ON topic and it's hard to argue with Boris Johnson's comments in all honesty. .
Impossible I'd have thought, but of course pretending is a key part of diplomacy. Though in fairness it's not like this was in the middle of a speech at the UN or something.
Yeah, I suspect we all agree with Boris. But diplomatic expectations are that home truths are spoken in private. I doubt Boris has the political capital right now to change centuries of diplomatic protocol.
So only fools like Boris can speak the truth. No one else will.
ON topic and it's hard to argue with Boris Johnson's comments in all honesty. .
Impossible I'd have thought, but of course pretending is a key part of diplomacy. Though in fairness it's not like this was in the middle of a speech at the UN or something.
Yeah, I suspect we all agree with Boris. But diplomatic expectations are that home truths are spoken in private. I doubt Boris has the political capital right now to change centuries of diplomatic protocol.
So only fools like Boris can speak the truth. No one else will.
ON topic and it's hard to argue with Boris Johnson's comments in all honesty. .
Impossible I'd have thought, but of course pretending is a key part of diplomacy. Though in fairness it's not like this was in the middle of a speech at the UN or something.
Yeah, I suspect we all agree with Boris. But diplomatic expectations are that home truths are spoken in private. I doubt Boris has the political capital right now to change centuries of diplomatic protocol.
May has played a game whereby boris is forced to do a serious job that exposes how shallow and fake his persona ultimately is. Thereby neutralising him as a threat (although arguably after his disastorous leadership campaign he is no longer a threat in any case), but this strategy is not without its risks.
I am sure my memory is letting me down again but was it not only yesterday I read several remainers lamenting how sad it was that we were leaving the wonders of the single market and having to grub around with middle eastern despots. Today our FS makes some accurate comments and all of a sudden it is a disaster. Or something.
It's almost as if they have a different agenda.
Ditto with Fox above.
The more Boris reveals his true thoughts to me...socially liberal, pro EU, pro free movement, anti hideous regimes...the more I like him.
Why cannot Boris run on a platform of what he really believes? He's alot better than anyone else at the minute.
Instead we are left with Theresa May who would make a dandy job of sorting out your post, but doesn't seem capable of operating at any levels higher...
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
ON topic and it's hard to argue with Boris Johnson's comments in all honesty. .
Impossible I'd have thought, but of course pretending is a key part of diplomacy. Though in fairness it's not like this was in the middle of a speech at the UN or something.
Yeah, I suspect we all agree with Boris. But diplomatic expectations are that home truths are spoken in private. I doubt Boris has the political capital right now to change centuries of diplomatic protocol.
So only fools like Boris can speak the truth. No one else will.
Boris as the government's yurodivy?
Some characteristics that were commonly seen in yurodivys (holy fools at the Russian court) were going around half-naked, being homeless, speaking in riddles, being believed to be clairvoyant and a prophet, and occasionally being disruptive and challenging to the point of seeming immoral (though always to make a point).
John Glenn have us one of my favourite quotes. When asked what was going through his mind as he prepared to take off on his epic journey into space:
I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
ON topic and it's hard to argue with Boris Johnson's comments in all honesty. .
Impossible I'd have thought, but of course pretending is a key part of diplomacy. Though in fairness it's not like this was in the middle of a speech at the UN or something.
Yeah, I suspect we all agree with Boris. But diplomatic expectations are that home truths are spoken in private. I doubt Boris has the political capital right now to change centuries of diplomatic protocol.
So only fools like Boris can speak the truth. No one else will.
Boris as the government's yurodivy?
Some characteristics that were commonly seen in yurodivys (holy fools at the Russian court) were going around half-naked, being homeless, speaking in riddles, being believed to be clairvoyant and a prophet, and occasionally being disruptive and challenging to the point of seeming immoral (though always to make a point).
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
Is that the one near Pinner or Northwood?
Not sure where Pinner is
On the road to Oxford just inside the M25 so assuming Northwood. I slightly prefer WLSS to be honest but H&H is ok
I hope you didn't have to murder any animals and were just shooting at clay bits of pottery
Course not. I only shoot pheasant for the table. This was clays (but with the flights set to mimic the flights of specific game birds)
When you say to mimic the flights...is that because the pheasants are fat, wings clipped and easier to shoot.
When you sort of hit the pheasants, a kind of half shot, and they are sort of twitching around, their bodies distorted by their injuries, alive, in great shock and pain..... but need to be stamped on...are those the ones you enjoy eating most.....Yummy......
