Here's a link to my Stand up at the Angel Comedy Club a couple of years ago. The hesitations wouldn't win any prizes on Just a Minute but you might enjoy some of the jokes.
BBC News at 10 doing a ‘compare and contrast’ re speeches made by Trump before, during and after the assault on the US Capitol.
Why has BBC never done a ‘compare and contrast’ re Johnson & Cabinet members lies?
@aldaricojr
I’m so sorry - awful that you have to put up with such abusive, racist behaviour.
Did you consider discharging him on the basis that he had sufficient oxygen levels to enable him to shout! 🤔
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Could this lady stand for election please - concise, logical, excoriating defence of the reasons why we need a new Brexit vote.
It's called democracy.
(Her daughter's listening carefully😀)
Brilliant demolition of Brexit on live TV.
You’d never see this on a BBC vox pop.
Rachel in Parliament Square tells it like it is at the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
.
I gather ex police officer phoned in to Any Answers saying he thought police at Downing Street gate may have informed seniors in the Met about the parties but were told not to take any action.
Seems quite a likely scenario given subsequent events doesn’t it🤔
PM just can't help himself.
In his uninspiring speech to the Nation he just had to say that we were FIRST to send weapons to Ukraine.
It's not re being effing 'first' or 'world beating' it's about being thoughtful, strategic & working in partnership -all those qualities he lacks.
Why is the Government threatening action against France in order to free a fishing boat yet has taken no effective action over 6 years to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?
Nick Robinson interviews 2 fruit farmers - tries to get them to agree that their staffing problems weren’t due to Brexit… maybe they’re due to staffing shortages in the visa Dept? (Please say it’s that so we don’t upset the Gov🙏)
The farmers were clear it was due to Brexit!🤔😡
BBC asked a woman in Plymouth about Johnson- she responded:
“I don’t think anyone else could take over and do any better.”
Sorry…. Whaat?!!
I can think of about 25 million others who could……
Andy apparently preparing to accuse Giuffre of ‘false memory syndrome.’
So -someone who doesn’t remember meeting an underage girl,
despite having the reminder of photo where his arm is wrapped around her, is accusing the woman of having a false memory!
Run that past me again…🤔
Breaking: Johnson to visit all 27 EU countries and offer ‘offensive charm’ in attempt to persuade workers to return to a country which voted to make them feel unwelcome.
Bet that’ll go well 🤬
I’m sure
@BorisJohnson
will do the right thing and re-run the Referendum now that we can be pretty certain that there was Russian interference in 2016.
Suella Braverman says Gov has obtained fresh legal advice that it wd be lawful for U.K. to override part of the post Brexit trade agreement.
My tame Lawyer has just told me it would be lawful if we marched on Downing St and removed Johnson from Goverment.
Anyone want to join me?
Javid’s “absolute priority is getting things back to normal.”
You’d think the new Health Secretary’s ‘absolute priority’ would be protecting the health of the nation.
Just heard the most amazing rumour:
It’s alleged that the youngest person to become a Peer is very closely related to the person bestowing the honour 🤔
Woman rang
@mrjamesob
She flew back from Spain yesterday. Everyone had filled in contact info cards for tracking & tracing but there was no one around to hand them to so they just took em home.
Wonder if Gov bothered to tell airports in time for them to prepare 🤔
Rhetorical
LBC interview: Matt Frei: ‘Not 1 of 90+yr olds I interviewed was in favour of Brexit-all said EU was response to what happened in our darkest hr-that’s why we shd be members
Max Hastings: ‘Many who went to war came out as Internationals & European. I was strongly against Brexit.’
Brilliant investigation into how Esther McVey, her husband & other Tory MPs use taxpayers’ money to fund mortgages on flats they own. They let out these flats so they can claim money to pay rent on other flats.
McVey’s own flat is nearer to Parliament than one they rent out 🤷🏻♀️😡
Esther McVey, Minister for Common Sense, and her husband talk a lot about wasteful public spending. But how careful are they with your money in their own lives? We’ve found out. 👀
This popped up on annoying website stream: 'Beckham's eldest son 23, married billionaire heiress.. yesterday in lavish £3 million ceremony..
Am I wrong in feeling outraged that whilst people here & across the world live in poverty billionaires spend £3m on a wedding? £3m 🤬🤬
BBC news summary-
Soon there will be:
No gas
No carbon dioxide to preserve food
No steel
Shortage of toys
‘The flow of goods is being disrupted by delays at ports and a shortage of lorry drivers.’
Call it what it is
@BBCNews
:
Bonkers Brexit blunders bottomwards
Just strayed inadvertently into extreme Brexity area on Twitter. It was seething with rantings about Remainers.
Seems v odd for people who think they’ve won something great to then concentrate all their energy on criticisms & rantings about losers. Is this evidence of fear?
