#Boris Johnson football

[voxpeople]

Boris Johnson Expresses Intent to Become Head of English Football Association

Former UK 'Prime Minister' Boris Johnson is said to be making a push to become head of the English Football Association, the sport's governing body, with reports suggesting he was inspired to make the move after seeing Spain celebrate their success at the Women's World Cup in Australia. More as the story develops.

#joke #attempt at humor #humour #satire #parody #tories out #political satire #political humor #rubiales out #‘hypocrite’ getafe chief slammed rubiales after world cup kiss scandal yet signed greenwood despite sex allegations #jennifer hermoso #football #lionesses #women's world cup #sports jokes #sport #boris johnson

[bitchycatwizard]

The England fans and it’s politicians are cunts.

#football #youtube #sport #Jonathan pie #Boris Johnson #uk politics #news #uk news #england #great britain

[zer0-g]

Hitman Achievements inspired by this post

A Room With A View: Push Donald Trump off of his own tower

Agent 91/47 Charges: Kill Donald Trump while dressed as a court judge

Bad Hair Day: Plant a bomb in Donald Trump's new wig

Slight Chance Of Sunburn: Tamper with Donald Trump's new tanning booth

Twitter's Revenge: Kill Elon Musk with a flock of ravenous birds

"X" Marks The Spot: Crush Elon Musk with the new company logo

Account Terminated: Electrocute Elon Musk with the Twitter servers

Putting The "Twit" In Twitter: Let Elon Musk die due to his own incompetence

You Don't Say?: Smother Ron DeSantis with a Pride flag

Gator Getaway: Push Ron DeSantis into alligator infested waters

Fire Safety Drill: Trap Ron DeSantis in a classroom and light it on fire

"Florida Man Pulverises Politician": Convince a bystander to attack Ron DeSantis for you

Crowning Achievement: Kill Charles Windsor in the middle of the coronation

Wrong Ceremony: Lock Charles Windsor in The Queen's casket before it's cremated

Diana Sends Her Regards: Kill Charles Windsor with the specialised paparazzi camera while he's being driven around

Performance Issues: Eliminate Andrew Windsor by spiking his drink with a viagra overdose

Should Have Gone Vegan: Poison Piers Morgan's dinner

Foul On The Field: Trick Piers Morgan with the explosive football

Stroke Of Genius!: Trigger a stroke in Piers Morgan by switching his medication

That's News To Me: Kill Piers Morgan live on TV

A Vote For Green Party: Poison the "Lettuce Truss" and feed it to Liz Truss

Conservative Killing: Kill Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss all at once

Prime Ministers And Prime Pork: Kill Boris Johnson and David Cameron in the Peppa Pig costume

Where Guy Fawkes Failed: Blow up the main chamber of Parliament when all targets are present

I Cast A Spell On You: Kill J.K. Rowling using a wand or broomstick

Potion Making 101: Add something special to J.K. Rowling's cauldron

Best Selling Novel: Topple a bookcase of transgender novels on top of J.K. Rowling

Awkward Transitions: Have "Robert Galbraith" cause the murder of J.K. Rowling

#hitman #my posts #I had fun with these #if anyone wants to add onto this please feel free #I feel like agent 47 would support trans people

[live-laugh-loverpool]

virgsson sickfic hcs? 🥺

OH BUCKLE UP!!!! (looks through all the virgson sickfics i've ever posted)

Ali is EXTREMELY CLINGY when he's sick. Like, extremely. Take how he usually is and multiply it by fifteen, and there's the answer. the most common victims of this clinginess are Virgil and the boss (and Bobby and Flaco when they were in Kirkby). It's so bad that he barely lets Virgil get up from the bed

Virgil isn't as clingy, but he is...very vocal, to say the least. even if it's just a headache, he will loudly mope about it. and you bet Ali's right there next to him listening and nodding along

"aliiiiiiii it hurts everywhere" "yes caramelinho, i know"

The worst time was when Ali got the flu (this year) and he and Joey G had to be isolated in separate bedrooms from everyone else so the virus wouldn't spread. Both Virg and Ali were absolutely miserable, to the point where Klopp just gave Virgil the day off from training so he could go sit outside Ali's door and talk with him until the infectious part was over

if it's not an infectious disease, then you'll find them cuddling

once virgil got a migraine in preseason training camp and tried to hide it. Ali saw through him in less than five minutes, plucked him off the training pitch, and carried him bridal-style to bed. that's how Ibou found out about their relationship

