Renton

I'm sorry for your situation Strawb. Must be 10 weeks since my Dad died and honestly despite counselling I don't feel much better yet. I guess it just takes time. Is your mother ill as well at the moment or are you catastrophising a bit here? That's a rut I've got into unfortunately, I recognise I need to get out of it. As others have said, take professional help and advice regarding your brother. Don't do things out of a sense of duty and don't romanticise about doing "the right thing". You do have a new life now and connections with other people. Abandoning that won't help you, your close ones, or by the sounds of it, your brother. Aye, you are going to need professional help to deal with this I think. All the best mate.

Also, if he does get these other fines, I take it they will increase in cost because he's a repeat offender? There's students in Newcastle who got 10k fines.

Well, if he keeps up with these racist distraction stunts, he'll be opening a new Auschwitz by the time the Sue Gray report comes out.

Agree totally. Avoid listening to Johnson's speech today if you can for the sake of your sanity/blood pressure. The lies and hypocrisy are something else. It's obvious the Rwanda bollocks isn't possible under the framework of the current international conventions. Which means he is either planning ultimately to take us out, or he is sabre rattling with a view to the next election, where he will again blame lefty lawyers (which he did repeatedly today). We're being gaslit to a very dangerous place. With the cost of living crisis in full swing, blame will shift more from the EU to immigrants and refugees as a handy scape goat.

The solution is obvious, let people claim asylum before passaging the channel. But there's no facility to do this. So instead they have to risk their lives and are deemed "illegal". It's ridiculous this is hardly ever discussed, at least Sarah Vine has a go here I suppose.

Not sure it is really, might get some gammons out that would have stayed at home but this sermon won't be getting any converts. I'm a bit split about my local election as it happens because my local Labour counsellor has been fucking useless for an issue I have with the council. Will still probably vote Labour though.

It is 167th in world ranked by GDP per capita. Botswana is over 8 time richer using this measure. The Uk is 26th in the World. I'm not sure what your point is, although I can guess. Also:

I would have thought his formative years would be very relevant to his interaction with the press and media in his later life personally? It's not like his background wasn't and still isn't a huge part of what he is, is it? Anyway, that's why I was asking what its like. 🖕

This speech by Johnson is frankly worrying. Attacking lawyers, he says he knows its illegal, and says we need to reform the law to get this through. I don't think its hyperbolic to say we are in danger of losing our country as we know it. Attacks on Parliament, the media, and the judiciary. It really is like watching years and years, that series was so prophetic.

We had negotiations with several other countries and territories btw, including Albania, Ascension Island, Isle of Man (!). Rwanda are the only ones who have agreed to this ludicrous inhumane scheme.

Worth watching? Read a review which said there was nowt on him pre-Spurs so gave it a swerve.

And apparently there is a shitload of material that the met is still reviewing. As the birthday cake ambush is considered the most trivial offence, Johnson's not out the woods yet.

It's incredibly crass from Curry who is proving herself to be an absolutely vile human being. The sense of guilt you have when you lose someone close to you and you are not there for them is fucking devastating. It eats away at you as you wonder how they felt, if they knew why you weren't there at the end, that they died alone. For God's sake, if for nothing else, Johnson has to go for the healing to even begin. And I'll send him my counselling bill while I'm at it.

When we moved to the present board, your first post to me (unprovoked) was to tell me to get fucked. Again, sound judgement.

Well fuck you.

There were people on the twitter thread who claimed they'd heard an earlier broadcast and confirmed "Brexit" was specifically cut out. They could be liars but the version we heard certainly doesn't indicate it. And I love you Gloom really. You were the first person ever to respond to me on toontastic (back when you were Dan with a Barry Venison avatar iirc?). Of course these were the days when you were a pot head before becoming a MSM shill.

Cutting words out of response to a question in that manner was actually a new one to me, so not sure we've had that exchange tbh.

I'm aware of what Johnson is and does because I'm politically informed. But I'm talking about interviews with tory politicians on the radio or TV here, primarily the Beeb. I showed you an obvious case of actual censorship by the BBC yesterday, by that I mean literally cutting out dialogue in an interview, and you just shrugged. That's where we are in this country.

Yeah, I thought this too and why aren't journalists bringing this up? I would ask @Dr Gloom, but I expect I will just get the Kerry Katona gif in response because that's literally the standard of journalism nowadays.

Yeah, like when they prefix their sentences with "I think the people want us to get on with the job of blah blah", or "I don't think people care about blah blah"...... You don't speak for me or millions of others, you absolute cunts.

Yeah, but that gig's fucked now isn't it? He was apparently told yesterday that he couldn't resign as that would be the end of Johnson. Why the loyalty though? I suspect Johnson will ditch him now at the first opportunity anyway, as he'll be seen as a loose canon.

What's funny about this is that this freak probably does believe NHS and teaching staff get pissed in the staff rooms, because that's the standards set by fucking MPs in the HoP with their God knows how many bars. Completely out of touch. I heard one tory MP cunt yesterday justify the suitcase of booze delivered to Downing street because No. 10 doesn't have a bar! Anyway, as predicted, he's pissed off the teaching profession, as predicted. Not that his constituents care.

Listening to tory apologists on R5 constantly minimise it ("it's basically a parking ticket") one after the other is sickening. The amount of division this cunt generates is unreal. Destroying the country from within. I hope there's something left of this country when this cunt finally goes.

Must admit I didn't find that one particularly egregious. More to come then hopefully.