The Port of Dover today declared a “critical incident”. A shortage of French passport police caused six-hour queues and tailbacks through Dover and up the motorways. The government blames France. Lookatme Truss, UK Foreign Secretary, is concentrating on vowel adjectives: “appalling”, “awful”, “entirely avoidable and is unacceptable”. This is the same government that caused the …
Monthly archives: July 2022
Goodbye Boris, We’ll Miss You
Whatever my feelings on the man, I thoroughly enjoyed the three and a half hour radio comedy this morning of ministers popping up and dropping out. With a tally of about thirty ministerial resignations the denouement finally came and the most self-serving deceitful and incompetent UK Prime Minister of all time quit. His replacements are …
Pincher By Nature
I’m not a fan of farce. I can savour Oscar Wilde, but not too regularly. Carry On films I run a mile from. This week’s Johnson/Pincher palaver is definitely in the latter camp. Somehow however, I’ve been addicted to every new drip of nonsense in the Carry On Chris and Boris saga. It’s a watching-the-car-crash …