He is just doing it to become PM…
The opportunist that he is has come to the decision that if he is in the out camp, and Cameron loses the stay in vote, then he must be a shoo in for the new leader. Being the devious fiend* that he is, when the talks take place for leaving the EU, he will engineer some way of getting an acceptable solution to staying in – and we won’t be going anywhere. Why should the country trust him when his wife can’t…?

*BoJo has a well-earned reputation for being underhand, a cheat and a liar when it suits his purpose, a man whom a biographer, Sonia Purnell, claims has an “opportunistic approach to politics“.

The world is a little less interesting tonight, the living history available to us has dropped dramatically but his memory will live on.

I noticed…

It wasn’t a joke, rather an observation as borne out by recent events…It was in all the papers.

I’m disappointed you’d accuse someone you don’t know of making a joke on the subject whereas the accusations against Assang are well known.

Oh. Well, thats alright then. I assumed it was a joke made at the expense of, for example, Saville’s victims (or even the alleged victims of Assang) when in fact you weren’t making a joke at all – surprisingly you were serious.

Ok, so what job would you propose for him? Consider that Assang has not been convicted, is merely accused although his manner of avoiding the law has not done the principle of being innocent until proven guilty any favours, and the fact that the sex offenders you are probably referring to were all employed BEFORE their crimes were discovered makes your observation rather fatuous.

Glad to see you’re the typical Fox hater, They’re always so fair and objective.

Fox News, fair and objective? If you are of the correct sex, religion, social demographic, sexual inclination, race, political viewpoint, age, nationality even – then they are fair and objective. Otherwise – forget it: you only have to look at the many websites that point out where their presenters and guests have put their feet metaphorically in their mouths to see that the Fox News agenda is to tell right wing America what it wants to hear in the face of truth and honesty.

Guess we can see which side of the political spectrum you inhabit.

If he’s been accused of sexual assault, surely that would put him in line for a well paying job at the BBC.

And if he’d was a right wing misogynistic bigot, with barely disguised racist views, would that make him suitable for the role of a talking head on Fox News or should he just run for president instead?

If you truly believe that sexual assault is a subject to be joked about then you are a damned fool who everyone should pity; as it is just grow up and leave the talking to the adults.

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That’s nonsense – even by your abysmal standards

Which part – your abysmal reply just paints the whole post without actually pointing out which part does not fit with your narrow world view, but let us examine it anyway.

Does this case involve weapons and a convicted killer? Yes. As I said, manslaughter is still a killing conviction, and there was a weapon involved.
Does Martin have previous? Of course – hence the interest in this event.
Did he make claims about possession of a weapon? That was what got the police involved and what was confiscated from him. Whether he was forbidden from possessing an air weapon (possibly not in working order – who knows?) as part of his conviction I do not know, but he has had an illegal weapon in the past.
Should he have been detained? No. Of course not… The police should never have followed up on the report and should have left him in peace. After all, it’s not like he has a history of involvement with guns or of using them in an illegal manner, is it?
John’s dream world? Ah, maybe this is the nonsense he is abysmally referring to…