Rory Stewart's brutal analysis of Boris Johnson after the Partygate report | LBC 

He is far too intelligent, and far too unrelatable to most. To the rich he's a geek, to the poor he's a posh Tory Which is a shame as he's one of the most talented minds in British political life

I'm left of centre but I have great respect for Rory Stewart as I read Political science , doesn't diverge from my respect.. Johnson dragged our country and democracy in the dirt. He needs jail.

I was rooting for him to win in 2019. I knew he wouldn't...... but he was by far the best candidate for a calm, thoughtful and competent leader. I have some issues with parts of Rory's voting record, however, he really is leagues ahead of every other 2019 and 2022 leadership candidate in terms of being a decent human who is willing to tell hard truths and exhibit real leadership qualities. And it was for these reasons that he was never going to win the leadership contest... The fact that he espoused a sober and measured assessment of the direction of Brexit during the 2019 leadership contest was enough to seal his exit....

He would make a brilliant political journalist but as a politician he's just another Small State Thatcherite which is definitely not what we need at the moment.

Same. I listen to him and Campbell weekly. There are people who you can ideologically disagree with, without tearing each others eyes out. Something we've lost in totalitarian Brexit Britain.

With the tories 80% so us are worse ... NHS worse off, police worse off, education worse off. list goes on and on. Then you add the weekly scandals.. these people are just untouchable criminals.. like the tory MP who suggested a company that didn't exist until 5 days after she suggested them for the covid vip Lane, her & her family made 69 million which affectively was tax payers money.. in the real world that called fraud but she's a tory MP so it's ok.. I've truly had enough of this fake democracy

One often wonders what kind of ivory tower that Rory Stewart lives in. Of course the same sort of righteous political position is usually maintained on this issue by Gove and in the past Edward Heath and Hailsham from perspectives light years apart maintained the same sort of almost farcical hold on the moral high ground despite feet of clay out of either blind ignorance or a stronger nerve than Boris in Hailsham case. I mean Douglas Hurd was at Eton in 1947 and presented himself as a Christian.

...and you are a silly child looking for someone who seems like a daddy to make the nasty wasty world nwicey nice again.

@@frederickmiles327 can't really think of a worse Christian than Jacob Rees mogg,he kinda sets the standard.

Yes and add Dominic Grieve.

He had the whip removed, and didn't stand as an independent in the 2019 election. He was a cabinet minister in johnsons government.

@@verystripeyzebra You're wrong. He was Secretary of State for International Development until 24th July 2019 under Theresa May, and resigned from the party on the 3rd October 2019 and announced he would stand down as an MP at the next GE. He has NEVER served in a Johnson cabinet.

@@spacebound1522 yeah. I remember seeing an interview with him, and he wax going to see loser Johnson about his posting. Obviously he thought he should be in the middle East as that's his expertise, but loser Johnson assigned him Africa. So it may well be loser Johnson had that responsibility as foreign secretary. I just assumed it was when loser Johnson was pm.

Do you seriously think Theresa May was a better bet than Boris. LOL (yes, it's BORIS btw). You are so thick.

How come he had no problem with Cameron?

Do you listen to his pod cast with .... Alicaster Campbell Tony Blairs guy. Its a great listen.

There's nothing about him worth listening to. Christ, you liberals will take anyone home to bed, who isn't unhinged right wing, won't you? His voting record is abysmal. Worse than Boris Johnson. He's a full on Thatcherite who'd have to poor back in workhouses.

No tory is worth listening to.

His voting record is a fun read.

@@jimwright1148 Then you do have yet to learn how politics work.

There is no such thing as a decent human being if your a Tory.

​@@alfching2499 possibly decent human beings dont make such sweeping generalisations. Unless youve met every Tory of course?

​@alfching2499 and in that statement, you yourself have proven you are not a decent human being.

This weedy little man is a joke!!!! A staunch leftie remoaner with very little conservative values

He's part of the remoaner establishment. They'll never forgive Johnson for taking us out of the EU.

