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Plant roses.

You shouldn't believe fuck all you read.

I think my favourite line from ewerk's Bruce quotes above is "I can’t remember a good afternoon coming back to Norwich." If you've never once managed to go to somewhere like Norwich and get a performance out of your side, maybe you ought to have the self-awareness to think that football management isn't for you.

Well done, you're the perfect customer.

But that's just a normal picture of Hatem Ben Arfa?

Good to see the pro-Remain parties being pragmatic and harnessing the flaws of FPTP to their benefit for once, at least. The combined vote share of the losers is irrelevant in that respect, even if it is a concern - but then you've got the Boris bounce and an MP with local popularity (despite his misdemeanours) to consider. Under other circumstances the Tory vote might well have been more depressed. The worry is that in a GE, a no-deal-ticket Conservative party would do the same kind of deals with Farage - stand aside in some of the places where UKIP were making progress in the north pre-2016 to clear the way for the Brexit Party to beat Labour, say (and in some desolate Kent backwater so Farage can have his seat at last), and get similar favours in return. Hopefully the Tories are too pig-headed to allow that to happen, but all bets are off these days.

But as for the problem at hand, it's the same issue as usual: too much is owned by rich cunts and boomers for anything to ever change. Politicians never do anything to upset older home owners, land owners etc. because they know it's an instant vote loser.

I refuse to engage on principle with anyone who thinks "homeownership" is a word.

Now I see what our level of discussion has been missing.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/8xzwe5/boris-johnson-prime-minister-gossip Pretty much as expected, then.

That's no way to talk about Eamonn Holmes and Murray Walker.

Yep. We're officially at war with ourselves. Good times.

The Jews next, then he'll be a shoo-in for the job.

I think someone just needs to believe in Britain a bit harder

So this is going to be the week when Mike Ashley can rightly say he is getting the hang of this business lark.

Brings a new meaning to "another one bites the dust".

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Sounds like a paella shite to me.

2 weeks today I'll be by a lake in a small and mildly dull Swedish town.

I was going to say, this is just the start of it. Don't forget the hand of Bannon is looming over this whole thing. Best belt up for a fun ride...

CT got one right! Why did it have to be this one?

Meanwhile, this on Johnson is equal parts brilliant and depressing: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/boris-johnson-ham-of-fate/