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
That sounds like a normal night out! Out of touch indeed
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Tbh, that's what we're trying to achieve, tyson. We want a relaxed night out with good beer, good food and good company. It's the best man who wants to go mental.
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Tbh, that's what we're trying to achieve, tyson. We want a relaxed night out with good beer, good food and good company. It's the best man who wants to go mental.
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
Is that the one near Pinner or Northwood?
Not sure where Pinner is
On the road to Oxford just inside the M25 so assuming Northwood. I slightly prefer WLSS to be honest but H&H is ok
I hope you didn't have to murder any animals and were just shooting at clay bits of pottery
Course not. I only shoot pheasant for the table. This was clays (but with the flights set to mimic the flights of specific game birds)
When you say to mimic the flights...is that because the pheasants are fat, wings clipped and easier to shoot.
When you sort of hit the pheasants, a kind of half shot, and they are sort of twitching around, their bodies distorted by their injuries, alive, in great shock and pain..... but need to be stamped on...are those the ones you enjoy eating most.....Yummy......
No - partridges fly low and fast, pheasant high and curving. All serious countryfolk hate winging birds by the way. And we dont clip their wings: these aren't commercial shoots.
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Tbh, that's what we're trying to achieve, tyson. We want a relaxed night out with good beer, good food and good company. It's the best man who wants to go mental.
I hope you find a way to achieve it, for everyone's sake.
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Tbh, that's what we're trying to achieve, tyson. We want a relaxed night out with good beer, good food and good company. It's the best man who wants to go mental.
Bath isn't a bad choice for good beer.
The groom picked Bath! It's the best man who wants to bus everyone to Bristol for two nights to go to clubs and do coke. Hopefully we can drag the whole thing back to sanity or convince the groom to have a second night in London.
The recount in the states is going well (below is rando Facebook post)
This is a bloodbath
The room I’m in has a team of Trump lawyers circulating the tables like sharks. I’m only aware of one Green lawyer and one law student in the (large) room.
There’s 1-2 Trump volunteers at every table with written challenge scripts, challenging every single step automatically. Gumming up the works.
I was at my table a full hour before our box was even unsealed!
I haven't counted a single vote in my first four hour shift.
I've been travelling around Britain a fair bit this week, and you know, I'm not surprised. So much of what you might have expected to be solid Labour is changing out of all recognition, moving towards looking much more like marginal territory. Places like Grimsby and Scunthorpe and Doncaster are what Reading and Swindon looked like 20 years ago.
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
This wasn't as fancy as that, but still a good time. First time shooting for a couple of the group as well and they really enjoyed it. Clay pigeons for advanced shooters and targets for everyone one else. The instructor was amazing as well, we went out in Hertfordshire somewhere.
Mine was a one night, boozy, boys night in Blackpool where we ended up sleeping five or six at a B & B........ No drugs, strippers, hookers, tarts....just beer, mates, chips and music....
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
Tbh, that's what we're trying to achieve, tyson. We want a relaxed night out with good beer, good food and good company. It's the best man who wants to go mental.
Bath isn't a bad choice for good beer.
The groom picked Bath! It's the best man who wants to bus everyone to Bristol for two nights to go to clubs and do coke. Hopefully we can drag the whole thing back to sanity or convince the groom to have a second night in London.
The last stag night I went on was at LeTouquet in France a few years ago....after a days playing golf and going racing most of us just wanted to have a nice meal and go to bed....
The best man (a London DJ) bought a round of cocktails to the naysayers (including me)...which he spiked with a healthy dose of pure MDMA. At 8.00a.m the next day I finally went to bed...the meal was forgotten...but there again was most of the night. Apparently I had a huge smile on my face though and still look back to it with very fond memories.....
Split in the Lib Dems reported by the Independent. Three of their MP's have rebelled against Tim Farron and will not support his hard line stance
I noticed Lamb and Pugh were not on the list. Lamb in particular represents a leave constituency
Norman Lamb, Greg Mulholland and John Pugh all abstained from the vote saying that they do not want to give the impression they do not accept the result or want to block it.
Goddamit I love those Germans. Whoever voted for Brexit? Morons.
Germans are brilliant, wise, clever and insightful.
These latter remarks are entirely unconnected with the fact S K Tremayne has TWO books in the Spiegel bestseller lists this week. EISIGE SCHWESTERN re-entering at number 18, and STIEFKIND going straight in at number 12.
