out. The affronted response when asked to clarify what he means. Then, and this is the troubling bit, the suggestion that a broadcaster shouldn't express a widely held public opinion - backed up by copious evidence - that the PM is a liar. What a tw@t, just like his oldest boy. |  |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:07 - Nov 29 with 1200 views | Dyland |
What an embarrassing idiot. Why is he even on the BBC? |  |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:10 - Nov 29 with 1172 views | StokieBlue |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:12 - Nov 29 with 1166 views | Herbivore |
| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:07 - Nov 29 by Dyland |
What an embarrassing idiot. Why is he even on the BBC? |
Probably because they've decided at least one member of the Johnson family should actually show their face. It's pretty incredible when you think about it, the PM must be in his 50s and he's sending his dad out to make excuses for him. | |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:15 - Nov 29 with 1145 views | factual_blue |
| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:12 - Nov 29 by Herbivore |
Probably because they've decided at least one member of the Johnson family should actually show their face. It's pretty incredible when you think about it, the PM must be in his 50s and he's sending his dad out to make excuses for him. |
Does Stanley know how many grandchildren he has? |  |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:17 - Nov 29 with 1139 views | Darth_Koont |
Yes, I can't get past the first bit.
I'm strruggling to understand why a knowledge and use of the name Pinocchio is immediately connected to literacy. |  |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:22 - Nov 29 with 1114 views | Herbivore |
| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:15 - Nov 29 by factual_blue |
Does Stanley know how many grandchildren he has? |
Ha! Someone must be keeping a tally. I like how another Johnson article has surfaced where he savages single mothers, how many of his kids are being raised by single mothers? All of them now, but just how many single mothers has he created? | |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:24 - Nov 29 with 1100 views | LankHenners |
Every day they make it so blindingly obvious how little they care for the ordinary person and how much this all about serving themselves yet the turkeys will vote for Christmas to get their precious little Brexit.
It's disgusting. |  |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:53 - Nov 29 with 1043 views | davblue |
| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:24 - Nov 29 by LankHenners |
Every day they make it so blindingly obvious how little they care for the ordinary person and how much this all about serving themselves yet the turkeys will vote for Christmas to get their precious little Brexit.
It's disgusting. |
I can't vote for either of the big 2 parties.
They are full of liars, self servicing buffons. The fact that the cons will be reelected is an embarrassment and Labour, well that should be left there.
I would rather vote for the green party, the trouble is they don't have enough money to push their agenda on the people. |  | | |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:58 - Nov 29 with 1023 views | Darth_Koont |
| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:53 - Nov 29 by davblue |
I can't vote for either of the big 2 parties.
They are full of liars, self servicing buffons. The fact that the cons will be reelected is an embarrassment and Labour, well that should be left there.
I would rather vote for the green party, the trouble is they don't have enough money to push their agenda on the people. |
Trust Monbiot on this one:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/27/planet-vote-labour-greens- | |
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| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 12:11 - Nov 29 with 957 views | itfcjoe |
| The apple never falls far from the tree.... on 11:22 - Nov 29 by Herbivore |
Ha! Someone must be keeping a tally. I like how another Johnson article has surfaced where he savages single mothers, how many of his kids are being raised by single mothers? All of them now, but just how many single mothers has he created? |
Yeah but they aren't poor so don't count |  |
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