incompetent replaces incompetents with other incompetents.
Buckland seems to have been given the boot for being ideologically impure.
Don’t you mean culture war secretary?
Yep, more spitfires and Churchill statues.
I used to read those little war comics as a kid and loved the war films of the 70’s but oddly don’t seem to have the same fetish that these numpties share.(Probably due to reading that subversive 2000AD as well)
Find bandwagon and jump on.
But a shambles distracts from the Clown Captain…
Job done.
Dorries appointment makes total sense, perfect for the imaginary culture war, shows how that Johnson has no real policies & will be relying on brexit/nationalism for the next election
It works…
Yay, an outspoken hater of the BBC and the licence fee now in charge of the department overseeing the BBC and how it's funded. What could go wrong?
I used to read those little war comics as a kid and loved the war films of the 70’s but oddly don’t seem to have the same fetish that these numpties share.(Probably due to reading that subversive 2000AD as well)
Same for me. 2000AD should have been studied at school.
So, Raab gets to be Deputy PM, a position last handed to some-one as a consolation prize for being Nick Clegg, essentially just because he was so bad his last job that he was replaced by Liz Truss...
genuinely baffling
He already had that role, just not the title. It was Raab that stepped into Johnson's shoes when he was ill. He looked so out of depth as it happens.
Yeah, but Johnson is directly rewarding failure...Even some-one as slow witted as him can see that that's not anyway to "run a country" it's stupid.
Imagine if I said to my head of reception. "Oh, you appear to shit at this job, I'll move you sideways to head of nursing..." Madness.
I just want more of these so I'm happy enough.
Johnson promotes idiots for a lot or reasons - they are ideological sound, loyal, popular with Tory voters, and because they are idiots and won't threaten him. Raab is the ideal man for his second in command on those last grounds. Gove also no threat as he is personally odious even Tories hate him. He is no doubt regretting promoting Sunak, I suspect he underestimated his competence (lets not go into why) and we will see him phased out soon enough.
Yeah, Sunak was meant to be an obedient drone, put there to rubber stamp anything Boris said. He's since got ideas above his station, so he'll be gone as soon as Boris can reasonably get away with it.
But right now he's the only cabinet member (including the PM) who looks capable of finding his own arse using both hands, so he's safe.
Its going to be interesting to see the reaction to foreign dignitaries when faced with pressing issues of international diplomacy to be greeted by the intellectual colossus that is Liz Truss
Other than perhaps Raab, I imagine Boris is thinking instead of him being better, he could make people above him perform worse which in turn will push him up the list. It was touched on in the Brexit thread, instead of improving yourself you damage others to level the playing field.
The net approval rating for Liz Truss is terrifying.
Talk about being easily pleased
ConservativeHome though. I mean, I'm amazed that Rees-Mogg scored so low.
The net approval rating for Liz Truss is terrifying.
It is odd. At most I thought it would be meh. Is she really active in tory social circles or with lots of local constituencies so they see more of her (although I am not sure that should help).
The low approval for Patel is also weird, I thought she was supposed to be popular?
The puzzling thing is why is Priti Patel's rating so low. You can see she really wants to drown refugees with her own hands beneath the cliffs of Dover so you would think that's the kind of thing the Tory voters would lap up.
Nobody fills the Tory member with such conflict and confusion as Priti Patel
She's utterly heartless, totally devoid of a single shred of humanity, compassion or empathy and would happily nuke refugees and benefits scroungers if they'd let her, but theres an obvious problem which they just can't overcome....
Liz Truss
Oh dear god.
She's the person representing Britain as foreign secretary?
The woman is a walking container of stupid with leaks in. Wherever she goes it just falls out.
Colleagues uni mate works at dfit, she says Truss was a car crash and genuinely as dim as you think
No surprise there, after all anyone competent in a cabinet post would make Johnson look bad.
The puzzling thing is why is Priti Patel’s rating so low
Probably because there's a large number of people who've worked with her and know her who actively despise her. Her historic work for big alcohol and big tobacco are as irksome to the puritanical wing of the Tory party as they are to the political left. Oh, then there's this account of her early PR career.
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1232205841899687941?lang=en
Dorries appointment makes total sense, perfect for the imaginary culture war
Idiotic isn't it? The BBC is by any standard a global success, folk watch our sport in the millions, buy the telly programmes we create and listen to the music we make, but the Tories put a clown in charge just "to own the Libs"
We've become America by the Sea
Nadine Dorries - the only person I can think of who has written more books than she's actually read.
Nadine Dorries – the only person I can think of who has written more books than she’s actually read.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought being an author could be a full time job.