Calder: Last night pple on a flight from Edinburgh to Bristol circled then diverted to Paris due to weather. Those without passports or EU ID cards cdn’t leave station to find hotel so had to ‘sleep’ at the station.
He didn’t say this but the benefits of Brexit keep on coming 🤷🏻♀️
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if there was a process in place for Johnson to be quizzed about his lies by MPs in the same manner in which Sturgeon is being quizzed about Salmond and her Government’s procedures.
The UK is currently in a very dangerous place.
We are being governed (I use the word advisedly) by vile, crazy, idiotic, people-hating, stupid, extreme right-wingers who are driven by hate rather than logic or service.
We need them out. Now.
Until today it was about the R value. R now appears to be going up so Harries now says it’s not all about R 🤔
Is she confirming the Science or protecting the Government ?
Does Johnson turn up at a hospital or vaccination centre to annoy staff every single day (Mon-Friday obvs)
I assume it’s his way of avoiding actual work?
Kuenssberg
“I don’t think the Prime Minister will turn up today - he’s out on the road doing other things.”
She went on to say how appalling people will find it that a PM would absent himself from a debate about such a crucial matter….
Obvs I jest- she made no such comment 🤬
Johnson Quote of the week from caller to
@mrjamesob
@LBC
:
‘We must train our own workers to do unskilled work.’
Think about that for a second …..
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
👏👏👏👏👏
Newsnight interview with group of Tory voters in Bury was most depressing watch for some time. All condemned PM’s actions apart from one who had the ‘stop goin on about it & move on’ attitude. Nearly all will vote Tory again & .. well.. Starmer is boring. Give me boring please🙏
Mercer sneering re the ‘In-betweener” Keir Mather who has ‘no experience’ yet has just been voted MP in Selby & Ainsty.
In fact several commentators remarking on his youth.
Cd I remind them all of the brilliant SNP MP who will be resigning next yr as an MP aged 30 after 10 yrs
UK voluntarily chucks brilliant membership of EU which has trade deals with 50 countries. Nearest EU partner is 21 miles away from UK.
UK then signs trade deal with 1 country 9520 miles away & expects plaudits.
9520m!!
What the EFF is wrong with this Government & 1/2 population?
Sajid Javid announces that parking for hospital staff will no longer be free in hospital car parks..
So Medics - please do apply for jobs. You just have to remember to deduct (£24x5) x 48 from your annual salary for privilege of working in our hospitals (£5760)
Up yours
S.J.
I'm unclear why Lab & Lib Dems can't say:
'Gov decided to implement vote of an advisory Referendum which was won by a small margin. We had grave concerns re UK leaving EU so we'll monitor how UK copes over next few yrs. Hopefully things cd improve-if not we'll reconsider position
All plaudits to Captain Tom for his efforts in raising £33 million for the NHS. And RIP.
But No 10's flag at half mast?
Really?
Why hasn't it been at half mast all year for the 100000 people, including 1000s of NHS workers who have died from Covid-19?
Nothing to see here........
BBC quote Boris Johnson:
“This Christmas is significantly better than last Christmas in that we can celebrate together with those we love and raise our glasses to those who can’t be with us.”
He really said that?😱
How would you cope if you were very left wing parents like Liz Truss’ parents and your daughter became an extremely bonkers, bizarre, extreme right wing Tory?
I know & understand why many of you don’t listen to The Today Programme any more but you might wish to listen back to the interview with John Major at 8.10 today.
It’s the kind of interview you would never have predicted a former Tory PM could have given about a future one.
Had sudden revelation hearing that the Queen had stripped Harry & Meghan of ‘responsibilities & duties which come with a life of service.’
I had no idea other Royals lived ‘a life of service’ working 12 hr days in full PPE or fighting fires or helping people in crisis.
🤔🤔
“There are no downsides of Brexit, only upsides.”
Today we’re hearing that food prices could rise by 50%
Time to explain why you lied
@BorisJohnson
@michaelgove
Fiona Bruce keeps interrupting Stella Creasey with sarky remarks and when Creasey referred to ‘cash for questions’ scandal Bruce sneered, ‘that was under a Labour Government.’
Actually
@bbcqtt
it was under John Major’s Tory Gov. we await your apology to Labour Party.
Dear Civil Servants:
You deserve an award for having the oomph to tell Braverman to eff off when she tried to embroil you in her deceit.
We thank you
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Braverman ‘asked civil servants for help’ after being caught speeding
Roger Daltry:
“I’m not anti-European but I am anti the present way we are being governed in Europe. The whole system has been corrupted by political ego and massive government overreach.”
Thank heaven we don't have any political egos and massive Government overreach in the UK.
Trainee Anaesthetist told LBC she & many others were accepting posts in Australia rather than wait for training to resume. So that leaves U.K. with even fewer Anaesthetists at a time when 1000s more operations need to be carried out.
