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Now they've pulled us from the Union, I assume they're still hard at work, renegotiating and compromising to guarantee a pain free transition?

No, they've given up on all that Europe nonsense. They're now becoming experts on Covid and have formed the Covid Research Group. Believe it or not, they're keen on reopening everything, regardless of the human cost. Splendid fellows. Lead CRG idiot Baker is apparently unhappy with Johnson's handling of the pandemic and is threatening a leadership challenge. 

They appear to be moving against Johnson having turned their sights on dry-fu*king the NHS and bumping JCB shares, all those graves aren't going to dig themselves.

I can see the appeal of a new crusade. A bit of distance between them and brexit right now as the noose tightens on our supply lines is probably looking like a good idea. they'll let closet remainer and part time PM Bungle take the blame for not implementing the one true glorious version of brexit.

jk

Steve Baker, the evangelical Christian, climate change denier and opposer of same sex marriage? Surely he doesn't have an opinion on Coronavirus as well!

Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed yesterday, in parliament, that fish are happier being British .

They will will probably be trying to find another target they can exploit for the benefit of their hedge funds.

With their smart blue passports, of course they're happier (and superior).

The fact they're confined to a box in some UK coastal town, brain dead and beginning to smell despite being freezing cold, just makes them like the rest of us.

They’re the Maoist wing of the Conservative Party. Their doctrine is one of continuous revolution intended to bring about cultural change in the U.K. Hence they weren’t really concerned about the economic effects of Brexit. And there will always be another cause to hang their efforts on. 

Thought this was a thread about rowing?

His leadership challenge seems to have lasted 90 minutes, right up to a grovelling sycophantic tweet about Johnson’s leadership. With that sort weakness he’d be a prime candidate for the next Tory leader. 

I think they’ve morphed into the Covid Research Group now, to be utter cnuts over that. 

Ah, you beat me to it. 

They probably are with half the fishing fleet tied up in port!

One of the many tentacles of the monster lurking behind back bench influence on Covid policy.

I would very much like an hour in a room with the CRG.  Well, actually I wouldn't any more than I used to like cleaning blockages out of dad's old septic tank, but like that cursed job I think it would be time well spent.

I've got mates who make dog food and glue who could help you out immediately afterwards.

Yes. I don't think this will go that far now after Baker's "Isn't Boris wonderful" statement, but it is not beyond belief, if the challenge did start to look credible, that Boris would change his view on restrictions to fit in with his personal prime directive of "What is best for me".

Dave

One of the problems we've had with the orange tw*t is that we have tended to think that all ultra-right stuff goes on over the ocean.

The monsters are among us. In a similar way to Trump, they would be absolutely unaware that a wintertree lecture was even happening, because to them, it simply doesn't matter. If it appeared that their cause was suffering, they would simply look for more lies that would redress the balance.

It's not as simple as correcting their arithmetic. The main issues to address are the UK sovereignty one, followed by the "we are great, Queen Victoria still rules" one, the "financial industry underpins our economy" one, and the "we are descended from the Vikings and can make our own rules" one. It's a nightmare of nightmarish proportions.

The best thing that can happen, in my view, is this. We are like "feck off, the EU". The EU are like, "No. YOU feck off", and screw us into the ground with the worst agreements they can dream up, plus a dollop of bureaucratic foulups and Dutch intransigence with the ham sandwiches, etc. Then we put all the ERG types in a field ...

That did feel good. /rant

The erg - the force needed to give a mass of 1 gram an acceleration of 1 cm per second per second...

That's a dyne.

An erg is a unit of energy, not force.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg

Nearly, Erg is a unit of energy not force. Although it's not really an SI unit, it's based on centimeters and grams so I can't see the ERG supporting it. 

I hope you get over your Covid infection soon but cough on a few for me.

Whoops - it's been so long since I used ergs and dynes!

Good point. The calorie is French, too. British Thermal Unit, then...?

A good suggestion. Or they could stick with Joule, he was British after all, but his legacy seems to have been stolen by the French. They can't have their cake and eat it apparently.

On units, a shed is 10^-10 of a barn. 

how does that relate to other traditional units such as cricket pitches or Wales ?

As a prominent member of the Bullshit Research Group, I can say with some certainty that Research Groups are groups of bullshitters with no research.

Is your dad's old septic tank available to put them in ? Preferably not cleaned out ...

I like to think he would have had a much better solution.

Erg. What you exclaim when you stand in dog poo. 

The ERG - Economically Rogering Great britain since 1993

I was thinking about that. What we should do is take back control of units named after Britons. So we should redefine the definition of the joule, watt, newton, etc.

We could go back to inches, feet and yards, but they're Italian really. As are pounds, shillings and pence .. What did the Romans ever do for us?

A septic tank is a suspension, rather than a solution...

I was thinking more mass grave type of thing, them being dead when they went in purely optional.

Exceptionally Rich Gits...?

Funnily enough, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is starting an entire re-run on 4Music tonight... I think you'd probably need the likes of her to finish off Rees Mogg and his blood-sucking ilk...