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The esteemed Secretary Of State for Sport, Alcohol and other cultural bits surpasses herself again.

Speaking in St Helens at a launch event for the Rugby League World Cup, Dorries opened her speech with a reference to Jonny Wilkinson’s match-winning drop goal in the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup final.

“I’ve always quite liked the idea of rugby league,” she said. “My long-standing memory is that 2003 drop goal. I’ll let you into a secret. I think we were drinking bloody marys at the time. It was 11 o’clock in the morning but wow what a moment that was.” Hic…
 
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casserole of nonsense said:
The esteemed Secretary Of State for Sport and other bits surpasses herself again.

Speaking in St Helens at a launch event for the Rugby League World Cup, Dorries opened her speech with a reference to Jonny Wilkinson’s match-winning drop goal in the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup final.

“I’ve always quite liked the idea of rugby league,” she said. “My long-standing memory is that 2003 drop goal. I’ll let you into a secret. I think we were drinking bloody marys at the time. It was 11 o’clock in the morning but wow what a moment that was.”
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Rascal said:
If the oft used Tory phrase that Labour always leave office with unemployment higher than they were elected is a truism, surely it is also a truism that every Tory Government leaves office mired in sleaze and corruption
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Voters care about unemployment as it can have a major impact on their lives. They don't (or won't) believe a government "mired in sleaze and corruption" has the same impact.
 
Gabriel said:
The FT is now the only paper that seems to appreciate what is happening.
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Unlike the Express which launches this shit - political aspiration presented as economic fact. British lamb to China - I'd imagine they have all the lamb they need just a short Journey away from Australia and NZ. Doubtless already established trading partners

www.express.co.uk

Mordaunt hails Brexit Britain’s NEW global trade plan

PENNY Mordaunt has claimed that "something great is happening in this country" as a new £20 billion blueprint to make Brexit Britain the hub of global trade with hundreds of barriers being removed to commerce.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
 
bluethrunthru said:
Unlike the Express which launches this shit - political aspiration presented as economic fact. British lamb to China - I'd imagine they have all the lamb they need just a short Journey away from Australia and NZ. Doubtless already established trading partners

www.express.co.uk

Mordaunt hails Brexit Britain’s NEW global trade plan

PENNY Mordaunt has claimed that "something great is happening in this country" as a new £20 billion blueprint to make Brexit Britain the hub of global trade with hundreds of barriers being removed to commerce.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
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There will be a lot more of this crap coming over the horizon in the next few months. It’s like everything with this government, who’ve been in power for TWELVE years, in that everything is; just over the hill, about to come into view, will unlock potential, a plan for something, which sounds like something, but actually means nothing, blah, blah.

Also, in that article, there are no actual agreements cited, just a list of unlikely but, I suppose, possibles, with the usual bingo card of. Massive trade deal with the US‘, remoaners, no growth in Europe, Britain is best at everything, breaking down barriers to trade (which they surely can’t believe) and, by 2025, we will have the “best and most effocient modern customs system ‘in the world.’”

The final thing they use is a number which, to Joe Public, looks like a ‘big number’ but, in reality, is anything but.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
There will be a lot more of this crap coming over the horizon in the next few months. It’s like everything with this government, who’ve been in power for TWELVE years, in that everything is; just over the hill, about to come into view, will unlock potential, a plan for something, which sounds like something, but actually means nothing, blah, blah.

Also, in that article, there are no actual agreements cited, just a list of unlikely but, I suppose, possibles, with the usual bingo card of. Massive trade deal with the US‘, remoaners, no growth in Europe, Britain is best at everything, breaking down barriers to trade (which they surely can’t believe) and, by 2025, we will have the “best and most effocient modern customs system ‘in the world.’”

The final thing they use is a number which, to Joe Public, looks like a ‘big number’ but, in reality, is anything but.
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Yep, we need to stop asking WHAT they’re promising to achieve and start asking HOW they’re going to achieve them.
So far lots of shiny baubles but no plans whatsoever.
 
mr t said:
And now another sex pest…….

Is there something in the water in Westminster?
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I think it’s the schools they attend and the company they keep.
Incidentally apparently mr. Pincher writes (or has written) a column for ‘the critic’ magazine on drink!
A job for which he seems to be well qualified.
 
Postman Pep said:
Sounds like it.

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Obviously the last thing Johnson needs now is another by election as if they lost Tamworth (where they won two-thirds of the vote in 2019) then he really would have to go. So presumably drunken groping is nothing to worry about these days and we can just attribute it to a bit of high spirits and we can all agree to forget about it, probably over a drink at the nearest bar.

It is interesting though when you look at the cause of by elections over time. I haven’t looked at it properly for a while but for some reason a scary percentage used to be caused by Labour MPs keeling over, while these days it’s usually triggered by some despicable behaviour, recently from a Tory.

Probably quite a good guide to the state of politics and standards in Westminster at the moment.
 
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