>…With Dowden out the way, it was left to Dominic Raab to fill the party chair-sized hole in the morning media round. Raab did not seem at all pleased to have drawn the short straw and was tetchy and resentful throughout. Expect the homicide rates to spike in the next 24 hours. More usefully, don’t walk home alone in the dark. Watch out, there’s a Dom about.
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What we got was Raab at his incoherent best. It’s a wonder he can manage the weekly shopping let alone manage to get by as deputy prime minister. First he tried to shrug off the byelection results as no big deal. Labour and the Lib Dems hadn’t really won because all that had happened was that fewer people than usual had voted Conservative. Er, yes, that’s the way elections work. If you don’t get as many votes as another candidate, you don’t win. It’s not even GCSE maths. Where do the Tories find such stunning intellects? Oxbridge may have to rethink its admissions policy given the number of quarterwits it has now supplied to the cabinet.
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>It rapidly got worse as Dom was unable to give any clue about how the government might reform itself. Mostly because he doesn’t have a clue. He’s totally lost. He tried to make out that Partygate was some kind of distraction, concocted by the media to divert voters away from the big issues, rather than a scandal of the Convict’s own making. Then he talked about a high-wage economy. This after the government had spent the last week urging the unions to exercise wage restraint. Finally he just shrugged when the BBC’s Nick Robinson asked about Boris trying to blag top jobs for Carrie. Presumably this means she’s a prime candidate to fill Dowden’s old job.
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>Much of the rest of the morning was taken up with various Tories lining up to take pot shots at Johnson. Almost everyone seemed to have realised that it was no longer a question of saving Boris’s job. It was all about saving their own. The winner is now very much a serial loser and the Convict would take them all down with him. The most surreal intervention was from the former Tiverton MP Neil Parish. Boris needed to take some responsibility, he said. When you’re being offered spiritual guidance from the man who watched tractor porn in the Commons, then the game is up. …
It’s astounding to me how many people can have all the privileges in the world, go to the finest schools and be educated via the oxbridge system and yet still be the thickest people in the room. There’s a lot to be said for the university of life.
He really is the cockroach of British politics, isn’t he?
Listening to the interview Mishal Husain is trying to have with him on r4 and all he is doing in it is deflecting with bullshit he repeats in every interview. The interview comes over as a total waste of time for the total lack substance.
Not Mishal’s fault but completely down to the imbecile being incapable of giving a straight answer to a straight question.
We ought to march in there and fucking drag the cunt out
It is a fixed penalty not a conviction. He is many negative things but currently convict is not one.
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>…With Dowden out the way, it was left to Dominic Raab to fill the party chair-sized hole in the morning media round. Raab did not seem at all pleased to have drawn the short straw and was tetchy and resentful throughout. Expect the homicide rates to spike in the next 24 hours. More usefully, don’t walk home alone in the dark. Watch out, there’s a Dom about.
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What we got was Raab at his incoherent best. It’s a wonder he can manage the weekly shopping let alone manage to get by as deputy prime minister. First he tried to shrug off the byelection results as no big deal. Labour and the Lib Dems hadn’t really won because all that had happened was that fewer people than usual had voted Conservative. Er, yes, that’s the way elections work. If you don’t get as many votes as another candidate, you don’t win. It’s not even GCSE maths. Where do the Tories find such stunning intellects? Oxbridge may have to rethink its admissions policy given the number of quarterwits it has now supplied to the cabinet.
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>It rapidly got worse as Dom was unable to give any clue about how the government might reform itself. Mostly because he doesn’t have a clue. He’s totally lost. He tried to make out that Partygate was some kind of distraction, concocted by the media to divert voters away from the big issues, rather than a scandal of the Convict’s own making. Then he talked about a high-wage economy. This after the government had spent the last week urging the unions to exercise wage restraint. Finally he just shrugged when the BBC’s Nick Robinson asked about Boris trying to blag top jobs for Carrie. Presumably this means she’s a prime candidate to fill Dowden’s old job.
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>Much of the rest of the morning was taken up with various Tories lining up to take pot shots at Johnson. Almost everyone seemed to have realised that it was no longer a question of saving Boris’s job. It was all about saving their own. The winner is now very much a serial loser and the Convict would take them all down with him. The most surreal intervention was from the former Tiverton MP Neil Parish. Boris needed to take some responsibility, he said. When you’re being offered spiritual guidance from the man who watched tractor porn in the Commons, then the game is up. …
It’s astounding to me how many people can have all the privileges in the world, go to the finest schools and be educated via the oxbridge system and yet still be the thickest people in the room. There’s a lot to be said for the university of life.
He really is the cockroach of British politics, isn’t he?
Listening to the interview Mishal Husain is trying to have with him on r4 and all he is doing in it is deflecting with bullshit he repeats in every interview. The interview comes over as a total waste of time for the total lack substance.
Not Mishal’s fault but completely down to the imbecile being incapable of giving a straight answer to a straight question.
We ought to march in there and fucking drag the cunt out
It is a fixed penalty not a conviction. He is many negative things but currently convict is not one.