The Sunday Rumble: 15.12.19

Where to begin?   That, I suspect, is what Boris must be asking himself.  Fortunately, he has a small coterie of 'smart-arse' advisors around him who seem capable of thinking 'outside the box'.  According to the 'meeja' this morning, high on the list is the smug, metropolitan, Left-wing BBC.  Apparently, Boris & Co., have it as a priority.  Goody!  Now those smug, fat-arsed mandarins who have lived off my legally enforced licence fee will have to learn how to make a living out in a rough, tough and highly competitive market place.  Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of 'toss-pots'!

 

Next up, the civil (non)service:  Another 'yuuuuuuuuuuge' 'blob' that needs a major prune and re-organisation - starting with the Foreign Bribery Aid Department!  

 

A very English revolution:   No riots, no firing squads, no mass round-ups, no beheadings as we used to do back in the, er, 'good old days'!  No, this time, the usually lethargic, 'lumpen proletariat' who are much more interested in the City vs. United 'footie' match declared that enough was enough and decided to make their feelings plain.  With one massive heave, they sent a loud and clear message to the elderly Trot-lot' mouth-dribblers as well as to the incoherent juvenile 'squeakers' that enough was definitely more than enough.  In a very different context, Oliver Cromwell said it best in 1653:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!”

 

The 'Yerdie-derdi-burbles' are in trouble:   I refer, of course, to the Swedish people who threw open their doors to anyone and everyone from anywhere.  Consequently, violent crime has escalated to heights not seen before in peaceful Sweden.  According to Zero Hedge, this was mainly due to "Frederik Reinfeldt -- prime minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015 -- urged Swedes in 2014 to "Open your hearts" to the refugees of the world."  The stupidity of politicians knows no bounds!

 

Mind you, Sky News, is not much better than the BBC:   For some time now I have become increasingly irritated with Sky News of whom I was once a big fan.  Their anti-Brexit stance has become ever more clear so it was no surprise to see that they actually paid that capering, malevolent monkey, John Bercow, £60k to appear on their news coverage of the election.  He is the most heartily despised man in British politics so one has to ask what world the over-paid Sky News execs inhabit?  Mind you, I am not too keen some of the regulars, like fat, bland and boring, Adam Boulton; and 'snippy-snappy' Kay Burley whose opinion of herself is swollen  to dangerously excessive levels.

 

The Jocks are coming, the Jocks are coming:   Being a semi-Jock myself, I could put up with that but unfortunately they will be led by 'Mrs. MacWhinge' whose voice could cut sheet steel!  There is no easy solution to the 'Jock' problem.  The notion of independence from England is obviously intoxicating - and no-one does intoxication better than the 'Jocks'!   Ear plugs urgently required!

 

Still 'n' all, we can enjoy the coming Labour bloodbath:   And it will go on and on and on and then on some more!  It's a pity, really, because I do not like a totally one-sided parliament but, alas, Labour have let themselves in for this and it is essential that the moderates put the extremists to the sword.

 

Before you start splurging, Boris:   Please remember it is our money, not yours!  Yes, of course, you need to reward all those former Labourites 'ooop north' who finally saw 'the bleedin' obvious', that 'Jezza' Corbyn and his, er, 'comrades' were a bunch of dangerous but dribbling nutters.  Even so, have a care for the Exchequer and the dupes who fill it up!

 

 

No more rumbles today

 

 

 

Comments

[Loz]

Ayyyee, Gaffer, and when BoJo bankrupts the country and the Northern proles still aren't sated with cash for the jobs they've lost behind the EU paywall, Jezza's successor will be waiting in the rubble to pick up where the 203 full-on Marxists in parliament today left off.

No EU = no Marxist immune system. The 70's virus is back.

Good call 23rd June 2016 and 12th Dec 2019.

SoD

[Whitewall]

Oliver had a way with words. He knew his audience well.

[Whitewall]

"The stupidity of politicians knows no bounds!" Ordinary people suffer for it too.

[Whyaxye]

SoD:

Listening to losers' predictions of failure is one of the many pleasures available to the winning side. But it helps if they are at least credible and well-informed. Your baroque attempts to read the tea leaves on this blog put you far outside that category.

[Loz]

I lost the election prediction, granted.

Let's see if what I predicted would happen should Brexit follow through and Blighty be saddled with exclusive control by its own political class again.

Remember, the prereq of my predictions ain't happened yet.

SoD

[Whitewall]

"put the extremists to the sword"? How 'bout pass semi automatics all around and get it over with.

[JK]

https://audioboom.com/posts/7451651-english-pound-and-everything-in-london-rallies-on-the-tory-smashing-victory-brettarends-market

Speakers up (or headphones if your Saturday was anything like mine - my houseguests unaccustomed to Barney's Best)

[Whitewall]

I have recently learned via the best history book on British History entitled "1066 and all That", that the "Jocks" only entered history once they learn't how to climb The Wall.

[Loz]

Don't be nasty to Jimmy, you'll miss him when he's gone.

