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[Bruce Wayne]

sorry Bruce to be ghoulish at these harrowing times to be a Tory, but is this the beginning of an end of your special relationship with Peteblue ? Because a dishonest, workshy, weak, self entitled "twazzock" is nowhere near Pete's heroic version of Boris being another Churchillian like statesman and a hero amongst men and mere mortals. lol

I wish the Bishop of Leeds @peteblue well.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

A common feature of this period is that many of the trends that were visible before the pandemic have been exacerbated during it. That's true with Johnson as well. Everyone knew he was dishonest and workshy before all of this. Evidence was ample from his journalism days all the way through to his shambolic time as foreign secretary. This pandemic has merely emphasized what an awful leader he is. It's utterly staggering that anyone thought any different tbh.

You would hope this would be a salient lesson for anyone taken in by the grand promises of populists, because their appeal only exists as long as they don't actually have to deliver on their promises. Now is all about delivery and actually doing stuff, and he's bloody awful. Contrast him to a leader who is weak on bluster and big on delivery, such as Merkel, and witness the difference. I know who I'd rather have right now and it's not that self-entitled twazzock.

What I've always found weird was that Boris wasn't picked on a good political track record, he was picked because he was a jolly, happy - go - lucky character who in reality was just a bumbling, talentless leech.

 

[mahermi1]

I wish the Bishop of Leeds @peteblue well.

Haha superb mate, I'll just wait for Pete's reply now, err not stirring things up at all from this side.

 

[tsubaki]

Michael Gove's Twitter account likes picture of porn before it's swiftly deleted

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's social media page appeared to 'like' a pornography image, which has since been deleted

www.mirror.co.uk

lol

 

[Connor]

That was wild.

She has admitted to not being too bothered with actual journalism, but the drama of it all is great. She becomes the story too many times, breaking the first rule every journalist - myself included - is taught.

She will end up with a nice cushy communications job in about 18 months/2 years time.

Over shot it with 18 months

 

[davmaher]

Over shot it with 18 months

Or you're 9 years too late.

 

[Connor]

Or you're 9 years too late.

Ah ffs, I've been fake news'd

 

[PITA]

The Tories were the only ones to ask tough questions, Labour and SNP were useless.....

Didn't watch the charade but I can't ask my boss a question without his boss checking with him. I suspect that Labour and others were told you can ask that (subject to this). Tories were told what to ask. Their questions were allowed to be slightly edgy (not really) but let's create an impression.
BTW, 17,000 fines have been issued for breaching lockdown BUT Cumface (sp) was not one of them.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Over shot it with 18 months

Made my weekend...

 

[Walken]

Great tweet on a lot of levels

 

[tsubaki]

What I've always found weird was that Boris wasn't picked on a good political track record, he was picked because he was a jolly, happy - go - lucky character who in reality was just a bumbling, talentless leech.

TBF that gives them far too much credit. They all know what he is - a shameless individual who comes from a class and worked in two professions (journalism and politics) where he stands out as being especially shameless even by the high standards set by others in that class and those fields. He isn't even a jolly character, as Max Hastings has been telling everyone for the past decade.

They picked him because he was clearly backed by the press and by the money; thats how they understand politics works and so everyone fell into line behind him - that his record is generally terrible with occasional glimpses of horror was never considered, he had been annointed and so anyone who stood against him must be shut down.

Thats why you had the bizarre sight during the leadership campaign of the Telegraph and the Mail attack Rory Stewart because he might have worked for British Intelligence, or attacks on people who called the cops when they heard a domestic next door. Its why the papers and media continue to report positively even though nearly every part of this pandemic has been handled both appallingly and corruptly, even when other parts of the same papers (like Sunday Times' Insight team) are clearly reporting what is actually going on.

 

[ramacca]

The council should bill Jenrick for £40 lost revenue. The Tories are there to give their friends government contracts and public money and to save them a ton. They've lined the pockets of their mates during this coronavirus scandal.

Call for inquiry into why senior Tory helped donor avoid £40m tax

"Labour has urged the Cabinet Office to investigate why the housing secretary intervened in a controversial London planning decision that could have saved a Conservative party donor tens of millions of pounds.

Robert Jenrick, the housing, communities and local government secretary, knew that the former media tycoon Richard Desmond had only 24 hours to have an East End property development approved before hefty community charges were imposed on the billionaire’s project. The imposition of Tower Hamlets council’s community infrastructure levy (CIL) would have cost Desmond at least £40m.

Jenrick later accepted that approval of the Isle of Dogs project was unlawful".

 

[peteblue]

Haha superb mate, I'll just wait for Pete's reply now, err not stirring things up at all from this side.

Reply to what ?......asking on behalf of a dwarf cyclist......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Reply to what ?......asking on behalf of a dwarf cyclist......

 

[orchard]