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Google tells me that he must be a fan of this:

"If we're brave enough to do it, all the other countries will see what a good idea it is and follow our lead!"

Mark Sedwill mutually-consented out as Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser. Brexit nutcase David Frost replaces him as the latter. Presumably someone who shares their vision like Steve Bannon or Thomas Mair can be the former. Hopeless lunatics starting to fill all the main positions of power. Buckle up.

Who is having their free speech curtailed? "Free speech" and "offer of a temporary fellowship" are not the same thing.

On the other hand, Jordan Peterson is a massive Representative for Wellingborough. So, *shrugs*

Probably 'hmmm' were it not also politically very helpful. He will come out of this less popular with left-wing of the Labour Party and more popular with the public. Overall, that's a net positive. Also, it adds another arrow to his quiver against the sleaze-ridden degenerates in Government. Labour deals with internal problems, the Conservatives will allow the worst Government in living memory to do whatever they want with no consequences. I mean, I'd have thought all wings of the party would have instantly used it to contrast how the respective leaders deal with party management and how terrible the Government is, rather than furiously rallying around a second tier shadow cabinet member. But what do I know.

Make sure you stay hydrated out there guys...

Bear in mind that national polling is pretty much irrelevant. Someone could take 70%+ of the vote and still potentially lose. Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona, Pennsylvania. Nowhere else but those six really matters anymore. Texas and Georgia are also within the margin of error, but obviously we know how that goes. https://www.fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-latest-swing-state-polls-look-good-for-biden/amp/ Long article which concludes...

Well, that was a weird three months. All good now though.

And while it's bad form to quote oneself, I've realised that I'm almost certainly giving him too much credit. Given his previous few years, it's unlikely that he's trumping Wilson with a relatively niche bit of trade nomenclature. And he's actually an imbecile who is just lying, doesn't understand what he is saying or both, and hoping nobody but a few hundred internet nerds notices. That tactic has won him two elections in the last year and a referendum after all. Silly me.

The answer he gives isn't necessarily a lie. "Customs infrastructure" has nothing to do with animal health and food safety, which is why they're building Border Inspection Posts. If Sammy Wilson is too dumb to know that he's asking the wrong question, that's not Johnson's problem.

Is it really all that mind-boggling? I'd probably be more surprised if he hadn't. Do people try and get elected as Tory MPs for reasons other than self-benefit and the opportunity to make other people's lives worse?

It's not pulled the picture through. It just shows the link text. Here you go:

There comes a point though that you have to stop pandering to morons. For some of the knuckdraggers, anything short of bricking up the Channel Tunnel and sending gunboats to Zeebrugge would be "betraying Brexit".

It's weird. It's like their social media team had a meeting with the brief "what can we do to make our supporters out themselves as the racist dickbags that they are"

I think you are doing "other people" a bit of a disservice. The extension of the above suggests that there was a potential policy that wasn't going to be an electoral disaster. And that potential policy didn't exist. Your posts suggest that had they taken a more "leave" position then they keep their leave seats but for some reason don't lose their remain ones, and thus perform better. And there is nothing to suggest that's the case. As you've rightly said, they were placed in an impossible positon. Which isn't hindsight, I don't believe anyone claimed otherwise last Autumn. They (rightly, in my opinion) decided to go with what a majority of their MPs, members and voters wanted rather than a minority. It wasn't going to win them the election, but going with "we need to win Mansfield, Stoke and Grimsby and the people who vote for us there are racist statue-defenders, so we're just going with whatever they want" was no more viable an election strategy than what they chose. For all the Miliband reports, the story of the 2019 election is that Labour didn't have a pragmatic faction, willing to prioritize the success of the party over their personal position on Europe. So (a larger number of) Labour leavers prioritized Brexit, (a larger number of) Conservative remainers prioritized the Conservative party.

He's come a long way since breaking up Les and Janice Battersby's marriage.

It is, but it's also a place in Uruguay which is big on meat processing. Where the Fray Bentos products originate.

Come on now, it's not as if the Foreign Secretary needs to know about things happening in the world.

They do say that too much of *that* will make you go blind. Pictures of Michael Gove with long hair are an odd choice of inspiration though.

Probably just thought the admin in sticking a bin liner over them was easier than the admin involved if anyone did decide they wanted to take a sledgehammer to it.