No pigs in blankets because there are pigs in Government. It’s Animal Farm all over again.
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No, pigs are intelligent.
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Well that’s true. Probably more ethical as well.
Talking of ethics how about all these proposed attacks on the freedom of UK citizens?
Quote from article by Ian Martin ( previously i think a Boris loving Brexiteer) in today’s Times:
He sounded at times like a man standing at the bar in the first-class lounge of the Titanic ordering another round of drinks and regaling his fellow-passengers with funny stories shortly after midnight when it is just about to become clear there aren’t enough lifeboats.
Worm turning?
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The right-wing Adam Smith Institute was also scathing, calling Johnson ‘economically illiterate’.
What’s happening is this…
For 30 years between say 1978 and 2008 there was a strong consensus on the anglo-saxon right around the free-market-small-state ‘neo-liberal’ ideology (which was also influential on the European mainland, but less so). Since the 2008 financial crash, this consensus has slowly broken down. Trump, Johnson and various weird alliance parties across Europe (like 5-Star in Italy) are symptomatic of right-inclined people looking for a coherent story to tell - to themselves as much as to voters.
The 2008 crash - and moreover failure to fully recover from it - destroyed most people’s faith in unregulated markets, but moreover climate/ecological breakdown - and covid - obviously demand state action big-time. Everybody knows this. The electable right is therefore now the ‘populist’ strand: big interventionist state and what might look like leftist economics. combined with right-wing social policy.
Interestingly, where neo-liberalism was less influential, for example in France or Poland, this has always been part of the right-wing deal: LePen voted for Hollande’s wealth tax, while the then centre-right rejected it; the Truth & Justice party in Poland combines pretty much what Johnson means by ‘levelling-up’ - economically assisting white working-class communities - with hateful ‘culture war’ and immigration policies. Make no mistake, it is an electorally powerful cocktail. Johnson risks alienating free-marketeers - the Tory party is just as fragile an electoral alliance as Labour - but neither Johnson nor Trump should be lightly dismissed - they will probably prove more in touch with reality than the Adam Smith Institute.
Ed Davey, called the speech ‘the most out of speech by a Prime Minister in decades’ and said ‘the conference may as well be happening in a parallel universe’.
Jane you have a typo there - it was “out of touch” - difficult to disagree with.
Until the UK voting public start to really suffer from shortages and big spikes in living costs nothing will change no matter how many anti Johnson threads are posted on SF. 
Every little helps 
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I don’t think changing anything in the UK is the purpose here, is it? There are a lot more relevant social media platforms that folks would use if they were interested in that. Here, it’s more about interesting discussion and improving understanding,
So true…
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I replied to an e-mail I received from the NFU and said that until they show the public pictures of pig carcases from the pigs that have had to be slaughtered on farm, nothing will change.
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His latest attempts to spike progress against legislation supporting the safety of women is bound to backfire as at least half of the voting population are women.
Two of the most ghastly and despicable people in Government lock horns. Meanwhile, on the streets, nothing gets fixed.
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At least he has BBC under total control:
As long as hospitalisations and deaths remains low does it really matter though?