We haven't had any doggerel for a bit** ...
[with apologies to Louis Armstrong]
Oh the spads, babe, have such teeth, dearand they leak stuff to Fleet Street hacksJust a jack-knife has McSweeneyand he sticks it in people’s backsSusie Grey now, makes big moneyChief of Staff at Number TenMoney don’t impress McSweeneyHe just wants his desk againAngry spads say big bad SusieIs depriving them of cashThen the Beeb finds Susie’s pay-slip!Has our boy done something rash?On the air-waves, in Sunday papersLeaks a-plenty, causing strifeSomeone's briefing, to all and sundryCould that someone be Mack the Knife?Old Kier Starmer, he hates the aggro, (doncha know? doncha know?)He just wants a quiet lifeGives the signal for the hit-jobCall goes out for Mack the Knife ...At Westminster, in cocktail loungesSpads are drinking fit to drownAnd the toast is - Bye-bye Susie!Now McSweeney is back in town!
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Poesey is not my game, sorry.
Came across one Robert Conquest and his 3 laws (new to me):-
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Familiar to you lot no doubt. Robert was a very adaptable fellow who did do a bit of poetry and a lot else.
I see MI5 is rattling the bones in the papers. They tell us Russia is stirring it up and Iran is stirring it up. Fear and trepidation on the streets of the UK but for the persons in black. Could it be someone sceptical is looking at their budgets. BTW glad to see the back of Tugendhat, yon has a pale and hungry look.
You'll be alright then, 2 of the 3 remaining runners don't look pale at all.
But Jenrick suddenly looks very pale indeed!
Tugendhat was a standard globalist type. Looks like Jenrick, an ambitious sort - BoJo sans charisma/wit and hopefully most of the dishonesty.
@Jim - both have been outsourcing to the UK criminal classes.
A large supply of people, already networked, and bring their own tools of the trade, that you can pay to do your dirty work.
Why fly someone over to threaten/maim/kill someone, when you can just use Telegram or similar to find someone already there? Usually cheaper, less risk, more plausibly deniable... Our service industries at their finest.
Maybe Reeves could consider a windfall tax on it?
I seem to remember this as a rather good Frank Sinatra song, given his alleged friendship with the mob, it had an added bite as it were. I also thought Starmer was the mirror image of Johnson, so self important he would implode but I am begining to think he is more like Truss.
This govt has been a continuous popcorn moment, the sooner they calm down I can get on with my diet.
Charles
OT - Guardian admit that empowering women is the way to reduce the population:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/earths-vital-signs-show-humanitys-future-in-balance-say-climate-experts
"Among the policies the scientists recommend for rapid adoption are gradually reducing the human population through empowering education and rights for girls and women..."
We know already that a woman's total fertility rate is inversely proportional to the number of years she's spent in education...
*Applause* yours and Dearieme.
Sir Cunt Starmer.
Or Sir Kunt Starmer
No one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy with my pelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for me
I know for certain
The one I love
I'm through with flirtin'
It's just me I'm thinkin' of
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for me
"jim said...
Poesey is not my game, sorry.
Came across one Robert Conquest and his 3 laws (new to me):-"
Conquest's "The Great Terror" a must read.
Jim
"BTW glad to see the back of Tugendhat, yon has a pale and hungry look."
As one of those responsible for ousting the late, much lamented, Sir Roger Scruton from his post heading the "Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission", Tugendhat and the snivelling Mercer have my eternal contempt.
Nor did either apologise for their smearing of a true conservative. Scum, frankly.
I see the boy Milliband is now wanting to throw away billions more pounds on enormous pumped storage schemes across Scotland and Wales "for when the sun doesn't shine".
I was genuinely impressed by Dinorwig when I visited it as a teenager youth-hostelling through Wales a very long time ago.
But these will be at a completely different scale and purpose. Not only an expensive environmental disaster to build but also a potential human disaster if/when they fail, (or are attacked).
Well, the Tories do seem be following Conquest's 3rd law. The next couple of weeks may be interesting. Will the stewards call a false start and re run the poll? Otherwise I sense a gurgling sound as they disappear down the drain. Lets Labour off the hook for a week or two. Most amusing.
I still don't swallow the MI5 remote actor story. Few of the Telegram type messaging apps are totally secure - a false sense of security is useful. Then the Skripal story (as published) shows ruskies turning up at Heathrow and swanning round the country free as birds. While Skripal was a known probable target.... Not a great advert for security.
Hiring random burglars, minor drug dealers, minor lefties or righties to do anything more than random stabbings/shootings of random unknowns looks politically pointless. Any serious criminal has better things to do and does not need to attract the attention of the secret squirrels - bad for business. Our home grown societal problems are quite sufficiently destructive.
Back in the '80s I thought Scruton was one to follow. Since then I suspect he was more a useful tool, not so keen now.
Jim - a lot more to Scruton than his political stance; his writings on art, beauty, sex, culture, faith and philosophy are all for me hugely edifying - we have had no-one to compare with him in a long time, and his work behind the Iron Curtain alone marks him as a brave and remarkable man
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