I've been travelling around Britain a fair bit this week, and you know, I'm not surprised. So much of what you might have expected to be solid Labour is changing out of all recognition, moving towards looking much more like marginal territory. Places like Grimsby and Scunthorpe and Doncaster are what Reading and Swindon looked like 20 years ago.
I'm moved at this point to recall the piece recently published in the New Statesman which informed us that, since 1970, every Labour Opposition (even that led by Blair in the mid-Nineties) has assumed a downward trajectory in the opinion polls from this point in a Parliament onwards. There is also a strong tendency for the polls to overestimate Labour's actual general election vote, and IIRC the Tory vote has been underestimated at almost every general election for at least the last half-century, 1983 being the sole exception.
I'm still reasonably confident that Labour won't slip much below 25%, but it's certainly not too much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that a continued woeful performance in Opposition, combined with some successful vote stealing by Ukip and the Lib Dems, could drive them down towards the 23% of the vote that Nick Clegg's Lib Dems managed to secure in 2010. The latter only came away with 57 seats; Labour would do a great deal better with the same vote share, of course - but right now its supermajorities in the main urban centres and many of the poorest parts of England and Wales are all that are standing between a heavy defeat and total catastrophe for the party.
I see the us nighty shows have moved on from rage at thick racists voting for trump to constantly bashing and lampooning the electoral college system.
A system they would be entirely happy with if the positions of Clinton and Trump were reversed.
Oh, I'm sure some of them disliked it before. They just didn't care about when they would win, like our own dear fairweather PR supporters who discover FPTP is an outrage, when it produces the wrong result, which presumably annoys the consistent PR supporters.
The recount in the states is going well (below is rando Facebook post)
This is a bloodbath
The room I’m in has a team of Trump lawyers circulating the tables like sharks. I’m only aware of one Green lawyer and one law student in the (large) room.
There’s 1-2 Trump volunteers at every table with written challenge scripts, challenging every single step automatically. Gumming up the works.
I was at my table a full hour before our box was even unsealed!
I haven't counted a single vote in my first four hour shift.
This is what is depressing about American politics: the hardline partisanship. Even with their man safely in the White House, Republicans, or at least some of them, are still intent on frustrating the count. For the most part we do not have that over here.
Certainly a step up from the usual set of numpties they have on.
Darth Vader would be excellent at solving our productivity problems, he was splendid at finding ways to motivate workers, but I do worry about high spending defence contracts, producing overmanned, ineffective vanity projects, frankly.
I see the us nighty shows have moved on from rage at thick racists voting for trump to constantly bashing and lampooning the electoral college system.
A system they would be entirely happy with if the positions of Clinton and Trump were reversed.
Oh, I'm sure some of them disliked it before. They just didn't care about when they would win, like our own dear fairweather PR supporters who discover FPTP is an outrage, when it produces the wrong result, which presumably annoys the consistent PR supporters.
I do think if Clinton had won but with less than circa 3 millions votes...this would first had led to Trump going off the radar bonkers.....but also caused some existential crisis within the Democrats and how they take forward the new administration with this lack of mandate...particularly to the supreme court pic, and some of her cabinet. They would have made massive compromises in my opinion.
But Trump will not compromise on anything..not this, not his own party, not his business interests, his use of social media....
Personally I think GOP should have won this election. 3 terms in the US is too long. But, how the hell they haven't developed a system for weeding someone like Trump out god only knows.
The recount in the states is going well (below is rando Facebook post)
This is a bloodbath
The room I’m in has a team of Trump lawyers circulating the tables like sharks. I’m only aware of one Green lawyer and one law student in the (large) room.
There’s 1-2 Trump volunteers at every table with written challenge scripts, challenging every single step automatically. Gumming up the works.
I was at my table a full hour before our box was even unsealed!
I haven't counted a single vote in my first four hour shift.
Why are they acting as if they have something to hide?
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
Is that the one near Pinner or Northwood?
Not sure where Pinner is
On the road to Oxford just inside the M25 so assuming Northwood. I slightly prefer WLSS to be honest but H&H is ok
I hope you didn't have to murder any animals and were just shooting at clay bits of pottery
Course not. I only shoot pheasant for the table. This was clays (but with the flights set to mimic the flights of specific game birds)
Are you a sporting clays man?
So I guess you like murdering animals for a spot of entertainment too?
And you vote Brexit....and support Trump. And you are not a fan of Pope Francis..... Just joining the dots.
I am vegetarian and I would suggest you google "sporting clays"...
Sorry....my apologies and profusely so.....And no excuses. So sorry. And with no justifications....
