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"but he looks like Mother *ing Theresa"
Mother *ing Theresa May?
Theresa May went to a state school.
Though I can’t forgive him for shagging Edwina.
A personal slight?
Truss deploying the memes to keep her leadership bid going
https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1491667933269045249
Im not sure the disastruss press conference will have done much good for her bid tho
Between Boris and the leadership contenders they must be employing more photographers than most media groups
Im not sure the disastruss press conference will have done much good for her bid tho
Loving your work Kimbers.
If she becomes PM I suspect it'll be a front page headline within 6 months.
That Truss meme needs the text replacing with her "Pork Markets" speech 😀
Major always had a hard time for his dull image, and was “unlucky” that he was PM as the Tory bubble finally burst, and Blair moved new Labour towards the centre pushing the Tories to the right. Though I can’t forgive him for shagging Edwina.
Also the last PM who went to state school iirc, brought up on a council estate? So possibly the last one with a social conscience and any empathy
Major was, and is a decent person and he was a good PM. If you look at his background and policies, he's a far better fit for Labour under Starmer, Blair or Brown than he is a for a modern Tory party. He started a lot of the 'good things' that happened under New Labour.
Yeah, he was the Grey man, Spitting Image even made him grey, but it was that, that killed him, it was his sleazy MPs "Tory Sleaze" being said on the news most evenings in the late 90s, tbh most of it pales into insignificance compared to what they're up to these days.
This current period is different, but there parallels, if Johnson really does call a GE next year, which I think it more a threat to his new Red Wall MPs, they'll lose, Labour seem to have finally put their differences aside for now and KS is finding his groove at PMQs/TV, whilst the Tories descend into chaotic in-fighting, by May 2023 we'll be getting battered by an inflation crisis and no government survives something like that. What can Johnson offer? More Brexit? Examples of how well they handled the Pandemic? The longer this goes on, the worse it will be for them.
When Johnson is finally, dragged kicking and screaming out of No10, I suspect Sunak will take his place, he'll quickly U-turn and find some money to do something more meaningful about the Energy cost crisis and probably at least soften the blow of the NI increase somehow and hope like hell it makes him seem like our saviour.
That picture of Liz Truss - was it an official pic? She surely can't have approved such a vacant look, or I guess she may be too stupid to notice? Also can't open her mouth without the "sovereignty" dog whistle spilling out.
When Johnson is finally, dragged kicking and screaming out of No10, I suspect Sunak will take his place,
Sunak is relatively popular now because he has been able to give a few handouts but is relatively unknown.
The blunt truth is that he is not a leader. The Tory party know that.
Boris has largely surrounded himself with lambs and *****. They have also been damaged by association. My hunch is that anyone who stands a chance in a general election will need to come from outside the cabinet. So the more electable that Keir is, the longer Boris will cling to power whilst they await the Messiah.
Seddon is the Moscow correspondent for the FT:
max seddon
@maxseddon
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Things behind the scenes were even worse, according to @ElenaChernenko.
Lavrov said, "Do you recognize Russia's sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh oblasts?"
Truss said the UK would "never" do so – before the ambassador told her they're not in Ukraine
https://kommersant.ru/doc/5207486?tg
How they must have all laughed when May made Johnson Foreign Secretary, and the buffoon rocked up totally unprepared and winging it for important international visits
Who could then have imagined that fast forward a few years and the buffoon is now PM and his appointed Foreign Secretary is even more stupid, unprepared and winging it?
John Major was absolutely bang on about the damage that these clowns are doing to this countries international standing. We're an absolute laughing stock.
Chump in being played for a chump shocker. Still, she got some pics on her instabanger, chump.
There is only one popular politician in the UK
Largely thanks to furlough, it's easy to be popular when you're handing out money.
I strongly suspect that Sunak's popularity is going to hit the buffers hard when people get their first pay cheques with the increaed NI contributions.
The 'average man in the street' is largely unaware that his taxes are about to go up, just as inflation spikes and as a rule, nobody who votes Tory does so with the expectation of having to pay higher taxes.
