bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

so he's refused to sign an NDA is going as loudly as possible..*pulls up a deckchair*

he's a complete tory, but j c, working under Patel must be a nightmare

You know it's bad when calz says it.

Tbf the Home Office and its equivalents have always been about state-sanctioned psychopathy.

truedat, but she brings it to the office as well!

All straight out of the Trump copybook.

It's not much, but at least Johnson hasn't suggested that the coronavirus is a hoax perpetrated by [insert name of party you wish to demonize].

Muslims obv.

Labour, Iran, China, the EU, take your pick. We'll see if he goes there in the coming weeks.

Absolutely not China, I can assure you of that.

5G?

And the rest.

they might even throw in a Boris Bridge for half price if the UK lets them show them how you do projects like HS2 with a level of engineering competency that the UK don't have any more

It’s almost like for civil servants the Home Office has become a ... hostile environment.

lol!

Boris hasn't really said or done anything, he's been virtually invisible for weeks.

lol stet

Also as awful as the Home Office is, imagine what it's going to be like when staffed with Cummings/Patel stooges.

points off for inexplicably failing to make the CSI Miami macro

Boris hasn't really said or done anything, he's been virtually invisible for weeks.

Like a Mayor of London.

More Putin than Trump this time.

Also despite the fact there's an Old Etonian in Number 10 this feels very much like the early stages of a war against the British Establishment and its institutions. I wouldn't bet on the government winning it.

perhaps going on a mission to break all subversion and resistance within the civil service when there is a global pandemic, a massive downturn in the world markets and very tricky brexit negging to come is perhaps the sign of a government that really has lost the fucking plot!

I'm fairly sure Dominic Cummings sees his overall objective as 'creative destruction', enabling new growth to come through. And he's probably feeling he's totally plugged into the zeitgeist. I'm really curious at what point he might lose nerve and/or Boris loses confidence in him.

"crisis capitalism" has been overused by Canary nudniks but I guess that point will be when the crisis becomes unprofitable

all this "bravery of Sir Philip Rutnam" "in the best tradition of the British civil service" guff is starting to piss me off tbh, he was once of the highest paid public sector workers in the UK and he looks like a total bell-end.

Yeah it is a bit annoying. But he is a classic mandarin: easy to underestimate with the appearance of a timid bank clerk, but a lot brighter than he looks, and a really strong sense of what is “public duty” (as mandarins define it).

No.10 probs saying ppl outside of SW1/Westminster wont care about Home Office civil servant row and it won't do anything to hurt them in the polls. They may well be right. Esp if Priti Patel comes out guns blazing on officials trying to undermine her law-and-order agenda etc etc

— Allie Renison (@AllieRenison) February 29, 2020

^ Yeah, I figured that'd be the cummings response

Although they were clearly a bit more rattled than that if they cracked out a bojo baby story. Good thing that’s not a limited supply, come to think of it.

so are we ever gonna find out for sure how many kids boris has or...

Isn’t he still married to his 2nd wife?

They’ve just agreed terms of divorce. I don’t know when it goes final.

When the fat blonde sings?

do the Be Kind Online regulations apply to unborn foetuses as well? I've had some very uncharitable thoughts about this one and they will probably get worse if I glimpse a rack of Sunday paper headlines tomorrow. I'll take it one day at a time.

There’s a big Owen Jones/Sarah Vine slanging match going on right now because was cynical about the timing of the announcement. Would this be the same binch who bullied my friend off the Times and exacerbated her mental health issues?

I heard eejit on 5 live earlier talking about how inconvenient the timing of brave sir phil's revelations are when boris was just preparing a new foetus to parade, to make the country happier!

Isn’t he still married to his 2nd wife?

I'm sure the Daily Mail is v happy with this foetus despite going off on one about how Ed Miliband would have been inappropriate PM material because he wasn't married to the mother of his child and ~that sort of thing~ would be highly inappropriate for No. 10

This is the story which should be on every front page#FreeNazaninhttps://t.co/e6ZVjQ9zp3

— Charlie Hancock (@Hancock2001) February 29, 2020

“I am not good. I feel very bad in fact. It is a strange cold. Not like usual. I know the kinds of cold I normally have, how my body reacts.

“This is different. I am just as bad as I was. I often get better after three days. But with this there is no improvement. I haven’t got one bit better.”

jesus, must be great to know the main news in the UK is that bungling foreign sec who made your terrible situation worse is now PM and has someone knocked up for the dozenth time in the last decade.

Guardians UK Bernie Sanders, not explicitly endorsing the US Bernie Sanders? https://t.co/qPa8L0fSTC

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) March 1, 2020

emphatic Bernie yes! from RLB, the usual slippery lawyering prevarication from slimeball Starmer and the standard hot drivel from Nandy!

Just fuck that cunt and all who sail on him

That's the clearest fucking melt alert yet. "Anybody but Trump" = "I believe in nothing"

yep like mayor no we Kahn't of London another fucking waste of space.

I might even have had a modicum of respect if he just said I prefer the senile centrist or the billionaire myself

i forgot to add "gropey" to senile centrist

emphatic Bernie yes! from RLB, the usual slippery lawyering prevarication from slimeball Starmer and the standard hot drivel from Nandy!

I've never heard Starmer speak before. Thats his real voice? Surely not

Wow you should check out his stand up routine

Wait no....I heard that but I thought it was dubbed. the 'cant say you're english' thing?

Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer comedian pic.twitter.com/6PAQYecWFz

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) February 16, 2020

this performance by him is real, the humour account does it out of sync as a JOKE!

I'm really confused now, I've no idea whats going on but I do know that this is a more than unpleasant end to the weekend

It's a more than unpleasant end to my 4 year association with the labour party as well unfortunately. I'm thinking of starting a new communist party in Nandos next month!

well launching it in nandos and then doing a runner without paying the bill