[Boiler]

Victoria, the terminus for Brighton services. (Just sayin')

Was having a good larf at Mark Steel Goes To Town in Brighton the other day...

[Oboogie]

He qualifies for a ministerial car.

That doesn't mean he can't or doesn't get a train now and again.

Of course and that is laudable.
But yesterday wasn't just any old day, was it?
Just because one is entitled to do something, doesn't always mean it's wise.
I would have avoided using trains in central London yesterday simply because of the additional crowds causing delays, let alone the risk of being caught up in violence. And I'm not a government minister.

I wonder what advice he received from his personal protection team when he announced his intention to travel on public transport through central London yesterday?

[Bones McCoy]

Either cruising for a "Brighton service".

Or hoping to score some Medellin Snow off Tommy's patriot pals.

[Watchman]

Couldn’t have been a stunt, he wasn't holding a giant poppy aloft as he strode through the crowd

[davidjay]

He did a similar thing, getting caught up in an anti-vax/mask/lockdown demo in 2021. The poor bloke keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Oboogie]

The hard right, Brexiter, Tories haven't trusted Gove since he 'stabbed Boris in the back'. Some evidence that 'the Lefties' hate him would do him no harm in garnering their support in a forthcoming leadership bid.

[Watchman]

Didn’t Rees-Smug pull a similar stunt a while back

[Youngian]

He qualifies for a ministerial car.

That doesn't mean he can't or doesn't get a train now and again.

Of course and that is laudable.
But yesterday wasn't just any old day, was it?
Just because one is entitled to do something, doesn't always mean it's wise.
I would have avoided using trains in central London yesterday simply because of the additional crowds causing delays, let alone the risk of being caught up in violence. And I'm not a government minister.

I wonder what advice he received from his personal protection team when he announced his intention to travel on public transport through central London yesterday?

Precisely, he’s the longest serving cabinet minister not a bumbling rookie. The prick knew exactly what he was doing by wasting police time on him.

[Andy McDandy]

Didn’t Rees-Smug pull a similar stunt a while back

Yes, with his son IIRC. The narrative of "I'm just a simple honest English man trying to go about my lawful business and look at these yobs" seems to have an appeal to the right. See also freemen on the land getting in people's faces.

[mattomac]

The best actions should have to ignore him, pretend he was Seb Payne

[Bones McCoy]

Didn’t Rees-Smug pull a similar stunt a while back

Took some of his offspring with him. And also a camera crew.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He's just been waffling on* about housing policy** in that affected soft-lad voice the Tories think is so fucking 'polite' and 'courteous' - two things they wouldn't recognise if they were slapped in the face by the concepts rolled up and stuffed down a concrete pipe.
The arrogant, incompetent, offensive mediocrity who has never been right in any policy, who destroyed our education system, unleashed the cunt Cummings and the cunt Johnson on the nation and enabled massive fraud during Covid.
The brainless, braggadavious little cunt who lied about his father's fishing business, who affects to some sort of gentility, who cheated on his wife, who has a drug habit worthy of Keef (but none of the talent) and who had the deluded belief that he could be Prime Minister.

Oh, and it's all Keir Starmer's fault.

The man's a cunt.


*45 minutes of verbal arse gravy

**Which, as a policy announcement should have been done in the Commons, but if he does it elsewhere he can't face hostile questions from MPs, just softball ones from GB News.

[Andy McDandy]

Something I've noticed with him over the years is how he veers between "Oh, ha ha, look at me, utterly clueless, couldn't tie my shoelaces without help" and "I am a ruthless and laser-focused super-intellectual and considerably cleverer than you*". OK, I know the two aren't mutually exclusive, but it's still fucking annoying coming from him.

*He's not.

[Youngian]

Too dodgy for Doug and Michelle

[Bones McCoy]

With any luck this will end up like the Lufthansa Heist.

https://www.history.com/news/1978-lufth ... goodfellas


Sound cuts to Layla (Piano Exit).

[Samanfur]

Gove quickly back-pedalling and saying that he "mis-spoke". He wanted to see the investigation into Mone conclude quickly, not see her in court.

Honest, guv.

[kreuzberger]

My goodness, that's enough to make him want to turn to dru... oh...

Meanwhile, they are both probably also brushing up on the scope of a potential Misconduct in Public Office charge.

The evidential bar looks to be deliciously low. At first glance, it seems that she would not be on the hook for that one, but that's certainly not the end of her problems - if the Old Bill can be arsed.

Gove the Cove on the other hand.

[Bones McCoy]

[Watchman]

Rules are rules, and its linked to PPE so appearing a bit minor doesn't quite wash

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -contracts

[Tubby Isaacs]

Could be an oversight. We don't know. All we can do is guess. So what do we think?