As a former gap year Oz backpacker I can confidently say that the availability of Tim Tams is more than adequate compensation for the trashing of an entire country and excruciatingly high carbon footprint.
They're mint is what I'm saying. Not literally, although they do come in a range of flavours
They appear to be preparing us to be softened up for the next antics:
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-preparing-shock-and-awe-brexit-media-campaign/
I see Domonic Rabb is doing his bit for love peace and unity on talk radio this morning. Apparently people taking the knee are doing it because they've seen it on Game of Thrones.
Following on from Boris's tweetering yesterday I think it's fair to say they've pressed a button, launching a full on culture war.
What's the one tune by the Kaiser Chiefs that everyone can remember?
full on culture war
Yup. And what you see now is nothing compared to what we’ll get in the next election year. Again, look to the USA for what will be used here. We’ve already had BLM and far right racist protestors being given false equivalence by ministers, and a PM claiming that people want to ‘photoshop history’ (despite his work as regards Churchill arguably doing exactly that).
I see Domonic Rabb is doing his bit for love peace and unity on talk radio this morning. Apparently people taking the knee are doing it because they’ve seen it on Game of Thrones.
Well, this is from a man who didn't realise the "full extent" of the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing after all. Although, this is Chris Grayling levels of incompetence!
I also had to tell an Aussie mate of mine that, no, this image isn't photo shopped...Let's just say there there was a pause as he collected his thoughts, before laughing like a drain (complete with some choice "aussie"...The only bit of "World Class" this leadership is capable of, is idiocy.
Kelvin,
Double Yup. As the saying goes, "When America sneezes, the world gets covered in snot."
I carnt wayt to kompeet in a glowball market az it meenz I will av 2 werk 6 daze a week and only av 2 weeks payed holiday.
Wiv Germany Corbeen it wood av bean an 8 day weak.
Brexit now.
I fear zippykona is actually my dickhead of a brother in law.....
Thanks zip, that FB page has brightened up a wet and miserable afternoon.
Now about that awkward Russia report 🙂
What’s the one tune by the Kaiser Chiefs that everyone can remember?
Ruby Ruby 🙂
Next it'll be goon bags, snags, red cordial, 'the lot' burgers and Vic bitter. Eurrrggghhh.
Jesus - 17 sold!!!! A fool and his money and all of that!
That coin hasn’t even got the correct date for Brexit Day. I’m starting to think that there’s a handful of Brexit supporters that are hard of thinking.
Have you got really big hands?
Vic bitter
Urgh. One of the beers that taste more lick sick than sick.
See also Steinlager.
Shovels
From the shock and awe link:
Polling in January this year showed 74 percent of U.K. adults had done nothing to prepare for leaving the EU and did not plan to. Eight percent had taken action and 9 percent intended to do so.
Um... what are we supposed to be doing to prepare? Looks like the government preparing to blame citizens and businesses for 'not preparing'?
Um… what are we supposed to be doing to prepare? Looks like the government preparing to blame citizens and businesses for ‘not preparing’?
We're supposed to be "staying alert", man. Do you not read the news?
Personally I am alert to the government selling the country down the river to spivs and outsourcing companies whilst stirring up racism and xenophobia to help them. Sadly not enough other people are. Or were in 2019 or 2016 for that matter.
I'm preparing to **** off to France when I'm undoubtedly made redundant from my job in manufacturing whilst my Tory and Brexit voting red top reading chums are still blind to the massive iceberg we are about to steam into
You remember by the end Maybot was a figure of derision as much as pity
Johnson's surely on his way to that fate soon
He's gonna have to ditch his Sunday trading changes, even with an 80 seat majority he can't get it thru,this week's 1st u-turn & It's barely Monday
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1274795369709350913?s=20
Jenrick's scandal just gets murkier & his lies dig him deeper, Russia report leaking in foreign press, inevitably of Prevent missing warnings about Reading attacker
another property scandal just popped up too
https://twitter.com/AVMikhailova/status/1274802624840306689?s=20
Um… what are we supposed to be doing to prepare? Looks like the government preparing to blame citizens and businesses for ‘not preparing’?
https://twitter.com/bencooper/status/1273511105025970177?s=20
I hadn't quite realised when they keep saying they're using Northern Ireland as their example for covid relaxations- schools, social distancing etc that NI had literally no new cases today, and they've been running with an average of 3 a day for the last week. They're about 3% the size of the UK as a whole so that's the equivalent of 100 new cases.
Or to put it another way, they're doing about 13 times better than the UK as a whole. That's the example that Johnston and his entourage of shaven apes think is most logical.
Well he's drawn his line for the covid recovery. All he's doing now it creating some points to plot around it.
It's what everyone did at school when they couldn't grasp science.
