@@JelMain I dunno. I voted labour in that election but I’m also a teacher. I and more broadly all of us in teaching have clearly gone wrong with how we’ve taught critical thinking if a performance as hammy as Johnson’s can con the majority of the electorate. There’s an element of collective guilt here
@@minui8758 Legacy of the games culture - they'll believe anything. I was part of the Rory Stewart take-down, so feel the same way he does. A bunch of total wastrels who should never be mentioned in polite society again.
Boris Johnson wasn't bothered about being MP, he wanted to be the Ex-PM and make pots and pots of 'money for himself'. He also wanted all the perks and the qudos that came with being the ex PM.
Exactly it's all about the payout that being an Ex-PM can bring, increased speaking fees at corporate events, higher pay for his columns, book deals, consultancy, maybe a few board seats on major corporations.
@@tommymorrison6478 I think he wanted to BE PM, but he didn't really want to do any of the work that being PM entails. Which is true for pretty much his whole life. He wants the titles and the privileges and he thinks he should just get them without having to offer anything in return.
Oh I think he did want to be PM, but didn't want to put in the necessary effort (well, any effort). He just wanted the title and the grift. Sadly for Britain, he didn't have the morals, humanity or work ethic. A wretched man.
And his demise - far too many in those circles have no real concerns about how the country is run. They merely want to either make or run to the next negative story - it sells and it pays their mortgages. Wordsmithing is a profoundly negative and destructive profession. Raise you up in order to do the reverse, create mayhem and doubt. Move on to the next low hanging fruit for scandal, misinformaton and far too often wordsmithed lies. In far too many cases the only profession worse than a lawyer.
Absolutely nothing has changed in Johnsons personality from when he was first elected Tory leader in 2019, it's puzzling that anyone would think otherwise about the odious turd, he's never even tried to hide that fact.
Let me remind you that even now, after all that's happened, Johnson still has supporters. George Carlin said something to the effect of "think of the average man, then remember that half the population is dumber than him."
Not exactly ground breaking is it ? I love how this twerp says what they should have done all in hind sight , plus he is BS ing all the regular providers for NHS stuff could not supply . I mean at least be balance
With many ( you being one ) using kiddy clown names he was seen as one of the lads ( hence the flack jacket and hard hat ) His con & look , even now you don't say Johnson .Hard to take a clown with a Kiddy character name ( there were several) why the surprise .His con was simple That is how little he cared for the people .
Under Johnson's & Sunak's government fraud increased from £5.5 billion to £21 billion per year at the same time they insisted on removing fraud from the crime figures, coincidence?
Let’s not forget that as Foreign Secretary he went straight from a Nato meeting discussing the response to the Salisbury attack, to a debriefing with his KGB handlers in the Lebidevs castle in Italy……and the investigation into Russian interference in our politics, found no evidence because they weren’t asked to look for any. The sooner Johnson’s activities are exposed to the public, the better.
@@Scaleyback317 I engage my brain particularly when Johnson had to be dragged kicking and screaming to admit in parliament that he had dodged his foreign office minders and gone to meet the Lebidevs. I invite you also to engage your brain.
Anyone who didn’t know it should not be allowed to vote. It was widely known he was rotten, anyone who didn’t know is either wilfully ignorant or doesn’t have the cognitive skills to vote.
Rory Stewart would have been 100x the prime minister that Johnson was. Whether you are a Conservative supporter or not, and I'm certainly not, Rory is a man who appears to have a lot of integrity, not the sort who would seek to profit personally from a national crisis. I can think of many other former Conservative cabinet ministers, going back decades, who, while I maybe disagreed with a lot of their politics, I at least had some respect for because they came across as decent people with some integrity who believed they were acting in the best interests of the country.
there has to be legal consequences both for party and individual to openly lying to get public office its the only way politics will ever be cleaned up.
The people who knew him knew all of this, they could have stopped him but they chose not to and actively promoted him as the answer. They are every bit to blame as him for the damage he created, and then left for us to somehow repair it. They'll do it again and again as long as they've got low taxes etc etc. And you don't get an MBE for bravery. That's fairly basic.
