[mattomac]

Aren’t Labour setting something up on this, one that actually looks at wasteful spending unlike this that will just target Pride weeks.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Tories standing up for Britain here.

For the Conservatives, Harriet Baldwin neatly but probably unintentionally articulated their confusion. The tariffs were our fault, she suggested, because “years of student politics-style insults hurled at the president by the frontbenches opposite has put our relationship in jeopardy.” Her implication was that Trump is so petty-minded that he would take a wrecking ball to his and our economies out of spite. Presumably she intended the president to take this as a compliment.

[Youngian]

Lefty lecturers to blame for anti colonial resentment. Hannan just gets weirder

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha. Well done, John Major. State of Montgomerie here. Almost like James Naughtie knew the context of Major's defence review, or something.

[Youngian]

They're tough on Putin at Reform.

[Bones McCoy]

Ha ha ha. Well done, John Major. State of Montgomerie here. Almost like James Naughtie knew the context of Major's defence review, or something.

And loyal Tory Tim was right behind Major's every move.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Montgomerie (even in France they don't spell it like that) isn't well.

And he's a cunt.

[Bones McCoy]

• Locate bootstraps.
• Cancel unnecessary avocados.
• Nobody owes you a living.

[mattomac]

• Locate bootstraps.
• Cancel unnecessary avocados.
• Nobody owes you a living.

Maybe they should get an article in the Telegraph that’s what all these rich pony fuckers do about private school VAT lot do.

What does surprise me is the fact they sacked a lot of staff in election year, it doesn’t surprise me this year as it’s post election.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There was some conservative opposition to Defence cuts. Prince Charles let it be known he wasn’t happy. Maybe Tim was one of those. But whatever there are more obvious targets- like George Osborne who cut Defence 20 years after Major.

[Abernathy]

What exactly is a bootstrap?

[Killer Whale]

What exactly is a bootstrap?

bootstrap (plural bootstraps)

A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.

(figuratively) A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.

The second relates the the phrase to pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps. Which, of course, is physically impossible, something largely forgotten by those people who regard themselves as 'self-made'. We're all standing on someone else's shoulders to some extent.

[davidjay]

I always thought it was a type of shoelace. Every day's a schoolday..

[Andy McDandy]

Which you can do. It's called a Prussik loop and mountaineers use them to recover from falls.

[Abernathy]

Which you can do. It's called a Prussik loop and mountaineers use them to recover from falls.

This needs more detailed explanation. Not least because it isn’t (I think) a 20th century cultural reference.

[Andy McDandy]

Google it.

Alternatively, watch the fine James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only". Towards the end he's climbing a cliff and falls, and improvises one with his bootlaces.

[Youngian]

Bit gossipy but hopefully true, won't be good to have the main opposition party in thrall of Trump if the shooting starts.

A Reform MP (we think, Lee Anderson) was challenged in a corridor by a Tory Whip, on his willingness to perform fellatio on the current President. Anderson retorted with ‘Socialist c**t’, to which came the reply, ‘Sorry, I couldn’t hear you with Musk’s d**k in your mouth.’ Both MPs quickly passed on in silence when they realised they had a small audience. https://thewestminstercentral.substack. ... eezing-out

[The Weeping Angel]

Alex Massie pointing out that throwing their lot in with Trump will end badly for them.

https://alexmassie.substack.com/p/the-r ... irect=true

Last summer Boris Johnson was very clear. Donald Trump and his “indomitable spirit” was just what “the world needs right now”. Not only that but Johnson was “more convinced than ever that [Trump] has the strength and bravery” needed to “save Ukraine” and “bring peace” to Europe. Johnson had many reasons for supporting Trump’s bid to return to the White House but none were so preposterous, or so shameful, as his pretence Trump’s second act would somehow be good for Ukraine.

Of course Johnson was not alone. Liz Truss has also repeatedly said that Trump’s victory was an essential precursor to “saving” western civilisation. Robert Jenrick, whom 43 percent of Tory party members chose to be their new leader, also made it clear he was hoping for a Trump restoration.

Johnson and Truss at least had the grubby excuse that sucking up to MAGA Americans might be in their own financial interest - for the US market for disgraced former British PMs can be a lucrative one, there being no shortage of wealthy fools there happy to be taken for a ride. Jenrick did not even have that excuse. Nor, of course, does Kemi Badenoch, the party’s actual current leader.

Yet in a ridiculous speech this week Badenoch insisted that Trump 2.0 was an example of learning from past mistakes and returning to office older, wiser, and better placed to achieve your objectives. In an interview with Bari Weiss’s Free Press, she then intimated that the problem with Elon Musk’s DOGE nonsense was that, in a British context, it wouldn’t be “radical” enough.

[davidjay]

Bit gossipy but hopefully true, won't be good to have the main opposition party in thrall of Trump if the shooting starts.

A Reform MP (we think, Lee Anderson) was challenged in a corridor by a Tory Whip, on his willingness to perform fellatio on the current President. Anderson retorted with ‘Socialist c**t’, to which came the reply, ‘Sorry, I couldn’t hear you with Musk’s d**k in your mouth.’ Both MPs quickly passed on in silence when they realised they had a small audience. https://thewestminstercentral.substack. ... eezing-out

Stay classy.