How on earth does she find the time to be the minister for victorian attitudes to sexual orientation?
There's a difference between carefully crafting sentences and the literary equivalent of pebble-dashing a sheet of A4 after consuming a bag of peanuts and six cans of Guinness, which would also seem to be her approach to expressing an opinion on anything.
I think we know what to expect from Mad Nad.
Apparently the BBC should be re-making all the Carry on Films, interspersed with more ‘Downton Abbey’ type stuff
Good help us.
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1438451785132302346?s=21
Is she the one (well, one of the ones but the actual MP one) who was outraged that we would no longer be involved in EU decision making after we left?
Nadine ****ing Dories. **** me
I'm on holiday so I'll leave it at that
I really do not mean to, but I have to laugh at the shitshow you are having. From the outside (knowing the actors as it were) it’s amazing seeing the slide of a nation into the level of insanity it is going through.
That is at the same time as crying for what has become of a once sensible nation. If it ever was that.
Sad to say, but I feel more in rune with the average Swede than the average Brit these days, sorry
Sad to say, but I feel more in rune with the average Swede than the average Brit these days, sorry
No need to apologise. So do I and I don't live in Sweden. The UK is running a close second to the US for the level of stupidity of the population.
State controlled TV... we can look forward to new episodes of Border (Repatriation) Force, Jamie Olivers "cooking on a ration book" Hunted (immigrants) and that perennial favourite The Glorious Leaders weekly speech....
…and it all appears to be happening quite quickly…
Apparently the BBC should be re-making all the Carry on Films,
We've already got BBC Parliament. Should we be expecting BBC Parliament+1?
I love how easy it is to say "you need to do some britishness"- whether it's immigrants or the BBC or whatever, easy thing to say. But oh, you want to know what that means? Sorry, can't help you. It's not like you can even define englishness, or scottishness, or yorkshireness, or isleofdogsness, never mind all those things together. Just a damn foolish thing to say. But still it can be damn foolish and also damn scary at the same time
It’s not like you can even define englishness, or scottishness, or yorkshireness, or isleofdogsness, never mind all those things together.
We've got Nectar Points, they're quite handy.
Oh for ****s sake. Reintroduction of imperial measurements. Great, no one under 50 understands them at all, but all the gammons will be wetting themselves with joy. What’s next? Cubits?
pathetic flag shagging
Great, no one under 50 understands them at all, but all the gammons will be wetting themselves with joy.
As long as they never apply it to mountain bike wheel sizes, we should be fine.
We have never abolished imperial measurements. Milk has always been sold in pints, as has beer, we have just had to also note the metric equivalent.
More bullshit for the hard of thinking to revel in. I really despair for this country and the people lapping up the shit fed to them by the idiots running the country.
Next week they’ll be reintroducing threpenny bits and shillings
Christ almighty, this country is just an embarrassment
Was it this thread we were talking about bribery?
LSD; no, not that.
Pounds, shillings and pence.
Guineas, half crowns, florin, shillings, tanners, thruppeny bits, ha'pennies.
Got a load of them from my dad's moneybox when he died; knew they would come in useful sometime...
Cubits were Egyptian - we'll 'ave none of that foreign muck over 'ere.
Bushels, pecks, rods, quarts, gills here we come.
John Bull printing sets will be compulsory for all under 18s.
Welcome to the 19th century.
My local mp, honest bob jenrick, is making a very rare public appearance in his constituency on Saturday; I'm tempted to be there and heckle.
some of the stuff they seem to be talking about they have no power to enact in Scotland NI and Wales. thats gonna be fun.
We have never abolished imperial measurements. Milk has always been sold in pints, as has beer, we have just had to also note the metric equivalent.
Our road signs are still in miles and yards
Our shoe sizes is measure in Barley-Corns
But does this mean we'll have to stop measuring bullshit by the Metric **** Ton?
They are not idiots.
They are very smart, yes even Truss and Dorries. Even Raab.
Not smart at doing what they are paid for but like virus, smart at thriving and multiplying.
They are as you say running the country. I dont know what the solution is but saying they are idiots is not it.
johnson has missed a trick - 'bring back the grain' could be his new slogan; foundation of all imperial weights.
The unit was based on the weight of a single grain of barley, considered equivalent to 1+1⁄3 grains of wheat.
Winston - they're not stupid academically but nothing they're doing is in the long term best interest of the UK so how should we describe them?
Dont think engineering will be moving back to Whitworth... however i do still use the term "needs a couple of thou of it" alongside "a midges dick" (about half a thou)....