I AM ashamed of Johnson, AND I VOTED AGAINST HIM. But sadly he was the face of Britain for so long that he was responsible for destroying our national credibility.
It always seems quite ironic that Johnson and his ilk always privileged ,have been educated at Etonian or similar then become so greedy ,self serving and cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.
I have said for years these public schoolboys are entitled and corrupt and it is accepted criminality from those who have been educated to believe they are above the law! It’s obscene🤷♂️
3.29 What, so the interviewer is saying that Johnson was an effective PM so we should forgive him his personal self-enrichment?? He wasn't effective. Simon Kuper isn't saying the Good Chaps were brilliant leaders, just that they weren't corrupt - that's the whole point!
Of course he was: that’s what Brexit was for; he needed a theme and a tagline together power. It was a contrived , strategic plan by Cummings to get the twerp to power.
Excellent analysis by Mr Kuper. I'm probably to the left of many Times guests but he was even handed throughout. Plus he could see Johnson for what he was, not the second coming. Thanks.
Great video & Kuper is spot on, Johnson & his cronies need calling out. Johnson merely ‘Play Acted’ as PM, whereas he took his self enrichment very seriously. Labour must stop this ever happening again
It's sad to hear but in honesty if people are in it just for them selves you have put up guard rails, a system of rules. But that is in it self a problem. Who makes the rules?
Much like Trump. Grifted all these years on other peoples money. Trump even managed to bankrupt a casino. A CASINO! That's how bad Trump is with money or business.
This guy has confirmed what I have been saying for a long time. Most, if not all, former high ups in governments until Thatcher, had served the country, many in battle or losing loved ones in battle. Few have since done that. It really shows. But whilst I dislike Blair for various reasons, not one of the leaders of the UK in the high offices of state have been there with a heart to serve the nation perhaps May came close, but certainly not Cameron, Sunak and definitely not Truss or Johnson who shouldn't have been within a bulls roar of elected office. They need to be arrested for fraud and corruption in fact along with many of their colleagues.
Don't forget John Major, the PM who I consider to have always shown the highest levels of honesty and integrity. He was unfairly called the "grey man" but he battled the rabid conservative anti-EU conservative right, long and hard. And he still does. I see YT headlines saying "Blair got it right" but Major does not get enough recognition for all his efforts to open the eyes of the British people to the blatant lies of BJ and his fellow travellers. Now this week we have had Farage stoking the fires of riots around the country which blatantly ignore the excruciating pain within the families of 3 little girls. They are not protesters but despicable violent criminals of the lowest possible level of UK humanity. Maybe the planned deportees to Rwanda, who had the guts to travel across continents and risk getting on flimsy boats to try to better themselves could, given the chance, make a far greater contribution to this country than the brick throwers ever will. Let's pass on the now unusable flight tickets to Rwanda to them but no bricks on the plane.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has revenue of around $33 million, plus assets worth around $35 million. It has a permanent staff of around 450 people. It produces policy documents which are often copy-pasted wholesale into law in various countries. An article in the Guardian last year concluded that Blair has more power in the world today than he had when he was Prime Minister.
I could have told you that before he got the job, you don’t have to be an expert to come to that conclusion. All you need is common sense and an understanding how the corrupt minded people work.
The conversation about covid PPE misses the fact that the PPE equipment that was held had rotted while in storage becauae of cost cutting in the warehousing contracts and was therefore useless when needed.
So that's what Bojo,Cameron , et al learned at the supremely privileged ,expensive ,upper class, higher education college of ETON ... It kinda tells us everything ..dinnit?
I put on face book when the government was loojin for PPE, that they are sorting out they're mates, the many small firms that said they would do it got ignored,i was proved right.
Good God! So Johnson was only in it for himself! Well, stone the crows, who would have thought it!? And to think that he always came across as being full of humility, kindness and selflessness!😵💫
Boris, & Liz following any rules except for the ones that they want to follow, is the only reality, they understand. Making money after being in politics is also, never going to go away. What you need is people going into politics, where they are looking after the country first, & themselves second, but how many of those people are left in the country.
