Westminstenders: Pro Rogues

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The Pro Rogues plan to prorogue again this week.

The Queen might be challenged to sack Johnson. Or he might be forced to extend.

It depends on which newspaper you read. Either way it strikes you that no one really knows what's going to happen...

If they are older.. it will be me. Bit stressed. About my stash.

I’m off abroad for a few days and the cat is extra pukey, these two circumstances tell me that the rest of this week will be interesting so I will be following with interest from my sunny hideaway (usually take an October break in the UK as the weather can be very nice but glad Brexit forced me to Spain this year).

In the meantime, our BoZo is managing to scatter insults to environmental activists, same technique used by trump I’d say

Boris Johnson Ridicules Extinction Rebellion Protestors As 'Hemp-Smelling Crusties' - HuffPost UK
apple.news/AT8U5EQfURgClflCniZE8Ew

Prices are going up, but not for everything. I’ve changed energy supplier and gone 100% renewables and spend less money than before, so at least that’s something. Not much, but I was expecting renewables to come at a premium, and was happily surprised :-)

BJ is insane, isn’t he? I mean, he’s got to be bad if even Nigel Farage is distancing himself away from him.

'Hemp-Smelling Crusties'

maybe if a few more of them were big-tittied blondes, he might re-evaluate.

So national debt to double in two years under a NDB. Just fab.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49961301

Of course it comes on top of yesterday's news that NDB would cost £15 billion a year in tax administration.

He praised Tatcher as the First Activist of environmental protection, and all sorts of fibs. It’s not JUST that he lies, to me. The problem is that he lies systematically (so you can’t really tell where the grain of truth is) and he lies via a thousand little fibs. None of them per se particularly serious, they’re like exaggerations, hyperboles, you could say that most speakers use this technique at some point, if it helps getting the message across. I know I do it, if I have to get the attention of the people I’m meeting and be very explicit I’ll say it bluntly, sometimes with an hyperbole, and mix it with some more ironic stuff to make them understand that I’m actually exaggerating but I want them to listen....
(That’s when I have clients that really don’t want to understand what they should understand...)
Once you put the fibs all together, once you have diluted the need for truth, and the sensibility of your audience to lies...that’s when you’re done real damage!!

Fair do's to Thatcher, she did take up the cause of climate change. ir David Hannay, master diplomat, buttered her up good and proper, 'Now you, Prime Minister, being a qualified scientist, are uniquely placed to understand this report.

Queue the handbagging of climate sceptic Nigel Lawson, "Are you a scientist, Nigel?" which he has never got over to this day.

The 'source from Downing St' messages top of the news this morning.

I hate the way the media dances to Cummings' tune.

Well it appears all is moving towards some sort of grand finale this week. Amber Rudd very articulate and sincere on Today. Laura K disingenuous as ever.
I do think Justin Webb is turning into a very good presenter/interviewer.

No-deal Brexit would raise public debt to a 50-year high

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/08/no-deal-brexit-would-push-national-debt-to-levels-last-seen-in-60s

Meanwhile local news is full of plans to charge £500 per parking space per year for companies with more than 10 spaces in Birmingham city centre. I hope it would be patronising to list the unintended consequences that would flow from such a decision ...

I mention it here, as whatever the facts of the matter, it will feed into any General Election - maybe locally but other cities are in line too ... (none of them London ...)

From The Times on Sunday. Poor Larry.

Recent visitors to No 10 have joked that a strange smell detectable in much of the house is the whiff of fear as the Brexit constitutional crisis gathers pace.

In fact, there is a more prosaic explanation — cat pee. Larry, the chief mouser, who is on his third prime minister, has been making his mark on the PM’s official residence, and staff are pointing the finger of blame in one direction: at Boris Johnson’s dog.

The arrival of Dilyn, the long-haired Jack Russell, has unsettled Larry and caused him to begin “marking his territory” around No 10, say Downing Street officials.

“Larry has been making his mark all over the house,” said one. “The smell of cat piss is palpable.”

'Marking his territory' my arse. It's an anti-Brexit dirty protest.

Go Larry!

No-deal Brexit would raise public debt to a 50-year high

If you stop wasting public money on things like education, health, pensions, roads policing and defence, that's not really a big issue is it ?

Boris's comments about Extinctuon Rebellion will play well to his supporters and the sad fact is he seems to have alot of them.

PMK

Damn. I hold my cup like BJ and my hair is a mess.
It’s not Brexit - it’s invasion of the body snatchers. We are all going to turn into Boris clones.

Where is my tinfoil hat?

Let’s face it. That scenario is beginning to sound quite sane in amongst the Brexit chaos.

Good old Larry showing his disapproval of the "filthy piece of tow rag."

...worse than a wine stain on your sofa.

Merde and extra merde. I’ve got this feeling in the stomach that this is the week. The blame game has started, but on some levels it’s business as usual, even the Arcuri story is more of a diversion and almost a selling point for BJ!
We’re no dealing, me think
DH says I’m being catastrophic and that London is sitting on such an amount of resources and wealth that it’d take ages to see the effects here. Which doesn’t make it reassuring for the country anyway. Plus I think it’s not true, it’s a castle of cards. Breathe in breathe out
Oooooohhhhmmmmmm