2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Urged to quit over this remark what a joke he led the whole of the UK up the garden path to brexit lala land and got promoted ! 

 

He was caught out lying and making promises he knew could never be kept based on some of those lies. And Yep, he got promoted.

 

Old Etonian, Oxbridge, from a very wealthy family. He can do as he pleases!

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“As I have just discovered we have more than a million who go to Thailand every year, where according to our superb consular services they get up to the most eye-popping things.”

Yes, the growing zip-lining business has eclipsed the old bungee-jumping malarkey ten-fold.

 

How totally (un)remarkable is that?

43 minutes ago, David in the north said:

Complete & utter nonsense

 

Did you miss the lies he told during the Brexit campaign and Mrs. May promoting him then?

 

The "organic carrots" were his worst gaffe.

 

Revealing, as it does, the sort of austerity lives to which his gang are condemning the people of the UK.

 

 The new UK "unit of exchange"?:

 

 

 

Edited February 16, 20188 yr by Enoon

20 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

 And Yep, he got promoted.

 

 

 

Because they thought it safer to have him inside the tent p****** out?

 

The Tory Civil War is far from over.

 

 

Edited February 16, 20188 yr by Enoon

Firstly I am no fan of Boris Johnson - however....what the hell has happened to us fun loving Brits? Weren't we always known for our sarcastic sense of humour and poking fun at ourselves? What he said was completely harmless. Methinks we are in danger of going PC mad. #metoo seems to have everyone shaking in their boots about everybloodything. I am SO glad I'm on the back nine as the world is becoming a really boring place.

Thailand seems to have big problems with the truth.

Do Thai people expect the world to lie and live in denial as they do?

 

Wake up Thailand, there is whole world outside your nation borders.
 

Nothing hurts like the truth. Boris is just doing what his politically-incorrect fellow blond across the Pond is notorious for. And look where he ended up . . .

Edited February 16, 20188 yr by Krataiboy

56 minutes ago, David in the north said:

Complete & utter nonsense

Explain the benefits so far in 2 years crashed the pound higher import prices more foreigners buying up houses cheap and cheap for tourist migrants still there and not going anywhere .

I would have agreed if what was said by Boris Gove and Farangatang was the truth instead of leading the flat cap brexit north on a pack of lies and aspirations like a Chelsea pied piper.  

1. Apparently he didn't actually say "eye popping" in his delivered speech..

 

And 2. Even if he had, that phrase doesn't necessarily mean sex tourism. It could equally be a Brit referring to visiting "scenic" places like Phuket or Chiang Mai or Phi Phi...

 

Those of us living here have our own views of those kinds of places. But to a stodgy Londoner, there are all variety of things in Thailand that might be called "eye popping" -- aside from the hookers.

 

Seems like a tempest in a teapot to me.

 

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

“As I have just discovered we have more than a million who go to Thailand every year, where according to our superb consular services..."

 

There's been a re-shuffle of the staff at the Embassy, then?

 

If he deserves to be fired, it probably should have been over THIS remark -- not the eye popping one.

 

But, they do work for him, after all. So I suppose it had to be said.

 

3 hours ago, evadgib said:

Can you back that with a first hand account of percieved failure or is it based on something gleaned from a 'bloke in a pub'?

Yes I can. 1st and 2nd hand instances and more than one. In my experience they are about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Old Etonian, Oxbridge, from a very wealthy family. He can do as he pleases!

Did it please him to visit Pattaya for a short eye-popping experience or a bit of child molesting - or did he not have time ?

11 minutes ago, Araiwah said:

Yes I can. 1st and 2nd hand instances and more than one. In my experience they are about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

Was this hanging over the door?

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

Prince Phillip is very well known for his whimsical and starge remarks, should

we ask him to resign as well? people are measured with their quality of their deeds,

and not their tongues....

Can you resign as a royal or are you suggesting we just take off his head 

2 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

Old Etonian, Oxbridge, from a very wealthy family. He can do as he pleases!

Despite sharing the general view about Old Etonians I have to admit to enjoying BJ's eccentric buffoonery, along with much that is said by Mogg 

 

4 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Thank you for this copy of the original speech, which was, obviously, taken apart, falsified, and things taken out of context, by the jerks of the yellow press and their half-truths sensationaism.

Here's the full speech inc Q & A. The offending phrase generating this thread fleetingly appears @9.20

 

Edited February 16, 20188 yr by evadgib

 

Thaivisa at its best, one more time,  as nowadays : quite usual.

 

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Prince Phillip is very well known for his whimsical and starge remarks, should

we ask him to resign as well? people are measured with their quality of their deeds,

and not their tongues....

....but the brain controls your tongue....... 

Think the Poison Dwarf may have had an input in that article ...

Good old Boris plugging Thailand for the Thai tourist board 

Foreign Secretary was plunged into renewed controversy after making an offensive joke about sex tourism to Thailand – which has notoriously involved the abuse of children.

 

Who writes this claptrap??? Offensive to who? and trying to link what he said to child abuse - Really, for peats sake, they should be called out and made to account for attempting to manipulate the facts.

 

'We have a million visitors who get up to the most eye popping of things' is what he said in reference to what UK tourists/visitors get up to - a nice way of saying the FACTS of what we all know. Get over it!

8 hours ago, webfact said:

But it was his remarks on British tourists going to Thailand for sex which prompted the most criticism.

Criticism by <deleted><deleted>.

Since when is telling the truth a resignation matter?

The right wing christian conservatives through their influence on government and tabloid media have for many years campaigned for locking down sex in the UK. Campaigns to outrage middle aged and older brits that tell about various people being involved in 'sinful, sleazy and filthy' sex fill the front pages of the Daily Mail, Sun etc most days.

 

Its virtually impossible to have sex in the UK unless you are in a relationship, especially for those older than their early-20s.

 

No wonder the country is rife with drunken, aggressive  violent people unable to get laid every evening of the week.

 

But not only are the christian conservatives, (supported by the feminists and easily offended and outraged PC liberal left) trying to stop Brits at home from having sex they are trying to stop Brits abroad too ...and actually would like the whole world to stop having sex.

 

Bojos remarks are part of this narrative.

 

Lets hope that Brexit makes that country disappear so far up its own ass that it is unable to influence anything beyond its own shores ever again.

Edited February 16, 20188 yr by Ketyo
correction

He painted every last Brit a Sex Tourist by the careless wording he used.

41 minutes ago, Ketyo said:

The right wing christian conservatives through their influence on government and tabloid media have for many years campaigned for locking down sex in the UK. Campaigns to outrage middle aged and older brits that tell about various people being involved in 'sinful, sleazy and filthy' sex fill the front pages of the Daily Mail, Sun etc most days.

 

Its virtually impossible to have sex in the UK unless you are in a relationship, especially for those older than their early-20s.

 

No wonder the country is rife with drunken, aggressive  violent people unable to get laid every evening of the week.

 

But not only are the christian conservatives, (supported by the feminists and easily offended and outraged PC liberal left) trying to stop Brits at home from having sex they are trying to stop Brits abroad too ...and actually would like the whole world to stop having sex.

 

Bojos remarks are part of this narrative.

 

Lets hope that Brexit makes that country disappear so far up its own ass that it is unable to influence anything beyond its own shores ever again.

Hilarious. 

10 hours ago, ezzra said:

people are measured with their quality of their deeds,

and not their tongues....

well if that is how Boris is to be judged he should resign today

he's right, loads of western nonces here

Edited February 16, 20188 yr by Walter Travolta

23 minutes ago, Walter Travolta said:

he's right, loads of western nonces here

I thought he was talking about the UK not the west.