Brexit mega thread part 4 : non goady thread : Christmas edition

[Opal8]

Hi,

Longtime lurker and poster (under various nn) on Westminstenders and these threads.

I'm afraid the other thread op pissed me off a lot so here's another option for those of us that want one.

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and good luck for 2022.

Ah, but Boris was doing his best...

He was so busy he didn't even know that someone was paying more for wallpaper in his temporary flat than many flats are worth. And goodness that person wanted Boris to spaff money in their direction, someone so busy as to not know that, must need a party.

I noted that @DGRossetti @Peregrina and @mathanxiety referred to a recent article about the experience of Alexandra Hall Hall. In case of interest a Glasgow pro-EU group had a first interview with her this evening, here's the link: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkJzblBwOeJv

Thank you for that link tava63 - I have just spent the last hour watching it.

Nadine Dorries has been her usual accurate and incisive self as regards roaming charges:

twitter.com/utb_smith/status/1480614768956301313?s=20

And the Secret Tory is on fire:
twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1480847759339134981?s=20
twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1480840373639524356?s=20

Nadine Dorries has been her usual accurate and incisive self as regards roaming charges:

Still, national anthem every hour on the hour on the BBC, eh ?

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I think I’ll start that too.

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May 2020:

Me; unable to visit my dying aunt and then watching her funeral on zoom

Mum: watching her sisters funeral on zoom and seeing her brother, masked, alone and weeping

De pfeffle and govt cronies: garden party piss up

Oh, how they must have laughed at us all....

Bastards

The fucking bastards

twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1480971591135735811?t=hSlyhg1YR7G4kT0_O3hq8Q&s=19

Opal

So many heartbreaking stories. We were worried abou MIL, 400 miles away, isolating as she was told by the government. Not too bad compared to so many other people.

news.sky.com/story/covid-news-live-latest-uk-downing-street-party-boris-johnson-lockdown-omicron-coronavirus-12507015?postid=3208376#liveblog-body

Latest poll ^
Uncomfortable reading for some Tories

Don't forget; that two thirds according to a poll run by a Tory lord.

Which is like 99% in the real world...

Rosie Holt
twitter.com/rosieisaholt/status/1480932023929823244?s=21

[quote DuncinToffee]Rosie Holt
twitter.com/rosieisaholt/status/1480932023929823244?s=21[/quote]
Hilarious!
My DD sent it to me earlier, its been doing the rounds in her hospital, staff are very pissed off.

Ros Atkins, Downing Street parties part 5

twitter.com/bbcrosatkins/status/1481008394718883843?s=21

"A raft of bills likely to pass this year will set Britain, self-professed beacon of democracy, on the road to autocracy"

www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/opinion/boris-johnson-britain-bills.html

@Opal8

May 2020:

Me; unable to visit my dying aunt and then watching her funeral on zoom

Mum: watching her sisters funeral on zoom and seeing her brother, masked, alone and weeping

De pfeffle and govt cronies: garden party piss up

Oh, how they must have laughed at us all....

💐 & for everyone else who endured such heartache. I saw my granddaughter the day she was born on the 19th March didn’t see her again until may,, my other granddaughter was bewildered why she couldn’t see us & just cried every time we phoned or FaceTimed it was a difficult time, but like the majority we abided by the rules.

From the NYT article…

ever more spiteful nationalism, press fealty sold to the highest bidder and a fervent, misplaced belief that authoritarianism could never set up shop here, because we simply wouldn’t let it

Although I’d amend it to … ever more spiteful nationalism, press fealty sold to the highest bidder and a fervent, misplaced belief that authoritarianism is the best means to reclaim the glory of the empire could never set up shop here, because we simply wouldn’t let it

Going by many of the comments on these threads, my impression is that many Johnson / Tory / Brexit supporters want the UK to become a more authoritarian state. These laws would only apply to other scroungers, benefit cheaters, immigrants, single mothers people and not them.

That the main reason for creating any of these draconian laws is to play to the populace and earn votes. Now, you might also argue that these very voter preferences are shaped and manipulated by a right wing media, but there’s a significant portion of population that would happily bring back the death penalty and not all of them are old.

My sympathies to everyone who was following the rules and struggling or suffering while the entitled wankers at the head of the country were enjoying BYOB in the sunshine.
I really, really hope this opens enough people's eyes...

Express headline today

Winning war on covid, fixed brexit, don't blow it now PM

Desperate times for them

When I saw the headline, fixed brexit, I immediately thought - when it completely goes tits up it will definitely be tied to the Tories - however hard they try to blame Labour/EU/whoever.

In the same way that in 1990 you couldn't find anyone who had voted for Mrs Thatcher, but someone must have done because she won them three elections.

@DuncinToffee

Express headline today

Winning war on covid, fixed brexit, don't blow it now PM

Desperate times for them

Are you sure it wasn't a spoof ?

The headline writer trolling it's own paper?

Nothing would surprise me anymore

The Daily Express tries to introduce a note of positivity with its headline: "Winning war on Covid, fixed Brexit... don't blow it now, PM".
It acknowledges that Mr Johnson's leadership is "bogged down in the controversy".
But it insists that "he still has the opportunity to lance the boil" if he responds to the allegations with "clarity and sincerity".

(bBBC Newspaper headlines)