I keep hearing rumours that Gove is being lined up to be PM. After this?
I missed this. Wow pic.twitter.com/gjIwgV1CfO
— Nick Murphy (@nickmurftweets) May 27, 2020
As far as I know, I am not related to that Nick Murphy.
I share his incredulity.
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frightening indeed. i read a book of his once. plenty of laughs from beginning to end, none of which were intended by the author to be humorous.
This country is a basket-case. It’s one among many. A banana republic. A tinpot dictatorship. A kleptocracy. A loony-bin.
People often look at Brazil or Iran or North Korea and gloat about their terrible leaders. How funny.
More like a kakistocracy 😉
New word of the day; like it!
Fantastic! It beggars belief.
Having said that, if you had to go on TV and defend Cummings and Johnson what would you say?
(Of course, he could grow a backbone and resign…. but that would be truly amazing).
I certainly think Gove thinks he can replace Johnson, and he’s being careful not to upset the Tory party faithful by criticising the Church.
He’s not interested in the incredulity of society beyond that.
I don’t trust him at all. I think he’s a snake and I’d hate to see him as PM.
This man wanted to see the reintroduction of the death penalty. I need add no more.
Nicholas
have they not done that in a way? By failing to prepare; by being late with measures and poor organisation. It has cost lives.
Let me add one thing: he was bitterly opposed to the Good Friday Agreement which ended 30 years of civil conflict in NI.
That’s really all one needs to know. The expenses scandal stuff, the drug taking hypocrisy, Murdoch sycophancy, Vote Leave mendacity, illegalities and cover-up, the Russian money…. details.
This lot seem to have given up completely on the idea of winning the next election, which increasingly makes me wonder if they think there’ll be one… are we witnessing some kind of slow-motion coup taking place, in plain site but somehow invisible, which will make political popularity irrelevant? Is the proposed deal with America going to make this ragtag bag of schemers so wealthy such matters won’t, er, matter? There’s surely something going on under all this… while Cummings was being all over the news, what wasn’t all over the news? What’s gone on in the past few days which might otherwise have qualified as bad news which has instead been buried?
I really don’t think we’d accept the end of the poor democracy we’ve got
And I don’t want to go back to the 1640s – in many ways our bloodiest war – to prove it
I think Sarah Kendzior’s recent book “Hiding in Plain Sight” will become relevant in the UK soon.
I’m sure that we will retain so semblance of democracy, but it will mean, in practical terms less and less.
All the while in the background treaties are signed, trade deals and contracts are agreed without our consent and all of them will trump democracy every time. We are drifting into a situation in which multinational corporate law hold more sway than the choice of a nations population.
Imagine some time in the future we vote for a political party either know of as yet unformed or maybe even a coalition, and that party wins the election based on a pledge to secure the national health service in its non-commercial form. Disappointment would very quickly set in as it become clear that the Tory government had already signed contracts/deals with US companies promising them stakes in the NHS. Of course there will be protests but these arrangement hold more weight than the wishes of the people of the UK.
Gove=Murdoch Man.
Brillig: the slimy Gove did gyre and gimble on the telly.
🙂
Just when you thought it might be safe to come out of lockdown……. [cue theme from Jaws]
Tory politicians need to drink more of this new beer. They might see the leadership succession more clearly after several cans!
https://www.brewdog.com/uk/barnard-castle-eye-test
I was amused
Personally, I hope that Gove does become PM – we deserve it…
This is the most optimistic blog on the web. For three months now Richard has been making optimistic noises about life after this crisis. It doesn’t matter who is PM because the whole show is being driven by people we don’t know about. Life after this is going to be horrible because the shit show is going to continue for four and a half years and the government will totally ignore any criticism. The Cummings event was a trial run and the journalists were toothless totally failing to land a glove on Cummings or Johnson. We need to stop talking about a GND and start working how to bring the government down. It’s not going to happen through parliament because there is no opposition. Cummings and Johnson know they have won and the problem is that the media have allowed them to do it.
You think they’ve won?
Don’t you believe it…
This has a long way to run as yet
The scoreline doesn’t look good at the moment and meanwhile the government is lowering our food standards and setting us up for a disastrous trade deal with the US that leaves our country subject to the wishes of big corporate companies. They have four years to give our country away and we can’t do anything about it. If that’s not losing it sounds like dystopia to me. No doubt you’ll be telling us about Emily Maitliss soon.
I’m seeking fundamental reforms – what are you doing Rod?
It seems that sniping is the stock in trade
Is that going to help?
Who is going to deliver what you want, and how when it’s apparent that there is no chance of it winning support?
My cat thinks he could do better and I believe him.
I want Johnson to remain as PM. We are now headed for disaster. Disdaster is inevitable now, and It should be he who is in charge when it happens. Then all his misguided fans will see him for what he is, and he will carry the blame. If someone else were in charge and he had withdrawn, it woukld be claimed that it was the poor sucker who had taken over that caused the crisis and it wouldn’t have happened if Johnson was in charge. No, I want him to stay and have won his place in the history books. In a hundred years time, few of the Prime Ministers will be remebered – Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Churchill, maybe Attlee and Thatcher. And hopefully Johnson – as the disastrous one who ruined Britain, to go down in history with Chamberlain and Lord North..
You are related to Nick Murphy, as are we all. There’s very little difference in the DNA of all of us compared to other species.
What you are presumably saying is that you are not a relative of him.
And in that we can divine a sentiment – an internationalist will still claim to be related to people they disagree with. A protectionist will claim to like their relatives, while knowing privately that they don’t.