Thatcher Cosplay - Can't Truss It

[Lang Spoon]

I do like the implication there that having to fly all the way to Aberdeen of all places is almost as hellish a trek as the drive through the Middle of Nowhere.

[kokamoa]

Hearing how to get to Balmoral you have to fly to Aberdeen and then drive for about an hour into the middle of nowhere, I couldn't help thinking that for a monarch who loves her subjects so much, queenie doesn't half try and live as far away from them all as possible.

In fairness though, Windsor Castle is slap bang in the middle of the high street. I went to a wedding there in 2001 and having driven up from Cornwall to my hotel the night before, I went for a Saturday morning stroll into the town centre and discovered to my surprise that the castle was literally opposite a TopShop.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Apparently air traffic control at Aberdeen kept her plane in a holding pattern for a while, which I'd like to think was because they were sitting there pissing themselves laughing saying "make it go round again, dare you", but really was because there was fog.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

In fairness though, Windsor Castle is slap bang in the middle of the high street. I went to a wedding there in 2001 and having driven up from Cornwall to my hotel the night before, I went for a Saturday morning stroll into the town centre and discovered to my surprise that the castle was literally opposite a TopShop.

Buckingham Palace is quite central too of course. Handy for places to buy tea towels anyway.

[sw2borshch]

If only. But there'll be none of that honeymoon bullshit the most credulous of the electorate usually fall for.

https://twitter.com/Mole_9/status/1567052712608497665?t=Tjh5DCF0nCarzHXwNNxT7A&s=19

[Satchmo Distel]

Isn't she in Balmoral because it might prolong her life a bit more and thus delay that extra Bank Holiday that Brits are craving?

[Patrick Thistle]

Johnson was banking on her dying in time to save his prime ministership as the rage started mounting a few months back.

[Capybara]

In fairness though, Windsor Castle is slap bang in the middle of the high street. I went to a wedding there in 2001 and having driven up from Cornwall to my hotel the night before, I went for a Saturday morning stroll into the town centre and discovered to my surprise that the castle was literally opposite a TopShop.

And a big McDonald's and a huge Wetherspoon's as well these days.

[Lang Spoon]

https://twitter.com/Mole_9/status/1567052712608497665?t=Tjh5DCF0nCarzHXwNNxT7A&s=19

Ha. I meant in polls though, not those frothing rags.

[Lang Spoon]

Isn't she in Balmoral because it might prolong her life a bit more and thus delay that extra Bank Holiday that Brits are craving?

It's where she "summers" and indulges her love of shooting the wrong animals (it's not the healthy stags that need hunting but the huge forest destroying herds chinless bastards like that have allowed to multiply unchecked for the last 150 years).

[The Red Max]

Hearing how to get to Balmoral you have to fly to Aberdeen and then drive for about an hour into the middle of nowhere, I couldn't help thinking that for a monarch who loves her subjects so much, queenie doesn't half try and live as far away from them all as possible.

I do like the implication there that having to fly all the way to Aberdeen of all places is almost as hellish a trek as the drive through the Middle of Nowhere.

I'm doing my best not to take the hump.
Aberdeenshire? The middle of nowhere! Cheeky bastards.

[Lang Spoon]

Eh I was quoting! No offence to Lt. Col. Sir Red Max of Mar Lodge.

[The Red Max]

Eh I was quoting! No offence to Lt. Col. Sir Red Max of Mar Lodge.

All is forgiven.
Now I'm off out to bag a couple of grouse for my supper, then evict a couple of tenants for some evenings entertainment.

[NickSTFU]

I've looked on three football boards today. Normally when anything political comes up (rarely) opinions are diverse and split between left and right. Today I haven't seen a single post in support of her, or her party.

I haven't looked, because it's an absolute sewer and I stopped looking a year ago, but I would bet Blue & Amber, Shrewsbury's board, has posts in support.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

The shite she trotted out about "This country was built by people with the strength and determination ... to get us through all the storms we face" made me feel we're going to get another (checks calendar) 27 months of tired old bollocks harking back to a fantasy version of WW2 now only maintained in the minds of boomers who watch The Dambusters every weekend.

Mind you she had just met the Queen, so who knows. Maybe Liz suggested she put that bit in.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Barclays, Shapps and Raab all out of the cabinet, and free to form the prog supergroup that their names demand.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

I'm doing my best not to take the hump.
Aberdeenshire? The middle of nowhere! Cheeky bastards.

Quite right, a quick look at the map tells us that it's in the arse end of nowhere, rather than the middle! .

[Etienne]

I haven't looked, because it's an absolute sewer and I stopped looking a year ago, but I would bet Blue & Amber, Shrewsbury's board, has posts in support.

I had a look and while there's some godawful shite on there, no-one said anything positive about Truss.

[ursus arctos]

"Boomers who watch Dambusters every weekend" represent a majority of the people who voted for her.

[Sporting]

Rees-Mogg responsible for Energy. You couldn't make it up.

[The Red Max]

Quite right, a quick look at the map tells us that it's in the arse end of nowhere, rather than the middle! .

Ragin'.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Ir could be worse, you could be in Shetland!

[Sean of the Shed]

Ir could be worse, you could be in Shetland!

You mean the bit of Aberdeenshire that had the good sense to float towards Norway.

[Lang Spoon]

This from someone staring over at fuckin Newfoundland.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/status/1567210089873801216?s=21&t=NTnVLxDUDvuIPXF_gmTCzg