Carrie Antionette
Deserves more credit.
Chapeau.
Deserves more credit.
Chapeau.
Indeed,let the plebs eat cake.
I can't take any credit for it. Someone on Twitter came up with it as a hashtag
Utter genius!
This image went with it
^^ and as Mr Pie reminds us,she gets to see Johnson naked,what a lucky person she is.🤢
I don't understand why you would ever want the seats to match the wallpaper?
Why are you camouflaging your furniture?
Why are you camouflaging your furniture?
In case Gove pops round? If he doesnt see the seats then he might get bored standing around and sod off.
The frothing is crossing over to the spending but I don't think labour want that conversation💰💰 Blair and Brown both spending big across their terms and far more than Cameron and May, it appears May didn't spend a large amount so an overhaul prob due👍
The issue is only about who funded it and why🐒
However, I don’t understand why he, or any PM, would have to pay for the refurb of Downing STreet property? Surely they should be maintained by the state?
Because the PM gets a £30k a year stipend for decorating No 10, what Alexander and Carrie wanted was *way* more expensive than that, hence the begging bowls to Tory donors. You've got to look at the optics too - even that £30k allowance is more than the median UK annual salary.
Worse than Cameron? Blair? Thatcher? Major? May? The bar is set very low for the ethics of past PM’s.
Yes, much worse. Johnson's retort at PMQs yesterday was riddled with verifiable lies, one after the other. That's not a one off, Johnson's government has taken cues from Steve Bannon and is weaponizing alternative fact wherever it can, supported by a craven media that has him in their pocket.
Carrie Antionette
Indeed. The fact that all this shithousery was going on as people started dying in their thousands from Covid shows where priorities were.
The frothing is crossing over to the spending but I don’t think labour want that conversation💰💰 Blair and Brown both spending big across their terms and far more than Cameron and May, it appears May didn’t spend a large amount so an overhaul prob due
That's not quite true is it? As a percentage of GDP, spending under Blair actually fell if you compare 1990-91 to 2006, spending spiked around the 2008-2014 timeframe under both Brown and Cameron, due to QE policies to prop up the banking system. Those QE injections were debated in parliament and backed by the Conservatives and continued when the coalition came to power in 2010.
It's also worth noting that Public Debt as a percentage of GDP increased from 65% in 2010 to approx 82% by 2018 - the argument that Labour overspent while in power and the Conservatives didn't is a fallacy.
do love the no one's interested line yesterday and it being all over the front pages today.
As Johnathon Pie pointed out yesterday, if Boris's minions are so determined to tell us, over and over, that nobody is interested, then we should be very very interested indeed.
I see the resident Tory fanboy has turned up exclaiming “Nothing to see, move on!” With his whataboutery. The one big difference between now and the last Labour administration is they we’ren’t engaged in the industrial scale shovelling of public money into the pockets of their chums and donors, but just keep up with the deflection.
Worse than Cameron? Blair? Thatcher? Major? May? The bar is set very low for the ethics of past PM’s.
The difference is all of those lied occasionally.
Whereas with Johnson its that he tells the truth occasionally.
He is on a different scale.
Hang on, I have an allowance to do up something owned by the public, overspend, getting a donation to help, then pay it back to the donor when I’m caught. That’s kinda money laundering isn’t it?
(Not that any Tory donors would ever need their money laundered - that’s all been done with property deals and by their mates in the square mile...😂)
I don’t understand why you would ever want the seats to match the wallpaper?
Posh people love it. I've seen it plenty of times (that's the horse world for you). They normally only do it in a way designed to last a generation (or multiple generations) though. And they don't borrow the money in a way that makes them beholden to others.
It's a spiffing sofa. (sp?)
now it's all the civil services fault he's going for "I was only following orders" defence.