Ali's very prone to fever dreams, especially when stressed. ofc virg is right there, although he's heard some strange things

"and then boris johnson was in a 1990s football kit" "go to sleep schatje"

@anfieldroad @bobbyfirminosworld @alissonbear-ker @ali-becker @moomin279 @millythegoat @kraeki @dsenotmtaetr

#liverpool fc #lfc #liverpool #alisson becker #virgil van dijk #virgson #soccer fanfiction by lynn

[thessalian]

Thess vs the Foreign Secretary

Okay, it's time for another round of "UK Politics: A Summary of Shittiness"!

Today, we're going to be talking about David Cameron. Now, David Cameron was once leader of the Conservative Party. He actually got the PM-ship in 2010 in a supposed coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. However, the LibDems let the Tories walk all over them, so we might as well have had just a Conservative government. Anyway, he wound up surviving an election and ending up in a majority Conservative government ... briefly. Then he called for the Brexit referendum. He was apparently honestly expecting it to be a resounding "no", and for people to shut up about it after that. So he didn't bother to set up anything but a simple majority vote about a situation with wide-ranging repercussions, most of which were opaque at best to the average voter. He also let Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage lie through their respective teeth about Brexit without trying to stamp on the misinformation or in fact trying to campaign for Remain in any reasonable way.

...And you all know what happened at that vote. Through the tiniest majority, the referendum was a YES to Brexit. So he kicked off Article 50 right away, because apparently Will of the People. And then, instead of staying to try to clean up the mess he caused, he fucking resigned, so that someone else could clean up his mess.

I mean, there's a whole lot more shit regarding him, but that's basically the most egregious at this point. He lit the fuse, watched the explosion, then walked away instead of helping clear the debris he created.

Fast-forward seven or so years, and we've been through more PMs than I really want to think about right now (Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak), and equal numbers of cabinet reshuffles. Which is where I pause a moment and explain about Suella Braverman.

See, Suella Braverman has been several things that are just ... damning, honestly. First she was integral to the current Brexit mess, as a standing member of the European Research Group (a massively Eurosceptic group which was probably pretty much behind the scenes of the Brexit movement to begin with). Braverman apparently believed in Brexit so much that she became an Under-Secretary of State for Brexit. And then, after a bit of leave, she spent a bit of time as Attorney General before being bumped up to Home Secretary.

She was the one whose "dream and obsession" was sending refugees to Rwanda under the auspices of "stopping illegal migration". She's been an absolute nightmare for human rights, to the point of trying to ban the Palestinian flag in general and claiming that the police are biased against far-right extremist groups because they apparently get arrested less often than peaceful protesters who aren't far-right extremists? I have no idea, but she has been the kind of boomerang bigot that boomeranged so hard she went right into fascism. There have been calls for weeks to get Sunak to sack her. I guess he finally had to listen.

Now, one one hand, this is good because Suella Braverman needs to be about a thousand miles away from the cabinet. So her being sacked is a good thing. However, the rest of the reshuffle ... well.

Okay, first of all, David Cameron is not being made Home Secretary. He's being made Foreign Secretary. No, the new Home Secretary is James Cleverly, who is very keen on Brexit and, when the World Cup was being hosted in Qatar and gay football fans were concerned for their safety, reportedly said that gay people should "show a bit of flex and compromise" when travelling to Qatar because "it's important when you're a visitor to the country to follow that country's customs". Sort of slipped some potentially Islamophobic remarks in there as well, and particularly given how there's been some noise very much against cultures that aren't white and/or Christian coming from those in Parliament lately, it's not ideal. We've honestly just lost one frothingly boomerang-bigoted Home Secretary and replaced her with another boomerang bigot who froths slightly less.

David Cameron dealing with foreign affairs, though? Not liking that idea very much. Honestly, all of the Tories have made such an absolute fucking mess of things that no reshuffle would satisfy me. Then again, at least most of the other newbies are actually MPs; Cameron had to drag his peerage out of mothballs in the shed he's been hiding in to be able to stand in the cabinet.

