It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Indeed, if he isn't even an MP going forward how can be be Conservative leader at the next general election?
There is a slim chance if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election heavily and Starmer's government becomes unpopular, Boris as Prince across the Water will be begged by the Party faithful to return in a by election in a safe Conservative seat to lead the party in opposition to try and make a triumphant return like his hero Churchill in 1951 but that is it
Based on the Tory Red Wall WhatsApp chats I'm a part of, Boris still has his fanantical supporters.
He is political herpes.
Can confirm. When I was in Mariupol on the North Sea last year they loved him and didn't give a fuck how many lockdown rules he broke or many 6/10 (London Over 30 Division) posh women he tupped.
The Catholic Church recognizes as sacramental, (1) the marriages between two baptized non-Catholic Christians or between two baptized Orthodox Christians, as well as (2) marriages between baptized non-Catholic Christians and Catholic Christians, although in the latter case, consent from the diocesan bishop must be obtained, with this termed "permission to enter into a mixed marriage".
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
So that explains why there's a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
Perhaps those threads could surprise on the upside?
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Indeed, if he isn't even an MP going forward how can be be Conservative leader at the next general election?
There is a slim chance if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election heavily and Starmer's government becomes unpopular, Boris as Prince across the Water will be begged by the Party faithful to return in a by election in a safe Conservative seat to lead the party in opposition to try and make a triumphant return like his hero Churchill in 1951 but that is it
Your 2nd para is the plan aiui. I imagine he's already seeing himself as a "Prince across the Water".
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
Now that the blob have got rid of Boris Johnson can they do the same for Brexit please.
The only way to make the psychological burden of Brexit 'go away' is to accept it as a permanent reality.
Much as you Brexiteers would love us to live in a monocultural society without freedom of speech or political opinion, one doesn’t accept something that has cost one so much and can be reversed as “permanent”. As soon as you accept you were wrong, apologise for duping the nation, and put forward realistic options for mitigating the catastrophe you have created, preferably involving reparations, we might be able to accept Brexit. Until then many will continue to seek to correct the grievous error you have shamefully sold the country.
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Indeed, if he isn't even an MP going forward how can be be Conservative leader at the next general election?
There is a slim chance if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election heavily and Starmer's government becomes unpopular, Boris as Prince across the Water will be begged by the Party faithful to return in a by election in a safe Conservative seat to lead the party in opposition to try and make a triumphant return like his hero Churchill in 1951 but that is it
Your 2nd para is the plan aiui. I imagine he's already seeing himself as a "Prince across the Water".
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
“Monothematic” means having a dominating theme. So a trilogy of movies could have a single theme, or movements in a composition. Similarly your rants have a golden thread running through them.
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
“Monothematic” means having a dominating theme. So a trilogy of movies could have a single theme, or movements in a composition. Similarly your rants have a golden thread running through them.
Thankyou
“Man was made for Joy & Woe And when this we rightly know Through the World we safely go Joy & Woe are woven fine A Clothing for the soul divine Under every grief & pine Runs a joy with silken twine”
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Be fair, Mr Leon. Some of us have disliked and despised Johnson ever since he was editor of the Spectator. He has destroyed the reputation of everybody and everything he has come into contact with.
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
Revelation is the words of John the Elder, not Jesus nor God. It is a great read though and as it sets out a post apocalypse world hardly surprising not that many are still around to be saved anyway
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
That's true, Leon also has UFO's, which I also find interesting.
Talking of which, as I mentioned earlier, we have a very bizarre situation today. There has been *no official denial* from the US inspectorate of intelligence, on the quote that they find Grusch's absolutely breathtaking claims "credible and urgent" , a Senator has confirmed today that hearings will be held as a result, and most of the media are still not touching the story for fear of being seen as nutters, and the stigma surrounding this sort of topic. Very, very odd indeed.
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
What do you expect? If she goes in studs up on the CCP they will sling her relatives in a Hubei prison hospital and start harvesting their organs. They take both corneas, bladder and one kidney on admission.
The old order is dying and this is a time of monsters. Gramsci.
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
There is a traditional rivalry between my alma mater, UCL, and LSE
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
Boris won't be leader of the Conservative Party again. That is certain - the headbangers are too small in number to force that through.
