Sky Australia reckons the UK is a “basket case” right now.
And to illustrate it, the channel wheeled on Nigel Farage to blame it all on measures to fight climate change!
His advice to Australia? Pollute your environment, stink up your lives, and make it impossible to live in your country.
But then he contradicts himself by admitting that Vladimir Putin is holding the West to ransom – by withholding a polluting fossil fuel!
What a loony!
And then he goes on to suggest that UK Tories have been moving to the left wing of politics for years, when they’ve been playing with fascism for 12 years!
As I write this, some English people will have been in the pub for more than 10 hours. I wonder how many of them have caught Covid-19 by now?
Here's to all the Super (spreader) Saturdie morons who trust @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak, and will be putting themselves and everybody else in mortal danger by going to the pub.
People have camped outside and queued up to get into their local drinking establishments – forgetting the 2m social distancing rule in the process, This Writer notices.
— Al Murray – DKMS.ORG.UK (@almurray) July 4, 2020
Admittedly, Johnson has taken precautions. He told everybody to use their “common sense”:
Boris Johnson telling everyone to use their common sense (from 6am) tomorrow while clearly forgetting the same people he is addressing had fist fights for the last 12 pack of Andrex and cleared the supermarket shelves of every single beer and lager, apart from Corona 🤦🏼♀️
The logic seems to be this. 'The infection rate is falling because we're doing certain things. So it's safe now to stop doing the things that are making the infection rate fall.'
So it seems likely that England is cruising towards another peak of infections, on a wave of alcohol – and lies.
Johnson claimed he would not ease lockdown if the ‘R’ rate – the rate at which Covid-19 infections multiply, edged above 1 – that is, one person being infected for every person who already has the disease. But the ‘R’ rate is above 1 now in many parts of England and he hasn’t said a word.
Boris Johnson, May 2020: “If the R goes up again, we will not hesitate to put on the brakes”
I'm old enough to remember when MPs lost their job for a bit of outdoor nooky, or someone finding out they did a line or two of coke at uni. Surreal isn't really the word for living through the normalisation of everyday political manslaughter. https://t.co/SEE625y5ku
(It would make sense – Johnson might be expected to at least try to get back the £48 million he has given to the pub chain.)
Wetherspoons have been given £48.3 million. The ENTIRE music industry is asking for £50 million. One drains the NHS, treats employees like shit and does nothing to boost mental health. The other unites people in the worst of times and boosts mental health. Priorities.
— The Rock Fairy 🤘🏻🧚🏻♀️ (@TheRockFairyHQ) July 3, 2020
The decision to allow pubs to open is like spitting in the face of everybody at the NHS who has worked hard to keep the number of deaths down, despite the Tory government’s continued failure to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) or carry out tests to any recognisable standard (because Johnson was determined to outsource provision of these to private firms that failed us all). NHS staff have protested…
"It's not the time to be opening pubs at 6am"
NHS staff have marched to Downing St in protest of the government's handling of the #COVID19 pandemic.
… but it is impossible to reason with blank stupidity. That’s why this is likely to be accurate:
EXCLUSIVE: List of confirmed opening times for Super Saturday.
11:00 – Red Lion 12:00 – King's Head 13:00 – Royal Oak 14:00 – Rose and Crown 21:00 – NHS Nightingale
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) July 4, 2020
Of course, some of us might hope that certain people catch the virus, considering the way they have flouted all the other rules of lockdown…
Typhoid Nigel strikes again. Less than 2 weeks after returning from US. Not yet out of quarantine. Illegally infecting a pub near you https://t.co/crJrotlHCm
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 4, 2020
The first claim is demonstrably a lie, as Farage was in Tulsa two weeks ago today. The second claim implicitly misstates the quarantine law in England: there's no "negative test" exception from the obligation to self-isolate for two weeks – https://t.co/I2HF7BOuQghttps://t.co/MQPNhYGpig
But we should all remember that if anybody gets it at all, they will not be to blame. They are, after all, only obeying the instructions of their government.
It might make you feel superior to blame people but the government has said it is safe to go to the pub. If you have a problem with that, you have a problem with government policy.
In a few hours times there will be images of people queued outside of pubs shared widely on here. These people will be accused of being idiots. But all they are doing is following the government line. When the second wave comes it’s the government that must be held accountable.
The government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave.
— Helen STAY SAFE Holland (@helenhbristol) July 4, 2020
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This cartoon in Dutch newspaper Volksrant doesn’t pull its punches.
