If an email caused you to go chasing my last post and you discovered that nothing’s there, nothing weird is going on. I hit Publish when I meant to schedule it for Friday. It wasn’t ready to go and took it down within seconds, leaving me just enough time for some extensive swearing.
In the meantime, enjoy the meltdown of Boris Johnson’s government.
Notes from the U.K. 
Our governments … cringeworthy all around! I can barely read the news anymore without being disgusted … have a great Wednesday, looking forward to your next post 😉
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I’m actually enjoying the meltdown. Politically, I think I’d rather see Johnson cling on so that the Conservatives go into the next election with a massively unpopular leader, but on a personal level I’m having a wonderful time watching the ground crumble away beneath his feet.
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Oh yes, I totally understand and agree! I myself can’t help smiling evilly (gleefully) when one of our politicians (German or Austrian) get kicked by the press for being stupid … sadly that’s the tragedy in this comedy … the incredible stupidity which comes at the worst time with corona, energy crisis, inflation, war … “and they don’t know what they are doing”
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I can’t help wondering why anyone both competent and decent would want to go into politics, at least in these days when corporations are more powerful than governments, the worst (to quote Yeats) are full of passionate intensity, and we don’t have a well-organized popular movement pushing for decency and fairness (a lot of people, yes, but not well organized).
I sound kind of down, in spite of all my spiteful glee, don’t I? I am.
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Yeah … it’s downright frustrating. Real political personalities which actually care about the people they are supposed to represent just don’t exist anymore. One of the few I really thought who cared was Obama. And just look at the big managers of big companies … being brought in for lots of money, they “f…” up, they are being replaced and just take on another highly paid job at another corporation. No consequences. Same with politicians … the now German foreign minister chick “forgot” to add additional income in her tax return, the book she wrote was partly plagiarized (how stupid can one be in today’s day and age to not know how to quote correctly as a university graduate?) and now she is foreign minister? If you or I had done that our butts would be dragged through courts being sued left and right. Decency and fairness … that’s sorely missing.
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I don’t know if Obama cared or not, but if he did I don’t think it translated into anything–okay, into much–that was concretely helpful. Admittedly, he expanded health care coverage, but only in a way that kept the health insurance system intact. He did nothing about global warming. It was business as usual.
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I completely agree! It would be great to see them go into an election with either an unpopular leader or no leader at all. The meltdown is the best TV I’ve seen in ages.
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I’m in danger of wearing out that cliched old phrase that you couldn’t make these things up, and I’d add that if you did any sane editor would tell you to tone it down, it’s too absurd.
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Ah ! But now we have the Supremes (as Molly Ivins used to refer to them, RIP) dismantling the Constitution. while, as someone on Twitter said, On July 4 a well-regulated militia took to a roof top and shot up a holiday parade. Indeed. As someone else said “It isn’t one damn thing after another – it’s the same damn thing over and over,”
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There’s nothing I can add to that–except that I miss ol’ Molly too. And that things really have been getting scary lately.
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I’m SO glad I’m not the only one who’s done that!
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Not even close. All it took was a slight twitch of my mousehand.
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I’m certainly having fun with that. #JohnsonOut #JohnsonOut #TimeForTheClownToLeaveTheCircus!
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It is fun. And from the look of things, it’ll go on for a while yet.
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It comforts me no end that when you have really serious swearing you need to do that you have a swearinger right there to help.
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I do. She’s not–just between you and me–the most creative swearer I’ve ever known, but she brings an admirable level of conviction to it.
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Your secret is safe with me.
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I knew I could trust you with it.
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It looks as if you’ll be losing your entertainment shortly.
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Oh, well. I shouldn’t be selfish about this.
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I too was hoping he’d stay on to bugger up the next election, working on the ‘better the devil you know’ principle. But yes, what a fun couple of days it’s been! The Big Top has fallen on the ringmaster’s head.
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Well, I did at one point predict he’d have to be wrapped in canvas and carried out, so the image works.
Yeah, it has been fun. We’ll have to do this more often, don’t you think?
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Oh yes, every Tory PM can go down then pan for me!
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I’m with you there. Especially the idiot who represents our constituency.
No, wait. Especially Priti Patel.
No, no. There are so many to single out. Where do we start?
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NADINE!!
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It’s a long list, but yes, let’s add her.
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Now that it’s over, Boris Johnson should count his blessings. Perhaps then we’ll find out how many of them he has.
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Are you kidding me? We don’t even know how many kids he’s got, and they’re a lot easier to define than blessings.
Do you suppose he knows how many? I mean, just off the top of his head, without having to send an underling to research it?
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‘Oopses’ happen. :) … Boris – what a fabulous few days! :D … if only there was someone halfway decent left to pick up the pieces.
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If only. I don’t expect the Tories to come up with one, and Labour isn’t looking like much in the way of an alternative right now.
Sigh.
But it has been fun.
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Not a good thing me to be in the Conservative Party
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No, I can’t say it would suit me either.
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