But - the people's princess is still beloved by so many. And headbangers are up for the chop at the election unless something radical happens.
As I keep posing, there is a scenario where Boris! leads a breakaway from the Tory party to ensure there is conservative representation at the GE. If you are Jonathan Gullis and Scott Benton et al you barely know what day it is, but you do know that the constituents you haven't blocked are hopping mad about the Brexit.
They won't vote for you. But they might vote for you if they are voting for Boris! Its a personal vote for Boris! and they are not Conservative voters anyway so the party doesn't matter. They want Boris! and they want what they were promised from Brexit.
So time for the New Party. Amalgamate the remains of UKIP, the SDP, ReFUK and that Fox wazzock. Mould them into the English equivalent of Forza Italia, led by Mr Bunga Bunga no honestly she was just a minor aid and not my bastard daughter himself, Boris!
And yes, I will now always type Boris! with an exclamation mark going forward.
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Be fair, Mr Leon. Some of us have disliked and despised Johnson ever since he was editor of the Spectator. He has destroyed the reputation of everybody and everything he has come into contact with.
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
Fair enough
Tho I do wonder if the Boris haters will actually miss him in a masochistic way. They so loved to loathe him. They enjoyed their sense of righteous repulsion
It’s quite hard to hate Rishi Sunak, at best you can find him laughable or hypocritical but he is not the brilliant panto villain like Bozza
Now that the blob have got rid of Boris Johnson can they do the same for Brexit please.
The only way to make the psychological burden of Brexit 'go away' is to accept it as a permanent reality.
Much as you Brexiteers would love us to live in a monocultural society without freedom of speech or political opinion, one doesn’t accept something that has cost one so much and can be reversed as “permanent”. As soon as you accept you were wrong, apologise for duping the nation, and put forward realistic options for mitigating the catastrophe you have created, preferably involving reparations, we might be able to accept Brexit. Until then many will continue to seek to correct the grievous error you have shamefully sold the country.
Have you seen the ONS jobs report which shows the level of employment hitting a record high with unexpectedly strong pay growth? Whatever you think about Brexit, the way the UK economy is outperforming expectations requires an explanation.
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
There is a traditional rivalry between my alma mater, UCL, and LSE
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
I confess I simply hid
Wasn’t it the Strand Poly knobs who took the head of Jeremy Bentham?
I was also in Ramsay and nicked their (LSE) bar blackboard from their hall over the road which they were thrilled about. Whenever they had a fire alarm at night we would throw water on them from the balcony on our floor because we were very mature.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Agreed. We should 'move on' and we'll be able to when every PBer signs up to the correct and final assessment of him as a total clownfuck and pisstake with not a single redeeming feature who should never have been allowed near a UK government let alone at the head of it.
You can help by here and now resiling from what unless I've missed something (unlikely but possible) was your most recent take on him as a 'flawed colossus' whose downfall was a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions because it was self-inflicted and he 'could have been great'.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Can we stop talking about how Boris shat the bed? It's over, done. But he's literally just this minute left the room! Exactly, all the bed shitting is finished. But the bed is still full of shit! Oh, you're just trying to keep the story going...
In answer to Leon's question, I'd tend to agree. He thrives on attention; ergo forget him. (Which reminds me, I need a new avatar.)
Time enough to rake over his dubious legacy in the runup to the next election.
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
There is a traditional rivalry between my alma mater, UCL, and LSE
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
I confess I simply hid
Very similar to story my father told me, from back when he was serving in USMC.
For some reason, the official song of his Marine regiment was "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along" - the traditional theme song of the US Army.
My Daddy Dearest and some buddies where having a few beers in an off-base bar near Camp Lejeune, when someone put a nickel in the jukebox and requested the Dogface anthem.
At which point my father and his friends got up and stood to attention (as per regulations). Causing Marines from other units to start hooting and heckling.
Result was a bar room brawl . . . but without waistcoated barmen . . .
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
Revelation is the words of John the Elder, not Jesus nor God. It is a great read though...
Now that the blob have got rid of Boris Johnson can they do the same for Brexit please.
The only way to make the psychological burden of Brexit 'go away' is to accept it as a permanent reality.
