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Amusing (but truthful) rant from the acerbic Jonathan Pie: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/boris-johnson-party-scandal.html?fbclid=IwAR3-xFCNC-9Xk2RrTo89CJzb6xSSUWGi2Bs_ItiwjI4zYcnbVtXHgjbwLr8

EDF, one of our biggest energy suppliers is state-owned. By the French, so the profits it makes from our energy bills goes to the French taxpayer.

Why is he raising National Insurance with all of this money pouring into the NHS?

Meanwhile our esteemed Foreign Secretary has been demonstrating her knowledge of geography be referring to "our Baltic allies across the Black Sea".

She's just been handed 300 photos of Downing St parties so she's got Boris in her pocket.

There was bloke on the radio this morning who was supporting Boris and was asked what he had achieved. He replied that "he'd opened all these food banks". I thought that he was being sarcastic but he was serious.

Only 74. Still got "Bat Out Of Hell" that I bought back in 1977.

With all the noise about "Partygate", this has been a bit under the radar: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rishi-sunak-uk-government-treasury-writes-off-43bn-covid-payments-stolen-fraudsters-000107381.html Would have been a bit different if it was benefit claims.

The i newspaper gave a score from 1 to 10 to each of the team. Hameed got -1, the first time that they've awarded a negative score.

Sierra Leone had 4 players named Kamara in the team and another 2 on the bench.

60 people have a piss-up in the Downing Street garden and the police don't notice (or chose to ignore it) while 2 women who drove 10 minutes to have a stroll by a Derbyshire reservoir and drink coffee were accused of having a picnic and fined £200 each. This sums up the Met nicely: https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/a-hundred-people-bringing-their-own-booze-and-other-things-the-met-police-havent-noticed-20220111216145

That's the chess player. Ours was born in 1964.

That's a novel punishment for being unvaccinated.

I'm sure that Pritti Patel would give them a good thrashing.

Have you felt a strange compulsion to go out and buy Microsoft Office?

Have we got General Melchett in charge?

This a an appalling story of police negligence, lies and reluctance to take action. They have finally admitted their mistakes but no officer has been disciplined and some have been promoted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59593887

Looks like we could be getting some new neighbours: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-59606900

Possibly related to the Farkarwe tribe who had no sense of direction. When anyone met them, they said "We're the Farkarwe"

Shilton lived in Chilworth next door to my old boss. Luke Shaw stayed with a family in Dibden. Rhadi Jaidi lived just off The Avenue.

Also, the minister involved had "accidentally" deleted his WhatsApp messages relating to the contracts. As Annelise Dodds said: "The 21st century equivalent of 'The dog ate my homework'"

Also groping a New Statesman lady in 2019.

This is being blown up out of all proportion.

He was a Christian, converted a few years ago.