[Bones McCoy]

Johnson in the chamber reassuring us "This time the Taliban say they'll be different".

An old line that he used on his 2nd and 3rd wives.

[Youngian]

His base are the "people" who hate Malala Yousafzai. He'll be fine.

Johnson had no interest in today's debate. His top priority is ensuring as few of them as possible enter the country or Farage will be back yapping at his heels.

[Andy McDandy]

That or arranging another stunt or photo opportunity to enchant the fans.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Hmm. I think the orange hi-viz and a white hard hat today...

[Bones McCoy]

Hmm. I think the orange hi-viz and a white hard hat today...

And today Mister Benn fancied a spot of nationbuilding.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[mattomac]

Have to say the mask wearing in Parliament last week tells you everything you need to know. Considering it’s for the protection of others.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not good for Sir Keir, but not good for Johnson either. Kabul fell 8 days before the date this was done. Shouldn't the Commander in Chief be doing better than that.

[davidjay]

I received a PR from an old contact this morning saying that based on Hansard research he is - wait for it - the hardest-working Prime Minister for a hundred years.

[Nigredo]

The pork haystack is absolutely nettled by Starmer's cross-examination today, and no amount of thumping the despatch box/ deflecting to supposed failures of Blair/Brown or supposed victories of the vaccine rollout/hiding behind his braying goonies will cover that up.

[Boiler]

Nah, you watch how the Express and Twitter paints it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'll be fair, this is a serious plan.

Now about the lying in 2019. And 2016.

[Boiler]

To think such things is unpatriotic Tubbs, and you know it...

[davidjay]

It's beyond comprehension. The more danger he places people in, the worse off he makes them, the more they thank him for it.

[Watchman]

Is that Stockholm syndrome?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Irregular verb-

I, Boris, don't duck difficult decisions.
You, a liberal lefty, raise tax for a laugh.

[satnav]

I really wish news programmes would be a lot clearer about how the social care problem arose. The usual narrative is that the crisis is entirely down to the fact that we have an aging population but in reality the situation was made a lot worse by policies introduced by the Tories in the 80s. In the early 80's local authorities provided a lot of affordable care for elderly people with the government paying up to £125 a week to help subsidise the care of old people who were on means tested benefits. The Tories under Thatcher were keen to reduce the role of local authorities to open up the care system to private providers. Whilst local authority provided were only getting a maximum of £125 a week old people on benefits living in private nursing homes got over £400 a week towards there care.

This policy saw a large increase in really big private care homes and a sharp decline in local authority care homes. With virtually no local authority homes to provide competition prices in private care homes has continued to rise leading to the situation that we are in today. So the Tories are yet again trying to claim the credit for a problem they actually created.

[Watchman]

Nah, you watch how the Express and Twitter paints it.

The Mail line seems to be that it will all be spent on NHS managers and penpushers; so that’s who you should direct your anger at, not the Liar-in-Chief and his syncopates

[Boiler]

I just lost my rag at someone who said "if Corbyn had been in charge we'd still be waiting for the Sputnik vaccine."

Better 150,000 dead than scary Corbyn, eh?

[Nigredo]

I really wish news programmes would be a lot clearer about how the social care problem arose. The usual narrative is that the crisis is entirely down to the fact that we have an aging population but in reality the situation was made a lot worse by policies introduced by the Tories in the 80s. In the early 80's local authorities provided a lot of affordable care for elderly people with the government paying up to £125 a week to help subsidise the care of old people who were on means tested benefits. The Tories under Thatcher were keen to reduce the role of local authorities to open up the care system to private providers. Whilst local authority provided were only getting a maximum of £125 a week old people on benefits living in private nursing homes got over £400 a week towards there care.

This policy saw a large increase in really big private care homes and a sharp decline in local authority care homes. With virtually no local authority homes to provide competition prices in private care homes has continued to rise leading to the situation that we are in today. So the Tories are yet again trying to claim the credit for a problem they actually created.

Channel 4 News infuriated me with this last night, giving little time establishing the context of why this is needed and being more interested in pinning Johnathan Ashworth on "WELL YOU DON'T HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN SO HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE?".

In fairness to them, they've been going in hard on the Tories for the last 18 months so I can't accuse them of Kuennsbergian bias. But this type of "gotcha" journalism was best left amongst the detritus cleared out of Paxman's office when he retired.