Starmer sounds exactly like Boris Johnson, so satisfied with his own rectitude that he just can't comprehend how it looks to everyone else.
As Johnson eventually resigned, so will Starmer, but only when he's exhausted everyone's patience.
To walk beneath the march of pylons. To walk beneath the electric ley of the land. To follow The Hum. This was our calling. This was our navigation across the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, we were transformed. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Child of The Hum #VOH #Pylons
If Keir Starmer did resign, he would only be the fifth prime minister in a row who failed to survive a full term.
A version of Mark Zuckerberg that only interacts with itself. How will they be able to tell the difference?
A completed crossword puzzle, alongside all the clues.
That's crossword No. 21.
21 of them! I better not do any more lest I be accused of having a hobby.
A fully complete crossword, with the final answer "STAYLESS" to the clue at 4 down: "No guys go out any more."
"No guys" means as in ropes on a tent, so "stays", and there being no "guys", therefore it is stay-less.
And to "go out any more" - any more than you already do - is to "stay (in) less". Thus:
No guys go out any more (8)
STAYLESS
There was a crossword, and the last of all was 4 down: "No guys go out any more (8)
STAYLESS
(explanation follows)
His attack on HPV vaccines cites his own shitty, useless book; completely false, evidence-free claims of “significant risks” of the vaccine; and “parental values”. I guess by the latter he means that some parents value their kids getting cancer because they weren’t vaccinated.
My policy would be this. If we have to rejoin Europe because we can't afford not to, then people need to be told that. All Starmer is going to do with his stagnant Englishman secrecy is recreate all the same problems all over again.
But Starmer doesn't do that. He decides that the best thing to do is deceive people all over again.
Rejoin Europe in all effect, but lie to everyone about it. How the fuck doers he think that is going to have a good result?
So how would you respond after Brexit? You would think, if people voted to leave Europe because it felt like something imposed on them without including them.
You would decide that next time be honest what you're doing.
I would do that. You would do that.
Let us consider. What was the problem so many English people had with Europe for the last fifty years?
No. The REAL problem
It was the secrecy. The sense, however real or imagined, that decisions were being made behind everyone's back. That was the one big problem.
I sometimes think English politicians are the stupidest creatures on the face of this earth
An ongoing crossword, now showing the clue for 1 down: "No guys go out any more." The answer is an eight-letter word whose known letters are: Blank, T, blank, Y, blank, E, blank, S.
We are the last of the crossword, and today is a conclusive 4 down:
No guys go out any more (8)
An ongoing crossword, now showing the answer "BEFORE" to the clue at 1 down: "A spell together with a pro to get the lead."
"The lead" being in front or "BEFORE".
Thus:
1 dn. A spell together with a pro to get the lead (6)
BEFORE
"A spell together" is a "BEE" as in spelling bee, a communal activity such as a spelling contest. Mostly (entirely) an American thing, but well known enough to qualify as a crossword clue.
"With a pro to get" means "FOR" - pro - goes with it somewhere.
Yes, the crossword. Yesterday was an impudent 1 down:
A spell together with a pro to get the lead (6).
And the answer was:
BEFORE
(explanation follows)
An ongoing crossword, now showing the clue for 1 down: "A spell together with a pro to get the lead." The answer is a six-letter word that goes: Blank, E, blank, O, blank, E.
And that brings up today in the all-knowing crossword.
1 dn. A spell together with a pro to get the lead (6)
Thus:
16 ac. Favourite falling with Grand National change in store (6)
SATANG
"Favourite falling" was SATAN, and "with Grand" adds a "G" on the end to get "SATANG."
"Satang" is the sub-unit of the Thai currency, the Bhat, being 100 satang to the bhat. And so the "change" you might be given in a "store".
An ongoing crossword, now showing the answer "SATANG" to the clue at 16 across: "Favourite falling with grand national change in store."
Yes, the crossword. Now, yesterday was a perky 16 across: Favourite falling with Grand national change in store (6)
And the answer was SATANG
(explanation follows)
An ongoing crossword, now showing the clue for 16 across: "Favourite falling with Grand National change in store." The answer is a six-letter word whose third letter is "T" and fifth letter "N".
And so today's clue in the ever crossword, and a topical 16 across:
"Favourite falling with Grand National change in store (6)"
So they get high - MIGS
And "move" when put on to "RANT"
Thus:
They get high and move on to rave (4)
MIGS
"MIGS" refers to the Russian fighter planes, getting "high" as in flying.
"And move on to rave" means that if the answer is written "on", as in "over" a word meaning "rave" it would then form another word for "they" who "move." - "They . . . move."
And those who move are MIG -RANT -S
RANT = RAVE
An ongoing crossword, now showing the answer "MIGS" to the clue at 8 down: "They get high and move on to rave."
And today in the crossword is yesterday. And yesterday's clue was 8 down: "They get high and move on to rave (4)
And the answer was MIGS
(explanation follows)
An ongoing crossword, now showing the clue for 8 down: "They get high and move on to rave." The answer is a four-letter word - "M", blank, "G", blank.
And so today's clue in the all-weather crossword, and a gratuitous 8 down:
They get high and move on to rave (4)
An ongoing crossword, now showing the answer "Consignify" to the clue at 9 across: Mean to have a quiet word with one's close family."
And then "one's close family" means "I" has "close family", being the letters F and Y that (en)close the word "family".
CON-SIGN-I-F-Y
First of all the whole definition:
CONSIGNIFY - to "mean" (something) when taken along with something else.
"To have" someone is to cheat or CON them.
A quiet word with" means literally quiet, as in use sign language, or just "SIGN"
It's yesterday in the crossword, and the answer to 9 across:
"Mean to have a quiet word with one's close family (10)"
CONSIGNIFY
(explanation follows below . . .)
An ongoing crossword, now showing the clue for 9 across: "Mean to have a quiet word with one's close family." The answer is a ten-letter word with fourth letter "S" and eighth letter "I".
And so, today's crossword clue is a breezy 9 across:
Mean to have a quiet word with one's close family (10)