What are you doing about this
@MattHancock
Dido Harding wants us to end the NHS’ reliance on ‘foreigners.’
This mantra highlights difference between this xenophobic Gov & its supporters & the rest of us:
We see everyone in the NHS as either ‘colleagues’ or caring people who help us when we’re ill or needing support.
Saw TV footage of Sturgeon in hairdressers with no mask followed by footage of her wearing one. She said she forgot put it on - which the footage appears to confirm.
Funny then that the News reports today don’t mention this & try to equate it with PartyGate 🤔
To save you having to listen here’s a summary of what Sajid Javid said:
It’s all terrible but we’re not going to take any preventative action until the situation’s utterly catastrophic so just carry on as usual.
Cheers
Richard Ratcliffe on Day 16 of his hunger strike outside the Foreign Office spoke to
@mrjamesob
They discussed ‘allowing your citizens to be held hostage over an unpaid debt’ (A debt owed by the U.K.)
I find it unbelievable that
@trussliz
hasn’t come a few yards to speak to him🤬
News Flash:
BBC asked THE question. At last!
Mishal Husain to Kevin Foster, Minister for Immigration:
“Has this been one of the unintended consequences of Brexit that we actually haven’t been able to control our own borders?” (Minister blamed Dublin regulation.)
BBCQT audience member asks
“For those of us who voted to remain but respect the result of the referendum if this is just the start of the impact of Brexit I wonder if George (Useless) can enlighten us on positives we can expect going forward.”
Bruce takes 2 more Qs & moves on!😡
HS2 Boss gets paid £625000 p.a.
i.e. 52000 per month.
The majority of Nurses are paid between
£21000 & £38000 p.a.
i.e. 1750-£3167 per month.
Is that OK with everyone?
come on
@BBCNews
Local papers are reporting dozens of fishermen's lorries protesting in Central London - your headline is the 5th story and reports 15-20 lorries.
Switched on LBC without thinking and there was Rachel Johnson. Before I had time to switch her off I heard her declare sneerily - these Remainer types who want us to keep wearing masks - or sommat along these lines.
Yours ‘Remainer type.’
Sunak tells Andrew Neil that Rwanda policy is fine in context of him being son of immigrants because his ‘family was welcomed here legally.”
So tell us
@RishiSunak
How many ‘legal’ routes has Gov created for asylum seekers-aside from those from Ukraine, Hong Kong & Afghanistan?
If Vote Leave had told Brexiters (bear with) they’d need to pay vet to take dog abroad 4 months b4 hol+need green card+ queues at passport checks+suffer rise in food prices+food/medicine shortages+if live in Kent wd have area covered in car parks/lorries wd they have voted Leave?
We’ve just found out why Johnson wants to stay on as Tory Leader for a few months:
He and Carrie intend to have a big wedding bash with the venue paid for by tax payers ….. at
Chequers!
A man on the scrounge til the bitter end🤬
Did they slip sommat into Nick Robinson’s tea this morning? I usually just scroll back through Today prog items to listen to headlines & science/NHS items. And there he was refusing to allow Robert Buckland to move on until he’d responded to whole list of PM’s dodgy decisions🤔👏
Asked repeatedly whether there was a Christmas Party at No 10 and whether Guidance was followed George Freeman keeps saying “I can’t tell you about something I wasn’t at.”
He seemed blissfully unaware that these words actually confirmed that there was a party!
The Home Office contracted a private company, which is only interested in increasing its’ profits by £24m in one year, 👇🏻to manage accommodation for asylum seekers. Instead of pretending we’re being invaded
@SuellaBraverman
sort out a publicly managed system NOW.
If you were PM & yr umbrella played up when you were at memorial for police officers wd you:
a) Try to fix it once then leave it down in case you caused distraction from sober event taking place
or
a) Try fixing it by putting it up & down/peering up/ laughing/grimacing/joking?
Priti Patel speaking about potential number of people who could migrate to the U.K. from Hong Kong:
“We have to learn the lessons of the past ..... and make the U.K. welcomin.”
Yeah right.
You read that correctly.
That’s Priti Patel who has just ended child Refugee Programme.
BBC reporting a Mail on Sunday claim that 3 unnamed Lab MPs are thinking of defecting to the Tories due to disillusionment with Starmer’s leadership.
What a strange, unsubstantiated claim to make on eve of Tory Conference & for the BBC to decide to include in its’ headlines.
🤔😡
Grant Shapps keeps mentioning Johnson’s red box being at the party as an apparent defence of his boss.
I’m glad he brought this to our attention (repeatedly) as we now need to worry about the PM abandoning highly confidential documents onto the floor in a party.
Nick Watt says most Lib Dem votes in Batley & Spen will go to the Conservative candidate.
Can anyone give me a single reason why Lib Dem voters would even consider voting for a Party led by Johnson?
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