Mrs Roops

So, I come in with my Waitrose Harissa chicken and quinoa salad to go, "easy on the beetroot & goat's cheese shaker, Joe", and golly gosh there's this tired and emotional working class warrior spewing out ill-judged stereotypical assumptions replete with clichéd inverse snobbery, but no worries, nobody tells him how to think...

It appears your memory is as reliable as your research I suppose if that's a "tight fitting dress" then you're the sort of person who gets the attack of the vapours on sight of a lady's exposed ankle. -oo0oo- Whilst the good Major contemplates his sheltered the life, the rest of you should watch the vid (its only four and a half mins long) The vid will satisfy the rabid islamophobes I suppose but I think she gives a good as she gets.

Yes, of course she is. Given that your daily Kebab Shop missives would make even the Daily Mail opinions editor wince I think I would trust Ms Dooley's even-handed assessments over your London cabbie philosophising.

By presenting documentaries about social issues in a matter-of-fact-style often with herself in harms way. Sure she's got herself involved with "Strictly" and all the vacuous glitz that goes with it so lets hope she returns and goes back to the day job which she did very well and won plaudits for.

Precisely what does the £71 billion represent? Still, another remainer who proclaims that he's "had enough, I'm leaving" yet chooses to settle in the land of the billabong and amber nectar rather than the land of milk and honey he enthuses so much about. You sneer at the referendum vote on the basis that pro-brexit voters are mindless sheep. Well maybe, maybe not. It cuts both ways. On the 1st of November newly "elected" Ursula von de Leyen will assume office of the President of the European Commission, effectively making her President of the EU. The issue is that no-one outside Germany (where she was, by all accounts, a piss-poor German defence minister) has heard of her. Has her name appeared on any EU ballot paper? No. Perhaps she was the leader of the largest political alliance within the EU. Nope. Ok, was she possibly nominated by the EU parliament? Not at all, they did have a lead candidate but were ignored. The truth is Frau von de Leyen was appointed in a grubby back room deal stitched up by EU bureaucrats and nodded through by national governments, ie Germany. One would have thought the shrill voices of "let the people decide (again)" would be resonating loud and clear throughout Euroland especially by British remainers who cite upholding democracy as their raison d'etre. A sound there came none. Yeah, it cuts both ways...

That's magnanimous of you - allowing other people to use the site.

If the rebels on both sides toe party lines then there is clear blue water between the Tories and Labour. Boris has articulated his plan for the bigger picture and has no time for revisiting an argument that should have been concluded the moment the referendum result was announced. The new PM is presenting himself as a conviction politician (some would say "opportunist" and not be far off from the mark), unfortunately he is not a details person. To his credit he realises this and has taken steps to address his weak points. He is a known delegator rather than a micro-manager so he took the right steps in appointing Gove to oversee the Cabinet Office and keep tabs on a largely pro-remain civil service whose negotiators rolled over during the Brexit negotiations. Appointing Rees-Mogg to Leader of the HoC was an inspired choice, a politico who knowledge of Erskine May far exceeds that of The Speaker and that of the opposition bench.

...no prizes guessing members of the butt-hurt collective.

If ever there was an example of how petulant James O'Brien can be then have a look at JR-M running rings around him. The vid is twenty-two minutes long but its worth watching every minute. O'Brien's exasperation is noticeable within four seconds of the vid rolling. As a bonus, here's a short vid of the very same JR-M utterly demolishing the odious Liberal Democrat Tom Brake who thought he would take a pot shot at the Leader of the HoC on his first day at the coal-face. JR-M spent an hour at the dispatch box yet performed like he had been doing the job all his working life.

I merely reiterated your own opinion, "I actually rather enjoy killing...". There again, you're the sort of pratt who bitches about presumptuous naivety whilst pummelling out three presumptuous, naive paragraphs

Why Ape, I do believe you're bigging yourself up. Painting suggests skill whereas be both know you clumsily apply a spray gun on a stencil fashioned by a sixteen year old apprentice pattern-maker.

Hardly a secret, you're the sort of pompous arse who gets a hard-on who kills for fun, yes?