...but what is the alternative for them Colin?

We tend to think of Tories as simply Thatcherites these days. Once upon a time (Before 1979) Conservatives weren't nearly as reactionary and in fact there were many working class Tory voters. That all changed after Thatcher was elected.

I felt the same way with Tracey Crouch. It was her party she aligned with and her stance on brexit that made me not vote for her. Other than that she was a pretty decent MP

My toe nail clipping has more morals than boris

Because he's not a decent man. Don't listen to what he says. Look at how he's voted on bills, to tell you what sort of man he is. His voting record is abysmal. But because he's portraying himself as an "educated man", neolibs will take him home to bed, because they don't care about policy, only style.

Both disciples of Steve Bannon.

They are two poos in a pod

​@@emmabrooker166Yes, the populism coach who returned from Eastern Europe in '15 to give Trump the autocrat's playbook. Each self-absorbed reaction by Orbán, Bolsonaro, Boris or Trump has been predictable. As soon as people become leery of the press ("MSM"), and steeped in nationalistic nostalgia, any buffoon can lead a country.

The connection is narcissism. We have a lot of them, they just seem to be the two loudest right now.

Both yanks with blonde hair

Yes. A clear sign of intelligence. The ability to debate topics with people who may or may not agree with you and maintain civility. Unlike the loud, brash politics of Donis Trumpson

Yes, it was reasonably common (obviously far from universal) until Johnson kicked them out.

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A first!!

Rare breed

Except his voting record is Tory to the bone.

Nope. Should have picked Ed over Dave.

I think Rory’s best calling is that of a priest - far too saintly for my liking.

😂😂😂

Nobody wants someone who tells the truth running the country, that is why Starmer is seen as having a chance.

Absolutely. Rory has morals

Shame we can’t section him.

Well said. I'm a band 6 crisis mental health nurse and I totally agree with everything you said. He is a dangerous man.

@@DaveW-zi2jv As soon as he got the leadership this was, in broad terms, entirely predictable. His record was there for all to see. Now we just have some of the remnants of his reign - some of the most incompetent MPs ever to be in cabinet. And it will take decades for the UK to recover from the destruction he has caused.

Absolutely agree 👍🏻 💯

@@jennyg-uf1uo Absolutely, and a Forensic section of 37/41 with no Home Office agreed leave either.

on the con side....but most of them are criminals anyway!

Oh there are loads of people like Rory who’d be delighted to sell out the U.K. to the EU in a heartbeat!

They were in parliament until Johnson purged them

So, who are 'the criminals' in your terms.? You must specify and back up what you are alleging. Otherwise you are just 'ranting' to no purpose whatsoever.@@Arltratlo

There aren't because the electorate don't vote for them.

I don’t respect him enough to use his last name though 😂

@@JayJay5244 Let's call him him.

They don’t call him by him by his first name. They call him by his middle name, which makes it worse.

Boris isn’t a familiar name for me. I’ve grown up with plenty of Daves, Winstons, Mohammeds and Hiteshes, but no Borises…

@@angusthekat the point has nothing to do with his actual name and how common it is

Who? Oh that little freak..

They are both the greatest leaders of the 21st century. Pretty low bar though.

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And how they are both betraying their countries.

@@erushbass8326 great leaders hold power. These idiots lost power.

​@@erushbass8326nonsense.

Starmer-Labour or actual Labour?

Best comment 🍀🍀🍀

As did the electorate

😠 Indeed, and a knighthood as well for the Victorian hat stand 😡!

It's because he's an election winner, and he's the only one they've got right now. Look at Blair, complete reprobate but he was protected because he was an election winning machine. It's all about power and how to retain it. The entire House of Commons is rotten to the core.

They're perfectly aware of the job description. But psychopaths don't believe in principles or in the interests of others. It ain't ignorance, it's just old-fashioned evil.

