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Re: What is Borisism?

October 9th, 2021, 11:18 pm

Me? How could I know who does that menial work for you cleaning your house or apartment? Filipino, Mexican, Polish, Indian or Pakistani? You tell us.
I’m still struggling a little bit here, but I think your point is that it is bad to hire people from shithole countries (to use a classic Trump term) because they are being exploited. We may not disagree all that much on that point. But, if the alternative is to hire other than non-whites, there is a supply problem.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

December 8th, 2021, 9:10 am

Any day now: Labour MP shows signs of sense of humour. Internal enquiry. MP kicked out of Party.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

December 18th, 2021, 9:43 pm

I love this concluding quote from the FT column of Janan Ganesh today: “Brexit, which increasingly demands to be set to the Benny Hill theme, always appealed to the kind of person who frets about the cultural left. It is a respectable thing to worry about. The mystery is how on earth it squares with devout Atlanticism. If wokery is such a menace, then turning away from an often unreconstructed Europe seems perverse. Embracing a US where so much of the western inheritance is “problematised” is even weirder. The economic case for buyer’s remorse over Brexit is sufficiently well-documented. The cultural one might turn out to be yet more haunting.”

But I guess Boris may have another thing or two on his mind today.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

December 18th, 2021, 10:23 pm

Now, if I were going to live in the past, I'd choose a time when men wore three-cornered hats and carried swords. To each his own.
 
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February 4th, 2022, 3:05 pm

 
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Re: What is Borisism?

February 4th, 2022, 7:09 pm

Pretty robust. Not without merit. On the other hand, you can never trust a man who parts his hair on the right.

But I have to say he went too far with criticizing Scotch eggs.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

February 19th, 2022, 6:34 pm

The media have gone quiet on Partygate. Could they and the Labour Party have finally realized that there are more important things going on?

And what are the Champagne socialist elite thinking now? Thanks to them we could have had Agent Cob seeing us through a pandemic and a Russian invasion. There’s a thought for your Islington dinner parties.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

February 19th, 2022, 7:58 pm

The media have gone quiet on Partygate. Could they and the Labour Party have finally realized that there are more important things going on?

And what are the Champagne socialist elite thinking now? Thanks to them we could have had Agent Cob seeing us through a pandemic and a Russian invasion. There’s a thought for your Islington dinner parties.

I think it’s fair to say that Corbyn may be almost in Trump’s league when it comes to being unfit for office. Boris is just a lying and cheating fraud, and those who voted for him knew that. But now at least he has a minister for opportunistic Brexiting! Perhaps a trade agreement with Ukraine?
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

February 19th, 2022, 8:31 pm

Corbyn + Sanders + Ukraine + Covid...there's a parallel universe somewhere...The Horror, The Horror.
 
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March 3rd, 2022, 6:55 pm

 
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Re: What is Borisism?

March 5th, 2022, 3:50 am

Boris Johnson is like an "edgy, naughty boyfriend", Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has declared in an interview in which she admits Sir Keir Starmer is not as "racy" as the PM.


She says Mr Johnson is like a "puppy" when he flirts and flatters her as she faces him at Prime Minister's Questions. And she admits he is authentic, even though he is "just an authentic liar".

The Labour leader, on the other hand, is "stable" and "a grown up", but he "over-prepares" for Prime Minister's Questions, his deputy claims in a lengthy profile in the New Statesman magazine.

Angela Rayner made the remarks in an interview in The New Statesman. Ms Rayner's verdict on the character and personality of two main party leaders comes as she speaks of her ambitions to become a Cabinet minister and praises the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Asked how long Mr Johnson has left in Downing Street, she says: "We've got to the point where it's a question of, do you want the edgy, naughty boyfriend, but, actually, in the long run he's toxic?

"Or do you want the stable one who says 'I'm not going to be as racy as that, but I will provide you with a family and nurture you'.

"As a nation, we have to decide. Do we want a grown-up, or someone who's going to throw you in a racing car and thrill you to near-exhaustion and death?"

Thanks, Angela, you've just guaranteed we get the ladies' votes.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

March 7th, 2022, 10:06 pm

Hmm, russija-sympathising anti-NATO Labour or BJ installing former KGB-ist Russian oligarchs in the House of Lords. Choices, choices...
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

March 19th, 2022, 8:41 pm

Boris is catching a little flak (virtual only, of course) for his comparison of the invasion in Ukraine with Brexit. I don’t think he’s all wrong, aside from the magnitude of the misfortune and the side of the battle.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

March 19th, 2022, 11:24 pm

I believe he was referring to an instinct for freedom. Seems reasonable enough.

You can please some of the panhysterics all of the time, you can please all of the panhysterics some of the time, etc.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

March 20th, 2022, 9:54 am

I don’t see the analogy, unless he hoped the EU would bomb Slough in response.