PM compared to injured horse

[StealthPolarBear]

www.businessinsider.com/dominic-cummings-father-in-law-boris-johnson-will-resign-february-2020-8
I don't even know where to start with this one!

I wonder if the author of the article knows that they sometimes have to put down injured horses?

Err yes first thing that sprang to mind.

Bad (or rather, very good) comparison.

Quick shot to the temple tends to be the score...

God lets hope so!!!

I hope there's another GE next year

Between but slightly above the level of the eyes is what I was told.... 🐴

I think he's been a particularly bad PM but who would you want to see replace him given that another GE is unlikely?

Rees-Mogg?
Gove?

It’s got fuck all to do with him having got covid and everything to do with him getting brexit done and fucking off into the sunset, which was his plan all along

The article says -

Silverman says she had the conversation with Wakefield when she bumped into him on a trip to Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, northeast England. That was obviously testing a new pair of glasses out - should have gone to Specsavers.

If true, BJ's successor will be Priti Patel.

@FizzyGreenWater

Err yes first thing that sprang to mind.

Bad (or rather, very good) comparison.

Quick shot to the temple tends to be the score...

You don't shoot horses in the temple. You draw a cross from one ear to the opposite eye and aim for the middle.

Now shitty PMs on the other hand.... 🤔😂😂😂😂

If it is due to the effects of long covid then the government are being even more incompetent than I thought possible. All this 'it's very unlikely to die' but it's not unlikely to have long term symptoms.

Rees-Mogg wouldn't stand any chance of being next PM. I think the 1922 Committee will be much more canny and won't go near another rank phoney, a made-up toff. I don't think the country would go for it either, that trope has well and truly run its course. But yes to putting the indolent and ridiculous Johnson out of his misery.

Dominic Cummings' father-in-law, Humphry Wakefield, reportedly told a woman interviewed by The Times of London that the prime minister would quit early next year over lingering health problems caused by the coronavirus.

This is like on here when the schools were shut and everyone was swearing up and down that their neighbour’s daughter’s best friend was a head teacher and knew for a fact that schools would be opening next week/September/Christmas*

*delete as applicable.

When I say the country, I mean Eng;and. The blustering whaar, whaaar never played in Scotland, and doubt they had much time for it in the other UK nations.

I always imagined Johnson would leg it very shortly after Brexit, but slightly before the full, hideous effects are stonkingly apparent so he can blame it all on Gove.

So, New Year's Day.

I’ve seen this on twitter too. Six months, apparently.

I don't think the country would go for it either, that trope has well and truly run its course

You'd hope so wouldn't you? Sadly I think it's unlikely because of the die hard Tory voters who would vote for a Vogon if it stood up and delivered poetry for it's party political broadcast as long as it had a blue rosette.

I like the idea that this is a jolly wheeze dreamy up by Boris to prove how popular he really is, anticipating a tsunami of pleas for him to stay.

Hope he isn't too disappointed ..

(Anyone remember Blackadder II ?

Blackadder to Baldrick: Am I not popular then ?
Baldrick: Well let's put it this way ... when people step in what dogs leave behind on the pavement they do say 'Whoops I've stood in an Edmund ...'" )

I nearly stood in a Boris a few days ago in the local park.

You don't shoot horses in the temple. You draw a cross from one ear to the opposite eye and aim for the middle.

Oh really? You learn something new every day! I probably saw it on a film somewhere... or someone's mate down the pub told me... Hang on, woah! Commenting on stuff I clearly don't know shit about...

...do you think I could get a Cabinet job?

:)

@FizzyGreenWater

You don't shoot horses in the temple. You draw a cross from one ear to the opposite eye and aim for the middle.

Oh really? You learn something new every day! I probably saw it on a film somewhere... or someone's mate down the pub told me... Hang on, woah! Commenting on stuff I clearly don't know shit about...

...do you think I could get a Cabinet job?

:)

You'd be overqualified.

@bettsbattenburg

I wonder if the author of the article knows that they sometimes have to put down injured horses?

I'll do it, anyone like to watch?

@FizzyGreenWater @DGRossetti

Vastly so.

I have a vague memory that a lot of animals aren't so easy to take out with a single shot if you aren't experienced ... people tend to go for the easiest target which is also the strongest.

That said vets that despatch horses just using a handgun, so there must be a way ?

Of course if you had to put a bullet in Boris brain (the alliteration alone makes it worthwhile) you'd aim just between the top of the legs where he's kept it these past 45 years.

Betts. Conservative Party members are on average 70 and over.

@DGRossetti Horses are routinely put down with a free bullet - as an earlier poster said, you draw a line from ear to opposite eye and where the two lines meet, you aim there heading straight down the length of the neck. Done correctly with a headhunter or rifle, it’s a perfectly humane way to euthanise a horse. It was the general method used to put down horses at the rescue centre where I worked unless the horse was headshy (which wasn’t that uncommon as they might have been beaten and not liked having their heads touched as a result) as horses can fight against the injection, which can be very distressing. In fact until it became illegal, a handgun was kept onsite for use in an emergency.

So there you go!