That's not the job of a Conservawtive politician

Rory S WAS in British Politics until 2019 when he resigned from the Conservative Party after having been a Card-holder for years.. After holding a post in Ms May's Government - which applied the Brexit (albeit for two months). He's now making a comfortable career as lecturer in top American Institutions and as a consultant.

He did this even while still at school.

And yet nothing will happen to him

What's even worse is how it came to this and this pathetic excuse for any primate was allowed to get to the top and those that cheered (and still do) him on.

Not really. The rules have never applied to the rich and powerful.

@@jakefield7702 listen, have anyone thought to ask why did some the voters think this primate was somehow PM material honestly...it's weird. Bozo has no class, no respect, he's morally bankrupt and my goodness the dude doesn't understand what it means to lead a nation and how to run it. He drove the UK off a cliff permanently

Thoughtful, indeed often incisive, & honest yes, but he's still a Small State Thatcherite. The general principle of government non-interference is something I like but the Thatcherist way of doing that is to shut down all State institutions in the assumption that "The Market" will ride to the rescue. The non-interference model I see working is to set up & resource _properly_ a full set of State institutions & _then_ stop interfering.

​@@alanhat5252 The thing about Thatcherism, is that its at least a means to an ends. Even if the means and ends are horrible - and they are. I think the ideology is horrible. But its at least ideological. For better or worse. What is *Johnsonism* ? What's his ideology? Does anyone know? He's a withered husk of a man. Thatcher was a ghastly woman because of what she wanted to do to Britain, but even at her worst she did what she did because she looked at Britain, decided she saw something wrong with it, and embarked upon her plan to change it to her image. Which, I stress, was a horrible, twisted, cruel image. But Johnson? He is a withered husk of man, empty of anything except a will to his own power. He wants to be PM not to change anything, not to achieve anything, but purely for the purpose of being PM. And maybe to enrich himself and his cronies. I can't even define what it is about Johnsonism in the way that I can pick apart Thatcherism, because he doesn't stand for anything except himself. Thatcherism, you can hate because of what it wants to do. You can hate Thatcher, for *doing* Thatcherism. Johnson? Doesn't even have that. I think that makes him worse.

LOL who would've guessed you were a bitter remainer> Ha Ha,

Its a shame, because i quite like this guy, but he's still a Tory. And the Tories are vile.

@@davekelley4076tragic it is your position .

Wouldn't that be something. I routed for him at the time and was devastated when Boris was chosen

lol

Room for one more? I’d like to live in that Universe too.

@@daisyl2629 the more that goes on the more I feel it. He should go for mayor of London and build up from there.

Precisely....turn off the media platforms, ignore him and he will hang himself or do somethingawful and can then beputaway...unfortunately the media lives off him and he always knew it.

The Narcissist's Prayer That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it. - by Dayna Craig

One man,no matter how competent,can't make up for the other dead wood on the Tory benches.

Sadly not. Every single leader the Tories ever get is nothing but a placeholder for the Corporate lobbyists. Even though I agree with Rory here, you only need to delve into his voting record to see that they all tow the same despicable line.

@@howardosborne8647 That's Redwood

I suspect he would have selected his Whips for muscle & they would have taken each ERG member individually into a quiet corner & instructed them on proper behaviour. Beyond that I think the general Thatcherist policies would have remained.

@@obscurazone I always felt he followed the whip. Whilst of course he's still right wing he has always come accross a genuine politician if such a thing exists

We well you could always vote for them rather than Idiots who pander to your prejudices ,ignorance and greed . However that doesn't happen and we will now have a Labour Government spending and taxing even more then this bunch of clowns, until someone convinces the Public that it's time to start spending other peoples money on something else

Omg he’s as interesting as a wet weekend

Your point is interesting but boris has a much lower iq and has no political training or knowledge. Eddie izzard is a great personality but great personality does not equal political knowledge, honesty, economic training etc. Also find a pm or President with as many illegitimate kids as boris. Did you know he’s Turkish genetically and born in America? That upbringing does not make for a staunch English politician. It makes the opposite. Look what he said about Turkey his motherland, when they tried to join the eu? A man with absolutely no loyalty to his own nationality should never have been voted as a mayor , and look what happened there? Guess you probably don’t know, but seriously someone with no loyalty to anyone, not his country ie Turkey or NYC , no loyalty to any of his illegitimate kids, or ex wives, or working girls etc, ( didn’t you people notice he made his latest 35 yr younger bleach blond lass wear scarlet to show her as a scarlet lady to other folks from public schools, I’m a public school / phd grad before you call me out. Please give your side with more information I’m willing to listen to anyone with valid points...

