Would you believe it…Friday 8th January already. This morning, BBC Breakfast News treated us to the quite remarkable spectacle of a roving reporter demonstrating that snow on ice below can be very slippery. She didn’t fall, she solemnly demonstrated how slippery the pavement was by sliding her foot across the ice. I became ‘outraged of The Tundra’ last night, having waited patiently for Newsnight and some relief from Snowpocalypse Now to find Gavin Esler leading on…SNOW..and then bringing on some analyst to administer the coup de gras by talking about…SNOW. I have given up watching BBC news programmes and shall do so until the snow disappears.
RollonFriday can usually be relied upon to provide a laugh on Fridays. This week they discuss a fight at Clifford Chance’s Moscow office and end that report with….”Meanwhile, a corporate partner at a large UK regional outfit decided that his firm’s Christmas party was the perfect opportunity to announce his forthcoming sex change – while completely bladdered, with his shirt fully undone, and having wrestled the microphone away from the cabaret. As one witness reported dryly, “he’ll make a graceful lady“.
Liberal Conspiracy has some amusing Cameron poster spoofs…
It is a bit light on News from Tory HQ this morning. The Labour plotters are possibly down at the Job Centre and Miliband is probably doing what Miliband does…so a quick review of a few of the posts from political bloggers.
First up – Guido Fawkes: “Guido is frankly surprised with Mehdi Hasan’s latest article “In Defence of Ed Balls“. Not that the ’senior political editor’ of the New Statesman is defending the indefensible, it is his admission that “I don’t know him. Never met him……How do you get to be a ’senior political editor’ of a supposedly serious political journal without ever having met Ed Balls? Staggering.” Guido Fawkes
Iain Dale and ToryBear both came up with a post on the Hoon-Hewitt nonsense – Dale | Tory Bear
Tom Harris MP asks the question of the week about Photoshop and airbrushing: So the camera lies – deal with it
The Ranting Penguin reports: Mad Bitch In Court | This one is not for the faint hearted or for people who wish to keep their jobs if working for an employer at their office. Boris Johnson has A sweet way to enforce law and order.
Politicalbetting.com asks: Do the Lib-Dems gain most from the plot’s failure?. John Prescott states Bitterites should face secret ballot
That’s enough for now… I have to get supplies and so I am off to clear the shelves of Basil, Sherry and ready made french onion soup… to do my bit for PANIC BUYING and irritate the 4×4 drivers who are just a bit too smug for my liking generally, but particularly at the moment! I am advised that 4×4 drivers are particularly partial to the aforementioned items. I shall, of course, buy cigarettes and some wine.
Have a good weekend.
That caption is a falsehood, Sir!!!
Eric Pickles would never confine himself to one bag of chips!
He’s a 5 bags a day man (that’s how he does his five a day).
White Rabbit – Yes! He is quite an amusing speaker when he isn’t being too Tory and defensive about expenses.