Milkshake isn’t it?
Why is Farage all over the news this morning? I mean, why are we getting his opinion? He's not a person of importance (is he?) or relevance to the issue. Might as well get the opinion of <insert name of some daft reality show contestant to show that I'm down with pop culture>.
The prime minister said the government would focus on “levelling up” to address regional inequality, as well as supporting people through the “aftershocks of Covid”
Funnily enough so did my supportive Tory MP, so he'll get both barrels on auto-reload about how his boss continues to be unsuitable for to high office.
Roll on the bye-elections.
Ok so revised list Farage, Rees Mogg, Boris and Donald Trump. Can’t separate them to be honest.
Gove, that's a face that's crying out to be smacked.
Michael Fabricant & Mark Francois both look like a good punch would do them the world of good.
Ok so revised list Farage, Rees Mogg, Boris and Donald Trump. Can’t separate them to be honest.
It’s like a Beatles tribute act…
🎵Talkin’ ‘bout a revolution, we-ll you know 🎵
Ok so revised list Farage, Rees Mogg, Boris and Donald Trump. Can’t separate them to be honest.
Oh if I saw Farage, I'd be running to the nearest fast food outlet for the biggest milkshake possible. And maybe a large Coke as well.
Whatever fine resulted from it would be worth it.
Can we not talk about punching politicians, please. Many face constant threats of physical assault, and not just the ones that you or I disagree with or dislike.
Milkshakes and eggs are protest. Punching, knifing or shooting are not.
I don't know. I can't help but think if people had just regularly kicked the shit out of members of the Bullingdon Club 30 years ago the country might not be quite so ****ed now.
The best time to kick the shit out of a bunch of sociopaths who abused the poor, the homeless, women, and basically anyone who wasn't them was 30 years ago. The second best time is now.
Well that seems a fairly accurate portrayal of who I’m fairly sure Boris Johnson still is, beneath the facade of just about pretending to care, which he doesn’t do very well.
beneath the facade of just about pretending to care, which he doesn’t do very well.
He cares a lot about announcing things and also opening things - especially if he can claim credit for the thing he's opening. Otherwise his record is pretty abysmal.
As London Mayor, he cancelled the Thames Gateway Bridge and the DLR extension although he did announce a lot of stuff about Garden Bridges and Boris Airport, both of which spaffed hundreds of thousand of pounds of taxpayer money up the wall with nothing to show for it.
As PM, he's cancelled almost all of Northern Powerhouse Rail, significant parts of HS2, moved back from planning reforms and onshore wind power.
He posted a lovely tweet about how wonderful Crossrail was as work had already started on that when he was Mayor so he managed to (falsely) claim some of the credit.
And that's before we get onto announcing 40 new hospitals and a new nuclear power station every years for a decade...
Can we not talk about punching politicians, please. Many face constant threats of physical assault, and not just the ones that you or I disagree with or dislike.
Milkshakes and eggs are protest. Punching, knifing or shooting are not.
Well said.
"Milkshakes and eggs are protest. Punching, knifing or shooting are not."
Milkshake and eggs thrown at any individual represent an assault - and those of us that have been on the receiving end of stuff thrown at us from passing cars would say the same.
Sometimes a brick through a window is needed to bring about change.
Can we talk about Alex’s sudden onset of the sniffles following the result announcement?
There are supposedly photos of Boris and the substance he's allergic to. My source was working at Tory HQ at the time.
Sometimes a brick through a window is needed to bring about change.
Can you all get on with this revolution then, rather than just posting on the Internet
There are supposedly photos of Boris and the substance he’s allergic to. My source was working at Tory HQ at the time.
Yep I’ve been wondering when they are going to surface,but tbh anything that good is probably worth more closer to election time.
he’s already started spaffing out soundbites, as of this morning
Everyone’s going on about partygate being the reason that Boris is polling so badly in the ‘Red Wall’ constituencies he won, but that’s just bollocks from the London based media.
It’s one element, sure
More pertinent is that we’ve been listening to talk of ‘Levelling Up’ and ‘Brexit Opportunities’ for 3 years now, while the only thing that has actually happened is scrapping northern powerhouse rail (and let’s face it, absolutely nobody believes HS2 will make it north of Birmingham) and being treated like an afterthought during covid
That’s why he’s polling so badly. We’re not stupid, no matter what they think in number ten. You can’t just carry on saying ‘Levelling Up’ while doing absolutely nothing.
You can’t splash the photo ops of you grinning like a chimp at a gleaming, new crossrail station while we’re all looking at our crumbling Victorian infrastructure and expect us not to notice
To add to that I’m pretty sure we’re now in for Austerity 2.0, a rerun of Austerity 1.0 which hugely disproportionately clobbered northern councils
But we have a "Minister for Levelling Up", and a "Minister for Brexit Opportunities"... what more do you want?!? A undeniably winning campaign team... that can't govern, and can't deliver anything for us outsiders other than slogans and platitudes.
You can’t just carry on saying ‘Levelling Up’ while doing absolutely nothing
objection!
he's saying 'levelling up' while doing a large line of toot
it's a skill, I tells ye
what more do you want?!
