tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6528508068477400387..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: PROMISES OF PARADISE.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-22063996629088681332016-06-25T10:22:05.691+01:002016-06-25T10:22:05.691+01:00I didn't acrtually expect it, mr mongoose, al...I didn't acrtually expect it, mr mongoose, although I hoped for it, finding some encouragement in the tsunami of contemopt on the message boards. I think that, as with the Trashing of Snotty, the blogosphere is more potent than we realise and much of this will be down to cyberplaces like order-order, a malcontents' lonely hearts club.<br /><br />Great news, wodevvah. More further on up the road.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46967891752966528612016-06-25T10:16:03.732+01:002016-06-25T10:16:03.732+01:00Gloom is Action's handmaiden, mr bungalow bill...Gloom is Action's handmaiden, mr bungalow bill, it was Gloom brought this about.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39349869636466163082016-06-25T00:56:10.917+01:002016-06-25T00:56:10.917+01:00And so it begins. I said the EU would not last my ...And so it begins. I said the EU would not last my lifetime and look, I have thirty or more years left to see the gig home. Will I need three? Certainly not thirteen.<br /><br />A ground-shaking day. I am not sure any of us truly expected it - especially after the cheating and lying, and the death of St Jo - but here we are. And Boris for PM in the autumn. What larks.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-52827560698995055662016-06-24T19:54:02.940+01:002016-06-24T19:54:02.940+01:00Frank Field has it right (though he's a sancti...Frank Field has it right (though he's a sanctimonious one), this is a type of revolution against globalised political power. The liberal dunderheads are confused and dismayed which is always fun to watch. What of your mad friends in the north? Surely they know they'd be fucked on their own now?<br /><br />My gloom was misplaced, wonderful to say.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46575603037103019282016-06-24T14:46:16.389+01:002016-06-24T14:46:16.389+01:00Just a Bullingdon Boy, mr doug, who has been stood...Just a Bullingdon Boy, mr doug, who has been stood-up to. Fuck him, fuck 'em all. His mangy mrs should take heart from Tony'n'Imelda, the Cams'll still get the redcarpet treatment wherever they go, plus pensionj, plus servants, transport, security and acommodation. Fuck 'em.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87651884423490363902016-06-24T14:43:05.500+01:002016-06-24T14:43:05.500+01:00One of those erudite, old Tories, Scruton, mr sg,...One of those erudite, old Tories, Scruton, mr sg, always disagreed with him but liked to read him.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-18272954730017033442016-06-24T09:15:00.766+01:002016-06-24T09:15:00.766+01:00If I was a PM who’d proved I couldn’t win a majori...If I was a PM who’d proved I couldn’t win a majority in an election by not winning a majority in a referendum that I agreed to I’d step down too.<br />IF I was a PM who had balls I’d stay at my post, go with the majority decision and see the fucking thing through.<br />Good show old chap…when the going gets tough and all that.<br />Then who wants a PM with less than zero conviction.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80166566315756282012016-06-22T21:31:49.563+01:002016-06-22T21:31:49.563+01:00Hat tip to Raedwald for sign posting this:
http:/...Hat tip to Raedwald for sign posting this:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07flhwb<br /><br />I never thought of Scruton as an idealist, 'tis relevant to the matters at hand, but how many of our MPs conform to his Burkean ideal?SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85300439017475987562016-06-22T02:31:36.994+01:002016-06-22T02:31:36.994+01:00I often wonder about an explosion of anger, there...I often wonder about an explosion of anger, there were hints of it, a while back, with whatever they were, the English Defence League, was it, post-Rotherham, but I guess that the majority, as I was saying regarding the failure of bystanders to defend Ms Cox, have lost their balls, the Miners' Strike being the last serious challenge to Authority, unless we count the poll tax riots, but even that was a long time ago, people have grown to consumer-maturity since those things happened and are easily suborned by Stuff and Showbiz and by the Great Apple Illusion of Connectedness.