ROUND, LIKE A CIRCLE IN A SPIRAL, LIKE A WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL…

I wonder if one day that you’ll say that you care, if you say you love me madly, I’ll gladly be there, like a puppet on a string.

Having at one point condemned Boris Johnson over party gate and called for him to consider his position, Douglas Ross changed his mind on the basis that while there was a war on, this was not the time to change prime minister.

Clearly, Douglas is not a great student of either current affairs, or indeed of history, otherwise he would have known, although there is, indeed, a war on, and it is in Europe, Britain isn’t actually fighting in this war. Like most other countries in Europe and the USA, Britain is helping, but no British troops are on the ground, fighting.

Unlike say,well, all of the examples in this article. Most notably and recently, Britain changed prime ministers in the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan. In all of which, British Troops were involved.

You spin me right round, baby right round, like a record baby, right round round round…

However, today, Douglas appears to have seen the error of the error of his ways (does that even make sense?).

Here’s Boris, at a work meeting. You can’t help thinking that if the NO 10 staff didn’t drink quite so much at their meetings, maybe, just maybe, we wouldn’t be in so much of a thundering bloody mess.

So, having seen photographs of Boris at one of the parties he wasn’t at, or at least if he was at, that he didn’t know it was a party or that he was at it … and anyway, all the rules were followed (that’s what happens by the time your on your third bottle)… Douglas has made a statement.

So, are we back to this being a disgrace and sod the war?

He hasn’t been quite so bold as to call for him to go m(given that he probably wouldn’t, and then Douglas would probably be removed himself), but goodness me, he is a crosspatch.

So comforting to know that, in these hard times, when inflation is soaring, wages are static, electricity and petrol are unaffordable and there is a shortage of food, that we are in such capable hands.

27 thoughts on “ROUND, LIKE A CIRCLE IN A SPIRAL, LIKE A WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL…”

    1. LOL. The Tories could do a two hour concert.

      I’ve just seen this from Peston:

      Robert Peston
      @Peston
      ·
      4h
      Important additional detail about
      @itvnews
      scoop pictures of the PM drinking at Nov 2020 leaving do for his director of comms: the police have fined some who were at the party. It was therefore an illegal party. No explanation from Met about why they didn’t fine .

      Oooops. It’s ok to have the whole thing rigged by having your health secretary’s brother do the fines… until, unfortunately, a disgruntled civil servant, who did get fined, remembers that he has some photographs on his phone and wonders why YOU didn’t get fined.

      Dumbo.

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  1. As far as Ross is concerned,the old saying
    “Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth
    and confirm it”
    applies.

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  2. “However, today, Douglas appears to have seen the error of the error of his ways (does that even make sense?).”

    Nothing about Forres Gump aka Dross makes sense.

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  3. Another song for Dross’s 1922 Committee letter would be the Hokey Cokey, “In, out, in, out, shake it all about”.

    Dross really isn’t a party leader. He barely cut it as a county councillor. In Moray!

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    1. Good choice of song there, Iain.

      You make a good point about Dross’s capabilities which could well be applied to most of the rest of them.

      As we’ve noted before Johnson limited people who could be stand to those who were prepared to sign up to his Brexit deal, no matter what.

      That limits the field and loses most of the people who are really bright.

      From the woeful Raab and Truss to the utterly appalling Dorries. They are all unfit for their jobs.

      When Johnsopn decided that Carlaw had to go there was no one to replace him in Edinburgh and the only MP who could string a whole sentence together was Ross.

      Not they had to replace him at the Scotland office by a lord because all the MPs in London were even dimmer than Alistair Jack and the best they had in Scotland was Murdo of the Queen’s Eleven.

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  4. In England with my relatives and their views haven’t changed, indeed maybe even have hardened. I know it’s a very small sample, six in total, but they are still fully supportive of Johnson, and his bunch of criminal henchmen and women. Too many, what I would describe extreme views, to say, the worst of which I think was one of my brothers in law saying that all refugees, “should be executed”, or alternatively “be sent to Ryunda without delay”. So there you have it. Although I despise their views, do you think that maybe if these views are representative of opinion in England, we stand a better chance of winning next year’s Referendum?

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    1. You’re a braver man than I am, Alex.

      I doubt I could survive for more than a few minutes breathing the same air as your brother-in-law.

      It is quite amazing that Johnson even now is popular.

      But if that it the attitude that feeds back to the more reasonable MPs then there is little hope of him going.

      If he won’t, we MUST.

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  5. Straight out of 1984
    Marina Purkiss
    @MarinaPurkiss
    We have a winner…

    The best Tory lie so far

    Grant Shapps today on Sky News saying Johnson was “clearly not partying” because he’d “lost his mum”

    Which is odd

    …given she died 10 months after the party.

    And Clark yesterday lied about the meeting being set up by Ms Grey, baroness in waiting.

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    1. I used to think Shapps was just a drunk. Now we discover he can foretell the future. I wonder what Raab’s hidden talent is.

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      1. Well, we also know that Handcock’s talents lie in the romantic sphere, courting you ladies in the office.

        Truss is brilliant at pretending she’s the queen on her private plane.

        Dorries is a fair comedienne.

        Javid has a useful get out of jail free brother.

        But I’m utterly mystified by Raab…

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      2. CONFIRMED Boris Johnson to address mass meeting of Conservative MPs at a meeting of the 1922 committee tomorrow evening in the House of Commons…according to the Daily Telegraph.

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    2. He was anticipating loosing his mum?

      No joined up thinking about the meeting.

      No 10 admitted that BoJo set it up and Daft Works said he didn;t.

      Duh.

      They aren’t even good at lying!

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