British jobs for British workers.
I think it was Gordon Brown who said that.
It’s all a bit “National Socialist British Workers’ Party”, no?
Well I don't agree but it is certainly an opinion that you share with dannyh, including Nazis references such as Adolf and swastikas.
He hasn't been around for a few weeks but who knows perhaps he will pop back.
Like you he also liked the "ironic" use of quotation marks, so I think you'll like his style too. If he decides to come back.
That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That’s the one!
I mean. That’s. The. One.
Did you ever see his posts gardentiger or did you join after he left?
🤔
This lot love waving flags and slagging off immigrants but when it comes to actions they’ve the same priorities as the old school establishment Tory’s. The money all goes to the same old places. Dished out to the same old people. They couldn’t care less about the rest. They’ve pretty much stopped even pretending they do
Apart from saddling 'business' with lots of unnecessary cost by limiting their pool of labour? Thatcher and her ilk used to lionise the mythical 'business' and have thrusting entrepreneurs around to No 10 all the time. Even if some turned out to be crooks.
Also screwing over exporters by alienating their closest markets?
Agreed about HS2, by the same token.
Whatever, though, in the 1930s the markets didn't react within a millisecond to every pathetic bit of insularity like they do now, so inflation will be the end of this lot. They'll try to paint the Bank of England as another bunch of elitists if they raise interest rates, but they'll have to. In this day and age, you literally cannot win by alienating (relatively) stable and sensible trading blocs like the EU and trying to use a kind of 'Protectionism for Toddlers' policy. (The use of quotation marks is not intended to be ironic, it is trying to show that it is a made-up phrase I am using for brevity.)
How long it takes for this to sink in with the electorate is anybody's guess, but however long it is, it cannot change that central truth above.
<Shrugs shoulders and turns palms upward>
singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/boris-johnson-2/page/162/#post-12147708
This sort of attitude has got us to where we are now FFS
Sorry gardentiger you didn't clarify, does your reference to "British jobs for British workers" as evidence of National Socialism mean that Gordon Brown was also some kind of National Socialist?
In any case, I have no desire to end up in a self-sustaining loop of saying the same thing over and over with slightly different words.
The fact is that the UK has landed itself in a stupid situation with irreconcilable contradictions and hypocrisy all over the place.
I continue to view the piece by piece unravelling of this nonsense with a mixture of bemusement, amusement and dismay. The fact is that our little collective moment of national tantrum is going to disintegrate bit by bit when confronted by reality.
Will it take a brave politician to say "this is stupid, let's face it and start to repair the damage"?
Or will it have to be done inch by inch by stealth as is currently the case (big nationalist words in public, craven capitulation behind the scenes)?
But whatever the means and timescale, the UK will be forced to confront its true status in the end. The everyday brexiteers will be humiliated and poorer, the rest of us will just be poorer. A few rich Brexiteers will be even richer.
That is the bottom line. No amount of bitching on the Internet can change it. It is amusing byplay watching people tie themselves in knots trying to talk away the inevitable, but it is ultimately just that - byplay based on parlour talk.
The everyday brexiteer has already lost. The goals have been taken down, the stumps have been drawn, the clubhouse is shut. But still they carry on, playing like their lives depend on it. Amusing and tragic in equal measure.
It is amusing byplay watching people tie themselves in knots
That sounds a bit cruel.
Good job he was assured there was no party
https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/1469788795813998595
What's funny is that Johnsons (and the governments) official line is that he's not aware of any party
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1469790405449424903?t=GA6NBlWpEQ-qdaOI8c4sLg&s=19
Sun has their own story
Met police in the mud as they knew
https://twitter.com/BexBitchley/status/1469795436466692099?t=ZBJ8zwGwv2dJ21cIh9jr5A&s=19
Looks like the Australian has come out to ****.
Pictures, the first of many I would think.
Squeaky bum time for some MP's out there tonight.
Just in time for the by-election.
What an utter tragedy of a human being Boris is.
the trapdoor is slowly opening...
Next week will be fascinating in a gory, voyeuristic sort of way.
This is like watching Rome burn but knowing you and everyone you care about live there.
Personally I can't wait for politics to go back to being boring though.
All blown out of proportion by the vengeful beeb
that mirror pic looks like a still from a video....
That sounds a bit cruel.
I'm not the one doing the tying...?
🤷♂️
I thought "imagine the uproar if it'd been the BBC that'd broken this story". But it turns out it's the same even if the BBC are just following
Anyone who has either photos or vids from any of the multiple gatherings has only two possible options:
i) I won't share it but what's my reward?
ii) Selling to the highest bidder
There is the vanishingly small possibility that anyone in possession of said photos or vids will suppress/delete them; having seen how johnson's sycophants behave, that won't happen.
It's like a dripping tap wearing away the stone - slowly, steadily, inexorably.
Joyful.
All blown out of proportion by the vengeful beeb
I had a look at the sunday hate comment section to see how that story went down with the readers. Wasnt really in his favour with the most favoured ones going for the "dont shoot the messenger" line or "shoot the messenger because its the beeb but keep some ammo back for johnson".
You know what, even the usual beeb haters are unlikely to fall for this one.
The story is everywhere, everywhere.
Boris is usually pretty good at deflection but this comes across as desperate.
Anyone actually know what the Mail are saying in regards to the claim though?
That will be interesting.
No 10 confirms PM Boris Johnson took part in No 10 Christmas quiz last year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59625432
Blimey, actual pictorial evidence is hard to deny it seems.😉
He's claiming it was a virtual quiz. Now even slithy Gove is implying he's a soak:
'Michael Gove said he was confident MPs would examine proposals for new restrictions “seriously, soberly and thoughtfully” in light of the way Omicron had been spreading across the UK.'
