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Westministender: Amen to that!

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RedToothBrush · 20/09/2020 20:52

On the Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Johnson went to Westminster Abbey and was trolled. Its almost divine in its irony.

In a week where just about the entire right wing press has turned on him, for being... well shit... They have the dawning realisation that yes all those annoying lefties were right all along when they said he was full of nothing but hot air. He's been ridiculed for being paid £150,000 a year and not being able to feed his 5000 kids and the pictures to mark the anniversary of him becoming PM do little more than look like a man who couldn't tie his own shoe laces without a nanny to help him.

But its not really a laughing matter. This man doesn't understand what legal agreements he's signed so his solution to his ineptitude is to throw his toys out of the pram together with the rule of law. Which he also does not understand.

Johnson is also ever increasingly keen on ripping up inconvient human right and workers right and he has ample opportunity to do all this in the middle of a pandemic.

Unfortunately the hypocrisy of his cronies isn't exactly helping the behaviour of the public and you have to pity the poor behavioural scientists who have to tell him that 'of course the public are going to give you the vs when you tell them you shouldn't do this when your chief advisor claims to be maybe going blind'.

It seems the whole government strategy on managing the virus seems to be falling flat on its face rather sooner than planned cos they stuck Dildo in charge who wouldn't know her Rs from her elbow if it hit her in the face. And we've got Hancock going full on 1984, telling us not to believe the reports that no one can get a test because its all lies - except half the country has either first hand experience of the travesty of Track and Trace or has a close mate who they know is a hell of a lot more reliable than any of these fuckwits when it comes to telling the truth.

Meanwhile in America Bader Ginsburg has managed to die at possibly the most inconvient and dangerous time possible just as the future of democracy in the US is clinging on by its finger nails.

And yes. Money laundering. Haven't we talked about that a lot on these threads. Its almost as if FinCEN was predictable...

Taking back control was always about the elite taking back control from the masses. But if you've managed to keep following all this time, we've been saying that since April 2016 and no one listened then, so why would they start listening now?

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TheABC · 21/09/2020 13:27

Watching the 1922 committee take on the Government is always entertaining.

PawFives · 21/09/2020 13:28

PMK As usual thanks to Red and everyone

DGRossetti · 21/09/2020 13:32

@TheABC

Watching the 1922 committee take on the Government is always entertaining.
Is this the moment it dawns on them that they are - in every sense - yesterdays men ?
52andblue · 21/09/2020 13:35

@prettybird - I missed Nicola - what did she say please?

and, do you think they will go to predicted grades rather than exams in Scotland now? My friends just over the border say there will be an announcement by half term (but I'm not sure if this is just rumour)?

ListeningQuietly · 21/09/2020 13:42

@FatCatThinCat
re your post about bank accounts
get a Revolut account - you can send and receive money in any currency and convert it within the account
gives you a sterling bank account with no stress Smile
they are very very common in the border areas of Ireland for obvious reasons

ListeningQuietly · 21/09/2020 13:43

For a lifelong news hound, the insanity at the moment has nearly worn me down.

But I've had my say in the upcoming election which feels constructive.

boatyardblues · 21/09/2020 13:47

[quote 52andblue]@prettybird - I missed Nicola - what did she say please?

and, do you think they will go to predicted grades rather than exams in Scotland now? My friends just over the border say there will be an announcement by half term (but I'm not sure if this is just rumour)?[/quote]
How reliable will predictable grades be this year? Last year, the year 11s and 13s had the bulk of a school year under their belts. It’s already COVID whackamole around here with families going in & out of isolation depending on cases in school year-wide bubbles and individual cases. We have year 11s and 13s whose last school year was swiss-cheesed by COVID who are likely to have major disruption this year too. I realise that exams will be even more difficult to administer fairly, but the grades are going to be even more shaky this year.

Whenwillow · 21/09/2020 14:04

Pmk and thanks for reasoned discussion Flowers

Melassa · 21/09/2020 14:12

I was just about to come on and post the Repubblica article and follow up.

For Clav in questi giorni means in the last few days/these days just past, including the present, if applicable. It implies it is very recent. Italian has a lot of temporal nuances, more so than French. I don’t know why you looked at the Italian? Are you fluent?

