Asylum seekers sent to Rwanda: 0
Home Secretaries gone: 2

'yeah but anyway I got 100 billion hundred secret votes but I'm not gonna run anyway because something about the country or something....'

Timing of the announcement suggest that BJ thinks he's going to be the new Doctor instead.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, James Cleverley, Nadine Dorries, Nadhim Zahawi, Vladimir Putin, your boy took a hell of a beating!

W.S. Merwin. Remember this. (No punctuation, two capital letters, brilliant.

I feel like I'm on the deck of the Titanic and the first class passengers have invaded the bridge and are trying to steer full speed ahead for the iceberg

“People just want things to work better” says Penny Mordaunt.

12 years. 12. Years.

Shifty as f**k?

The UK at the moment. 'He wants to come back. He's said he has changed. He says he won't do it again. He said he didn't mean to hurt us and he's sorry. He loves us really. It's hard without him'. Abusers usually keep on abusing if you let them.

Happy Birthday to Douglas Dunn, who turns 80 today. A true great, in every sense: a towering talent and a man of such generosity. Let us praise him. Here’s the marvellous ‘Tursac’ from his incomparable collection of loss and the afterlife of love, Elegies.

On with the motley, Tory bastards!
(and thanks to NEUBoots2022 for their support of my Tussiads.
Bill Herbert Otwituarist #UnderABusWithLizTruss
@BoJoNoMo

Great stuff. 'thornery'

And so #LizTruss passed into history as though into a deep magical slumber, while around her the woodland creatures of the Tory party mourned. Already there came a nostalgic clamour: ‘Who shall tell tales of #TheAgeOfTruss ?’ ‘I!’ answered #PeterArmstrong … …wbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/the…

I am so pleased to have a poem included in the latest issue of Poetry London. With many thanks to André Naffis-Sahely :-)

Beth Rigby I'm not a refugee but I'm against deportation to Rwanda.
I'm not on benefits but I'll stand up for those are.
I'm not in a fracking area but I'm against fracking.
I'm not in a trade union but I'll stand with those who are.
I'm not a conservative & I never will be.

Gone by Xmas Pantomime season then. Seems apt.

Labour instantly sacked Christian Matheson. Chris Pincher is still a Tory MP.

Rachel Wearmouth Don't watch Westerns #FBPE #KS4PM Amusingly Johnson also has the most marginal seat.

If the pre-truss poll difference stayed he’s very likely to lose his seat, while Sunak is least likely.

Rachel Wearmouth Joel Taylor Certainly, any who called on Johnson to resign a few weeks ago, but who would now support his return, should be hounded out of office by their constituents and a merciless press. Enough hypocrisy, and enough putting party before country.