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You can’t handle the truth – politicalbetting.com
You can’t handle the truth – politicalbetting.com
With Boris Johnson to appear before the Covid Inquiry tomorrow, 71% of Britons say they do not consider him trustworthy when it comes to what happened during the pandemicOnly 16% consider him generally trustworthyhttps://t.co/6A6hvC6WIs pic.twitter.com/fCYEGSNQMg
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Those people are to be sympathised with rather than pilloried,; they generally can't help it, and they struggle in today's complex technology society.
Of course, there are others within it who are genuinely dupes, idiots and emotionally-aligned malevolents.
Yes, and most of them seem to be Tory voters.
Never again
That's a bit more consistent than with normal people, where it's a bit harder to work out at any one particular time that they might be fibbing.
I'd also not blindly 'trust' anyone else giving evidence to this inquiry. This whole thing is turning into a massive CYA exercise where many try to shift blame onto others. Good on the few people who do actually admit they made mistakes...
"There is an old Jewish saying: the antisemite does not accuse the Jew of stealing because he thinks he stole something. He does it because he enjoys watching the Jew turn out his pockets to prove his innocence.
The rape deniers know women were raped, mutilated and tortured. They just don’t care. And they are enjoying seeing our wounded and violated people have to turn out our pockets to prove we’re not liars."
On the other hand, he was broadly true to his pro-Brexit, big government Conservatism throughout his time in office. I don't agree with much of it, but he delivered what broadly what he said he would do when elected, as far as he could given the pandemic. The main exception was raising national insurance, which he did in order to try to meet another pledge on care homes.
On the other hand, Starmer, though doubtless honourable in personal matters, is completely inconsistent, obfuscates when you try and pin him down and has had so many different political positions, from campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn and running a Trotskyite rag to praising Margaret Thatcher the other day, that there is absolutely no telling what he would do.
Not an appetising choice.
Johnson has and will always say whatever he thinks will get the approval of the audience in front of him. If this proves to be unreliable, he will then later deny, accuse or - if absolutely necessary - attempt a puppy-dog apology.
His only reliability is in the Errol Flynn sense.
Truss is still the best ever practitioner of Con rapidly descending.
My view is that the Tory vote is almost entirely dependent on how scary people find Labour. Clearly Starmer is much less scary than Corbyn, but not entirely lacking in scariness.
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2023/12/blind-item-4_5.html
Spent the evening finding a last minute AirBnb place, and ended up staying in a traditional hanok house (which we otherwise wouldn't have done).
Surely you can do something similar ?
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/13-best-reads-2023
It will be interesting to see what my MP Lee Anderson says on the Boris COVID Sessions. He was defending him just before he was defenestrated.
Meanwhile, more dogs and bollards.
https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1731800303782023632
UGH
An expensive error but fuck it. I’d have killed myself in there. A friend swore to me it was a good choice - “a lovely apartment” - yeah, maybe, if you’re comparing it to a HAMAS HOSTAGE TUNNEL
I might leave that as a review
The investigators were given bonuses based on how much money they recovered from subpostmasters. So of course they had no incentive to find out the cause of the discrepancies and every incentive to pursue them for money. No wonder they did no proper investigations.
Added to that the Post Office had to pay money to Fujitsu to get the necessary information to find out what was happening so they had an extra incentive not to to investigate and not to disclose.
Christ knows who signed off on such an egregiously bad policy. The senior lawyers probably. I have no polite words for those responsible, whoever they are.
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=364581
Sure, they didn't vote on the basis of "honest and trustworthy" but there were far more people who thought he was back then.
Sadly, the YouGov tracking poll (https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/is-boris-johnson-trustworthy) only goes from 2019-2022; but he starts out with 36% there, which falls calamitously to 11% in August 2022.
I think the view of many was that he was essentially a jovial, competent leader (even 40%+ of Labour voters thought he was a competent mayor of London); there was a solid body of 40-50% who never trusted him, but it is the "trust" number we are looking at.
International chains are surprisingly bad at aggressively defending their IP in Asian countries, as they would in Europe or the US.
So must stop hanging round here and get ready.
DUHHHHHH
If you believe Crazy Days and Nights of course
Mr. Leon, but do they have splendid chocolate cake as a dessert in the restaurant?
I suppose we are to trust Sir Keir, who was happy for us to be locked down for longer on the back of the non existent ‘Johnson Variant’, the deaths from which he hoped to associate the PM with. How disappointed he must have been when we opened up and there wasn’t a surge of covid deaths .
Mind you, he didn’t think the virus enough of a threat not to have a piss up with friends indoors if a technicality could get him off the hook. Whilst the rest of us were locked up
The rooms have a posh premier inn vibe; they spent all the money on the marble lobby
No way it’s a five star and if they try to charge 5 star Bangkok prices it will go bust
It is, nonetheless, 1200% better than the Airbnb Hamas Hostage Tunnel
I thought he was a lying toad when I voted for him - I still think he's a lying toad now. But I also think he was a better over covid than KS would have been - not because Boris was particularly good, but because KS's instincts were all wrong; he always wanted more and harder lockdowns - all the available evidence suggests if anything we had too much.
This client decided after a few months that another legal review was needed. Not that there is anything wrong with the current policies which requires the store to be taken off-line. So an invitation to their lawyers to come up with the same thing in a format they are happy with.
New lawyers understand gift week and produce reams of unnecessary additions which need to be taken off one by one. Now there are "we must do x to comply with remote selling laws" despite already having a clear "no quibbles refund" policy posted and in effect.
Group legal and contracted lawyers now arguing with each other about various clauses. The bill keeps increasing. And now they are asking me to referee!
Can I refer you back to the start where the existing policies are already legally compliant? No wonder TSE can afford such outrageous shoes...
All while we were meant to be terrified of socialising near family and friends, and reprimanded as being thoughtless and selfish, because the virus was so contagious and deadly
I feel like an orientalised Patrick McGoohan
Also no one in Thailand is called “ting tong” - it means “crazy”
“You ting tong farang!” Etc
We're at the highest point of the island, but the river is about 2 inches below our patio. Our Shack is on 2 foot pillars, so we should be OK....
Still, at least she didn't appoint Paula Vennels. That privilege went to Vince Cable.
He was brought down over lying about putting a known sexual predator in a position of authority and then getting cabinet ministers to repeat that lie.
We have all done it.....
And that’s after feeling incredibly let down by Clegg.
He'd have been brought down by something or other sooner or later.
Johnson was already damaged by Partygate and his general unsuitedness to being PM was increasingly coming to show. Public services were struggling, the economy had taken a big hit and airy and pithy wordsmithery wasn't enough. In that context, being asked to cover up (yet) another inappropriate Johnson appointment was one ask too far for too many MPs. However, had he still been 10 points ahead in the polls, they'd have swallowed it.
So that's who got the banking hall from BCCI.
The magistrate presiding over an enquiry into whether someone caught by slave catchers was actually a slave got a fee.
One amount for if he found the captured person not to be a slave. Something like 50% extra if he found that the person *was* a slave.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality.
1984 was Orwell naming existing things he observed.