[Tubby Isaacs]

Apparently Johnson was fibbing again today when he claimed that Bury South had always been a Labour seat until December 2019. In reality the seat wasn't created until 1983 and was Tory until 1997.

Yep, he's talking bollocks.

It was a very good gain for them, given it's not been obviously trending Kipper-Tory. Labour even did OK there in the 2021 local elections.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not great for Sir Keir, but dire for Johnson.

[Bones McCoy]

When Bunter claims "I've seen no evidence", you can be confident that it happened.


"I've seen no evidence" is the classic denial made by bullying middle managers.
As much of a tell as the "categorical denial".

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Times claim unhappy MPs may have receipts. Recording and texts from whips.

Please let this be true and let them publish it.

[Bones McCoy]

Big Lying Al and his crew appear to have forgotten that cellphones are a thing.

[davidjay]

Big Lying Al and his crew appear to have forgotten that cellphones are a thing.

Some years ago - Abers may remember - a few new Tory councillors in Birmingham had a problem with the concept of what cc meant on emails, or some such inability to distingush between public and private. They don't do the twenty-first century very well.

[Bones McCoy]

Big Lying Al and his crew appear to have forgotten that cellphones are a thing.

Some years ago - Abers may remember - a few new Tory councillors in Birmingham had a problem with the concept of what cc meant on emails, or some such inability to distingush between public and private. They don't do the twenty-first century very well.

Anything beyond the nineteenth was overreach for most.

[davidjay]

Big Lying Al and his crew appear to have forgotten that cellphones are a thing.

Some years ago - Abers may remember - a few new Tory councillors in Birmingham had a problem with the concept of what cc meant on emails, or some such inability to distingush between public and private. They don't do the twenty-first century very well.

Anything beyond the nineteenth was overreach for most.

I think a few of them stumbled into the twentieth, didn't like it much, and went back.

[Andy McDandy]

Because they never needed to. It's quite often claimed that Thatcher, upon leaving office, was unable to make a phone call because for years she'd had a telephonist or secretary making and connecting calls for her. When the newspaper industry was computerised, plenty of hacks were used to dictating copy down the phone to a typist at the other end. With all of them gone, the hacks had trouble finding the on button, never mind mastering MS Word.

The stories - from Boiler's anecdote about the fusebox at Chequers to Cameron not knowing what LOL stood for - are legion. What they have in common is a context of people who have never had to do anything, because they always had the means to get someone else to do it for them. So they basically don't know how things work, because only that things worked was of interest to them.

[MisterMuncher]

See Boris' Big Bridge(s), or Alex's Airport, or Wanker's Water Cannon, or the Not Quite Wrightbuses

They aren't "how" people. They have people for that.

[zuriblue]

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[Andy McDandy]

Blithely retweeted by Michael Fabric*nt.

[Bones McCoy]

See Boris' Big Bridge(s), or Alex's Airport, or Wanker's Water Cannon, or the Not Quite Wrightbuses

They aren't "how" people. They have people for that.

That Airport on "Boris Island" would have been in the vicinity of the SS Richard Montgomery.
The sunken wreck of a munitions ship, considered too dangerous to dismantle or approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

[Bones McCoy]

Perhaps my memory is off.
I recall Boris did hatch plots against his party leader, after resigning in a fit because Forrin Secretary was too hard and he kept incriminating the women in Iran.

Perhaps Sir Michael Take doesn't remember.
Perhaps Sir Michael Take is talking shite.
We shall never know until Sue Grey makes her announcement.

[Andy McDandy]

But enough people remember the big ideas, and not the pesky details. Besides, they're booo-ring.

A bit like the old joke about "Why don't they build planes out of the stuff they make the black box out of?". It was either Douglas Adams or Eric Morecambe* who pointed out that the explanation why not (density of titanium vs that of aluminium) was, to a certain audience, funnier than the original statement.

See also Littlejohn vs Clarkson - both at one point or another made the "why, if the motorway is snarled up, can't I just drive down the hard shoulder?" argument. Difference was that Clarkson pulled back and pointed out that if you did, you'd be stopping emergency vehicles getting to where they were needed.

*Yes, I know.

PS Bones, Michael Take is...well, taking the Mickey.

[Nigredo]

[MisterMuncher]

Heavens
When Billy Ten Pints things you've gone too far, it's time to sit up and take notice

[Nigredo]

[Nigredo]

[Bones McCoy]

But enough people remember the big ideas, and not the pesky details. Besides, they're booo-ring.

A bit like the old joke about "Why don't they build planes out of the stuff they make the black box out of?". It was either Douglas Adams or Eric Morecambe* who pointed out that the explanation why not (density of titanium vs that of aluminium) was, to a certain audience, funnier than the original statement.

See also Littlejohn vs Clarkson - both at one point or another made the "why, if the motorway is snarled up, can't I just drive down the hard shoulder?" argument. Difference was that Clarkson pulled back and pointed out that if you did, you'd be stopping emergency vehicles getting to where they were needed.

*Yes, I know.

PS Bones, Michael Take is...well, taking the Mickey.

Oh, is he a fictional character on the Twitters - I was not aware of that.