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We only get 3% of our gas from Russia.

In the crater

Watching him captain Hampshire was an education.

I see that Boris has put Gavin Williamson up for a knighthood. This idiot is up there with Chris Grayling on the incompetency scale. He must have some compromising stuff from his time as Chief Whip. He will now be able to be incompetent in the House of Lords.

I can remember one day off due to snow at junior school in about 1960. During the big freeze of 62-63 I was at grammar school and had to take a train and a bus to get there but never missed a day (and the trains kept running).

"Watch out where the Huskies go Don't you eat that yellow snow..." Frank Zappa, I think.

He's such a nice guy he's giving a load of money to someone he doesn't know and has never met.

Especially as it was never banned in the first place.

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?