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Johnson could be caught in a gimp cage at the Russian embassy trading state secrets for spankings & he'd still have 40% of the country voting for him, coz BREXIT
Listening to Union Jack radio (*)just now and they played a clip:
“Anyone seen Boris, his mistresses are getting worried”!!
How’s that injunction going?
*not a Brexie gammon btw!
dannyh, I agree with all your thinking on Brexit apart from the fact that I think all the negatives will be absorbed into the "it was Covid that done for us guv" argument.
Only seems like last week the Tories were still blaming Labour for everything. When were Labour last in, I can't even remember?
Covid could shift the blame for at least a few years. Some facts will be very hard to shift real blame from but they will be lost in the Covid noise.
Brexit will basically ensure we recover far slower and to a lesser degree than other economies... But that will just be denied just like our sub par virus response.
Depressing.
Johnson could be caught in a gimp cage at the Russian embassy trading state secrets for spankings & he’d still have 40% of the country voting for him, coz BREXIT
This. Trumpist populism. Br*xit was Bozo’s ‘wall’. Their fans would forgive them anything and turn a blind eye all day long. This gives this gov carte blanche.
There was a "viable threat" to the PM whilst up in Scotland.
Pics of him in the papers today wearing a vest.
There was a “viable threat” to the PM whilst up in Scotland.
Classic Cumstains. Creating a victim narrative that Joris 'cannot even enjoy a few days holiday in peace'.
Viable threat my arse.
Rab C Nesbit style vest?
Suicide bomber’s vest? He seems determined to take us all out with him.
Running vest as part of his commitment to losing weight and getting fit?
There was a “viable threat” to the PM whilst up in Scotland.
Fly, my beauties, fly....
Viable threat my arse.
I read yesterday that the 'viable threat' was apparently from snipers.
Snipers? Roaming around Scotland?
Aye, right...
Gallinago gallinago? 😆
I read yesterday that the ‘viable threat’ was apparently from snipers.
Snipers? Roaming around Scotland?
Aye, right…
You wouldn't need to be very good to hit something that size.
Anyway, I hope the 'protection' wasn't at tax payers' expense. Surely Mark 'I was in the Territorial Army but I do not like to talk about it' Francois could don some DPMs and cam cream and effect a stake out followed by a silent killing on the perps? Mind you, he is probably still laying low...
They really are like something out of a Carry On film.
https://twitter.com/KatyFBrand/status/1297210927998271488?s=19
Some funny comments, particularly liked the one about the baby shrinking
I read yesterday that the ‘viable threat’ was apparently from snipers
I was baffled by this too, yet another cat carcass?
If there are people with malicious intent and the means to do something like that I really doubt holiday snaps being published by the tabloids would be the thing that enabled them...
(Paging Perchy to do a joke about Boris being malicious in a tent)
I was baffled by this too, yet another cat carcass?
Poor old Boris has delivered us Brexit but those nasty non-believing Remoaners are angry at the democratic vote and want to take it out on our Hero and Saviour - they're all stalking the highlands of Scotland with sniper rifles on the off-chance they stumble across his little holiday hideaway. Hint - it's the one with the ****-off Russian superyacht anchored just offshore...
Painting him as the victim, stalked by mad Remoaners (and possibly by a few jealous ex's as well) serves the purpose of excusing him buggering off to Greece or wherever just to get some privacy and safety.
Our great PM, holidaying in Scotland and showing how in tune he is with the Common People suddenly being forced to go to a nice secure mansion somewhere sunny for his own protection. Bless him.
Holidays, affairs, babies etc its a distraction and we're happy to go along with it.
Its like a football manager (Mourinho comes to mind) that says something controversial in the post match interview so he is the story rather than his teams shite performance.
part of his commitment to losing weight
A Tablet Proof Vest?
Surely Mark ‘I was in the Territorial Army but I do not like to talk about it’ Francois could don some DPMs and cam cream and effect a stake out followed by a silent killing on the perps? Mind you, he is probably still laying low…
Yeah, I think, for once, being a tough soldier boy isn't the most important thing on his mind at the mo.
Of course there's no threat from snipers when you're out campaigning etc, only when you're on holiday. We don't have the sort of government that hides full time behind bullet proof glass. Yes.