The one reshuffle that's probably not going to get a lot of attention (because Big Names) but probably should (because Big Conflict of Interest) is that the new Health Secretary is Victoria Atkins. No, not that Atkins, but nearly as bad - her husband runs British Sugar. Now, on one hand, her husband's company does deal with medicinal marijuana and it's possible that said conflict of interest might get medicinal marijuana a little more available. However, I also imagine there'll be a push to get the sugar tax (otherwise known as the Sin Tax) off the table so they could adjust the prices and have the sugar cost the same for the consumer while they got more money.

Either way, Sunak's rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and honestly Starmer isn't going to be any better, and I still hate living here. Buuuuuuut Suella Braverman got the sack so I'll just bask in that for a bit.

#Thess vs the Tories #Thess on politics

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Please redo the objective best 1D member ranking for 2023 🙏🏽

The calls for objectively best and worst members of 1D have never been this close. There's a cigarette paper between place 2 and 3 and 4 and 5. But there is still an objective truth and I will share it.

1. Zayn - his 2021 post about Palestine went beyond just saying #FreePalestine to affirming Palestinian's right to resist oppression.

2. Harry - I never thought I'd say this (there's a reason it took me several days to write this post), but it's true. I'm going to write more about this - but what sealed it for me is the strong indications we have that he knew what he was doing when he waved the Tino Rangatiratanga flag. And ultimately solidarity in the present is more important than stupid things someone has said in the past (even if they're that stupid).

3. Louis - It was great when he fought the cops - and if he wanted to be public about politics he might say some interesting things. But he doesn't and he's not.

4. Liam - If there was any reason to believe that he'd actually voted for Boris Johnson, or any possibility that his nonsense about football managers might persuade one person who read it to vote Boris Johnson this would be different. But in terms of political statements he's saved by his complete incoherence. There's no saving his political action shilling for the Saudi government.

5. Niall - It's the 20th of March already in New Zealand. 20 years ago the US invaded Iraq. The fact that Niall is now objectively the worst member of 1D is not just about Iraq - the US state and Joe Biden both have a long enough history and a terrible enough present that even if we'd prevented that war this ranking would be the same. But we must never forget those horrors and there should be no safe harbour for anyone who voted for those atrocities.

#solidarity #what a day to be writing this

[cuti-romeros]

A lovely anon in my inbox yesterday mentioned that Gary went on a political podcast earlier this week, and as ever, Jamie came up several times

(Separately, Gary is a magnetic speaker and it was fascinating listening to the full interview, so I would highly recommend it to anyone interested)

But I’ve listened to the full two hours in case you don’t plan to, and here are the carraville bits you came for:

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On being nervous to be on a political podcast (21:35)

MNF in particular, that minute or two before we go on air. It’s live, four hours…You certainly don’t know what’s going to come out of Carragher’s mouth next. And absolutely, he doesn’t know what’s gonna come out of his mouth next. So you’re always a little bit on edge, thinking you’ve got to be ready. And I think it’s a good thing sometimes.

On growing to like London (25:40)

I spend a lot of time down here now. Actually, I stay at the Corinthian, just around the corner... Me and Carragher. I mean, honestly... [host interjects something] I know, Carragher, he's drinking red wine, he writes for The Telegraph, he's staying in Whitehall. Fucking hell. He's from Bootle!

On whether people he's played football with share his political opinions (33:10)

Take Carragher. I mean, to be fair, I didn't like the guy at all when I played against him. And now, to be fair, we've become really good friends.

On joining the Labour Party (36:41)

I thought, to be fair, I was shouting my mouth off that much. And Carragher goes, "What are you fucking up to—" [to the interviewer] Do the Carragher accent, I can't do the Carragher accent. [interviewer does a not great impression of Jamie saying, "What are you doing? You can't talk about Labour without joining, of course you can't."] So I just thought I'd put my money where my mouth is.

