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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Excessively moving food around has always seemed bonkers. Things like potatoes being dumped locally while importing them from hundreds of miles away. But this sort of cataclysmic change, suddenly, and quite possibly permanently, is extremely damaging. Of course, there might be some of that...
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well, rouge is the traditional colour of the left! :) Anyway, my fingers are crossed. Just listening to a Welsh program - the primary message so far being the younger people (who are the reason for the program) are showing a depth of ignorance that is hard to believe. If they are deciding...
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Boris Johnson has said any donations linked to the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat will be declared "in due course". When he (or whoever else) has managed to cobble something together.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How do we know? Either way. (MInd, I strongly suspect he wouldn't have been the one who paid for the cigar, if it did happen.)
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Other than Line of Duty, donkey references have been thin recently.
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Daily Mail: Boris Johnson: 'Let the bodies pile high in their thousands'. PM's incendiary remark during fight over lockdowns is latest claim in No10 drama - amid spectacular row with Cummings Claims that Boris Johnson said he would rather ‘bodies pile high in their thousands’ than order a...
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Now the MHRA is saying it isn't happy about the way the government is using them.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If he has evidence, his opinion doesn't really count for a lot.
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Amazing predictive lyrics - reads like it was written for Carrie: And the last we heard, she was goin' still And she blewew blew, blew, blew...
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What a lovely Sunday morning Johnson can look forward to, reading the papers with a cup of coffee and a croissant... https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Johnson faces MPs’ fury over Downing Street sleaze claims Labour urge Speaker to summon senior minister as poll reveals 40% of voters think Tories are corrupt https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/24/johnson-faces-mps-fury-over-downing-street-sleaze-claims Only 40%?
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just three and bit years ago, he had to declare a pay rate of £47,253.92 an hour. Which makes the cost of the refurb look like a quick trip to Homebase/Wickes would to the rest of us!
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The last of those. Think I'd rather go round trying to dig up Arthur - more likely to work out well.
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    See the Dyson connection? No 10 refurb row: Grieve calls Boris Johnson ‘vacuum of integrity’
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Honda (or Acura) Integra.
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Cummings not happy. Boris Johnson news – live: Cummings says PM failing UK on ‘competence and integrity’ as he denies leaking
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Very questionable language. A pandemic is defined to be widespread. And there is absolutely no doubt that the world is still in pandemic. Whether any country can be "no longer in pandemic" when it both has cases and continues to be under threat (witness SA and Indian variants, for two prongs)...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    So Dominic Cummings is being fingered as the leaker of the Dyson texts! True or false - thieves falling out comes to mind.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    PM Starmer might have tried to ensure that the issues were resolved, but not necessarily by issuing orders to his chancellor. For example, an emergency provision passed through HoC, establishing an exemption (or whatever it is called) in the circumstances prevailing. That would then have been...
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Quote: Sir James then went directly to the PM, with Mr Johnson replying: "I will fix it." Last time a Sir James and fixing it appeared together, it didn't end well.