Snipers? Roaming around Scotland?
Aye, right…
Give it a few weeks and the Highlands are full of snipers.
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Now that's an Internet Big Game Hunter Bullshit Thing I could get behind.
I would definitely pay to watch Boris being hunted through the highlands. Preferably with axes rather than snipers rifles though
Of course there’s no threat from snipers when you’re out campaigning etc
Explains why he was hiding in the fridge.
Explains why he was hiding in the fridge.
He was avoiding something more dangerous than bullets - I.e. questions.
Or maybe someone told him there was some booze inside.
He deserves a good chillaxing but I'm sure they've a perfectly efficient replacement service so no good will come of it.
We need wheresboris.com, a site dedicated to finding Boris. A bit like Where's Wally, but where Wally should be running the country rather than shagging around.
I see that Joris is shoring up his support with the geriatric, flag-waving racists, getting his excuses in early for when the promised rebirth of the Empire spectacularly fails to materialise in January
Boris Johnson: 'Time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history'
I hope they'll be having a Spitfire flypast as they play Land of Hope and Glory
Agreed
Latching on & amplifying culture war issues like this is perfect Johnson, in reality those bleating loudest about it couldn't give a toss about the proms. But it triggers that base & gets them fired up, so they forget all about our world beating death rate and the never ending stream of mistakes by Johnson & co.
I consider myself a bit of a traditionalist and patriotic, but I cringe at what Brexit has brought out in a chunk of the population that will be moaning about this decision. Speaking of which, I'm seeing my beloved Brexity mum tomorrow.
I see that various internet sources are suggesting Boris will step down in 2021 due to health/family reasons. Nothing to do with having completed the No Deal Brexit that his paymasters demanded of him
I see that various internet sources are suggesting Boris will step down in 2021 due to health/family reasons. Nothing to do with having completed the No Deal Brexit that his paymasters demanded of him
It's nice that he can predict the health/family reasons.
Had **** all to say about the exam fiasco but the BBC considering removing a song from the proms that's been played every ****ing year - more than happy to speak out about that.
Nothing to do with having completed the No Deal Brexit that his paymasters demanded of him
Or anything to do with him not wanting to deal with any of the trifling issues it may cause the country. I’d be surprised if he still lived here after stepping down.
The Proms thing is an open goal for the cynical fat oaf.
As above, most of the gammons he is appealing to wouldn't know Beethoven from Scott Joplin and wouldn't be watching the Last Night let alone any Proms at all.
But tell them that somewhere a middle class, pandered to, white, late middle aged person is being 'discriminated against' and they will be frothing and looking for the nearest 'pinko' to lynch.
Shameful of Joris, but why expect anything else from the git?
I’d be surprised if he still lived here after stepping down.
None of the 'Top Team' (ha!) will be in government in 3-4 years, hardly any still in parliament and less than half will still live in the UK.
This is a one-off heist they are enabling. Once you've got the loot, you get the hell out of Dodge.
None of the ‘Top Team’ (ha!) will be in government in 3-4 years
I doubt they'll be there by February. Every single cabinet member has one goal, and one goal only...
Brexit
That's it. Once they've 'achieved' that, they'll be off like a shot to take full advantage of the 'great opportunities' offered by Brexit according to Gove. 'Opportunites' denied to all but them and their mates. I expect a lot of consultancy roles with American private healthcare providers and other parasites
Once the shit hits the fan in January, you won't see them for dust. It'll be Dave the morning of the referendum result, en masse. Bullingdon Club style, they're going to smash the place up, then leave everyone else to clear up the mess
Once the shit hits the fan in January, you won’t see them for dust.
I still think that for many, not least the PM, Brexit is just a political tool, not the end. They won’t be going soon. Some might force others out, but they won’t all head on to other things and give up the prize of power quite so quickly.
I agree with you completely, but I think that in true Disaster Capitalist fashion they've everything planned, down to the smallest detail already and what is about to happen, will happen fast.
Come January, when the clock ticks past midnight, absolute chaos is going to be unleashed on this country. A complete and utter financial meltdown, with the whole southeast a lorry park, food and medicine shortages, civil unrest, the lot.
