The Stranglers played Grassington Festival a couple of years ago, during No More Heroes they added an extra refrain:
"Boris Johnson, he ****ed the country and did a runner"
Sadly prescient so far.
The thing about the "blitz spirit" is that in this case, brexiteers, covid spreaders, mask deniers, and government racketeers are the luftwaffe.
That’s what influenced people’s vote for or against Brexit though, wasn’t it?
Do you deal in reality? Or some mythical fairy tale of glorious pluckiness sold to you by a cartoon character?
Do you deal in reality? Or some mythical fairy tale of glorious pluckiness sold to you by a cartoon character?
You take the easy fantasy option if you have spent the last 25 years reading 'newspapers' that tell you how outraged you should be by stuff that actually doesn't really affect you. And that direct your unwarranted anger at strategically chosen minorities.
I don’t know if public enquiries will still be a thing when this lot are done.
They will, but they'll probably resemble this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nPk43lZPkTI
Today's tweet of the day had the line:
"Boris Johnson, out of his depth on a wet pavement".
God help me, but Piers Morgan is becoming a bit of a hero
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/morgan-slams-boris-johnson-on-gmb-1-6825157
BBC get the ministers - enticed by the underarm bowling of football focus presenter Dan Walker.
ctk - let's get the facts straight.
Piers has been hammering johnson and the other clowns since any of them last appeared on GMB - 133 days and counting; he hammered them before their boycott started.
Dan Walker is soft soap - but his employer is beholden to the gov so they put up their stooges regularly with no fear of being questioned or criticised.
The tory government now refuse to have ministers be interviewed on Channel 4 News, BBC Today programme, BBC Newsnight and Good Morning Britain.
Have a think about that. That’s democracy, apparently
Anyone who might actually demand some answers and not just ask us what our favourite biscuit is, is now barred from proceedings
That’s how much respect Boris Johnson has for democracy
Yep, dark times. Government by leak/twitter.... and resignations.
That’s how much respect Boris Johnson has for democracy
And that's what EVERY news outlet should trumpeting
The tory government now refuse to have ministers be interviewed on Channel 4 News, BBC Today programme, BBC Newsnight and Good Morning Britain.
Have a think about that. That’s democracy, apparently
Remember, we must protect our proud tradition of the free press from those Extinction Rebellion scoundrels.
I see that Mark Francois, of the tory headbangers cult, the ERG has been quietly removed from his post of Leader. Does anyone know of any reason why?
I see that Mark Francois, of the tory headbangers cult, the ERG has been quietly removed from his post of Leader. Does anyone know of any reason why?
Hasn’t he said anything in parliament?
I daresay a quick google search will reveal some possible reasons, unrelated to ERG matters.
No it couldn't be could it?
He’s not just been removed from the ERG, he’s literally disappeared off the face of the earth. Not answering constituency’s enquiries. Not been in Parliament. All social media accounts deleted, etc.
That’s the trouble with being such an annoying little attention-seeking gobshite. When you’re not around, people notice.
Why could little Mark suddenly feel the need to retreat from public view? It remains a mystery...
Self isolating after a holiday?
On manoeuvres?
Gone deep cover cant talk about it?
Super special important manoeuvres infiltrating the dastardly EU cabal - but shhhh - don't mention it.
Or perhaps something else.
Well, Monday's new Coronavirus restrictions have been made official now... and it of course means that from Monday Johnson isn't allowed to be with all his children at once, inside or outside... not that the older ones would be prepared to let that happen anyway.
[ Yes, that's an attack on the man not the policies. Not sorry. ]
Aaaand there it is. Schools shut as a very last resort.
Parents and pupils reassured that schools are safe no need to tell staff that because....
This is what I keep saying about even the US not being stupid enough to Express their racist/xenophobic tantrum in a way that is lasting in the long term.
If Trump isn't reelected, 'we' are the outlier still practicing politics by pant-shitting tantrum....
^^^
I'm currently reading Peter Oborne's book on ****stan cricket. I've only noted one error so far (in a footnote) in a huge undertaking of research and corroboration. He is a fine author and researcher.
Johnson never believed in Brexit. He just took the opportunity offered. Well, screw him. If you are destroyed as a result of your own lies and dissembling then tough titty.
And duly noted the emphasis on 'sober'.
