Well, unless you’re French, Welsh or Scottish….
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Friday 30th August
| France v Italy | 20:10 | Premier Sports 1 |
Saturday 31st August
| Wales v Ireland | 14:30 | Channel 4 |
| Georgia v Scotland | 17:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
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Ovally Balls 
ticht,
JRM and Johnson are fucking terrible speakers and all. A terrible advert for Eton.
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Seems they have not impressed anyone.
Spaffer calling for an election, and Corbyn sensibly declining to back that unless the no-no-deal is passed first.
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“Government defeated by 27!!”
Not many Prime Ministers have been able to say that of their government’s second day of Parliamentary proceedings.
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Ugh. Bojo is so obviously insincere and full of shit in nearly every utterance
Not sure if that’s worse than conviction types or not
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TomP (nicked from the G’s live blog):
I’m going to regret staying up to watch – well, read – all this, but it’s too good not to savour.
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Anna Soubry saying JR-M was made to sit up straight by the vote was funny
I liked also when she said said would not be shouted down by a man
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Actually I thought Soubry’s comment was petulant – but I’ve only read the text and not heard her tone of voice – or indeed, what shouting-down occurred.
But this really isn’t the time to make that kind of point; I doubt the shouting was Because She’s A Woman. Certainly not entirely.
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So what does this mean? No parliamentary shut down?
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@Craigs – quite possibly a shut down for an election.
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Thaum, the way I heard it was exasperation on Soubry’s part, she was sick of being shouted down by men who act differently towards men
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@Ticht – do they in this instance though?
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@CMW, but unless one has been in the position of being shouted down for being “identity A” then it’s difficult to say how one would react if one was shouted down yet again, it might be understandable to think it was because of what you are, rather than what you are saying (the shouting down started before she even spoke, btw)
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Tory MPs who voted against Johnson tonight have had the whip withdrawn – including Phillip Hammond, who is now no longer a Conservative MP
I can’t remember anything like this ever happening before
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@Ticht – just as it does for Corbyn etc. Which she of course knows damn well. That said the shouting seems to be done mainly by the men and is a result of it being a predominantly male environment so in that sense she has a point. They are though largely a particular type of male for the most part. “I won’t be shouted down by a bunch of public school wankers” might be more appropriate.
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@Ticht – it’s a Stalinist purge!
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Speaking of which the list of Labour MPs trying to resurrect May’s deal is an interesting one. Plenty there from the Labour right.
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Bob Kangaroo update: I don’t quite understand why but Bob was playing rugby in Germany yesterday and a German lad smashed Bob’s leg so Bob went to hospital and can’t run very fast. We’re all keeping our fingers crossed here.
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Tomp – I hope he’s OK. In the meantime can he hop around the pitch?
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Sorry – couldn’t resist the obvious implication.
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England for Italy
15 Anthony Watson, 14 Ruaridh McConnochie, 13 Joe Marchant, 12 Piers Francis, 11 Jonny May, 10 Owen Farrell (c) 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Mark Wilson, 6 Tom Curry, 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Jamie George, 1 Joe Marler
Replacements: 16 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17 Ellis Genge, 18 Kyle Sinckler, 19 Charlie Ewels, 20 Matt Kvesic, 21 Willi Heinz, 22 George Ford, 23 Joe Cokanasiga
Good to see Coochie get a run out and manu rested.
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Where’s that one being played Craigs?
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St James park
I am going
Very twitchy about another run out for Billy
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Cool, that’ll be a fun day out. Imagine that team will put quite a few points on Italy.
If I was Eddie I’d run hook Bigly at HT after running up a decent lead.
Are Ewels & Kvesic in the WC squad?
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UF – nice. Enjoy that. I agree with Chimpie that BV will probably be hooked at half time. Should be a good game.
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“You’ve made the decision, it’s done… It’s a great country – just get on with it.”
Shane Warne
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There’s not enough dancing Soviet soldiers in any of our lives
https://mobile.twitter.com/communistbops/status/1168570221763977217
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Did it embed this time?
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No Ewels nor Kvesic in the squad. Nor Marchant.
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Was Kvesic even in the larger, initial squad?
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Ewels and Kvesic aren’t in the squad. Not sure what the rulez are here
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So slow to breakdown
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Maybe no one else has noticed.
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Looking forward to seeing how well Overton takes his window of opportunity.
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jeez craigs, soo sloooooow
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Am a prop
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Dancing soviet soldiers. what a morning it’s turning out to be.
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Fatty is in deep shit now.
He promised to deliver Brexit ‘come what may’ by the 31st October and now looks incapable of doing that and instead is likely to be forced to request a humiliating extension, providing Farage’s mob of bigots with the perfect ammunition to once again take aim at the country’s foot.
This purge of veteran Tory MPs will alienate moderate Conservatives and any pact with or attempt to outflank the Brexit party will alienate all but the radicalised pensioners and working class immigration obsessives. Worryingly / pleasingly there are already a lot of ‘I will never vote again’ comments going up at the usual cesspits. Massive boost for Lib Dems if he follows that path, It’s also likely that a full blown ‘psycho Dom’ tantrum (more is to come, I fancy) could offend much of the electorate’s sense of fair play and general decency, if Brexit hasn’t already consumed it all.
All they have right now is to try and goad Corbyn into an election and paint him as too scared to agree to the battle. Or, he could (as Cummings has alluded to) use the UK veto to block his own extension request, but that way lies protest and disorder on an as yet unforeseen scale.
Problem is, anyone with half a brain knows that the smart thing to do is to refuse to vote for an election and leave Fatty to lie in his soiled bed, looking weaker and more humiliated by the hour. Even that old fool Corbyn is starting to look statesmanlike in comparison to Fatty and it has only been a few hours.
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Even that old fool Corbyn is starting to look statesmanlike in comparison to Fatty and it has only been a few hours.
It’s a worry pro.
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God does exist
https://t.co/HqgvuMKAWp https://twitter.com/SethAndrewsTTA/status/1168470040313847808?s=17
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https://t.co/HqgvuMKAWp https://twitter.com/SethAndrewsTTA/status/1168470040313847808?s=17
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Fuck
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Slow and shit.
Am a prop.
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Fucking 79 as well.
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Pretty good shape for an old’un.
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But enough about me.
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Sitting in my hotel in Lagos, waiting to leave for the airport and the flight home tonight. Pretty mundane, you’re all thinking as you wipe the elevensies crumbs from your lips. I’m supposed to be here until the weekend, but yet another surge in xenophobic violence in South Africa, largely targeting other African small traders in Jo’burg and Pretoria, has seen massive outrage here and growing anti-SA sentiment, meaning we’ve been advised to leave the country.
Our government’s response thus far has been to insist it’s simple criminality, not xenophobia. As they did in 2008 when it erupted in the township of Alex and as they have every time since. A more useless, self-serving, venal and corrupt set of rulers (they abandoned any pretence at ‘governing’ years ago) you’ll struggle to find outside of an actual war zone. I’m sad, I’m sickened and I’m disgusted at both my fellow South Africans and the dismal government we’ve elected.
Nigerians have a bad rep in many countries, from drugs to scams, but in Nigeria I’ve never treated with anything other than warmth, courtesy and respect. It’s infuriating and devastating in equal measure.
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At least you can enjoy your weekend deebs.
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Anyway, clutching at straws attached to rainbows, it means I’m blathering away on here and watching the cricket, which I thought only started tomorrow.
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It seems that some workman have cut the Internet cable to the office. No access to the network, phone or emails. I might be going to Farnborough or wapping. Or home.
No one knows.
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