These ****ers will move fast. Expect daily announcements from stony-faced ministers starting with 'unfortunately, we have no option but to...." as they tear up workers rights, environmental controls, food standards etc, and hand the NHS to the sharks.
Would it surprise anyone if they immediately suspended parliament while they did so? Christ, it wouldn't even surprise me if Dominic Cummings decalred martial law
This is a ram raid. One 20 years in the making. They won't waste a second, once the carnage is unleashed. They intend to fundamentally restructure our entire society, then they'll be gone. It'll all be over by February. The irreparable damage all done, leaving a broken country reeling and wondering WTF just happened. Its been the plan all along
“ unfortunately, we have no option but to…”
Oh, we have years of that… it’s a golden “unavoidable” opportunity they’re looking forward to taking advantage of… most will want to be in on shaping the new country that so many people have yet to realise they’ve voted for. Some will be pushed aside, and take some heat/blame with them, but we’re not about to be under new management anytime soon. That’s just wishful thinking.
Young Boris spent many years at Eton singing:
'Swing, swing, together,
With your body between your knees'
and this has been his leitmotif ever since.
Any truth to the rumour that he has taken out a super injunction out to keep quiet a recent indiscretion?
Who knows, that's what superinjunctions are for!
It could well be another dead cat for the pile of dead cats to detract from his uselessness as a PM though.
Just seen that Boris did a live stream from a school addressing students, two things that strike me.
1, why is he always late when making speeches?
2, maybe because of his lateness, the speech started after midday but he welcomed everyone good morning
1, why is he always late when making speeches?
There's always time for a quick one
If he's taken out a super injunction, no-one will know; or, more accurately, the few who do know will be saying nowt.
As for johnson always being late, he needs time for the drink'n'drugs to clear his system before any public appearance but still sounds incoherent.
Just seen that Boris did a live stream from a school addressing students, two things that strike me.
1, why is he always late when making speeches?
They had to vet every kid in the school individually to check if they were one of Boris's.
That school is attended by my nieces.
Shame I didn't know in advance as I could have prepped them with a couple of questions - although I imagine Joris would then have jumped into the nearest cupboard in an effort to avoid scrutiny.
There was some discussion about an alleged superinjunction a page or two back
If it's no longer there, assume the STW lawyers are taking no chances
Super injunction talk still there 🙂 though it does seem to be old(er) news... and a possible bounce of a lethargic feline.
No need for idle speculation about what we don’t know… his character is there for all to see in what we do know.
and a possible bounce of a lethargic feline
Cummings has probably been leafing through his big print copy of 'How to manipulate a largely pliant and docile population' by Vladislav Surkov.
Creative ambiguity, outright falsehoods spread by 'people in the know', a bit of truth sprinkled in for variety. Pretty soon no one can put their finger on anything specific because of all the noise.
I genuinely do not think even the dribbling oaf himself would dare dip his wick right now. More to the point, there is no way Cumstains would allow him to. Not with his backers on the verge of a once in a lifetime heist. After 31st December all bets are off.
poor old boris...........
Is this the super injunction taken out to silence all reporting of boris dipping his wick into a Russian violinist and carrie finding out about last year when they had the big argument?, even my mums coffee friends know about it.
No need for idle speculation about what we don’t know… his character is there for all to see in what we do know.
Indeed.
I think the suggestions are his wick was in need of lubrication much more recently.
I think the suggestions are his wick was in need of lubrication much more recently.
No way Cumstains would allow it, more than likely if Joris had been having a bit of extracurricular leg-over it would have been contravening some kind of lockdown rules - just like PM Cumstains himself. Only Dom can get away with stuff like that.
Mutant algorith? Are AIs running the country now?
A-levels and GCSEs: Boris Johnson blames 'mutant algorithm' for exam fiasco
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53923279
Mutant algorithm = China Virus.
Same talk, smaller scale Budget Trump.
Mutant algorith? Are AIs running the country now?
A-levels and GCSEs: Boris Johnson blames ‘mutant algorithm’ for exam fiasco
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53923279
/blockquote>Yep, yet again no responsibility taken by anybody in Government.
There seems to be a clear pattern here
Government make monumental **** up
Government blames civil servants, or a specific department
Government sacks senior civil servants or dissolves said department completely.