– Missed 5 COBRA meetings
– Downplayed pandemic
– Late to lockdown x 3
– Openly excused Cummings’ lockdown breach, critical of others who broke same rules
– “Operation Last Gasp” jibe
– Broke ministerial code and offered tax breaks to procure ventilators
– Corrupt PPE procurement process
– Paid over the odds for excessive, sub-standard PPE from party donors and MPs’ mates
– Backed Home Secretary over bullying
– Appointed the unqualified and inept Dido Harding (wife of Tory anti-corruption minister) to head track and trace programme
– Paid 37 billion for track and trace
– Headed global death rates for some time – still have the most Covid deaths in Europe
And yet I’ve just had a notification from the Independent flash up on my phone saying that Bozo’s polling lead has increased. This county is ****
Pjm, I was talking about the spending of public money on No.11
Labour do not want that discussion, this is about who funded and why👍
If the frothers help this matter drift into the amount spent then imo they will be helping big bozzer⛄
saying that Bozo’s polling lead has increased
Polling up to the 26th? Not that I expect this week to change things much with his supporters. There will be more to come though... Johnson is bound to have piled up things like this ready to be leaked or uncovered... time won't be kind to him as he makes enemies of his fellow travellers... and he always does, because they all learn the hard way that he has no loyalty towards any of them, and lies to all of them.
And yet I’ve just had a notification from the Independent flash up on my phone saying that Bozo’s polling lead has increased. This county is ****
That's what I'm saying - the general population really don't give a monkeys.
You could say this is because no MP is considered honourable, they are seen as all as bad as each other and it in for themselves.
I keep staring at that picture that Binners posted...it's magnetic, like one of those magic eye pictures...
because they all learn the hard way that he has no loyalty towards any of them, and lies to all of them.
It was one of his former aides when he was London Mayor who said:
"Everyone loves Boris....
... apart from those who know him"
it appears May didn’t spend a large amount so an overhaul prob due
I dunno, the room she was interviewed on that they showed on the news looked fine to me (the sofas needed to go though), granted it was only one room - I struggle to believe the rest of the flat was in state it needed a massive overhaul though.
I sometimes wonder who pays John Lewis prices for interior decor stuff (I picked up a cushion that was on sale once and it was still £90...), nice to know the PM is so far removed from the masses he considers John Lewis low grade...
It’s absolutely ****ing hideous!!
The heavily patterned sofa will hide the spunk stains better if Carrie comes home unexpectedly early one day, though.
That’s what I’m saying – the general population really don’t give a monkeys.
You could say this is because no MP is considered honourable, they are seen as all as bad as each other and it in for themselves.
Nah.
To my previous point - if you’re not bothered, you don’t understand. Not you, obvs
The issue is: why don’t people understand? Blame for that lies squarely at the feet of the opposition and the press. Just as it does for the way boris has completely **** ed up brexit, and completely **** ed up covid.... but there is a huge chunk of the electorate who (wrongly) believe he’s their champion. Why/how do they believe that? And how can that be countered?
It’s very trumpian. Who is Britain’s Biden? I thought it would be starmer.... but it seems not
Some things never change....
nice to know the PM is so far removed from the masses he considers John Lewis low grade…
I think for me, this just adds to the joy of this story I seriously doubt Johnson gives a **** about the decor. Carrie almost certainly cares deeply. Which, given that he didn't want to pay for it, got found out, and had to pay for it out of his own pocket while complaining that he's taken a massive pay cut and can't afford to settle his divorce and to top it all off... is still in the shit, perhaps even with the cops...Perfect.
You just know he's seething about the whole thing, and wants it to go away. You just know that he feels that it's all so unfair, and he's taking it all very personally. It won't be the downfall of him, I have no illusions about that, but watching the fat ****er squirm is just about enough for now
You just know he’s seething about the whole thing, and wants it to go away. You just know that he feels that it’s all so unfair, and he’s taking it all very personally. It won’t be the downfall of him, I have no illusions about that, but watching the fat **** squirm is just about enough for now
I know its glorious, undone by decorations.
But as plenty have said, if he would lie about his ****ing curtains then what other dodgy shit is waiting to be found out.
