occasionally inadvertently use the old reality script and think "Johnson is really fucking it up" but then remember literally the only people he needs on side now are Tory members.
though that could be an entertaining boon if all the massively pro-Brexit tories have already quit leaving a bunch of melts who know that what Britain deserves right now is a #HuntPunt.
Tbf a decent chunk have. The thing is the "liberal tories" also have too. What is left is a husk of a part driven by its own legacy. They'll probs vote for Johnson though.
Firstly, I would like to know the context of those tweets. Secondly, he didn't 'go into bat' to defend the guy for those tweets. He retweeted some totally innocent stuff from that guy, and then some smug dickhead dug up some other stuff that guy had tweeted in 2015 and used that as 'proof' that both the guy and Williamson were anti-semites. Was Williamson supposed to exhaustively read every single thing ever said by that guy before retweeting him? This is fucking bullshit.
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I note that Williamson still says 'he never called for a boycott' meaning that Gideonomics' first statement that Nelson 'says we should boycott Tesco and M&S cos they were set up by Jews' was indeed a smear.
You're not getting my point user. The point is that Williamson is a liability as an MP, as I said he just blindly defends the man. He obviously didn't know about the case in question and just raised shields. Why I dunno, maybe he thinks he is serving some higher purpose. Great, he can do that. But while he does that he is a liability as an MP. That's why I'd rather he was deselected tbh.
You could see it like that. You could also see it as him calling his accuser's bluff. Judging from where the tweets end, Gideonomics was not able to show that Scott Nelson had called for a boycott of Jewish companies. In fact it was a fairly safe bet on Williamson's part that Gideonomics was lying. I'm not sure how you can look at that exchange and see Williamson making a fool of himself. The only part where he looks bad is the last tweet where he gets defensive instead of emphasising that the 'evidence' does not show what Gideonomics claims.