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On Monday, February 2, Express.co.uk asked its readers: “Do you think Boris Johnson is the victim of a ‘Remainer plot’?” A total of 3,020 people voted, with the “yes” camp winning a stonking majority of 83 percent. <\/p>\n
Some 16 percent of people voted “No” in the poll, which ran from 9am to 3pm, and another one percent said they didn’t know.<\/p>\n
While the numbers speak for themselves, the comments section below the poll paints a far more nuanced picture.<\/p>\n
While the obvious support for Brexit was there, with readers like username Matticulous saying: “It’s all about Brexit and career politicians trying to climb the ladder and virtue signal to their colleagues and voters” — there were others who believed Brexit isn’t part of the problem. <\/p>\n
Username DonnaM12 wrote: “I think there are a lot of factions that want him out for various reasons. It’s not just the Remainers.”<\/p>\n
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Many agreed that Brexit isn’t at the heart of the issue here, that it’s more a case of an abuse of public trust.<\/p>\n
Username cornwall123 said: “[It has] nothing to do with Brexit, that ship has sailed. <\/p>\n
“It is [down] to with a PM who has broken the rules and then lied to try and get out of it, while at the same time the public were making sacrifices. <\/p>\n
“Some of his fiercest critics are arch Brexiteers.”<\/p>\n
And username Snodgrass 11 simply said: “Remainers or Leavers — we all want him gone.”<\/p>\n
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Others, however, expressed a belief that Brexit cannot be totally untangled from the Prime Minister’s current predicament. <\/p>\n
User Jonjo wrote: “It’s partly a Remainer plot and partly because Johnson has not fulfilled his pledges on immigration, taxation, Brexit and the ‘triple lock’.”<\/p>\n
And username Michael Taylor said: “I’m sure that there are still some Remainers who live under the misapprehension that if Boris goes, they shall somehow return us to the EU. They are wrong. <\/p>\n
“When the British people are presented with the facts about rejoining the EU the people of this country will reject it outright. <\/p>\n
“The loss of our currency, of our status as an independent country, of our individuality. To become part of a collective of bullies, overseen by a remote bureaucracy controlled by France and Germany again? That bridge has gone, there is no turning back now.”<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS: <\/strong> Many agreed that Brexit isn’t at the heart of the issue here, that it’s more a case of an abuse of public trust.<\/p>\n Username cornwall123 said: “[It has] nothing to do with Brexit, that ship has sailed. <\/p>\n “It is [down] to with a PM who has broken the rules and then lied to try and get out of it, while at the same time the public were making sacrifices. <\/p>\n “Some of his fiercest critics are arch Brexiteers.”<\/p>\n And username Snodgrass 11 simply said: “Remainers or Leavers — we all want him gone.”<\/p>\n Overall, it’s clear that Express.co.uk readers are not about to give the Prime Minister an easy ride. <\/p>\n Username Pharty wrote: “It’s interesting to see one of the first statements of BJ’s new communications chief has been to announce that the PM is not a ‘complete clown’.<\/p>\n “Just a clown in a ‘limited and specific way’ then?”<\/p>\n This is in reference to a comment made by Guto Harri, Mr Johnson’s brand new Director of Communications, to a Welsh news station on Monday.<\/p>\n Speaking to Golwg360, Mr Harri recounted a tale of joviality and camaraderie as he undertook his new role. <\/p>\n He said: “Although I haven’t seen him in person for years, we picked up where we left things, in terms of the tone of our friendship. I walked in, I saluted to the PM and said: ‘Prime minister, Guto Harri reporting for duty.’<\/p>\n “He stood up from behind his desk and started to take the salute but he said: ‘What am I doing? I should take the knee for you.’ The two of us laughed. <\/p>\n “Then I asked: ‘Are you going to survive, Boris?’ And he said in his deep voice – slow and purposeful – starting to sing a little while finishing the sentence and saying: ‘I will survive.’<\/p>\n “I inevitably invited him to say: ‘You’ve got all your life to live,’ and he replied: ‘I’ve got all my love to give,’ so we had a little blast from Gloria Gaynor. No one expects that, but that’s how it was.”<\/p>\n Harri said there was “a lot of laughing” but the pair had “a serious conversation about how we get the Government back on track and how we move forward”.<\/p>\n He added: “Everyone’s focus has been on recent events that have caused a lot of hurt, but in the end, that’s nothing to do with the way people voted two years ago. <\/p>\n “He’s not a complete clown, but he’s a very likeable character…He is not a vicious man as some misrepresent him.”<\/p>\n
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