That’s great. I encourage you to nut anyone who puts a note on your windscreen for parking across their drive.
AT LAST! It is now known what ‘Dr’ Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Trade, has been doing instead of negotiating trade agreements, which would be illegal. His department has awarded £2.4m to a variety of British music ‘acts’ in the hope of finding the next Adele or Ed Sheeran under the British Music Export Growth Scheme. Including one rather avant garde bloke, Mathew Herbert, who will be touring Europe with his experimental music to try to convince our friends over the Channel that we still want to be friends and collaborate and to convince them that we are not ‘retreating into an absurd little enclave’. This is NOT fake news. And it is a handy reminder of what irony really is.
News miscellany. Apparently Michael Gove is auditioning for the role of Chancellor by dropping references to obscure financial regulations which he has obviously rehearsed and using technical economic terms in every meeting. Toad faced twat. A Leonardo da Vinci picture has been sold for $450m (including the auctioneers $50m fees). For some reason the BBC is clearly outraged by this and has been trying to rubbish the authenticity of the painting on every news bulletin. I’m no art critic but it’s not a great picture to my eyes, but has the rarity value of being one of only 20 surviving Leonardo paintings. All the real experts agree it is authentic. Now it will live in China somewhere, probably. Two new (very similar) breast cancer drugs available in the U.K. after the manufacturers reached pricing deals with NICE. Pfizer put forward a complete numpty to talk about their product on the radio, embarrassingly poor, scared to stray from his script which he repeated endlessly. Good that they are available but the fuss is confusing and lost amidst the noise is that these medicines could give a few more months of life for women in the final stages of a particular kind of the disease. Would be celebrating what looks like the demise of Mugabe but have no belief that things will get better for ordinary Zimbabweans as a result.
In fairness, Stan, being a toad-faced twat is a pre-requisite for the role of Chancellor. I give you Lawson, Osborne, Brown and Balls as examples.
I have researched this, by scrolling through the Wiki list of Chancellors dating back to 1221 (Eustace of Fauconberg, Bishop of London I’ll have you know). Many have portraits or photos next to their names and dates. Turns out that your modest review of more recent post holders is a stunningly accurate indicator. Baby scarers, no need for a mask on Halloween, hit with the ugly stick individuals to a man. Including Pitt the Younger. Thank God there is something we can rely on. No matter what strife we find ourselves in, you can count on the U.K. having a hideous Chancellor. PS I don’t think Balls ever made it to Chancellor, that was Darling, darling. Eddie is a gorgeous lithe limbed dancer, unfit for the office.
Wine o’clock, news on the wireless, iPad in play. Useless ephemera piques my interest, all too frequently.
Germany expecting "Unconditional surrender of the UK in Brexit talks" https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...U-demands-Michel-Barnier-Hans-Olaf-Henkel-BDI
Shome mishtake shurely, this is the BDI that is going to force Merkel to unconditionally surrender because of the number of German cars they sell to us. When did the express start spreading project fear?
The BDI clearly feel German car sales are not at risk, and the UK's back is pressed against the wall. Rumour is, May will offer another £20bn to kick start trade talks. If that doesn't work, she and David Davies will be coming back on small boats from Dunkirk