Much as you Brexiteers would love us to live in a monocultural society without freedom of speech or political opinion, one doesn’t accept something that has cost one so much and can be reversed as “permanent”. As soon as you accept you were wrong, apologise for duping the nation, and put forward realistic options for mitigating the catastrophe you have created, preferably involving reparations, we might be able to accept Brexit. Until then many will continue to seek to correct the grievous error you have shamefully sold the country.
Have you seen the ONS jobs report which shows the level of employment hitting a record high with unexpectedly strong pay growth? Whatever you think about Brexit, the way the UK economy is outperforming expectations requires an explanation.
I raise you Sir Gavin Williamson, who in December 2020 took local education authorities to court to stop them closing because of Covid then a few weeks later closed the schools himself.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Be fair, Mr Leon. Some of us have disliked and despised Johnson ever since he was editor of the Spectator. He has destroyed the reputation of everybody and everything he has come into contact with.
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
Fair enough
Tho I do wonder if the Boris haters will actually miss him in a masochistic way. They so loved to loathe him. They enjoyed their sense of righteous repulsion
It’s quite hard to hate Rishi Sunak, at best you can find him laughable or hypocritical but he is not the brilliant panto villain like Bozza
Not me. As with Donald Trump my dearest wish is for the amount I see and hear of him to approximate to zero.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Agreed. We should 'move on' and we'll be able to when every PBer signs up to the correct and final assessment of him as a total clownfuck and pisstake with not a single redeeming feature who should never have been allowed near a UK government let alone at the head of it.
You can help by here and now resiling from what unless I've missed something (unlikely but possible) was your most recent take on him as a 'flawed colossus' whose downfall was a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions because it was self-inflicted and he 'could have been great'.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Be fair, Mr Leon. Some of us have disliked and despised Johnson ever since he was editor of the Spectator. He has destroyed the reputation of everybody and everything he has come into contact with.
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
Fair enough
Tho I do wonder if the Boris haters will actually miss him in a masochistic way. They so loved to loathe him. They enjoyed their sense of righteous repulsion
It’s quite hard to hate Rishi Sunak, at best you can find him laughable or hypocritical but he is not the brilliant panto villain like Bozza
There is also great snobbery value in hating Boris, after all he is most popular with Sun reading working class white van man. And you really don't want to have to vote the same way as the man who uses the tradesman's entrance (albeit you mostly did in 2019 with a peg on your nose to keep Corbyn out if the LDs didn't have a chance in your seat).
However while it is now unacceptable to say you like Boris at upper middle class London and Home Counties dinner parties, it is acceptable to even say you will vote for Rishi at such events
I believe the world witnessed the first open parliamentary debate on sex and gender in the world yesterday - in the UK. For years, gender identity enthusiasts have used a variety of techniques to suppress this debate. It will not work any more. https://youtu.be/7-9MsJo6-Uo /1
After calling for an adherence to facts, US Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine calls gender-affirming care “literally suicide prevention,” despite the fact that researchers have not proven such care prevents death by suicide.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Perhaps Boris will return to writing for The Spectator - perhaps some travelogues - the current ones are a bit meh to be honest.
Seriously, there are two tragedies at work here - there's Boris's own tragedy where, having manoeuvred and schemed for 20 years to become Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister and won an election, the prize he sought was undermined by a microscopic virus.
The second tragedy is those who engaged in politics because of Boris Johnson - those who had neither voted not engaged in politics but did so because of Brexit and Boris Johnson. They will presumably withdraw to the margins with only their contempt for politicians and the political system enhanced.
Can I just check something before we begin, because it feels as though we’re dealing with a weight of irony that defies all known physics? Is Boris Johnson leaving British politics absolutely howling with anger because someone supposedly told him a lie? Is Boris Johnson wetting his pants thrice daily over the injustice of him being supposedly misled? Is Boris Johnson now appalled at someone else’s supposedly casual relationship with the truth? It seems, incredibly, that he is. In which case I honestly don’t think I could take this story more seriously. It’s too perfect. Boris Johnson has been Boris Johnsonned.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Can we stop talking about how Boris shat the bed? It's over, done. But he's literally just this minute left the room! Exactly, all the bed shitting is finished. But the bed is still full of shit! Oh, you're just trying to keep the story going...
