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Isn’t the definition of madness ‘Keeping on doing the same thing (Waiting two weeks to make a decision for instance) but expecting there to be different results’?
You can only hope that he has a moment of self incite and dramatically increases the funding of NHS mental health services.
Waiting two weeks
Well guess what, we are waiting two weeks to see if the Indian variant is an issue. Now, I know the scientists need time to view the data, but we surely have enough of a history already to know we should not have opened the country on Monday BEFORE this analysis should have been done?
Another indecisive bumble.
Johnson has no plan. He basically rolls out of bed each morning and his 'to-do' list consists of one large item:
Get to tomorrow without too many people twigging on to me.
Every sub-action is done to achieve that basic goal.
Day 2 = repeat of day 1.
He's a freewheeling jazz hat who has been blagging all his life. It has got him to Prime Minister. Why would he change?
People thought that Trump could be 'tamed'. But here was a man who had bullied, cheated and lied his way through life and only ever been rewarded for it. Why would he change?
So, 'Great British Railways'...
British Rail but Greater...
Thoughts?
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/19/boris-johnson-triumph-covid-cummings-election
The Guardian seems kind of hopeful that he's in for a rough couple of weeks as the shine comes off the vaccine programme, the surge of the Indian Variant and the Select Committee hearing with Cummings next week... I wonder how much of it he'll just bluster through. Can't see much of the shit sticking to him sadly.
Can’t see much of the shit sticking to him sadly.
If it gets really bad he can just deploy the 'Labour - soft on shirkers, soft on immigration, political correctness gone mad' line and the prats will fall for it.
GBR? Just a name for what is already happening. It’s obvious why the Conservatives having to undo so many of the mistakes of Major’s privatisation wouldn’t want to stick with the BR name. Anyway, this made me chuckle…
https://twitter.com/kateemccann/status/1395270930109173760?s=21
https://twitter.com/kateemccann/status/1395272271539982336?s=21
He'll sleaze his way through it, Labour are a mess so there's little to contrast him with.
America got rid of trump and he's now facing multiple criminal court, sadly we will let Johnson get away with all the incompetence and corruption unpunished
BBC cones to mind.
So, ‘Great British Railways’…
British Rail but Greater…
Thoughts?
Seems like they've just rebranded Network Rail and intend to facilitate the same profiteering by private companies.
Doesn't it also come with a massive reduction in funding? Oh, sorry... I meant 'increases in efficiency'?
Obviously, easy to claim that GBR is just reflecting the tradition of naming conventions on the railways… there have been lots of “Great” names going back as far as you like …but we all know really it’s about hiding the failure of a Conservative led transformation of the service behind a feeling of… well…
Wonder how that will work with Scottish Government plans to nationalise ScotRail? Supposedly UK gov didn't consult Scot Gov
Well, today's document states a commitment to devolution as regards "current powers and to be democratically accountable"... but also "includes supporting a single national network"... so who knows, it could mean anything you want really.
Does that mean NI are excluded as they are not part of Great Britain?
Aren't the trains in NI run by the NI Assembly anyway? i.e. they were never privatised due to 80s/90s politics
Boris tells BBC to get house in order and not let it happen again.
The temptation to cross out their name, write 'Boris' back in in crayon and then send it back must be high.
+1 the otherjonv
Brilliant isn't it?
Deceitful ex-journo bastard who has been sacked from two jobs for lying gets to complain about deceitful behaviour and try to claim some kind of moral high ground.
I think not Boris.
Plus it was actually quite a long time ago!
Oh look, an otter....
Aye, we should also by rights therefore blame Boris for the Poll Tax, it's only fair...
Boris tells BBC to get house in order and not let it happen again.
Shame its too far off for Starmer to ask some pointed questions about the rank hypocrisy at the next PMQs
It also gives the Tory shitbags some leverage over the Beeb and the public's opinion of the Beeb.
Trumpian media play.