The patently unfair nature of raising NI rather that capital gains or income tax, and thereby thumping salaried workers and not the relatively wealthy rentier/investor class is going to write Labour's next election leaflets for them
It is. That doesn’t mean that any attention will be paid to them though. Johnson got Brexit and Covid done. 💩
Largely thanks to furlough, it’s easy to be popular when you’re handing out money.
His eat out to spread it about was particularly successful as well. I would agree once the taxes and other costs such as energy really start to bite then he will run into issues. Needs to take over fast and then blame everything on the new chancellor shortly before replacing them.
Looks like Liz Truss’ Moscow trip has not gone down well with Lavrov, who said UK diplomats came “unprepared” to their meeting and said it was “like a mute talking to a deaf person”
It's what they all do.
David Davis famously turned up to one of the many Brexit negotiation meetings with no papers at all. The official pic had all the EU people with dossiers and laptops and him with...nothing.
They come along to interviews, talks, summits etc without having read any of the briefings, without any of the info to hand and then just bluster, bluff and bullshit through it all. A few jokes, a pithy Latin phrase, some sov-rin-tee and some outright dodging of the questions. Job done.
Lavrov said, “Do you recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh oblasts?”
Truss said the UK would “never” do so – before the ambassador told her they’re not in Ukraine
Already up there rivalling Boris for the title of 'worst foreign secretary in history'. What a ****ing idiot.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK, YOU USELESS, PREENING, MUPPET!
Lavrov said, “Do you recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh oblasts?”
Superb trolling there you have to admit.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK, YOU USELESS, PREENING, MUPPET!
Same all over.
HoC yesterday, Boris Johnson was answering a question from Bradford MP Naz Shah about levelling-up, he blathered on about "not ruling out" that HS2 could eventually come to Bradford.
Bradford was never on the plans for HS2 (it was supposed to go to [b]Leeds[/b] and the separate, but connected, Northern Powerhouse Rail was supposed to link the east-west Pennines via Bradford). All binned off naturally, wouldn't want to actually invest in the North.
But the accusation is that he simply doesn't know the difference between Leeds and Bradford - or maybe if he's aware of the existence of Leeds-Bradford Airport, he thinks they're the same? Or that he hasn't done his homework on any of the details in two of the most important documents to come out of Government recently, the Integrated Rail Plan and the Levelling Up White Paper.
None of them have a ****ing clue. Barely a brain cell amongst them.
levelling-up
There is no spoon. Never was.
Minister for Levelling Up.
Minister for Brexit Opportunities.
Never before have binners Python references been so appropriate.
I listened to Gavin Barwell on a podcast, think it was the Guardian politics weekly, he said that a risky tactic might be that the Johnson loyalists all send their letters of no confidence in to trigger the vote soon, on the basis that BJ is more likely to win the vote now rather than later (if more partygate revelations come out and/or the Met police make a finding).
This is a quite useful for a MP by MP guide to where the Tories are:
I now think he'll just be allowed to bumble along until the local elections in May. Right up until the exit polls come in showing huge losses to the Lib Dems daaahn saaarf and massive losses to labour oop norf.
Then he'll be gone in minutes
Our Attorney General, on whether breaches of the ministerial code will mean resignations -
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1491764137457819651?s=20&t=C0oYiaMQNBASM7FUWjKx5A
"WE DID BREXIT! AND YOUR MUM SMELLS!"
Well that was certainly an answer to a completely different question.
Suella Braverman is somebody else you wouldn't allow to use sharp implements.
Its staggering the ****-wits that have been elevated to such positions of power by Brexit.
It really has effectively been a coup, hasn't it? The village idiots have collectively had an uprising and seized control of the government. We're now being ruled by people with the same IQ as a turnip
These are character actors playing the part of a minister. No actual ministerial skills, instead they appear in the news, in parliament, randomly farting out phrases that sound a bit like phrases a minister might say. Celebrity Politics Island. What worries me is that we don't truly know who the production team are.
edit; actually they do have some skills, but I would guess that they are a very selfish set of skills, almost all relating to the ability to sliding up the greasy pole.
^^ That's Avery good way of describing the protagonists in all this. Role playing.
Still fear the tactics will work, longer term…
“Are you a government of double standards, hypocrisy, corruption, lies and law breaking?”
“The public aren’t interesting in any of they, we got Brexit & Covid done.”
