To be really enjoying Boris Johnson's downfall Part 3 Cake ambush

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To be really enjoying Boris Johnson's downfall Part 2 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4459992-To-be-really-enjoying-Boris-Johnsons-downfall-Part-2

And on it goes.

Crowd fund a new tv for janiie? Her old one's not working properly.

Sky News reporting that No 10 has still not received the Gray report.

The wait goes on

Civil servants could eat m and s cake though.
At a party , thrown by the bosses partner. With alcohol and cheese. Not socially distanced ( remember Allegra's words and laughing about it ? )
The NHS staff had to eat mass produced food in a stark canteen 2m apart and I bet a few of the chairs were taped up randomly as well.
They were the ones saving lives , the politicians not so much it seems ..
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They are saying a few more hours until 'Gray time'.

Starmer was like a rabbit in the headlights

Why in god's name would Starmer be like a rabbit in the headlights? He wasn't the one being grilled, or having done wrong. Or being investigated for criminality. Or known to be a liar and being pulled up on that by the opposition.

Johnson just shouts out his usual soundbites. And his Captain Hindsight jab went totally off the rails which was hilarious actually!

'Why in god's name would Starmer be like a rabbit in the headlights? '

I've no idea! he should have been powerful and damning but he wasn't at all. I understand the speaker tells them to sit and stand but he just dithered a bit too much, he looks weak. I'm not an Angie fan but she'd have really gone to town.

It's when he start jabbing his finger, I always expect him to stamp his feet as well

@AdamRyan

It sounds like many civil servants are against the PM (years ago they were not supposed to reveal political affiliations, but that seems to have gone by the board). It could be the fact he's a bad boss or they dislike him rather than political affiliations.

He's not the boss of the civil service, but there has long been a power struggle between civil servants and ministers.

I've no idea! he should have been powerful and damning but he wasn't at all. I understand the speaker tells them to sit and stand but he just dithered a bit too much, he looks weak. I'm not an Angie fan but she'd have really gone to town

You saw totally different to me then.

He nailed it.
BJ did his usual bluster and appealing to his crowd. His ramblings fell flat

@JaniieJones

'Why in god's name would Starmer be like a rabbit in the headlights? '

I've no idea! he should have been powerful and damning but he wasn't at all. I understand the speaker tells them to sit and stand but he just dithered a bit too much, he looks weak. I'm not an Angie fan but she'd have really gone to town.

Do you mean he didn’t shout and bawl and look behind him for cheers from the clowns? He wiped the floor with the blond mop top, coolly, calmly and precisely. It was hilarious to watch Boris fall flat on his face time and time again, leaping to his feet to pretend it didn’t hurt.

They always sit down when the jeering becomes too loud. Do you want them to start shouting just to be heard?

[quote derxa]**@derxa going to an appointment isn’t really the best view of what goes on in an average NHS workers day. An appointment? I've been for dozens of appointments. Anyway I don't begrudge any NHS staff having a sociable lunch together. They work together.[/quote]
Weird bit to get hung up on but the point remains, it doesn’t matter whether you’re there several days a week, you only get a snapshot from the patient pov. You won’t get any meaningful insight in what it means to work there.

Whilst waiting for the report that may never appear , I'm admiring the sky news ladies grey checked coat and scarf ( she is in Wolverhampton, a marginal seat now conservative)
She looks cold though , bless her
She could do with some nice cake and tea.

Weird bit to get hung up on but the point remains, it doesn’t matter whether you’re there several days a week, you only get a snapshot from the patient pov. You won’t get any meaningful insight in what it means to work there. I used to work in the NHS. Lunch in our group was the highlight of our day. The idea that any of us would sit outside shivering and eating from a plastic tub is just ludicrous. Painting NHS workers as meek shrinking violets is nonsense.

They are saying a few more hours until 'Gray time'.

Let's hope that the delay is not caused by rooms full of civil servants wielding pots of Snopake.

Nah... it'll be black marker. Redact redact redact

@Roussette

Starmer was like a rabbit in the headlights

Why in god's name would Starmer be like a rabbit in the headlights? He wasn't the one being grilled, or having done wrong. Or being investigated for criminality. Or known to be a liar and being pulled up on that by the opposition.

Johnson just shouts out his usual soundbites. And his Captain Hindsight jab went totally off the rails which was hilarious actually!

I loved the Captain Hindsight bit, Johnson totally walked into that one and Starmer was really loving it.

Bloody hell another perfectly harmless post deleted? Seriously?

@derxa did you work in the NHS during the lockdowns? I worked in the NHS for over almost two decades and it was quite unlike any other period of time I’ve ever known. Don’t forget, particularly in the first lockdown, we had very little knowledge of how covid worked/spread and ime peoples colleagues were ill/in hospital and there was a massive air of caution because nobody knew if that was the day there’d be an outbreak. In my department (office based) a number of people left right at the beginning.

I don’t know why that statement came across to you painting nhs workers as wimps, it didn’t to me.

[quote derxa]**@derxa going to an appointment isn’t really the best view of what goes on in an average NHS workers day. An appointment? I've been for dozens of appointments. Anyway I don't begrudge any NHS staff having a sociable lunch together. They work together.[/quote]
One of my kids is a nurse and was upset when working 90+ hr weeks and was seen by a visitor to be drinking a cup of coffee while working, not having been able to take a break that day. Getting a telling off for upsetting a visitor by drinking coffee is going a bit too far.

@JaniieJones

'Why in god's name would Starmer be like a rabbit in the headlights? '

I've no idea! he should have been powerful and damning but he wasn't at all. I understand the speaker tells them to sit and stand but he just dithered a bit too much, he looks weak. I'm not an Angie fan but she'd have really gone to town.

He was powerful!

He was like an adult telling off a child. His tone of voice was brilliant

Well let's face it. He is an adult telling off a child.

Yes that's it! Adult/child.

Tantrumming child with calm firm parent.

[quote Cornettoninja]@derxa did you work in the NHS during the lockdowns? I worked in the NHS for over almost two decades and it was quite unlike any other period of time I’ve ever known. Don’t forget, particularly in the first lockdown, we had very little knowledge of how covid worked/spread and ime peoples colleagues were ill/in hospital and there was a massive air of caution because nobody knew if that was the day there’d be an outbreak. In my department (office based) a number of people left right at the beginning.

I don’t know why that statement came across to you painting nhs workers as wimps, it didn’t to me.[/quote]
No I worked there many years ago. It sounds horrific. Hopefully people are much less fearful now

One of my kids is a nurse and was upset when working 90+ hr weeks and was seen by a visitor to be drinking a cup of coffee while working, not having been able to take a break that day. Getting a telling off for upsetting a visitor by drinking coffee is going a bit too far. That's bloody horrific. The pandemic turned some people into monsters. to your son/daughter