On the interviewer asking, "Do you have [political] conversations with Carragher?" (53:01)

(Under a read more because there's still a lot from here)

(chuckling) You can't, can you, really? Difficult, that. [interviewer: "well I got the impression that he was quite Labour"] He is, he is very much. Very much Labour. Very much. Yeah. Absolutely. Can't not be, can he, from where he comes from. Also, I mean, you think about the way in which, sort of, the city of Liverpool and Merseyside view the Conservative Party. Phew. But do you know something, they aren't wrong are they, at times... They're wrong about a lot, but— (chuckles) No I don't have this type of conversation... He's furious as well. He's furious as well. He doesn't speak about it as much, not publicly either. But yeah, he's not happy. He retweets a lot, he posts out a lot. I think he went for Johnson last week, didn't he.

On him and Jamie calling out Partygate on Sky (54:04)

Yeah, it was FNF. We got a right bollocking for that. We have about a thousand complaints from Ofcom every fucking week. The amount of people who complain about me and Carragher, it's unbelievable honestly. It's fantastic. If we mention politics, we get a call, usually from the hierarchy at Sky... You never get a call to say, "well done, great show yesterday". But to be fair, they do get that many complains, the Ofcom then maybe get involved. We'll be told, you know, "make sure you're balanced"... We don't push it, because we accept it's a football audience that are, if you like, tuning in… We should, in our everyday lives, not be ignoring what's currently going on. We should be able to relate to it, particularly if there's a big event. I mean, if there'd been a no-confidence vote on the night of MNF, I don't we'd have come out alive, me and Carragher. I don't think they'd have let us on, I think they'd've cancelled the game!

On why England's Golden Generation failed (1:04:37)

When I look back then and think, the division between us—you know, me and Carragher, for instance... There were cliques.

On someone in football that's like Boris Johnson (1:10:49)

I've never met a guy like him in my life. I've never met—I've met some arseholes, don't get me wrong. I work with one regularly on Sky. (chuckles)

#carraville #gary neville #jamie carragher

[new-berry]

So right at the end it gets potentially skeevy. This is some of the actual fic so my agonised and irritating complaining makes more sense. But this what I mean about so much blether. There are many many words like this:

diligently opens the email Lorena sends. There’s an account of the court case from six years ago when the government was banned from putting the deaged into hotels for monitoring.

“Could be worse!” She has texted with three exclamation marks. “I’m glad you two can talk about football, and you can look out for him!”

He has never wanted to play football less. He wants to stay quietly here. Get to know this willowly new version of the man he thought he knew well.

There are a list of the tests that were done. Nothing major, blood tests, virus screening. Nothing was ever found. DNA was taken and compared. There is no difference between the samples. Lorena has noted that this journalists daughter was put in one of the hotels. ‘She drove so much if this!’ Lorena has written with more exclamation marks. ‘She should be an OBE!’

The courts insist that everything should be destroyed. The lawyers within the NHS had argued people were allowed to offer DNA, but they couldn’t insist. Plenty of people want to they say.

He types “deaged hotels” Into the search bar. There are first hand accounts where people have to admit they don’t actually remember anything. The staff working there saying it was a lot of video games, napping, and junk food.

The Spanish government site says five days is the longest reported case, but it’s often less than 48 hours.

The people who ran the hotels said they got used to a confused or angry adult, waking up somewhere strange, wanting it be away from all these kids.

The youngest reported case was 12. But this was from China and has an asterisk. The oldest reported case was 19. Uganda say they have never had cases.

It mostly occurs to people in their twenties. Psychologists wonder if it’s people wanting to escape pressure.

A report from the Ministry of Youth affairs suggests archly that younger people are just more welling to admit when they deage.

There rest of their reporting is stastical are very few cases in their 30 or 40’s. None reported from anyone in their sixties.

Helen Mirren was nominated for an Oscar playing a family living with the affects of a deageing, you can watch the movie for free on BBC plus.

It is more common in men. Less common with people with children or a partner.

He only skims the guardian articles. Boris Johnson photographed with his mouth open cuts funding to the special services. Scuttlebutt says this is to hide that the hotels that housed them were usually owned by his mates.

Jerermy Clarkson pens a lengthy screed about kids that won’t face up to their responsibilities that he doesn’t read. Princess Anne nods severly next to a group of nurses in one of the now decommissioned hotels.

There is a rumour site where people collect reports of celebrities who may have deaged. There are several footballers and he quickly posts a picture on Instagram of him and Win and the caption “protocols met! but I’m not alone!”

