[Youngian]

This might be the most Tory name ever. Orpen-Smellie was a Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Parachute Regiment which was a position also held by his dad Larry. According to the Telegraph obit, Larry was one of the country’s top crack shots and served with distinction in Northern Ireland.
Giles sounds like a good guy to live next door to. Home made honey and burglars dealt with robustly.

I have been married for over thirty years and my wife and I have two grown-up children. We live near Fakenham and enjoy keeping a few sheep, some hens and lots of bees as well as growing our own vegetables.' https://www.norwichconservatives.com/pe ... en-smellie

[mattomac]

Seems totally qualified for running a police force

[Nigredo]

Not to be a negative nelly but don't we have this thread already?

[satnav]

I saw a tweet earlier from Tory MP Chris Clarkson where he appears to be trying to recruit an apprentice to work in his team at Heywood and Middleton. Does this mean that Tory MP's are using tax payer funded apprenticeships to work in their constituency offices?

https://www.findapprenticeship.service. ... ip/-615078

[Youngian]

Meanwhile in Surrey, the Tories are campaigning in disguise.

[mattomac]

Didn’t do them any good.

[Arrowhead]

That's in Raab's constituency, isn't it? Promising sign if so, especially considering how close the Lib Dems ran him back in GE2019. In fact, there are quite a few other Tory-held Surrey constituencies that might be vulnerable to an upturn in Lib Dem fortunes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Tories did fairly well in other by-elections, unfoirtunately.

[Cyclist]

Meanwhile, in Torytown, where mad Nad once had her constituency office, the natives are revolting. The image below has appeared in one of the local FB groups. The comments below it read like a Mail Watch thread, with not one word of support for our 'local' MP, and no support shown for the rest of the government either.

Is this a sign of Tory voters finally waking up? Probably not, but it's nice to see. Especially here in Tory Central.

[Dalem Lake]

Meanwhile, in Torytown, where mad Nad once had her constituency office, the natives are revolting. The image below has appeared in one of the local FB groups. The comments below it read like a Mail Watch thread, with not one word of support for our 'local' MP, and no support shown for the rest of the government either.

Is this a sign of Tory voters finally waking up? Probably not, but it's nice to see. Especially here in Tory Central.

In a word, no. I see the exact same thing in my local FB groups about our MP, Peter Bone. The guy is constantly slagged off on his views, his cronyism, and the fact that he's seen more on TV than in his constituency, yet his vote count and share has increased every election since he first got in.

[Youngian]

Dan hasn’t Tweeted since January to give us his considered in-sights into Covid and Brexit. But broke radio silence last week for a parachute jump. He turns the odd article like this one warning El Presidente Juanson of the dangers of populist South American economics. Hannan’s record does give credence to the view that this is not the Brexit he wanted. But they all fall to pieces when written down so tough shit Dan for getting Peron instead of Patrick Minford.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bankers are in charge of interest rates now. They hate inflation.

Isn't he doing a Biden article with names changed?

[Youngian]

Lucky Dom isn’t still around to make a move on the unelected bureaucrats of the BoE monetary committee. Then print billions of Bolivars to build his cyborg factories.

[zuriblue]

Dunning Kruger writ large

[Youngian]

Dunning Kruger writ large

A pre-Google David Brent

[Boiler]

The only Latin I know apart from "Deo Volente" is "Usque ad mortem bibendum", as anyone familiar with Bruce's Brewery in the 80s will know...

[zuriblue]

The only Latin I know apart from "Deo Volente" is "Usque ad mortem bibendum", as anyone familiar with Bruce's Brewery in the 80s will know...

Yes, it's firkin terrible what happened to them.

[Boiler]

Arf Arf...

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm just listening to it now. I've virtually lost the will to live before we've even got to the questions.

If Latin's so useful (which I agree it is) why hasn't he remembered more of it from school? I would assume he'd have done compulsory Latin to O Level at Eton. Then there was some bollocks about how education needs to stretch people (as if the alternative to doing Latin is playing sticklebricks). Then some more pompous bollocks where he says somebody "woke" said chucking Latin about discriminates. Jakey says you want to level up where everyone "feels comfortable with Latin". I'm perfectly comfortable with Latin, having a degree in Classics and Modern Languages. What I'm not so comfortable with is people who, by their own admission, look up quotations in Latin to make themselves seem clever.

In fairness to him, Tominey gets the pronunciation of the last quote completely wrong. What she says doesn't make sense.

[Andy McDandy]

Thing is, we imagine (thanks to centuries of it being used as an 'elite' language, countless films etc) Latin delivered in stentorian tones, from the likes of Olivier or Christopher Plummer. In reality Latin, especially vulgate Latin would have been delivered in a rapid fire manner, with plenty of gesticulation. Less Juvenal, more Joe Pesci.