Ah, dead cat, that makes sense...
https://twitter.com/WinstonCProject/status/1395729003886022660?s=19
Did you see what he was wearing today? He’s obviously got jacket envy of Priti Vacant. Stood in front of a fighter jet too?
I’ll give it a few months until he goes full Gadaffi with medals and gold braid
https://twitter.com/bbcpolitics/status/1395708842642640901?s=21
The plane would never get off the runway with that fat bastard on board. Assuming he'd managed to squeeze into the cockpit.
Nah, directing operations from a nice safe chateau is much more his style.
I’ll give it a few months until he goes full Gadaffi with medals and gold braid
Maybe not publicly, but I bet he's already got the outfit in his dressing up box.
Did you see what he was wearing today? He’s obviously got jacket envy of Priti Vacant. Stood in front of a fighter jet too?
Last time a countries government got an interest in snazzy uniforms it didn’t go well.
But they were just following orders
This lot are willfully do it
So Brownlow did pay for the £200k refurbishment… but Johnson says that he didn’t know who had paid for it… so that’s okay.
Move along now. Nothing to see here
Not sure which thread this should go in, all of the usual suspects appear.
Yet more shocking (although it no longer is) revelations of how this government fleeced the public and lined their mate's pockets.
https://goodlawproject.org/patel-mirza-and-the-middlemen
Corruption in the 21st century.
Our politicians are now only politicians to sell to other richer countries, as middle men, asking a large fee for their services, and 'complaints committees' are made up in house who will never find fault as they benefit from the money too.
And theres no hope of it ever changing. No judge will rule anything they do is corruption, hell, no complaints can ever be brought.
Britain, the latest edition to the banana republics list.
Boris isn't going anywhere for a while looking at this poll done in the Daily Mail* (took a photo of it as I don't want to put a link to their hateful website!)
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The percentage who think Boris isn't focussed on Covid, the vaccine success outweighs Covid errors and that he did say most of the gaffes he's been accused of is quite frankly scary. That he holds a commanding lead in the polls is just downright depressing.
* at my parent's who buy it so had a look to see how the Cummings story is being portrayed.
Has now married again apparently.
I thought that was scheduled for next year. Maybe he decided he needed a dead cat and that was a good candidate.
And of course the U.K. had the best response to covid.
Let's hope they all get serious food poisoning at the shitty party
So now there is apparently the official vacancy for a mistress. Possibly a violinist?
Wonder what the next books gonna be about when he needs to pay her off.
So now there is apparently the official vacancy for a mistress. Possibly a violinist?
Get her in to do the music for the first dance, then he can give her one over the fountain outside at about 11pm.
What a lad! What a guy! Man of the people, yeah!
https://twitter.com/philhellene1960/status/1398734888614891523?s=21
One rule for us… for you another…
Can anyone explain to me.....?
Err is it because 'Man of The People' Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson actually doesn't give a flying **** about 'his people' and has been telling them lies for years to achieve his own personal goals?
Is that it?
Serial philander - divorced by the end of this parliament.
A thoroughly despicable human being.
My money is on no divorce, and many covered up affairs. His new wife is smart as… she knows who this man is… and will be finding ways to be in a position of power for as long as possible, and ensure she and her child come out of Johnson’s time as PM very rich. She won’t be sidelined by Johnson’s misbehaviour, she’ll use it to make sure she and her child benefit (and I wish her well in doing so). He on the other hand can die at the hands of someone else’s jealous husband as far as I care.
There's some sky news vox-pops including a fella saying that it's good he's got someone to come home to as it'll "settle him down". Really? 2 previous wives, undefined numbers of children and a track record of shagging mistresses in his marital home, but being married this time will be the doozy.
This is the same guy that said fear of never seeing his unborn child gave him the strength to get through covid. Apparently he doesn't have the same fear of never seeing his 6 other children, or is it 7, or 9, or... After all, children with single parents are all "ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate", he wouldn't want to have anything to do with people like that.