It shows Boris Johnson, his back to us, raping – that’s right, raping – the UK, while others including Jacob Rees-Mogg, Dominic Cummings and Nigel Farage wait their turn to do the same. The other one may be Michael Gove, according to a commenter to This Site.
Meanwhile a representative of the BBC – who looks uncannily like the granny from the old Times ‘Giles’ cartoons, tells members of the public: “Move along now. Nothing to see here.”
The situation it depicts is even worse than that displayed on this billboard:
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Nigel Farage: You know the saying – everything before the ‘but’ is meaningless.
Nigel Farage has announced that the Brexit Party is allying itself with the Conservatives in a bid to ensure the Labour Party cannot form a government.
His party will not challenge the Conservatives in the 317 constituencies where the Tories won seats in the 2017 election.
Mr Farage said this was to prevent a second referendum taking place – signalling that he fears the British public has changed its collective mind and would vote to remain in the EU after all, given the chance.
This is obviously an attempt to attack democracy. Why should voters not have a chance to change their minds – or confirm the 2016 decision?
And many will suggest that this puts more pressure on Labour – but this is ridiculous.
Labour’s challenge remains the same – to persuade the public that its policies are better for the UK than those of the Conservatives.
And there can be no argument against this.
On Brexit alone, the Tories have had more than three and a half years to “get Brexit done”, as their slogan states – and they have completely messed it up.
Their leader, Boris Johnson, is implicated in a series of scandals – over racism, Russian interference in UK democracy, support for Jennifer Arcuri, and probably other things that This Writer can’t remember off the top of my head. He is a national embarrassment.
Their economic policies will plunge the UK back into economic crisis because they haven’t done their sums properly.
Their health policies have put huge amounts of care into the hands of private companies, meaning people have to pay for many treatments now – and their availability has become a postcode lottery. In the future, we can all look forward to the possibility of bankruptcy if we need serious procedures under the American-style system the Conservatives are trying to bring in by stealth.
And their benefit system has plunged millions into poverty and despair, with thousands upon thousands of deaths related to their cuts.
And the Brexit Party has indicated its support for these wreckers.
This is not a boost for the Conservatives. It is an argument to vote against them.
And it is a huge encouragement for people to vote Labour instead.
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I’m not saying you have to suffer the same fate as the caller claimed, in order to support Brexit – but I have no doubt at all that many people across the country can sympathise with the sentiment.
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What a drip: He might be a big hit with foreign Conservatives, but this is how British people see Nigel Farage.
This is typical populist behaviour. Nigel Farage told Australian Conservatives what he thought they wanted to hear.
So he praised up the Queen, but then attacked other Royals for social justice and environmental campaigns because he knew that this would be popular with his audience.
Did he mean what he said? Who cares?
The only thing that matters to Mr Farage will be the effect his words had on his audience – that they leave their conference believing what he has told them about the UK, and that he is their ally.
He’s drumming up support from rich foreigners.
Nigel Farage has derided the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for their “irrelevant” social justice and environmental campaigns while abusing Prince Charles and describing the late Queen Mother as an “overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker”, in an incendiary speech to an Australian rightwing political conference.
Farage’s speech to Sydney’s Conservative Political Action Conference – from which media were barred – ranged across his views on Brexit, media bias and the United Nations, but he reserved his fiercest condemnation for members of the royal family, including princes Charles and Harry, and the Queen Mother.
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A milkshake on his suit: But is it better or worse than having metaphorical egg on his face?
Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly elected president of the EU Commission following a secret ballot among MEPs, the BBC reported.
She was confirmed by a margin of 383 votes to 327. She needed the backing of 374 out of 747 MEPs to win.
Among those who weren’t impressed was Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party.
This Writer has a nagging concern that the real reason for his disdain may be the fact that he has spent decades claiming that members of the Commission are unelected.
But worse was to come for the hapless Brexit braggart, as Georgina Lee explained:
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Boris Johnson and Kim Darroch: One of these men is a competent diplomat and the other is a buffoon who rarely thinks before speaking. Which is which?
The Western Hemisphere seems to be losing the plot over Kim Darroch, the UK’s ambassador to the United States.
It seems he described US president Donald Trump as “incompetent” and “insecure”, and his administration as “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional” in diplomatic memoranda that were not meant to become public knowledge.