The seventh link down is high lighted becuase he has visited it before: “de-aged hotel- secret camera revals twinks caught getting…”

He clicks onto his homepage and clears his browsers history.

#time skip

[wehavecomeforyourprivateschools]

I had these debates mostly with myself tbf 2/3 years ago when the Saudis were sniffing round Newcastle

Letting them in was huge

Cos now the Premier League ceo Richard Masters is well in over his head. The Prem is a huge business, but dealing with powerful unpredictable states - especially one that is heavily involved in western oil supplies - is too big for the chairman, for the sport

But they welcomed em in, they welcome all foreign investment

Boris Johnson personally committed himself to the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United after they threatened "commercial and economic consequences" for Britain if the takeover didn't happen

And now they're using the club as a foothold to take control of football either by usurping the Prem or creating a rival league like they did with Liv golf

Honestly, the horse bolted when they let the UAE buy City

And now look; the all mighty all powerful soft power entity known as the Prem - a league that's shown and loved in virtually every country on earth - is facing extinction

[hislopchino]

What I’ve learnt: Angus Deayton

By Fiona Lensvelt

From The Times, 27th April 2019

The actor, comedian and TV host Angus Deayton, 63, presented the panel show Have I Got News for You, until he was dismissed in 2002 after tabloid allegations about his personal life. His career, which has spanned radio, television and film, began with Radio Active, which has been revived to mark its 40th anniversary. He has a son, Isaac, with his former partner Lise Mayer, and lives in north London.

When you start appearing on television, your life changes irrevocably. For me that came quite late in life, in my mid-thirties. I had spent most of my time on the radio or touring. Then Have I Got News for You began. I remember thinking, “Oh, this must be what it’s like to be very good-looking.” Everyone sits up and takes notice. People will either pat you on the back or tell you how appalling you are.

You have to give people the benefit of the doubt. [When the scandal broke in 2002], it felt like an out-of-body experience. I remember thinking, ‘This isn’t actually me. I’m looking down on someone else’s life.’ It was traumatic. How do you cope with something like that? You go from day to day, relying on friends to carry you through. It would be nice to say I’ve learnt to trust people less, but I’m not sure you can go through life like that. You’d end up a hermit.

It would be odd if Boris Johnson became the leader of our country. I remember Boris as a guest on Have I Got News for You and it always struck me as weird that he put on this buffoon act when he was clearly an intelligent man and probably quite cut-throat, too. You’d think, why is he rolling his eyes and scratching his head and talking about “old boy”? It seemed like an act. It was a very successful act.

You can tell a lot about someone by how they behave on the football pitch. It’s the same when people get behind the wheel of a car – nice people turn into raving fascists. I love football more than anything in the world, apart from my son. I would say I am overcompetitive. Incidentally, I’ve played football with Boris – he came onto the pitch in a bobble hat and immediately rugby-tackled one of the opposition.

If you both have the will for a split to be amicable, it will be. After Lise and I broke up, we remained friends. We live close to one another; we both look after Isaac; we go to our house in Italy as a family. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t if neither of us has acted badly towards the other. There was no acrimony.

Luck and fortunate breaks got me where I am today. I spent three years at Oxford thinking I was probably going to be a TEFL teacher. I had barely set foot on a stage. Then in my final year I met Richard Curtis, who invited me to join the Oxford Revue comedy group. Our show led straight to a radio series.

Acting is a test of nerves and memory. Can you remember the lines and deliver them as you’ve done in rehearsals? With presenting, you’ve got to appear unruffled when you’re thinking, “What the hell am I supposed to do now?” I remember Terry Wogan saying he used to do three chat shows a week – walking on stage was like walking into his living room. It shouldn’t be like that: you should have some nerves, otherwise you don’t perform at your best.

I don’t smoke, but apart from that, I have all the bad habits. Drinking is chief among them, probably. But it is a social vice and with a meal, it can be delightful.

Life keeps getting better. I came to the realisation recently that I’ve enjoyed every decade better than the one before. I’m in my sixties; my son is almost an adult. My living situation is much less fraught and I am happier in my own skin. I’m working but not working so much that it’s getting in the way, and I’m able to lead a comfortable life.

