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Cont: General UK Politics V Suella Strikes Back

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P.J. Denyer said:
In a move likely to turn irony detectors across the country into an incendiary display to put the Millennium Fireworks to shame, The Sun's Harry Cole has urged restraint on the William Wragg story. He also used the phrase 'rogue whackjob' surprisingly to describe the catphisher rather than what Wragg was hoping to get for his photo.

https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1777439993700467124
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Always bear in mind that Harry Cole is Carrie Johnson's (née Symmonds) ex-live-in boyfriend before she dumped him to go after Boris. They are still good friends and both have hot lines to Conservative Headquarters. All the Tufton Street mob know they can get their veiwpoints in the mass media press via Harry Cole. Never take a Harry Cole article at face value. Ask oneself, "Now which of Harry Cole's political contacts is behind this story?" is a good rule of thumb.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Given how long it's taken to hit the headlines it's more like "we'll be desperate to distract from some scandal when this gets picked up. We don't know what it'll be but we sure as hell know someone won't be able to keep their dick in their pants or their hand out the till for more than a day or two."
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With the Tories, I’d imagine that hands in their pants and dicks in the till are also frequent pastimes.
 
Looks like the subpostmasters may finally be getting somewhere (but I doubt whether they'll ever be properly compensated).

Next ITV drama starring Toby Jones IMO should be about a middle aged man who is looking after his elderly parents who inadvertently earns more than £151 a week because the minimum wage rises and as a result ends up owing the DWP thousands....
 
Some good comments online about Liz Truss's "I wrote a bookie-wookie" - sorry "10 years to save the West". One for the oldies:

 
P.J. Denyer said:
I think the Free Market she loves so much is about to slap her all the way to the remainders bin.
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Well, it already slapped her out of office and all she did was whine about secret cabals, which is no doubt what will happen when no-one buys her book: not 'cos none of us want to read her drivel and self-serving mental masturbation, oh, no, it'll be some secret combine of...Oh, look, a squirrel! Assuming that Truss could recognise a squrrel, of course.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Well, it already slapped her out of office and all she did was whine about secret cabals, which is no doubt what will happen when no-one buys her book: not 'cos none of us want to read her drivel and self-serving mental masturbation, oh, no, it'll be some secret combine of...Oh, look, a squirrel! Assuming that Truss could recognise a squrrel, of course.
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On the other hand I've never seen an Economics Colouring Book before.
 
Darat said:
Some good comments online about Liz Truss's "I wrote a bookie-wookie" - sorry "10 years to save the West".
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Unfortunately the full review is paywalled, but the opening description is pretty scathing ;)

The Independent said:
Her new book – outlining her strategy to ‘save the west’ from the ‘global left’ – bears a remarkable similarity to a dying wasp’s idea of escaping through a shut window. Just keep going at it, harder and harder, over and over again until it works, which it definitely will – and when it doesn’t, it’s the window’s fault anyway.
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I find myself thinking that John Rogers' famous quote about 'Atlas Shrugged' & 'Lord of the Rings', it should fit rather well. I'm sure it'll be of a standard we haven't seen since Regency Baldrick completed his magnificent octopus.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.“
 
I see 'The Wogs begin at Calais" mentality is common among the more extreme Tories.
The old Victorian idea of "Splendid Isolation From Europe" might have worked in the day of Queen VIctoria when England had a empire, but not nowdays.
 
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