[Boiler]

I have to say I find myself agreeing with Gove to an extent there's an element of selfishness to not taking up the vaccine.

This is a subject that has brought "miners' strike" levels of division to my family.

[Andy McDandy]

Just been reading "Don't Look Back in Anger", a history of the 1990s and up to 9/11. Several politicians contributed to it, among them Major and Blair.

Both made the point that while there's a tendency in politics to never credit the opposition with anything you can claim credit for yourself, the "If you call yourself [party/ideology X], and you quote or credit [person from party/ideology Y], give your head a wobble" thing does nobody any favours. Sometimes people you generally disagree with, do things you agree with. Otherwise every time there was a change of government, there'd be a complete reset.

[Crabcakes]

I think of it this way - I also agree that people refusing the vaccine are being selfish. However, I have different reasons to do so. I want people to have the vaccine so that others don't get ill, so that they themselves don't get ill, and so that people who cannot have it or have not had it yet are safer - and I want that because COVID is a terrible illness and long covid can make people ill in a frightening number of ways for a very, very long time.

Gove wants it because he wants to be able to push Tory ideology - everyone back to work, filling expensive inner-city offices and helping to disguise the fallout of brexit from lack of staff, lack of delivery drivers, damage to the economy and so on. And to help maintain the illusion that the Tories have handled the pandemic well, and also to avoid an NHS collapse. His claim that avoiding the vaccine is selfish is itself stemming from selfishness - once someone is jabbed, they can get on with doing what he wants them to do, even if that might involve a return to an expensive commute and increased exposure on public transport etc. He doesn't care about the person, he cares about the bottom line.

[Youngian]

he cares about the bottom line.

Gove’s not empirical enough to do that. Even fucked the fishermen’s bottom line.

[soulboy]

Michael Gove roars back into favour: Boris gives 'frenemy' a lift on dirt bike at Chequers bash - fuelling speculation that's he's on track for a Cabinet promotion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ation.html

A few questions immediately spring to mind.

Should our "hilarious gaffe" prone Prime Minister be dicking about on two wheels?

While acknowledging that they weren't on a public highway, were they wearing lids?

Just how "high" were the high spirits at this high spirited event?

Those who are up bright and early can enjoy an unmoderated Gove story. Someone is in deep shit at The Mail (the new intern Varah Sine?) as highly rated comments, which I won't directly repeat m'lud, make specific allegations about Gove's sexual and pharmaceutical preferences.

[Boiler]

Back in education, with Dom at his side.

The comments section of that piece is heading for some serious moderation.

[davidjay]

Back in education, with Dom at his side.

The comments section of that piece is heading for some serious moderation.

Not yet they haven't.

[Bones McCoy]

>> A few questions immediately spring to mind.

>> Should our "hilarious gaffe" prone Prime Minister be dicking about on two wheels?
Yes please, faster and icier the better.

>> While acknowledging that they weren't on a public highway, were they wearing lids?
Let's hope not.

>> Just how "high" were the high spirits at this high spirited event?
Toot tot old pip.

[Boiler]

Icy? Nah, just diesel on a wet road. Instantly turns bikers into organ donors, that stuff.

[Crabcakes]

Not so much "back in favour" as "least threat". Johnson knows Gove can't make a decent push for leadership now, as the former Mrs Gove will - entirely against character - be sure to make sure every last bit of bone is cleared out of his wardrobes. So instead, his best bet of retaining a nice ministerial car is keeping Boris in No. 10 for as long as possible.

[Boiler]

What's this all about then?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19545 ... nightclub/

[Dalem Lake]

The cynic in me smells manoeuvers. Gove trying to re-image himself as some sort of "man of the people/ledge" that worked well for Johnson?

[The All New KevS]

On one hand I say, fair enough. His job doesn't involve dealing with driver shortages, Covid, or Afghanistan directly, and he's free from Sarah Vine. Go ahead mate, knock yourself out.

On the other, as above, it does feel a bit like William Hague in his baseball cap. And bear in mind Hague was twenty years younger at that point than Gove is now.

Plus, he must be aware of the various rumours surrounding him with regards to his sexuality and substance abuse, but here we have him in a public arena dancing with a load of young men looking wazzed out of his bonce. Of course, the sexuality thing isn't going to bother most people if he was gay, but if he's wanting to keep it private, this is a damned odd way of doing it.

[satnav]

Perhaps he harbours ambitions to appear on Strictly Come Dancing and he is just putting together an audition tape just in case one of this years contestants is forced to pull out at the last minute.

[Bones McCoy]

Or - another dead cat.

Trot out a party personality to make a fool of themselves and grab the headlines.
It never did London's former mayor any harm.

Funny man stuck on trapeze wire.
We no care if funny man spaff 50 million for invisible bridge.

(Sorry, dropped into caveman there for a sec).

[Abernathy]

The truly weird thing I thought was that he seems to have gone to the club dressed in his usual everyday business suit - his sole concession to sartorial relaxation being to have ditched his tie.

What kind of weirdo goes out dancing to a club in an M&S business suit?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't often say this about Gove, but I'm willing to take this at face value. Bloke who's split up from his wife goes out, enjoys the sauce a bit more than he remembers and doesn't want to go home.

I think he's fucked on the leadership front by having the wrong job at the wrong time. Javid, Sunak and Truss are the frontrunners in terms of aiming their actions at members..

[Bones McCoy]

Eezer Gove,
Eezer Gove ...
EbenEezer Gove.

[Crabcakes]

The truly weird thing I thought was that he seems to have gone to the club dressed in his usual everyday business suit - his sole concession to sartorial relaxation being to have ditched his tie.

What kind of weirdo goes out dancing to a club in an M&S business suit?

While at university, I remember being at one of the alternative (read: not shitty chart music of the day) nights at a nightclub, and halfway through the evening a small group of sheepish-looking businessmen wandered in, clearly after a late-night drink. This led to fairly hilarious scenes later of a clearly hammered guy, tie loosened and jacket off, doing the most dad-like of dad dances and clapping his hands along to a track by New Model Army in the midst of a bunch of goths and shoe-gazers

[Bones McCoy]

Throwback time:

He may not do his job, but he has a good time,
with the boys that he meets while doing lines.



(Select your lube wisely).