Tuesday 1st October 2019

[HindleA]

What I would do,however is to neglect to put PTO when PF is away.

[PorFavor]

What I would do,however is to neglect to put PTO when PF is away.

Yes. I noticed.

[RogerOThornhill]

Tee hee...

Pádraig Belton
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@PadraigBelton
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This morning: Priti Patel announces the government will get tough on crime.

Also today: The treasurer of the 1922 committee, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, is now in police custody after a ‘punch-up’ with security.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/01/lockdown ... -10841302/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Popped in for a quick half while waiting for the bus and the autoplay on the jukey played

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[PaulfromYorkshire]

It doesn't get much better than that.

Which Hindle I shall take as a good omen

[citizenJA]

The Tories have lost their ideology. Now they are merely the party of resentment
After three decades of intellectual decline, the Conservative party stands for nothing but Brexit
William Davies
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... n-cummings" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sajid Javid says everyone wants to get Brexit done. That’s patently not true
When politicians say they speak for ‘the people’ they’re using an old political trick to deny the very existence of dissenters
Zoe Williams
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... the-people" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I rarely tolerate any political journalists' writing on a wet Autumn weekday in the late afternoon. I read these one after the other and felt okay afterward.

[citizenJA]

So that's the reason Kashmir was running through my head

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Hard to get it out of your head once it's there. Those rhythms and those chord sequences. Still sounds fresh to me.

[PaulfromYorkshire]

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-politics-49894249" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Full transcript of Laura K interview of Johnson.

Credit where it's due I think she did a decent job.

[Willow904]

My husband independently came to the same conclusion. This is literally the only sane explanation for Johnson's nonsensical claim to enjoy painting model buses:

https://kottke.org/19/10/boris-johnson-shady-seo-master" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears to be strategically using particular words and phrases in speeches and appearances as SEO bait to bury unfavorable news about himself in Google’s search results

[citizenJA]

Does Johnson produce favourable news?

[Willow904]

In fact, perhaps he was so embarrassed by the model buses thing that he came up with a real bus policy just to bump it down the Google hit list. I wouldn't put it past him. He treats everything like a game, why not government transport strategy?!

[Willow904]

Does Johnson produce favourable news?

Investment in buses isn't bad news.

And it's better than failed London retro buses, lies on the side of buses or painting buses made of boxes

[AnatolyKasparov]

To be fair "get Brexit done" doesn't necessarily mean exiting the EU on Halloween. Wanting to revoke A50 or another referendum to "settle the issue" can be argued to be that as well.

(though of course I expect Javid didn't mean that)

[Willow904]

I'm now looking forward to seeing how Boris works "disposable cups" into a more favourable headline.

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Meanwhile, most of twitter have learnt how to spell "Acuri" rather than "model" and the story, the one that matters, is refusing to die:

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ssion=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Revealed: Jennifer Arcuri got visa from scheme run by former Johnson official

[RogerOThornhill]

Oops.

Patel probably went to have a dig at Corbyn but there are other interpretations of it.

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[HindleA]

Priti Vacant

[RogerOThornhill]

PMQs tomorrow is Dominic Raab vs Diane Abbott

Never bother with it myself but doubly glad I'm in the library...

[HindleA]

Phew

[HindleA]

Repeated,can the season end now request.

[HindleA]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/sh ... lip-davies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

"Yer actual Conservative"

[HindleA]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... conference" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

"Disposable cops"

[citizenJA]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... conference

smirking like G Osborne

[adam]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... conference

smirking like G Osborne

And there is, quite definitely, no smirking in the hall.

[citizenJA]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/sh ... lip-davies

He’s engaged to the failed Tory leadership candidate Esther McVey.

[PorFavor]

Can't say I'm looking forward to Boris Johnson's speech tomorrow. I've got a sense of foreboding about the way things are going.

[adam]

Does Johnson produce favourable news?

Investment in buses isn't bad news.

And it's better than failed London retro buses, lies on the side of buses or painting buses made of boxes

Except all this conference will have done is have people who are about it sitting at home saying 'But we've got contactless payments. And we can charge things. And we've got wifi, when it works. We just haven't got any buses.'

[citizenJA]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... conference

Priti Patel, the home secretary, on whom irony is not lost as she declared: “Here in Manchester, the Conservative party takes its rightful place as the party of law and order in Britain once again.” Just one week ago, the government was found to have unlawfully prorogued parliament....

[HindleA]

Not following that closely but all I have seen and heard of Johnson is a series of gesticulations and grunts.

[HindleA]

Her parents would have been denied entry under her own rules

[RogerOThornhill]

Apparently the Daily Telegraph - the paper for which the Prime Minister used to write a regular column - has managed to get a copy of the proposal which the Prime Minister will present to the EU. And presumably, at some point, to Parliament.

Nope, can't see a single thing wrong with that...

[HindleA]

Does it pass the democratically decided will of the Torygraph?

[HindleA]

Sorry,Borisgraph

[HindleA]

"The publication formerly known as a newspaper"

[PorFavor]

"The publication formerly known as a newspaper"

I used to like the crossword (although I never bought the paper).

[HindleA]

(I still do the crossword(s))

[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA