Friday 9th June 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

7 counts, apparently

[refitman]

Update to BoJo's honours list. She's gonna cut up his suits

[frog222]

Thanks to Sky, for another great Report

Ashworth nodding in agreement for a future Lab govt making unpopular decisions .

Q Unpopular with the very wealthy, or just everyone else ?

[gilsey]

I'll be pleasantly surprised if Labour do anything at all that's unpopular with the very wealthy.

eg

[gilsey]

[gilsey]

To put it another way

Chris Dillow
@CJFDillow
It's coherent to scale back the green investment plan because you don't know where the workers to implement it will come from. It is not coherent to do so because of the need to be "responsible" with the public finances.

[gilsey]

[frog222]

[frog222]

Mone of Mayfair --

[AnatolyKasparov]

To put it another way

Chris Dillow
@CJFDillow
It's coherent to scale back the green investment plan because you don't know where the workers to implement it will come from. It is not coherent to do so because of the need to be "responsible" with the public finances.

But the real reason is probably at least as much the first reason.

Reeves uses the "fiscal responsibility" line because - unfortunately - it goes down well with our totally economically clueless media class.

[refitman]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Such a dreadful publication.

[frog222]

Was 29, thunder and rain, now 20 !

Cross fingers, it's moved away ....



( Had a lot of fun in the olden days when his articles had only a few score comments )

[AnatolyKasparov]

Nadine Dorries, genuine LOL.

And serves the PM right for trying to be clever, I suppose.

[RogerOThornhill]

Diddums.

Oh and 'er indoors is back inside that there hospital as of yesterday. Sigh.

[RogerOThornhill]

And Shaun Bailey?

So what has he ever done to warrant a peerage?

Given that Kulveer Ranger is there as well, a bit surprised that Andrew Gilligan didn't get one.

[tinyclanger2]

Very sorry to hear about Mrs ROT.

[gilsey]

To put it another way

Chris Dillow
@CJFDillow
It's coherent to scale back the green investment plan because you don't know where the workers to implement it will come from. It is not coherent to do so because of the need to be "responsible" with the public finances.

But the real reason is probably at least as much the first reason.

Reeves uses the "fiscal responsibility" line because - unfortunately - it goes down well with our totally economically clueless media class.

Reeves uses the fiscal responsibility line because she means it. IMO.

If you believed that you'd have to gradually increase spending over the first few years because of lack of capacity, perfectly reasonable, why not 'pledge' the underspend would be rolled forward over the following, say, five years? That's surely what you would do if you thought climate change was more important than daft fiscal rules, and would also have the bonus side-effect of helping you meet the fiscal rules in the medium term.

[AnatolyKasparov]

McDonnell also talked about "fiscal responsibility" as SC, though - to an extent it means what you want it to mean.

[RogerOThornhill]

[RogerOThornhill]

Blimey, all happening today!

[Sky'sGoneOut]

So Johnson plays the victim, blames everybody else, comes out with a load of delusional bullshit, and doesn't have the guts to fight a by-election. How unlike him.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I mean I love how he's claiming he's been done over by Harriet Harman and a remainer plot to reverse brexit when in fact he's been found guilty by a Conservative majority committee who would then report its finding to a Conservative majority parliament who he clearly thinks would have voted to suspend him. If he genuinely believes anything he's said in his ludicrous resignation tantrum he's clearly more delusional than anyone thought. Were all his own ministers who resigned forcing him out of No 10 all part this remainer plot to do him in? Most of them were arch brexiters ffs. What a pitiful excuse for a human being.

[gilsey]

Richard Mills, chairman of the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Conservative Association, said Mr Johnson had been an “outstanding” advocate for the community “contrary to external perception”.

It would take a heart of stone etc

[AnatolyKasparov]

Looks like there aren't any more Tory MPs quitting. Tonight, anyway.

[frog222]

I mean I love how he's claiming he's been done over by Harriet Harman and a remainer plot to reverse brexit when in fact he's been found guilty by a Conservative majority committee who would then report its finding to a Conservative majority parliament who he clearly thinks would have voted to suspend him. If he genuinely believes anything he's said in his ludicrous resignation tantrum he's clearly more delusional than anyone thought. Were all his own ministers who resigned forcing him out of No 10 all part this remainer plot to do him in? Most of them were arch brexiters ffs. What a pitiful excuse for a human being.

Exactement !


As our sorely-missed anti-corruption judge Eva Joly explained all this

" As a magistrate I dealt with small-time crims who eventually confessed . Whitecollar mothas protest their innocence all the way to the cells ."

No shame, ever !

[gilsey]

[Sky'sGoneOut]

The public paid for the investigation including his lawyers so he can go fuck himself.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Ha ha, so they are going to publish the report anyway? That probably ends any chance of him coming back for the foreseeable.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

There has to be something wrong with these Johnson loyalists. He was humiliatingly forced out of Downing Street by his own MPS and now he's running away crying before he gets humiliatingly forced out of his seat by his own voters. Yet they're blathering on about him making a comeback. Why? Have they learned nothing? Do they expect he's going to do any better in the future? What precisely do they get out of this weird, creepy cult they're in? He wouldn't piss on most of them if they were on fire. I just don't understand it.

[GetYou]

So this is part sick and part funny:



But I didn't realise it was by Swede Mason until the credits rolled.

If you are not familiar with his surreal takes, maybe start with this and follow the rabbit hole: