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Full MemberI’m sure the Scots would be happy to send another Englishman back south!
We've granted TJ citizenship
History I was taught at school was pretty poor. I only took it until 14 and it was a long time ago but a bit on prehistoric stuff ( if that is not an oxymoron) Various scots kings and queens in the medieval period and that was it. NO english medival history at all, no european history.
i would hope tho 45 years later it was a bit better
He's admitted to having 6 kids.
The wheels are really coming off, Laura Kuennsberg was mildly critical again
Love the headlines this morning about Biden essentially telling him he's not a priority with regards to a Trade Deal. Just another thing to add to the long list of things that have gone from wishful thinking to reality.
He’s admitted to having 6 kids.
Doesn't rule out there being more.
I did A-level 'British economic history', fascinating with a good bit of Hobsbawm-type Marxism, but that syllabus no longer exists.
He’s admitted to having 6 kids.
Apparently the question was "do you have six children?" To which he answered "yes".
The follow up question should have been "do you have seven children?" To which the answer is probably also "yes"
I’m sure the Scots would be happy to send another Englishman back south!
Away with yer shite. I’ve had enough time, friends and help from Scots to know comments like this belong to trolls and bullshit merchants.
Love the headlines this morning about Biden essentially telling him he’s not a priority with regards to a Trade Deal. Just another thing to add to the long list of things that have gone from wishful thinking to reality.
This was the headline yesterday as well. I suspect “we’ve” known/expected for a while now and even have a rough idea of when to really expect progress.
But admitting how far out it really is might be viewed as damaging. So we’ll just get bluster and bllx.
he's just announced they're subsidising the production of CO2 today, but don't worry it's definately a one-off and nothing at all to do with anything.
sunlit arselands.
he’s just announced they’re subsidising the production of CO2 today
Arselit sunlands.
Fart For England
Sorry I can only speak with the experience of one school (in England) but despite the curriculum constraints they work within
It's definiyely changed now, but the history I was taught - in the "O" level era, when dinosaurs were Current Affairs - and especially wider historical information you could read away from the curriculum, was still very much Empire focused, and it's this older generation who have those Union Flag blinkers on.
He did seem to be getting a grilling from Laura on BBC News last night. My lad reckons it was the toughest grilling he's had from anyone since the pandemic began, including Starmer, which doesn't say much.
Maybe her "source in No10" has asked her to twist the knife for him
he’s just announced they’re subsidising the production of CO2 today, but don’t worry it’s definately a one-off and nothing at all to do with anything.
Two plants closed; one to re-open; gov subsidy limited to three weeks.
If wholesale gas price hasn't fallen in three weeks time, what next?
What a shambles so...nothing new.
Was it just me that hoped when he was being interviewed by Laura on BBc news last night, that someone would grab him by the ankles and toss him of the balcony.
We all knew his overseas trip would be completely humiliating but ,still, that doesn't make it any less skin crawling when it actually happens. 'Statesmen' Boris, as well as being a contradiction in terms, is the most ridiculous guise of the useless oaf.
It's just next level humiliation now, pathetic. I really hope the US vetoes any attempt to joint the Canada/Mexico bloc. WTF!!!! I can't believe this is happening.
Anyway, I thought the prick had 7 kids. 4 with his ex wife, 2 with present wife (way to burnish those green credentials Johnson) and 1 with Petronella Wyatt, that journalist tart. DNA proven. Anyhow, I've spent too much time already thinking about his pathetic personal life
If someone asks you if you have six kids and you have seven, saying yes is factually correct. He does not need to say anything else.
If he had been asked "How many children do you have?", he would have blustered and avoided an answer. This way he can say he answered it straight an honest, despite it not being what people wanted.
Edited to add that his "green credentials" will last as long as Carrie tells him to have them. but then, we know that, right?
It’s just next level humiliation now, pathetic. I really hope the US vetoes any attempt to joint the Canada/Mexico bloc. WTF!!!! I can’t believe this is happening.
Newsnight was an eye opener last night. Some Brexiteer Tory was banging on about a potential trade deal with the US. They then cut to a senator who was actually on the US trade committee who not so much threw a bucket of water over that idea, as drowned it in an olympic sized swimming pool. He pointed out that the committee had never actually even discussed a trade deal with the UK, nor did they have any plans to do so. It wasn't even on anyones radar in the US.
He then went on to point out that if the UK didn't sort its shit out re: Northern Ireland, then there wouldn't ever be any discussions about a trade deal
So it was the usual: Brexiteer fantasy versus actual reality
Talks of trade deals with US drive me nuts. They back slap about trade deals which do not exist whilst blustering about the importance of trade deals whilst blissfully ignoring the fact that they walked us away from the biggest and best trade deal in world history.
So it was the usual: Brexiteer fantasy versus actual reality
I think it may have been the the same senator who suggested that 30% of the US' trade was with Mexico and Canada, and that by comparisons, the UK at 2.5 % (the same as Taiwan) was not high on any-ones agenda.
Imagine prioritising trade with your nearest neighbours instead of countries on the other side of the planet?
Madness!