@@lawrencew3703probably the problem that we’ve had people like you voting for interesting people rather than actual politicians

But Johnson didn't want people of intelligence, integrity and wisdom around him, he wanted corruptible yes men, that's why Rory was amongst the group of Tory MPs who were kicked out of the party.

...definite article required...and if you want your posts taken seriously...refrain from using the term "dude"...😊

Not complaining don't mind two party politics without the tories

​@@TimesFM4532How's the country going to be "mended?" Eg how are we going to increase our budget via a bigger economy?

@@tobiasmccallum9697 by growing the economy unlike how the tories have allowed stagnation and decline

@@TimesFM4532 Perfect, how specifically do you increase the economy? You need more successful businesses yes? Which British businesses make loads of money? Is it all the ones the left wing hates? Banks / corporations / big business.. Neither Tory nor Labour have the guts to tax Google and Amazon, so tbh I don't see how we attract more businesses until we CUT corporation tax for small businesses and help them compete with multinationals How do we achieve this? I'm an economist and have thought through the issues deeply. There are a couple of (possible) routes, looking at other countries examples. But France still has her African empire, that's how it makes money (controls currency in 14 countries). Germany is better at engineering than us. Italians are more stylish. What do we contribute?

@Tobias McCallum it was Boris who said f*k business and who where begging the government to stopped the paperwork at boards. The Biden plan stragic investment in climate tech. We have so much wind, hydro and sola capacity we can become a energy supperpower making energy cheap for business and a large potential export market of equipment Labour also plans on devolution power to local government and making them responsible rather then some white hall bureaucrat to deliver local needs which helps business.

Pyschopathic leaders are those who led the country into wars, not those who had a few drinks in downing street.

....but it gets you a position at LBC though..

But not as dangerous as someone who is also Machiavellian; to which Johnson most definitely is. He therefore possesses the dark triad of personality traits and therefore should never have been allowed near a senior parliamentary role.

Yeah always thought that too about him. Strange little man

Except his voting record suggests differently

I do not think he had a choice .. he speaks about it.. they would have kicked him out.. which they did eventually anyway😮

Absolutely -and as Rory Stewart said, most of them have been rewarded with honours.

He certainly comes across as the least corrupted or corruptible Tory party member…

Deport him back to the US - he can share a cell with the Orange one.

...credit for maintaining a straight face through all that....😊

What an utterly CRETINOUS comment. What vile ignorant lowlifers there are amongst us. Lord help anyone with such a tiny brain.

Little Rory is simply a bad loser motivated by spite- he is an embittered little creep and his opinions as worthless as the findings of the kangaroos that twisted and turned to get revenge on St.Boris, but all they have done is strengthen the support for St.Boris, as those that conspired to pervert the course of an election have strengthened the support for St. Donald.

Just imagine if the fat scarecrow had brought the UK to war on lies over WMD? He would have surely been given the death penalty.

He shouldn't be let anywhere near the Houses of Parliament either....

Indeed tells you all you need to know, a country gets the leadership it deserves , and oddly not only in a democracy.

Hope Cameron can have a glass of champagne

Splashed all over the news???? How the he'll do you think Boris got power it's the 1% owned MSM who got him into power

...sadly for you and many here....we don't live in a police state...😊

Thing is, if we put Johnson in jail we would end up paying for him through our taxes.

@@sy2see We're paying for him anyway - the investigations into Partygate and all that has followed since will have been paid for by the taxpayer.

Yeah never thought of that.