<br /><br />A lot of stuff happened in Spain and Greece, which we never were allowed to see, here and we know stuff happens in France, against Muslims. I genuinely don't know if unrest is on the cards, should itn happen, though, to any great extent, I would not be surprised to see foreign troops suppressing it, a concerted NATO action against terrorism in a member state. <br /><br />It used to be a choice insult, didn't it, calling someone a recruiting sergeant for le bete noire du jour, the IRA, the al Quaedans, those who recruited the dead of Iraq and Afghanistan, though, promising them a trade and travel, hard clouts should indeed be their portion.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-155237357080182742016-06-22T01:34:24.529+01:002016-06-22T01:34:24.529+01:00It is sad about St Jo because she is now forever r...It is sad about St Jo because she is now forever ruined in death when she probably didn't doing anything knowingly wrong her whole professional life. (Such as it was.) Sadiq? FFS, as the children say. Goldsmith is an idiot cushioned by his wealth from the world but at least thinking some of his own thoughts. Slowly, and often in the wrong order. And then one must wonder just how does a new titan escape unbroken into a position of power. How can it be now? <br /><br />I begin to wonder if, just if, if Cameron has really split his party, and if the vote is catastrophically tight - I mean just the "patriarchal Muslim paedo-gang Labour votes of points North" (not my quotes) frustrating the anglo-south - just if, if, will it all fall down in violence and mayhem at Dover. I mean I might be an imbecile and not a reasonably decent and informed liberalish person, even if only to a degree. It might be true that I am economically illiterate. I might have been fooled by the Renegotiation Rag. Maybe, just maybe, it will all fall down with tumbrils and everything. But we should not hold our collective breath. <br /><br />Nice tune. We have passed this way before I think but not that version. Hard clouts is surely what they all need those fucking recruiting sergeants.<br />mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12395672933570503552016-06-22T01:14:28.121+01:002016-06-22T01:14:28.121+01:00I watched Zac Goldsmith, trying hard to strengthen...I watched Zac Goldsmith, trying hard to strengthen the MP Recall bill and thought to myself, well, rich kid or not, he's able and a bit radical, gotta be better than that NewLabour toad, Sadiq, Londonistan's very own Ian Paisley.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-90819581980213952892016-06-22T01:09:43.860+01:002016-06-22T01:09:43.860+01:00Yes, Scotland, best part of England, is interestin...Yes, Scotland, best part of England, is interesting. RuthBoy DID, in the backwash of the Referendum, have some momentum, but she no longer has, Gnasher, on the other hand, does not lead the anticipated one-party state but has thus far managed to stifle any adverse comment on the matter of her criminal cohort in Westminster. NHS Scotland, however, must surely erupt. A clinic which I attend in Aberdeen is losing its one full-time clinincian to maternity leave, she is not being replaced because, and I'm not makihg this up, because she is still being paid, she is still considered to be working there; this is the policy of our national government. A taxi driver in Aberdeen was telling me that there used to be thirty-six helicopter flights a day in and out of the airport, there are now a dozen, and for every coupla hundred rig jobs which disappear Shell has been laying off five-hundred shore based positions, No wonder the wee monster'd rather talk about Europe than the basket case which is Scotland. Oh, tourism, also is down significantly and the housing market is stagnant, especially the bigger houses, which are, of course, owned by selfish people with broad shoulders, people like me..<br /><br />I hope you are right about Cameron, better late than never. And I don't give a fuck about who replaces him. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84510734270563967662016-06-22T00:59:56.675+01:002016-06-22T00:59:56.675+01:00I would not pay Mr Sadiq to wash the hubcaps of my...I would not pay Mr Sadiq to wash the hubcaps of my car. Even if it had them, which it doesn't, and which is just as fucking well, eh? Worthless, tiresome but ultimately irrelevant. As shit upon one's shoe.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-15549251432943838952016-06-22T00:46:56.767+01:002016-06-22T00:46:56.767+01:00Ruth has no momentum in Scotland, Mr I. It is just...Ruth has no momentum in Scotland, Mr I. It is just that Labour have negative momentum. I think also that the SNP will also fall back - as a wave broken upon the shore. It is over and they know it. All else is bluster.<br /><br />It is not over in England though. And a great deal of ugliness is yet to happen in Europe. If Angela had any sense she would make it her legacy to reform the EU's direction. But while she has sense, she has not the courage. She's an Osti, a system girl, a percentages girl such as the China wonks you mention above. The same as the Thirties Stalin hags. A few dead millions or a few many more millions poorer don't matter as long as we can chatter in Hampstead about The People.