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Yup.

You'd have to be a proper Dick to think that...

The editor's opinion piece in one of my weekly locals. They're usually a fairly inoffensive take on matters local or beyond, so it's unusual to see them being much more blunt than normal - and I agree with it 100%.

Boris takes the prize...

The debacle that is the Tory government found a new nadir this week, with the fall-out surrounding former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ignominious dive from grace.

Largely the architect of his own downfall, Boris Johnson has now been condemned by his own party peers for the liar that the entire non-Conservative electorate has always known he is.

Sacked from the Times newspaper for making up quotes, and sacked from the Commons’ Front Bench for lying about having an affair, it is perhaps only surprising that his lies had failed to tangle him up long before now.

At the weekend, following his risible resignation as MP after the parliamentary committee found he had knowingly misled the House of Commons, and thereby, the entire population, the disgraced politician couldn’t even summon up the courage to admit his misdeeds.

A liar and a coward, then.

However, as much as so many people will gain no small amount of satisfaction from seeing one of Brexit’s biggest deceivers receive his comeuppance, there remains heartbreak at the centre of Boris’s sad tale. Throughout the pandemic, when people were dying in hospitals, and while their loved ones were forced to grieve from a distance, Boris and his cronies were partying their way through lockdowns. Then, when the veil was lifted, Boris denied the partying. Then he lied about denials. Then he lied about lying about the lies. All of this – all of the sleaze, the lies, the back-stabbing and everything else which went on at Downing Street, whilst indicative of the misshapen heart of the current Tory Party – has only served to deepen the pain of those who lost friends and family to Covid.

There has been some strong competition for the worst British Prime Minister over the years but on balance, Boris surely takes the prize.

Daft twat

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:46 pm Daft twat

Are yuman rites good again this week? I lose track.

How is diving down to a shipwreck the precise location of which has been known since 1985 and which has been photographed, surveyed, and mapped countless times since “pushing out the frontiers of human knowledge“?

Or, how can Boris Johnson be so comprehensively wrong about literally everything?

Pedant here.

It wasn't a submarine, but a submersible.
To qualify as a submarine, the vessel must (among other things), get to and from port under its own power.

You'd think such a distinguished and experienced journalist would know the difference...

I suppose it pushed the boundaries of scientific knowledge as in is something so basically flawed get people sign up to it.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 4:04 pm You'd think such a distinguished and experienced journalist would know the difference...

He seems a bit err ... confused when it comes to following the science.

Also, it's the Mail, so facts don't matter.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:46 pm How is diving down to a shipwreck the precise location of which has been known since 1985 and which has been photographed, surveyed, and mapped countless times since “pushing out the frontiers of human knowledge“?

Or, how can Boris Johnson be so comprehensively wrong about literally everything?

Well indeed, it was high end tourism.

The whole point was to get "lefties sneer" in, the rest of it doesn't matter.

"We're rich; we can do what the fuck we want". That's his entire philosophy in 10 words.

I don't think even the cat would be surprised at this one

Boris Johnson committed an unambiguous breach of the rules when he failed to get permission from the ministerial appointments watchdog before taking a job as a Daily Mail columnist, which has led to calls for reform of the “good chaps” system...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... y-mail-job

Business as usual for the 'special' one.

A succinct round up of what we already know about Johnson and Lebedev but won’t be watched by a clueless majority who don’t know what went on.
The doc veered towards Cold War tall tales that the Lebedevs are likely sleeper agents. Whereas it’s a more complicated story of Putin stifling a rising independent bourgeoisie in a state where even powerful oligarchs had their wings clipped. If anything the FSB followed the emigres to the West and reasserted control over the wealthy exiles. The British state they’d spent a decade cultivating weren’t willing or able to protect them.
I’m relaxed about Johnson being branded a traitor even if he is just a reckless idiot who shouldn’t have been anywhere near a position of power. After the Italian villa party incident, the Foreign Secretary should have been fired and his political career ended. This is on Theresa May.

Sometimes, I think it a pity that the Blair government removed the death penalty for high treason.

With all that's coming out about him, I would love to see Johnson dance the hemp fandango.

Ha ha. The people have spoken. "Don't want Bozo back, but he'll probably bloody try".

Mr self-aware calls himself "bone headed"

Boris Johnson hits out at 'bone-headed' ULEZ - despite it being his idea

A source close to Sadiq Khan branded the former prime minister's attacks "utter nonsense".

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/boris-jo ... r-12916924

They're reporting on the lying narcissistic cunt's latest wibble in the Daily Fail, which I'm not going to read. I'll let somebody else have that pleasure.

Do his readers know what ULEZ is? something bad and probably to do with Muslims

Or lady/lady stuff

Frank Alfred Odysseus

Fuck my boots...

Aerosol Anusol?

Mail’s star columnist scrounges quarter of a million in legal fees from the taxpayer but strangely can afford to keep having kids.