And the Paddies, Taffies, Londoners and home counties metros.

We'll throw our scraps over the new wall and into the hinterland when the Country-Bumpkins are feeling a bit peckish - not that much different from now, really.

SoD

[JK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCm48t0FzF8

David?

Recall t'other day your making mention of that Senator Josh Hawley on a whole post dedicating to him?

Enjoy that clip!

[Glesga]

Loz, me an yer Da could still go over the wall for our country with our zimmers. I doubt you could with your cushy upbringing.

[johnd2008]

I am watching from afar (New Zealand) as my my country of birth seems to be regaining its sanity.I take great pleasure in seeing the truly awful left getting a bloody nose and not realising why. As far as Sky News is concerned, Sky News Australia is completely different.Their presenters seem to take no sides and are equally hard on all politicians. New Zealand news is a different matter,no stone is left unturned if they can point a critical finger at Donald Trump.

[JK]

Doctor Weasel?

Bob perhaps?

https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2019/12/going-sideways-in-afghanistan-iraq-with.html

Recall my saying as regards Afghanistan "It should have been a purely punitive operation?"

Begin close attention from zero but very close attention at minute seventeen.

[Loz]

Yes, of course, you need to reward all those former Labourites 'ooop north' who finally saw 'the bleedin' obvious', that 'Jezza' Corbyn and his, er, 'comrades' were a bunch of dangerous but dribbling nutters.

You've hit the nail on the head there, Gaffer.

Effectively, BoJo has bribed the northern working class rump with our money. They would have taken the extra offered by Corbyn but for his ambiguous Brexit position and dodgy associations.

But it's a stay of execution only. They'll be back for more, and a savvier hard left leader will have your breakfast, lunch and dinner going up the M1 soon enough.

SoD

[Loz]

I did my 3 years, Jimmy, while holding down a full time job at the same time. A "dope on a rope", as some snobby cavalry officer once said to me.

That's 3 years more than those jobsworth northern slobs on the shop floor with their taxpayer funded fake jobs do these days, I'll warrant.

Taught me more about power than anything before or after (D&N excepted, of course). War is, after all, politics by other means.

I know my "cushy" station, Jimmy, somewhere betwixt snob and slob. I also know what that northern rump will do to my class given half a chance and a half decent leader.

SoD

[Backofanenvelope]

Schadenfreude. What I feel as I read the outpourings of sad remainers who have lost again!

[Penseivat]

Can't stand McDonnell's Marxist political philosophy, but must admire the man for having the courage to blame himself for Labour's failures at the polls. My pal, Tom (a Scot who thinks the SNP is led by Jimmy Krankie's evil twin) believes McDonnell is merely seeking sympathy so he will be elected the new leader of the Labour party, when he will quietly install the Marxist Momentum Movement as the party's shock troops.

[Bob]

JK,

I'm not well enough versed in military matters to have an opinion. The argument for staying in Afghanistan is keeping terrorist groups from re-forming. Not to worry, the answer is simple:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/07/22/trump-says-he-has-a-plan-to-win-the-afghanistan-war-in-10-days/

[Penseivat]

Jk,
I thought Trump's plan was to tell Hilary Clinton that the Afghan leaders have some black on her. Ten days should do it.

[JK]

Bob,

By now I'd figured you'd figured out here on D&N when military stuff comes up we're (with some exceptions) unlikely to put on offer that the stuff is a joking matter.

Still if you wish to offer me some scholarly treatise connecting Presidents to the military arts if I don't see the names GHW Bush, JFK, or Eisenhower attached ...

Wouldn't do you any harm though Bob to listen to the interview Cdr Salamander conducts with General Bolger. You reckon it "mere coincidence" that when the subject so recently got mentioned here by David your comment along the lines of 'delusion' and me saying 'people paying attention already knew' - with, follows a link to a book General Bolger wrote - that that interview just 'came outta the blue'?

[JK]

Penseivat,

We cross-posted.

So yes, telling Hillary that would very likely work.

[Bob]

JK,

I see nothing funny about the wars OR Trump. I'll try not to take it as a cheap shot to suggest that I do. You asked for a response.

[JK]

Well Bob frankly I don't see much 'funny' in either also.

I recognize of course individuals respond individually to such matters:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/09/trump-induced-anxiety-is-a-real-thing.html

Reckon when all this is over the "authorities" will have added to their DSM another category to "PTSD" - switching out the 'T' that once was reserved for the word 'traumatic' and replacing it with the word 'Trump'?

[Bob]

JK,

I don't personally feel traumatized. Having lived through the Nixon and Bill Clinton administrations Trump seems mostly like old news. The media narrative that things have never been worse is bullshit.

[Loz]

Stirling dropping like a stone - so soon already! Ding ding round 2! ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cx250jmk4e7t/pound-sterling-gbp

It's the single market, stupid! She'll never throw the towell in, God bless her, like the golden haired woman who made her, and the green lady in the harbour who made her: "Angels on our shoulders!"

Private Duff, bruised and battered, but still at your service ma'am's!

SoD