Radio Active is currently touring nationally and will be at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (socomedy.co.uk/artist/radio-active)

#Text #Interview #Angus Deayton

[useless-englandfacts]

David Cameron looks like his team just scored a point in the football. Boris Johnson looks like a weird muppet but that's pretty normal for him. And Gordon Brown looks like a lost history teacher. Possibly one of my old history teachers looked like Gordon Brown.

Agreed. My mum reckons they all look far too happy to be there. “Very inappropriate”

-roe

#asks #anonymous #politics #the royal family #Admin Roe

[whatsthecraicwith]

What's the Craic with...The British Government?

You'd have to be a mad man to try and sum up in one blog post the complete and utter clusterfuck that is the British Government at the moment. Let's give it a go anyway.

First we need to properly set the stage for this political pantomime.

Meet Boris Johnson

Conservative. Blonde. Potentially Donald Trump's secret love-child. He was the Prime Minister. His achievements in office include:

Overseeing the deaths of 100,000+ of his own citizens due to a botched Covid response.

Overseeing (and participating in) 18 parties that took place amongst his own government, often in his own house, whilst the rest of the country was under strict Covid Lockdown rules preventing such gatherings.

Blatantly lying about these parties ever occurring...oh and about literally everything else that he was ever asked about.

Overseeing record levels of child poverty and food bank usage.

Overseeing a growing culture of sexual harassment from his own MPs and appointing them to key cabinet positions (this would eventually be the straw that broke the camels back).

Thank God he's not the Prime Minister anymore right? RIGHT?

Wrong.

Meet Liz Truss

Former Liberal Democrat. Former Republican (the political viewpoint not the party). Former Remainer. Current Prime Minister*

*at the time of writing this - Mr Blobby could be PM by the time you are reading this and he would be a vast improvement over our current (and previous) Tory Prime Minister.

Liz here has made quite the impact since being elected Prime Minister by 81,326 Tory Party Pensioners Members.

What? Oh the other 67 million citizens of the UK didn't get a say in this. We common folk just had to sit idly by and watch as the Tory Party Membership voter for the new leader of their party who would, by being the largest political party within the House of Commons, become Prime Minister following Boris Johnson's (reluctant) resignation. Democracy.

Anyway you'd expect Liz here to have a similar impact on the country as a new football manager has on their team. The famous "new manager bounce" where clubs have a huge improvement in their performances thanks to their new gaffer.

It didn't happen.

In fact, somehow, things got worse.

First up the Queen died. Literally two days after meeting and appointing Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Great start.

Democracy within the UK took a two week break from democracy at this point as people queued for literally days (unless you're a presenter on This Morning) to see the Queen's coffin and hail our brand new unelected leader, King Charles III.

So the Queen's funeral happens and normal service resumes.

The Liz Truss era can now truly begin.

Now, to be fair to Liz Truss, she inherited a country in disarray thanks to her friend and ally Boris Johnson.

Record level energy prices. Sky high fuel prices. People are having to choose between eating and heating.

Action is needed.

So, Liz Truss and her newly appointed Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, do just that. They announce a mini-budget. The title is perhaps a bit misleading as the impact of this is anything but "mini."

Rather than performing a windfall tax on oil and gas companies who have been raking in the profits due to the invasion of Ukraine; rather than increasing taxes on the top 1% of earners in the country; rather than do literally anything to ease the economic burden facing low income earners, Truss and Co. decide to do they only thing Tories know how to do.

Give a tax cut to all their rich friends.

We didn't have to wait long.

Within hours of the mini-budget the pound crashes. And I mean CRASHES. It's a shit show. It's Titanic-ally bad.

The Pound reaches it's lowest point in half a century against the Dollar.

The Bank of England has to take action - something normally reserved when trying to protect the UK from overseas economic instability. Never before done to protect the UK from...itself.

It's not long before the government is forced to make a U-turn and has to scale back on some of the tax cuts for their wealthy chums.

And so here we are. The British economy is slowly collapsing. A recession is visible on the horizon and moves ever closer with every policy announced by this incompetent cesspit of a "government." The ongoing energy crisis has resulted in major blackouts now being predicted in the winter.