Sacked civil servants are replaced with fellow Brexity travelers/yes men, dissolved departments are headed up by Brexity mates
If you had someone at the heart of government who had openly declared war on the civil service, you could believe they were doing all this on purpose as part of a plan
Oh...
Mutant algorithm = China Virus.
Same talk, smaller scale Budget Trump.
Funny that, because didn't the 'mutant algorithm' originate with a company that is either Dominic Cumstains's favourite AI company or one that has several lucrative contracts with the favoured AI company?
1, why is he always late when making speeches?
He's a one trick pony in that respect - rushing in late, pretending to be ill-prepared, then presenting something that is very much prepared. The pantomime of ill-preparedness a useful mask for the lack of any substance or detail - he can't readily be challenged on what he announces as the information is there to scrutinise and the delivery means even if you did want to challenge it Boris isn't the person to take it up with as he doesn't seem to know anything more than he's said - or even know what he's said.
The reduction of any announcement into three-point slogans that Boris pretends he's had drummed into him half an hour earlier - delivered as if he's had to learn them by rote - means that his supporters who are receptive to that message remember it and his supporters that aren't receptive to that message are allowed to think he doesn't really mean it and it doesn't apply to them.
^^^^
Oh, please, please, pleeeeease let that be genuine.....
The Daily Heil has the photo with those books showing, so probably genuine.
Absolutely effing marvellous.
Not sure I like the term Trolling being applied to it, but is a work of sweet genius.
Looks like there were a lot of other books on show that also have words of wisdom to share.
Beautiful stuff.
Mutant algorith? Are AIs running the country now?
A-levels and GCSEs: Boris Johnson blames ‘mutant algorithm’ for exam fiasco
This comment boggled my mind "mutant algorithm"! Algos are not living beings that make conscious decisions. Peoples bias lead to this awful algo which I think is a lesson for us all. The algo is only as good as the people / person that made it. AND in typical tory fashion they are passing the buck and everyone else is falling. How people voted for this drives me mad!
On top of all this they STILL blame labour despite being in power for what 10 years or something now. Everything wrong with this country IS the tories fault.
This comment boggled my mind “mutant algorithm”! Algos are not living beings that make conscious decisions. Peoples bias lead to this awful algo which I think is a lesson for us all. The algo is only as good as the people / person that made it. AND in typical tory fashion they are passing the buck and everyone else is falling. How people voted for this drives me mad!
On top of all this they STILL blame labour despite being in power for what 10 years or something now. Everything wrong with this country IS the tories fault.
Whilst I agree that the Conservatives are a disgrace and hate Johnson and his clique with a vengeance, I believe the Labour Party must also take some share of the blame by coming into the last election with an unelectable leader with Corbyn.
The choice for the electorate?- Johnson or Corbyn... Not an attractive proposition which ever way you look at it.
Even if the Conservatives would have still won (?) there is little doubt that a more suitable leader than Corbyn would not have given them the massive majority that they now have. A majority so large that they cannot be effectively challenged by anyone.
So yes, Conservatives a total disgarce but Labour have also let us down
Peoples bias
If you're thinking it was deliberately stacked to favour private schools I don't think it was, it was caused by a dogmatic demand that there be no grade inflation which due to lack of data in some schools due to entries meant this dogma was applied unfairly and no real world checking was done to look for obvious problems. It was a case of ends justify the means.
With you on the rest of it, the only mutants here are Boris and team, the twaddle he speaks makes my blood boil, unscientific populist tosh. And it is all his teams fault, not Ofqual or schools or exam boards, his team made the decision too early with no idea of how to manage no exams, dumped it on others to figure out, gave some top level conflicting demands and then threw the people trying to fix the mess firmly under the bus when inevitably went wrong. How is Williamson still in post (I know, he's there to take the hit for the re-opening debacle)
Even if the Conservatives would have still won (?) there is little doubt that a more suitable leader than Corbyn would not have given them the massive majority that they now have. A majority so large that they cannot be effectively challenged by anyone.
Corbyn was without doubt a liability, but the Tories & the RW press are excellent at monstering politicians they don't like,
Oh for chaos with ed milliband!
