Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted December 20, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2021 38 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said: Send for The Raab 15th May 2020. A tale of two people. One is the Prime Minister, having cheese and wines with his mates. The other is me, attending my fathers funeral virtualy, in my bedroom, drinking a Disaranno and coke, his favourite, watching 7 others family members in attendence as was the rules at that time. We're not all in this together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 I love that a government is using the excuse, "we weren't socialising we were *hic* drinking at work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted December 20, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2021 49 minutes ago, BomberPat said: I don't think the law had an exemption for if you had put a tie on. Depends what club or university the tie is for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69MeDon Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 These fuckers can't even pay for the booze for staff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WeeAl Posted January 10, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2022 You don't get to be a Tory by giving away your own money. Usually, that's where the expense account would have been getting hammered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69MeDon Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 17 minutes ago, WeeAl said: You don't get to be a Tory by giving away your own money. Usually, that's where the expense account would have been getting hammered. They couldn't have sold a peerage or handed out a fat government contract to a mate for beer money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members stumobir Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) I watched an interview with Iain Hislop recently where he talks about this, and in this country he lays some of the blame at Laura Kuenssberg and her approach to “journalism”. His point was that there’s no critical analysis of policy or Government performance anymore, everything is treated as some fast-moving reality show where we’re constantly fed a live stream of who’s in/out, does Carrie hate Dom etc. He used the sewage stuff as an example, disgraceful legislation passed by parliament but could barely get a foothold in in the news when it was being debated and by the time the drone videos were out of shit literally being pumped in to rivers and streams the news had moved on to what kind of wallpaper stop-calling-him-Boris had picked for his gaff. We’re a tabloid obsessed, sad little country unfortunately. Edited January 11, 2022 by stumobir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 hour ago, stumobir said: I watched an interview with Iain Hislop recently where he talks about this, and in this country he lays some of the blame at Laura Kuenssberg and her approach to “journalism”. His point was that there’s no critical analysis of policy or Government performance anymore, everything is treated as some fast-moving reality show where we’re constantly fed a live stream of who’s in/out, does Carrie hate Dom etc. He used the sewage stuff as an example, disgraceful legislation passed by parliament but could barely get a foothold in in the news when it was being debated and by the time the drone videos were out of shit literally being pumped in to rivers and streams the news had moved on to what kind of wallpaper stop-calling-him-Boris had picked for his gaff. We’re a tabloid obsessed, sad little country unfortunately. That's been the case, not just of politics, but news in general for years - the switch to 24 hour rolling news, and then to social media on top of that, meant that the most important thing became "BREAKING NEWS", and who could break the story first, rather than who could provide the most accurate or insightful analysis on a story. There's an element of rose-tinted glasses to Hislop's comments, as I imagine it's a criticism that's been around forever - I'm sure early newspaper publishes criticised the first tabloids on the same grounds, and newspapers definitely criticised TV news for valuing immediacy over accuracy, but there's no doubt that it's definitely got worse and that journalistic standards have largely slipped in the mainstream for a variety of reasons. I agree to a point with the over-saturation of scandal, though - there was always this argument around Trump, that every day he experienced a scandal that would have brought down any other government. It's hard to agree fully, as it's actually very rare for a scandal to bring down a government, or really lead to anything more than a minor participant being given up as a sacrificial lamb, but what Trump and Johnson seem to have learned is that constant scandal has much the same effect, psychologically, as no scandal; the public don't focus on any individual issue, tune out, become bored, and then you can get away with anything. There's always talk of each new fuck-up or scandal being a "dead cat" to distract from the last one, when it's far more likely the reality is that this government are just corrupt useless pricks on multiple fronts at the same time. What far more of it comes down to is whether the media feel the need to keep on top of someone. For most of Johnson's career he's had, to some degree, a sizeable chunk of the British press in his corner, so they've never been inclined to allow a scandal to be more than a minor issue. Increasingly, the press have realised that his position is untenable, so they are going to keep hounding him on this one and not allow anyone else to forget it. The government has done far, far worse than have parties during lockdown, but for a variety of reasons this is the thing that has turned the press on him, and this is the issue that's most likely to resonate with Joe Public as a "one rule for them, another for us"/"they're just taking the piss" issue - and especially if they're not allowed to forget it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 The drip-feeding of information about the party has been a masterful stroke, have to admit. It's actually kept people focused, whereas if it had just been one news story, it'd have been the Barnard Castle thing all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick James Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 I fucking hate the "let them off, they worked really hard" excuse, because the implication is that the rest of us spent the pandemic sat on our arses doing nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members stumobir Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, Nick James said: There was no vaccine programme in May 2020 but kudos to the mop-topped cunt for staying on brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 Of course he has a Union Jack as part of his screen name, the fucking wanker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted January 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Nick James said: Michael Fabricunt more like eh lads? Oi oi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaitoRyo Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said: Michael Fabricunt more like eh lads? Oi oi! Is that even a real person? Sounds fabricanted to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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