Potter wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:46 pm
Give it a few more years and I might be finished here, then I'll come back and take over and sort it all out, those lot have never been on a big job, once I get a grip of them it'll all be sorted within six months.
My only vice will be a room in No.10 that I'll fill with Russian brass and then once a week they cover me in melted chocolate and lick it off for a few hours, probably Friday morning when I need a bit of 'me time'.
I think I must be the only person in the UK that's struggling to be offended by the parties.
I care more about the wallpaper thing as that has the makings of proper corruption, but the hypocrisy of the parties I really couldn't give a shit about.
Potter wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:46 pm
Give it a few more years and I might be finished here, then I'll come back and take over and sort it all out, those lot have never been on a big job, once I get a grip of them it'll all be sorted within six months.
My only vice will be a room in No.10 that I'll fill with Russian brass and then once a week they cover me in melted chocolate and lick it off for a few hours, probably Friday morning when I need a bit of 'me time'.
Can we have free beer ?
Obviously shandy for the southerners.
Where do I sign up?
Interesting that this morning Sunak was having a visit to Devon which simply couldn't be avoided, about as far away from Westminster with going into the badlands of the north.
wheelnut wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:01 pm
I think I must be the only person in the UK that's struggling to be offended by the parties.
Kinda, yeah. We all had a choice on how we applied these laws. I'd be a liar if I said I never broke them, but then again both my parents and in-laws would be in a far worse state now than if I hadn't, so...meh.
wheelnut wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:01 pm
I think I must be the only person in the UK that's struggling to be offended by the parties.
I care more about the wallpaper thing as that has the makings of proper corruption, but the hypocrisy of the parties I really couldn't give a shit about.
I'm struggling to be offended, but I'm not in the UK. Given his character, it would have been more of a surprise to find he hadn't attended any drinkiepoos when he shouldn't have.
"Sorry Boris, I made a huge mistake in visiting Barnard Castle."
"Pffft. you should see what I've got planned for next month"
One thing I would say, take a look at the 'Covid restrictions...' thread. I would say the majority of people broke lockdown laws, trying to justify their actions in so many different ways.
Granted, we didn't make the rules, but maybe people should hold a mirror up to their own behaviour before reaching for the pitchfork.
Pretty sure May 2020 was peak shitting yourself - nobody had had their jabs. We were still in a National Lockdown, you were allowed out to exercise I think. There were bodies piling up in hospitals.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't having any house parties. The PM was though.
Let's not get confused with the subsequent 18 months and the varying levels of changing rules/advice and folk getting pissed off with it when they hadn't died yet.
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:54 pm
One thing I would say, take a look at the 'Covid restrictions...' thread. I would say the majority of people broke lockdown laws, trying to justify their actions in so many different ways.
Granted, we didn't make the rules, but maybe people should hold a mirror up to their own behaviour before reaching for the pitchfork.
There's just as many, if not more that did not break the rules.
My uncle died a few weeks before this saga and watching his cremation on Skype was just rubbish, his mother, wife and kids being the only people allowed to go there when ordinarily the place would have been packed.
Yorick wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 3:17 pm
Just a thought. Why weren't the MPs working from home?
They were, and got an extra £10k expenses to do so
So was travelling to the party legal?
Police were setting up roadblocks to check on why people were travelling. Whilst those attending would had to have been allowed through a police check.
If the information being given out to the public was 'be afraid, be very afraid', did the guy inviting 100 people either not care, or knew something different?
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