Brexit mega thread part 5 : new year new PM? Partygate continues...

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Morning

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Polls looking grim for the tories...

Shaaaaaame

@prettybird

Polls looking grim for the tories...

Shaaaaaame

Yeah...

I'm proper cut up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

From a vote winner to a loser. We’ll see if it can be swept under the carpet by May. I think this and the Paterson stuff has done it for everyone with a conscience, surely by now

I’m not so sure, was a short segment on sky news from Darlington apparently Boris did an exemplary job handling the pandemic & if he had admitted attending some of the parties it would been fine.

David Schneider
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It feels right that the anniversary of Brexit should be celebrated by its main proponent being confirmed as an utter fraud, charlatan and liar.

is absolutely brilliant!

Convenient

Not sure why she needs to work from home. Shouldn't she be finding a party to attend?

But at least that stops her making an even bigger tit of herself going to Ukraine.

@Peregrina

But at least that stops her making an even bigger tit of herself going to Ukraine.

One small mercy

On a scale of not at all to absolutely mortified how off her tits was Dorries on C4 News?

Also, it was brilliant watching Emma Barnett utterly shred Paul Scully on Newsnight. He'll be cleaning his trousers for a week, he shit himself that much.

It’s bad when I feel a grim pleasure in reading about Truss breathing Covid fumes over the Tory benches isn’t it.

Had to keep turning the radio off every time de Pfeffel’s "apology" was played today ffs it’s an insult to our collective intelligence that he even bloody dare mentioned people dying alone.

Just how many times is he allowed to get away with being so utterly mendacious and corrupt?

Though I did enjoy the clip about Ian Blackford. Highlight of my day albeit somewhat depressing that the MP stating the truth gets kicked out whilst the lying PM stays.

@dontcallmelen

I’m not so sure, was a short segment on sky news from Darlington apparently Boris did an exemplary job handling the pandemic & if he had admitted attending some of the parties it would been fine.

Sounds like my FiL (Brexit supporter, obviously). His favourite topics of conversation are (1) The War and the enduring badness of the Germans and Japanese; (2) How Brexit is going fiiiiiinnnee and we need the government to keep on at it; (3) How sorry he feels for dear Boris because "He didn't become PM to have to deal with bad stuff."

Every time we visit, I swear I come away with a bloody tongue from how hard I have to bite it.

TheElementsSong - how old is your FIL? My own late DF subscribed to the same view of Germans and Japanese, but he was 22 when the War broke out, so at least was living through it.

He's almost 90. He is fond of telling my DDs that he was 7 when war broke out, and the Germans therefore ruined his childhood and education. DD1 once replied "Well, that's like how you voted for Brexit when I was 7 and so ..." 😈

He's almost 90. He is fond of telling my DDs that he was 7 when war broke out, and the Germans therefore ruined his childhood and education.

Alternatively he was a drain on the British war effort and effectively on the side of the Germans.

It's all a matter of perspective, really, isn't it ?

My DF was running his own business aged 14, courtesy of the unimaginable shambles Italy (particularly the south) was in after the war.

And visiting my grandparents in 1974, there were still bombed out houses.

The reason I asked is that I wonder how long it will be before people put WW2 to rest? I think we probably have another 20 years to go.

I think that is now happening with WW1 - there can only now be a handful of people who were born before 1918 still alive and they would all have been small children then. We did have Cameron a few years back trying to resuscitate it as the Great War,as it was originally known, but that didn't catch on.

More Great Brexshit News!

We're going to be able to concrete over even more countryside in order to allow lorries to wait for days with their engines idling.

So much better than the bad old days, when they could whisk through customs and across the Channel in just a few hours...

The reason I asked is that I wonder how long it will be before people put WW2 to rest?

Remember how Hodges kept harking back to "Napoleon" in Dads Army ?

I'd say another 150 years would do it.

At the moment it's still possible for 70 years to (somehow) claim they "fought" in the war to an audience of uncritical young'uns.

@HannibalHeyes

More Great Brexshit News!

We're going to be able to concrete over even more countryside in order to allow lorries to wait for days with their engines idling.

So much better than the bad old days, when they could whisk through customs and across the Channel in just a few hours...

We know the mantra.

It's what they voted for.

If ever there was an example of Samson in action, this must be it, surely ?

A friend aged 92 died in the summer of 2019. So he'd "been in the army during the War" but he hadn't actually fought because he'd just his finished training when the Japanese capitulated.

Surprise quotient: 0

uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-brexit-replacement-eu-regional-113927658.html

The UK government's replacement for the EU's regional development funding leaves regions billions of pounds worse off, devolved administrations have said.

DGR - how much do you think Johnson's Government cares about the Devolved Governments?

Still, more grist to the Independence mill.

@Peregrina

DGR - how much do you think Johnson's Government cares about the Devolved Governments?

Still, more grist to the Independence mill.

Fucks quotient : 0

@Peregrina

A friend aged 92 died in the summer of 2019. So he'd "been in the army during the War" but he hadn't actually fought because he'd just his finished training when the Japanese capitulated.

My dad died a couple of weeks ago at 94. He joined the same at 15 as an apprentice but didn't see any active service until after WW2 was over.