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Wednesday 17th June 2020

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Morning all.
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No LOL's for me in last night's Crace, but still a good one --
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/co ... -141635694" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

First one today --

" Andy Netherwood, a former RAF pilot and defence commentator, said: “The issue is project creep. If it really is an all-over shiny paint scheme then it’s starting to look – operationally and politically – much more like Air Force One for Boris.”

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

Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover
The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
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Showing they have their priorities right yet again!
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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@Sky'sGoneOut
Lovely image of peacock butterfly caterpillars you posted on last night's thread.
Lightening took out our Internet connection for some hours and I was unable to see it or say goodnight to everyone.
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hey, come on
where the hell is everyone?
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sorry
I'm feeling a bit forlorn
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In the Commons Matt Hancock, the health secretary, said it was not true that student nurses were being made redundant.
But students are finding that their paid placements are ending early.
Thousands of student nurses recruited to work on the front line against Covid-19 have been told their placements will be cut short, plunging some of them into financial despair.

Some of us left jobs for this. Many of us have children and families to care for.
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citizenJA wrote:sorry
I'm feeling a bit forlorn
Hi there, I'm here ;)

Looks like Starmer had another good day today with PMQs.
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government ministers daily galvanise each other
who can be the biggest bastard today
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
citizenJA wrote:sorry
I'm feeling a bit forlorn
Hi there, I'm here ;)

Looks like Starmer had another good day today with PMQs.
I'm grateful you're here. I really am.
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everyone
I'm glad you're here
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The student nurse thing is rubbish isn't it, small change for the govt to pay them for 6 months as they were told. Summer school meals all over again.


I've just read through Sparrow's PMQs coverage, the 'as it happened' part suggested Johnson was as rubbish as ever, but AS verdict was that BJ's schools line was effective.
That was Boris Johnson’s best performance at PMQs against Sir Keir Starmer so far. ......
today Johnson sounded like someone who had found a chink in Starmer’s armour, and he exploited it reasonably successfully.
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Afternoon all.

Well. this certainly made me go "Good grief!" but not in the way that they think...
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Roger, that's a spoof, right ....?
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gilsey wrote:The student nurse thing is rubbish isn't it, small change for the govt to pay them for 6 months as they were told. Summer school meals all over again.
I've just read through Sparrow's PMQs coverage, the 'as it happened' part suggested Johnson was as rubbish as ever, but AS verdict was that BJ's schools line was effective.
That was Boris Johnson’s best performance at PMQs against Sir Keir Starmer so far. ......
today Johnson sounded like someone who had found a chink in Starmer’s armour, and he exploited it reasonably successfully.
Dear me.
Stap me ! That's at least the second time that Sparrow's watched a different PMQ's to me .
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Am knackered. I spent the last 3 months working about 14 hours a day (sometimes from 2 am sometimes to 2 am depending). The thing I was working on went pretty well, but I’m now reporting on it, and my brain really doesn’t care.

Off the desk by the end of the week and then my brain can come out of hiding.
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citizenJA wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:
citizenJA wrote:sorry
I'm feeling a bit forlorn
Hi there, I'm here ;)
Looks like Starmer had another good day today with PMQs.
I'm grateful you're here. I really am.
:rock:
I liked the bit after 12.08.50 when Starmer suggested they swop places !
I’d been risking distant thunder earlier … when just after the LD question there was an ear-splitter right overhead . Butter dish and smartphone went flying as I disconnected all cables going into the computer . Butter right side up, fer a change .
Veg and calf market in town today, with no distancing in the crowd, but everyone going into the mairie put on a mask.
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frog222 wrote:
citizenJA wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote: Hi there, I'm here ;)
Looks like Starmer had another good day today with PMQs.
I'm grateful you're here. I really am.
:rock:
I liked the bit after 12.08.50 when Starmer suggested they swop places !
Yes, many will have seen that as an effective answer to Johnson's bluster I suspect.
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gilsey wrote:The student nurse thing is rubbish isn't it, small change for the govt to pay them for 6 months as they were told. Summer school meals all over again.


