Same old story, different actors. Somehow leaders convince themselves again and again that ‘protecting the organisation’ is more important than integrity and decency.

A lot of electrons have been inconvenienced just by this thread.

This guy is on fire today: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dmq88j6rro

Sort of deploying the Royal Navy to sink every small boat they can find in the channel, I’m struggling to see how he would stop the boats ™ in weeks.

Too many. And people of Clacton got what they deserved as they voted him in.

Slaps are a tad harsh, don’t you think. Few firm tuts should be sufficient.

‘Operation Early Dawn’ - who comes up with the names? I’m cringing so hard my cheeks hurt!

he had entered the city centre to collect a takeaway

That’s one expensive takeway. I hope it was tasty.

The coming weekend will tell us whether the edge is gone.

Alternative headline: journalist is upset when the PM didn’t say what he wanted the PM to say

Is there a bigger societal waste day-in-day-out than people sitting in traffic jams? Any measure that reduces car journeys taken is a good measure in my books.

Toot-toot, moog got the boot!

I root for the moog to get the boot.

How about the whole Cabinet?

A number of major forces (e.g longer lifespan and that Russian twat waging war) will continue to increase pressure on public finances like an ever tightening screw. Pretending that economic growth will solve the problem is wishful thinking, to put it mildly. Either one substantially cuts some publics service or increases taxes to a whole new level. Quite possibly both at the same time.

I’m deeply disappointed that the UK political parties wishing to have power seem only able to obfuscate things. “Let me be very clear, yadi-yadi-ya” - bullshit! It is tiring to hear only media optimised, content void word salad.

I’ve been a sceptical old git for quite some time, but perhaps I’ve still held a glimmer of optimism somewhere deep down. This election campaign has only pushed me deeper into cynicism.

The rivers have already been turned into streams of shit, so all we need is a bit of pipework and we have arrived at the Tory dream, known as nightmare for the rest of us.

The said stone may smell of piss. If it does not, I’ll be quite happy to oblige.

Now now, Boris got brexit done. It ended up being a complete pig’s ear, quite possibly from the same pig Cameron was acquainted with, but it did get done.

The rate at which Rich-i keeps showing his foot deep into his mouth makes me admire his dexterity and flexibility.

I think the idea is quite a bit more than fact checking. It is how you could package real-time fact checking as a service.

I’m sure Sunak is a very intelligent person. You simply don’t get to be a PM by being an imbecile in the low IQ sense of the term. There is abundant evidence that he is a totally useless politician and an incompetent leader. His moral compass, I’m not even going to comment.