Can't Believe Boris Is.....

[Bentley Bullet]

..... still gonna open up fully on the 21st not gonna open up fully on the 21st. The bloke just can't do owt right!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Had to happen BB. You've hit on an eternal truth in your last sentence.

[Bentley Bullet]

Had to happen BB. You've hit on an eternal truth in your last sentence.

I always hit on the eternal truth, Billy boy.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Don't keep them to yourself in future then buddy.

[coventryrover]

Why give a false date and hope.    This government are a shower of

[Bentley Bullet]

Don't keep them to yourself in future then buddy.

Never have done in the past, owd lad, so I don't intend to in the future.

[Janso]

Why give a false date and hope.    This government are a shower of

To be fair, there was always a chance it was going to happen. It was never a definite date, just a "no earlier than".

[Donnywolf]

.. except unless my memory is as s**t as his dress sense he used the phrase "irreversible Road map" at every opportunity

Mind you he called 37bn quids worth of Test and Trace "world class T&T"

[Janso]

.. except unless my memory is as s**t as his dress sense he used the phrase "irreversible Road map" at every opportunity

Mind you he called 37bn quids worth of Test and Trace "world class T&T"

Irreversible. Meaning not going back to the previous set of restrictions. Putting the next step on hold isn't going back, is it? Not once did anyone say that the roadmap wouldn't be extended if necessary - extending the timeline is not reversing steps.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Speaking of Johnson, the pictures of his latest bairn are terrifying.

https://mobile.twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1403021797122002955

You can just see the head turning round and he's got Johnson's 50-odd year old face, saying "Me want bitty!"

[Bentley Bullet]

If you can't add anything, ad hominems!

[drfchound]

Some of those Twitter comments etc  are so,pathetic.
Why would people make fun of a young child like that.

[Bentley Bullet]

Some of those Twitter comments etc  are so,pathetic.
Why would people make fun of a young child like that.

I think it's called grown up politics.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I doubt it will affect the bas**rd's life chances.

[drfchound]

I doubt it will affect the bas**rd's life chances.

BST, I find your ridiculing of a child very distasteful.
I’m sure you would be going ballistic if someone did the same about one yours.

[Bentley Bullet]

Everyone's true colours show eventually.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Spare me the f**king sanctimony Hound.

There are time honoured ways of keeping the children of politicians out of the news. Rule number one is that politicians don't use their kids in carefully orchestrated photoshoots. Johnson choosing to spur that rule clearly demonstrates his moral stance on that topic and it's HIM that I'm ridiculing. It is f**king contemptible that he's releasing these pictures for the "Aaahhh, how lovely - domestic bliss" response when the kid was conceived with his mistress while he had walked out on his family, leaving two of his other kids to support his wife through her cancer treatment.

You want to find a target for your moral outrage, go look there.

[drfchound]

Spare me the f**king sanctimony Hound.

There are time honoured ways of keeping the children of politicians out of the news. Rule number one is that politicians don't use their kids in carefully orchestrated photoshoots. Johnson choosing to spur that rule clearly demonstrates his moral stance on that topic and it's HIM that I'm ridiculing. It is f**king contemptible that he's releasing these pictures for the "Aaahhh, how lovely - domestic bliss" response when the kid was conceived with his mistress while he had walked out on his family, leaving two of his other kids to support his wife through her cancer treatment.

You want to find a target for your moral outrage, go look there.

It certainly didn’t look like you were ridiculing Johnson when you were talking about “the bas**rds life chances” and the child turning his head as in The Omen film.

Is it the child’s fault that he was brought into the World the way he was ?

I am very surprised by your stance on this and I am not being sanctimonious.

You need to take a good look at your own morals.

[Bentley Bullet]

So it wasn't the "young bas**rd" he ridiculed,  it was the "young bas**rd's" dad.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I was using the term "bas**rd" in its original and correct form. Highlighting the hypocrisy of the entire scene. Not as an insult to the kid, who will have enough to deal with when his father tires of the mother and moves in to a newer model.

[drfchound]

I was using the term "bas**rd" in its original and correct form. Highlighting the hypocrisy of the entire scene. Not as an insult to the kid, who will have enough to deal with when his father tires of the mother and moves in to a newer model.

So what about the reference to his turning head.
Back tracking now.

[Bentley Bullet]

I was using the term "bas**rd" in its original and correct form. Highlighting the hypocrisy of the entire scene. Not as an insult to the kid, who will have enough to deal with when his father tires of the mother and moves in to a newer model.

I reckon even a handful of people would find it hard to support you on this.

Unless.............

[BillyStubbsTears]

Hound.

Forgive me if spelling it out seems condescending, but I can see the original post went over your head.

Do you think it was the kid himself who chose to be in that photo with his hair presented like that?

Duh!

[drfchound]

Hound.

Forgive me if spelling it out seems condescending, but I can see the original post went over your head.

Do you think it was the kid himself who chose to be in that photo with his hair presented like that?

Duh!

That has nothing to do with your comments BST.
Big time bad taste.
Time to stop digging.
Your words since the original post reveal your true colours.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Hound.

Get off your high horse and consider the question I just posed. I understand that you are itching to see the worst in everything I ever post. I get that. You've been at it for years.

But just stop in your tracks and consider that question. And then draw the conclusion about who I'm really swinging at in my original post.

[drfchound]

Hound.

Get off your high horse and consider the question I just posed. I understand that you are itching to see the worst in everything I ever post. I get that. You've been at it for years.

But just stop in your tracks and consider that question. And then draw the conclusion about who I'm really swinging at in my original post.

You are changing your tune big style BST.
I have read all your comments on this subject again and see a dramatic change of tune when you realised you are out of order.

Whatever, you will argue that black is white if I post something you don’t like but I see that no one has backed you up on this, although because it is me against you here, perhaps that could change.


I am genuinely surprised at your comments.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I'll ask you again.

Who do you think chose to put the kid in the picture and who do you think chose to present the kid with his hair looking like that?

If you think it's the 1 year old himself, then of course you'll think I'm swinging punches at him.

Equally, who do you think chose to conceive the kid while his father's wife and kids were dealing with her cancer treatment?

If you think it was the kid himself, then of course you will think I'm having a go at him personally by my careful and technically accurate choice of noun. 

Like I say, I assumed that the real focus of my contempt was bleeding obvious. If, once again, it's been too subtle for you and BB, I can't really help that.

[Bentley Bullet]

Whatever makes you feel better BST, but I think you're better than that, or at least always thought you were.

[belton rover]

Point of order, Hound: child head turning is from The Exorcist, not The Omen.

[drfchound]

Point of order, Hound: child head turning is from The Exorcist, not The Omen.

LoL.
So it is.
I’m amazed that that wasn’t pointed out to me earlier.