Boris Johnson

[Ranxerox]

11 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

I wouldn't describe a vote for anyone as a "luxury". Nobody owns your vote, and if the big two parties aren't representing your interests (and they both have particularly poor records where civil liberties are concerned), then people are entitled to look elsewhere.

 

 

Ultimately I can't really argue against this. 

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, Dr Nowt said:

Anyway, he and Gove have denied it and they seem like a couple of jolly good chaps who can be taken at their word.

Now that we’ve had the denial phase we can move on to the leaked recording of the meeting phase.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm having to agree with James O fucking Brien, now.

 

 

 

[Lario]

Johnson 'was recording rap album' (thedailymash.co.uk)

 

BORIS Johnson only shouted ‘no more f**king lockdowns, let the bodies pile high in their thousands’ because he was recording a hip-hop album, it has emerged. 

Michael Gove, who is producing the project by providing a selection of his choicest beats, said that it was meant to be a surprise for Britain which the press had now ruined.

He continued: “Everyone’s had a creative lockdown project. Carrie’s was developing her new career as an interior designer, Boris’s was to become the rap MC he always knew he could be.

“He was laying down some really raw shit over pounding bass when he shouted those words, which were simply the braggadocio of the urban poet and not in any way policy.

“Unfortunately he was wearing headphones so, without the thunderous beats, it may have been misconstrued. If the snitches had heard him continue ‘popping caps in all y’all assclowns, take out my strap to lay those bustas down’ they wouldn’t have had to run to Peston.

“It’s a 22-song project with a early 90s Lench Mob feel and guest appearances from Foxy Brown, Daz Dillinger, Q-Tip and a blistering verse from Jacob Rees-Mogg. Out in summer.”

Gove added: “The fact that the bodies have piled high in their thousands as a result of the prime minister’s decisions is mere coincidence. You can’t damn a man for a coincidence.”

[torahboy]

I just wish someone would shoot or stab the cunt and end his worthless fucking existence. Put his corpse on top of the pile of dead bodies he's prepared to create.

[magicrat]

Latest picture of his refurbished flat

 

[Harry's Lad]

7 minutes ago, magicrat said:

Latest picture of his refurbished flat

 

There'll be a lot of spaffing going on there. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Oh, this isn't a good look...

 

 

[Anubis]

 

I never heard it, but.....

 

Scheming little twat.

[Mudface]

56 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Oh, this isn't a good look...

 

 

I take it the Taxpayers' Alliance is all over this?

[Champ]

5 minutes ago, Mudface said:

I take it the Taxpayers' Alliance is all over this?

Oo, it’s so long since I’ve watched Questiontime I’d forgotten all about them

[Mudface]

Just now, Champ said:

Oo, it’s so long since I’ve watched Questiontime I’d forgotten all about them

They've probably been too busy worrying about council employees using too many paperclips. 

[Rocky Sullivan]

10 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

People who vote LD aren't necessarily on the left. And in many areas the Lib Dems are the main opposition to the Tories. I wouldn't describe a vote for anyone as a "luxury". Nobody owns your vote, and if the big two parties aren't representing your interests (and they both have particularly poor records where civil liberties are concerned), then people are entitled to look elsewhere.

 

I do find it odd when people trust media depictions of Nick Clegg when they're telling us how full of shit the same media are when it comes to Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn etc. I think there's a large element of confirmation bias there. And no coincidence that the point at which things really started going to shit in this country can be reliably dated to 2015.

Fucking hell! Well you certainly aren't on the left given how wholeheartedly you backed the coalition. And ask the poor fuckers who had their benefits struck off between 2010 and 2015 how much the country was going to shit. It may be difficult with some of them as they only went and died, 100,000 or so. Nick Clegg has shown the depths he's willing to sink to with his choice of employer in Facebook and with his embarrassing defending of that company in media interviews.