In answer to Leon's question, I'd tend to agree. He thrives on attention; ergo forget him. (Which reminds me, I need a new avatar.)
Time enough to rake over his dubious legacy in the runup to the next election.
But before I dismiss him entirely, here's the executive summary of the Commons committee report.
..."A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue..."
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
That's true, Leon also has UFO's, which I also find interesting.
Talking of which, as I mentioned earlier, we have a very bizarre situation today. There has been *no official denial* from the US inspectorate of intelligence, on the quote that they find Grusch's absolutely breathtaking claims "credible and urgent" , a Senator has confirmed today that hearings will be held as a result, and most of the media are still not touching the story for fear of being seen as nutters, and the stigma surrounding this sort of topic. Very, very odd indeed.
You're obviously not worried about being seen as a nutter then?
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Funnily enough this is almost exactly what Mrs PtP said to me earlier today. 'Boris has become boring', quite possibly for the first time in his life.
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
There is a traditional rivalry between my alma mater, UCL, and LSE
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
I confess I simply hid
Wasn’t it the Strand Poly knobs who took the head of Jeremy Bentham?
I was also in Ramsay and nicked their (LSE) bar blackboard from their hall over the road which they were thrilled about. Whenever they had a fire alarm at night we would throw water on them from the balcony on our floor because we were very mature.
You’re right I think - it was KCL that nicked Jeremy
However the rivalry was (is?) definitely with LSE. Because they are a big world class institution like UCL. Kings College not so much
How brilliant that you also experienced the Ramsay-Carr Saunders altercations. Ramsay is also where I lost my virginity. Room 247
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
“Monothematic” means having a dominating theme. So a trilogy of movies could have a single theme, or movements in a composition. Similarly your rants have a golden thread running through them.
Fear of deep and silent contemplation. And of the Truth. This is the thread.
I raise you Sir Gavin Williamson, who in December 2020 took local education authorities to court to stop them closing because of Covid then a few weeks later closed the schools himself.
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
12,000 per tribe
In a time when “30” (as in “thirty days and thirty nights”) was a synonym for “many”
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
That's true, Leon also has UFO's, which I also find interesting.
Talking of which, as I mentioned earlier, we have a very bizarre situation today. There has been *no official denial* from the US inspectorate of intelligence, on the quote that they find Grusch's absolutely breathtaking claims "credible and urgent" , a Senator has confirmed today that hearings will be held as a result, and most of the media are still not touching the story for fear of being seen as nutters, and the stigma surrounding this sort of topic. Very, very odd indeed.
You're obviously not worried about being seen as a nutter then?
No. I've followed this story quite carefully. This Grusch character seems to have been one of many people coming forward to the US inspectorate of intelligence for about two years, and on which they've no denial. His story is that and he and they have shared much more comprehensive details with the US IG, and that this will all be able to come out in the congressional hearings anounced today, if it's legally possible.
Meanwhile, the approach of most of the British and American media this week has been "nothing to see here, possibly lone nutter".
This is essentially not because of the stage the process is at, but purely because the claims are so outlandishly bizarre.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Indeed, if he isn't even an MP going forward how can be be Conservative leader at the next general election?
There is a slim chance if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election heavily and Starmer's government becomes unpopular, Boris as Prince across the Water will be begged by the Party faithful to return in a by election in a safe Conservative seat to lead the party in opposition to try and make a triumphant return like his hero Churchill in 1951 but that is it
Your 2nd para is the plan aiui. I imagine he's already seeing himself as a "Prince across the Water".
I raise you Sir Gavin Williamson, who in December 2020 took local education authorities to court to stop them closing because of Covid then a few weeks later closed the schools himself.
An outrageous slur. Boris! and his cabinet definitely got the vaccine right and that means Covid with it. Rishi is taking his own enquiry to court to stop them having the audacity to ask to see messages like Sir Gavin's undoubtedly erudite and well-reasoned explanation for this perfectly reasonable taking of LAs to court. It's irrelevant and damaging and it would be much better if we could blame the truly guilty person with regards to the government and Covid - Keir Starmer.