You need to check his record 1st. This man hates the poor and minorities.

I agree Eddie👍

He's now an independent.

​@@cosmosadorabilis7677 Really? He's always seemed like a decent bloke to me. How did you get to know him?

Er, fine he speaks like a nan who undoubtedly supports our democratic institutions and conventions. But at the end of the say he is still a tory, and his voting record proves it. So fine, our institutions would be safe in his hands, whilst unleashing tory policies on the country.

Boris is a native New Yorker👍.Real Pity he fecking well didn't stay there🙄👍👍👍

....thanks for that bombshell...😊

They share the same illness.

Rory? Is that you?! 😂

He's terrible.

Rory the spliff still bitter he lost to a clown

His voting record says otherwise.

Peppa pig anyone? Has anyone been to Peppa Pig world

Honest? Check his voting record

They didn't. A Minority voted for him in our system. Don't blame the 'people'.

And not for Sunak to back stab Boris and to call Liz a dizzy blonde. Seems like being a brownie and being rich to feed all his cronies and forcing the country to adopt diwali the festival of sound surely plays no part in this. Surely.Just saying as these points seemed to be missed on all you migrant loving munchies

Tbf to Truss, she was an idiot, not evil

I heard an argument saying Johnson will go down as the worst PM ever. They dismissed Truss as being too minor influence who will simply be forgotten about but Johnson on his watch Brexit the pandemic and the demise of his government will be too incompetent and corrupt to overlook.

​@@daniwalmsley611She's declared her exit from the PM job as being down to the "Wokerati". I think he's worse than just your average idiot.

​@@daniwalmsley611 hmmm idk about that, kwateng got exactly what he wanted and I can't believe there wasn't rampant disaster capitalism going on during her budget presser.

@@JackHGUK what a bit of Liz.

It's no coincidence that both men used the term "witch hunt " within hours of each other

@@lindabennett6597 ironic that 2 guys with entitled privilege and a rather questionable attitude towards women fail to see the crass use of the term. I guess we should not be surprised.

We as a collective have no say in Boris's punishment without breaking the law ourselves, the MET police have shown no intent on handling him properly and if anything did it would be reliant on the courts to act accordingly and make him face the same standards as all of us, but I have no confidence in any of them ever treating him the way he should be

Yes, it's a painful pill to swallow. Now, if everyone wrote to their MP about this travesty, who knows?

@@glennwhitlock1272 They don't reply, save yourself a stamp

@@noramartin96 ha! You might be right. Though, I emailed mine (saved on the stamp) about something or other and he replied relatively promptly. Then he resigned over inappropriate behaviour with a staffer.

Who is we? johnsons judges are in many ways, his own kind, so repercussions for johnson are never certain. tory voters don't care either, they just hate any other party.

Check his voting record. Tory to the bone.

There was condemnation back then, but the public ignored it. Called it scaremongering...

In fairness to Rory, he did try to stop Boris and was summarily kicked out the door for his efforts.

90 days off work from a job he's quite. Really?

....one of her few coherent utterances.

Ha - nothing probably about it, he couldn't lie straight in bed !

As immortal? My word I hope he’s not. He’s done enough damage in his 50 odd years on the planet. If he’s immortal he’ll bring about the apocalypse.

@@JelloTypeR true !

....and you speak for the people daisy...much appreciated.😊

Yeah, and how many fookin' Tories are like Rory Stewart?

If you want to know what Rory really stands for check his voting record. Tory to the bone.

That's why he's not in the party anymore.

@Glyn Jones....meaning you agree with him...which isn't always necessarily the same...

Yeah - right. Check his voting record. Actions speak louder than words?

@@kingfibber I see you're commenting this everywhere, so I will do the same. He's actually admitted to getting some of his votes wrong and how he would vote differently now. Tories are whipped, which doesn't help. Just look at what happened when he did rebel. I think anyone (especially a Tory) to be honest and decent enough to own up to mistakes, deserved to be heard.

The pertinent word is SOME

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