Anyway, I thought the prick had 7 kids. 4 with his ex wife, 2 with present wife (way to burnish those green credentials Johnson) and 1 with Petronella Wyatt, that journalist tart. DNA proven. Anyhow, I’ve spent too much time already thinking about his pathetic personal life
Four with the ex, one with the current, one with some art lady he had an affair with. Doubt he changed any nappies there, given he denied paternity.
Those are the proven ones. There's supposedly another one floating around somewhere, unacknowledged. I daresay there are more. He got Petronella pregnant a couple of times, supposedly, and she had one abortion and one miscarriage.
I always find it astounding how such a serial cheat and ****less procreator can win the trust of large chunks of the public. He even had the nerve to lambast single mothers back in the 90s. He's absolutely verminous.
I always find it astounding how such a serial cheat and ****less procreator can win the trust of large chunks of the public
Half the population are more credulous than average.
But, but lamb!
Last time I was in USA the big supermarket I went to didn't sell any!
Lamb really isn't popular in the US, their annual per capita consumption is 0.4kg compared with 4.7kg for the UK.
It's time for humanity to grow up
It's time for you, Mr. Johnson, to get a vasectomy. A rallying call to arms to fight climate change from you, sir, is sheer hypocrisy!
I always find it astounding how such a serial cheat and ****less procreator can win the trust of large chunks of the public.
Sid James syndrome - it's what happens when you rear a significant part of the population on Carry On and tabloid headlines.
It's time for humanity to grow up - says the man-baby
It seems as though the Tories think the the news is still delivered from abroad by steamship. So anything they say will be difficult to check.
What news from the Americas Priti? Well prime minister it appears president Kennedy has been shot. More news on the next fast steamer.
I'm unable to stomach actually watching that General assembly speech, but Ive read extracts and the level of hypocrisy is so off the charts it's gone far beyond the observable universe
Surely if he had speech writers they wouldn't have allowed the Kermit the frog 'gag' (it's not easy being green) but maybe they're writing with him in mind.
Perhaps he was riffing with his awesome sense of humour
Surely if he had speech writers they wouldn’t have allowed the Kermit the frog ‘gag’ (it’s not easy being green) but maybe they’re writing with him in mind.
I'll say one thing for Boris is that he makes a bloody good troll. This is Trump on another level.
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1440955672418525188?s=20
so the climate change denialist and the leader of a party of deniers has run to the front of the green movement and shouted ribbet!
I can't think of a worse speaker to promote environmental concerns.
He's so synonymous with lies he actually does the cause damage.
A bit like when he says he's against racism. Wink, wink.
Just the place for a (not very) witty quip as well....on the International stage regarding the most pressing issue the world has ever seen.
Good timing dePfeffel.... 🙄
"Ladies and gentlemen of the general counsel may I present to you, and incredible as this may seem, I shit you not, the PRIME MINISTER of the United Kingdom."
It's plain embarrassing that this lying oaf is representing me on the world stage. The Carry On analogy above is not far off the mark. He and his cynical mates have identified a target audience of below average intelligence and are playing to it 100%. Meanwhile the rest of the world and half this country fluctuate between cringing laughter and head-in-hands despair.
Britain has produced many great things over the centuries - ideas, products, technologies. Now we have a washed up panto act for a prime minister. It is an age of shame for us.
That Kermit bullshit above is just a 'fingers crossed behind his back' for the climate change deniers and 'we just need to get back to making stuff' mob he needs to play to. Trite and flippant.
At least Kermit didn't **** another female pig on the family sofa whilst Miss Piggy had cancer.
I understand that people can pick parts of a video to make their point and that Twitter should not be believed, but I genuinely cannot think of a time that a world leader has looked less statesmanlike. Ok, apart from Trump.
I thought Teresa May was bad as a PM but, compared to Johnson, she looks like a legend.
Might be wishful thinking but he looks to me like he's beginning to fall apart.
Hasn't he always looked like that?
Might be wishful thinking but he looks to me like he’s beginning to fall apart.
"Awww bless him" they'll say.
"It is enough to bring anyone down, being a prime minister, he'll get his mojo back".
Cue a few crass remarks about rudely shaped vegetables or somesuch and the dickheads will be happy enough.
He really is a true leader.....of dickheads.
@BillMC - i thought that. Stating the bleeding obvious here, but he / them need to go before the damage is irreparable.
Covid has conveniently masked a lot of turmoil, inflation is starting to gather momentum, we have an economy built on sand especially where house prices are concerned....energy, food woes....you can see it all poised to come down and when it does we need a bloody strong leader who has plans, vision and drive not some bullshitting giant cauliflower with dementia leading us over the cliff...more so!
What @Binners said about Newsnight is harrowing really. It's not like anyone is not goint to find out either. It's frightening.
I have often previously thought
'Never has the B ark been more in need of a captain and his faithful.'
and then, the very next day, Bohnson is back in the news, and I think it again.
Yep, Lamp, I noticed that 'not a word was said about...'. The rest of the world has had a gutfull of him and are showing their contempt, sadly, supported by the press he continues to mesmerise some here. Nasty, brutish and short.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the general counsel may I present to you, and incredible as this may seem, I shit you not, the PRIME MINISTER of the United Kingdom.”
Proper LOL'd at that one.
Things are falling apart, the centre cannot hold. There has to be a reckoning when even his most ardent supporters have to weigh up 'what has HE actually delivered?'