I'd not be so sure he will wriggle out of it though, if the Electoral Commission finds against him then he might be history.
Pjm, I was talking about the spending of public money on No.11
Labour do not want that discussion, this is about who funded and why👍
If the frothers help this matter drift into the amount spent then imo they will be helping big bozzer⛄
Point well made, thank you.
Where, in all of this, is little baby Johnson? Have you noticed there is literally nothing in the papers, no photos, no "look at how amazing Carrie looks after giving birth" articles...?
Is there some sort of injunction on it or a general "we'll play nicely" agreement from the press not to hassle anyone about it? If it was a royal baby, we wouldn't be able to get away from the little brat but here - it's almost like there is no child at all...
Surely if you have a baby around the place, you don't go spending £840/roll on wallpaper and £3000 coffee tables, you buy some wipe-clean stuff for when it's flung it's poo at you and then vomited over everything...?
Leave the kids out of it. Whoever the PM is. If the media stick to that, I welcome it.
Surely if you have a baby around the place, you don’t go spending £840/roll on wallpaper and £3000 coffee tables, you buy some wipe-clean stuff for when it’s flung it’s poo at you and then vomited over everything…?
As somebody who’s toddler has just thrown up all over him - I fully endorse this. We are wondering when we can have nice things again.
but there is a huge chunk of the electorate who (wrongly) believe he’s their champion. Why/how do they believe that? And how can that be countered?
It is his character and personality. We may not fall for it but many do and that seems to let him get away with stuff.
How do you counter it, get a similar characterful personality as leader of Labour while all the proper stuff is done by people behind the scenes. That character is not Starmer and it is not any current Labour MP so that is a big problem.
Johnson has been plagued by irritations arising from curtains.
My fingers are crossed that this is true.
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1387677013830418432?s=20
it's odd, though as it seems Johnson knows he knows. :/
A senior QC made the comment on observing an early PMQ's to the effect that when a former DPP asks you a direct question like that, he already knows the answer.
I certainly hope that's the case
Never mind Carrie's wallpaper and who did or didn't pay for it, if he's actually on the record as saying that then he's toast
My fingers are crossed that this is true.
Johnsons slack jawed face at the end there was brilliant!
As somebody who’s toddler has just thrown up all over him – I fully endorse this. We are wondering when we can have nice things again.
Honestly, by the time the risk of shite and vomit disappears, you'll be so broke you can't afford it anyway.
Unless you've got a mate that'll 'lend' you the cash at favourable terms, John Lewis is aspirational TBH. 2nd hand Argos with the laminate wood effect peeling off for normal folk.
Oh, for a one off £30K windfall to refurbish my house!!
First rule of Bannonism is to double down, deflect and deploy alternative facts to bludgeon your opponent. It doesn't matter if you're telling the truth, it'll play well to audiences kept angry and outraged at highly selective and edited media soundbites.
Johnson is in many ways the perfect Bannonite PM - everyone knows that he's full of bluster and hasn't bothered to avail himself of the facts, that enough people can be persuaded to view Johnson as "their" guy sticking it to an imagined enemy. In the meantime lots of things are happening behind the scenes that barely warrant attention.
We need a progressive alliance in the UK now more than ever.
Oh, for a one off £30K windfall to refurbish my house!!
The PM gets that every year... it's not even a one off windfall. Can't wait twelve months for that new sofa though, or compromise on one that only costs a few grand... can't have the PM "living in a skip".
My fingers are crossed that this is true.
It does seem from Starmer that he may have the evidence.
I wonder if sources are being protected / ducks lined up legally.
hmmm.
You can imagine Dom having an array of recording devices and a fully indexed and tagged audio archive. His bigdata mates will have plenty of tools at their disposal to make light work of anything so mundane as a digital audio recording including, all the deep-fakery necessary to 'fill the gaps'.
Heard her referred to as Carrie Antoinette the other day. This amused me.
