Listening to the Queen, celebrating Johnson’s baby, singing “Jerusalem”

[DaveB]

The Comforting and Misleading Political Response to Britain’s Coronavirus Disaster | The New Yorker

[Old Greg]

The Comforting and Misleading Political Response to Britain’s Coronavirus Disaster | The New Yorker

Traitor.

[DaveB]

Traitor.

When I look at the Conservatives, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken Britain, they would be hard pressed to beat the current Tory dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored advisors dictate social policy.

Neil Steinberg (paraphrased slightly).

[DimPrawn]

hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored advisors dictate social policy.

Stick that on the side of a bus and you've got my vote!

[DaveB]

Stick that on the side of a bus and you've got my vote!

We're gonna need a bigger bus

[Old Greg]

This will fit.

[jamesbrown]

Still, could be worse. Could have the TrottsApp crowd at the wheel. Forget the job retention scheme, all hands to tractor production, comrades.

[Old Greg]

Still, could be worse. Could have the TrottsApp crowd at the wheel. Forget the job retention scheme, all hands to tractor production, comrades.

It sounds like a comforting thought for you.

[jamesbrown]

It sounds like a comforting thought for you.

You sound ANGRY.

[Old Greg]

You sound ANGRY.

More amused really (in a smug metropolitan elite kind of way) at the mess the Brexiteers have got themselves in.