So Channel 4 added subtitles claiming Johnson said the word 'people of colour' rather than 'people of talent'.

Deliberate? Conspiracy? Mistake?

Johnson is gambling the house on getting the much sought after free trade deal with the EU and all inside 11 months - he will fail on both and we will then leave the EU with "no deal"

The consolation is if/when Johnson wins, he's inheriting an even bigger mess than when he set out on his journey to enlightenment.

If he doesn't deliver a satisfactory Brexit, the right wing headbangers will never forgive him. If he does deliver Brexit, it'll likely be of the harder variety, which may set the country back decades. There will only be so many lies he can tell until people start calling for his head on a spike.

Absolutely.




Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.

They say that one flaw damns a virtuous man (or anybody else wherever they define themselves on the gender spectrum), and one virtue redeems a sinner. So i’ll say one positive thing about Johnson - he is self aware, and while he pretends to be something he isn’t, he does so in such a way that anybody who buys it can only blame themselves, imo. Bit of red-blooded victim blaming for you there. I think he wants us to be in on the joke, so i don’t think it truly counts as deceit.

It must be horrible trying to be impartial in the media in this climate. So while I might have shouted abuse at Nick Robinson, based around his time as President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, last night, he did okay, I thought. I do sometimes laugh at how aligned with my views C4 news is. We jokingly refer to it as the real news and now more or less regard the BBC political news as an adjunct of the Conservative Party media operation. When Standee points to their left-wing bias, maybe, overall, it shows they are doing their best. I suspect Kuessenberg would privately regard you, Cronus and Standee as wets... but even so.

The standard of political debate and discourse is abysmal and a national embarrassment, imo. People tend to blame the politicians, but not being one, I can largely blame the electorate and systemic failings - political, financial, legal, cultural.

I know how lucky I am to live in the UK compared to most other countries, while also I know things have been cack in the past here too. But we are making a spectacular mess of things. This election is just a fight to see who will oversee the next round of catastrophe. Will it be the Tommy Robinson-endorsed, ruthless, lying Bullingdon twat-clown of the withered soul, to whom the concept of integrity is literally a joke, or a knackered septuagenarian picked by accident by his own party, who’d quite like to go back to his allotment shed and read back issues of the Morning Star from the mid-1980s?

I desperately, forlornly hope that the next Prime Minister will be somebody massively ill-suited to the role, because the more likely alternative so appalling. Rule Britannia.