🥸 *One observation: His actions in Parliament as Prime Minister* were very Soviet in nature. Installing only 'yes men,' centralising authority away from the regions, pushing power on to the executive cutting out the legislature. I wonder who he was getting his leadership advice from?...... 🤔
Britain should be ashamed of Boris Johnson.
Much of Britain is. From both ends of the policitcal pendulum.
I think we are. Those of us who aren’t deluded by him at least
@@minui8758 Only those who voted for him. However, those who still give a monkey's about him or them are as bad.
@@JelMain I dunno. I voted labour in that election but I’m also a teacher. I and more broadly all of us in teaching have clearly gone wrong with how we’ve taught critical thinking if a performance as hammy as Johnson’s can con the majority of the electorate. There’s an element of collective guilt here
@@minui8758 Legacy of the games culture - they'll believe anything. I was part of the Rory Stewart take-down, so feel the same way he does. A bunch of total wastrels who should never be mentioned in polite society again.
Of course Johnson is in it for himself... he always was. Let's be honest... he has nothing else.
Carrie Antoinette?
and what do you have?
@@grumblewoof4721 Agreed, Johnson made this clear, well before he was PM
@@roopney and what about you?
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@@roopneyGo and do one, troll.
And it came as a complete surprise to the Tories that Boris Johnson was in it for himself...
Most of them are.
Also, they’re morons.
@@patrikfloding7985**All**
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Boris Johnson wasn't a great man, he was a very small man.
Boris Johnson wasn't bothered about being MP, he wanted to be the Ex-PM and make pots and pots of 'money for himself'. He also wanted all the perks and the qudos that came with being the ex PM.
Oh no, he wanted to be PM alright, and he wanted to go on being PM - for his ego's sake.
Exactly it's all about the payout that being an Ex-PM can bring, increased speaking fees at corporate events, higher pay for his columns, book deals, consultancy, maybe a few board seats on major corporations.
@@tommymorrison6478 I think he wanted to BE PM, but he didn't really want to do any of the work that being PM entails. Which is true for pretty much his whole life. He wants the titles and the privileges and he thinks he should just get them without having to offer anything in return.
@@chrispalmer7893 Oh I agree entirely. 👍
Oh I think he did want to be PM, but didn't want to put in the necessary effort (well, any effort). He just wanted the title and the grift. Sadly for Britain, he didn't have the morals, humanity or work ethic. A wretched man.
The media was complicit in boris' rise to power.
And his demise - far too many in those circles have no real concerns about how the country is run. They merely want to either make or run to the next negative story - it sells and it pays their mortgages. Wordsmithing is a profoundly negative and destructive profession. Raise you up in order to do the reverse, create mayhem and doubt. Move on to the next low hanging fruit for scandal, misinformaton and far too often wordsmithed lies. In far too many cases the only profession worse than a lawyer.
You're absolutely right. A grifter and his wife
Which wife 🎉?
Mistress.
Spool back four or five years and y'all had your heads firmly inserted up his fundament where BoJo was concerned. You should leave the profession.
For sure !
Absolutely nothing has changed in Johnsons personality from when he was first elected Tory leader in 2019, it's puzzling that anyone would think otherwise about the odious turd, he's never even tried to hide that fact.
Well top marks for stating the bleeding obvious! Anyone with any knowledge of this person would have known that!
Yes, but the party still selected him, along with the members.
Let me remind you that even now, after all that's happened, Johnson still has supporters. George Carlin said something to the effect of "think of the average man, then remember that half the population is dumber than him."
Not exactly ground breaking is it ? I love how this twerp says what they should have done all in hind sight , plus he is BS ing all the regular providers for NHS stuff could not supply . I mean at least be balance
😂😂😂👌
@@rolandhawken6628
Where is the evidence that the NHS could not have done a better job of sourcing suppliers than the Tory cronies?
Bojo has been exposed as a liar so many times no one takes him seriously anymore.
Have you read the Daily Mail lately? They pay BloJo a quarter mil per year to write guff every Saturday.
Someone is reading it.
The thing was you already new that but there voted fir thr lying pig away! 😅
@@FranzBieberkopfhopefully not for much longer, Tories losing power make him less relevant than ever
With many ( you being one ) using kiddy clown names he was seen as one of the lads ( hence the flack jacket and hard hat ) His con & look , even now you don't say Johnson .Hard to take a clown with a Kiddy character name ( there were several) why the surprise .His con was simple That is how little he cared for the people .
