Fan The Flames

Dick's shit has finally hit the fan over the behaviour of Met police officer's. My wife got an email this week saying that bad behaviour will no longer be tolerated. Dick has been embarrassed into action, but it's a bit late in her tenure.

If Carlsberg did league tables. I would love it if those two went down, love it.

Get him on media training so he stops saying 'to be fair'. But I am an old boring twat.

When contributors on a BBC programme mention a brand name then follow it up with "other x's are available". This stopped being mildly amusing back in the 1990's.

What if we made the world a better place for nothing.

But people aren't choosing a side and sticking with them for arbitrary reasons, there are choosing them because the core party offer aligns with their belief in how they want a society to be run, they stick with them as long as that remains the case. Brexit is polarising so it's natural that there is a fall out from it for a while. The endless wailing and bleating is matched by the years of wailing and bleating by the euro sceptics prior to Brexit and their obsession with wanting the EU to f**k up so they can say I told you so.

To be fair, that is the point of politics. For a lot of people they will like a party for the parties core beliefs and will believe that's the best way forward for the country; Labour for their progressive equality of opportunity, Greens for the environment, Tory's for deregulated wealth creation. So it's natural for people to want their party to be in power. Of course there are floating voters that make up a portion on the electorate, but the vast majority will be partisan.

Classy

I see the women are 1 nil down in The Gashes.

Good article https://inews.co.uk/opinion/sue-gray-boris-johnson-report-downing-street-parties-public-trust-1400103 Interesting how Boris has previously tweaked the rules to make him the final arbiter in the matters.

I'm starting a Rees-Mogg leadership campaign. That'll fuck them up for a generation.

I see Liz Truss is doing the 'time to move on' line, if she thinks that's the right line for public to hear right now, then she hasn't got the judgement skills to be the next PM.

Sorry to hear about your dad mate. My father in law died in that April and there were 8 of us at his funeral, the lack of a decent send off compounded my wife's grief. We thought we would do something once the restrictions were over, but we didn't do anything in the end as the moment was gone.

You can't distill this down to him losing his job just because he broke covid rules, this is about him not be capable of doing the job. His job was to lead by example, demand that his workforce to do the same, to not hide behind civil servant investigations or well chosen statements that dance around the truth, to not mislead the house of parliament and to not hold the general public in contempt.

😆 I meant mourning.

That image of the Queen moaning alone was very powerful.

I agree, the Tories stood to defend the class system and protect who had access to wealth. With the fall of deference and the erosion class, the tories shifted their position and the difference between the Tories and Labour was around equality of opportunity. The Tories believe that the system is fair for all and that those who get on simply work harder. They seek to maintain the status quo, with the deceit that if a few are allowed to get wealthy then the majority benefit through trickle down. Whereas Labour understand that there are systemic structural barriers that create inequities and they seek to remove or lessen these. However, there appears to be another shift happening away from the social economic and on to the culture wars, around traditional and progressive thinking. The tories seem adept at shifting shape in order to remain viable for power, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out and where it leaves the Labour party. I find this stuff fascinating, how we can all live in the same space and experience the same things, but come to completly different conclusions.

I'm putting a shout out for Shane Long - a brilliant supporting role in the 15/16 season when we came 6th, 1 goal behind Pelle and Mane. If football is about moments, then that Liverpool goal was an amazing moment, watching the game in the front room with my kids, celebrating getting to Wembley is up there. He's been a solid servant and when asked to do a job of chasing down long balls, he comes on and does it. Proof of the value he still gives, is turning around the the recent Swansea tie. And he comes from a village down the road from my beautiful mums birth place, Up the Tip. Followed by; Lambert - the figurehead of our journey back to the prem and a starring role in re-cementing our place back at the top. Pelle - We lost our legend and could have been sunk without the gorgeous Pelle, his 1 in 3 was instrumental in us pushing on and finishing 6th. Ings - Best feet and 25 goals in a season, enough said.

What, because he can't count?

Graat win, didn't see that coming after the long game on Saturday. Happy days.

Heard that on Desert Island Discs the other week. That Moran goal is one of my all time favourites, what a season that was.

Towards the end of Cummings tenure Boris screamed at him about 'fuckin Barnard Castle'. Maybe someone is getting revenge.

Has he lied to Parliament? I really hope so.

Boris smiking yesterday when questioned was disgusting, he doesn't give a fuck.

Like SalmonSi and JRM.