Can we please stop calling each other names?

[WES]

That's right. His wife's a teacher. I'm thinking of her. I seem to remember him waxing vituperative about Michael Gove on one occasion for having the temerity to attempt to improve the education system against the wishes of the communists who make up 95% of the teaching profession.

No, she isn't a teacher either

But you are right about Frimmer's hatred of Gove, he is willing to consider only one word with regard to MG, starts with a c and ends with a t and isn't cat.

[Burney]

the way you're not really going to vote for a mendacious, sexually incontinent, islamophobic, democracy hating Bullingdon quarter-wit are you?

All politicians are mendacious - it's part of the job.
His sexual continence is of zero concern to me. I doubt Theresa May and husband ever strayed from the missionary position with the lights out, but that didn't make her a good Prime Minister.
There's nothing irrational about a fear of that pernicious and barbarous faith Islam, so that can get fúcked.
He is the only candidate offering to respect the democratic vote of 2016, so that won't fly.
I try not to hold what people do as teenagers against them and as far as I'm aware, being a member of The Bullingdon Club isn't illegal.
Whatever accusations his opponents have slung at him, nobody who knows him has ever accused Johnson of being stupid, since he manifestly is not. Jeremy 'two Es at A-Level' Corbyn, on the other hand...

[Burney]

Nope - can't really vote for any of the options set out. I am definitely not voting for the Johnson-led Conservative party but have no wish to vote for Labour. I might see if Holborn and St Pancras has a Scottish National Party candidate running -they at least seem like fun. Of course, due to our pathetic electorial system it doesn't really matter - Labour have a 30,000 majority in my constituency.

Hmmm. I'll take your word for it, la, but I'm keeping my eye on you.

[Sir C]

All politicians are mendacious - it's part of the job.
His sexual continence is of zero concern to me. I doubt Theresa May and husband ever strayed from the missionary position with the lights out, but that didn't make her a good Prime Minister.
There's nothing irrational about a fear of that pernicious and barbarous faith Islam, so that can get fúcked.
He is the only candidate offering to respect the democratic vote of 2016, so that won't fly.
I try not to hold what people do as teenagers against them and as far as I'm aware, being a member of The Bullingdon Club isn't illegal.
Whatever accusations his opponents have slung at him, nobody who knows him has ever accused Johnson of being stupid, since he manifestly is not. Jeremy 'two Es at A-Level' Corbyn, on the other hand...

I'd say we've covered that off nicely between us.

[Burney]

Let's just break that down h:

1. Mendacious. So he's a politician. But we knew that.
2. Sexually incontinent. You don't care where he sticks his winkle. Neither do I. Neither does anyone.
3. Islamophobic. Because of the 'letterbox' line? In an article supporting the right of Muslim women to wear it if they like? I'd say his attititude is significantly less Islamophobic than the governments of the extremely liberal European nations which have banned the burkha.
4. Democracy-hating? He is the only party leader who is determined to abide by the result of the referendum. So that would make him the opposite of democracy-hating.
5. Bullingdon? He was a member of a dining club at university. I expect you sank a few at the student bar while you were getting your City & Guilds in Jobbie Studies. So what?
6. Quarter-wit. He is an extremely intelligent chap. His biography of Churchill, for example, is quite excellent. You struggle with the signature when you sign on mate.

Fúckssake! You could have told me you were going to do that. We've totally duplicated our efforts there.

[Burney]

No, she isn't a teacher either

But you are right about Frimmer's hatred of Gove, he is willing to consider only one word with regard to MG, starts with a c and ends with a t and isn't cat.

Well that goes to show what I know. I suppose I must have just thought that the only people from whom I've ever heard that level of hatred for Gove were teachers, added two and two together and made five. Silly me.

[Luis Anaconda]

No, she isn't a teacher either

But you are right about Frimmer's hatred of Gove, he is willing to consider only one word with regard to MG, starts with a c and ends with a t and isn't cat.

I do find the idea of Mrs F as a teacher amusing though. I might ask if she has ever thought of it as a profession

[Sir C]

Withnail surprises me if I'm honest, would never see him as supporting someone like Corbyn.

Frimmers is loyal to his working class roots. Neg is Belgian and married a Jock, he deserves our sympathy.

Ian Harvey is an appalling human being. Didn't you attend his wedding?

In most respects Withnail is a thoroughly decent chap.

As far as Corbyn is concerned one can only surmise that the plates in his head have moved.

[Sir C]

Nope - can't really vote for any of the options set out. I am definitely not voting for the Johnson-led Conservative party but have no wish to vote for Labour. I might see if Holborn and St Pancras has a Scottish National Party candidate running -they at least seem like fun. Of course, due to our pathetic electorial system it doesn't really matter - Labour have a 30,000 majority in my constituency.

I bet you'd grow to like Boris if you listened to him narrating hsi biography of Churchill.

Plus, he likes a drink.

Give him a chance, la. You might end up the best of chums!

[Burney]

In most respects Withnail is a thoroughly decent chap.

As far as Corbyn is concerned one can only surmise that the plates in his head have moved.

Yes, I'd categorise him as an habitual lefty rather than an ideological one. Could be wrong, though.

And I think it's important to clarify that you went to Ian Harvey's wedding, not me.

Is he still married to her?