Boris Johnson one of most damaging PMs in history, says Reform UK chair
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/07/boris-johnson-was-one-of-most-damaging-pms-in-history-says-reform-uk-chair
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Boris Johnson one of most damaging PMs in history, says Reform UK chair
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/07/boris-johnson-was-one-of-most-damaging-pms-in-history-says-reform-uk-chair
Posted by corbynista2029
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tl;dr for people: politician says their political rival was bad.
It is frustrating that so many that fell for Johnson’s bluster and bullshit are now doing the same with Farage.
Both only care about themselves and making themselves and their mates richer. Boris campaigned on a platform of Brexit and reducing immigration by bringing in the Australian system. Both contributed to increased immigration because in truth all that matters to people like Farage and Johnson is their donors businesses making money.
> Zia Yusuf calls rise in net migration under Johnson a ‘total betrayal of everybody who voted for Brexit
I’m sure no one warned anyone before the referendum that Brexit would lead to higher migration, not lower!
[Oh wait nevermind](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/07/28/brexit-will-lead-to-more-not-less-immigration/)
TL:DR: ending the Freedom of Movement would reduce the proportion of seasonal workers and increase the proportion of resident workers, it will also reduce migration flow outwards because the new visa regime would force migrants to stay in the country.
I’m glad no-one stood down their candidates to help ensure Johnsons victory or anything.
Not going to argue with that. But the solution isn’t to vote in people who are even worse.
The far right trying to say the right was bad!
Isn’t this just Reform admitting they would be even worse than Johnson?
When the worst people make a good point.
Boris Johnson should be on trial for gross negligence manslaughter.
Well look they’re out to fix that, all we have to do is vote in ol’ Nige there and boris johnson won’t be the most damaging PM anymore…
It’s extremely corrosive in a democracy for a political party to repeatedly campaign for one thing and then – when in office – do the exact opposite.
It gives rise to a perceptions that your vote is worthless and undermines the whole democratic legitimacy of governance.
The Labour Party landslide in 2024 came about as a result of fewer votes than they got in 2019, but the Tory vote halved. Early days yet but there is at least a chance that Reform will then kill off the tories permanently.
So, yes, Boris certainly the worst Tory leader ever; as Louis XV said, ‘apres moi, le deluge’.
Either Zia Yusuf doesn’t realise that half of Reform ltd’s members were part of the ‘bring back Boris’ brigade that flooded social media just a couple of years ago, or he knows full well that those same people are nothing more than sheep who will blindly back Reform ltd without a shred of self-respect.
If it were me, I wouldn’t be insulting my supporter.
The only way reform will be successful at the next election is if they convert Tories! Does anyone really believe that many voters will move from any other party to Reform. I’d put money on Kemikaze being a Reform puppet as she is so unlikeable that it will put off Tory voters
So who else do they have in mind?
Presumably they are pro-Maggie.
Asquith for WWI? One of those pre-reform acts Lord Someones that no-one apart from historians has heard of?
In the next sentence he calls the Tories and extreme left wing party…..
Even though everyone seems to hate him, secretly much of the invective and ridicule is because they are concerned he might lurch out into the open and put himself back in politics. There’s plenty of people still think, whilst they know he’s a terrible human being – like the old Clarkson – they still like him. Don’t write the blond scrote off yet.
Looooooooooool of course he was.
If Boris Johnson was in Spain, and he split the equivalent of NI from the rest of the country with that deal, collapsing their devolved government, the national government would’ve collapsed. But no, not in the UK, Boris was ‘amazing’. Lunacy.
And this is actually a problem with having a Head of State which cannot intervene. Boris Johnson’s government should’ve been shut down for this insane behaviour
Why is it, that people who aren’t in politics like myself could see that the deal was awful and that Brexit wasn’t going to reduce migration?
Honestly, the more this is going on, the more Trump goes loopy, the more I want back in
Until the for profit business Reform, masquerading as a political party gets in, then Farage will be the most damaging PM of all time…
We got Boris as PM because the opposition fought hard to ensure Theresa May couldn’t get a Brexit deal over the line, then gave us a turd on a stick at the 2019 election as the alternative vote.
The US made the same mistake in 2024 by having a weak opposition against a popular candidate. When will the left learn from these mistakes?
I saw the [BBC version of this story](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm23p33emrdo)… imagine if the BBC had done this with a different party with a similar level of representation – say Sinn Fein; a full, uncritical interview and front-page article with their party chair…
That said, it is always fun to see conservatives pull out the “no true conservative” lie. Odd how seemingly every time conservatives get into power they implement their policies, everything goes wrong (apart from for the handful of their friends who make a lot of money), things start to crumble, and they get voted out…
… and then the next group of conservatives insist they weren’t “true conservatives” and were really left-wing extremists, and only the new group are true conservatives who will save us.
The BBC only pushed back against one of his claims:
> He claimed Reform UK would win up to 400 seats at the next general election, although there is no polling to back that up.
Only the worst type of people helped him become PM, and Farage was one of them. Reform types are ridiculously gullible.
“He did exactly what we wanted so we didn’t have to attach our names to it, the useless cunt.”
Every government is worse than the one before. And yet people keep electing them…