You did the same to me in an exchange on here finally ending up accusing the UK as having the worse animal rights record in Europe. I then pointed out a number of appalling situations just down the road from your villa. You were very sorry that time as well but seemed not to have learned.
You really need to calm down a bit, stop being Mr fecking outraged all the time and acting as some sort of ivory tower moral conscience of PB. People have differing views and you disagree fine no issues but it doesn't make them wrong and they don't deserve the tirade of abuse and insults you commonly throw at them for example in Brexit.
Certainly a step up from the usual set of numpties they have on.
Darth Vader would be excellent at solving our productivity problems, he was splendid at finding ways to motivate workers, but I do worry about high spending defence contracts, producing overmanned, ineffective vanity projects, frankly.
I see the us nighty shows have moved on from rage at thick racists voting for trump to constantly bashing and lampooning the electoral college system.
A system they would be entirely happy with if the positions of Clinton and Trump were reversed.
Oh, I'm sure some of them disliked it before. They just didn't care about when they would win, like our own dear fairweather PR supporters who discover FPTP is an outrage, when it produces the wrong result, which presumably annoys the consistent PR supporters.
I do think if Clinton had won but with less than circa 3 millions votes...this would first had led to Trump going off the radar bonkers.....but also caused some existential crisis within the Democrats and how they take forward the new administration with this lack of mandate...particularly to the supreme court pic, and some of her cabinet. They would have made massive compromises in my opinion.
But Trump will not compromise on anything..not this, not his own party, not his business interests, his use of social media....
Personally I think GOP should have won this election. 3 terms in the US is too long. But, how the hell they haven't developed a system for weeding someone like Trump out god only knows.
I guess they thought they had such a system. Whoops.
Mine was great - wake boarding in Surrey followed by an afternoon at the Holland & Holland shooting ground & then dinner at Berry Bros.
Is that the one near Pinner or Northwood?
Not sure where Pinner is
On the road to Oxford just inside the M25 so assuming Northwood. I slightly prefer WLSS to be honest but H&H is ok
I hope you didn't have to murder any animals and were just shooting at clay bits of pottery
Course not. I only shoot pheasant for the table. This was clays (but with the flights set to mimic the flights of specific game birds)
Are you a sporting clays man?
So I guess you like murdering animals for a spot of entertainment too?
And you vote Brexit....and support Trump. And you are not a fan of Pope Francis..... Just joining the dots.
I am vegetarian and I would suggest you google "sporting clays"...
Sorry....my apologies and profusely so.....And no excuses. So sorry. And with no justifications....
You did the same to me in an exchange on here finally ending up accusing the UK as having the worse animal rights record in Europe. I then pointed out a number of appalling situations just down the road from your villa. You were very sorry that time as well but seemed not to have learned.
You really need to calm down a bit, stop being Mr fecking outraged all the time and acting as some sort of ivory tower moral conscience of PB. People have differing views and you disagree fine no issues but it doesn't make them wrong and they don't deserve the tirade of abuse and insults you commonly throw at them for example in Brexit.
OK...but please give me a tiny bit of credit for recognising when I do make mistakes, and do apologise..... I could just ignore it, or worse still make it worse. But when people make justified critiques about what I say I do hold my hands up and say "fair cop"
The recount in the states is going well (below is rando Facebook post)
This is a bloodbath
The room I’m in has a team of Trump lawyers circulating the tables like sharks. I’m only aware of one Green lawyer and one law student in the (large) room.
There’s 1-2 Trump volunteers at every table with written challenge scripts, challenging every single step automatically. Gumming up the works.
I was at my table a full hour before our box was even unsealed!
I haven't counted a single vote in my first four hour shift.
Why are they acting as if they have something to hide?
Because with Russian help Trump rigged the election. Now, I know what you are thinking - Alistair, that sounds crazy and made up. Amd you are right. But we live in a post fact world now. The election was fraudulent you rugged in favour of Trump. Trump himself has said so. Millions of fraudulent votes.
You have to accept what I am saying and thank me for it.
This is on Boris, surely? However much most of us might agree with his underlying points.
The more general point about Saudi is that people should be careful what they wish for when they condemn the [very condemnable] regime.
Yes. But as someone who's gone along with governments supporting dodgy allies in the past, I've come to feel it's often not really in our long-term interest. Perhaps Boris's indiscretion reflects what should be our policy, given that the Saudis don't seem to respond to behind-the-scenes pressure. If the current regime is eventually overthrown, might we not find that decades of unquestioning public support had got us into sticky territory?
