Ukraine

[burning dog]

How many others are as sickened as me by Boris Johnson's milking of Ukraine to boost his party's waning electoral prospects on Thursday and self-seeking one-upmanship on the world reputation stage? I feel an additional cause for sorrow for the people of Ukraine being subjected to Churchillian gestures bearing no weight of the experience of this man's record of insincerity and mendacity at home.

Churchill is another person who wouldn't be able to compete with Boris’s "Oxford Union debating training."

[Serial_Apologist]

Churchill is another person who wouldn't be able to compete with Boris’s "Oxford Union debating training."

I wouldn't even cross my legs to meet him.

[burning dog]

A message from "the old sod"(as my grandad referred to him) to Boris

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WINSTON-CHURCHILL-VICTORY-POSTER-594X420MM/dp/B01JUQF0XG?th=1

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****, 63, Warrington, United Kingdom, 7 months ago

The only Churchill Johnson can be compared to is the nodding dog from the insurance adverts.

[Serial_Apologist]

A message from "the old sod"(as my grandad referred to him) to Boris

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WINSTON-CHURCHILL-VICTORY-POSTER-594X420MM/dp/B01JUQF0XG?th=1

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****, 63, Warrington, United Kingdom, 7 months ago

The only Churchill Johnson can be compared to is the nodding dog from the insurance adverts.

Oh YESSSHHH!!!

[oddoneout]

A message from "the old sod"(as my grandad referred to him) to Boris

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WINSTON-CHURCHILL-VICTORY-POSTER-594X420MM/dp/B01JUQF0XG?th=1

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****, 63, Warrington, United Kingdom, 7 months ago

The only Churchill Johnson can be compared to is the nodding dog from the insurance adverts.

The nodding dog would be preferable to the feral toddler - at least it causes no harm.

[Jazzrook]

Absolutely. See the recent Private Eye cover.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk

JR

[muzzer]

These people are a perpetual parade of what a stupid person thinks their rulers should look like. God help this country.

[Dave2002]

https://www.private-eye.co.uk

JR

I meant the one with Zelensky and Bojo - but most of the recent ones are good!

This one - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers/cover-1571

[teamsaint]

These people are a perpetual parade of what a stupid person thinks their rulers should look like. God help this country.

Given the woeful state of the so- called opposition, stupidity is having a great decade.

[Dave2002]

Given the woeful state of the so- called opposition, stupidity is having a great decade.

Given the woeful state of the so-called government, stupidity is having a great decade.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Given the woeful state of the so-called government, stupidity is having a great decade.

Given the woeful state of the so-called electorate, stupidity is having a great decade.

[french frank]

Given the woeful state of the so-called electorate, stupidity is having a great decade.

"Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite." Joseph de Maistre

[french frank]

Regarding resources, I recall recently reading somewhere that not that long ago under Ukraine's share of the Black Sea there had recently been discovered a large source of gas that would have ended Western dependency on Russian gas.

Just remembered the source of this - 'Price Wars' by Rupert Russell.

Not if Ukraine could offer it cheaper? It would be competition.

I've been thinking about this. I can't believe the Black Sea gas field could 'end Western dependency on Russian gas' to such an extent that Russia is merely protecting its own economic interests. Russia is the biggest global exporter of gas, but not the biggest producer (the United States being the significantly biggest producer), so I can't see that Ukraine's gas resources would protect Russia's interests to any great degree. However, Ukraine's own gas production comes 90% from the Dnieper-Donetsk region, so gaining control of Donbas gives Russia a stranglehold on Ukrainian production, as would eventual control of the Black Sea field. It all points to the political strategy by ruining the Ukrainian economy rather than protecting Russian "security".

[Dave2002]

Given the woeful state of the so-called electorate, stupidity is having a great decade.

[Serial_Apologist]

Given the woeful state of the so-called electorate, stupidity is having a great decade.

"Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the confidence of the govrnment and could only regain it with doubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler if the government simply dissolved the people, and elected another?" - Berthold Brecht.