Poor David Attenborough

[AuntDaisy]

Whether you love or hate Boris, this image is just wrong in so many ways.

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1455333192769081350

Update: For balance, there are photos of an unmasked (but wide awake) DA, e.g. https://twitter.com/Chardgrills/stat...46705546141698

[AuntDaisy]

Apt comment from a wag on Twitter (echoing your private jet motif):[/url]

Absolutely brilliant - just needs Matt Lucas to voice it.


Was it tweeted here https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw ?

Max Morgan also shared this beautifully phrased tweet.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Never was the old joke so appropriate:

We used to be an empire and had an emperor...

[oddoneout]

Absolutely brilliant - just needs Matt Lucas to voice it.


Was it tweeted here https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw ?

Max Morgan also shared this beautifully phrased tweet.

Trouble is it won't have been a cheap suit - it's just the (presumably deliberate) way he "wears" them.
Meanwhile....https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-climate-talks Bet he won't accept that in person - not least because he flew back home from Glasgow yesterday, which just about says it all.

[french frank]

Trouble is it won't have been a cheap suit - it's just the (presumably deliberate) way he "wears" them.
Meanwhile....https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-climate-talks

Not to mention, "This spirit of inclusivity has showcased what the Brits do best – the art of queuing – for hours in some cases."

[AuntDaisy]

Trouble is it won't have been a cheap suit - it's just the (presumably deliberate) way he "wears" them.
Meanwhile....https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-climate-talks Bet he won't accept that in person - not least because he flew back home from Glasgow yesterday, which just about says it all.

I love the idea of a “Fossil of the Day” award. Perhaps they could post it to his nibs, airmail?

Not to mention, "This spirit of inclusivity has showcased what the Brits do best – the art of queuing – for hours in some cases."

I hope they had tea on tap.

[AuntDaisy]

I loved this updated photo...

Tom Ferris #FBPE #FBPA @TomFerris5
That photo is the gift that keeps on giving, don't know who did this but it is priceless.

[BBMmk2]

Never was the old joke so appropriate:

We used to be an empire and had an emperor...

How so true!

[AuntDaisy]

Boris was interviewed about it on CNN...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1455607121970597891

[french frank]

Boris was interviewed about it on CNN...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1455607121970597891

Poor Boris Johnson At least he didn't bluster - more mumbling in confusion.

[Bryn]

Never was the old joke so appropriate:

We used to be an empire and had an emperor...

Reminds me of an iconic work by Michael Finnissy.

[cloughie]

Photos can be deceptive but social distancing seems limited!

[oddoneout]

Poor Boris Johnson At least he didn't bluster - more mumbling in confusion.

Which reminds me. On Sunday it occurred to me that the translators must be facing a near impossible task with the Johnson waffle - no complete sentences, just a stream of (semi-) consciousness interspersed with umms and errs.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Yesterday, on Today, am Radio 4 - Bernard Jenkin explaining away their intention of re-writing the House of Commons discliplinart process for Owen Patterson. (I thought, time to send emails (1st time for years and years) a sheaf of handwritten, stamped letters.
Only to find they had the affrontery to go ahead and do it yesterday. Before this government neuter it, we need not fear for the independence of BBC News. This morning I again listened to "Today, from 7.30 until 8.55. A blinder of a programme, exposing the true nature of what had been done. Putting Bryant's summation we are now like Russia in denial of the Rule of Law to "Minister "(Mister emollient)"Nadhim Zahawi" and skewering him on his reply. Analysis how the enquiry will have no validity because it does not have the consent of Parliament as a body.

And the link to COP and this thread - asking why Johnson came back by private jet from Glasgow to have dinner with Charles Moore at the Garrick Club - both of them big buddies of Patterson.

And today, the magnificent climb down. And either in Today or the World at One, the point has been made it was Johnson's decision to make this a government, whipped motion - and MPs, in particular the new intake and the "Red Wall" ones among them are beginning to doubt his viability as a leader for the next election; his cynical calculation that not enough voters would care has backfired. I cannot wait for the day he returns to writing his broadsheet trash newspaper columns and gets paid handsomely for his irrelevant speeches at business dinners.

[Frances_iom]

... This morning I again listened to "Today, from 7.30 until 8.55. A blinder of a programme, exposing the true nature of what had been done. Putting Bryant's summation we are now like Russia in denial of the Rule of Law to "Minister "(Mister emollient)"Nadhim Zahawi" and skewering him on his reply...

That will certainly mean the disappearance of BBC news in future - BJ still has nearly 4 years to run and has demonstrated he has a bunch of apparatchiks who will do his bidding for fear of losing their pay - as for £100k pa for lobbying I wonder just how much it cost the public that those firms thought it worth paying (interestingly these firms unnamed in the news reports). Recently a labour politician was censured and forced to apologise for rightfully calling out the Tory party.