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102 backers. Seems legit. If you were lying you'd just say 100 or 101. You'd never think of going to 102.
He seems like a straight up guy. Which is why he stepped aside for sake of the party. Weird that he put in that bit about only him having a mandate, which he can't have realised will make things a bit tricky for whoever takes over. Probably because he was confused by having just too much honour.
Never fear though. He'll be back. Guaranteed.
I went to bed confident that Johnson will not be the next PM. Just as I went to bed knowing that Brexit had lost and Trump wouldn't be president….
Anyway it's going to be a great 5 weeks for any comic who can do a Sunak impression.
Could be my ticket back to the big time.
It's the day before our holiday so we mainly spent it relaxing watching kids TV. Luckily it was good kids TV as we caught up with 5 years old episodes off Gogglesprogs (kids doing Gogglebox - why didn't they call it Sprogglebox?) on Netflix. This was as enjoyable for the adults (maybe more so actually) as the kids. And much better than the adult version for my money.
Some very funny bits, some sad bits, some philosophical bits and some meta bits, like when one of the kids criticised a kids version of a singing programme, saying it was just an attempt to revive a stale format by making it with children in.
I saw a great demonstration of how fibre helps you poo, by a man squeezing homemade poo down a pig's intestine (no longer in the pig) which has already helped me to encourage the kids to eat more fruit and after watching Sound of Music one young lad proclaimed that the song Do-re-mi was OK, but he didn't think it would stand the test of time. He's right. I doubt anyone will be listening to it in 10,000 years. Anyway, give it a watch if you didn't see it. Kids may reflect their parents' views at times, sometimes not pleasantly, but you see the innocence and warmth of most children and some of it is very affecting. I wonder how those kids feel about it being repeated now they're all teenagers though.
I took the big car out to fill it with diesel for the journey and check the tyres (cos I can't afford to lose another one). The car radio has become possessed and just flicks itself between stations without warning, sometimes within seconds, but annoyingly sometimes after a few minutes, when you've relaxed and think it's sorted out. It's infuriating and likely to cause an accident as I keep having to manually flick the station back, over and over again. Also maybe as a sarcastic comment on my tastes it has made all the saved stations but one into Radio 4. I think this is Ryan's revenge. This was his car and maybe he died in it and he does not approve of what I listen to. Is it OK to buy a new car because the old one's radio is busted. To be fair, it's about time I upgraded this old car, and I'd like to get an electric one, but I've been waiting a year for my ID3 (a replacement for my current short range egolf) and there's still no likelihood of it turning up before April.
There was a delivery of fuel at the garage and I couldn't get to the tyre pump, so I did it at home with my tortuously slow electric pump. They were all about 8 to 10 psi down on what they should have been, so lucky that I did it.
Check your tyres, check your balls. That's basically "Can I Have My Ball Back?" precised down to 6 words.
