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@danny_robins
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Boris Johnson’s resignation speech, 7th July: ‘I want you to know that from now until the new Prime Minister is in place, your interests will be served and the government of the country will be carried on’
Boris Johnson, 16th July:
fascinated by the energy of a conversation between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is in Kyiv & facing down Putin, with Boris Johnson, who hid in a fridge from Good Morning Britain
Unsold fish are rotting on docks, seafood companies are hitting the wall, but Jacob Rees-Mogg says what matters is that fish are now ‘happier’ because they’re ‘British’
'... and I was shocked to discover a large number of people in my garden drinking after I had invited them to drink in my garden, although I can't recall if I was there'
OH MY DAYS
James Hanson, BBC Bristol, calls out Liz Truss’s scripted answers, refuses to accept this is all down to Putin, & asks if the Bank of England had to intervene because of him
‘… I then had it pointed out to me I’d accidentally ticked a box which made me a citizen of another country while I was serving as an MP and minister…’
Hearing an alarm. Putting on a tie. Carrying a handbag. Receptionists. Caffeine-filled air. Taking a lift. Seeing your second family. Watercooler conversations. Proper bants. The boss's jokes. Plastic plants. Office gossip. Those weird carpets. Face-to-face meetings. CCing
Liz Truss’s speech, a summary:
‘When I was growing up & the Tories were in power, things were bad, and things have been bad these last years, when the Tories have been in power’
When asked on
#Marr
to give benefits of Brexit, Boris Johnson says the UK can have freeports & has banned pulse fishing.
We had freeports when we were in the EU & France banned pulse fishing in 2019
Nadine Dorries' excuse - and the one parrotted by this government's cheerleaders - is "How can Channel 4 compete with Netflix and Amazon?". That's like asking why a bed isn't a satellite - Channel 4's purpose is completely different to Netflix's
On Newsnight a correspondent says a ‘senior Tory’ calls Keir Starmer a ‘smartypants’, like having someone smart in a position of responsibility is less preferable to someone who has been notoriously pantless
if you think a spy in the Commons is bad, wait till you hear about the former Foreign Secretary who partied at an Italian villa owned by the son of a former KGB agent, this former Foreign Secretary also later handing out a peerage against the advice of the security services
Tories love comparing everything to WW2 but when an occasion arises which is comparable to those years, like, say, welcoming refugees from an unprovoked war started by a tyrant, it’s all a bit, ‘well, hang on a minute…’
royal family: ok we need to stop all these Kate Middleton rumours
press team: got it. we’ll release a photo with bad re-touching, one kid crossing their fingers, & missing rings
royal family: sounds great