“What are you going to do about rising costs and falling standards?”
“The public aren’t interesting in any of they, we got Brexit & Covid done.”
Things might start to get interesting as regards how the police deliver their findings … Dick is resigning!
Yeah, I wonder what impact this could have? Could delay the report perhaps?
"Well that was certainly an answer to a completely different question."
Like a Two Ronnies sketch.
"^^ That’s Avery good way of describing the protagonists in all this. Role playing."
It's a cosplay cabinet.
I am very much looking forward to Johnson 'demonstrating' how Major's comments aren't true 😂
Gutto really is a brilliant appointment
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1491912028881096713?t=bGc50rk6m6iaX1-emkOANg&s=19
^^ That's utterly bizarre. Surely he didn't mean to RT that?
Guto Harri is a double agent. The clue is in the (sur)name.
The village idiots have collectively had an uprising and seized control of the government. We’re now being ruled by people with the same IQ as a turnip
This reminds me of Renton’s colonised by ****ers rant 🙁
It’s a cosplay cabinet.
Clown cabinet is more apt; most cosplayers put significantly more effort into their characters than this shower of sh*t!
Shows how bad their attention span is- just read the first 2 lines!
Still fear the tactics will work, longer term…
419 scamming... the scammers don't bother with quality, like trying to spell things correctly, or even make the scams make much sense. It avoids having to spend any effort playing to anyone with a degree of intelligence; regardless, enough people with the requisite amount of greed, and lacking the necessary thought skills to detect the scam, are suckered in, enough to keep the scammers going. Despite their scam emails amounting to "I gots the bigz munny, you haves it when gave me £1000 to get from bank".
With this abhorrent pile of ministers, the Torys are in essence running a political version of a 419. No political substance or particular statesmanship. But it doesn't matter. The wafer thinnest of veneers is sufficient to convince enough cerebrally challenged voters to get them in. Yada yada, flags good, furriners bad, free money, The Queen!, Dambusters, vote for us.
@inkster Cosplay Cabinet, like it.
What's the deal with this Cressida Dick thing? The BBC are reporting that Saddiq Khan has 'lost confidence' in her. Ostensibly this is for stuff that we knew happened months ago.
So, is the timing just coincidental?
Is there more stuff to come out that we haven't heard about and she's resigning now to avoid being royally skewered?
Or, is this a Labour move to remove a Boris Stooge to ensure that no one can whitewash PartyGate?
ELI-BorisVoter please.
Hari in retreat from his own twitter account?
https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/1491925411869212691?t=QVakyW4oGkT9E-9_cc0eGQ&s=19
None of them, none of them are capable of the slightest bit of cognitive ability are they?
Its beyond a ****ing joke.
These morons have to go asap.
Investigation into Partygate is called 'Operation Hillman'. As in Hillman Avenger? Makes you think...
What’s the deal with this Cressida Dick thing? The BBC are reporting that Saddiq Khan has ‘lost confidence’ in her. Ostensibly this is for stuff that we knew happened months ago.
It was only 9 days from the IOPC report into the Charing Cross stuff to Dick's resignation. During which time Khan demanded a serious response or he'd kick off, and she declared that she was going nowhere. So it's not that slow.
If Guto Harri isn't Tweeting, how did he send that tweet telling everyone he isn't tweeting?
Makes you think...
Clown cabinet is more apt; most cosplayers put significantly more effort into their characters than this shower of sh*t!
Agreed. I know a few people who do the whole Cosplay circuit and they all are obsessive over little details and plan their costumes for particular events with meticulous detail. The complete opposite to Johnson and his minions.
If Guto Harri isn’t Tweeting, how did he send that tweet telling everyone he isn’t tweeting?
In fairness to him, he didn't tweet. Someone else screenshotted his bio. It's totally unbelievable though - in the true sense of the word meaning impossible for anyone to believe the drivel they're spouting. It's not plausible deniability if it's implausible.
I was just reading Sky news to catch up with the latest shovel of shit coming out of Westminster, they added a clip of an exchange between Dennis Skinner (it's his 90th today) and Margret Thatcher.