PestFix of Littlehampton, fewer than 20 employees, company assets of £18k, awarded contract for PPE with £108m of taxpayers' money. I'm thinking of putting in a bid to provide sky hooks, long weights, striped paint, fallopian tubes and an app.
@BillMC - that was mentioned a couple of pages ago, it is an incredible story and the government are being taken to court over it.
https://www.cityam.com/government-faces-lawsuit-over-108m-ppe-contract-with-pest-control-firm/
Russia report leaking in foreign press,
Not seen that picked up over here? Is there a D notice on it?
We need to get the Russian report published now. If it is being leaked then they should have no choice.
Any links to it?
Edit:
Pressure building (published Saturday)
Ta, must have missed it. Absolutely astounding, Dido must feel insulted on only £11m. This type of behaviour tells you about their thinking, attitudes and absolute contempt for the rest of us. I almost look forward to hearing the diehards round here who'll still have a go at defending what's ludicrous, dangerous, inept and corrupt, so long as it's Tory. This is a horror story but like the Russia influence, AS, election subversion etc it will be kicked along the road until the 'behavioural scientists' think that it has disappeared from the public consciousness or the public is too done in by it all to raise a question or concern.
Apparently the new Tory MPs in the NE were not best pleased when they trotted out interviews to radio stations defending not paying kids' dinner money over the summer only to be made to look like complete obsequious charlatans, quite rightly, by Boris's U-turn. More experienced MPs were 'not available' for a few days to see which way the wind was going to blow (hard).
I see Domonic Rabb is doing his bit for love peace and unity on talk radio this morning
Thats not how you spell 'Demonic'
Russia report leaking in foreign press
Is this definitely happening?
I so want this to be true.
I wouldn't get too excited about the report...
It is expected to say there is no evidence of any successful interference by Russia in recent British elections, but will highlight a surprising lack of coordination across Whitehall to examine what Moscow has been attempting to achieve.
But that then begs the question, why the blatant cover-up?
This is what I don't get - all the hints are saying that there is nothing in the report, so why has it been suppressed for so long? All the talk was it should have been ready for release prior to the election. 🤔
Because it diverts attention from something else. "Oh, they're clearly hiding something, lets concentrate on this from now on". What's slid under the radar?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53142649
So there could finally be some movement.
Classic Johnson/Cummings though, they have been saying for ages that the government cannot publish it, but the committee who can publish it has to be established by guess who!
The latest delay is because an ex environment minister stuck to her promise to farmers, and voted against the UK dropping food standards for USA imports. That lack of blind obedience to the right kind of Brexit project (despite being very pro-Brexit herself) meant that she got black balled.
Amazing isn't it!
Seems like half of Britain are righteously ready to slow clap him into the sea, while the other half are ‘we’re winning the war (on Covid/immigrants/communists’, thanks to our Boris!’
Or maybe it’s split morelike the three-thirds, and so the (effectively) silent two-thirds are the actual key to the current carte-blanche enjoyed by our rulers?
What's the betting that Bojo, having found out that the job is harder and more boring than he thought, will declare he's Got Covid Done in July, reopen the pubs in a hurricane of cheering, then quit before it starts peaking again this winter, perhaps citing his ongoing need for recovery?
Surely these pictures will surface eventually
https://twitter.com/steveswannBBC/status/1275882137191841799?s=19
^ Funny you should mention. I just read
In a statement in the Commons earlier, Mr Johnson said people would be encouraged to use "mitigation" - such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face - when less than 2m from each other but "where it is possible to keep 2m apart, people should".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53152416
So (en masse) he opens the pubs (on a midsummer weekend) and pretty much all public attractions/facilities then scraps the advised 2m (which many already seemed to interpret/observe as 2-3 feet if at all) and then trusts ‘British common sense’ to ‘not sit face to face’?
This is just pish trotted out. ‘Lockdown is over’ is what the majority will hear and will decide. The Gov know this.
It’s a ****ing sick joke. Remind me again why we have in the last 12 weeks faired so (comparatively) poorly on the World stage, and how we/the Gov have learned from that?
And now half of the country think the Tories ‘own the BBC’ - while the other half believes the Beeb to be a traitorous infernal Communist plot/gay agenda/black agenda/Islamic agenda/Zionist agenda/feminist agenda/PC agenda (delete as preferred) by which to steal our precious fluids/Christian anglo-saxon masculinity.
They can’t all be right, can they?
Mr Johnson said people would be encouraged to use "mitigation
Now it may have been me but I’m sure the word ‘mask‘ wasn’t used in Boris’s last and final briefing by him.
(Yeah I get the pro/cons arguements)
The Messaging is so baaad it’s criminal tbh, it’s still 2 metres even the scientists reiterated that But the carry out was its 1m
Spain’s got people wearing masks in public where you can’t keep the adequate socially distancing but apparently it’s not good enough for us unless your on public transport.
