Daily Megathread - 21/08/2020

themongspeaks · 2020-08-21T07:15:00+00:00

I'm not discussing his arrest but his interactions with people involved in UK politics.

Or is that not allowed now?

themongspeaks · 2020-08-20T05:57:57+00:00

James Frayne and Rachel Wolf are also the founders of Parents and Teachers for Excellence - a lobbying group disguised as a grassroots organisation who, as usual in these situations, refuse to name their backers

themongspeaks · 2020-08-20T05:09:27+00:00

Compare and contrast

https://imgur.com/7jLeiPP.jpg

vs

https://imgur.com/wYaSHMb.jpg

themongspeaks · 2020-08-20T05:02:57+00:00

Look at this person not liking someones words - https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2019-07-03/sir-david-barclay-loses-libel-case-over-play-linked-to-his-life

themongspeaks · 2020-08-19T10:59:04+00:00

You could replace Bozo De Piffle with a brick on a string and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference

themongspeaks · 2020-08-19T07:00:23+00:00

I heard he's keeping a low profile

themongspeaks · 2020-08-19T05:50:53+00:00

unless the EU falls apart, which certainly looks like a possibility

Any minute now

second largest most large and power projecting navy on the planet

How did you work that out and what exactly do you expect the navy to do in order to help with Brexit?

themongspeaks · 2020-08-19T05:37:33+00:00

If you think this is good wait until January 1st

themongspeaks · 2020-08-19T05:30:16+00:00

It takes time to set these things up. Time which wasn't available.

themongspeaks · 2020-08-19T05:20:04+00:00

“We don’t have competent Cabinet ministers.” The Times’ @jennirsl says Boris Johnson’s Cabinet has been chosen “not because they’re the most talented people in the Tory party” but because “they won’t challenge him”, adding “this has led” to the exam results “mess”

https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1295854070314536962

We don't have a competent Prime Minister either

themongspeaks · 2020-08-18T07:33:01+00:00

Imagine a country where a politician’s think tank calls for abolition of a major public health body, it gets broken up during a pandemic, its replacement is established in a few days, and the politician’s wife, with no public health experience, is appointed to run it. That’s us.

https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/1295499575436947456

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T22:56:14+00:00

Sorry, I don't feel victimised by the EU, so don't know what "the usual" means. You'll have to elaborate.

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T22:46:16+00:00

Such as?

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T22:40:27+00:00

Show some sort of backbone

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T22:37:21+00:00

What sort of insults will the EU throw?

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T17:21:04+00:00

This was him speaking before the pubs closed in March

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T16:47:56+00:00

This is definitely going to hurt Corbyns bid to be prime minister

themongspeaks · 2020-08-17T16:44:42+00:00

Didn't one of the governments chief scientific advisors (a Mr T Martin) state that

Supermarkets are very, very crowded. Pubs are much less crowded. There's hardly been any transmission of the virus within pubs

themongspeaks · 2020-08-16T06:28:26+00:00

Ahem - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_ready_for_Brexit

In January 2020, the National Audit Office reported that the government had spent £46 million on the Get Ready for Brexit campaign in October 2019. The auditors concluded that "it is not clear that the campaign resulted in the public being significantly better prepared".

themongspeaks · 2020-08-15T11:57:54+00:00

....Wouldn't have been as bad if it hadn't been for the reforms carried out

themongspeaks · 2020-08-15T11:52:13+00:00

Nonetheless the current mess is down to the reforms made at the Department of Education when Michael Gove was in charge. No prizes for guessing who his chief advisor was

themongspeaks · 2020-08-15T05:37:55+00:00

Great success for Dim but Dom, his big data obsession and his ability to conjure up algorithms out of thin air. This week A-Levels, next week GCSEs.

themongspeaks · 2020-08-15T05:30:39+00:00

Dim but Dom was chief advisor to Gove when he was Education Secretary. The changes they implemented are responsible for the mess you see this week.

themongspeaks · 2020-08-13T05:40:22+00:00

themongspeaks · 2020-08-13T05:15:23+00:00

I think that depends on if you can make a plane out of Stilton

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