Perfectly normal usage - even in America, I think.
“Prime Minister Boris Johnson” still seems like a punchline.* Mock The Week* is going to be comedy gold for the foreseeable future.
SMH.
US elects Trump. UK says “hold my beer.”
“Daunt” is a normal word, and “undaunted” simply means “not daunted”.
I see the UK just got clowned. Is it just me, or does this guy remind anyone else of Randy Quaid’s character from “Kingpin”?
So at some point Theresa May will trot off to the Palace to tender her resignation and Boris will follow shortly thereafter to ask to form a government - which he must be able to demonstrate he can do. Which means he needs the DUP onboard.
And what ransom will the DUP demand this time around? Arlene Foster is likely to be in a foul mood for certain reasons and may well be wanting Boris to focus on getting devolution restored in NI - her last chance to try and stop the evil gays and babykillers - at a time when he should be focused on making Brexit work (neither of which he will be able to achieve).
UK weather forecast from now until October: short showers of shit.
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The sidebar on that paged linked to this article about Johnson being elected by tory party members. That’s totally expected right? Because the article makes it sound like Johnson lacks a mandate, but I can’t imagine that he has any less of one than any previous PM.
Point is, his position as Prime Minister has not been put to the country - clearly, we don’t directly vote for the PM (unless you live in his constituency), but in reality, we vote knowing who we’re pushing into that high office by the party we choose.
Until Boris calls a general election, he does not, truly, have the mandate of the people in his decisions. It’s one of the reasons May called an election shortly into her tenure - so she could go to the European negotiating table with a clear mandate from The People. Of course it back fired on her. And here we are.
He has the same theoretical mandate as May, yes - which, because of Theresa’s ill-advised early election and loss of Tory seats, required a supply arrangement with the DUP to keep the government in place. That support can be withdrawn at Ms Foster’s whim (more or less); Boris can’t take it for granted.
I suspect the DUP will stay on board but will want something more for their troubles [sic]. A billion quid just doesn’t last as long as it used to.
I have to make a small objection, here. Boris is an idiot by the standards of the British political class. Trump is an idiot by the standards of idiots. Like, if all the world’s village idiots got together on a mission to track down the biggest, brashest, ball-achingly boneheaded dumbfuck imaginable, their search would end when they found Donald Trump.
Boris is basically a walking embodiment of the Peter Principle. In a sane world, he probably wouldn’t have risen beyond the rank of mid-level civil servant, and he’d probably have done a halfway decent job. If Trump wasn’t a Trump, he’d be packing boxes during the day and getting drunk on vodka in plastic bottles at night.
That said, I’ve no faith that Boris is up to the task of running the country. I give him two years before he’s kicked out, and that’s being charitable.
I give him until 1 November. Given the numbers I don’t see how an effective Conservative government can function, even with (or in spite of) the DUP propping it up. A general election can’t be far off and I still think it will be this year.
OB
You’ll get no dispute from me on this…Trump is King Idiot. Just the whole Brexit and economic fallout if it somehow goes through that makes it appear more dangerous. Crazy times.
Personally, I’m excited about the elevation of Boris Johnson to world leader. Perhaps now a rumpled appearance with uncombed hair will become stylish and I’ll be hip for the first and only time in my life.
:: golf clap ::
In addition to their relative (Johnson) and absolute (Trump) incompetence, my biggest fear is that the next time they get together their hair will mate and produce something unknown (but unspeakable).
I cannot express how sad it makes me that Have I Got News For You is off at the moment and won’t be back until October-ish.
You know that the USA and the UK have a ‘special relationship’?
Now they both have leaders who are lying incompetent narcissistic adulterous buffoons. :smack:
“Hold my pint,” surely? 
I’ll hold your pint but don’t call me Shirley.
And The Daily Mash