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#222

This has got exactly the same vibes as the snapchat videos I send to my friends after coming in from a night out

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#223

the BBC article referenced this song as the inspiration, disappointing the Daily Record didnā€™t pick up on it

#224

Another productive day on Twitter

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#225

Iā€™ve read in a few places that he has a big drinking problem

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#226

Particularly the combination of wine, sofas, and laptops

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#227

Really?? Wow

#228

Never like official articles- just comments on articles, tweets etc. Once I read it, it made a lot of sense.

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#229

Looks like a peep show outtake

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#231

As always, itā€™s Tonty Blair behind this

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#232

ā€œI spent a lot of money on booze, fast cars and women. The rest I squandered on a failed attempt at using Excel 2003 to run track and traceā€

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#233

this joke could be repeated with variations for about 10 minutes and not run out of steam couldnā€™t it

the rest I squandered on child support (18 times)

#234

Johnson labelled MPs in the NRG his ā€œpraetorian guardā€

To protect him from what? Northerners? Scotland? Anyone north of the Home Counties? :grimacing: I really hope this prick is in charge when the independence referendum happens. I want him to be remembered in history as the Tory who broke up the UK.

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#235

At the rate things are going thereā€™s an increasing chance he may not even be in charge for Brexit.

Obviously the wing of the Tories who still have reality in sight are probably keen to hang that round his neck, but the more deranged end could do anything over the Cummings bust up.

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#236

The Praetorian Guard were a bunch of thugs that originally were used by the Roman emperors to enforce their rule but ultimately became the de facto rulers themselves because they could just knife any emperor that displeased them. Interesting Johnson would reach for that analogy

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#237

He just likes the sound of Latin and Greek, his grasp of the actual meaning of any of the allusions he likes to choose often escapes him (see Rory Stewartā€™s bit about Boris and Pericles and BJā€™s complete and utter missing of the fucking point)

Also, your summary is basically just a neat way of describing the Conservative Parliamentary Party, now and ever thus

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#238

The Romans did love to sub divide their society by income status. Wanted people to understand who was merely elite as opposed to the elite of the elite of the elite.

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#239

probably just a part of his wanting to be Churchill

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#240

I was going to say, surely the PG are most famous for murdering Caligula and raising up Claudius as their puppet. You donā€™t want to be surrounded by PG, thatā€™s a Bad Thing.

#241

Though maybe heā€™s thinking of the PG from WH40K

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