That's the "Beast of Bolsover", the former Miner and staunch Socialist with a reputation second to none for barbed comments, verses a Women many believed at the time to the Devil's representative on Earth in a full house.
What a difference a few decades makes, makes the current lots seem like a Chimp's Tea Party.
Operation Hillman’. As in Hillman Avenger
More like Hillman (L)imp
More like Hillman (g)imp
(p)imp
Hes getting a fine, isn't he
https://twitter.com/ionewells/status/1492251777772761091?t=tpYPI1O_Hp-AGt_gAWfUiQ&s=19
How longs he got to respond I wonder?
Even if fined (or worse) he really won't ever resign will be?
I know this has been discussed a lot but I still thought deep down he would fall on his sword at some point. Even Boris has a shard of decency somewhere in his soul, right...
....but he really hasn't. Until a (winning) VONC or losing an election, he will hold on to power at any cost. It's utterly incredible. A modern Nero.
I utterly despise him.
He's worse than Nero.
To be fair, after Rome burnt down Nero did make changes to the building regulations with regards use of combustible materials, access to water for firefighting and distances between buildings etc. Can you imagine Johnson being so diligent?
And we know he wasn't playing the fiddle while Britain burned, he was on the fiddle.
He’s worse than Nero.
To be fair, after Rome burnt down Nero did make changes to the building regulations with regards use of combustible materials, access to water for firefighting and distances between buildings etc. Can you imagine Johnson being so diligent?
Tragically, there are direct comparisons there.
while Britain burned, he was on the fiddle.
While the fiddler was on him?
My MP, Mark Jenkinson, has just been rewarded for slavish loyalty to the Johnson cause with a promotion.
One to keep the red-wallers on side. In fairness, maybe the promotion was because of his vast intellect and I'm doing him a disservice.
However since Jenkinson was one the tories who decided food vouchers were being swapped for drugs in Workington...
Down at my parents and unbelievably they both think that there's a witch hunt going after Johnson and that he's not done much wrong! Thet did admit to him maybe going to one party but all the other lies and misinformation are apparently not his fault and that his recent 'reshuffle' proves that he is doing his best to sort out the issues. It took me a few seconds to take that all in before I could respond. Then I opened their copy of the Daily Mail to this:
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and they believe it completely. Apparently it's a full-on campaign to try and overthrow him and install a new person who will use their power to rob the taxpayer, corrupt the political system and downtread the poor. My response if that they're too late to stop that, he's already in No10 didn't go down very well.
If there's more people who think like them then there's no real hope that we're going to be able to make sure Johnson pays for all of these things we know he's done and any others yet to surface.
"If there’s more people who think like them then there’s no real hope that we’re going to be able to make sure Johnson pays for all of these things we know he’s done and any others yet to surface."
Johnson's never going to pay for all of these things, he always gets someone else to foot the bill. The only silver lining could be that the tighter that your parents and others like them cling on to the cult of Boris, the more damage it does to the Tory party.
Let them foot the bill.
This reminds me of Renton’s colonised by **** rant
Ermmmm... What??
This reminds me of Renton’s colonised by **** rant
Trainspotting; don't take it personally.
Ermmmm… What??
😀 yeah sorry, the other Renton!
yeah sorry, the other Renton!
Haha no worries !! I did wonder 🙂
While the fiddler was on him?
Respect 🙏
This one?
It’s a cosplay cabinet.
I’ve described it before as a Karaoke government
https://twitter.com/riksbar1/status/1313739380599795714?s=21
10,001 posts and @Jekyll is still spot on with the OP
aggghh how can this **** moron become the UK prime minister?
Appealing to the right wing gammons with all his previous work..as these are the people all riled who’ll bother to get out and vote.
He lies, he’s lied all the time, he has no integrity and must be held accountable for all his previous statements.
Lol
Best comment seen in recent days about Johnson is that he is so vile that even his clothes try to keep their distance from him.
Well, we can assume the Tories (probably with Johnson still leading them by the looks of things) will have a nice big campaign fund ready for the next election.
https://twitter.com/angelarayner/status/1492804413018320901?s=21
Bercow needs to get off the fence and stop mincing his words.
I'm afraid it is likely to be as simple as 'Tory'. Other much more appropriate answers are unlikely to fit with answers to other clues