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Well I’d never heard of the horrid little man till this weekend- and Now I sure as hell have had enough of him. I think it’s a big deal in the fact that he’s a complete and utter hypocrite and is just very upset at being caught with his pants down, metaphorically ...as opposed to the chief medical advisor that was caught with his pants down literally. The British press have always chased anyone falling off their perch, but these smug looking swine who are telling us all how to behave and then going off and doing their own thing really is a bit much. His wife has been writing a published blog all about their travails, and at no point did she mentioned that during the period she was writing about they had all gone off as a family to Durham. In the latest interview he’s given he frankly looks an unpleasant and shifty little type, and I’d sack him just for that...but If we used that rule, then I fear we wouldn’t have many politicians left...

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I think some of this mix on the swede,turnip,parsnip front might be geographical- my father was a Scot and we always had Neeps and Tatties...but he meant Swede. My mother a midlander always called Swede turnip... I spent my life confused :blink:

I really can’t arugula the rocket, I don’t look like a ‘mom’, but I can’t say Mall with any degree of confidence either, so tend to refer to Walmart!

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Yup, it is.

'cos it's all about defining what "new normal" really means in HMG's mindset.. :huh:

(a) break the rules
(b) lie about it
(c) get found out
(d) admit that (a) and (b) happened
(e) so that's ok then. :blink:

I like MillieF's summary.

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*flashing lights of a police car"
Motorist pulls over and cop approaches driver.
"Hello officer. I've had the virus and I think it may have damaged my eyesight."
"I see sir."
"So you see officer, I have been out for a drive to test it."

Makes perfect sense doesn't it.:sarcasm:

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he is a mumbling, arrogant, hypocrite.

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Odious creature. Hopefully he'll learn that if he treats the public with contempt he's going to get that back in spades.

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Breathtakingly stupid 'defence'. Who did he expect would fall for that, other that Bojo of course.

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Yes to all of that, including Millie's summary :thumbup:

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Yes. Or it should be.

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Do you feel the same about Trudeau's travel over the Easter weekend too?

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At least he didn't drive to test his eyesight. :lol:

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I do not know anything about the guy, but surely if he did something wrong he should be fined and put through the courts instead of harassing him and his family 24x7? Seems like a lot of people have a grudge with him and this is their pay back time. Politics eh?

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He's part of a government telling the public not to travel let alone travel when they are infectious. The news is full of examples of people unable to travel to see sick and dying relatives and health care workers having to live away from their families - even when not infectious.

He and his partner were both infectious and travelled. It was all covered up initially...then supposedly about child care...and all the time his wife wrote in her magazine article about the period as if they hadn't even left London and how their kid was actually helping them.

Bit by bit there are admissions and denials and then more admissions and more denials and then when he finally admits to something previously denied he explains he went for a drive - with his four year old in the back - because he was concerned his eyesight had worsened and he wanted to test it.

It's not really a matter for the courts. You just can't be the chief advisor to government telling people to do one thing and then do something different against all official advice. Others breaking the rules have resigned.

How are the police to enforce such matters when something like this happens?

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Yes, it's political, yes, some people will be looking for pay back / revenge, but the majority of the 'not quite yet immune herd' are bleating about double standards and elitism.

Myself, I think of him as a bit like that giraffe named Frank:


Not often that the bishops join in though.

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That they get death threats and hate mail from some of those supportive of Cummings is quite illuminating.

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https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...8ae71f3d8.jpeg

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Clearly, those that resigned have set themselves high standards. It's a shame that the likes of Cummings, and the PM of Canada, do not have such standards. :p

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Ha ha, that spoiler was good. I know a few blokes like that.

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Who holds a lot of power, rumour has it that everything that Johnson says has been written and approved by Cummings, what we don't know is what Cummings has on Johnson. must be something for him to have kept his job.

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Logic of some people

Can't afford renters insurance = shouldn't have a place to live and be homeless.

Probably the same people who complain about their being too many homeless people.

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I saw a squirrel fight this morning, you don't get that every day. It appeared to be one of a couple in residence squabbling with an interloper, though I'm sure the backstory is more involved than that.

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Have you seen that recent you tube video from Mark Rober (ex NASA engineer) who tries to build a squirrel proof bird feeder? it's quite funny to watch the little bastards figure it out.

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Yes. Dreadful. The same for David Clark NZ.

Lead by example.

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This guy sums it up quite well:

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OK. You get karma. The delivery really made me laugh.
He rants for me & how I feel about those at ' the top' not doing the same hard yards as the common man.

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I saw one on Monday - a great pitched battle of a fight in my front garden - my son and I sat in the car for a good few minutes as we didn’t want to but in...a tiny little red one was giving the bashing of a lifetime to a big fat grey one...I thought the greys were the bad guys...evidently not on my plot!

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I'm sure you're right about the backstory, I'd love to know what it is. Maybe the interloper was an angry neighbour complaining about their noisy party last night :lol:

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He really gets to the heart of it! Consider subscribing to his (Jonathan Pie's) YouTube channel BEVS, he's absolutely hilarious.

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Oh this man put it perfectly! Captured exactly the feelings of a lot of people on the Clapham omnibus.

Thank you so much for posting this.

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OK it's a Sun article butA PIGEON has been detained by police on the India-Pakistan border after being accused of being a spy.

The alleged operative was found on the Indian side having been painted pink and was carrying around on its foot a ring with numbers on. Prosecutors will be asking that bail be denied as they consider it to be a flight risk.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/117212...-spy-pakistan/

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I'll call your Sun, and raise you the DM:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...harm-them.html

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Obviously planning a Coop.

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I think I'd rather live somewhere hot and have air conditioning than live somewhere where it gets hot in summer but has no air conditioning.

Its only May and its already too warm for me...ha ha

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Well dang this toaster from the olden days is neat.... I also now understand why my grandma always said never to stick a knife into a toaster, not sure if its as relevant to modern day toasters, but seems back then it was not wise. Grandma also said never to put fingers into a fan which I never fully understood either since my fingers didn't fit through the grates around the fan, but later in my childhood, I saw an olden day fan, and well that made sense finally too.

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I think my indoor comfort temp is 20C, ha ha

It's 23.5C inside right now, all widows open, and fan on but goodness I feel hot. My wife is always cold, so we don't work so well in regards to temp..ha ha

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:rofl:

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This job would be so cool.

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Intelcom seems to be an Amazon collection of parcels that never arrive.

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Saw this on another foum:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...0f705e95ad.png

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I have never fully comprehended the paper thin line between civilization and complete anarchy, where it’s just animals running wild, slicing, terrorizing, and burning.