Can't comment on his proficiency as a comedian. I've never seen him.@KT53
Political correctness isn't his strong point If you can get past his obsession with paedophile and disability jokes though (or just find them funny) then he comes up with some real gems.
"Three Million for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher? For 3
Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a
hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."
"You can actually make your own Trump policies by going through
the incinerator at the Daily Mail and picking through the dust for
anything they thought might get them prosecuted."
I actually liked Frankie Boyle when he first appeared on the scene. Unfortunately, like so many comedians he seemed to think that spouting more and more extreme views and opinions, heavily sprinkled with obscene language, made him funnier. I think he's wrong.
But has Boris got messy hair? I bet that unkempt look takes hours of coiffing (now there's the word of the day - not to be confused with quaffing) and at least 5 cans of L'Oreal (other brands are available, but don't have the same strap line) because he's worth it.
Yes, bad language is not funny. Using vocabulary well can be.
@Hostafan1 I meant that Boris got elected after all those years of Tory govt because the opposition is a shower of ne'er-do-wells and incompetents and no-ides men and women. Had they been better and more in tune with what people want instead of what they think people should want Bojo would not be in no 10. maybe still a Tory govt but not a parcel of self-servers.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'm not sure if I mentioned this already, but did anyone else notice yesterday that Johnson's hair has become much yellower? Is it a symptom that they haven't told us about. Maybe Cummings knows.
The real aristocracy drive battered old Volvos and have scuffed leather brogues and thick stockings ... the middle classes dress like David Cameron,Theresa May and Mrs Thatcher and think they're posh ... Boris has sussed that, so he apes the families of the posh boys at Eton, not the nouveau riche ... he's a poseur.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Boris seems to me to blind to everyone's needs except his own. In that respect, he's very equality minded.
Labour can't be elected as long as Scotland don't vote for them - the Parliamentary maths make it almost impossible.
418 seats won by labour in 1997 of which 56 were in Scotland. That makes 362 seats outside of Scotland. 330 seats needed for a majority that year, as in majority across the UK including Scottish seats taken out of the total number.
It is totally possible to get a labour win without Scotland. A lot of labour seats were in towns and cities or labour heartlands. The fact they've lost them is down to labour not Tories. Effective opposition to the tories will win a general election even under our system with the SNP fiefdom taken out. To argue otherwise is defeatist.
However is it likely? Not for a long time due to the damage caused by the Corbyn experiment. Labour wins on the centre left ground by appealing to a wide coalition of political views. Despite being a big liar Tony Bliar did a very good job claiming that centre ground that John Major's lurching right, anti eu party vacated.
Right now we have no quality in politicians to lead a party into the centre ground.
One view held by pundits is that tories are very good at delivering locally when they win a former labour seat. Those same seats didn't see labour delivering anything for them. Add in that we're not all class obsessed voting with our class. I think people are possibly more aware of things now. They want and expect more.
He's been following Trump's idea and been drinking bleach (please children, do not do this at home...wait until an official bleach drinking centre - under the banner Govestos (they were going for Domestos - but there was a falling out apparently) - opens near you (Then you can coif as much as you like). It'll slowly turn a greeny colour.
Boris seems to me to blind to everyone's needs except his own. In that respect, he's very equality minded.
Labour can't be elected as long as Scotland don't vote for them - the Parliamentary maths make it almost impossible.
418 seats won by labour in 1997 of which 56 were in Scotland. That makes 362 seats outside of Scotland. 330 seats needed for a majority that year, as in majority across the UK including Scottish seats taken out of the total number.
It is totally possible to get a labour win without Scotland. A lot of labour seats were in towns and cities or labour heartlands. The fact they've lost them is down to labour not Tories. Effective opposition to the tories will win a general election even under our system with the SNP fiefdom taken out. To argue otherwise is defeatist.
