Stolen from Twitter:
Give a child a fish and you feed them for a day. Give a child an eighth of a fish and you can keep the rest yourself.
(Ancient Tory Proverb).
In today’s episode of ‘Tories Gonna Tory’ Conservative Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey suggests the homeless save up £5k for a deposit on a new home (Guardian). Because Tory.
Then on Wednesday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden blamed the EU for "letting down music on both sides of the Channel - not us".
Prof Catherine Barnard, deputy director of research organisation UK In A Changing Europe, told BBC News: "The bottom line is that the EU did offer up to 90 days, and with the possibility of being paid.
"I suspect the UK probably said no because they have a very hard line on anything that may even look like free movement of persons, which of course the UK had committed itself to stopping."
Whatever happened to that account? Nothing posted since June 2019.
... the problem of visas for touring musicians in the EU.
I think both Marina and John Crace are struggling to keep up with the ready made satire. It must be difficult writing satire when it writes itself.Another Marina Hyde classic: 'So Boris Johnson was cycling seven miles from Downing Street ? It's not far enough.'
Brexiteers: “Take back control...”.... Tories: “Enjoy your >48 hour working week, you absolute suckers...” (BBC).
CWS, bitter Brexit tableau vivant,Shape. Shifting. Creep. https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1351934951520923650
He'd have been the first in line to congratulate Trump today if Trump wasn't too big a moron to mount a competent coup.
One Trump down and one to go.
Zero statesmanshipYou missed out scruffy sack of shit.
That was a sharp question. Nice to see Johnson caught out (not that his popularity will suffer).Look at the creep squirm.
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1351965076073426944
Shape. Shifting. Squirming. Creep.