I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,831

What you can't tell from that diagram is that thanks to the trouble in America, a dollar is now worth half a rupee...

Quote: paulted @ 5th July 2016, 8:20 PM BST

Why all the bile directed at Farage for the referendum result?

I like to think we directed bile at the smug self-satisfied posturing c**t before the referendum result.

Quote: DaButt @ 8th July 2016, 11:24 PM BST

So the cops in Dallas used a robot to blow up the shooter with C4? I love living in Texas.

What have they got against Channel 4? I know it's not what it used to be.

I think we should have a whip round for this poor woman. How on earth is she supposed to survive on a paltry £53,000,000?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36749444

Olé!............

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3682545/Horror-Spanish-bullfighter-V-ctor-Barrio-gored-death-ring-stunned-crowd.html

I'd rather no one was dead and all that, but... talk about asking for it.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 10th July 2016, 9:35 AM BST

Olé!............

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3682545/Horror-Spanish-bullfighter-V-ctor-Barrio-gored-death-ring-stunned-crowd.html

Fantastic! That's what we - and Ricky Gervais - love to see or hear about. Gored in the ring?

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 25th June 2016, 1:05 PM BST

It is noticeable that Mrs May kept a relatively low profile during the referendum campaign, avoiding the insults and jibes that Boris Johnson got involved with. No doubt with a leadership contest in mind.

Mrs May is in the ideal place to be the conciliatory candidate. As John Major was when a surprise victor in 1990.

You read it here first!

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 11th July 2016, 1:17 PM BST

You read it here first!

I knew it yesterday.

Why else do you think Cameron, Sturgeon, William and Cliff were all gathered in the one place?

Quote: A Horseradish @ 11th July 2016, 3:38 PM BST

I knew it yesterday.

Why else do you think Cameron, Sturgeon, William and Cliff were all gathered in the one place?

Yes, but I knew it on 25 June - when she was still 3/1.

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 11th July 2016, 4:18 PM BST

Yes, but I knew it on 25 June - when she was still 3/1.

Oh Lucky Man.

Here is my assessment:

Part 1 of 2

MORDAUNT

One of the good bits of news concerning the announcement is that Penny Mordaunt may not now be elevated to one of the major offices of state. One of Leadsom's strongest defenders, she has been closely connected with the Magic Circle, owns many cats and once used the word "cock" six times in a parliamentary debate for a bet. If her involvement merely adds to the strange aura of supernatural adolescence around the Leadsom campaign, the additional information that Mordaunt was Foreign Press Secretrary for George W Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections places it in its full context. Liam Fox and Atlantic Bridge could hardly roll a trouser leg to it.

LOUGHTON

Another bit of good news is that Leadsom's campaign manager Timothy Loughton may not now be elevated to one of the major offices of state. Loughton has never denied that he and Leadsom were an item at Warwick University, that her nickname was "TW" or that it was unusually sexual for a woman with Christian leanings. In September 2013, Loughton was forced to apologise to former children's minister Sarah Teather after he was recorded at an event saying the Department of Education as a result of Teather was a "family free zone" and that Teather "did not believe in family" as "she certainly didn't produce one of her own". The comments made by Loughton were branded "disgusting" by Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat minister for Women and Equalities.

In 2015, it was revealed that Loughton was amongst a number of supporters of other political parties who had paid £3 to register to join the Labour Party in an attempt to participate in its leadership election. He subsequently said he had registered using his parliamentary email account and wanted to "blow the gaff on what a complete farce the whole thing is. If I'd got a voting paper I was going to tweet myself ripping it up, just to make a point about how ridiculous the whole open exercise is. In the box at the end of the application it asks: 'What are your reasons for wanting to become a supporter of the Labour party?' I put: 'To vote for Corbyn and consign Labour to oblivion for a generation' and then I got a 'welcome to the Labour party' email. I wasn't exactly hiding my intent."

In 2001 Loughton referred to then leader William Hague as "baldy and he has a funny accent". During Prime Minister's Questions on 13 July 2011, the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow told Loughton - following considerably loud cheers from the government benches and loud jeers from the opposition benches - that if he couldn't behave like an adult, then he ought to leave the chamber. Loughton was described in a briefing from the Department of Education to The Spectator as a "lazy, incompetent narcissist obsessed only with self-promotion". He is currently in an argument with Fathers4Justice about whether they climbed on his roof.

