The Sunday Rumble: 29.4.18

Oh no, say it ain't so!   Peter Oborne, writing in The Mail,  issues an ominous warning to the effect that Mrs. May is unlikely to survive as PM through the Autumn and that there is a very great chance of an election before the year ends.  We will be faced with the choice between the uneatable and the indigestible!

 

Trump vs. Obama:   Peter Oborne also points up the fact that that ineffable goofball, President 'Obamarama', was given the Nobel Peace Prize (the most useless and over-rated bauble of all time) within months of entering the White House despite the screamingly obvious fact that he had achieved absolutely nothing.  On the other hand, President Trump seems to have kicked some sense into 'Fat Boy Kim' who is now making 'nicely-nicely' with his hitherto sworn enemies in South Korea.  So what are those 'yerdy-durble' Norwegians waiting for?

 

HELP! I'm a TSB customer:   I never asked to be a TSB customer because I was a Lloyds Bank customer for years before and quite happy but then, following some machinations in the City, a large chunk of Lloyds' customers were hived off into TSB.  It all worked perfectly well until TSB, and its new Spanish owners, decided they did not want to keep paying Lloyds for the use of their computer platform and decided to switch the lot over to their own system - all at the flick of a switch, or, as the late great Tommy Cooper used to put it, "Jus' like that!'  Result - a monstrous cock-up which means we have not been able to access our account and presumably our standing orders are not being paid.  Such fun! 

 

As is only right, fitting and proper!   That pukka British gentleman of the first order, (Sir) Lewis Hamilton, romped home to win the Grand Prix in Azerbaijan, er, well, perhaps not quite 'romped' but as everyone else crashed, bashed and hashed their efforts, he won!  Hoorah and now he edges into the lead of the world championship.  I'm sure Her Maj will have been duly impressed - hint-hint, Ma'am - and (Sir) Lewis's reward will not be too far 'orf'!

 

Read and inwardly digest:   The proto-mother of my children (when she replies to my generous offer!), Ms. Janet Daly, applies her considerable intelligence to the mad, mad, mad, mad world that we occupy today.  I will not attempt to paraphrase her commentary, instead I will copy and paste her summary of contemporary Russia:

The collapse of the great ideological contest – which was, at least, comprehensible – has not made way for a common understanding. It seems instead to have produced a set of simultaneous nervous breakdowns. Russia, traumatised by losing, in a peculiarly ignominious fashion – no bang, just a whimper that reverberated around the globe– the most momentous battle of ideas in modern history, as well as the Soviet empire that went with it, has gone technically insane. The Kremlin now fills the terrifying void with a barrage of absurd fantasies and lies so preposterous that they would have been beneath the dignity of the old Communist regime. Like a neurotic malcontent, it occupies itself with an anarchic campaign of disruption for its own sake, designed to produce confusion and distrust among its adversaries – but with no clear idea of an outcome. Perhaps, given Russia’s historical paranoia and ever-greater isolation, this should not have come as a surprise.

Dammit, the lady writes like a dream and is laser-accurate!  She is also exceedingly scathing on the subject of Trumpian America.

 

Just for 'SoD':   File under "Ve haf veys of making you obey!"  From The Telegraph today:

EU member states that fail to live up the European Union’s democratic values could find parts of their EU subsidies being “frozen” until they mend their ways, The Telegraph understands.

This proposal will be unveiled by EU Commissar  oops, sorry, I mean Commissioner, Günther Hermann Oettinger.  Golly, I wonder where he comes from?

 

Well, ladies, you do all support 'Meetoo':   So I suppose it's only fair that when ladies, so to speak, hurl buckets of poo around they should aim a large proportion of it at each other.  In that spirit, a lady 'comedienne' attending the White House Correspondents' dinner fired a barrage of low-grade insults at the lady who is currently the White House Press Secretary nearly reducing her to tears.  You want 'Meetoo', you get 'Meetoo'!

 

No more rumbles today

 

Comments

[ortega]

About the TSB mess.

https://youtu.be/sAn7baRbhx4

[AussieD]

I thought "yerdie-durbles" were the Swedes. The Norwegians are really quite different.

Yes I know the Nobble Prize [no it is not a spelling error] is Norwegian but every country is allowed at least one eccentricity. I mean you have at least two - Jezza and that indescribable dwarf and Speaker of the House of Commons, Marcow.

I won't even start to list ours.

[Bob]

You're a little ahead of the situation, David. So far all the PRNK have delivered are some nicely staged PR events. This will make the 12th time they've promised to denuclearize.

[Whitewall]

O'bama was awarded the Nobel PP simply because his skin is brown and his politics red.

[David Duff]

Gracie, Ortega, it made me smile but not for long!

'Yerdie-durbles' are whatever I decide they are, AussieD, and I am a whimsical fellow!

Bob, 'according to reports', they have invited foreign experts to inspect their (non)nuclear (in)facilities!

You might say that, Whiters, I couldn't possibly comment - but I can and do nod my head vigorously!

[Whitewall]

Günther Hermann Oettinger? A fine Italian gent I'm sure!

[Bob]

David, the lady columnists in your life have turned on you:

"Ann Coulter: Trump is a ‘shallow, lazy ignoramus’"

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/380612-ann-coulter-trump-is-a-shallow-lazy-ignoramus

In the immortal words of Popeye, "Wimmens is fickle."

[JK]

I'm given to understand David, TBS bought out a controlling interest in Typepad. And now you tell us you can't access TBS either?

[jimmy glesga]

Whitewall, always found it strange that people who have waged wars or manufactured munitions get a peace award.

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, a bit odd for sure. It seems there is usually one precondition for peace to break out...War! In Obama's case, he simply descended from the Left's "Mount Olympus" as god among mortals.

[jimmy glesga]

Whitehall, It would seem that having a War Award would not go down well with the Holywood sect although they make megabucks from it.

[Loz]

Shame Oettinger can't call Blighty out for its illiberal deportation of the Windrush immigrants (no mention of that scandal in D&N, btw, the newborn People's Republic of Blighty airbrushes like the best of 'em), and the murder of Alfie.

Oettinger ain't no angel of course - see section entitled "Controversies" ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Oettinger

See, that's how you get the best out of politicians: Smash them into each other like atoms, and you get to see the truth inside from the particles that fly apart.

You voted to remove one very useful particle accelerator and collider from the gamut of our protections on 23rd June 2016.

SoD

[backofanenvelope]

I didn't realise Alfie was murdered!

[Loz]

BOE,

Alfie wasn't dead already before the decision to turn his life support off was made by the NHS, otherwise how come he died several days later?

Therefore, he was alive when that decision was taken by the NHS. And the killing took place in spite of the fact that the parents had a cost free (to the NHS) offer of continuing his life elsewhere, which was denied them.

Under such circumstances I would suggest murder is an appropriate categorization of the killing?

SoD

[jimmy glesga]

Loz, the Windrush is just the usual political diversion. The problem was identified two years ago and not one politician stood up in the Commons nor did a trade union representitive cry out. The real scandel will be when false claimants for compensation are identified and then we will have the usual rascist claims.