Fortunately, a rebellion appears to be growing within the Conservative Party who, polls show, are forecast to be decimated at the next General Election. Desperate backbenchers are already scrambling to try to oust this government whilst still in its infancy in a vain attempt to save their seats.

For the sake of the country a vote of no confidence and subsequent general election can't come soon enough. Though, if the length of time Boris Johnson was able to fruitlessly cling to power is any indication - Liz Truss may be around for a while longer yet.

#liz truss #boris johnson #tories #politics

[painless-innit-colourful]

refreshed tumblr and saw that you were active and literally lit up ITS BRITISH POLITICS MUTUAL TIME LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

also happy boris johnson is gone day i literally could not stop laughing about this shit

BORIS IS GONE CRAB RAVE!!

went up the chip shop for a celebratory kebab pita and one football lead to another and I am now covered in kebab sauce but it's okay because BORIS JOHNSON IS BORIS GONESON

#crim speaks #british politics #boris johnson

[master-john-uk]

MJ, Julie here. Stanley Johnson in his interview today mentioned ‘ The Elton Wall game’ and an eye for a tooth in relation to Boris and the current situation the PM is facing within Cabinet. What is the background of and rules to to Eaton Wall game.

The Eton Wall Game is not easy to understand, and even harder to explain. Watching it as an outsider does not make it any easier to comprehend!

In the simplest terms, the game is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long against a slightly curved brick wall. The aim is to get the ball to the opponent's end of the wall. The game shares similarities with both rugby and football, and is very physical.

I suggest what the person in the interview you refer to may have been getting at. was that in order to score in the Eton Wall Game the player needs to be stubborn and use brute force to get through... To quote from the Eton College website, "The skill consists in the remorseless application of pressure and leverage as one advances inch by painful inch through a seemingly impenetrable mass of opponents."

However, another possibility which is probably more likely... is that the person has read an article written by an anti-public school critic of the PM earlier this year. (Sadly, I find myself agreeing with parts of the article, except the generalisation that this applies to all Etonians): "There is only one rule in the Eton Wall Game and that is, for Etonians, that life is a game played behind a curved wall with rules they don’t have to follow and, for them, do not exist. If Boris Johnson has a belief, this is his belief."

[usafphantom2]

RAF Typhoons will support air safety at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/30/22 - 6:18 PM in Military

RAF Squadron 12 Typhoon fighter leads a formation with a Rafale and a Mirage 2000-5.

The Typhoon fighters of Squadron 12 of the Royal British Air Force (RAF) will contribute to air safety at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar later this year.

Qatar will host the tournament, with matches scheduled to start in November 2022. This will be the first time that an Arab country has held the event, which brings together national football teams competing in the World Cup.

Squadron 12, based at Coningsby RAF Base, is a United Kingdom-Qatar joint squadron with Typhoon fighters. They will support the efforts to combat terrorism during FIFA competition, ensuring that it is safe and successful for all football fans around the world.

The news was confirmed by His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of the State of Qatar and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, during a meeting earlier this week.

The leaders celebrated the shared relationship between Qatar and the United Kingdom, affirming their commitment to continue strengthening their strategic partnership and facing global challenges together.

Squadron 12's contribution to air safety will be part of broader support from the UK Ministry of Defense in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Additional maritime safety capabilities, advanced site search training, operational planning support, command and control support and additional expert advice will also be provided.

The RAF operates two joint squadrons with the Qatari Emirate Air Force. The other, the Joint Hawk Training Squadron, is based at RAF Base in Leeming, northern England, and aims to train pilots from both air forces. In total, the Qatari Air Force ordered 24 Typhoons and 9 Hawk jet trainers from the British manufacturer BAE Systems.

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“Thank God Suella Braverman is back,” writes one Telegraph columnist. “Her determination to crack down on crime and illegal immigration undoubtedly chimes with the views of the country, and especially voters in the Red Wall. Thank God there is someone in the Cabinet to put forward those views.”