And of course he's a very private person and doesn't want his private life to be part of his leadership campaign or election campaign. But as a distraction? Oh yes, bring on the headlines.
Kelvin, you say that like its something she might consider in the future...
Joshua Rosenberg had an interesting take on the 'Catholic' wedding. Johnson is barred from advising on bishop appointments to CoE on pain of being dis-barred from a military or civil government appointment by the provisions in the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.
Much as I despise the ****, is it definite fact that he has nothing to do with his other kids, or just internet tittle tattle?
Sooo who paid for the dress,? Asking for a friend
You'd have thought he'd splash out on a new suit and tie...
He did. Oh shit, sorry, my mistake, it was the family sofa he splashed out on. Ten minutes before his (then) wife was due home.
What a lad, what a bloke, what a laugh etc...
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Johnson is barred from advising on bishop appointments to CoE on pain of being dis-barred from a military or civil government appointment by the provisions in the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.
My understanding is that Gordon Brown changed the process of appointments of bishops when he was PM.
Apparently there is now a body which advises the PM on the appointments of bishops and the PM passes on that advice to the monarch. Which gets round the constitutional ban on Catholics advising the monarch on bishop appointments.
I don't know if mefty's expertise on CofE constitutional matters can clarify that.
I don’t know if mefty’s expertise on CofE constitutional matters can clarify that.
I fear I am at most a short sighted one eyed man in the land of the blind, being merely generally aware of how fundamentally the CofE is part of the constitution. From what I can make out Brown did launch a Green Paper but no legislation followed so formally the Prime Minister still advises the Queen on CofE appointments, albeit in practice since Brown it has very much been a rubber stamp. So does this raise an issue? I think that falls on what constitutes a Catholic for the purpose of the said Act. Johnson was baptised a Roman Catholic but confirmed in the CofE - this isn't unknown - the CofE is very ecumenical [add meme]. It is therefore possible to maintain he is CofE. It seems at far as the Roman Catholic church is concerned once baptised you are always one and whatever ceremonies occur in weird cults like the CofE or under civil law. These don't matter and can be safely ignored. Hence his ability to get married in Westminster Cathedral and who can blame him, it is a magnificient building, much underappreciated.
Dare I say the Roman Catholic approach to canon law seems to be very similar to the approach the USA has to tax law.
Ernie, I trust you had a good Whitsuntide and good to see back.
But, if he is a Catholic in he eyes of the Catholic Church, how can he get married in a church after two divorces, or do they only count the fact that Carrie has not married before?
@ernielynch The 1829 act is specific that a Roman Catholic can not be involved in advising the monarch. Rozenberg is a very good legal journalist (possibly the last one around as it's not sexy in these populist times). The committee (if there is one) may do the choosing the PM will be legally unable to pass on their advice.
Ironic that a politician that would like to see a return to Victorian values would be undone by legislation from around that era!
@mefty in the words of Monty Python "You're a Catholic the moment dad came" would appear to apply.
@willard The "progressive" Roman Catholic church does not recognise the previous two marriages because they were not confirmed in one of their churches and involved wives from another church.
But, if he is a Catholic in he eyes of the Catholic Church, how can he get married in a church after two divorces
Apparently there's one canon law for the rich and powerful, and one canon law for everyone else.
Which IIRC was the point Henry VIII tried to make, he obviously didn't make it very well.
Apparently there’s one canon law for the rich and powerful, and one canon law for everyone else.
Or, as reported on the news last night, a divorcee can be remarried in a Catholic church if their previous marriage(s) were carried out elsewhere
My money is on no divorce, and many covered up affairs. His new wife is smart as…
Marriage of convenience - bit like Melania Trumpski..
Marrying for love (of money and power).
Interestingly, someone on twitter mentioned that in July he qualifies for the prime minister's pension, he could be off as soon as this is authorised... I'll be glad when he does although the result will be ****ing Gove as PM which makes me also want to vomit
I see this picture and I think of Crass.
