Killer Whale wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:10 pm Public School, Malc.Yup.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:22 pm I still don't know how he got away with having supported Remain, before emerging as the essential Brexit true believer. How did that happen?High on his own supply.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:22 pm I still don't know how he got away with having supported Remain, before emerging as the essential Brexit true believer. How did that happen?He was just a PR and marketing man for a trade body for alchohol. Brexit was a great opportunity for mediocrities to elevate themselves way above their pay grade.
Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:59 pmSure, but why him? Most of business was against Brexit, but there was a smattering of "I'm a businessman but also an Englishman" types, not to mention all the media Brexiters. I don't get why Frost popped up as the man Brexit needed. Reminds me of the 2010 World Cup where, as Adrian Chiles rightly observed, lots of the media managed to make Gareth Barry into the man on whom everything depended.
He was just a PR and marketing man for a trade body for alchohol. Brexit was a great opportunity for mediocrities to elevate themselves way above their pay grade.
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 3:21 pm What did Johnson see in a fat, boorish, public school produced, arrogant, thick as pigshit, drunken snake oil salesman?Himself?