The radio this morning was full of the most bizarre proposal. Amid all the usual gossip about which of the Tory tribe would take up the mantle of Country Breaker In Chief there was a suggestion it could be one that nobody sane would ever imagine. One demonstrably the least appropriate for high office. One …
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Truss Approval
It might seem odd, but in a way I have to commend Liz Truss’s speed and efficiency. We’ve had three years of Boris Johnson drunken behind the wheel, careening about the road, mounting the kerb and central reservations in turn. A swig of the bottle, a laugh and a swerve; little dents and lost wing …
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 …
Good News! PM Gets A Kicking, But Stays Safe
Regular readers might be surprised to hear this Scotsman expressing genuine relief the Tories held their vote of confidence in Honest Boris a couple of weeks ago and he survived. The survival was by his short and curlies only, a negligible margin that would have caused any but the most shameless leader to resign. Luckily …
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No Change – Honest Boris Will Waddle On
Our illustrious Prime Minister ‘won’ a vote of confidence in his ability to lead this evening. When only 59% of MPs you lead support you the ‘winning’ is nominal and the confidence insubstantial. What will he do? My guess is nothing. He likes being PM, even if he’s the only one, and awful at it. …
An Apology: Work, Party, What’s The Difference?
Our great leader, Honest Boris the Incorrupt and Competent has had quite a week of wriggling. The long-awaited Gray Report on 10 Downing Street parties during the Covid lockdowns was released yesterday. It wasn’t flattering to Johnson, other than as a host. Johnson’s standard explanation (standard for a while, but into overdrive in the last …
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Good Times to Pick a Squabble
Countries, like people, often disagree. Grown-ups deal with that through negotiation and compromise. Sometimes a bit of petulant shouting is part of the negotiation. Lookatme Truss, UK Foreign Secretary and Self-Publicist has made clear the UK intends to throw its toys out of the pram over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the UK-EU deal her boss …
Edinburgh Council Elections
This Scotsman has to vote tomorrow, but they won’t tell me who to vote for. Council elections here use the Single Transferable Vote method. This is the only sensible electoral system. It’s a Proportional Representation system, unlike the laughably awful First Past The Post (FPTP) used in Westminster – rant here – and lets us …
UK Government Finds Xenophobia A Reliable Distraction, Again
Apparently we’re to send refugees to Rwanda. What an excellent fantasy, Johnson. Disturbing for the government to play that card though. It’ll be no surprise there are sharper politicians than David Cameron. He had a problem with Tory backbench ‘Eurosceptics’, a fringe bunch of irrelevants who disguised their xenophobia as a rational dislike not of …
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