@@HelenaMikas See my comment directly beneath this one-I always saw BloJo as a dishonest crook, not one of the boys
He absolutely was in it for himself. He had no interest in the best interests of the country.
He should be in prison for treason.
Correct
Under Johnson's & Sunak's government fraud increased from £5.5 billion to £21 billion per year at the same time they insisted on removing fraud from the crime figures, coincidence?
I agree completely.
Let’s not forget that as Foreign Secretary he went straight from a Nato meeting discussing the response to the Salisbury attack, to a debriefing with his KGB handlers in the Lebidevs castle in Italy……and the investigation into Russian interference in our politics, found no evidence because they weren’t asked to look for any.
The sooner Johnson’s activities are exposed to the public, the better.
Source required re KGB handlers please.
@@Scaleyback317 The Kremlin.
@@californiadreamin8423 Do they contact you direct with this or is it through a third party?
@@Scaleyback317 I engage my brain particularly when Johnson had to be dragged kicking and screaming to admit in parliament that he had dodged his foreign office minders and gone to meet the Lebidevs.
I invite you also to engage your brain.
They were explicitly told not to look.
The British people knew or at least suspected this about Johnson before he became PM. And still he became PM.
Not quite true. Some of us knew it, most did not.
No that was the TORY PRESS
Anyone who didn’t know it should not be allowed to vote. It was widely known he was rotten, anyone who didn’t know is either wilfully ignorant or doesn’t have the cognitive skills to vote.
@@mickeysmouse4800 well said!
@@tommymorrison6478 Most were told.
‘Boris Johnson was in it for himself’ Duh!
Absolutely!!
He was and is always in it for himself
But he has no morals has he - he has proven that time and time again !
And if the man in charge now had any , Savile would not have got away with it .
Few people have . I am surprised if you know anyone who has . I bet you just know those that virtue signal
You sound very moral. Tell us more about yourself?
@@stevesteve6545 You are talking with St Kola most holy on high the venerable light of all things good and pure , Nahh a Pratt really lol
That clown killed the Conservative Party.
Yay.
His one decent act
His only achievement
@@terryloftus8626 But it is a stormer!!! 🙂🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The only Johnson / Brexit benefit
Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson lied to the Queens face
It would be easier to name the people he hasn’t lied to 🫤
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Rory Stewart would have been 100x the prime minister that Johnson was. Whether you are a Conservative supporter or not, and I'm certainly not, Rory is a man who appears to have a lot of integrity, not the sort who would seek to profit personally from a national crisis.
I can think of many other former Conservative cabinet ministers, going back decades, who, while I maybe disagreed with a lot of their politics, I at least had some respect for because they came across as decent people with some integrity who believed they were acting in the best interests of the country.
He is the personification of corruption
I absolutely agree. I went to a posh school, and Oxford. I met johnson, and thought him a bad egg.
Benny Hill is Boris Johnson's father.
Benny Hill was funny,BOZO was NOT
Benny had more talent in his little finger than Bojo has in the whole of his enormous carcass.
Benny hill did not break his wife's arm and drive her to suicide, yes I know Hill was unmarried.
More likely to be Wurzel Gummidge than Benny Hill,😂
Don't insult Benny Hill, I mean that seriously.
The problem is when 'good chaps' are not good chaps.There was enough known about Johnson to know he was a 'wrong un'
Boris johnson was like a russian doll.full of himself.
yes and very infuenced by..Russia
there has to be legal consequences both for party and individual to openly lying to get public office its the only way politics will ever be cleaned up.
Well I didn't need a journalist to tell me that. The ancient milky bar kid has always been a grifter.
Jonson didn’t have a clue how to lead the country. He lent on Dominic Cummings to much
to much... what?
@Tom. Very true, thank goodness Cummings left though
As a rare Brexit benefit we can deport BJ without having to justify it to the EU.
He needs to be jailed.
Boris was a joke. 😮
Thatcherism killed the good chaps culture
Of course. He has always lived for himself. Anyone who knows Johnsons history, knows this. Johnson wrecked the Tory Party.