Mr Trump has made a fuss, saying Sir Kim should be removed from office because “he is not well thought-of in the US. We will no longer deal with him”.
He has been supported by his good buddy Nigel Farage, who has called for the senior diplomat to be sacked.
It seems the leak was carried out in revenge for the ambassador’s alleged failure to promote a pro-Brexit UK.
Messrs Trump and Farage also seem well-briefed on this aspect of it, after the information was given to pro-Brexit hack Isabel Oakeshott.
Mr Trump tweeted:
….thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him. The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister. While I thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent State Visit last month, it was the Queen who I was most impressed with!
The operative part is “I have been very critical about the way the UK and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit. What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way.”
And Mr Farage said a future government under Boris Johnson, the Tory leadership front-runner, would be expected to remove Sir Kim: “If you take Boris at his word, people like Kim Darroch simply shouldn’t be around.”
How very unprofessional of them.
The simple fact is that it is Kim Darroch’s job to brief the UK government on his view of US political figures.
As a Foreign Office representative stated: “The British public would expect our ambassadors to provide ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country.”
The fault lies with the Brexiteer (presumably) who leaked the memos – not with the ambassador.
And that is why (for a change) I find myself agreeing with Conservative politicians.
I agree with Liam Fox, who said: “Malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional. They are unethical. And they are unpatriotic. Because they can actually lead to damage to that relationship which can, therefore, affect our security interests.
“I will be apologising for the fact that either our civil service, or elements of our political class, have not lived up to the expectations that either we have, or the United States has, about their behaviour, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way.”
At the time of writing – and to the best of my knowledge – Boris Johnson, who has been treated favourably by both Mr Trump and Mr Farage, has yet to comment on this matter.
Was this all a stunt to make BoJob look useful on the international stage?
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What a drip: But why is Nigel so glum? The only person harmed by this milkshake attack was his tailor.
Who’d have thought Nigel Farage was such a fragile little snowflake?
First he took offence at Jo Brand’s joke that a milkshake was too mild a liquid to throw over him and that it should have been battery acid.
Now he has attacked Channel 4 for screening a satire in which a character called “Neil Fromage”, who makes an anti-immigrant speech, gets shot in the head.
It’s possible he is still sore at the TV station for its recent docudrama about the 2016 EU referendum, which did not portray the Leave campaign in a flattering light.
I’m reminded of a routine by the late comic Bill Hicks, who said that not only would the United States be run better if the Senate and the House of Representatives were filled by people off the streets rather than politicians, but that the politicians should be marched into a TV studio and shot, live on air, as a lesson to others not to follow their example.
He added that this was just a joke and – as he was saying this in the early 1990s – nobody took offence.
In fact, it occurs to This Writer that the only people who would demand the censorship of such commentary on the behaviour of politicians are people with a vested interest in silencing others.
And, as the current saying goes, the optics on that are terrible.
For clarity: Nobody is suggesting that Mr Farage should actually be shot in the head. The worst one could infer is that anti-immigrant rhetoric is divisive and breeds hatred.
My personal opinion, as someone who has been a comedy consumer for nearly half a century and an observer of politics and human behaviour for a slightly shorter period, is that shows like Year of the Rabbit are more likely to dissuade people from harming others.
Mr Farage – poor little snowflake that he is – should be grateful.
Nigel Farage has spoken out against Channel 4 for a “totally sick” scene in the comedy Year of The Rabbit that shows a right-wing campaigner named Neil Fromage being shot in the head.
The Brexit party leader called the moment in the Matt Berry-starring spoof show, in which the character of Fromage is killed while giving an anti-immigration speech, “totally sick and frankly irresponsible”.
Speaking to the Daily Star on Sunday, Farage went on to attack the network: “With Channel 4, we have reached a point where they are so partisan politically in everything they do that they now consistently go beyond what’s acceptable.”
In the assassination scene, Fromage takes to a soapbox and says: “Immigrants infest this city they do … like a cancer. And if they take over, you can be sure of one thing.” “Far better restaurants?” a character in the crowd interjects. “Blood, blood, blood.”
A spokesperson for Channel 4 said: “Year of the Rabbit is a purposefully outrageous and heightened comedy set in Victorian-era London featuring exaggerated and ridiculous fictional characters and in this context it is clear to viewers that the actions of these characters – be they grave robbers, murderous historical preservation enthusiasts or serial killer politicians – are preposterous and not to be taken seriously.”
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