I've just read through Sparrow's PMQs coverage, the 'as it happened' part suggested Johnson was as rubbish as ever, but AS verdict was that BJ's schools line was effective.
That was Boris Johnson’s best performance at PMQs against Sir Keir Starmer so far. ......
today Johnson sounded like someone who had found a chink in Starmer’s armour, and he exploited it reasonably successfully.
Dear me.
Mr. Sparrow may well believe this
A steady message
always provide
b a l a n c e d j o u r n a l i s m
be fair to both sides
there's good and bad on both sides
b u l l s h i t
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RogerOThornhill wrote:Afternoon all.

Well. this certainly made me go "Good grief!" but not in the way that they think...
The Good Grief Trust
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We have excellent news! We can announce that
@NadineDorries

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will be our new Minister for Bereavement
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@MattHancock

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oh good gracious god
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@frog222
Lightening strike was so close last night I felt it throughout my entire nervous system
I thought the tree outside got hit
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citizenJA wrote:Mr. Sparrow may well believe this
A steady message
always provide
b a l a n c e d j o u r n a l i s m
be fair to both sides
there's good and bad on both sides
b u l l s h i t
is bullshit and walking the clean trail won't get you mired in it
On reflection, it wouldn't surprise me if the Sparrow is really quite impressed with Starmer and just making sure he doesn't let it show. ;)
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RogerOThornhill wrote:Afternoon all.

Well. this certainly made me go "Good grief!" but not in the way that they think...
The Good Grief Trust
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We have excellent news! We can announce that
@NadineDorries

@DHSCgovuk
will be our new Minister for Bereavement
. ‘No-one should be left to suffer the pain of bereavement alone’ We look forward to our APPG meeting - #COVID19 & Beyond.
@MattHancock

@BorisJohnson

@10DowningStreet
If you think that's bad, have you seen Johnson with the sweets?

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gilsey wrote:
citizenJA wrote:Mr. Sparrow may well believe this
A steady message
always provide
b a l a n c e d j o u r n a l i s m
be fair to both sides
there's good and bad on both sides
b u l l s h i t
is bullshit and walking the clean trail won't get you mired in it
On reflection, it wouldn't surprise me if the Sparrow is really quite impressed with Starmer and just making sure he doesn't let it show. ;)
yeah, you're probably right
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So it now appears our WORLD BEATING virus tracking system isn't going to be ready until the winter.......

(will resist the temptation, at this stage, to ask "which winter?")
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Perhaps Max Winter off of the Mallorca Files?
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There are two sides to everything.
There’s my side.
And then there’s incorrect. :dance: :dance: :dance:
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:So it now appears our WORLD BEATING virus tracking system isn't going to be ready until the winter.......
(will resist the temptation, at this stage, to ask "which winter?")
AK --- and you were joking ? With this shower of shit any rational solutions/actions go out of the window. Half-asleep I heard on the radio that "personal communications, local contacting " was the New Thing , and texts etc was too impersonal/frightening . So YES, it's not impossible that the World-beating App disappears from the public domain , and consciousness !

Meanwhile ................ the Truss is 'negotiating' an ISDS stitch-up of UK society and economy i
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I hate to use "Good grief" twice in one day but...

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Spend the aid budget on a successor to HMY Britannia, Paymaster General Penny Mordaunt tells PM Boris Johnson
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Without having read the article I guess the reasoning is:

Link Aid to Trade
What do you need to get Trade?
A fucking great big luxury yacht!
Sorted.
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RogerOThornhill wrote:I hate to use "Good grief" twice in one day but...
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EXCLUSIVE in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
Spend the aid budget on a successor to HMY Britannia, Paymaster General Penny Mordaunt tells PM Boris Johnson
:toss:
Of course it is blindingly obvious, the "Combined Operations" (TM1944) approach !
If you can't entice the bongobongolanders to buy British with the AirForceBoris One
" Local children with watermelon smiles will see the big red, white and blue bird coming down from the sky and think, ‘That’s convinced me, I’m going to buy British’"
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frog222 wrote:snip
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover
The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
£900,00 plus. Carry on.
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Goodnight, everyone.
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