Doesn't take a genius to work that out
YES I REALISED A FEW MONTHS AFTER I VOTED FOR HIM BUT NEVER NEVER AGAIN
What prompted you to vote for him?
BREXIT@@amandadavenport1994
All politicians are in it for them selves.
And in other shocking news the sun rise in the east today…
The people who knew him knew all of this, they could have stopped him but they chose not to and actively promoted him as the answer. They are every bit to blame as him for the damage he created, and then left for us to somehow repair it. They'll do it again and again as long as they've got low taxes etc etc.
And you don't get an MBE for bravery. That's fairly basic.
And somehow I am living in the US where 45 percent of the population can’t figure out that Trump is ‘in it for himself’ even more so then ole BJ 😅
I AM ashamed of Johnson, AND I VOTED AGAINST HIM. But sadly he was the face of Britain for so long that he was responsible for destroying our national credibility.
The Times, timely as ever well done...
Excellent points!
We had the same gdp per capita as the US in 2010. Now it’s half the US gpd. Wake up times radio!!
Yes. Yanks work hard for a living. We've got 9 million free loaders.
It always seems quite ironic that Johnson and his ilk always privileged ,have been educated at Etonian or similar then become so greedy ,self serving and cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.
I have said for years these public schoolboys are entitled and corrupt and it is accepted criminality from those who have been educated to believe they are above the law! It’s obscene🤷♂️
Johnson, the yesterday man. Belongs in jail/oblivion/the wilderness!!!!!
Boris Johnson makes Arthur Daly look like a saint.
How is that different from any other Politician
Who would've thought Johnson was in it for himself? The idiots who fell for his bs should have to suffer the consequences.
Us who didn’t fall for his BS are also suffering the consequences.
i don't imagine anyone ever thought otherwise
I think all parliamentarians are in it for themselves . They love the power and position but we have to have one lot of them or another
3.29 What, so the interviewer is saying that Johnson was an effective PM so we should forgive him his personal self-enrichment?? He wasn't effective. Simon Kuper isn't saying the Good Chaps were brilliant leaders, just that they weren't corrupt - that's the whole point!
‘Boris Johnson was in it for himself’ ??????? You only just realised?
Of course he was: that’s what Brexit was for; he needed a theme and a tagline together power. It was a contrived , strategic plan by Cummings to get the twerp to power.
Excellent analysis by Mr Kuper. I'm probably to the left of many Times guests but he was even handed throughout. Plus he could see Johnson for what he was, not the second coming. Thanks.
If you’re not sure Bojo is a sociopath check the women and children he left in his wake
Never seen a politician since mrs thatcher who wasn't clueless, corrupt or both. How much is Blair worth now?
I just couldn't believe it when they chose him as their leader. That in itself summed them up.
Just as bad, the tiny number of conservative members who voted in BJ as their leader did the country a even greater disservice by voting for Truss
Boris, a narcissist... who would have guessed?!
Just like Trump then….
trunt**
Tony Blair
Biden
Yeah and Clinton ,Blair ,Biden and every other moronic politician since Cain
Both lie as they breath.
His name is EGO.
Great video & Kuper is spot on, Johnson & his cronies need calling out. Johnson merely ‘Play Acted’ as PM, whereas he took his self enrichment very seriously. Labour must stop this ever happening again
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
(sarcasm).
Really???? Jeez, who'd have ever thought that?? Crazy how you learn a new thing every day!
I am incredulous: the Times has only now just figured this out??
Not just old Pepper Pig Johnson, "ALL" M.P's are in it for themselves.................
Every single cabinet minister since Johnson was inept.
This whole Covid situation makes me so sick in the stomach.
Where does David Lloyd George fit into this theory? British political history didn't start in 1945. He was almost as shameless at Johnson. Almost.
The Man Was A LIAR And A Rogue ( Thief )
Johnson proves the saying you can fool some people all of the time
It's sad to hear but in honesty if people are in it just for them selves you have put up guard rails, a system of rules. But that is in it self a problem. Who makes the rules?
Shame on you Boris Johnson trumps moped
Much like Trump. Grifted all these years on other peoples money. Trump even managed to bankrupt a casino. A CASINO! That's how bad Trump is with money or business.
This guy has confirmed what I have been saying for a long time. Most, if not all, former high ups in governments until Thatcher, had served the country, many in battle or losing loved ones in battle. Few have since done that. It really shows. But whilst I dislike Blair for various reasons, not one of the leaders of the UK in the high offices of state have been there with a heart to serve the nation perhaps May came close, but certainly not Cameron, Sunak and definitely not Truss or Johnson who shouldn't have been within a bulls roar of elected office. They need to be arrested for fraud and corruption in fact along with many of their colleagues.
Don't forget John Major, the PM who I consider to have always shown the highest levels of honesty and integrity. He was unfairly called the "grey man" but he battled the rabid conservative anti-EU conservative right, long and hard. And he still does.
I see YT headlines saying "Blair got it right" but Major does not get enough recognition for all his efforts to open the eyes of the British people to the blatant lies of BJ and his fellow travellers.
Now this week we have had Farage stoking the fires of riots around the country which blatantly ignore the excruciating pain within the families of 3 little girls. They are not protesters but despicable violent criminals of the lowest possible level of UK humanity.
Maybe the planned deportees to Rwanda, who had the guts to travel across continents and risk getting on flimsy boats to try to better themselves could, given the chance, make a far greater contribution to this country than the brick throwers ever will.
Let's pass on the now unusable flight tickets to Rwanda to them but no bricks on the plane.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has revenue of around $33 million, plus assets worth around $35 million. It has a permanent staff of around 450 people. It produces policy documents which are often copy-pasted wholesale into law in various countries. An article in the Guardian last year concluded that Blair has more power in the world today than he had when he was Prime Minister.
@@georgesdelatour How does that relate to the current price of cheese???
NO?! Really?!
Well thank you, Times Radio. Now how about the next breaking news that WATER IS WET.
FFS!
I could have told you that before he got the job, you don’t have to be an expert to come to that conclusion. All you need is common sense and an understanding how the corrupt minded people work.
Breaking news - the grass is green.
The thing was everybody know that and they voted for the pig away 😂 !
Johnson and Hestletine were our MP Goring on Thames both the same.
They are both arrogant, rude and unpleasant
Correct but 8 years too late 😢
The conversation about covid PPE misses the fact that the PPE equipment that was held had rotted while in storage becauae of cost cutting in the warehousing contracts and was therefore useless when needed.
Rory Stewart popped into my head just as Simon mentioned his name.
So that's what Bojo,Cameron , et al learned at the supremely privileged ,expensive ,upper class, higher education college of ETON ... It kinda tells us everything ..dinnit?
"‘Boris Johnson was in it for himself’"?
Gosh?
Really?
Why are the British such slow learners?
Rules to stop those at the top profiteering sounds a good idea. The question is how???
I put on face book when the government was loojin for PPE, that they are sorting out they're mates, the many small firms that said they would do it got ignored,i was proved right.
Not people just English people
Good God! So Johnson was only in it for himself!
Well, stone the crows, who would have thought it!? And to think that he always came across as being full of humility, kindness and selflessness!😵💫
Surprising to no one except the times journalists and their readers.
Absolutely...
All he has ever done is for his own benefit - a very special species of reptile similar to the Komodo dragon. Swallows everything whole.
Boris, & Liz following any rules except for the ones that they want to follow, is the only reality, they understand. Making money after being in politics is also, never going to go away. What you need is people going into politics, where they are looking after the country first, & themselves second, but how many of those people are left in the country.
The Times waking up 5 (9) years later…
Journalist eh?
Boris Johnson? In it for himself?? My my, who'd have thought it! 🤣
I can't think of anything more terrifying than a politician who believes they are not in if for themselves.
Errrr..... yes.
A book on the bleedin' obvious?
The title of this video is obvious to any who knew Johnson or observed him through the media for more than a week.
🥸 *One observation: His actions in Parliament as Prime Minister* were very Soviet in nature. Installing only 'yes men,' centralising authority away from the regions, pushing power on to the executive cutting out the legislature. I wonder who he was getting his leadership advice from?...... 🤔