Been out today in the fog for a lovely walk with OH...
Get back and look on BBC website...
Lis Truss, Liz Truss! Haha haha!!
Will be fantastic entertainment as we go down the plug hole!
Liz Truss, off to talk to the EU.
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There will be no surrender!
Oh, you want how many fishing licences? OK then. Can we interest you in some British cheese? No?
Northern Ireland? Where's that? Do we sell pork to them?
As an ex remainer Truss will have to be more brexity than ever to keep the ERG on sidd
We might even get another by-election at this rate - https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-mp-jamie-wallis-involved-in-accident-and-assisting-police-with-their-inquiries-12499799
https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-mp-jamie-wallis-involved-in-accident-and-assisting-police-with-their-inquiries-12499799
How ironic that while there's a total car crash going on inside No. 10, there's an actual one involving another Tory MP!
Won't be a by-election. He'll admit some sort of error of judgement made under extreme pressure, get some points on his licence and perhaps a driver awareness course or similar.
Why didn't they specify 'unfit'? What's the odds they don't pursue any 'historic' enquiries with suet in a suit, the Bridgend Blimp?
Like he wasn't sloshed at 1am on a Sat night/Sunday morning...
In the interest of balance, do any clips exist of Liz Truss NOT looking like an idiot? I've had a look but couldn't find any.
Could be a case of allocating multiple areas of blame to an ex remainer...
Those truss clips above are hilarious and excruciating. The pork markets one is so bizarre it makes me wonder if she's an alien disguised as a human.
The pork markets one is so bizarre it makes me wonder if she’s an alien disguised as a human.
Oh my word, I never realised how bad it was with the sound on, at least Michael Spicer did a Room Next Door clip of it.
Is it an advent of Covid breaches? What’s behind door 24?
Those truss clips above are hilarious and excruciating.
Remember that once, not that long ago, the UK was regarded as quite a big player on the world stage. OK, there are quite a few black marks against the place, not least the historic colonialism and slavery stuff but in the current day and age it was generally seen as a fairly positive sort of place.
The EU got a bit frustrated with the crop of MEPs that we kept delivering to them of course but we more or less pulled our weight and behind the scenes were fairly sensible other than the odd bit of reactionary bollocks from a third rate journo about Barmy Brussels Bureaucrats.
Now...
Every member of the EU must fall off their chair laughing once our "negotiators" leave the room. I bet the EU conferences and dinners must just be filled with "how the actual **** did we ever let them in?" conversations as the next bit of crass stupidity and ineptitude is revealed.
We're at Trump levels of "just when you think it can't possibly get any worse" the bar gets dramatically lowered again.
the cowardly ****
Not even turning up to Cobra? He can get ****ed at this stage, and this to me seems like the behaviour of a man who has given up even pretending to be PM.
what's the betting he was too pissed to attend even remotely.
That pic in the garden was just over a month after he’d been discharged from hospital, having spend three nights in intensive care with COVID.
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Not even turning up to Cobra?
He's been not turning up to Cobra since the start of all this. Right when the story of Covid was breaking, right at the point when we, one of the nations rated best prepared to cope with a pandemic, could have acted to save to save 10s or thousands of lives.... Boris was just not turning up.
The only reason thats not a scandal that would result in him losing his priminstership is that it was entirely apparent that he was both lazy and a coward long before he got the job. If, on the campaign trail he'll hide in a fridge to avoid a question he's not going to suddenly grow some balls when faced with a real challenge
He's the coward that cowards voted for.
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dither & delay
Can't be arsed to turn up to a cobra meeting, like the start of the pandemic?
Blood on that f****** hands!
https://twitter.com/chessmartinez/status/1472678521126461447?s=21
So Liz is now in charge of Brexit negotiations?
I wonder what odds I’ll get on her inadvertently signing over Northern Ireland to France before new year?
I go to wrong sort of work meetings. Need more wine, less laptops and notepads.
The huge downside to this that as his authority has melted away it's emboldened the loons. He now can't implement sensible and proportionate public health measures in the face of a looming and near inevitable disaster. More people will die because of this internal tory feud.
He has cabinet members and prominent other tories still trotting out the old binary choice between the economy and lockdown. The sort of people who froth at unelected so-called experts but then get a semi about old Frosty. How exactly they expect society and the economy to function with a rampant deadly respiratory pandemic running wild is anyone's guess. Foreign travel will be shutdown for one by other countries. Responsible businesses and organisations will take measures to protect staff and customers. Also folk dying waiting for ambulances and in hospital car parks will tend to dampen down the publics mood for Wetherspoons lunches. Not to mention they societal cost of all the death and long term care for those who will be injured by their infection.
Arghh. It's genuinely maddening that we're run by such a bunch of craven, idiotic and self absorbed tories.
Whilst I'm not condoning those pics of the No10 garden party, I'm not as shocked as I expected to be without more details.
I bet plenty of teams in other organisations who were working together at that point in the pandemic stopped, grabbed a coffee and a tin of Quality Street, ordered in pizzas, cheese and wine whatever, and adopted a similar position. I'm not necessarily seeing a "party". They're even relatively spaced out.
Shouldn't have happened, should have set an example, shouldn’t have given photo op, and hugely undermines the current restrictions.
Do many organisations buy in wine for their staff to drink at work? I'd be on a disciplinary for drinking at work
How many organisations have a tax payer subsidised pub at work and allow their staff to work pissed?
