Some of the more excitable posters on here probably think Boris hasn’t a ghost of a chance of escaping from the sticky bind he currently finds himself in.
But they need to look at some historical political survivors they probably weren’t taught about in school.
Particularly a chap called Francois Mitterrand who was once President of France.
He managed to cover-up his early years as a senior official for the wartime Vichy government – the anti-Semitic traitors who collaborated with the Nazis when they invaded France.
He became a top minister in French extreme right-wing parties in the 1950s before being forced out by General de Gaulle in 1958.
More than 20 years later, after a series of failed attempted returns and even a faked assassination attempt against himself, Mitterrand won the presidency after forming a socialist party in coalition with the Communists – a bit like Nigel Farage becoming Richard Boyd Barrett.
He was President for 14 years, all despite suffering from advanced cancer, which he instructed his doctors to cover up as a “state secret.”
During this time he also had two wives and families, the first of which didn’t even know about the second until they met at his funeral.
Which is a long way of saying keep your powder dry and never say never in politics because it has all been done before.
PS: Thanks to the technical issues and the late arrival of the Papers I’m now four large gins further down the road than I expected to be at this stage.
Steph Pinker
Did you manage to back two winners in a once-in-a-lifetime handicap bet in Wolverhampton last night?
But, at a time when the majority of Europe is pursuing more and more strict Covid laws, I’d be concerned that if someone else got in power, they’d bring back a lot of the restrictions in England.
Which would probably influence our government to do likewise.
And that’s not to even mention Labour, with whom it’s quite striking to see still wearing masks. One side of the house all in masks and the tories (for the majority) not wearing them.
Restrictions are very much a political symbol at this stage I think.
scottser
boris is just a useful chump for the time being. the tories will keep him in power until a proper crisis emerges and they need throw someone under the bus to cover their arses.
and yeah, boris is just an idiot. wait till someone really evil wriggles their way into downing street like that disgusting patel woman or rees-mogg the human toad.
ian - oG
Patel and Rees Mogg exhibit clear behaviours that indicate psychopathy and/or personality disorders.
I’d imagine both get excited when they hear of drowned migrants.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I’d say it leaves them both unmoved as they clearly lack any empathy to have feelings either way.
Nasty pieces of work.
ian - oG
Fair point Janet, excitement would be a human response, both appear to be something less than human in their responses.
Mad
What should their reaction be? People risk their Iives and their children’s lives at their own risk crossing illegally for purely selfish economic reasons. There are other avenues for those who are genuinely seeking asylum.
Your beloved tory scum distraction from reality, the reality of destruction of democracy, more public wealth theft for elite scum interests by the singapore on thames grand larcenist charlatan a.k.a. j.r. Monopoly tosser… will be out of office by the end of March as part of the election cycle..
Your level of stupidity knows no end, no bottom, no solid floor to bounce from …
Like an infinite spiralling abyss of perpetual ignorance.
Thanks for the consistent laughs… haha
:-J
Fearganainm
“…One Downing Street official confirmed the aide had quit, branding it a “devastating loss.” It will rock the operation after weeks of turmoil over parties held in Downing Street during COVID lockdowns. Asked if more people are likely to follow Mirza out, the official said: “That doesn’t matter. Boris will feel more sorrow than Mary did watching Christ on the cross. It’s that level of void left in his life…”
just had my household elec and gas bills…almost DOUBLED (and I’ve been an utter focussed nazi on lights n heat over last year)
mickeymouse €100 subventions to likes of the ESB ain’t gonna cut it, buckle up everyone
The Millie Obnoxious™
We’re the same as yourself.
Incredibly high bills this month and last. Enough to make you sick.
Tustin Jrudeau
Its disgusting alright – also has a big impact on our competitiveness for business.
Factories will have to push up prices too, which adds to inflation for food etc
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
yep food shop seems to have doubled when you arrive at the till, electric went from 200 to 300, even the baby is wearing two jumpers.
Micko
Yep. It’s getting pricey alright.
I think it’s time to get a wood burning stove and pop to St Anne’s park under the cover of darkness a few nights a week – armed with a hacksaw and a big bag.
“Free” wood baby
Muhahahah!
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I was supposed to have my veggie garden by now….wistful sigh…strokes seeds
Mad
It’s too cold to plant anything yet unless you have a heated tunnel
TenPin Terry
Good to see you’re not squealing like a stuck pig Micko.
No-one likes paying more for anything but it’s the idiot savants on here whose first thought is to stick their hand out begging like a street corner tramp.