<br /><br />Cameron otoh is a dead man walking and knows that he has fucked it up. He's a Heath not a Thatcher now. A Callaghan and not an Attlee.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-61776470739558164522016-06-22T00:32:05.513+01:002016-06-22T00:32:05.513+01:00I don't think Mayor Sadiq did himself much goo...I don't think Mayor Sadiq did himself much good, either, from what I've read. I didn't see him, but I always thought him a cunt, one of those pretend lawyers; shame there's not a mayoral honorary QC suffix for him.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-86185653012181363562016-06-22T00:26:14.193+01:002016-06-22T00:26:14.193+01:00I think it is close, too, mr mongoose, with the wi...I think it is close, too, mr mongoose, with the wind more strongly in the Leave sails. Should Cameron fall, of course, especially after the martrydom of Saint Jo, then the whole thing will be up in the air again,as has been the Scottish referendum, only this time, both sides will be able to claim that they were mis-vowed to, and therefore the result is the opposite of whatever it turns-out to be.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87585428500035572672016-06-22T00:21:19.140+01:002016-06-22T00:21:19.140+01:00I am sure that her behaviour in the Eurendum will ...I am sure that her behaviour in the Eurendum will have halted any momentum she had, my guess being that the Unionists who supported her will also be, in many cases, Brexiteers, and that whatever happens, UKIP will make a breakthrough, they already have an MEP.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-29707653202917502712016-06-22T00:21:07.317+01:002016-06-22T00:21:07.317+01:00It's close - apart from the postal votes.
Cam...It's close - apart from the postal votes.<br /><br />Cameron though has sown the wind of a split Tory party. He has won every battle and will lose the war after he has left the field.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-19981815067071300522016-06-22T00:10:11.112+01:002016-06-22T00:10:11.112+01:00Yes - sadly it struck me that way too Mr I - like ...Yes - sadly it struck me that way too Mr I - like she was trying to out Sturgeon the Sturgeon. I seem to be clutching at straws these days.SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39391261161859014582016-06-22T00:00:47.050+01:002016-06-22T00:00:47.050+01:00Thank you, mr verge, it may well have been re-imag...Thank you, mr verge, it may well have been re-imagined from Burroughs, yet it was a real enough hallucination. I really did see it.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-25168810447607175802016-06-21T23:56:48.446+01:002016-06-21T23:56:48.446+01:00Trying to, well, trying to just guess, beyond the ...Trying to, well, trying to just guess, beyond the polls, mr bungalow bill, I would not yet cede the field to the unGodly and the Stupid.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36719100064857015682016-06-21T23:55:08.932+01:002016-06-21T23:55:08.932+01:00I think her claim to having replaced Labour as Sco...I think her claim to having replaced Labour as Scotland's opposition has done RuthBoy no good, mr sg, made her pompous, like a proper Tory, like Gnasher, herself, no longer the NewKid on the block. And I thought BoJo wiped the floor with her, what little I saw.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85605651323143676562016-06-21T22:47:02.370+01:002016-06-21T22:47:02.370+01:00Faecalchemy? Coprogenesis? Whatever we call it, ...Faecalchemy? Coprogenesis? Whatever we call it, you're right...<br /><br />all very Naked Lunch, your insect vision. Reality has a dark sense of humour when you see it sharp.<br /><br />v.//Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89479224300070177732016-06-21T22:41:23.975+01:002016-06-21T22:41:23.975+01:00The insects, inspired. The hallucination is not ou...The insects, inspired. The hallucination is not ours, as you say, and though I think this nightmare field is lost, that has never been a reason to submit. If we keep looking at them straight in the eye they may, each and every one, eventually dissolve in front of us like the phantoms they are.<br /><br /><br />Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68699557028217626542016-06-21T21:52:32.187+01:002016-06-21T21:52:32.187+01:00Aye, Mr I, God preserve her even if she's wron...Aye, Mr I, God preserve her even if she's wronger than a wrong thing just now! I reckon out would do her good - she could surely stand the loss of 38 llbs for a week or six - I'm sure her girlfriend / wife would appreciate it - there's an upside to everything!SGnoreply@blogger.com