"May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
- sally maclennane
- Posts: 49214
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
We don't have much of a stockpile as we had no kitchen until recently. I am more concerned about meds because I cant stockpile them
The whole thing is so utterly depressing. I still believe that Johnson's backers want a No Deal because there's something in it for them, we are governed by sociopaths.
The whole thing is so utterly depressing. I still believe that Johnson's backers want a No Deal because there's something in it for them, we are governed by sociopaths.
Last edited by sally maclennane on Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:59 am, edited 1 time in total.
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
-
- Posts: 97798
- Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:55 am
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Agreed, Del.
Did anybody else watch the Guardian Live thing with Marina Hyde and John Crace last night? It was very good, but the only positive aspect of all this was Marina visibly enjoying the prospect of Johnson being the Tory party scapegoat for a few months before being replaced by a younger model in about May. She was visibly cheered at the thought of it.
Did anybody else watch the Guardian Live thing with Marina Hyde and John Crace last night? It was very good, but the only positive aspect of all this was Marina visibly enjoying the prospect of Johnson being the Tory party scapegoat for a few months before being replaced by a younger model in about May. She was visibly cheered at the thought of it.
- sally maclennane
- Posts: 49214
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
That'll be Rishi Sunak then?
Johnson doesn't really care, he'll much prefer being ex PM, all the glory and none of the work.
Johnson doesn't really care, he'll much prefer being ex PM, all the glory and none of the work.
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
-
- Posts: 3719
- Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:10 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
But why would he prefer being ex PM who brought Britain to its knees? Where's the glory in that?
-
- Posts: 52587
- Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:29 am
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Yeah, the greatest punishment on him would be to make him be PM forever. Obviously we'd be cutting off our noses to spite our faces with that mind
-
- Posts: 3719
- Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:10 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
He's about the same height as Barbara Windsor, he'll never be PM.
- sally maclennane
- Posts: 49214
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
I also think the gammons won't tolerate anything other than a white PM.
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
-
- Posts: 29790
- Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:59 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
That is indeed the only silver lining. I don't think he'll enjoy being remembered as the PM who presided over the worst Covid death rates in Europe, nor the "Leader" who led us to crashing out and [x] years of Depression as a result though Sal. He's our Trump.Ella77 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:58 am Agreed, Del.
Did anybody else watch the Guardian Live thing with Marina Hyde and John Crace last night? It was very good, but the only positive aspect of all this was Marina visibly enjoying the prospect of Johnson being the Tory party scapegoat for a few months before being replaced by a younger model in about May. She was visibly cheered at the thought of it.
ETA Or what they said - despair must make me type slowly!
Last edited by Derek Nimmo on Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:05 am, edited 1 time in total.
- sally maclennane
- Posts: 49214
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
He'll just pretend that never happened, its what people like him do " ah yes, Covid, terrible thing, foreigners brought it in y'know, wiff waff, dead cats, something in Latin. ANYWAY, about my new book on Churchill..."
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
- Turtle Bean
- Posts: 60032
- Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:29 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
I think he'll view his reign as a resounding success. Delivered Brexit and found a vaccine.
-
- Posts: 3719
- Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:10 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Ah, I dunno, I just don't think he'll be able to disentangle himself from Brexit, ever. He campaigned for it, he ousted TM for it, he said he had a deal in 2019, he said no deal would be a failure of statecraft. He is (synonymous with) Brexit. And the results will be clear from 1 January 2021.
-
- Posts: 52587
- Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:29 am
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
He'll always be a hero to many, and that'll be what he choses to listen to.
-
- Posts: 3719
- Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:10 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
What he wants is a hagiography and he'll never get that because his successor will have to publicly disavow everything Johnson has done for the last three years.
But, genuinely, what do I know?! I'm probably just being ridiculously optimistic, there's a consistent pattern here and it's always me who ends up weeping on election night.
But, genuinely, what do I know?! I'm probably just being ridiculously optimistic, there's a consistent pattern here and it's always me who ends up weeping on election night.
-
- Posts: 29790
- Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:59 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
I think the whole careful construction will start crumbling once the Murdoch and Tory knives are out for him and his own party start their hatchet job, and the process will be complete when the effects of Brexit are felt over the next few years.
I reckon it will be difficult to find anyone willing to spit on him if he were on fire in five years time. Too late by then, but hey ho.
I reckon it will be difficult to find anyone willing to spit on him if he were on fire in five years time. Too late by then, but hey ho.
-
- Posts: 3719
- Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:10 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Honestly, in 2021, if there's no deal, I can't see him being a hero to anyone but the likes of Rees-Mogg, who can absolutely take any sort of economic meltdown without being affected.
- sally maclennane
- Posts: 49214
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Yes, plus his entire life is one of privilege and not taking responsibility. The man doesn't acknowledge his own children, why would he accept responsibility for anything else? The easy ride he gets from the press infuriates me, if a Labour PM (or a black footballer!) had done half the things he had,they'd have been burned at the stake.
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
-
- Posts: 52587
- Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:29 am
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Or a woman. My god. Can you imagine.
- sally maclennane
- Posts: 49214
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
I can, sadly. Children by 3 different men? They'd have had a field day.
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
-
- Posts: 27231
- Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:14 pm
- Location: London
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Yes, sadly. An ego like that is unpuncturable. That isn't a word.Turtle Bean wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:07 am I think he'll view his reign as a resounding success. Delivered Brexit and found a vaccine.
In reality my stockpile is more than sufficient, but it's my comfort blanket, and the one thing about this I have control over. And really it's the inability to stockpile meds that is most likely to be an issue.
Protected by the ejaculation of serpents
-
- Posts: 97798
- Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:55 am
Re: "May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019
Yes; they were saying that he will probably have to go abroad to get the kind of job he's used to having here. The chances of going back to a £300,000/year job writing a weekly column are pretty slim. Here's hoping, anyway.Derek Nimmo wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:13 am I think the whole careful construction will start crumbling once the Murdoch and Tory knives are out for him and his own party start their hatchet job, and the process will be complete when the effects of Brexit are felt over the next few years.
I reckon it will be difficult to find anyone willing to spit on him if he were on fire in five years time. Too late by then, but hey ho.