kevinjohnsonmbe

Don’t know what to say mate.

James O'Brexit was whaling on about Boris being on holiday in term time when he gets a massive school holiday when parliament is out of session. Very much like all those people that are deeply disparaging about teachers having the whole Summer off. Of course the likes of James O'Brexit would be the first to jump on the outrage bandwagon in defence of teachers being unfairly labelled as work shy dossers because they have the whole Summer off - which of course they don't, but lets not let the truth get in the way of a remoaners tears. In exactly the same fashion MPs aren't "off" work when parliament is in recess. You could even make the case that they work harder in the constituency than they do in Westminster after all, all they have to do in Westminster is sit there.

Phew...... I thought I was in the frame again!

Who are we talking about now.....?

Like a war?

STOP ❌🛑⛔️❌ saying its MY idea! It's not my idea, it's not my ideology, it's not my desire.... You're gonna get me disappeared!

Is it a death throw - or just business as usual though? It's not massively different to the internal chaos (and overt anti semitism) that swept through (and in large part remains just below the visible surface) in the Labour Party. I don't mean to deflect any criticism from the Tories by saying that, all I mean is they are all the same. The amount of people apparently clamouring for a PR system is also a joke. Where were they for the 2011 AV referendum - yes 32% no 68%? And don't they realise? AV / PR gives ALL fringe parties a look in - not just the ones they like....

Takes us way back to one your long ago comments J. Something like how can idiots be allowed to vote I think it’s a matter of ‘balance’ The idiots on one side cancel out the idiots on the other side and that this happens up and down the range of extremities to deliver a mainly moderate outcome. Depressing to think it’s only equal amounts of idiots that keep us just about safe….

****************ing shush will ya knock knock….. Gone…..

It’s not my idea!! Let’s be clear about that!! I’m not publicly declaring a preference for an uprising. There’s no subversive here (honest 5 watching) What about the Shetlands attack though…. Eh, what about that?

Alan Johnson - greatest PM Labour never had…

Will they never learn? Fix the outcome before you start on a course of action. Last time they let the membership do the final cut, they won’t make that “mistake” again. Although this inexorably takes the party even further away from the membership and definitely further away from the nation.

I love Cyprus - apart from military stop-overs I’ve been on holiday several times as well. Great place.

Yome bang on the money treacle! One of my fave memories is the Cyprus decompress stop on the way out of a SoH patrol. I took a gang from the ship up to Akrotiri for a quick 2 day acquaint and static line jump, followed by glider flight around the island then into Ayia Napa for a bungee jump and a Chinese meal. Ship sailed home, I stayed on in Cyprus and spent a week at the drop zone doing climb outs and crazy shit with the chief instructor in the mornings, diving the Zenobia in the afternoon, then out on the piss at night.....

Alright sweetheart, I was only pulling your leg.... You'd win because while you were pissing up your weekends in a hippy protest bus I was in far off lands spreading the Empire and taming the natives...

Don't judge others by your own standards you slack ass 🤣

Step away from the Victoria sponge cake Mrs Jones!

Mate I'm just saying - 400 years is as 5 minutes, but a blink of the eye of a universe, where human existence is like nothing in comparison to the whole. Against that perspective 400 years since the English civil war is so small a period of time as to not even be measurable. I'm only putting it out there, I'm not advocating or even seriously suggesting it might happen - I'm just saying, when measured against the current usage of the word "unprecedented" that a military coup or perhaps a mutiny are not without precedent. Ergo - already unable to qualify as "unprecedented" in a world where "unprecedented" has become almost "anticipated." We are, after all, only 2 ¼ centuries since the Spithead mutinies and only 79 years - a singe lifetime - since the Tyne Tees (50th) and Highland (51st) Divisions downed rifles at the battle for Salerno. And the WI - a formidable force! Just ask Tony 🤣

Yes mate, you have over simplified it and you’ve massively over stated the relevance of a single human life span. Less than 400 years since the English civil war - ½? ⅓? of the life cycle of an Oak? Get a sense of perspective beyond a single human life span which is the default for so much human decision making but which is patently ludicrous. 400 years - that is literally **************** all when measuring human history and behaviour and that’s BEFORE you add the technological changes into the equation.

I hear ya…. But your examples are of those days not these days. What I mean is, over relatively short periods of time, human behaviour has the potential to change immeasurably - exponentially. Example: just a 100 years ago, 880,000 (6% of the UK adult male population) willingly walked into the kill zones of German machine gunners on a sense of ‘duty.’ Technology, awareness, access to info (whether genuine or otherwise) all of these things have changed beyond recognition in a 100 years. The rate of technological change is accelerating beyond the ability of humans to quietly adapt. When it reaches a critical mass there will be a Big Bang - ✈️ ↘️🏙 You say Strangeways, I say poll tax protests. You say Brixton, I say anti war marches. We’re on a curve mate, where it peaks or peters out who really knows but suddenly, apparently out of no where, (unlike the French) the Brits will take more than can be realistically imagined, then, all of a sudden, boom, the WI are slapping on camo cream.

Here’s the thing eggs, what would it take then…. Government in turmoil ✔️ Markets react ✔️ economic crash ✔️ Public sector pensions unpaid….. That was closer than you might realise… Bank of England intervene against government policy ✔️ Utility bills off the charts ✔️ Food prices already at 10% inflation ✔️ You are only ever 3 days away from supply chain failure and empty shelves So when there’s no food, no heat, no light, no money and the civil unrest starts and there are millions of ex forces, coppers, firemen, nurses not getting the pensions they earned, who is going to maintain order?? 3 years ago you’d have watched “contagion” and thought - that was a good movie, scary, never happen, I’m off t’pub. Bit different now though. The 3 days to civil unrest scenario has been part government planning for at least a decade, I’ll see what I can pull up from the files. if you think it is outlandish and impossible why do you think there has been a contingency plan for so long? Bigger brains than us see it as a distinct possibility. I’ve always thought the error in the plan is the expectation that HM forces will step into the public order vacuum to restore order. Think about it, it doesn’t necessarily have to be an active military coup - it could simply be the refusal to suppress a just uprising.

Far right? What is that again….?

So, it turns out the Major General (retired) Rupert Jones gained his notoriety for breaking lockdown rules to cheat on his wife so perhaps not quite the moral compass the country appears to need after all. Shame he didn’t inherit his father’s self less (arguably foolish) leadership which gained him the posthumous VC at Goose Green.

What sort of question is that? Well, like, obviously….. Is you a like, a 5th columnist or what? (note the IP of this one Mr Bullman, we may have an early candidate for the salt mine) Is you French??