The sad thing is Charles Kennedy era Lib Dems were almost certainly perceived as to the left of Blair's Labour and he gained your largest amount of seats because of that in 2005. Orange booker Clegg lost seats in 2010 and is responsible for almost destroying the LDs on a national level by 2015. Why you still defend him and the coalition is beyond me. 

[Gnasher]

23 minutes ago, Rocky Sullivan said:

Fucking hell! Well you certainly aren't on the left given how wholeheartedly you backed the coalition. And ask the poor fuckers who had their benefits struck off between 2010 and 2015 how much the country was going to shit. It may be difficult with some of them as they only went and died, 100,000 or so. Nick Clegg has shown the depths he's willing to sink to with his choice of employer in Facebook and with his embarrassing defending of that company in media interviews.

The sad thing is Charles Kennedy era Lib Dems were almost certainly perceived as to the left of Blair's Labour and he gained your largest amount of seats because of that in 2005. Orange booker Clegg lost seats in 2010 and is responsible for almost destroying the LDs on a national level by 2015. Why you still defend him and the coalition is beyond me. 

All tru dat

[Gnasher]

https://bywire.news/articles/amp/tory-donor-who-paid-for-pms-downing-street-refurb-won-lucrative-public-contracts-worth-up-to-pound120m?fbclid=IwAR3Z64LxzRFUSuHJMgFS_UlJKvF4unKV4WgnHchdKtKwnUiIjxZvwPqkZ8I&__twitter_impression=true

[Dr Nowt]

https://www.instagram.com/tv/COH92Q2H8uv/?igshid=799jtl11e7rr

[Curly]

On 26/04/2021 at 21:38, Bruce Spanner said:

, which the majority of the UK can't as we have the lowest rate of literacy in the developed world...

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Where you getting that literacy stat from mate? The UK and the US didn’t confirm their stats to UNESCO in the last round.

[Bruce Spanner]

14 minutes ago, belarus said:

Where you getting that literacy stat from mate? The UK and the US didn’t confirm their stats to UNESCO in the last round.

 

Adult literacy rates for the UK are somewhere in the region of one in five have struggles with comprehension and reading, whereas most developed nations, and a fair few developing nations, are well above that. 

 

Child achievement in schools we languish between 15-25th globally for achievement despite our spending power.

[Red_or_Dead]

9 hours ago, Rocky Sullivan said:

Fucking hell! Well you certainly aren't on the left given how wholeheartedly you backed the coalition. And ask the poor fuckers who had their benefits struck off between 2010 and 2015 how much the country was going to shit. It may be difficult with some of them as they only went and died, 100,000 or so. Nick Clegg has shown the depths he's willing to sink to with his choice of employer in Facebook and with his embarrassing defending of that company in media interviews.

The sad thing is Charles Kennedy era Lib Dems were almost certainly perceived as to the left of Blair's Labour and he gained your largest amount of seats because of that in 2005. Orange booker Clegg lost seats in 2010 and is responsible for almost destroying the LDs on a national level by 2015. Why you still defend him and the coalition is beyond me. 

Because he's Strontium Dogmatic. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Wheres my vaccine Boris! Wheres my fucking vaccine!

[Bobby Hundreds]

I'll get clots now.

[Chairman Meow]

7 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Adult literacy rates for the UK are somewhere in the region of one in five have struggles with comprehension and reading, whereas most developed nations, and a fair few developing nations, are well above that. 

 

Child achievement in schools we languish between 15-25th globally for achievement despite our spending power.

I've posted this quite a lot in the last couple of years since I started Uni, but other than seeing that the education system appears to be completely fucked at University level the other standout thing has been how far advanced the Asian students are compared to the English ones. The Chinese and Korean kids absolutely wipe the floor with the English ones. 

 

Education in this country is fucked. 

 

We'll be fine though I am sure, people can remember a load of capital cities off by heart, who needs problem solving skills? What the fuck use would they ever be?

 

At least the morons we produce will be good old fashioned English morons, none of those filthy foreign ones. 

