Monday 22nd August 2022

[refitman]

Morning all.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Anybody about?

Currently pelting it down here.

[notnowsonny]

Gosh, this is a surprise! (Said no-one on Earth). From the Guardian Daily Politics:

"Johnson to focus on Ukraine and cost of living crisis in final two weeks in office, No 10 says
Boris Johnson will spend some of his final two weeks in office working from Chequers, his country residence, No 10 has revealed. Johnson has already moved out of the residence in Downing Street, and is living at Chequers, but he will be working from there too for some of the time (instead of commuting every day into London), a No 10 spokesperson said at the lobby briefing. It was the only briefing scheduled this week, and here are the main points.

Johnson will spent his final fortnight in office restating support for Ukraine and highlighting measures to address the cost of living crisis, the spokesperson said. Asked where he would be working, the spokesperson said from Downing Street and from Chequers – but would not say how much time he would spend in each place."

[AnatolyKasparov]

I'm sure he will be working extremely hard too.

[refitman]

[refitman]

I think I threw up in my mouth a little

[frog222]

Nick Timothy makes very good points there !

Passing over 'brexit austerity and individual political mistakes' the fundamental errors go back to the Thatcherism continued by Newlab .
Those advocating PFI and the way it was implemented needed their heads examining, but that never happened .

[frog222]

A couple of months ago I bought a hard copy of The Handmaid’s Tale in my local Leclerc supermarket .

Well … i’d seen many references to it online and on social media etc

One striking feature early on in the book is that she pointed out how the cashless society is ideally suited to absolute control , by Whoever .

From one day to the next , by a ‘Controller’s’ decision, you have NO fucking money .

NOW !

If those ‘artificial -intermediary’ UK ‘Energy Companies’ go ahead and empty your bank accounts of all your savings , you are in the same situation as suspected dissidents in Margaret Atwood’s future dystopia.

Something to reflect upon .

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[AnatolyKasparov]

Football, eh?

[GetYou]

Did not see that coming! Best we've played for months.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Not just that but EtH gambled in dropping certain senior players, it could easily not have paid off - but it did.

Now above Liverpool in the table, enjoy it while you can