Well, "Killing Eve" is on record and am waiting for a taxi to meet up with friends where I'm sure we'll demolish a case or two, but right now I'm stone cold sober.

You're not exactly a bundle of laughs either...

"Fun" suddenly lost its appeal then?

I lied to save you from embarrassment, > 4cm <, know what I mean?

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This story seems to make an appearance every few months, especially on slow news days. Aside from Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells and the blue rinse brigade no one has much appetite for the legislation. Whitehall knows its unworkable, civil liberty rights organisations are up in arms due to security concerns and the porn industry doesn't trust the preferred operator who will administer the scheme and provide the software. The problem is that its a Conservative Party manifesto promise so the hope is that with an impending general election the whole sorry saga will be quietly dropped from the new maifesto. Naturally, preferred administrators MindGeek SARL (owners of PornHub et al) hope to make a killing if the proposals become law.

I guess the Tories are placing their faith in "cometh the hour, cometh the man" - its a high risk collective prayer, one thing for sure it'll make a colourful change to the Maybot style. The Twitterati and chattering classes have been making a lot of comparisons to Trump, which IMO is wrong. You won't be getting the thinly disguised rabble rousing racism (Boris, if nothing else, is a One Nation Tory) the petulant midnight tweets and part of his charm is he is not adverse to self deprecation. It will all depend in the "sofa cabinet" he assembles - it served him well as London Mayor and if he can find a Machiavellian Party Chairman to have "words of advice" with local constituency chairman who have rabid remainer MP's causing problems in the HoP. It used to be that the Conservative Party Chairman had a senior seat within the Government Cabinet and under the circumstances Boris should consider reintroducing the position. I'm thinking of Gove.

Yeah, all their rejected asylum seekers and boat people...I'm sorry, couldn't resit a facetious moment...actually, I haven't seen that but it makes sense given my earlier post about Australia losing their English speaking trade conduit into Europe in the event of a hard Brexit.

As I recall, our little spat kicked off when I asked you a simple question. What followed was you employing every trick in the book in avoiding the giving of a straight answer including the Corner idiots' fig leaf defence of Google accusations more often used to hide and deflect their own intellectual inadequacies. Colour me cynical, but have you actually read any of the books authored by "investigative journalist" that you speak so highly of?

Dunna fret, my employers had me tested. Apart from some mild psychopathy, there's nothing to worry about. First you talk about Australia's laughter, next its the world's laughter. OTOH my post said nothing or even suggested "fear of Britannia unleashed". This is all about opportunities for both countries given the circumstances that both nations are in. Consider that Australia's largest export customer by a very wide margin is China. That's fine until one realises that the majority of exports to China is iron ore and coal for smelting and power generation. There is a glut of steel and coal is fast becoming an unacceptable natural resource. Australia needs to wean itself off China and look elsewhere. It was interesting that even before the joint EU-Aussie press releases were dry, EU states started kicking up a fuss for reasons that could only be described as protectionist. Chief of the complainers were the Irish worried about the harm done to its beef market. The EU not only imposes a 30 % tariff, it also applies quota limits on Aussie beef imports. Personally I would like to stick it to the Irish for their quisling stance and take advantage of the many avenues available for both the UK and Australia offered by Brexit.

I would contend that much of that is nervous laughter. A worse case scenario facing the Australians has moved one step closer. If, and its a big if, Boris meant what he said about Brexit taking place on 31/10 with or without a Trade agreement, then Australia's English-speaking conduit into the European market has gone. This probably explains why the EU and Australia has recently announced talks about talks with regards to an Australia-EU Trade deal. Good luck with that in terms of a quick and smooth resolution if the CETA deal is anything to go by.

You've been a punter at The Corner as long as I can remember, have 2000+ posts with the current forum format and now you're claiming ignorance? Get away! Incidentally, I have no wish to cause you any further distress but you appear to be just as much a last word merchant as I am. Ha, hung by your own cliché!

Rather telling that you are so bereft of imagination that all you could do was fire off eight forum clichés in quick succession, two of them repeated. "it was so easy" indeed.