Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:07 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Apologies on my part, I'm sure you deserve better, hopefully the ignore button has the desired effect.

We all do but please ignore me you doing yourself a favour.

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:12 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

Are you comparing Johnson with Churchill ?

No. Hope that helps

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:05 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

I don’t have and never owned a garden gnome but hey why let the truth get in the way of your flawed knowledge about me. I agree I come from and still live in Eastmoor, my dad was a labourer and my mother worked until she was 60 in a mill. The difference between you and me is that I improved myself and got educated. I had no more advantages than you I just did more with them and never believed that my upbringing means I have to follow the Yorkshire stereotype like you.
You asked why anyone should believe you have Conservative leanings. I wonder how many posts you have made backing our Conservative supporting members and you can add to this the fact that all your posts question only those that raise concerns about the government and de Pfeffel who you try to defend the most.

Genuine question and not an attempt to start bother.
But don't quite get why you would link your upbringing to being a stereotypical Yorkshire person, or rather what's the problem with being a stereotypical Yorkshire person.
As a few know on here, i was too born and bred on Eastmoor,but moved further afield many years ago, but i don't consider it a problem if im considered a Yorkshire stereotype.
I agree that you have to make the most of your opportunities, but never felt like i did or didn't have to be a Yorkshire stereotype.
I work away from Yorkshire and in the South quite a bit and perversely some of the things that 'Southerners" seem to view as typical Yorkshire - accent/tight with money/everyone has a miner in their family/ but my personal favourite - we all tell our wife's what to vote and it better be Labour.

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:34 pm  

I just don’t believe it is necessary to use the Yorkshire vernacular, we have moved on since Fred Trueman and his TV show. It is my personal opinion because it gives other areas in the U.K. the wrong view of this area. I am proud to come from Yorkshire and will always be, also I am not ashamed that I am a socialist and I worked for a company that donated to the Conservatives.

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:27 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

I just don’t believe it is necessary to use the Yorkshire vernacular, we have moved on since Fred Trueman and his TV show. It is my personal opinion because it gives other areas in the U.K. the wrong view of this area. I am proud to come from Yorkshire and will always be, also I am not ashamed that I am a socialist and I worked for a company that donated to the Conservatives.

Appreciate the reply.

I do get you with this and find it genuinely interesting peoples take on it.
Im a proud Yorkshireman and its fair to say I've probably not lost the twang, i work for a London based business and found it extremely frustrating when i first started work there colleagues associated the Yorkshire accent with a lack of education.

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:40 am  

TURFEDOUT wrote:

Appreciate the reply.

I do get you with this and find it genuinely interesting peoples take on it.
Im a proud Yorkshireman and its fair to say I've probably not lost the twang, i work for a London based business and found it extremely frustrating when i first started work there colleagues associated the Yorkshire accent with a lack of education.

There is little doubt that a Northern accent is frowned upon by some people.
I used to work for a large multinational company and was told by one of the main board directors that, due to my accent, I would not progress within the company.

A few years later, he had managed to turn a successful business into a basket case, which, eventually, we ended up buying out of administration and returning it into a
successful venture.

It seems that although his "posh" accent saved him personally (multiple times), it didn't improve his business acumen and he failed to recognise that good people weren't all like him, thank God.

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:03 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

I just don’t believe it is necessary to use the Yorkshire vernacular, we have moved on since Fred Trueman and his TV show. It is my personal opinion because it gives other areas in the U.K. the wrong view of this area..

Just how does a local dialect whichever part of the country you originate from give other areas of the country a wrong view of your region, example is a geordie or a Brummy accent the right vernacular, I could go on but I'm sure you get the point.
Surely it's right and proper to talk your natural dialect as against trying to put on something false, the question to you is are you in a massive minority what's ashamed to talk your natural tongue, as for Fredrick Seward Trueman that man did a great deal for Yorkshire and it's people, what have you done?

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:24 am  

Looks like Boris may be getting a letter from the Met ?
Ministers being pushed in front of the TV cameras suggesting that "the world has moved on" and "it was only a few drinks" etc, etc.

No mention of the PM telling lies in Parliament and DELIBERATELY misleading the British public. Mind you, that's probably his no 1 trait.

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Mon Apr 04, 2022 11:08 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Looks like Boris may be getting a letter from the Met ?
Ministers being pushed in front of the TV cameras suggesting that "the world has moved on" and "it was only a few drinks" etc, etc.

No mention of the PM telling lies in Parliament and DELIBERATELY misleading the British public. Mind you, that's probably his no 1 trait.

The sad part is, the world has moved on and the red tops will still win the next election for the tories

Re: BorisGate - A Christmas Cover Up : Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:40 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

The sad part is, the world has moved on and the red tops will still win the next election for the tories

You may be right that the world has moved on.
However, having a PM that nobody can trust isn't great for democracy.

Personally, I still believe that Johnson will be gone as PM before the next election, which is good news for everyone.

Lets see how The Tories fare at the upcoming local elections. If they take a bath, the jitters will soon reach Westminster.