650 seats in total. About 30 always end up going to a mix of 'others' - NI parties, PC and the like. So about 620 split between labour, tory and SNP. Labour generally win in the 'major urban' and 'large urban' seats, of which there are around 250 in England and Wales. Add in the 59 scottish seats mostly for labour and you've got a reasonable 'normal' balance of 300 odd each side. And then a good campaign or a strong protest vote or whatever swings it one way or the other. But take those 59 seats out of the equation and the baseline is about 250 'natural' labour seats and 300 'natural' tory ones. So labour start on the back foot and have to win all their 'own' (which as you say, they didn't last time) but also make a dent in the rural English seats. If the lib dems (remember them?) win 50 of those tory seats - and they have done - then suddenly you're back to even-stevens. (They won 46 in 1997).
So you're right, it's not impossible that labour and lib dem between them could beat the tories with a good campaign. But unless conservative voters suddenly decide to abandon Boris, someone from labour plays an absolute blinder with the English countryside, the lib dems suddenly re-emerge as a serious contender or Scotland reverts to voting labour (or the SNP agree to back Labour, which is possibly the least unlikely of these), we're going to have conservatives of one shade or other until the cows come home. None of those major shifts looks terribly likely to me.
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The flowers and some of the leaves on one of my roses have been burnt to a crisp - literally. Fortunately it's in a container but it's not keen on the shade either. I've no idea where to put it. It was facing full west. WNW would be ideal I suppose but that's full. Anyway it's out of the midday sun at least until the heat wave is over. Then I'll need to have a major reshuffle on the patio. 🙁
It's crazy how strong this sun is. I've just had to move an acer that was getting fried and it was already in a shady spot. A couple of my house plants have been singed too where the patio doors have been open. They're sun loving plants and facing north-west but can't handle this weather. Luckily the greenhouse shading seems to be working well and keeping temps at about 35 Celcius. I've let the garden get quite rampant this year too and that's helping shade things nicely.
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I actually liked Frankie Boyle when he first appeared on the scene. Unfortunately, like so many comedians he seemed to think that spouting more and more extreme views and opinions, heavily sprinkled with obscene language, made him funnier. I think he's wrong.
@Hostafan1 I meant that Boris got elected after all those years of Tory govt because the opposition is a shower of ne'er-do-wells and incompetents and no-ides men and women. Had they been better and more in tune with what people want instead of what they think people should want Bojo would not be in no 10. maybe still a Tory govt but not a parcel of self-servers.
Is it a symptom that they haven't told us about. Maybe Cummings knows.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
418 seats won by labour in 1997 of which 56 were in Scotland. That makes 362 seats outside of Scotland. 330 seats needed for a majority that year, as in majority across the UK including Scottish seats taken out of the total number.
It is totally possible to get a labour win without Scotland. A lot of labour seats were in towns and cities or labour heartlands. The fact they've lost them is down to labour not Tories. Effective opposition to the tories will win a general election even under our system with the SNP fiefdom taken out. To argue otherwise is defeatist.
However is it likely? Not for a long time due to the damage caused by the Corbyn experiment. Labour wins on the centre left ground by appealing to a wide coalition of political views. Despite being a big liar Tony Bliar did a very good job claiming that centre ground that John Major's lurching right, anti eu party vacated.
Right now we have no quality in politicians to lead a party into the centre ground.
One view held by pundits is that tories are very good at delivering locally when they win a former labour seat. Those same seats didn't see labour delivering anything for them. Add in that we're not all class obsessed voting with our class. I think people are possibly more aware of things now. They want and expect more.
But take those 59 seats out of the equation and the baseline is about 250 'natural' labour seats and 300 'natural' tory ones. So labour start on the back foot and have to win all their 'own' (which as you say, they didn't last time) but also make a dent in the rural English seats. If the lib dems (remember them?) win 50 of those tory seats - and they have done - then suddenly you're back to even-stevens. (They won 46 in 1997).
So you're right, it's not impossible that labour and lib dem between them could beat the tories with a good campaign. But unless conservative voters suddenly decide to abandon Boris, someone from labour plays an absolute blinder with the English countryside, the lib dems suddenly re-emerge as a serious contender or Scotland reverts to voting labour (or the SNP agree to back Labour, which is possibly the least unlikely of these), we're going to have conservatives of one shade or other until the cows come home. None of those major shifts looks terribly likely to me.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”