Aunty's Knickers

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

are totemic symbols dividing our ruling tribes ...

see Boris in the Graf today


in or out up or down .... where the power mongers want to put them tells a lot about there tribal affiliations ...

it seems to me that very little of our political debate in the last few decades when the population has lost interest in politics and trust in its practitioners, is about policy or strategy merely [as Kahneman or Haidt would have it] justification of pre-existing affiliations formed at Oxbridge with concomitant social groupings and career channels ..... endlessly repeated versions of the drones v the beavers v the plutos

it was not always so .... there was real ideology and venom once .... and much bigger tribes at war in politics .... now they all sit at home in the great black hole of Brit culture whilst the plutos the drones and the beavers yabber yabber and the CORPOCATS steal all the money

where are people? it seems as if less than 5% of the population read/follow the arts/do anything much .... very few now vote ... where is the mind of Britain now located .... in Aunty's Knickers?

[MrGongGong]

What a pile of utter nonsense
people like Boris because he is a buffoon who appears on TV and knows a bit about the Romans

repeating the mantra that the BBC is somehow "left wing" and "anti business" simply flies in the face of all the evidence !

As we are in for a summer of toadying "yes, you Majesty, no, your majesty" Witchell rubbish ........ how does that square with being "left wing" and "europhile" ?

[amateur51]

Is it appropriate for the Mayor of London to make these sorts of comment? - the BBC is now more in Salford than in London. Boris is not a national politician.

Or is he writing as a Telegraph hack? - I find it almost as difficult to discern the difference between the two as apparently Boris does

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it looks like a bit of opportunistic yah boo aunty sucks to me since his rival Dave will have to oversee a new appointment soon and the Coalition will no doubt not appoint a rabid right wing Tory

but Boris will not mind one bit another carving another notch of appro when the time comes innit ...

[amateur51]

it looks like a bit of opportunistic yah boo aunty sucks to me since his rival Dave will have to oversee a new appointment soon and the Coalition will no doubt not appoint a rabid right wing Tory

but Boris will not mind one bit another carving another notch of appro when the time comes innit ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Is it appropriate for the Mayor of London to make these sorts of comment? - the BBC is now more in Salford than in London. Boris is not a national politician.

Or is he writing as a Telegraph hack? - I find it almost as difficult to discern the difference between the two as apparently Boris does

What we're now seeing is the real Boris, testosteroned up, logo-imprinted, tattooed right up to the political fundamental on the sorts of issues that will make him a totem equal to Kapoor's private funds-raised erection in the eyes of the Tory right, come the day when Cameroon gets ditched.

We ain't seen nothing yet!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

but it is still just noise in the playgrounds or bust ups in the disco .... no one is reforming finance, addressing a growth agenda or actively pursuing a fairness or green agenda for example ...

[Serial_Apologist]

but it is still just noise in the playgrounds or bust ups in the disco .... no one is reforming finance, addressing a growth agenda or actively pursuing a fairness or green agenda for example ...

It's contriving the mood music

[amateur51]

but it is still just noise in the playgrounds or bust ups in the disco .... no one is reforming finance, addressing a growth agenda or actively pursuing a fairness or green agenda for example ...

These are exactly the sort of crucial issues where Boris is literally clueless - he can croon the words into the ears of floating voters but come the implementation of his plans to address them, his cupboard is bare.

[Serial_Apologist]

These are exactly the sort of crucial issues where Boris is literally clueless - he can croon the words into the ears of floating voters but come the implementation of his plans to address them, his cupboard is bare.

Yeh but it's still the mood music that matters, ams.

If you've ever had the pleasure of attending a Conservative Party cocktail party fundraiser in the suburbs, you will hear the impotent cheerleading whenever the leadership is devoid of ideas or solutions: "Goddamit, something's got to be done about it! I don't know what, but something" It's the Tory grass roots battle cry, their willing subordinate excuse for replicating Arnhem, going over the top. We see it on here from one or two. And in response from the roomful of glass clinkers? "Bravo, young man, that's the spirit! Yes, yes, harrumph, that's what we need - something to be done about it. More people with backbone running the show, what? Thank you sweetie - G and T if I may"