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Moving the nuclear documents?Removal vans have rocked up to Downing Street this morning according to various reports
Moving the nuclear documents?Removal vans have rocked up to Downing Street this morning according to various reports
Like some latter-day strangeways rioterPity, I was hoping he’d be up on the roof with a homemade banner hoying slates at the coppers.
They'll send in a crack squad of penguins to flush him outIt's not Downing Street, it's Chequers they will have to prise him out of. He was like that with Chevening when he stopped being foreign secretary iirc...
Yeltsin was more admirableI think he chose to be called Boris out of admiration for Yeltsin.
On a more serious note (sorry) - we don't really have a functioning government at the moment, do we?
Reducing life expectancy to about 45yrs.Yeltsin was more admirable
Something that only improves our situationOn a more serious note (sorry) - we don't really have a functioning government at the moment, do we?
On a more serious note (sorry) - we don't really have a functioning government at the moment, do we?
He'll do a garden party with suitcases of wine instead.He never goes back to No 10 and doesn’t have to do the customary “leaving for the last time” photo op.
So he might not resign till the end of the millennium?I think he chose to be called Boris out of admiration for Yeltsin.
Something that only improves our situation
Yeltsin succeeded to a country in crisis. Johnson played a vast role in creating our crisisReducing life expectancy to about 45yrs.
Johnson's Covid couldn't beat
No he created the situation in which life expectancy fell. Mass privatisations. Public workers unpaid for months, professors having to go through garbage for food. Remote communities broken up because public transport - e.g. in Siberia air services, including air ambulances, weren't profitable.Yeltsin succeeded to a country in crisis. Johnson played a vast role in creating our crisis
Which two years do you have in mind, 91-93?No he created the situation in which life expectancy fell. Mass privatisations. Public workers unpaid for months, professors having to go through garbage for food. Remote communities broken up because public transport - e.g. in Siberia air services, including air ambulances, weren't profitable.
German tv did some good docs in Russia showing the effects, while our press whimsically speculated whether the russians were dying out.
Two years of Yeltsin and the one year of the second Ukrainian famine were the only main wobbly years in the last century for Russia, excluding wars, of course.
So I have been informed that he is moving a gaff in dulwich - it’s a lovely gaff tbh - but it’s like 3.5 million. How the fuck can he afford that ?
dulwich was too close for comfort, herne hil is worryingIt’s herne hill actually but yeh
Have the past couple of years taught you nothing about corruption?So I have been informed that he is moving a gaff in dulwich - it’s a lovely gaff tbh - but it’s like 3.75 million. How the fuck can he afford that ?
Which two years do you have in mind, 91-93?
E2a the entire thing about yeltsin was I despised Johnson more than yeltsin. Now for me they're on a par of despicableness
but he can't yet take credit for unravelling an entire culture, an entire civilisation.
Yeh. So what you're saying is the jury will be out on Boris Johnson for the next ~30 yearsYeltsin allowed a handful of gangsters to steal state assets on a colossal scale, hence Abramovich effectively owning the entire Russian gas industry etc. The petty corruption of the Soviet era consumed the whole of Russian society in the 1990's, not just state assets but everyday life.
During his tenure as president, many Russians went hungry. Again the gangsters were there too, selling industrial chemicals labelled as food etc.
Yeltsin built the foundations for the fascist Russia we now see slaughtering its way across Ukraine and Syria. Johnson is just a nasty little idiot. He's done some damage alright but he can't yet take credit for unravelling an entire culture, an entire civilisation.
Yeh. So what you're saying is the jury will be out on Boris Johnson for the next ~30 years
alexander boris de pfeffel johnson, the sentence of this court is that you will be taken from here to the place from whence you came and there be kept in close confinement until the penguins have arrived, and upon that day that you be taken to the place of execution and there impenguinated until you are dead. and may god have mercy upon your soul.I’d be happier if his jury was out for about 45 minutes. Enough time to elect a foreman, eat the sandwiches and agree unanimously on guilty to all 12 specimen charges…