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17-01-22, 10:04 AM | #1 |
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The ultimate deflection
Dorries attack on the BBC was not enough to deflect the partying debacle (another one announced today) so the ultimate doomsday deflection was released.
It looks like Gavin Williamson will get a knighthood. His credentials (any bias is purely intentional ) Suggesting the UK use troops to solve knife crime
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17-01-22, 06:38 PM | #2 |
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Re: The ultimate deflection
For 'services to chaos and incompetence'* perhaps? He would fully deserve that!
*Other opinions are possible about what the truth might be.
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17-01-22, 08:04 PM | #3 |
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Re: The ultimate deflection
Williamson is as thick as molasses, but I suspect he knows where some bodies are buried, hence the knighthood to buy his silence.
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18-01-22, 08:44 AM | #4 |
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Re: The ultimate deflection
Apparently there is a 14th century word to describing what the ministers are doing: "sparple".
It means: to deflect unwanted attention from one thing by making a big deal of another. (courtesy of Susie Dent - the lexicographer on Countdown)
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