“ Your arrogance has gutted these bodies of life,
Your deceit fooled them that it was worth the sacrifice.
Your lies persuaded people to accept the wasted blood,
Your filthy pride cleansed you of the doubt you should have had.
You smile in the face of the death cause you are so proud and vain,
Your inhumanity stops you from realising the pain
That you inflicted, you determines, you created, you ordered -
It was your decision to have those young boys slaughtered. “
You are right @edhornby. Boris can't afford to get divorced again while he is PM. I assume he will be able to go back to earning enough to support serial divorcing once he stops being PM. I am sure he will be weighing all these things up.
I’ll be glad when he does although the result will be ****ing Gove as PM which makes me also want to vomit
As least whoever is the Labour leader may have a chance against Gove as he won't be popular.
Or, as reported on the news last night, a divorcee can be remarried in a Catholic church if their previous marriage(s) were carried out elsewhere
It's actually not that simple. If was Catholic priests wouldn't be asking how the hell did Johnson manage to get married in a Catholic church, eg :
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/priest-demands-know-how-twice-24215881
My niece, who is a devout and practicing Catholic, was unable to marry her divorcee husband precisely because his previous marriage, which wasn't Catholic, ended in divorce. The Catholic Church recognised his previous non-Catholic as legitimate. A decision which devastated her.
The ruling hierarchy of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has got round this little problem (so that a very wealthy and powerful member of the ruling class can enjoy a Catholic wedding) by deciding that Johnson's confirmation into the Anglican Church was null and void as he had previously been baptized a Catholic.
Therefore because he was a Catholic at the time of his previous marriage (he wasn't) those marriages were not legitimate. If he had been baptized Anglican then the marriages would have been legitimate and he would not have been allowed a Catholic wedding.
How convenient. The rules were bent to accommodate a rich and powerful person. In the same way that rules were bent to accommodate Tony Blair into the Catholic Church.
The top echelons of institutions in our society are dominated by members of the ruling class. The Catholic Church, despite it's huge working class core, is no exception.
It’s actually not that simple
Then the BBC have cooked up again
Well to be fair the Catholic hierarchy are making it sound as if it's that simple. As simple as "is the pope a Catholic?"
Only in this case they are claiming that Boris Johnson is a Catholic, and always has been.
Something which I didn't know until yesterday.
Did that meen he's a ira simpafizer?
Traytower
How can people vote conservative? they clearly are more popular than labour... I Just don't understand.
I mean Labour arn't very palitable, but boris, Patell, Sunak, gove, cummings, hancock etc? ... FML...
You are right @edhornby. Boris can’t afford to get divorced again while he is PM.
True, I heard he had Lord Frost negotiate his pre-nup agreement and then he signed it without reading.
Only in this case they are claiming that Boris Johnson is a Catholic, and always has been
The DUP must be raging at this. First they think they're getting one over on the papist conspiracy that is the EU only to be landed with the NI protocol. Now this?
The tentacles of Rome extend far. No surrender.
The tentacles of Rome extend far. No surrender.
That he put Claire Fox in the house of lords makes more sense now.
Johnson is turning more and more into a Silvio Berlusconi.
The first thing Berlusconi did after winning one election was to pass a law giving himself immunity from prosecution.
No doubt Bunga Bunga parties for Number 10 are being planned.
No doubt Bunga Bunga parties for Number 10 are being planned.
And a Bed n Breakfast in Hartlepool. All part of the levelling up agenda.
Ive never felt so much disdain and hatred for someone ever before. At least with Putin or Stalin there's a degree of grudging respect as well as hate. But with Johnson its just contempt and visceral hatred, like how I feel about Dennis rader or something
I want him him to get found out and then suffer for the rest of his life for what he's done to this country.
I want him him to get found out and then suffer for the rest of his life for what he’s done to this country.
He has been 'found out'. But too many of the electorate are thick as pig shit and don't care.
You are assuming that the average voter can read without their lips moving at the same time. You are mistaken.