[Bruce Spanner]

5 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

I've posted this quite a lot in the last couple of years since I started Uni, but other than seeing that the education system appears to be completely fucked at University level the other standout thing has been how far advanced the Asian students are compared to the English ones. The Chinese and Korean kids absolutely wipe the floor with the English ones. 

 

Education in this country is fucked. 

 

We'll be fine though I am sure, people can remember a load of capital cities off by heart, who needs problem solving skills? What the fuck use would they ever be?

 

Gove's reforms are an absolute clusterfuck and the new insidious reforms Williamson is trying to implement are even more ridiculous and dangerous.

 

Remove Citizenship, promote nationalism and avoid critical thinking at all costs.

 

Exams are little more than knowledge recall up to A-Level.

 

The damage we'll see when this generation take the reins soon.

 

 

[Chairman Meow]

26 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Gove's reforms are an absolute clusterfuck and the new insidious reforms Williamson is trying to implement are even more ridiculous and dangerous.

 

Remove Citizenship, promote nationalism and avoid critical thinking at all costs.

 

Exams are little more than knowledge recall up to A-Level.

 

The damage we'll see when this generation take the reins soon.

 

 

I am very much on board with hating Gove, but I don't think this is solely on him, this is decades of the system being fucked.

 

The people doing the teaching are mostly a product of my era or a bit older, so we're talking people from 70's, 80's, 90's system. They are no better, we had a challenge thing last academic year to do a structure and ours beat all of the lecturer ones because we can do a type of optimisation which they can't. 

 

I'm being told by lecturers that what an other student and I did on an assignment which was 50% of a year 2 module is PhD level, yet we were worried that we hadn't gone into enough detail. Also at this juncture, I must point out, I am pretty damn far from being a genius*, we didn't do anything that I would say is actually all that fancy but it was something the people teaching the module said they couldn't do. 

 

The whole system needs an overhaul in my opinion, but how the hell you go about that and where you start I have no idea. Other than maybe doing something other than telling people they have to like Shakespeare or there is something wrong with them or trying to get people interested in a subject by making them remember a lot of dates or names off by heart?

We're heading into an era where even white collar, middle class type stable "good" jobs are going to start disappearing like lower level solicitor's, accountants etc. and there is no provision being made to counter that or produce people who are capable of doing something else. 

 

 

*My years of posts on here stand as testament to this.

[Bruce Spanner]

20 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

I am very much on board with hating Gove, but I don't think this is solely on him, this is decades of the system being fucked.

 

The people doing the teaching are mostly a product of my era or a bit older, so we're talking people from 70's, 80's, 90's system. They are no better, we had a challenge thing last academic year to do a structure and ours beat all of the lecturer ones because we can do a type of optimisation which they can't. 

 

I'm being told by lecturers that what an other student and I did on an assignment which was 50% of a year 2 module is PhD level, yet we were worried that we hadn't gone into enough detail. Also at this juncture, I must point out, I am pretty damn far from being a genius*, we didn't do anything that I would say is actually all that fancy but it was something the people teaching the module said they couldn't do. 

 

The whole system needs an overhaul in my opinion, but how the hell you go about that and where you start I have no idea.

We're heading into an era where even more white collar, middle class type stable jobs are going to start disappearing like lower level solicitor's, accountants etc. and there is no provision being made to counter that or produce people who are capable of doing something else. 

 

 

*My years of posts on here stand as testament to this.

We don’t allow things like Gove’s retrograde reforms that’s where we start, I agree on the wider point though that this is a continuation of a theme.

 

Remember these start from nursery and run through A-Level, thats 14 years of education where you’re not being asked to think critically, or question properly, just prescriptive regurgitation. Williamson’s insidious ideas take this further where debate is actually stifled.

 

The first thing the tories do is cut funding to libraries  (public service cuts) and reform the education system when they get in to power, this isn’t by accident.

 

They had the opportunity to future proof the education system and wider economic prosperity by introducing more relevant skills and ideas, but they refused and in a decades time we’ll really feel the pinch from that as our kids aren’t prepared for the world they’ll walk in to.