Florentine_Pogen Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 8 minutes ago, Lurkst said: A job for life in the Lords? £315 per diem plus expenses. Snout, hands & feet embedded in the Westminster trough. Some might say The Blurt played a blinder.......................... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/12/boris-johnsons-best-party-excuse-is-hes-even-dimmer-than-we-feared "This was the prime minister’s questions at which Johnson finally ran out of road. An outright denial that he had been at the party on 20 May 2020 would no longer keep him out of trouble as there was anecdotal evidence he was there. So all that was left to him was to come up with the best possible excuse and hope it would buy off a few of the more gullible Tory MPs. Only the best possible excuse turned out to be a crock of total shit." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 41 minutes ago, eez-eh said: Top tier c**t Jacob Rees-Mogg has just called Douglas Ross a “lightweight figure” live on council telly. Let them rip each other apart. Kirsty Wark with the “oooft” in response. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 This genuinely couldn't be funnier. DRoss somehow, incredibly managing to make a bigger c**t of himself than Johnson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 In fairness JRM has probably never opened a bottle of water in his life so it's not unsurprising he didn't know what he had to do. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Amazed to see the Tory party treating the Scottish Tories the way they treat Scotland. Wonder if said Scottish Tories will actually notice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser Soze Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 20 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: Amazed to see the Tory party treating the Scottish Tories the way they treat Scotland. Wonder if said Scottish Tories will actually notice. They would probably agree that they're irrelevant tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: They would probably agree that they're irrelevant tbh. Murdo Fraser will still manage to blame the SNP though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 The Tories don't give a toss about anything except obtaining and retaining power. BoJo is safe meantime. Nobody, none of them will want to take over at the moment. Tax rises, energy prices, inflation and the realistic prospect of a hammering in the forthcoming local elections in England (they regard Scottish local elections as irrelevant) mean nobody would touch replacing the PM with a bargepole (although having a bargepole as PM would certainly be interesting and a damn sight more respectable.) Better to wait till the summer, when folk are getting used to the new taxes, and the local elections are over. Then the knives will be flashing around like a Scream movie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Murdo Fraser will still manage to blame the SNP though I heard Fraser once slipped and fell after stepping in some dog shite. It was on holiday with his family. A real blow for him, however he dusted himself down, cleaned his shoes and steeled himself for what had to be done. The trooper he is managed to put out a tweet blaming Nicola Sturgeon for it. What a plucky young chap Fraser is, holding truth to power like that. Edited January 13, 2022 by Ric 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 10 hours ago, The Master said: Kirsty Wark with the “oooft” in response. You can watch this video again and again - during the next indyref campaign. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 It'll be interesting to see how Scottish Tories react to JRM's view of the Scottish Leader. Something along the lines of "Oi! Mogg! Get tae F! Aye, Dross is a useless c**t, but he's OOR useless c**t!" Pistols at dawn and trebles all round! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) Douglas Ross is lightweight must be one of the few things that Rees-Mogg has gotten right. I've seen the man at FMQs and lightweight is entirely accurate, the man is hopeless. Abusing colleagues to try and save his boss shows him up as another who is nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. Never a smart move and only serves to debase the party. This might have worked when the Brexit war was in full swing, but it won't when Johnson is despised. Edited January 13, 2022 by Michael W 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 So, yeah... as everyone is pointing out this is a really awkward position for the Scottish tories. Hilarious and avoidable in equal measures. Mogg's rebuttal will be repeated again and again and I really don't see how Ross or any of his MSPs have any ground to stand on when they are forced into supporting, and promoting, their head office's policies and personnel. What is interesting is that no Scottish tory MPs have backed Ross, at least not publicly. This image of Douglas Ross has just been released... Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Oh, and in case anyone else missed it, the barb from Gove was quite a doozy in terms of subtlety. He claimed that Ross' comments come from him being "in Elgin" effectively implying he is so far removed from where the decisions are made he may be out of touch. That, it has to be said, is SNP PR gold, along with the many PR riches that will be mined from this car crash. It's essentially saying the far flung corners of the country are irrelevant, which feeds directly into the national narrative. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Just had a phone call from a pal. He said "imagine the riddie you'd get being called a lightweight by Lord Snooty? Be interesting to see if Sturgeon humiliates Ross by being overly kind to him at FMQs. That would probably hurt him more than if she went for the jugular. Something along the lines of "awww, the poor wee bairn" . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 In the HoC, Wishart just invited JRM to apologise to Ross and the Scottish Tories. Courageously, with due regard to the important role Scotland plays in the UK, JRM made no mention of it in his "reply". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 13 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said: In the HoC, Wishart just invited JRM to apologise to Ross and the Scottish Tories. Courageously, with due regard to the important role Scotland plays in the UK, JRM made no mention of it in his "reply". But he did also say Quote [Ross] holds office within the Conservative party. It seems to me that people who hold office ought to support the leader of the party. That is the honourable and proper thing to do. Does he know what honourable means? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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