Westminstenders: Run Forrest Run

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Need i say more?

I don't want to get stuck in Wessex.

I will have to move

quite
Ahh, Wessex ain't too bad. We've got the round table

Cummings/ Johnson should not be exempt

They are though.

The only "hope" we have is that we get to a state where enough tories sit on their hands to allow a vote of no confidence to succeed (twice) - probably another years worth of farce may be enough - then it's a long slow picking up of the pieces.

Steven Swinford, deputy political editor at The Times, Tweeted this evening;

Boris Johnson was tonight asked by a Tory MP at the 1922 committee if he has become a prisoner of No 10

There's a concern view on Tory backbenches that the No 10 team rather than the PM are in charge

MPs say he didn't answer the question directly

No 10 team

I thought this country had had enough of unelected bureaucrats?

Here's an interesting thing.

On FB, I follow "Scientists for EU" and "Benefits Fraud ? I'm more concerned about corporate fraud". (If I remember right another poster commented we seem to share feeds ).

Anyway, for the past 5 days, I've not had any posts in my feed from them ... despite my checking I am still following them. They are set to show as "default" ... although I may experiment and change them to "always first".

It's a curiosity ...

(I follow very little on FB, so losing those two stood out - if it happened to someone who follows hundreds, it would be much less perceptible ????)

DGR
Yours and my FB feeds are very similar.
I've had to switch to the new FB which has changed all my defaults
it might be that .....

I follow Scientists for EU, DGR, and I get posts to my feed daily - often multiple times a day. They're definitely still active.

@ListeningQuietly

DGR Yours and my FB feeds are very similar. I've had to switch to the new FB which has changed all my defaults it might be that .....

As did I ... could be.

@pointythings

I follow Scientists for EU, DGR, and I get posts to my feed daily - often multiple times a day. They're definitely still active.

Oh, I know they're active ... i visited their homepage and saw days of posts I've not got - when I getting everything as it was posted.

Maybe the change in style as LQ noted. Although if that is the case, it's still interesting it caused those two feeds to somehow go quiet ...

I'm on the new Facebook and my feeds are exactly the same. So I'm not sure what is going on there.

I just watched Johnson's performance at PMQs today (having only read about it earlier).

WTAF? His intellectual deterioration is almost trumpesque, he can barely string a sentence together. No wonder back benchers are starting to get a bit nervous.

quiteathome I don't want to get stuck in Wessex. I will have to move.

No you won't. If I remember correctly when this was discussed on a long ago Westminstenders thread, general consensus was that the Wessex border could be painlessly extended to cover all those who were domiciled elsewhere, even past the Watford Gap and unto the Scottish borders

@ListeningQuietly

Northern Ireland have been sold down the river Scotland are pissed off Wales are pissed off London is pissed off

Bring back the independent kingdom of Wessex

The English regions have been pissed off for years. There's already a 'Yorkshire first' group. Once Scotland goes some parts of the north are going to get antsy. If Yorkshire gets some kind of devolution settlement the East Midlands will develop an 'East Midlands / Mercia first' movement. Cornwall is already unhappy. It will take years; but this is the natural development when you try to centralise a huge system that cannot be in any way representative, while simultaneously impoverishing the people to the point where they cannot move around the country. Centres do not hold. This is socioeconomic collapse happening right in front of us.

Well, that will take us a bit further back than the seventies.

It's definitely that the 'No 10 team' (i.e. Cummings and his Leave coterie) are the ones in charge. It's why Johnson put and kept him there. To do the boring work of running a country whilst Johnson did the PR / front job. Disdain for proper hiring channels, bureaucratic processes are probably all part of DC's plan to shake up the civil service. Be interesting to see if / how long the backbencher go along with this operational structure.

www7.politicalbetting.com/

I first began reporting professionally as a journalist on PMQs in 1972 when I was part of the small team that produced the “Today in Parliament” programme for BBC Radio 4. Three years later I was one of the editors that handled the parliamentary broadcasting experiment that was the forerunner of the proceedings of the House being broadcast on radio and then later television.

These credentials are set out so I can assert that yesterday’s PMQs performance by Boris Johnson was the worst by any PM in half a century.

This was the first PMQs since the summer recess and has drawn fairly widespread criticism of Johnson from the commentariat. For me the big issue was that the PM got a reprimand from the Speaker Lindsay Hoyle three times.

www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2020/09/03/johnson-cant-go-on-being-as-dire-at-pmqs-as-he-was-yesterday/

Link for previous post

Barnier gave a speech yesterday setting out why the UK is without a paddle. Interesting that he makes clear that from 1st January ALL imports/exports to the UK will have to complete customs processes regardless of the outcome of negotiations. Frictionless trade is a myth. Massive lorry parks in Kent aren't a back up plan, they will be the new normal.

ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_20_1553?fbclid=IwAR3imJCmWDqvl_IkGsaEXx06BG4P88V0C3AjigG_6IG87X1N6Vqm0B6tYyI

Morning.
I see a comment of mine was deleted....
Gosh. Our visitors have paper thin skin, eh? And I thought WE were supposed to be the "snowflakes"??? 😀
I wonder why mnhq are so very scared of them?
Interesting!
Anyway...
Nick Gibbs said on Monday a decision on 2021 gcse/a levels would be "soon".
Yesterday it changed to "weeks".
Ofqual admit the cummings algorithm was shit (I'm paraphrasing..)
Johnson is barely capable of a coherant sentence and lo and behold some tory mps are now realising what we've been saying for months...
The UK is run by Dominic cummings.
There has been a coup and no one cares.

Could the deterioration of Boris partially be due to after effects of Covid. People have reported Brain fog and neurological issues.

Either way he seems to be taking us back to the dark ages.

Over the holidays I read a report into the neurological issues - which they are starting to research. It was written by a medical bod.... it was scary. So It could be? Or maybe he has just been exposed for the charlatan he is? It's not like he's ever had to stand up and debate in such an intense situation as PMQ's before?
He's never been about the detail, always been bluff and bluster ...... maybe this is the true Boris - uncovered.

I was struck by the change in tone and style of our thin skinned friend's posts over a very short time recently.
Listening to the radio this morning, was irritated by Nick Robinson talking to two medical experts about developments in testing. he framed it as "should we be investing in new tests, or ramping up the existing testing regime?" Of course the obvious answer is that we should be doing both, but neither expert thought to point this out to him (though I may have missed a few seconds of the segment). They did waffle on rather.

@quiteathome

Could the deterioration of Boris partially be due to after effects of Covid. People have reported Brain fog and neurological issues.

Either way he seems to be taking us back to the dark ages.

That would suggest he wasnt a bumbling, incoherent rambling fool before.

The only thing that has changed is that his pr team have stopped trying to hide it by hiding him in freezers and making excuses to avoid television debates.

BJ may be suffering the long term consequences of Covid, but it could be a number of other things.
I wish I could remember the precise wording (it was very funny) but on another thread a poster said something like "he's confused by his own bluster".