Hello. I’d like to talk to you about a woman I met recently. Let’s call her “Nadine”. She came to us with a story that we hear all too often. Nadine had been living a respectable life as a romantic novelist and member of parliament when she fell under the spell of an unscrupulous conman. We’ll call him “Boris”.
I raise you Sir Gavin Williamson, who in December 2020 took local education authorities to court to stop them closing because of Covid then a few weeks later closed the schools himself.
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Yes. We should continue to devote all threads to you, your trips, your photos, and your monothematic obsessions.
How can you have monothematic obsessions PLURAL?
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
Isn’t that the same thing?
You have an obsession with COVID labs
You have an obsession with UFOs
You don’t believe that COVID was spread by UFOs to soften us up for an alien invasion (I think. I hope.)
Hence all your obsessions (plural) are monothematic
I hope nobody has been caught out on the Kintail or Mullardoch hills.
Whiteouts / blizzards I can deal with, but thunderstorm risk is the one thing I'm paranoid about.
Perhaps I spent too long speaking to the Professor who documented UK lightning incidents.
I hate them. Got caught out in California once, ears ringing, and then you have to deal with the flooding and landslides.
My friends have come off the hill safely - phew!
Good news.
Looks like upper Mullardoch was worst hit. Lightning tracker shows 100+ strikes on Mullach na Dheiragain alone and the north side of the loch is no better. Beinn Dearg (Ullapool) also seems to have been picked out.
Fingers crossed there were no incidents.
I did get caught out on Am Basteir once, which was a hair raising experience...
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Be fair, Mr Leon. Some of us have disliked and despised Johnson ever since he was editor of the Spectator. He has destroyed the reputation of everybody and everything he has come into contact with.
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
Fair enough
Tho I do wonder if the Boris haters will actually miss him in a masochistic way. They so loved to loathe him. They enjoyed their sense of righteous repulsion
It’s quite hard to hate Rishi Sunak, at best you can find him laughable or hypocritical but he is not the brilliant panto villain like Bozza
There is also great snobbery value in hating Boris, after all he is most popular with Sun reading working class white van man. And you really don't want to have to vote the same way as the man who uses the tradesman's entrance (albeit you mostly did in 2019 with a peg on your nose to keep Corbyn out if the LDs didn't have a chance in your seat).
However while it is now unacceptable to say you like Boris at upper middle class London and Home Counties dinner parties, it is acceptable to even say you will vote for Rishi at such events
Is he? Polls don't actually show that, and the dripping sneer of "white van man believes whatever The S*n tells them" doesn't really endear them to vote Tory.
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
Now that the blob have got rid of Boris Johnson can they do the same for Brexit please.
The only way to make the psychological burden of Brexit 'go away' is to accept it as a permanent reality.
Much as you Brexiteers would love us to live in a monocultural society without freedom of speech or political opinion, one doesn’t accept something that has cost one so much and can be reversed as “permanent”. As soon as you accept you were wrong, apologise for duping the nation, and put forward realistic options for mitigating the catastrophe you have created, preferably involving reparations, we might be able to accept Brexit. Until then many will continue to seek to correct the grievous error you have shamefully sold the country.
Have you seen the ONS jobs report which shows the level of employment hitting a record high with unexpectedly strong pay growth? Whatever you think about Brexit, the way the UK economy is outperforming expectations requires an explanation.
What sticks out to me is that it's men aged 50-64 who are "long term sick" in the inactivity numbers. The same gammons who probably spend all day calling anyone under 40 lazy and accuse us all of never having done a hard day of work. It's time to ramp up benefit sanctions on these "sick" just as Labour and the coalition governments did for the same kind of "long term sick" young people from 2005-2015 that put an extra million young people into work.
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
12,000 per tribe
In a time when “30” (as in “thirty days and thirty nights”) was a synonym for “many”
"In my father's house there are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you. "
Or, to put it another way, God doesn't seem overly inhibited by planning regulations.
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
Now that the blob have got rid of Boris Johnson can they do the same for Brexit please.
The only way to make the psychological burden of Brexit 'go away' is to accept it as a permanent reality.