Do many organisations buy in wine for their staff to drink at work? I’d be on a disciplinary for drinking at work
Years ago I worked on firing ranges with explosives, as well as the canteen being open at lunchtime so was the bar!
I'm guessing booze is embedded in the culture of government. Being allowed to drink booze on work time in the public sector I suspect is only permitted towards the very top. It's certainly not acceptable in my department.
Same here, expressly forbidden to drink at work/during work hours.
Can’t be arsed to turn up to a cobra meeting, like the start of the pandemic?
Probably needed to write a few more pages for The Riddle of Genius.
The huge downside to this that as his authority has melted away it’s emboldened the loons. He now can’t implement sensible and proportionate public health measures in the face of a looming and near inevitable disaster. More people will die because of this internal tory feud.
This has been the case for well over a year - since Barnard Castle. The second our leadership are seen as braking the rules they create, public confidence is lost and its a downward spiral. This has been inevitable for months.
Yet so many of the conservative party and with them the brexit voting public couldn't see it. It was because who the perpetrator was, not what they did. If Boris had sacked DC on the spot, it might be a different matter. If he would have come clean about these parties when the story broke he would have regained some trust. Instead he's done what he's always done, disregard and lie about the things he thinks will get him into trouble.
Again we will have more avoidable deaths, again they will be directly because of Boris's leadership. Just looking at the FB comments on every news story about lockdowns, even in the Covid thread on here, there has been a huge public turn from 'protect the NHS' - to 'F it, I'm going to going to do what I want - no lock down will stop me'.
If that cobra meeting was called by the tries to include the devolved governments then he does not turn up that is really weird. Pissed? It will be interesting to hear what Sturgeon has to say.
Front page of the mail today: don't ruin our Christmas again, Boris 🤦
Could go either way.. Ruin it by making people stay at home or making it by allowing people to mix and then a shit-tonne more catching covid and dying?
@monkeyboyjc broadly agreed, the DC thing was a forewarning. There is a difference though - I wrote to my Conservative MP at the time (Simon Clarke) to express my views. I got a letter back and the gist of it was that DC was an upstanding and key member of the government and a caring father, who placed in a difficult situation, did what was needed to protect his family. His only fault was to care too much. The difference we had over the DC stuff was he took quite a utilitarian view of the rules - i.e. the rules matter but the individual must make their own decision what to do within the law. Rather than, just follow the ****ing rules. The fact that covid was a massive problem and drastic measures were needed was never part of the debate*.
The problem now is the government can't even decide what the problem is, let alone the solution to it. It's a total mess rather than an argument at the fringes of implementation and policing of lockdown.
*To be fair to Simon Clarke, I disagree 110% with him on Brexit and most other things, but he has been absolutely consistent on Covid. He takes every opportunity to state how serious it is, supports the measures in place, promotes vaccines at every opportunity (e.g. he publicises all drop in held in his constituency, shouts about his vaccines etc).
I bet plenty of teams in other organisations who were working together at that point in the pandemic stopped, grabbed a coffee and a tin of Quality Street, ordered in pizzas, cheese and wine whatever, and adopted a similar position
Not my workplace. We were too busy trying to stop people dying from COVID. But hey, maybe we are just expecting too much from a guy who’s own teacher said of him “I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else”
That could have been written by an opposition MP today.
See Boris hasn't bothered with the last 3 Cobra meetings, must be in heat or something.
I bet plenty of teams in other organisations who were working together at that point in the pandemic stopped, grabbed a coffee and a tin of Quality Street, ordered in pizzas, cheese and wine whatever, and adopted a similar position
Not in my workplace or in any workplace I know of. We were even wearing masks while on breaks
I bet plenty of teams in other organisations who were working together at that point in the pandemic stopped, grabbed a coffee and a tin of Quality Street, ordered in pizzas, cheese and wine whatever, and adopted a similar position
Not a chance.
They’re even relatively spaced out.
I'm not seeing lines of powder on any table, or do you know something we don't? 🙂
That pic in the garden was just over a month after he’d been discharged from hospital, having spend three nights in intensive care with COVID.
I've said this before somewhere on here and I'll say it again.
There is zero chance he was in intensive care because he needed to be there. The nurse who looked after him at the time (who later quit) said he walked in to ICU, greeted all the staff, and walked out after his stay.
How do I know? I was admitted to ICU in February, except I never actually made it into the unit because I could self-prone. That's rollover in bed. Not get up and walk. It took me 200% effort to get into a chair next to my bed. Forget conversations, I'd be close to passing out having a pee!
I was the only mobile patient across the 3 wards I was on.
It's more spin, lies, mis-truths. Playing the electorate like we deserve.
The cobra meetings were apparently missed because he was sorting out his divorce.
The cobra meetings were apparently missed because he was sorting out his divorce
Already? crikey. He's out-borised himself.
I bet plenty of teams in other organisations who were working together at that point in the pandemic stopped, grabbed a coffee and a tin of Quality Street, ordered in pizzas, cheese and wine whatever, and adopted a similar position
Nope not here, not at Mrs kilos workplace.
Later than the photo in the lockdown I was running a residential training course and we were instructed by the venue that we weren’t allowed food or drinks in the classroom at the end of the day when we did the instructors debrief and planning for the next day. The students had their dinner, alone, and then had to go back to their rooms. But obvs we are just the little people.
