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Gove was on BBC breakfast confirming that yes, Charlie did understand the thought process and that is exactly the intention with a hamster cheeked smiley face

until this has any verification it should be treated with caution.

Naturally. But also needs digging into to see if there is indeed a story the voting public should know about.

Worst. Drug. Courier. Ever.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/11/australia/australia-meth-van-sentenced-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Worst. Drug. Courier. Ever.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/11/australia/australia-meth-van-sentenced-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Ha, what a moron... A friend of ours got her work van nicked down in Sydney... It was later used in a baby formula robbery, yup, BABY FORMULA!?!?!

For a while there was a baby formula shortage in China. No one trusted the locally made stuff so foreign made formula was at a high enough premium to make it worthwhile to steal in large quantities.

No one trusted the locally made stuff

It's as if they were put off by the high melamine content.

True or not. It would be absolutely legend if Kier dropped it surreptitiously into PMQs.

"And would the Prime Minister comment on the stories this weekend about Russian... (long pause while he looks back at his benches and smirks) fiddling of the US election?"

I rode, sort of, down New Bond Street a little over an hour ago - there's a fucking street car rally going on there. Parked up on both sides and bumper to bumper the whole way down, crowds on the pavements watching, several police cars at the end. As if their fluoro-lit, tank engine exhaust, personalised number plate shit wagons weren't reason enough to put all those bastards in an internment camp anyway.

"If anarchy comes, it'll be Mad Max-style."

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/13/uk-government-plans-to-remove-key-human-rights-protections?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2kMfS2xQep43FxInFPYdJbwIE8u8JMS_NnaYy1JjcHyntoJ4k59ZiDcik

Now this, cos of the few asylum seekers actually reaching the UK. USA style culture wars, it's not that nobody warned the UK this would happen with Boris.

Only pure Anglo Saxon welcome here.

Old bill decline to mount a close pass operation:

Supt Steph Brighton
@SuptBrighton

Regrettably Op Close Pass will not be taking place. Officer safety is my priority and a health and safety assessment by a specialist who has spoken to other forces has determined the risk is too great. I cannot deliberately put officers at risk

https://mobile.twitter.com/SuptBrighton/status/1305471453811310592

Wat. PSNI city beat police does them in Belfast, so far they are all in one piece.

They put a cop in plainclothes on a bike, follow them with a plain PSNI car and then check if motorists keep their distance.

Unless the roads there are so dangerous you can't even do that? In that case you have bigger problems with motorists...

The super reckons she can't explain in a tweet but health n safety.

Snake 'not a valid face covering' say Manchester Transport bosses.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54163293

Good quote from the spokesperson

A Transport for Greater Manchester spokesperson said: "Government
guidance clearly states that this needn't be a surgical mask, and that
passengers can make their own or wear something suitable, such as a
scarf or bandana. "While there is a small degree of interpretation
that can be applied to this, we do not believe it extends to the use
of snakeskin - especially when still attached to the snake."

Read bandana as banana...

Pearl necklace gets laughed at in the Commons for ignorance of the European Commission.

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2565c1e0-ff3b-44b5-a705-be8802e34039?in=15:22:50&out=15:24:40

errr, pretty sure they're laughing at her saying the European Comission is unelected

errr, yes? Or were you expecting her to be unaware of the existence of the EC? That would be silly wouldn't it?

Perhaps I should have said ignorance 'about' the EC.

No I just took your words literally as I didn't think you'd refer to a woman as "pearl necklace", do you also call the guy "blue tie"? I see you've since edited your post too.

A "blue tie" wouldn't be descriptive. I'd use "bow tie" for example yes, or "dinner jacket", or "top hat". "Pearl necklace" is a similarly a bit of a Tory mainstay.

Council of the European Union: Ministers of member countries
European Council: leaders of member countries.
European Parliament: members chosen by the electorate of each country.
European Commission: The executive branch led by the College of Commissioners (one per member state), comprising about 32k civil servants spread across numerous Directorate-Generals.

We don't complain about not electing the heads of Her Majesty's Civil Service.