John Cotter

I’m sorry, but if large corporate chains can’t support themselves without state intervention, maybe they shouldn’t have so many pubs…

Like what’s the point in targeting obvious Traitors early on? It’s just a game of reducing numbers and saving yourself. Better the devil you know.

The utter beautiful chaos of the Irish Traitors. The first series in which contestants finally say the quiet or unspoken things out loud.

I think the safest route is an omnibus bill depriving all peers of their titles. That would head off all future problems of this sort.

Coming soon, The Resignation Letters of Peter Mandelson, Vol. I.

Mandelson must have a drawer of resignation letter precedents.

French absolutist monarchy: “let them eat cake.”

British constitutional monarchy: “let us sell them cake at a significant mark up.”

“I think about the Roman Empire at least several times a day.”

“Oh, I should introduce you to my friend Mary Beard.”

“An expert on the Roman Empire? No way, what a nerd.”

Matt Goodwin now wears a leather jacket and shades, and smokes, and is not a nerd. So no nerd stuff for him like reading, or conversing beyond a few monosyllables, or even thinking. He’s his own man, but also a man of the people. And you’re a nerd for reading this.

The search for proper Brexit must continue until morale improves.

“I told him we’ve already got one” meme.

French castle scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. King Arthur and his knights looking up at the castle.

The Express: “Please go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest, and if he will give us food and shelter for this night he can join us in our quest for a proper Brexit.”

Something to do with making Britain like one of those nostalgic English villages that never existed you see in paintings on jigsaw boxes.

What’s that, a free port in a tree?

The Express, alone on a raft, raving mad, floating down the Amazon, searching for the Eldorado of a “proper Brexit”.

I’ve only ever passed through, so cannot make a fair comparison. All I know is one can’t call Limerick Junction Godforsaken, because that would imply God’s presence there at an earlier point in time.

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As I’ve said before, if it was Aristotle who said that nature abhors a vacuum, it is definitive evidence that he was never in Limerick Junction.

If ever you find yourself in a roomful of chalices and one of them is the holy grail, but you don’t know which one, don’t choose one covered in jewels. Jesus was a poor, humble son of a carpenter, so it’s unlikely he was drinking out of super expensive goblets.

Does a Matt Goodwin imply the existence of a Matt Badlose?

It’s been a long day and it’s all I’ve got, you animals.

And that type of voter may vote Farage despite what makes him utterly objectionable, not because of it (though the because-of-it voters are also out there, of course).

And that impotent-feeling vote against liberal democracy merely gets attached to the first available totem of protest, which in Britain is Farage.

The likes of Farage can say/do the most stupid and crass things, even be openly supportive of Trump (regardless of how unpopular Trump is), because they do not require people to vote *for* them per se. They merely require people to be so angry or hopeless that they vote *against* liberal democracy.

On a semi-serious note, the Conservative Party is simply losing politicians who were never really conservatives in the first place.

Breaking: tree on Conservative Party logo defects to Reform.

He always looks like a kid at the back of class who’s been woken up suddenly and doesn’t have a clue what’s going on.

And then pretty much became one himself 😬

I’m not sure attendees at historical battle enactments are a typical constituency though.

My daughter asked me who I would have supported, which I had to admit was tricky. Obviously, my intellectual sympathies are with Parliament, but then I am also an Irish Catholic and the parliamentarian re-enactors kept shouting ‘no popery’ (or ‘no pot pourri’; I wasn’t sure). 3/3

a sizeable number of the pro-royalist crowd misunderstood the assignment/neglected to suspend their disbelief and place themselves in a 1640s context. We’ll never know, I suppose. /2