QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Stanley]

Funny how the people who have known him longest all testify to that......

[Stanley]

Headline in the Daily Mail today:-
Can even Boris the greased piglet wriggle out of this?
Can we assume that even the Right Wing press has reacted against the PM?

[Tizer]

Not all of it - the Express front page headline is `Boris fights on declaring...I'm now free to cut taxes'.

[PanBiker]

It reminds me of Hitler in his bunker, totally deranged and believing they were still heading for victory. Everyone else's fault except his, didn't end well though I seem to recall.

[Tripps]

Wow - it's getting serious now. . . .

"1811: David Duguid MP quits as the Fisheries Envoy and Trade Envoy for Angola and Zambia"

[Stanley]

He did good.... (Geddit!?)

'A No 10 source said: "You can't have a snake who is not with you on any of the big arguments who then gleefully tells the press the leader has to go." The PM rang Mr Gove on Wednesday evening to tell him he was sacked.

Quotation from the BBC report on Gove's sacking.

[Stanley]

Quotation from the MP who asked Johnson if there were any circumstances in which he would resign....
"Mr Gove went to Downing street with the traditional bottle of whisky and a revolver. Johnson took both, drank the whisky and shot Michael Gove."

[Tizer]

In an article today written by the BBC's Europe Editor, Katya Adler...

The main EU hope expressed today is the same I heard immediately after the 2016 Brexit vote: EU politicians wish for a UK leader, they say, who has the political confidence to talk and negotiate with Brussels, rather than constantly playing to, and being distracted by, the political gallery at home.

I think many of us here in the UK wish for that too!

[Stanley]

As is often the case Peter, the EU politicians display more common sense than the UK lot do. One reason of course being that they do not have to operate in an archaic system like ours.

[Tizer]

Typical of Boris Johnson the Chief Clown...this from the BBC...
Boris Johnson, who has declined to endorse any of the candidates, said any of them would "wipe the floor" with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whom he branded "Captain Crasheroony Snoozefest".

[Whyperion]

Typical of Boris Johnson the Chief Clown...this from the BBC...
Boris Johnson, who has declined to endorse any of the candidates, said any of them would "wipe the floor" with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whom he branded "Captain Crasheroony Snoozefest".

That will be reported in Hansard.

[Stanley]

Who cares what That clown says..... Certainly not Kier Starmer.

[Tripps]

Still true many years later - perhaps substitute PR for Advertising?


"News Is What Somebody Does Not Want You To Print. All the Rest Is Advertising" ~George Orwell

[Tizer]

"We've been telling the government for over 10 years that we are nothing like well enough prepared in the UK for the really hot weather we are seeing now," Baroness Brown, deputy chair of the Climate Change Committee, told the BBC.
That's in a report this morning saying that housebuilders have still been ignoring the need for houses to be better cooled. But I've quoted it because it starts with "We've been telling the government for over 10 years...". This could be said about so many things - climate change, pandemics, poverty - all those things that politicians ignore until the crisis happens and then it's too late.

[Stanley]

Yes David or how about spin? (Is that the same as PR?) Confused of Barlick.
Peter,I realised long ago that the main reason we tend towards common sense solutions which in the end have to be recognised by politicians as policy is because our thinking isn't clouded by considerations of advancement, salary and pension rights.... (Or in Sunak's case making sure not to bring into legislation anything that damaged his wife's investment portfolio.)

[plaques]

Bugswords. An old word used in 1600s Queen Elizabeth times. I haven't found a suitable definition yet. Help needed.

[Stanley]

I found THIS Google book Ken but it doesn't help much.....

[Tripps]

See elsewhere for context (you do read every word on here don't you? )

From Grand Master Nigel Short.


"On the subject of the forthcoming 2023 World Championship match, it is interesting to note that Chuck Berry's 1972 number 1 hit "My Ding-a-Ling" was originally recorded by the guitar maestro on Chess Records. If that doesn't prove the existence of God, I don't know what does".

[plaques]

Back to 'bugswords', remembering that round the 1600 the church and queen Elizabeth had very strict control on what could be printed and what actors could say in their plays, bugswords may be classed along side satire or anything that would make the populous think against the normal propaganda.
Some how it seems pertinent for todays politics.

[Stanley]

I agree but it's easier to say 'satire' isn't it.....

[Stanley]

Lady Hayman, the House of Lords Speaker, commenting on the report that Johnson is proposing a large number of Tory peers.
"I'm not sure that Boris Johnson understands that changes proposed by the Lords are often an improvement to legislation

[Tripps]

From our next Prime Minister Liz Truss

"We need a Prime Minister who can face up to the twin tasks of growing our economy, and standing up to the likes of Russia and China".

Face up to and standing up to you say . . . .

Andrew Neil sums it up nicely -
Liz Truss looks destined to be our next prime minister by early September.
Those on the Left are already slavering at the prospect. They think she is inexperienced, inconsistent, unimpressive, ill-informed, accident-prone, with a weak grasp of the facts and leaden in action, whether under attack or on the offensive.

The Left is not entirely wrong.

[Stanley]

Lovely David.... But she extols 'Conservative values' and is a born again Thatcherite, the 160,000 will flock to her banner.
Meanwhile the ship of state lists ever more to the right and is down by the head.

[Tizer]

But we don't have any opposition party to save us and the great British public can't be bothered making a fuss while they're fed a diet of social media, TV, alcohol, fatty foods, football etc etc. (Think Huxley's Brave New World and its drugs.)

[Stanley]

I take your point Peter and agree with you. That's why I said the other day that perhaps the awful scale of what is going to happen this winter might break the status quo in politics and lead to something like an emergency government making some changes.
Because you are right, the Tories can't change their attitudes and we haven't got a credible opposition unless the LibDems suddenly become active. Deep Joy!