Anyhow, there is some bafflement here as to why Downing St would deny, though one commentator quipped that Boris is famous for lying, so why bother with the truth for this? There is some suspicion from some quarters but officials and the govt don’t seem to be bothered, either they already knew or kept tabs when he was over.

52andblue · 21/09/2020 14:15

@boatyardblues True re predicted grades. But if they have missed huge chunks and they have as the Govt told them to pause the curriculum between March and September then even if they have no further time off they don't stand a chance in the exam room either?

Peregrina · 21/09/2020 14:21

Boris's non - existent trip to Perugia: why would the airport make it up?
It will be 100% true. I hope they have a CCTV camera somewhere or a passenger list.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 21/09/2020 14:22

You're really through the looking glass when the people don't care that the government is lying.

ListeningQuietly · 21/09/2020 14:25

Down is up and up is down
Jack Sparrow talks more sense than the Government

Lockdowns are not working
because so many people need eye tests
so maybe it is time for a rethink
before Brexit really bites

DGRossetti · 21/09/2020 14:40

@Peregrina

Boris's non - existent trip to Perugia: why would the airport make it up? It will be 100% true. I hope they have a CCTV camera somewhere or a passenger list.
Probably better check the plane to make sure no guns were left behind too.
AuldAlliance · 21/09/2020 14:40

why would the airport make it up?
Quite.
Who has more at stake?
Staff at the airport, who could, if they were inventing random famous people to have passed through there recently, have chosen someone with greater star value?
BJ, who doesn't want to be associated with Lebedev just now?

SabrinaThwaite · 21/09/2020 14:50

BJ, who doesn't want to be associated with Lebedev just now?

What, that bloke that Johnson just bounced into the HoL?

prettybird · 21/09/2020 15:18

52andblue - there was nothing particularly new in Nicola's briefing, beyond the warning that things are likely to get worse and there may need to be new restrictions, which ideally would be the same across the 4 nations but in practice may well be adjusted for local circumstances. Dh and I got the sense that she was constrained in saying more by the lack of a Cobra meeting, which she said she hoped would take place today or tomorrow (in fact, while the briefing was taking place, it was confirmed as tomorrow morning - as one of the journalists told her).

Re the exams, as far as I am aware there has been no official news yet. I see rumours about the Nat 5s being based on continuous assessment, with contingency plans for a limited diet of Highers.

I think your friends are right: I think Swinney is due to make a statement before the October Week, by which time the Priestley Report should have been published, along with the SQA's own assessment.

52andblue · 21/09/2020 15:24

@prettybird - that's really thorough - as ever - & helpful, thank you x

Sostenueto · 21/09/2020 15:52

Times reporting Boris went to Perugia to baptise his son.

Sostenueto · 21/09/2020 15:53

Reason Johnson addressing Parliament tomorrow because they keep announcing actions before actually telling the HoC so yep lockdown on way.

DGRossetti · 21/09/2020 15:58

@Sostenueto

Reason Johnson addressing Parliament tomorrow because they keep announcing actions before actually telling the HoC so yep lockdown on way.
Has it been cleared with the 1922 committee ?
Peregrina · 21/09/2020 15:58

Are baptisms still not allowed in the UK, so once again, he has chosen to get round the rules, in spirit, if not the letter?

DGRossetti · 21/09/2020 16:00

@Peregrina

Are baptisms still not allowed in the UK, so once again, he has chosen to get round the rules, in spirit, if not the letter?
Is Boris a Catholic ?
SabrinaThwaite · 21/09/2020 16:02

Lapsed Catholic.

DGRossetti · 21/09/2020 16:06

@SabrinaThwaite

Lapsed Catholic.
Oh.

wasn't there a big hoo-hah about Tony Blair dabbling with Catholicism and finally converting once he'd left officer ?

Personally I'd preach separation of Church and State, but that's a lost cause in the UK - well England at least.

I'd be curious what an independent Scotland would do, assuming it retained the Monarchy ? (Googles) ... seems her Madge isn't head of Church (kirk) there.