Our next unelected PM?

[a_unique_person]

Boris loses critical by-election. What a defeatist.

 

[Tolls]

Apparently it's the fastest by-election loss for a PM since the second world war.

Oh, and nice to see that the Monster Raving Loonies beat the Kippers.

 

[Archie Gemmill Goal]

I would be cautious of reading too much into that by-election result. It was a Lib Dem seat for a long time prior to the Tories taking it when the Lib Dems flatlined.

It is a positive though.

 

[Tolls]

Oh no.
But it takes the shine of Johnson's premiership a bit...

 

[catsmate]

This thread is about the new prime minister and the team he has gathered around him. And what they are doing now, and their records. The woman was in favour of the death penalty, which if applied to Bamber would be one of those rare cases of executing an innocent man.
Some but not all deem that unacceptable.
This looks a thoroughly evil administration to me, but I don't need to suffer the consequences.

There is nothing innocent about Bamber. The forensics are conclusive.

Could you please take this to the appropriate thread.

 

[catsmate]

Everyone who reads this thread will see you are wrong about multiple things. As has shown to be the case. Nobody agrees with your warped logic and made up facts. Nobody. Not one person.

Has he been shown to be correct about anything?

 

[catsmate]

I don't. In the US, the upper house is elected, not appointed. Stark difference to the country you're comparing it to. That, among many other things, made the comparison invalid.

Not as invalid as a comparison of the powers of the two houses...

 

[catsmate]

Furlongs per fortnite is a perfectly cromulent measurement.

Perhaps, but spelling fortnight with a terminal 'ite' is acromulent in the extreme and engenders in me an urge for the reinstatement of public flagellation forthwith.

 

[catsmate]

As for standardised plugs and jar lids, how come my travel adaptor plug has about five or six different plugs to choose from if 'everything is now uniform'?

Because idiot USAians foisted their 110V/60Hz crap on people.

 

[catsmate]

It's krona/kronor. But the ubiquity of plastic and contactless means I have never needed to handle any actual SEK in seven years of visiting.

I have in my wallet atm:
Euros (For civilised countries and Belgium).
Sterling (Occasional business in the UK, helping companies plan their moves out).
US Dollars (Needs must)
Canadian dollars (The North American annexe of civilisation)
Singapore dollars (Mainly because I won a S$10,000 note there once and have it)
Swiss francs (The stubborn conservatory of civilisation)

No crowns of any kind, I'm not up there that often.

I agree with you on two spaces after a full stop BTW. Not on imperial measures.

It's still annoyingly popular in publishing, especially journals. However in business one space has been the norm since monospace fonts were replaced.

 

[catsmate]

Well now they're based on electronic transitions between the two hyperfine ground states of caesium-133 atoms and c. But originally yes.

No it's not. You're more than thirty years late. And it was ⁸⁶Kr, never ¹³³Cs. That's used in the definition of the second.

 

[catsmate]

To be specific

A metre is not far off a yard. A human can easily picture and estimate a yard but is totally unable to do the same with a metre.

I suggest we dispense with this bollocks and get back to the topic.

Seems Boris united Wales yesterday, I wonder if he can do the same in Ireland today.

Well now if Mary Lou develops some courage his days are numbered.

 

[catsmate]

He does seem to be uniting everywhere....

Indeed. Support for an independent Scotland is sharply up, likewise for an independent London, while Ireland has seen support for leaving the EU drop to a historic low.

 

[catsmate]

The protesters out on the streets booing during normal working hours are able to be there because they're not at work. No doubt some of them are retired, or shift workers, or on holiday, or self-employed, or on lunch breaks.

What are your gibbering about?

No doubt in the post-Brexit rUK of yours the unemployed will be disenfranchised but that hasn't happened yet.

 

[catsmate]

Yes, I believe it's recently superseded "Won't be as bad as the Blitz." We're all eagerly waiting to see where they go next.

Dave

I foresee a time of positive comparisons to Survivors, Threads, When the Wind Blows and The War Game coming.
Though 1990 and The Guardians will probably be more accurate...

 

[Dave Rogers]

I foresee a time of positive comparisons to Survivors, Threads, When the Wind Blows and The War Game coming.
Though 1990 and The Guardians will probably be more accurate...

Possibly a bit too obscure. How about, "Brexit - not nearly as bad as a Dalek invasion"?

Dave

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I foresee a time of positive comparisons to Survivors, Threads, When the Wind Blows and The War Game coming.
Though 1990 and The Guardians will probably be more accurate...

"When the Wind Blows" had the art and soulful writing of Raymond Briggs and (the film version) music of David Bowie. Okay there was also thermonuclear war, but Brexit still can't hope to compare positively.

 

[Lothian]

Possibly a bit too obscure. How about, "Brexit - not nearly as bad as a Dalek invasion"?

Dave

I don't know where this has all come from but no-one sensible would start using a fictional world to compare to the realities of brexit.

 

[catsmate]

Possibly a bit too obscure. How about, "Brexit - not nearly as bad as a Dalek invasion"?

Dave

Ah yes.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I don't know where this has all come from but no-one sensible would start using a fictional world to compare to the realities of brexit.

Such is my confidence in DD that the moment he made that pronouncement I went and started welding spikes to my car.