Much as you Brexiteers would love us to live in a monocultural society without freedom of speech or political opinion, one doesn’t accept something that has cost one so much and can be reversed as “permanent”. As soon as you accept you were wrong, apologise for duping the nation, and put forward realistic options for mitigating the catastrophe you have created, preferably involving reparations, we might be able to accept Brexit. Until then many will continue to seek to correct the grievous error you have shamefully sold the country.
Have you seen the ONS jobs report which shows the level of employment hitting a record high with unexpectedly strong pay growth? Whatever you think about Brexit, the way the UK economy is outperforming expectations requires an explanation.
Pay growth below that of prices. That's not Mr Micawber's recipe for prosperity and happiness.
At the bottom of the market pay is rising at about 10-11% vs 8.7% CPI inflation, or 7.8% CPIH. It's people in the upper middle income bands that are being squeezed by tax thresholds being frozen and pay rises around 5-8%.
I hope nobody has been caught out on the Kintail or Mullardoch hills.
Whiteouts / blizzards I can deal with, but thunderstorm risk is the one thing I'm paranoid about.
Perhaps I spent too long speaking to the Professor who documented UK lightning incidents.
I hate them. Got caught out in California once, ears ringing, and then you have to deal with the flooding and landslides.
My friends have come off the hill safely - phew!
Good news.
Looks like upper Mullardoch was worst hit. Lightning tracker shows 100+ strikes on Mullach na Dheiragain alone and the north side of the loch is no better. Beinn Dearg (Ullapool) also seems to have been picked out.
Fingers crossed there were no incidents.
I did get caught out on Am Basteir once, which was a hair raising experience...
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
Anyone know the significance of the pig's head on a stick ?
Trump's Florida counsel of record?
Though generally spekaing, his legal advisors end up with their heads on a pike AFTER rather before commencing representation. Getting ahead of the curve?
Johnson is not coming back this side of a general election, it wouldn't surprise me in the event of Labour winning a small majority, in four years time, he comes back in a by-election, and the Tory Party who lost their moral compass years ago, make him leader again, and who knows if he can think of some vacuous 3 word slogan, that the right wing media can get behind, he defeats labour in 2029
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
Agreed. We should 'move on' and we'll be able to when every PBer signs up to the correct and final assessment of him as a total clownfuck and pisstake with not a single redeeming feature who should never have been allowed near a UK government let alone at the head of it.
You can help by here and now resiling from what unless I've missed something (unlikely but possible) was your most recent take on him as a 'flawed colossus' whose downfall was a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions because it was self-inflicted and he 'could have been great'.
Why? - the essence of the Boris tragedy lies in his extraordinary ability to win coupled with no idea whatsoever what to do next.
Of course the SCons have happened upon the cracking wheeze of never having had to highlight their manifest incompetence by virtue of never having a sniff of a ministership in Holyrood. Won't either in your or my lifetimes I'd wager.
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
There is a traditional rivalry between my alma mater, UCL, and LSE
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
I confess I simply hid
Wasn’t it the Strand Poly knobs who took the head of Jeremy Bentham?
I was also in Ramsay and nicked their (LSE) bar blackboard from their hall over the road which they were thrilled about. Whenever they had a fire alarm at night we would throw water on them from the balcony on our floor because we were very mature.
You’re right I think - it was KCL that nicked Jeremy
However the rivalry was (is?) definitely with LSE. Because they are a big world class institution like UCL. Kings College not so much
How brilliant that you also experienced the Ramsay-Carr Saunders altercations. Ramsay is also where I lost my virginity. Room 247
Christ I popped my cherry in room 247 as well with some admittedly manly girl called Lady G. Scary coincidence.
Comments
It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
He is political herpes.
There is a slim chance if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election heavily and Starmer's government becomes unpopular, Boris as Prince across the Water will be begged by the Party faithful to return in a by election in a safe Conservative seat to lead the party in opposition to try and make a triumphant return like his hero Churchill in 1951 but that is it
Unlike the Yanks, we will be swift and decisive in dealing with insurrection.