Part 2 of 2

HAIRCUT BY GORDON YATES

In April, Leadsom joked (?) in newspapers and on radio that she was quote "a fully paid up witch" - a weird remark for a Christian.The phrase - in its precise form - appears to have only been used once elsewhere and that is in a book by Gordon Yates entitled "Haircut". It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that Yates's book was on her reading list. This provides an interesting insight into someone who might have been PM by September:

SYNOPSIS

"Carl von Kurtze is the egotistical head of a pharmaceutical company based in Linz, Austria. A bleak featureless castle high in the Austrian mountains is where his other, more sinister activities are carried out and this is where his employee, William, takes his girlfriend Freya, while on holiday. Freya has a unique genome which allows her to read minds; exactly the ability required by von Kurtze to finish his experiments with human cloning and targeted ethnic gene technology. He maintains that when complete this will enable him to selectively change the Jews of Europe into subservient automatons, with no will of their own. Arab organisations dedicated to eliminating the Jewish nation and a team of wealthy National Socialist industrialists have funded von Kurtze's activities but Freya suspects that there is another motive behind this façade. By threatening William, von Kurtze forces Freya to assist in the production of a clone of Adolph Hitler and she becomes a prisoner at the bleak featureless castle.

The experiment is so successful that Hitler takes over the organisation leaving von Kurtze in a desperate situation, threatened by two tyrannical forces, the Arabs on one hand and Hitler on the other. The shocking truth is revealed when Freya witnesses the confession of von Kurtze's mother, Eva, who has secretly lived with the legacy of an incident which took place at the end of the second World War. Freya accesses von Kurtze's supercomputer and discovers the full extent of his nightmare plan. She is the only one with the ability to prevent von Kurtze plunging Europe into a new dark age and the Middle East into all out war. Eva provides the information Freya requires to stop the egotistical sinister von Kurtze, but is this the beginning or the end of the process?"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Scientific innovation has radically changed human society since the industrial revolution. The pace of change in many disciplines is accelerating and threatens to overwhelm collective moral judgement. The author, has witnessed this creeping malaise and the machinations of business during the 36 years he has been employed working for a high tech company serving the oil industry, in the shadow of Lincoln Cathedral near Polish Boston.

He is interested in society's ability to maintain a responsible attitude to these changes in a world where ego seems to hold sway and Machiavellian individuals subjugate the weakest to achieve their personal goals. Are we destined to descend into anarchy by following the example of their leadership? Can we make sense of our condition by following the teachings of one of many religions or are they just as corrupt as the rest of society?

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 11th July 2016, 4:18 PM BST

Yes, but I knew it on 25 June - when she was still 3/1.

"Shut up, Bunter!"
"Shan't!" roared Bunter. "If you fellows don't care to listen to my prescient prognostications on party politics, I jolly well shan't give you the inside oil for next October's Prime Ministerial Candidates Handicap!"
"You silly ass!" exclaimed Harry Wharton. "This is more than just politics!"
"Rot! I expect you've nothing better to do than waste time online," said Bunter.
"Well, if you're going to post here and use bad language, I'm going back to the Nets. I'm a bit more particular than you are in such things."
"You howling ass!"
"Yah!"
As Wharton departed, Billy Bunter rolled down from his cloud of sanctimonious smug, and pondered whether the Bounder would notice his missing pie.
"Well, my hat!" said Bob Cherry. "Some ass said that Boris Johnson would swill the poison chalice! But it seems as if the old reliable was snooping tuck."
"Oh, really, Cherry--"
etc

Quote: Kenneth @ 11th July 2016, 5:05 PM BST

"Shut up, Bunter!"
"Shan't!" roared Bunter. "If you fellows don't care to listen to my prescient prognostications on party politics, I jolly well shan't give you the inside oil for next October's Prime Ministerial Candidates Handicap!"
"You silly ass!" exclaimed Harry Wharton. "This is more than just politics!"
"Rot! I expect you've nothing better to do than waste time online," said Bunter.
"Well, if you're going to post here and use bad language, I'm going back to the Nets. I'm a bit more particular than you are in such things."
"You howling ass!"
"Yah!"
As Wharton departed, Billy Bunter rolled down from his cloud of sanctimonious smug, and pondered whether the Bounder would notice his missing pie.
"Well, my hat!" said Bob Cherry. "Some ass said that Boris Johnson would swill the poison chalice! But it seems as if the old reliable was snooping tuck."
"Oh, really, Cherry--"
etc

The smugfulness is terrific, my esteemed chums.

It seems to me that today's television has been taken over by the politicians with all channels fawning over and vying with each other for that so called exclusive on what the BBC called "this historical day".......................

No it f**kin' ain't. It's just another boring news day when it so happens that one wanker is swapping his money machine for a wankeress and the other lot throwing things at each other and I couldn't give a flying f**k for any of it.

So BBC, ITV, Sky or whoever you are - STOP IT!! It is only you that are interested - so stuff those politicians up your collective arses.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th July 2016, 4:16 PM BST

It seems to me that today's television has been taken over by the politicians with all channels fawning over and vying with each other for that so called exclusive on what the BBC called "this historical day".......................

No it f**kin' ain't. It's just another boring news day when it so happens that one wanker is swapping his money machine for a wankeress and the other lot throwing things at each other and I couldn't give a flying f**k for any of it.

So BBC, ITV, Sky or whoever you are - STOP IT!! It is only you that are interested - so stuff those politicians up your collective arses.

It is precisely this sort of witty, insightful analysis that has seen traffic to the BCG Forums surge over the past 15 months.