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I hope it pisses down from 1am next Thursday to midnight on the Sunday.
Maybe with a short interlude on Friday when I'm riding.
Three cheers for the Navajo god of rain.
Four days off work and lots of chances to ride my bike, I prefer to look on the positive side.
The BBC news yesterday barely mentioned the parties – even PM on R4 appeared to be consciously avoiding the subject. Same on the website.
BBC 10 o'clock news last night specifically mentioned the timing of the Not A Windfall Tax announcement being a deliberate distraction from Partygate.
Nationalist in its tub thumping, Socialist to shore up its support amongst the workers. Ring any bells?
Yes Danny, whatever you say! 😂
I just want our 'national celebration' to be an accurate reflection of us as a society.
I'm sure Cold War Steve is already working on something but my vision is:
Horizontal rain lashing a street of houses that have all been modified in some small but different way to the annoyance of the neighbours. Some of the bunting is holding on manfully, but long strings of it are now dirty and trampled in the mini torrents of water. In the foreground two men brawl in the gutter outside of the pub they have just spilled out of. A woman is pulling frantically at one of them screaming "leave it nah, Mick, eee's ad enuff", fake tan and eyeliner run down her face. Her friend is squatting down, back against the pub wall relieving herself.
They'll all be phoning in sick on Monday and in a few months will be talking of the Jubilee weekend like it was some kind of better age when Britain was British.
Back in the real world - the steps look pretty easy, I might give this a go...
F the Jubilee party in my local this weekend
Basically this, but with bunting?
I hope it pisses down from 1am next Thursday to midnight on the Sunday.
Maybe with a short interlude on Friday when I’m riding.
Three cheers for the Navajo god of rain
I hope the puncture fairy visits you on every ride you miserable sod 🙂
Fwiw I'll be avoiding the parties, but I hope those that do have fun and nice weather.
I'll be riding my bike hopefully.
I hope it pisses down from 1am next Thursday to midnight on the Sunday.
I'd like to watch the flypast in hopefully nice weather.
Four days off work and lots of chances to ride my bike, I prefer to look on the positive side.
Quite. I'm taking the kids bikepacking, which I think will be a more positive thing to do than wishing everyone misery.
Somebody is having fun with the advertising on the tories 'Conservative Home' website.
https://www.conservativehome.com
🙂
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/how-to-defend-an-absolute-****-of-a-man-20220525221429
The Daily Mash has never had it so good with the plethora of possible headlines it can run with.
The present Tory party morphing into an episode of the Thick Of It continues...
https://twitter.com/zoenora6/status/1529792504794648577?s=20&t=iwO00wgWul6C2mXU8iKXRA
I'd celebrate if there were something to celebrate. One newspaper advertised '70 glorious years' of ERII's reign.
Were they really all that glorious? Really?
Silence traitor!!!!
This Dorries thing. I'm simply lost for words. Anyone who voted for this government needs to have a word with themselves.
Were they all that glorious
well now
1. having, worthy of, or bringing fame or admiration.
"the most glorious victory of all time"2. having a striking beauty or splendour.
"a glorious autumn day"
I think there was a long hot summer around 1976 that qualifies for #2.
Aaah the long hot summer of ‘76… and Punk Rock!
Basically this, but with bunting.
Yes.
Quite. I’m taking the kids bikepacking, which I think will be a more positive thing to do than wishing everyone misery.
Depends. Do you make them wear identical drab boiler suits and stop to sing The Internationale every half hour?
Aaah the long hot summer of ‘76… and Punk Rock!
we mean it ma’am
(you’ll have that song in your head for days now)
Presumably the mask on the nurse/doctor serves a dual purpose?
1) Because it was in the worst days of the pandemic and she was having to wear it pretty much 24/7 - in lieu of actual proper PPE.
And
2) She is less likely to be identified, tracked down and submitted to death threats by some of Johnson's more 'patriotic'* supporters.
*But deniable.
Depends. Do you make them wear identical drab boiler suits and stop to sing The Internationale every half hour?
Danny, if you tempered your keenness to sneer about everyone else you might actually cheer up a bit.
From t'web
Dorries has developed a new musical style: cringe
And now Johnson moves to do away with what little accountability there is, with a pre-emptive move for when he gets found to have breached the ministerial code
I suppose he's just making it official...
Boris Johnson changes ministerial code to remove need to resign over breaches
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1530174807316348928?s=20&t=ERhFV49ppyJzIa1UMTE2Rg
Another day, another democratic convention torn up....
Another day, another democratic convention torn up….
Jesus Christ, another step closer to being a rogue one party state.
Beggars belief that a rogue PM, or any government with a majority, can change such a fundamental part of representing the people. Shouldn't decisions like this be taken by a knowledgeable comittee, made up of an equal representation of all parties in the HOC?
Were they really all that glorious? Really?
Guess Liz enjoyed them which is all that matters isn't it. Although thinking about it she doesn't look or sound like she enjoys it much so maybe not even glorious for her either.
Shouldn’t decisions like this be taken by a knowledgeable comittee, made up of an equal representation of all parties in the HOC?