More freaking FAKE NEWS from PB's very own Chat-Bot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_the_Catholic_Church
The Catholic Church recognizes as sacramental, (1) the marriages between two baptized non-Catholic Christians or between two baptized Orthodox Christians, as well as (2) marriages between baptized non-Catholic Christians and Catholic Christians, although in the latter case, consent from the diocesan bishop must be obtained, with this termed "permission to enter into a mixed marriage".
https://twitter.com/BBCDavidWL/status/1668610751945396224
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1668637305752485890
All to do with anticipated traffic.
Dan Hicks - "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA
https://news.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/update-on-city-centre-investigation-after-three-people-killed-468413
They’re not looking for anyone else, and believe the town is safe.
The original two deaths are believed to be students at the university, which has cancelled the graduation ball.
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
https://twitter.com/mercer_felicity/status/1668586935500013571
Prick News…..never right for long…..
Keyu Jin is a Chinese economist teaching at the LSE.
Is the west getting China wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeIXR8vcnXw
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
Mods can delete it if they wish.
“Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Through the World we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
A Clothing for the soul divine
Under every grief & pine
Runs a joy with silken twine”
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
Talking of which, as I mentioned earlier, we have a very bizarre situation today. There has been *no official denial* from the US inspectorate of intelligence, on the quote that they find Grusch's absolutely breathtaking claims "credible and urgent" , a Senator has confirmed today that hearings will be held as a result, and most of the media are still not touching the story for fear of being seen as nutters, and the stigma surrounding this sort of topic. Very, very odd indeed.
I hope nobody has been caught out on the Kintail or Mullardoch hills.
Whiteouts / blizzards I can deal with, but thunderstorm risk is the one thing I'm paranoid about.
Perhaps I spent too long speaking to the Professor who documented UK lightning incidents.
The old order is dying and this is a time of monsters. Gramsci.
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
I confess I simply hid
I shall now depart the pub and go home, and perhaps return here in the morning!
But - the people's princess is still beloved by so many. And headbangers are up for the chop at the election unless something radical happens.
As I keep posing, there is a scenario where Boris! leads a breakaway from the Tory party to ensure there is conservative representation at the GE. If you are Jonathan Gullis and Scott Benton et al you barely know what day it is, but you do know that the constituents you haven't blocked are hopping mad about the Brexit.
They won't vote for you. But they might vote for you if they are voting for Boris! Its a personal vote for Boris! and they are not Conservative voters anyway so the party doesn't matter. They want Boris! and they want what they were promised from Brexit.
So time for the New Party. Amalgamate the remains of UKIP, the SDP, ReFUK and that Fox wazzock. Mould them into the English equivalent of Forza Italia, led by Mr Bunga Bunga no honestly she was just a minor aid and not my bastard daughter himself, Boris!
And yes, I will now always type Boris! with an exclamation mark going forward.
Tho I do wonder if the Boris haters will actually miss him in a masochistic way. They so loved to loathe him. They enjoyed their sense of righteous repulsion
It’s quite hard to hate Rishi Sunak, at best you can find him laughable or hypocritical but he is not the brilliant panto villain like Bozza
My friends have come off the hill safely - phew!
https://twitter.com/JamesDFMellor/status/1668614826128707588/photo/1
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/june2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/13/mother-legal-battle-school-share-sex-education-material/
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects
"Europe Elects
@EuropeElects
·
6h
Italy, Winpoll poll:
FdI-ECR: 29% (+3)
PD-S&D: 21% (+2)
M5S-NI: 14% (-1)
FI-EPP: 13% (+5)
LEGA-ID: 7% (-2)
A-RE: 4% (n.a.)
AVS-LEFT|G/EFA: 3% (-1)
IV-RE: 2% (n.a.)
+E-RE: 2% (-1)
...
+/- vs. 2022 election
Fieldwork: 12 June 2023
Sample size: 1,000
➤ https://europeelects.eu/italy"
I was also in Ramsay and nicked their (LSE) bar blackboard from their hall over the road which they were thrilled about. Whenever they had a fire alarm at night we would throw water on them from the balcony on our floor because we were very mature.
You can help by here and now resiling from what unless I've missed something (unlikely but possible) was your most recent take on him as a 'flawed colossus' whose downfall was a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions because it was self-inflicted and he 'could have been great'.
He thrives on attention; ergo forget him. (Which reminds me, I need a new avatar.)
Time enough to rake over his dubious legacy in the runup to the next election.
