I’M Almost Feeling Sorry For Boris...

[Gromit]

He is getting a big kicking in the chamber.

Unfortunately his demeanour tonight was embarrassing. Like JRM last night he showed utter Contempt. Swinson
Just mauled Johnson and It was humiliating.
A best test for Boris, and he has flunked it.

[Buenchico]

Well he got ONE thing right this week:
https://tinyurl.com/y5hthmrg

;-)

[Tilly2]

He did. Good man! Not sure about the cat though.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Larry the cat lives at No 10, whereas BoJo actually lives at No 11, so hopefully the dog and the cat can stay out of each other's way.

[jno]

I’d like to be sure he thought it up himself rather than being told to do it by Cummings to try to draw some parallel between misunderstood wee beasties.

[Cloverjo]

Don’t know if this link will work. But I’ll try. An amusing take by Carol Midgley of The Times on Johnson’s new pup.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carol-midgley-dilyn-the-downing-street-dog-denies-he-is-puppy-porn-vfpmxnzzg?shareToken=307664939e8502d53195d4c670b5d79b

[jno]

Why’s he live there, Chris?

[ToraToraTora]

Swinson, Lib NonDem, "mauled" Johnson? PMSL what are you watching, dozy Lady is MAABOF.

[Cloverjo]

No 11 is bigger, jno.

[ToraToraTora]

I didn't write "lady"

[Mozz71]

//Swinson, Lib NonDem, "mauled" Johnson? PMSL what are you watching, dozy Lady is MAABOF//

I'll bite, what's MAABOF?

[jno]

Thanks, Cloverjo, that would figure. I suppose 10 is let out to an ever-changing cast of chancellors?

[Buenchico]

From Wikipedia (for Jno):
"When Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997 he chose to reside in Number 11, rather than Number 10, as it has a larger living area; Blair at that time was living with his wife and their several young children, while Gordon Brown, his Chancellor of the Exchequer, was at that point still a bachelor. In 2007, when Brown became Prime Minister, he at first chose to live in Number 11, but soon moved back to Number 10; Brown was by then married but had fewer children than the Blairs.

Following the 2010 general election, the incoming prime minister, David Cameron, moved into 11, instead of 10 Downing Street, because George Osborne chose to remain in his Notting Hill home. In early August 2011, Osborne moved into Number 10.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid have continued the recent practice of residing in the flats traditionally used by their counterparts"

[ichkeria]

Ken Clarke summed up to a T Boris Johnson’s strategy: force an election, claiming he’s being hampered from getting a deal with EU by a nefarious parliament. If he gets a deal with the EU as it stands, he can bring it back for a vote and if it fails only then will we have a vote on No Deal.

[ichkeria]

Ah that Carol Midgley article explains the Peter Brookes cartoon of Cummings carrying a distressed looking puppy Johnson in a cage into No 10.

[jno]

Thanks, Chris, I have obviously failed to keep up since Walpole died.

[Old_Geezer]

Utter contempt is appropriate when confronted by folk acting contemptibly.

IMO governments should govern and not have the agenda dictated by parliament. If parliament doesn't like the government then that's what VONCs are for.

[CrapAtCryptics]

I think Boris was bored because the opposition were so predictable. There is more to Government than braying in opposition to everything
like Labour et al - there are many more steps to go and royal assent is not guaranteed as HM seems to want to honour the referendum.

[jim360]

Again with this obsession that HM might herself refuse Royal Assent on her own choice. It's a nonsense. She will allow Royal Assent, or refuse it, as advised by Boris Johnson.

I don't mean to imply by that that Her Majesty is in fact on "my side", so to speak. The simple truth is that we have no idea what she thinks, and that's as it should be. I mean, I'm pretty sure that she isn't impressed at all with what is going on, but whether that's because Brexit should have happened by now, or should never have got this far, we may, and hopefully will, never know.

[gulliver1]

Swinson , Brilliant. First Class, Knocked Boris about .GOOD,