A Minister for The Northern Powerhousecuts
A Minister for Drawing A Line Under Things
A Minister for Unquestioningly Gazing Longingly Into DePfeffel's Eyes and Ignoring His Character Flaws
(and let’s face it, absolutely nobody believes HS2 will make it north of Birmingham)
Yep, Golborne Link (which was absolutely vital to the WCML connectivity and freight access) has been scrapped. It was "only" £3bn - OK, I know that £3bn is a lot of money but it's still a drop in the ocean in terms of large scale infrastructure and once again, classic shortsightedness and the British thing of half doing a project in the most half-arsed way possible.
Has anyone actually seen or heard from the “Minister for Levelling Up“ for the last 12 months?
And we all know that the Minister for Brexit Opportunities has given up looking for non-existent benefits and is now just wheeled out as Boris’s spokesperson from the 19th century, to defend whatever the indefensible thing he’s done today is
A Minister for Unquestioningly Gazing Longingly Into DePfeffel’s Eyes and Ignoring His Character Flaws
He has that already, just the title is different. Although quite what culture it stands for is concerning
Maybe she's just The Minister of Cult
without the "ure"
Has anyone actually seen or heard from the “Minister for Levelling Up“ for the last 12 months?
Biding his time for another leadership bid, I thought.
Austerity - is that Boris only planning on spending £30,000 this year on unnecessary designer stuff for the number 10 flat rather than his usual £100,000+?
But we have a “Minister for Levelling Up”, and a “Minister for Brexit Opportunities”… what more do you want?!?
I can't wait till those ministers have to account for their departments output to the Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office, like all the others 😎
Account for their output?
That sort of thing is for the lower classes, I think you'll find.
Maybe she’s just The Minister of Cult
without the “ure”
Cult? You are.
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Kwasi Kwartang has just interviewed on channel 4 news about what the Tory party now actually represents
He’s not a bright lad, is he?
To summarise:
1. I’m fundamentally opposed to windfall taxes on principle, but I support this one
2. The Brexit deal is indeed crap, but people said we couldn’t get a deal, so it’s better than nothing
3. The Tory party is a tax cutting party, but yes, we have just raised taxes
This is the business Secretary, ladies and gentlemen. He supported Boris last night obviously.
The Daily Mash always makes me smile:
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/suck-it-britain-20220607221938
He’s not a bright lad, is he?
Perhaps Kwasi Kwartang was a King's Scholar at Eton and attended Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship because he helped to fulfill an ethnic quota?
Not sure how he got a PhD in economic history from Cambridge and was on the winning team of University Challenge though....... cheating maybe?
None of what you wrote implies intelligence just a knack for knowing the right answer in an exam/test situation.
EDIT A Phd is a qualification in the student's speciality. If that can't be passed it will be down to not knowing ones own subject.
It's why many school-leavers nowadays are in need of some remedial training when joining the work-forces all they are schooled in is passing exams.
^^ Einstein shouldn't even solve a simple mechanical problem the US Navy had with their torpedo detonators during WW 2...
The point being that even genius has its limitations/ blind spots and Kwasi Kwartang is no genius that's for sure. His support of Brexit shows as much.
Of course he’s smart… but he’s just defending the indefensible. Johnson is making everyone who feels they have to defend him look intellectually moribund. Repeat stupid and you soon sound stupid.
Brendon Clark-Smith, the Tory MP for Bassetlaw has just been asked about the total failure to deliver anything on ‘Levelling up’ and has just said - and I’m not joking, not making this up, he actually just said this - that Levelling up isn’t about funding, it’s about an attitude
Jesus wept!
None of what you wrote implies intelligence just a knack for knowing the right answer in an exam/test situation.
Exactly, as binners says, "He’s not a bright lad, is he?"
Eton and Harvard give scholarships to people who aren't very bright because, well I'm too sure why but that's not the point.
And who honestly thinks that you have to be bright to be on a University Challenge winning team?
Don't get me going about people with PhDs from Cambridge.
Ernie - my best mate, who’s a paramedic, says this about his older brother, Who also went to Cambridge, and has many, many letters after his name, but generally struggles to tie his own shoelaces
“He could calculate how many beans were in a tin, but he couldn’t tell you how to open the ****er!”
😂
Incidentally: said older brother is now quite senior in the M.O.D. Nuff said
So if I want a big new ****ing shiny train set like that one from the nice bit of SE England where rich people live to that nice bit of Central and East London where rich people work, I simply need to adjust my attitude? Mint!! Now I know where I’m going wrong.
sandwich - a PhD is awarded based on an original piece of research which is rigorously assessed during the course and subject to a viva in front of examiners.
Your reference to '...the student's speciality' is a nonsense.
Intellectually, he is miles ahead of most of the population - and that includes most contributors to this forum.
I say that as a card carrying labour member.
Intellectually, he is miles ahead of most of the population – and that includes most contributors to this forum
But the rest of us don’t necessarily have to be that bright to do what we do. I draw pictures for a living. Not massively intellectually taxing, but I like to think I’m pretty good at it
These people are tasked with running the country. A job they seem to think they were born into and entitled to
Doing a great job, aren’t they?
There seem to be a lot of them with the most expensive educations money can buy, yet judged by their words and actions come across as thick as mince… Kwartang, Raab, Braverman and of course, the head thicko… Boris himself
Dropping the odd bit of Latin in doesn’t really cut it, does it?