For some reason, the official song of his Marine regiment was "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along" - the traditional theme song of the US Army.
My Daddy Dearest and some buddies where having a few beers in an off-base bar near Camp Lejeune, when someone put a nickel in the jukebox and requested the Dogface anthem.
At which point my father and his friends got up and stood to attention (as per regulations). Causing Marines from other units to start hooting and heckling.
Result was a bar room brawl . . . but without waistcoated barmen . . .
We can only pray that the answer is yes.
I raise you Sir Gavin Williamson, who in December 2020 took local education authorities to court to stop them closing because of Covid then a few weeks later closed the schools himself.
However while it is now unacceptable to say you like Boris at upper middle class London and Home Counties dinner parties, it is acceptable to even say you will vote for Rishi at such events
I believe the world witnessed the first open parliamentary debate on sex and gender in the world yesterday - in the UK. For years, gender identity enthusiasts have used a variety of techniques to suppress this debate. It will not work any more.
https://youtu.be/7-9MsJo6-Uo /1
https://twitter.com/BevJacksonAuth/status/1668562192583516160?s=20
Meanwhile, across the pond;
After calling for an adherence to facts, US Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine calls gender-affirming care “literally suicide prevention,” despite the fact that researchers have not proven such care prevents death by suicide.
https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1668453261077106689?s=20
“Live son or dead daughter” is the reprehensible rhetoric used by some “affirmative care” (sic) advocates.
Seriously, there are two tragedies at work here - there's Boris's own tragedy where, having manoeuvred and schemed for 20 years to become Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister and won an election, the prize he sought was undermined by a microscopic virus.
The second tragedy is those who engaged in politics because of Boris Johnson - those who had neither voted not engaged in politics but did so because of Brexit and Boris Johnson. They will presumably withdraw to the margins with only their contempt for politicians and the political system enhanced.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/13/boris-johnson-nadine-dorries-tory-infighting
..."A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue..."
However the rivalry was (is?) definitely with LSE. Because they are a big world class institution like UCL. Kings College not so much
How brilliant that you also experienced the Ramsay-Carr Saunders altercations. Ramsay is also where I lost my virginity. Room 247
Exclusive: Get ready for super-Thursday!
CCHQ is considering holding three 'Boris by-elections' on the same day next month 👇
I think Greenwich went to court on December 14/15 https://www.lgcplus.com/services/children/greenwich-backs-down-in-school-closure-dispute-with-government-15-12-2020/
And on the 19th Bozo announced the Xmas lockdown. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/timeline-lockdown-web.pdf
In a time when “30” (as in “thirty days and thirty nights”) was a synonym for “many”
Meanwhile, the approach of most of the British and American media this week has been "nothing to see here, possibly lone nutter".
This is essentially not because of the stage the process is at, but purely because the claims are so outlandishly bizarre.
It's all very, very odd, as I mentioned.
Former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in federal court in Miami, Florida.
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1668628864510349312
Anyone know the significance of the pig's head on a stick ?
https://thecritic.co.uk/The-Stroppy-Appeal/
https://wingsoverscotland.com/kirsty-blackmans-genitals/#more-137957
It is really worth watching the 2 pieces of video in this piece, if only to see Joanna Cherry's responses behind her. It is seriously funny.
You have an obsession with COVID labs
You have an obsession with UFOs
You don’t believe that COVID was spread by UFOs to soften us up for an alien invasion (I think. I hope.)
Hence all your obsessions (plural) are monothematic
Looks like upper Mullardoch was worst hit. Lightning tracker shows 100+ strikes on Mullach na Dheiragain alone
and the north side of the loch is no better. Beinn Dearg (Ullapool) also seems to have been picked out.
Fingers crossed there were no incidents.
I did get caught out on Am Basteir once, which was a hair raising experience...
https://twitter.com/mercer_felicity/status/1668612947713617920
Or, to put it another way, God doesn't seem overly inhibited by planning regulations.
"Thrilled - saves me a job😉"
https://twitter.com/mercer_felicity
Though generally spekaing, his legal advisors end up with their heads on a pike AFTER rather before commencing representation. Getting ahead of the curve?
No sign of any appointment on the HM Treasury website.