[RedSparrows]

I'm sure that lost £21 billion has no impact on anything ever, and has better outcomes than green policies, ey readers.

Cunts.

[mattomac]

It’s an odd argument but he is an odd man.

Another promoted well beyond his capabilities.

[Andy McDandy]

He seemed rather jubilant today, everything being hilarious to him. A couple of odd asides as well, such as the coronation and Wales not having its own Covid enquiry. I'd not be surprised if he had a pep talk from Gove. And a few lines of yeyo.

[Watchman]

Who needs experts! Fuck me, a fireman tells you something is a fire risk because they’re commies!

Dowden suggests firefighters' concerns over barge linked to their political views

Oliver Dowden suggested concerns about the Bibby Stockholm barge by the Fire Brigades Union are politically motivated.

Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today show about the FBU’s comments that the barge could be a floating “death trap” for asylum seekers, the deputy prime minister said:

Of course, we’ll take into account those concerns and that’s exactly what we’re doing.

I would just gently say the Fire Brigades Union has donated £850,000 to the Labour party since 2010. It is affiliated to the Labour party, and I’m afraid what we see with this is exactly what we saw with trying to pass the legislation earlier this year through parliament. There are many obstacles.

We’re confident that we will be able to address all of the concerns. I’m absolutely certain about that and I’m absolutely certain we will be able to get people on this vessel in the coming weeks

[Yug]

I put "Petrie Dish" in the thread title as Dowden was Culture Secretary at the time. It would now appear to be referring to the things growing in Petrie dishes which are vastly more intelligent than Oliver Dowden.

[davidjay]

It's breathtakingly ludicrous, or it would be if you had any breath left to take after all their other breathtakingly ludicrous statements. Thirteen years in government and all they can talk about is the Red Menace.

[Bones McCoy]

"Firemen are commies".

He's done the unthinkable and dusted off the "Road to Grenfell" playbook.

[satnav]

Dowden also accused Greenpeace of staging a ridiculous stunt at Rish Sunak house shortly after defending the governments ridiculous stunt of trying to house 500 asylum seekers on board a barge which has been described as a major fire hazard.

[Tubby Isaacs]

As someone on Twitter said, Dowden has pulled off the rare trick of being the most poisonous and bland politician at the same time.

[Bones McCoy]

Sunak may be a crap politician.

But even he appreciates the security offered by the sacrificial ginger gambit.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

"At midnight, all the agents and the superhuman crew, go out and round up everyone that knows more than they do."

[Abernathy]

Ye Gods. Dowden is subbing for Sunak at PMQs today and he is fucking abject. Still better than Sunak, though.

[soulboy]

Angie did an 8 Mile* on him.




* A reference to the 2002 Eninem movie about the rap battle scene. Spoilers from a 22 year old film - Jimmy (the protagonist played by Eminem) pre-empts Papa Doc's (another rapper and the movie's villain rather than the Haitian dictator) potential insults, acknowledging his own "white trash" roots and difficult life... with nothing to say in rebuttal, Papa Doc hands the microphone back, conceding the battle.

[Bones McCoy]

As a Glaswegian detective used to say

There's bin a mur-dah!

[Bones McCoy]

Cast your collective minds back to Dowden's recent humiliation at Deputy PMQs.

He closed almost every answer with:

This is why the public will vote Tory in the coming local elections.

Let's step back and review how that's going.