Her return is not an oddity, not a pantomime joke, but proves how deeply Rishi Sunak is in hock to the hard right, like every Tory leader from John Major onwards. The party will rewrite the past week’s knife-edge drama as a smooth and inevitable coronation of its princeling, but his frantic scramble for the wrong votes tells another story. Restoring Braverman to the Home Office and boasting of party “unity” unites him with the obnoxious wing that drove the Tories to this post-Brexit dead end. The Express, closest to that faction, reveals that in the last hours battling with Boris Johnson, Sunak was so needy for rightwing support that he called Braverman no fewer than six times begging for her backing and that of the wing she represents; Keir Starmer called that out in PMQs as “a grubby deal”. The first heady days are a leader’s moment of maximum power with every job in their gift – and yet Sunak emerges as another Tory PM too weak to face down those old wrecking “bastards”.

Braverman is their missile. When she stood for leader, Steve Baker instantly stood aside, tweeting: “Happily I no longer need to stand. @SuellaBraverman will deliver these priorities and more.” Yesterday, ex-party chair Jake Berry told TalkTV that far from committing what she described as a “technical infringement of the rules”, “from my own knowledge, there were multiple breaches of the ministerial code”. The cabinet secretary, Simon Case, is reportedly “livid” at her reappointment after six days, as Labour’s Yvette Cooper rightly calls for an investigation to see what she leaked, who to and how often.

Fellow rightwingers rush to her defence: MP Bernard Jenkin defended her reappointment, saying he could “vouch for the highest integrity of my right honourable friend the home secretary”. Here is an early hard landing for Sunak’s rashly boasted integrity, accountability, professionalism, seriousness and competence.

Her blunder exposed more than her failure to follow security rules. She attempted to send a confidential document to, among others, Sir John Hayes: known as her mentor, a rather less fascinating svengali. His Common Sense Group, launched two years ago in the wake of Black Lives Matter with about 40 MPs and reviving the old Cornerstone Group (faith, flag and family), inhabits the shifting sands of rightwing diehards. “Common Sense” is a useful catchphrase suggesting anything less than hard right is nonsense, just as canvassers recognise that when someone says “I’m not political”, they usually vote Tory: any other politics is abnormal.

If she regularly sent policy for approval from the Hayes faction, it’s worth knowing who he is: he was knighted along with Sir John Redwood and Sir Edward Leigh in Theresa May’s frantic wooing of troublesome rightwingers against her Brexit deal. Here are his views, unpopulist as none of them are very popular these days: a Brexiter, he has voted to restrict access to abortion, and is against equal marriage and onshore wind turbines. He’s for standing up in football stadiums and capital punishment. One of his outside jobs is as strategic adviser to BB Energy, a global energy trader. In the middle of the summer heatwave, Hayes condemned “a cowardly new world where we live in a country where we are frightened of the heat. It is not surprising in snowflake Britain.”

Braverman ran wild at the Tory conference, declaring that “a plane taking off to Rwanda … That’s my dream. That’s my obsession.” Her glee at longer prison terms for peaceful climate protesters is repugnant: “We’ll keep putting you behind bars,” she says. If Sunak cuts benefits yet again, he has an ally; she said this month: “I want to cut welfare spending. We have far too many people in this country who are fit to work, who are able to work … the benefit street culture is a feature of modern Britain”, needing “a bit more stick” to get people back to work.

But she will be blamed for the near collapse of the Home Office: from passport chaos to police recruitment in England and Wales that is still 7,000 below the number of officers cut since 2010. The more she promises impossibly few asylum-seekers and refugees, the more glaring are Home Office failures, processing virtually none of the rising numbers, with the shameful squalor of their living conditions revealed by a chief inspector who said he was left “speechless”.

Labour can weaponise Sunak’s dependence on the Tory right. That’s real, unlike the constant tired refrain at PMQs that Starmer served in the shadow cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn, a man now deprived of the Labour whip, while Braverman is Sunak’s personal choice as home secretary. Sunak is handcuffed to his hard right – no one thinks Starmer is in hock to the hard left.

ConservativeHome’s assistant editor, William Atkinson, suggests there’s political method in the danger of this appointment. Culture wars whipped up by Braverman and her allies will hide the new austerity. Sunak will stand by as they let rip on immigration, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the online safety bill and the green wokerati. He hopes their foghorns on statues, colonialism, museums and immigration will drown out everything else. But people feeling the pain of a 17% rise in food prices, doubling energy bills and soaring mortgages and rents are not easily distracted. As for Braverman’s “obsession” with immigration, that now sits just eighth on the Ipsos list of public concerns.