We all have our crosses to bear – my Majorcan farmhouse has termites and Pedro my handyman sucked his teeth and pulled a grimace when I asked him over Zoom how much to get someone in to deal with the problem.
Needs must I suppose.
Me so Harney
Majorcan farmhouse/ flea ridden bedsit in Limerick
ian - oG
A) Who is looking for a bailout?
B) What sort of halfwit owns a property in Majorca but spends all their time on here fapping as the replies?
Christ but you are even more broken than I suspected.
Marvellous. ™
TenPin Terry
By jove, can’t a chap own a summer hideaway in the Med where he can frolic naked in the pool with his gorgeous wife while she shouts ” bring it on you stud muffin. ” ?
Surely you’d love to be able to bare your bollocks in the Baelerics without being bothered.
And it was an absolute steal after the crash.
Marvellous.
Mad
Pedro has you where he wants you
TenPin Terry
Not quite sure why people always expect governments to bail them out when energy prices go up.
It’s supply and demand affected by many different factors including cold winter in Europe last year which put pressure on supplies and, as a result, stored gas levels are much lower than normal.
Gas exports from Russia to north-west Europe have also been lower.
In my parents’ day they didn’t automatically whine for a handout when the going got tough – they budgeted for unforseen circumstances instead of spaffing money on crap they didn’t need.
What the government here could do is pursue more fracking and nuclear energy and jettison the ludicrous green tariffs on everything.
Ryan and his crowd eventually want you all living in yurts heated by cabbage-growing farting vegans.
Go woke, go broke.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Not sure how you managed to get that novella out of gb’s handful of sentences, tbh.
And, perhaps most impressively, you managed to shoehorn in a swathe of trite cliches, including my personal favourite, ‘In my day…’
Very impressive work.
TenPin Terry
‘ In my parents’ day ‘.
Do try to keep up.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Same difference, isn’t it though, grandad?
Do try to keep up. Or is your hip at you again?
TenPin Terry
Same difference ?
About a generation.
Are you deliberately trying to appear dim ?
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
a generation between you and your Ma….hmmmm
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
fracking…oh that’s excellent trolling,
what ever else about you the other trolls should really take classes from you.
TenPin Terry
Fracking has been fantastically successful in the USA creating millions of jobs and ensuring the country is not dependent on others for its energy.
Here we whine about nuclear but happily accept nuclear-generated power from the UK – not unlike relying on others for our defence while smugly proclaiming neautrality.
Then whine some more when energy prices go up and the wind stops blowing and we’ve given away our offshore reserves for a pittance.
It’s always someone else’s fault and someone else’s duty to bail Ireland out – literally.
Time this country grew a pair.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
the last thing this country needs is MORE scrotums, there’s plenty getting scratched in the Dail already.
Mad
He’s not actually trolling this time
ian - oG
What I find most amusing about our resident anglophile onanist us how it thinks it is getting “one up” on us paddy’s. How? By instigating arguments for attention? Why? Is there nobody in its life to give it attention, even negative attention?
I read its posts in a sort of wonder as to how anyone could care that much as to what the comnentators on here think.
No amount of saying marvellous is going to make anyone take it seriously yet here it is, back again with a new name indulging its compulsions.
Weird….
Go on Ten Pence, hit me with a zinger of a comeback. Better be good though or I shan’t play anymore.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
he’s actually a frustrated self hating fantasist bogger
ian - oG
Not sure whether to laugh or sigh in pity when I see how much effort goes into the fishing attempts.
Who has that sort of energy to spare?
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
he didn’t read the post on energy drinks
ian - oG
I’m worn out checking the kids homework these days.
:|
Mad
Ten bit tuppence ha’penny
Gerry
No one is biting today John Bull****
GiggidyGoo
In FG terms – ‘sew up your pockets’ ( Michael Noonan’s solution)
SOQ
Journalist: How long do you plan on staying in Ottawa?
Trucker: Just two weeks to flatten the curve.
Some of the more excitable posters on here probably think Boris hasn’t a ghost of a chance of escaping from the sticky bind he currently finds himself in.
But they need to look at some historical political survivors they probably weren’t taught about in school.
Particularly a chap called Francois Mitterrand who was once President of France.
He managed to cover-up his early years as a senior official for the wartime Vichy government – the anti-Semitic traitors who collaborated with the Nazis when they invaded France.
He became a top minister in French extreme right-wing parties in the 1950s before being forced out by General de Gaulle in 1958.
More than 20 years later, after a series of failed attempted returns and even a faked assassination attempt against himself, Mitterrand won the presidency after forming a socialist party in coalition with the Communists – a bit like Nigel Farage becoming Richard Boyd Barrett.
He was President for 14 years, all despite suffering from advanced cancer, which he instructed his doctors to cover up as a “state secret.”
During this time he also had two wives and families, the first of which didn’t even know about the second until they met at his funeral.
Which is a long way of saying keep your powder dry and never say never in politics because it has all been done before.
PS: Thanks to the technical issues and the late arrival of the Papers I’m now four large gins further down the road than I expected to be at this stage.
Did you manage to back two winners in a once-in-a-lifetime handicap bet in Wolverhampton last night?
https://www.racingpost.com/news/dramatic-match-race-involving-1-6-favourite-ends-in-historic-dead-heat/535589
We did! It was riveting and bizarre and I doubt I’ll ever see a dead-heat in a two horse race ever again :(
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles there Charger. Ha haaaa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_aYRMLuROg
Bumbahole Boris
Katrina LATTRINA
Poor ould divil gone Mad
Boris is a tool no doubt.
But, at a time when the majority of Europe is pursuing more and more strict Covid laws, I’d be concerned that if someone else got in power, they’d bring back a lot of the restrictions in England.
Which would probably influence our government to do likewise.
And that’s not to even mention Labour, with whom it’s quite striking to see still wearing masks. One side of the house all in masks and the tories (for the majority) not wearing them.
Restrictions are very much a political symbol at this stage I think.
boris is just a useful chump for the time being. the tories will keep him in power until a proper crisis emerges and they need throw someone under the bus to cover their arses.
and yeah, boris is just an idiot. wait till someone really evil wriggles their way into downing street like that disgusting patel woman or rees-mogg the human toad.
Patel and Rees Mogg exhibit clear behaviours that indicate psychopathy and/or personality disorders.
I’d imagine both get excited when they hear of drowned migrants.
I’d say it leaves them both unmoved as they clearly lack any empathy to have feelings either way.
Nasty pieces of work.
Fair point Janet, excitement would be a human response, both appear to be something less than human in their responses.
What should their reaction be? People risk their Iives and their children’s lives at their own risk crossing illegally for purely selfish economic reasons. There are other avenues for those who are genuinely seeking asylum.
After half way through the first sentence….
Your beloved tory scum distraction from reality, the reality of destruction of democracy, more public wealth theft for elite scum interests by the singapore on thames grand larcenist charlatan a.k.a. j.r. Monopoly tosser… will be out of office by the end of March as part of the election cycle..
In the words of the late, great Gene Wilder…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-nDFpOJeU
Your level of stupidity knows no end, no bottom, no solid floor to bounce from …
Like an infinite spiralling abyss of perpetual ignorance.
Thanks for the consistent laughs… haha
:-J
“…One Downing Street official confirmed the aide had quit, branding it a “devastating loss.” It will rock the operation after weeks of turmoil over parties held in Downing Street during COVID lockdowns. Asked if more people are likely to follow Mirza out, the official said: “That doesn’t matter. Boris will feel more sorrow than Mary did watching Christ on the cross. It’s that level of void left in his life…”
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-aide-to-boris-johnson-quits-over-sex-abuser-slur/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKr9aL6WUAIDtjx?format=jpg&name=medium
So Yoko Ono has removed her music from Spotify, which is a blow to the creative world of…. tap dancing.
Meanwhile Milli Vanili are threatening to remove… err… someone else’s music.
Oh noes, I guess we’ll just have to make do with Daisy’s insane screeching from here on out.
Lonely hearts
Toilet bowl artist appears
This Spotify thing is very interesting, isn’t it? Did you throw out all your Neil Young CDs in protest?
I won’t lie, the Joni Mitchell thing broke my heart a little.
I don’t use Spotify but out of curiosity I googled Spotify and Joni Mitchell and got https://open.spotify.com/artist/5hW4L92KnC6dX9t7tYM4Ve
And it looks like some of her music is still there.
that FT headline…
“cost of living catastrophe”
it’s here too
just had my household elec and gas bills…almost DOUBLED (and I’ve been an utter focussed nazi on lights n heat over last year)
mickeymouse €100 subventions to likes of the ESB ain’t gonna cut it, buckle up everyone
We’re the same as yourself.
Incredibly high bills this month and last. Enough to make you sick.
Its disgusting alright – also has a big impact on our competitiveness for business.
