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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:47 pm https://twitter.com/michaelgove

Sorry Boris, my old pal, can't tweet out support. I'm too busy with church services at All Saints Margaret Street and something about old buildings.

He wasn't a martyr, he was a very naughty boy.

But he's been doing God's work behind the scenes apparently.

Ekskeruse-me, Ukraine? This is no more the UK's war than Tigray or Myanmar is. (Unless you include arms sales, that is.)

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 9:46 pm Ekskeruse-me, Ukraine? This is no more the UK's war than Tigray or Myanmar is. (Unless you include arms sales, that is.)

The UK is a signatory of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances and, as such, a guarantor of Ukraine's security. Therefore, if anyone threatens, let alone attacks, Ukraine it is very much "our war".

In 2014 the NATO summit took place in Cardiff. Up to that point the alliance had been eagerly signing up central and eastern European states like a drunk manager at the transfer deadline. Then Ukraine was turned down.

I heard the Blond Bloviator banging on at PMQs about how their 40,000 extra NHS employees will reduce waiting times.

In a week's time, about 70,000 unvaccinated NHS England staff will receive their dismissal notices...

Isn't 40k the same number he's been using for years?

I would've thought they needed to up it what with the exodus of NHS staff due to myriad COVID reasons.

Johnson caught lying about the animal airlift.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:39 pm Isn't 40k the same number he's been using for years?

I would've thought they needed to up it what with the exodus of NHS staff due to myriad COVID reasons.

Unfortunately Johnson has got to the point that if he told me I had two feet I'd look to check.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:50 pm Johnson caught lying about the animal airlift.

Oh well, I suppose that we are in for a few days of "puppy gate". That should tide us over until the next scandal breaks.

"The problem with the Labour Party today is that they've got a lawyer, not a leader!"

These attempts at a turn of phrase get worse as the weeks go on

GB News put that bit up on Twitter, like it was clever.

https://news.stv.tv/politics/johnson-mo ... -over-cake

Something about Bunter deploying these playground jibes with his legion of braying shitgibbons behind him, all oblivious to black pots and kettles and the occupants of glass houses wielding stones, really stokes my fear for political discourse in this country.

It's the referendum that did it. Showed people that you didn't need to be smart to win an argument, just be louder and more obnoxious than the other guy.

Jesus. The replies. All sorts of bollocks like "you're lying, Pen Farthing chartered the flight, not the government".

Stick the money on the national debt and nobody in his party will care, same as no Republicans do. But wasn't this money supposed to "fix social care"?

Despite what some people said at the time, NI is a very progressive tax (though not as progressive as income tax could be, or some other combination of taxes). The main beneficiaries of this will be high earning households. Better to do the tax rise or something like it, and redistribute that money to poorer households.

Meanwhile, "Starmer Out" is trending on Twitter...

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:02 pm Jesus. The replies. All sorts of bollocks like "you're lying, Pen Farthing chartered the flight, not the government".