Westminstenders: Magical Thinking

[RedToothBrush]

This week has seen reports of the government editing footage of Johnson to avoid embarrassing questions about the early government response.

We've been asked to accept that the rules were different to what we were told to excuse the law breaking behaviour of a senior government advisor. As Johnson said he was being a responsible father (as if Johnson knows what this is) and it wasn't as if he was visiting a lover (this Johnson would know all about). Let's be honest Johnson is the master of brazening out controversy.

We also have the ERG complaining they were lied to by Gove about the new Withdrawal Agreement and the border in the Irish Sea which surprises precisely no one else.

They appear to be a little upset by the Cummings debarkable too.

@RedToothBrush

Was this a major part of the plot line from 'Years and Years'???!

That series was remarkably prescient.

Beware those men, the jokers and the tricksters and the clowns. They will laugh us into Hell.

Also can't help thinking of The Handmaid's Tale and feeling a bit queasy that Ramdesivir is produced by Gilead Sciences.

TBH re Quoting .....
I very rarely quote a whole post
and it would irritate me a lot of threads ended up with layered quotes like my local paper does

@BigChocFrenzy

I don't have any new buttons < sulk >

Am I right that you subscribe for premium or wharever? How come we have a feature that you don't?

@ListeningQuietly

TBH re Quoting ..... I very rarely quote a whole post and it would irritate me a lot of threads ended up with layered quotes like my local paper does

Me too. I think it looks messy. I'm just trying it out to see what it's like.

This BBC Scotland opinion poll probably illustrates a gap in opinion over several weeks

• which may explain a few obsessive threads I've seen about the "evils" of NS:

Is it laptop v mobile ?

Swedish I use the App

It doesn’t work if there is an embedded quote using the new function in the post that you want to quote. Seeing as you are all so busy playing and quoting one another there isn’t much virgin material to work with. So I’ve give you a clean post. You’re welcome.

@BigChocFrenzy

Swedish I use the App

Ah. I see.

I'd not spotted the quote thing.

@OhYouBadBadKitten

I'd not spotted the quote thing.

test.

I am on a PC. The quote thingy turned up after 9:21 on my PC.

Hmm, back to Brexit, Covid-19.

@OhYouBadBadKitten

I'd not spotted the quote thing.

I had.. not had time to play with it yet..

Oh!

In other news: File on Four was interesting tonight. (R4)

Saying much the same thing as Westminstender's did several threads back

@ListeningQuietly, that page is usually worth reading.
But THAT post!!

What’s going on in brexit world?!?

Question
Fab isn't it
I've been a fan since the first Tegan posts
and the videos are amazing
DH is convinced its all a spoof

I seem to have caused a stir re quoting, then unaware, sat and watched a few episodes of the crown. I am so sorry.

@MagisCapulus

I seem to have caused a stir re quoting, then unaware, sat and watched a few episodes of the crown. I am so sorry.

Don't apologise, it was a pleasant distraction.

I wonder what tomorrow's news about Cummings will be.

Thread in Site Stuff by Justine re quote thingy
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3920629-First-crack-at-a-new-quote-feature-please-check-it-out

And thank you Listening for the link to that FB page! What larks!

I wonder what tomorrow's news about Cummings will be.

That it's cutting through to the mainstream according to the Star's cover, the Mail's polling and Paddy McGuiness making a video that's had 1.5 million views. It's no longer a Westmonster bubble issue. Tories terrified of firing him because the alternative may be even worse.

According to sky they areygking to review the fines people may have had for childcare. After the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates said a government adviser had since stated that there was no "formal review" of lockdown fines.

40 Tory MPs now demanding Cummings resignation.

Are not going to

@MagisCapulus

I seem to have caused a stir re quoting, then unaware, sat and watched a few episodes of the crown. I am so sorry.

I've only come on to the safari site to play with this!

So the Tories want to see their support drain away do they? Well, I admit, that's fine by me. They need to watch it - Major had the same problem with losing support and then Smith/Blair came along who made Labour look electable. We know what happened - a Blair landslide and the Tories in the doldrums for 13 years.