posted on 28/1/2022 13:07three in a week..! - Gramsci.
1. Liz Truss, a Foreign Secretary we got off Gumtree, blew £500,000 on a private flight to Australia to sign a trade deal that probably makes us poorer
- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -
2. That’s enough to buy her 166 of her famed £3000 lunches
3. The most expensive commercial flight that day cost £7000, which is - check my maths - less than half a million quid?
4. And it would have got her there faster
5. Australia’s former PM called Truss "deranged"
6. Her flight landed the day Alok Sharma said the govt was providing "a practical demonstration of honouring our COP26 climate promises"
7. Also, Jacob Rees-Mogg launched more coal mines in what he called "our green and pleasant land"
8. He’s never seen a coal mine, has he?
9. JRM, a cross between a spindly mantis and the concept of gout, said we needed coal to support our “heritage railway” industry
10. So, sure, the planet will die, but at least there will be a fancy ancient steam-train to cart away the corpses
11. Rishi Sunak, the discarded draft of an Aardman sidekick who threw away £4.3 billion last week cos he couldn’t be arsed tackling fraud, is now privately threatening to resign if he can’t raise National Insurance, cos he's just realised he’s run out of money
12. Johnson said the National Insurance rise was vital to “fix social care”, something he’s assured parliament he has already fixed on – by my count - 27 separate occasions since he was elected. I mean, just in case anyone is looking for examples of him lying to parliament
13. The Defence secretary, discussing airlifting animals out of Kabul, said "at no stage did the prime minister ask me to make a way for those pets. Not at all"
14. An email showed the PM asking to airlift animals out of Kabul
15. The PM denied the email exists
16. It does
17. Dying palm-tree Michael Fabricant said a fellow Tory complaining of Islamophobic abuse didn’t look Muslim enough to abuse*
18. Nadhim Zahawi was revealed to have been "instrumental" in securing millions of allegedly corrupt loans to David Cameron’s billionaire pal
19. Pitch for a TV show where Tory MPs tell ludicrous stories to excuse their greed. It’ll be called I’m-All-Right-Jackanory
20. Priti Patel, Home Secretary and Mouth of Sauron, admitted (yet another) "unlawful and secret policy", this time stealing phones from migrants
21. Plague update: professional obscurity and extremely amateur Tory MP James Heappey said we were "emerging from the pandemic"
22. We have the highest death toll in Europe
23. Over 600,000 cases, 12,000 hospitalisations, and 2000 deaths this week
24. Regardless, the Tories announced everything is now *awesome*, and lifted all restrictions
25. 300 scientists called this "reckless", cos Tories were creating a hub for infection with excellent global transport links to 3 billion people who still haven’t been vaccinated
26. On to Partygate, where Tories spent the first half of the week insisting the PM had been ambushed by a cake
27. And then they spent the second half of the week insisting cakes don’t exist
28. Clearly, the quantum state of cakes is a complex issue than needs looking into
29. Sadly, the Met police said they don’t investigate crimes that have already happened
30. When we’d all finished laughing at this, police said there wasn’t enough evidence for an investigation anyway
31. Sue Gray immediately found evidence
32. So the police said there was now TOO MUCH evidence for Sue Gray to report
33. The Met immediately offered to let No 10 partygoers pay fines rather than be interviewed by police
34. Oh, and the fines will not be made public, so nobody's career will suffer
35. Not asking any questions and keeping all punishments secret makes me VERY confident they’ll get to the bottom of things
36. Incidentally, Sajid Javid’s brother is Dep Assistant Commissioner of the Met Police
37. There is, however, some good news: Dry January is over
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- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -
- three in a week..! - Gramsci. 28/1 13:07 (read 3178 times, 3 posts in thread)
- once again, thanks - eaststandman 30/1 15:13 (read 2907 times)
- cheers chum - Gramsci. 1/2 11:59 (read 2847 times)
- once again, thanks - eaststandman 30/1 15:13 (read 2907 times)