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Westminstenders: Going, going, cummings

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RedToothBrush · 13/11/2020 18:36

As expected he's fucking off and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces in January. But it does look like he was eventually shown the door and left with a cardboard box. As he should have been months ago.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Johnson needing an image change, like the shape shifting creep he is, to one that fits more with the incoming Biden Administration. In other words hes got some serious sucking up to do...

... Meanwhile in Brexit land we are going into yet another final week of talks.

Many expect Cummings departure to signal 'the cave in'. The Eu say we havent moved enough and the uk say the EU wants us to do all the moving... Except the EU have done lots of moving. Barnier is still looking for a groundsman to level his field to play. We have yet to work out we aren't Canada and distance is important to trade.

Of course if we don't get a deal, that Pfizer vaccine in Germany that we want, might be hit with delays and extra costs we just can't afford.

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TheElementsOfMedical · 20/11/2020 09:38

I can't stop reading that food shortage thread. It's like picking at a scab Grin The Brexit Bingo idiocy just keeps coming.

Peregrina · 20/11/2020 09:47

To be fair, Elements, there is less of the Brexit Bingo there - although I noticed that they seemed to call for reinforcements when the thread got to about 500 posts.

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 20/11/2020 09:51

Cher that's a worrying - if unsurprising - article. It deserves wider exposure.

Top tip: if it's not already too late, shop local for Christmas.

TheElementsOfMedical · 20/11/2020 09:56

@Peregrina

To be fair, Elements, there is less of the Brexit Bingo there - although I noticed that they seemed to call for reinforcements when the thread got to about 500 posts.
Oh absolutely - the discussion is way more sensible than it used to be, the proportion of completely fact-free empty slogans and/or poor-me-bullied-delicate-BeLeavers is much lower.
Peregrina · 20/11/2020 09:56

Some good news though - Biden wins the Georgia recount.

bellinisurge · 20/11/2020 11:40

@TheElementsOfMedical , I tried, as you know. But it's eventually reinforced my "fuck the lot of you".

AuldAlliance · 20/11/2020 11:43

That food thread is interesting in a way, because there are a lot of people very aware of the shitstorm brewing, but the range of bingo answers never really changes.

"I could always start shooting muntjac" is a new twist on the old "I have a glut of swedes this year and am happy to barter them for bog roll" theme, though...

SabrinaThwaite · 20/11/2020 11:49

Back in No 10:

PM's adviser on ministerial code resigns as Boris Johnson backs Home Secretary Priti Patel after bullying inquiry

DGRossetti · 20/11/2020 11:52

That food thread is interesting in a way, because there are a lot of people very aware of the shitstorm brewing, but the range of bingo answers never really changes.

I think discussing food shortages isn't really going to alarm people though.

A much more telling thread would be on in Telly Addicts:

Will next years Strictly be delayed because of Brexit ?

To be honest I'm mildly surprised that MNHQ didn't move the food thread to this forum. Is it a lack of people grumbling, or a policy decision ?

baroqueandblue · 20/11/2020 11:55

Is it true that she has gone?! 😲

SabrinaThwaite · 20/11/2020 11:57

@baroqueandblue

Is it true that she has gone?! 😲
Patel hasn’t gone. Johnson backed her.

It’s the head of the inquiry that has quit.

Which tells you rather a lot.

baroqueandblue · 20/11/2020 11:59

Ah, thanks @SabrinaThwaite. I heard it wrong. Jeez, how can she live with herself?

52andblue · 20/11/2020 12:06

@baroqueandblue

PP has NO conscience at all. Thick and loyal, just as BJ likes them :(

SabrinaThwaite · 20/11/2020 12:14

Still, the report might well be disclosable in Sir Philip Rutnam’s tribunal case.

Peregrina · 20/11/2020 12:19

With the head of the ministerial codes quiting, it does at least show that there are still some people with principles left.

Peregrina · 20/11/2020 12:21

I hope that there will eventually be a reckoning and Patel and Johnson will go down with the ship. ( A mixed metaphor there, I think.)

Tanith · 20/11/2020 12:28

@Peregrina

With the head of the ministerial codes quiting, it does at least show that there are still some people with principles left.
Except, when they resign, it leaves a void for a non-principled replacement so the number with principles is getting ever smaller.

We need them to stay in place. The likes of Priti Patel certainly won't do the honourable thing.

SabrinaThwaite · 20/11/2020 12:32

@Peregrina

I hope that there will eventually be a reckoning and Patel and Johnson will go down with the ship. ( A mixed metaphor there, I think.)
Johnson's Titanic success?
52andblue · 20/11/2020 12:51

@Tanith Yes I agree with you. the Principled need to stay. we need them.

TheElementsOfMedical · 20/11/2020 12:52

That food thread is interesting in a way, because there are a lot of people very aware of the shitstorm brewing, but the range of bingo answers never really changes.

I like the food thread because it gives C&Pnova some fresh territory to exercise their Ctrl-C-Ctrl-V addiction, and the satisfaction of thinking they've squirrelled some brand-new wordcloud-susceptible minds into supporting Brexit, when in fact the very posters who celebrate those screeds of ink are already BeLeavers.

Meanwhile, the ratio of YABU-YANBU always seems to skew to more than 52% UnBeLeaving.

ListeningQuietly · 20/11/2020 13:02

There is a new Lidl being built near me. I think they are aiming to open before Christmas. It will be interesting to watch how they play it.

Five massive box warehouses that were built earlier in the year have no markings on the outside at all
but one of the doors was open as I walked by and it was filling up with what looked like paper goods (loo roll type stuff)

pussycatinboots · 20/11/2020 13:19

Elements Can we resurrect the Bingo thread? It was quite fun to put together. It's Grey Friday the one before Black so let's do something a bit more colourful Xmas Grin

DGRossetti · 20/11/2020 13:19

The picture I posted of her looking like an Obergruppenführer inspecting the police cadets seems very appropriate. I can easily imagine her commissioning a study into how best to insulate soldiers from the effects of mass murder. And then rejecting it as "too costly".

TheElementsOfMedical · 20/11/2020 13:27

@pussycatinboots

Elements Can we resurrect the Bingo thread? It was quite fun to put together. It's Grey Friday the one before Black so let's do something a bit more colourful Xmas Grin
Brexit Bingo

Y2K
WWII
Armageddon
Zombies
Obesity crisis
Scaremongering
Hysterical
Toughen up
Locally-grown
Eat something else
Not going to starve
Panic
Posh elite
Apricots/avocados/asparagus/foie gras/Tomatoes/lettuce
FIIIIIIIIINNNEEE
Crystal Ball
Echo chamber

Sostenueto · 20/11/2020 13:33

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-55016076

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