FlyTheNest

The Secret Barrister
@BarristerSecret
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What did
@BorisJohnson
’s government do?

Nothing.

Like Trump, it pretended the problem didn’t exist.

And the Court backlog grew even longer.

Lawyers begged the government to pay for more courts and alternative venues to open.

@BorisJohnson
refused to make money available.

Boris Johnson's tone-deaf lies fall flat as UK grows up
John Crace

RogerOThornhill wrote:The Secret Barrister in no mood to take the PM's blame=shifting on the justice system lying down.

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Beth Rigby
@BethRigby
Spiky Starmer: 'Prime Minister, if you actually listen to the question, we might get on better' *gasps in chamber* #PMQs

gilsey wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:The Secret Barrister in no mood to take the PM's blame=shifting on the justice system lying down.

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I just came on to link that thread, essential reading.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Johnson embarrassed and embarrassing in PMQs - yet again.

Andrew Sparrow wrote:...even if [Johnson] possessed the parliamentary oratorical brilliance of someone like William Hague...

citizenJA wrote:

Andrew Sparrow wrote:...even if [Johnson] possessed the parliamentary oratorical brilliance of someone like William Hague...

‘It’s like a prison’: students speak of lockdown struggles
University students contact Guardian to describe mental health problems
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Ed Conway
@EdConwaySky
Liam Fox out of the race to head up the World Trade Organisation, according to this report

Bloomberg
@business
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee are the final two candidates to lead the WTO -- which has never had a woman serve as director general in its 25-year history

"When it came down to it the choice was between Liam Fox, a dead squirrel with one of its back legs missing and a dessicated cat turd that we found under the bed. After some deliberation and experimenting with pipe cleaners we found a puppet made from the dead squirrel with the turd replacing its missing leg to be a more credible candidate than Mr Fox so I'd like to introduce you to the new head of the WTO, Mr Bushy Tail Poo Leg Nutkins."

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Having checked the good old Coronavirus cases map I can confirm that Starmer was quite correct to point out that there are areas in Johnson's own Uxbridge constituency that have higher infection rates than vast swathes of the North that are locked down. You're far more likely to catch Covid 19 in Uxbridge and Ruislip than you are in rural North Yorkshire, Cumbria or Northumberland. I was happy to go out for a drink in Northumberland but you wouldn't catch me in a pub in Uxbridge. But then that's mainly because it would be full of twats.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Well, it is actually a bit of a shock to think that a rules-based organisation which insists on countries obeying international law, didn't think much of a candidate coming from a country which openly said that they would refuse to abide by international law.

Daniel Kawczynski
@DKShrewsbury
The Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
has appointed me as the new Trade Envoy to #Mongolia. I look forward to working closely with
@HMAMalone
on strengthening the trade relationship with Mongolia and working with
@trussliz
and
@tradegovuk
in helping build a #GlobalBritain.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Is it too early to say that Eddie Van Halen inspired lots and lots of guitarists to play the guitar really, really badly?