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Now I see what our level of discussion has been missing.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/8xzwe5/boris-johnson-prime-minister-gossip Pretty much as expected, then.

That's no way to talk about Eamonn Holmes and Murray Walker.

Yep. We're officially at war with ourselves. Good times.

The Jews next, then he'll be a shoo-in for the job.

I think someone just needs to believe in Britain a bit harder

So this is going to be the week when Mike Ashley can rightly say he is getting the hang of this business lark.

Brings a new meaning to "another one bites the dust".

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Sounds like a paella shite to me.

2 weeks today I'll be by a lake in a small and mildly dull Swedish town.

I was going to say, this is just the start of it. Don't forget the hand of Bannon is looming over this whole thing. Best belt up for a fun ride...

CT got one right! Why did it have to be this one?

Meanwhile, this on Johnson is equal parts brilliant and depressing: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/boris-johnson-ham-of-fate/

Correct me if I'm getting my denpressure wrong, but if the Apollo re-entry had been actually frictionless, wouldn't they have... crashed and burned horrendously? In other words, an apt comparison for once.

ONE TWO THREE TECHNO MAXIMUM VELOCITY

Wahey!

Oh, terrific https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/19/sajid-javid-praises-nigel-farage-in-speech-on-extremism-boris-johnson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR3r0BNpvqv55Osfgi5hRxcXqVbVGFrwIDDLTkV_0SgCZDnVXdEY_6vNL7U

Aye, he'll change his money at the airport.

He never really got the hang of this football lark.

The brilliant thing is even his edit about Ashley finally understanding what's needed has turned out to be wrong.

It's becoming increasingly obvious that the "we survived the war, we can survive this!" brigade (who weren't born when the war happened) actually want to live through warlike conditions and the deprivation that follows. They feel like they missed out compared with the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation and they're somehow lesser people as a result. This whole thing is going ahead because of sheer bloody-minded gammon insecurity.