The one thing Boris is doing consistently is showing us all how unfit for the 21st century our laughable excuse for a constitution is.
Basically, if you've got someone like him in number ten who just thinks that no rules apply to him and he can do what the hell he likes, then in reality no rules apply to him and he can do what the hell he likes
The problem with this clown riding roughshod over the checks and balances is not what he is doing it for - just saving his own worthless hide - but what some future proper horrible bastard will do with it.
Let's face it, the next Tory leader (and thus PM) is going to be a red-toothed Brexity loon.
They've tried 'reason' - May - wasn't brexity enough to push the hardest brexit possible.
They're trying 'popularism' with the fly tipped sofa, but he can't stay off the piss long enough to do anything other than by accident or nicking it off the other team. He'll just waste away the rest of his term as leader thrashing about pointlessly trying to reconcile the irreconcilable stupidities at the heart of our situation.
The next leader will, inevitably, be a nutjob who doesn't give a shit about those contradictions and actively wants to burn stuff down rather than having an accident with a lighter a la Johnson.
For these nutters Johnson is merely part of the journey. Just like brexit is actually the means and not the end.
But this what people voted for, whether they realised it or not.
🤷♂️
Beggars belief that a rogue PM, or any government with a majority, can change such a fundamental part of representing the people.
I couldn't believe what I was reading so had to do a little digging to see if the stories were true. They are. He's not only changing the rules post-breaking them to save himself he's leaving the gate wide open for anyone who wishes to to genuinely destroy what little of our democracy we have left. This is a very serious development and I can't see any way that it can be reversed while the Tories are still in power.
If this happened in any other country we'd have people talking about going in there to remove the current leaders, we are seriously heading towards a crossroads that will be very hard to undo.
If this happened in any other country
The first thing Silvio Berlusconi did on becoming PM was to pass a law giving himself immunity from prosecution, which had appeared imminent before his election.
It's fair to say Berlusconi also liked to party, especially Bunga Bunga parties.
British politics is rapidly descending down to the level of corrupt Italian politics.
Rory Stewart made the Berlusconi comparison the other day.
Remember when we used to laugh at Italy under Berlusconi as a Banana Republic?
And now look at us
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1529732705600032768?s=20&t=_kgbMEDEC3TAQCJOr-lEGQ
I watched an American commentator on Newsnight last night saying Trump had turned the Republican party into a cult rather than a political party. Johnson has done the same to the Tory party. With Brexit nationalism as their religion and him as David Koresh (complete with unknown number of offspring). It seems theres nothing he can do that they won't all sit back and indulge
He’s not only changing the rules post-breaking them to save himself he’s leaving the gate wide open for anyone who wishes to to genuinely destroy what little of our democracy we have left
MrsMC, who is occasionally prone to worrying Brexity/Tory ramblings, saw this and went "He's turning into Putin".
I see it's on the BBC now as well - Starmer needs to be tearing Boris a new one over this for all the weekend headlines
Danny, if you tempered your keenness to sneer about everyone else you might actually cheer up a bit.
This is the last time I'm going to reply to a post that quotes me, but conflates me with 'Danny'. I will just simply not acknowledge any further posts of this sort (of course anyone with any wit will reply 'OK Danny', so just to steal that little bit of thunder up front...).
I find people who take themselves far too seriously, whilst holding wacky views (politics, sport, riding, whatever), and who make themselves look dafter and dafter the more earnest they try to be, to be one of the funniest things going. This is why I enjoy our little exchanges. I do have a fair few little titters and it gets me through the working day without lapsing into total boredom at my desk.
You'll note that I don't post all that much in the evenings or at weekends because, frankly, I've got better things to do. I'm perfectly cheery, especially with the extra little bit of entertainment you provide. Thanks.
Now, enjoy your bikepacking expedition next weekend. I assume this weekend will be a bit of a trial run and/or prep(?) Or maybe the junior ransoses are already accomplished bikepackers...? Whatever- hope you have a good one.
tiger, stop pretending you aren't dannyh who suddenly stopped posting; was that your decision or imposed by mods?
His posts rapidly became tedious and yours show all the same tics and flourishes.
I’m perfectly cheery
And yet Danny based on what you post on here you sound like a very angry person who despises huge swathes of the population.
Surely it must miserable to live in a society where you hate so many people?
Humble and humility lasted a long time...........
Apologies if this had already been linked, but it just popped up on my YouTube feed.
Wtaf is this......!?
Really hoping dannyh comes back and proves us all wrong. (Or at least tries to)
Polling suggesting Boris would lose his seat
https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1530269646443659264
Why is new Dannyh v2.0 so grumpy?
The old one was much better.
Her maj can dissolve parliament, right? And order new elections, right?
And as part of her jubilee week perhaps we should entertain her ancient powers, possibly?
Do you think she might be open to a petition from some loyal (in this case) subjects?
Just askin’
Do you think she might be open to a petition from some loyal (in this case) subjects?
She knows there aren't many more miles that can go on the clock. There's no way she'd do anything now.
Charlie Boy? Well he does seem to have inherited some of the issues of centuries of inbreeding, so perhaps he might do something 'headstrong'...
😂