Nah, they’re a nationalist party.
A nationalistic party (very few parties are really one thing) would've closed their borders in a drop of a hat at the beginning of the pandemic.
Blimey, actual pictorial evidence is hard to deny it seems
Unless he goes full Trump
- I have this picture of you to prove it
- Nope, I wasn't there
- But you are in this picture
- Nope that is not me, I wasn't there
- But this picture
- Nope, next question
The headbangers are out defending the indefensible today. This from Simon Clarke. Basically it's all very unfair, brexit, he's doing his best, Corbyn, brexit. Desperate stuff.
There’s been a lot of unfair criticism of the Prime Minister this week. I just want to remind everyone what Boris Johnson has delivered for our area and our country:
🇬🇧 He delivered #Brexit when nobody else could have or would have, sticking relentlessly to his guns and braving a Parliament determined to stop him.
👴 He defeated Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party (including Sir Keir Starmer, who was at the heart of the whole attempt to stop Brexit and install an unreconstructed hardline socialist in No 10).
🌎 He introduced an Australian-style points based system for legal migration, ending EU free movement. We face major challenges with illegal migration this winter (like EVERY developed country in the world today) but literally this week we passed our new Borders legislation which will help crack down on this, and lots of work is underway on other solutions.
🦠 He has helped us to steer through the appalling challenges of Covid, delivering a world-leading vaccine programme, surviving a near-death experience himself and showing the political courage to bring us out of lockdown this summer when Labour would have kept us in. In the face of a major new threat from Omicron (and believe me - it *is* a really serious problem), we are fighting to get a booster jab in arms quickly enough to avoid a major crisis.
🏗 He is delivering the Levelling Up agenda. From our new Freeport to the hundreds of millions given to Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor to drive change on Teesside, Boris is backing our area (and the wider North and Midlands) in a way no PM in history has done before, unlocking jobs and opportunity.
I am very proud to be a member of Boris’ Government and am fiercely determined to keep delivering for a man I know from personal experience to be hugely decent, kind, hard-working and patriotic.
So it turns out Johnson is a lying, amoral, selfish narcissist who thinks rules are for the little people - well I never. Cue lots of newspaper articles and Tory MPs claiming they never realised this all along or that it's somehow a recent development. 🤢
I thought “imagine the uproar if it’d been the BBC that’d broken this story”. But it turns out it’s the same even if the BBC are just following
BBC News is the default TV news here, partly as I'm lazy, and despite that Mail headline, they have led with Omicron and the call to get boosters pretty much every bulletin this week. Unlike, er, the Mail.
Can a news organisation report another news organisation?
That photograph... Check out what appears to be a bin bag covering up a CCTV camera in the office.
I am very proud to be a member of Boris’ Government and am fiercely determined to keep delivering for a man I know from personal experience to be hugely decent, kind, hard-working and patriotic.
True patriot:-), I don’t think i’ve ever actually heard anyone I know use the word ‘patriotic’ to describe someone in a sentence.
I really must move in the wrong circles.
bin bag covering up a CCTV camera
Beat me to it. Probably after Matty got caught, they thought it best to cover it up not realising its on a recordable video call!
Hmmm do ya reckon they’ll be steaming the wallpaper off to take with them or to put on eBay 🙂
patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel
Samuel Johnson
Has Clarke heard of the Gini coefficient or Lorenz curve? Nope, thought not. He's ignorant, lying, or both.
Clarke must have been at one of the parties then!
It’s like a dripping tap wearing away the stone – slowly, steadily, inexorably.
Joyful.
‘Joyful’, that is, until they install the next psycho-clown-in-chief (Or does it effectively install itself these days?)
Imagine for instance/one moment, say, Gove in there? ¿jajaja?
It begs the question, where are the (effective or actual) opposition during what should be the biggest open goal of our lifetimes? Surely this situation is at least a few lorry-loads of slush more contentious Callaghan’s ‘Winter of Discontent’?
bin bag covering up a CCTV camera
Its not a bin bag, it's a curtain, you can see it on other pics
They wouldn't bother covering up anything, they believe themselves so above the rules they just don't worry about that stuff
Beat me to it. Probably after Matty got caught, they thought it best to cover it up not realising its on a recordable video call!
It’s really a subtle but powerful damning indication of these people,knowingly attempting to circumvent the security systems as you don’t want your activities on the record as you know what your doing is likely to be perceived as ‘wrong’. (BinbagGate)
Covid profit and parties all round for some, fines and restrictions for the rest 🙂
Nothing like a true disaster to bring out the true colours of people.
Samuel Johnson
Did like him in pulp fiction 🙂
Does he watch and listen to a different BBC? The booster programme has been on very episode of every current affairs or news programme I’ve seen or heard this week.
I sure wouldn't like to be a copper trying to enforce any stricter covid restrictions that may be necessary....
Realise this is minor fluff but, I still can't get over someone thinking it was a good idea to spend £200k on a flat refurb with two children under 2 years on the premises...I'm pretty much in the same boat and am contemplating taking the handles off all the kitchen cabinets! I'm mostly happy that only some of the furniture I've had for years does not have sick on it - never mind the £3500 antique-a-like chaise longue,
But then if it's someone else's money...
If there is no more major revelations I reckon Boris can hang on till the summer. He will need a good performance at the local elections. I think the looming crisis in Ukraine could also be a particularly tricky problem for Boris. (It's likely to be a big problem for many of us in the shape of Putins control of gas supply)