Corbyn raised the issue of Saudi behaviour at PMQs last year - at that time, the general feeling was that it was an odd distraction from mainstream issues - and Labour put forward a motion a few months ago on similar lines to what Boris has now said (the Government voted it down).
So are you supporting Boris in this?
Yes, though more on the substance than the form - I would like to see him persuading the Government that this was the line they should take, rather than just sound off in a speech.
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So only fools like Boris can speak the truth. No one else will.
On the road to Oxford just inside the M25 so assuming Northwood. I slightly prefer WLSS to be honest but H&H is ok
And I bet none of them read the Guardian.
May has played a game whereby boris is forced to do a serious job that exposes how shallow and fake his persona ultimately is. Thereby neutralising him as a threat (although arguably after his disastorous leadership campaign he is no longer a threat in any case), but this strategy is not without its risks.
The more Boris reveals his true thoughts to me...socially liberal, pro EU, pro free movement, anti hideous regimes...the more I like him.
Why cannot Boris run on a platform of what he really believes? He's alot better than anyone else at the minute.
Instead we are left with Theresa May who would make a dandy job of sorting out your post, but doesn't seem capable of operating at any levels higher...
I went to a charity event at H&H years ago - the main auction lot went for 250k - out of my league but the shooting was good.
Some characteristics that were commonly seen in yurodivys (holy fools at the Russian court) were going around half-naked, being homeless, speaking in riddles, being believed to be clairvoyant and a prophet, and occasionally being disruptive and challenging to the point of seeming immoral (though always to make a point).
I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Do robots die?
https://twitter.com/SimonMAtkinson/status/806970266039488512
And I am the one lampooned on this site as an out of touch, feckless, establishment, elitist lefty living in Tuscany.........
When you sort of hit the pheasants, a kind of half shot, and they are sort of twitching around, their bodies distorted by their injuries, alive, in great shock and pain..... but need to be stamped on...are those the ones you enjoy eating most.....Yummy......
Good night, everyone.
This is a bloodbath
The room I’m in has a team of Trump lawyers circulating the tables like sharks. I’m only aware of one Green lawyer and one law student in the (large) room.
There’s 1-2 Trump volunteers at every table with written challenge scripts, challenging every single step automatically. Gumming up the works.
I was at my table a full hour before our box was even unsealed!
I haven't counted a single vote in my first four hour shift.
The best man (a London DJ) bought a round of cocktails to the naysayers (including me)...which he spiked with a healthy dose of pure MDMA. At 8.00a.m the next day I finally went to bed...the meal was forgotten...but there again was most of the night. Apparently I had a huge smile on my face though and still look back to it with very fond memories.....
https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/806981690899963908
And you vote Brexit....and support Trump. And you are not a fan of Pope Francis..... Just joining the dots.
Sensible and not a good look for Farron
They should split in 2, Farron can lead the Liberals, Lamb can lead the Democrats.
I'm still reasonably confident that Labour won't slip much below 25%, but it's certainly not too much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that a continued woeful performance in Opposition, combined with some successful vote stealing by Ukip and the Lib Dems, could drive them down towards the 23% of the vote that Nick Clegg's Lib Dems managed to secure in 2010. The latter only came away with 57 seats; Labour would do a great deal better with the same vote share, of course - but right now its supermajorities in the main urban centres and many of the poorest parts of England and Wales are all that are standing between a heavy defeat and total catastrophe for the party.
Sorry....my apologies and profusely so.....And no excuses. So sorry. And with no justifications....
"People in Sleaford have been left shocked that Boston has been ranked as a better place to visit by a travel website."
Read more at http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/it-has-so-much-to-offer-shock-as-sleaford-is-named-as-tenth-best-tourist-attraction-out-of-15/story-29966427-detail/story.html#ZZTFsCEF1vbXEiju.99
Not really surprising that Boston rates higher since it has a population of 67,000 compared to just 18,000 in Sleaford.
NEW THREAD
But Trump will not compromise on anything..not this, not his own party, not his business interests, his use of social media....
Personally I think GOP should have won this election. 3 terms in the US is too long. But, how the hell they haven't developed a system for weeding someone like Trump out god only knows.
You really need to calm down a bit, stop being Mr fecking outraged all the time and acting as some sort of ivory tower moral conscience of PB. People have differing views and you disagree fine no issues but it doesn't make them wrong and they don't deserve the tirade of abuse and insults you commonly throw at them for example in Brexit.
Sounds like Stevenage:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBIzLNYKUGU
You have to accept what I am saying and thank me for it.