The lovely Marina Hyde on great form.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/11/tories-trick-cock-up-dominic-cummings
No matter how much of a 360-degree shitshow the government’s handling of the pandemic or its own Brexit process has been, there are people even now claiming that every cock-up or exploding gambit is a genius tactic by our wisers and betters, brilliantly designed to achieve a very specific aim. I guess it makes these cheerleader analysts feel clever. Or to put it another way: every Rorschach blot looks like a fanny if that’s what you’re after.
That's worth much lolz. I may wait a week or so and pass it off as my own.
It really is Downfall isn't it. Only rather than a ranting Adolf in charge we've had the good sense to choose Goring.
Marina is a sort of court scribe for this period in UK history. We won’t need historians to evaluate the era. Just publish her columns.
Looks like the rumours are doing the rounds again in Tory circles that the fly-tipped sofa (another one of Marina’s) is going to be gone in January. Ill health and ‘personal issues’ apparently.
But the other news is that Rishi is now out of favour as he had the nerve to raise the idea of tax rises for the rich to pay for everything and is therefore now regarded as a communist.
Names in the frame as successors? Dominic Raab and Priti Patel.
Remember the good old days when we had Dave and we didn’t think it could get any worse?
Remember the good old days when we had Dave and we didn’t think it could get any worse?
One of those things you never expected to read.....
Mental, isn’t it? It’s been the law of diminishing returns ever since
The worst thing is that you know we’ve not bottomed our yet. Whoever the Tory party inflict us will be, somewhat unbelievably, even worse! 😳
Just think who those Daily Mail reading, retired majors and demented blue-rinse old racists are going to inflict on us next?
It’s going to be Dominic Raab/Patrick Bateman isn’t it?
Hold on, is Micheal Fabricant real or a Steve Coogan character?
fabricant is a cheap wig on legs.
fabricant is a cheap wig on legs.
Predominantly, though, he is a ****.
Talk about someone who is utterly useless in any other sphere rising through politics and you are imagining him.
No intrinsic merit whatsoever outside of his little group.
He says no time for questions
So, at a time of constitutional crisis he hasn’t even got the time to bothered to answer questions from his own MPs?’
And he’s doing what else, exactly? Seeing as he pops his head up once a week, for the half an hour he’s legally obliged too
The arrogance of the man is unbelievable!
If there’s any justice in the world then when the carnage he’s instigated plays out he’ll be swinging from a lamppost.
Gove and Cummings too
It’s what they deserve
Hmm… they don’t mind him being a part time PM… but part time leader…? That might worry them.
danny's - you said...
No intrinsic merit whatsoever outside of his little group.
Unfortunately, that is not unique to the tories; labour have many MPs who can be similarly categorised.
The majority of them are as thick as mince. The ones who weren’t have been booted out of the party
Just look at them! FFS!
I could put together a pub football team at my local with more intellectual clout than the morons presently occupying cabinet positions
They’re now doing things that any previous government would regard as unthinkable
Come next week though, every Tory MP will line up in Parliament and vote for Boris to break international law and plunge us into no deal, and all the resulting chaos because they’re all spineless, morality-free self-serving bastards
They’re going to bankrupt this country and make this nation a pariah state because they simply haven’t got the balls or principles not to
Dear god, I despise these ****s!!
binners, I don't agree with your assertion that
Come next week though, every Tory MP will line up in Parliament and vote for Boris to break international law
If there was ever a time for any MP of any party to demonstrate their integrity, it's now.
I'm still sufficiently naive to believe that MPs will vote with their conscience.
Let's see.
Having said that, my MP - caroline johnson, tory arse licker extraordinaire - will be voting for whatever johnson promulgates.
No relation to the bag of malignant cells masquerading as PM, apparently, despite the shared surname.
She is utterly useless - as is her namesake.
I know my ****er of an MP (Mark Jenkinson) will back Boris - the shite even revels in the Independents' description of him to the point of quoting it on his twitter feed 'bear of man'.
https://twitter.com/markjenkinsonmp?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The good bit is the responses to his retweeting of the Telegraph front page - he's not getting as much love as he thought 🙂
Those replies are great. This country isn’t entirely lost.
These are not stupid people, they can be clever but wrong. Sure they're mishandling the crisis but there's some very very serious sums being extracted out of taxpayers' money and private firms being bought into the civil service. Could do with a modern day Anthony Sampson to design a web of this lot's contacts and deceit. It is much more serious than most realise.
Recurring rumours on the net about Boris's lifestyle and domestic arrangements but press silence.
Recurring rumours on the net about Boris’s lifestyle and domestic arrangements but press silence.
Four words.
Super injunction. Cynical bastard.