Factories will have to push up prices too, which adds to inflation for food etc
yep food shop seems to have doubled when you arrive at the till, electric went from 200 to 300, even the baby is wearing two jumpers.
Yep. It’s getting pricey alright.
I think it’s time to get a wood burning stove and pop to St Anne’s park under the cover of darkness a few nights a week – armed with a hacksaw and a big bag.
“Free” wood baby
Muhahahah!
I was supposed to have my veggie garden by now….wistful sigh…strokes seeds
It’s too cold to plant anything yet unless you have a heated tunnel
Good to see you’re not squealing like a stuck pig Micko.
No-one likes paying more for anything but it’s the idiot savants on here whose first thought is to stick their hand out begging like a street corner tramp.
We all have our crosses to bear – my Majorcan farmhouse has termites and Pedro my handyman sucked his teeth and pulled a grimace when I asked him over Zoom how much to get someone in to deal with the problem.
Needs must I suppose.
Majorcan farmhouse/ flea ridden bedsit in Limerick
A) Who is looking for a bailout?
B) What sort of halfwit owns a property in Majorca but spends all their time on here fapping as the replies?
Christ but you are even more broken than I suspected.
Marvellous. ™
By jove, can’t a chap own a summer hideaway in the Med where he can frolic naked in the pool with his gorgeous wife while she shouts ” bring it on you stud muffin. ” ?
Surely you’d love to be able to bare your bollocks in the Baelerics without being bothered.
And it was an absolute steal after the crash.
Marvellous.
Pedro has you where he wants you
Not quite sure why people always expect governments to bail them out when energy prices go up.
It’s supply and demand affected by many different factors including cold winter in Europe last year which put pressure on supplies and, as a result, stored gas levels are much lower than normal.
Gas exports from Russia to north-west Europe have also been lower.
In my parents’ day they didn’t automatically whine for a handout when the going got tough – they budgeted for unforseen circumstances instead of spaffing money on crap they didn’t need.
What the government here could do is pursue more fracking and nuclear energy and jettison the ludicrous green tariffs on everything.
Ryan and his crowd eventually want you all living in yurts heated by cabbage-growing farting vegans.
Go woke, go broke.
Not sure how you managed to get that novella out of gb’s handful of sentences, tbh.
And, perhaps most impressively, you managed to shoehorn in a swathe of trite cliches, including my personal favourite, ‘In my day…’
Very impressive work.
‘ In my parents’ day ‘.
Do try to keep up.
Same difference, isn’t it though, grandad?
Do try to keep up. Or is your hip at you again?
Same difference ?
About a generation.
Are you deliberately trying to appear dim ?
a generation between you and your Ma….hmmmm
fracking…oh that’s excellent trolling,
what ever else about you the other trolls should really take classes from you.
Fracking has been fantastically successful in the USA creating millions of jobs and ensuring the country is not dependent on others for its energy.
Here we whine about nuclear but happily accept nuclear-generated power from the UK – not unlike relying on others for our defence while smugly proclaiming neautrality.
Then whine some more when energy prices go up and the wind stops blowing and we’ve given away our offshore reserves for a pittance.
It’s always someone else’s fault and someone else’s duty to bail Ireland out – literally.
Time this country grew a pair.
the last thing this country needs is MORE scrotums, there’s plenty getting scratched in the Dail already.
He’s not actually trolling this time
What I find most amusing about our resident anglophile onanist us how it thinks it is getting “one up” on us paddy’s. How? By instigating arguments for attention? Why? Is there nobody in its life to give it attention, even negative attention?
I read its posts in a sort of wonder as to how anyone could care that much as to what the comnentators on here think.
No amount of saying marvellous is going to make anyone take it seriously yet here it is, back again with a new name indulging its compulsions.
Weird….
Go on Ten Pence, hit me with a zinger of a comeback. Better be good though or I shan’t play anymore.
he’s actually a frustrated self hating fantasist bogger
Not sure whether to laugh or sigh in pity when I see how much effort goes into the fishing attempts.
Who has that sort of energy to spare?
he didn’t read the post on energy drinks
I’m worn out checking the kids homework these days.
:|
Ten bit tuppence ha’penny
No one is biting today John Bull****
In FG terms – ‘sew up your pockets’ ( Michael Noonan’s solution)
Journalist: How long do you plan on staying in Ottawa?
Trucker: Just two weeks to flatten the curve.
Zing !
https://www.tiktok.com/@directorgeneral111/video/7060291109024484613