Cummings may be a dangerous self deluded fool when it comes to running a country, but he's a master of 3 word slogans & stirring up those culture war issues, that galvanise RW support
If you’re thinking it was deliberately stacked to favour private schools I don’t think it was, it was caused by a dogmatic demand that there be no grade inflation which due to lack of data in some schools due to entries meant this dogma was applied unfairly and no real world checking was done to look for obvious problems. It was a case of ends justify the means.
I tend to advocate Hanlon's razor in most cases, but the Cambridge Analytica, PHE T&T, association of the same people involved in these with the Ofqual process, refusal of offers of help from RSS unless they signed highly restrictive NDA's....makes me trust my judgement.
And even if it is incompetence as opposed to intent. They had weeks, even months, to run their 'mutant' algorithm, and see what results it gave. Are they so incompetent they didn't do it till the last minute and gave no time to adjust it? So incompetent they did it and didn't recognise the errors it was creating? Or did it and just thought **** 'em anyway - it's not our voters that are paying the price.
Whatever the cause.......it's not a glowing end of term report.
The choice for the electorate?- Johnson or Corbyn… Not an attractive proposition which ever way you look at it.
And that's the trappings of a RW press.
The evidence of Boris Johnson and the Tories has always been foreshadowed. 10 years of failed and mismanaged economics tells you everything you need to know.
We have a new leader for Labour by the way. Not sure what he's bringing to the party. Any ideas? A functioning opposition they said.
The polls aren't reflecting this.
Labour is a mess and should be all over this government. It was never about Corbyn really. The politics are more easily crushed if you place the blame on personality. That's what was done.
The public lapped it up and now they get the government they deserve.
Turning up late protects you from questions, lets you get over your hangover, suggests you're forever in demand, that your time is more important than theirs and it's a distraction eg Cummings making the cameras wait 35 minutes before delivering his fantastical statement. Johnson made himself scarce at the last Tory conference, it creates an enigma and a scrum to get his attention but now we understand that partly it was because he had no ideas to share.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rule-britannia-bbc-proms_uk_5f466680c5b6cf66b2b14339
Q1: what unsackable job would allow me to dab on, collect £300pd plus costs, wait with intent for half an hour and then go down to my St James's club and blow my exes?
Q2: why did Boris's brother get the job and I didn't even get an interview?
I believe the Labour Party must also take some share of the blame by coming into the last election with an unelectable leader with Corbyn.
lets not get into this but thats just personal opinion, i voted for Corbyn in teh leadership elections and voted labour. The Tories have made all the decisions for years so its all on them sorry. Its like blaming a blaming a mechanic for your car not working when you're the one who put diesel in a petrol car. Its simply all their fault end of.
If you’re thinking it was deliberately stacked to favour private schools I don’t think it was,
Maybe it wasn't a conscious decision but an unconscious bias is 100% possible.
And even if it is incompetence as opposed to intent. They had weeks, even months, to run their ‘mutant’ algorithm, and see what results it gave.
This is exactly what I don't understand. At my work we ramp up traffic and check algos and plumbing to make sure its all working and wont fall over I don't get why this isnt the case here.
And further more for Boris to say it was a "mutant algo" just proves how out of touch he is with the world. He just need to sit in a fridge and never come out.
Cummings may be a dangerous self deluded fool when it comes to running a country, but he’s a master of 3 word slogans & stirring up those culture war issues, that galvanise RW support
Populism.
It works for people who don't like to think too much.
It was never about Corbyn really.
Anyways... It seems from the vox pops that are always on the news that your average voter seems to be buying Boris's bluster and bullshit and the 'we are in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic' line being trotted out by every half-witted minister, when they're allowed by Dom to say anything in public (anyone seen Priti Vacant recently?).
The question is what happens in January. This is still the calm before the storm. I don't think there's now any doubt that we're on for the hardest of No Deal/Crash out/Australia style Brexits. Joris won power (or Dom won it for him) with his promise to 'Get Brexit Done' and 'Take Back Control'.
When the 'sunlit uplands' mean the whole south-east of England is one giant lorry park and the economy goes into freefall, Joris and chums will own this mess 100%. They'll try and blame the EU, obviously, but I don't think that's going to wash with most people. Not given the sheer level of bullshit that has been trotted out for the last 4 years. So the real question is can this Brexit government survive what is going to be total chaos?