Friday’s are teaching days for me this term. I like teaching. I like students. They seem to like me. Although that said, I am not sure that Friday’s, teaching and students always mix as well as they might. Students seem to have an MP’s attitude to Friday afternoons: they’d rather be somewhere else.
Is it the Friday or the teacher?
It’s a mess.
And what is astonishing is that after a week of debate it is effectively the same mess. We went nowhere.
What a way to run down a country.
If the government was a company it would be in administration.
If it was a local authority it would have been relieved of its responsibility.
And if a public agency its management would long ago have been sacked.
But a government can just blunder on. And without an effective opposition also able to hold its party together that’s what it will keep doing.
And so the rundown will continue.
This from the man who wants government to have more power….
It’s all rather silly. The board are squabbling but the public finances look good. The government is paying interest on its debt. Who would force the company into administration? In fact, the real worry is what they would be doing if they were not so distracted by Brexit
Is he paid by the apostrophe?
He doesn’t want this government to have more power. He wants his government to have all the power.
If theres’ such a thing as a society or federation of Greengrocer’s Murphy should be elected it’s honorary president.
He’s part of the shrill never ending chorus of doom mongers telling mps that the world is going to end when we brexit – the supermarkets will be empty of food, gangs of wild dogs will room the land, hospitals will have no medication etc and he wonders why mps (not known as being exceptionally clever at the best of times) act like rabbits caught in the headlights of an approaching car. He thinks he’s part of the solution when he part of the problem.
With regard to his lectures, one only has to look at his blog to see that the only comments allowed are ones that agree with him and tell him that he’s wonderful. I imagine that in his lectures, if he doesn’t get a round of applause every time he finishes a sentence that he starts insulting his students with his usual put downs. At the end of the lecture he probably won’t physically let them leave until he get’s a standing ovation.
Does anyone know anyone who knows someone who might know someone who has actually been to one of his lectures?
@Diogenes
Don’t worry, despite Brexit, they are still engaged in banning things. The latest is gas central heating for new houses from 2025, because they would really like us to all live in the cold and dark.
‘If the government was a company it would be in administration.
If it was a local authority it would have been relieved of its responsibility.’
Y’all don’t use subjunctive mood in English English?
Or is the Grand Courtier illiterate?
He’s illiterate, of course. But if I were to use the subjunctive, it might, nowadays, be thought a little pedantic.
Hey–in case you lads hadn’t thought on –with Gab Dissenter Murph has an unbannable comments section whether he likes it or not.
Let the fun begin.
Littlejohn:
The problem that our so called elected representatives have is that this wasn’t supposed to happen. The referendum was held because UKIP was becoming a threat and the way to eliminate that threat was to have the British public vote to remain in the EU. They weren’t supposed to vote to leave, that wasn’t in the script.
We had a very rare discussion on Brexit in the pub this evening. One of the louder members of the group had an Ecksyian rant about how we’d been betrayed by our own
MPs and how the EU had shown itself to be evil.
He’d voted Remain.
He explained he had been an EU Fedarlist but watching the EU bureaucracy over the past 2 years had opened his eyes.
Gamecock: Y’all don’t use subjunctive mood in English English?
Certainly we do and what jars for you in Capt. Potato’s usage offends my ear too. He’s old enough to have been taught this kind of thing at school but it is pretty widely recognised that he is impervious to knowledge that he hasn’t himself expounded.