Sean

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Happy Bank Holiday! Here's a tongue-in-cheek parody song about @Nigel_Farage accepting a massive gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire and then hiding from a BBC interview - to the iconic tune of the legendary @The_Proclaimers. We're calling it: "Five Million Quid" 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[Sean @Miseri57]

@implausibleblog Maybe Couttes bank saw it first when they kicked Farage out

[Sean @Miseri57]

@atrupar That scene in Airplane when she says "I speak jive"? Any one out there that can help translate Musk?

[Sean @Miseri57]

@dave43law Hmm, just remind be how the battle with Goliath went. Keeping your head springs to mind

[Charles Dickens Letters Project @DickensLetters]

Friday 14 February, 2:45 pm CST (8:45 pm UK time): Principal Editor Leon Litvack will deliver an ONLINE address on the Dickens Letters Project, at the Center of Digital Humanities Research,Texas A&M University. Registration is free: https://t.co/5SRnae4YQe

[Sean @Miseri57]

@dave43law It was a typo. It meant people over 90 attended

[Sean @Miseri57]

@DickensLetters I think that should be 'indigent' 😁

[Sean @Miseri57]

@MichaelRosenYes Good title for a soap opera

[Sean @Miseri57]

@Nigel_Farage We now live in a country where an MP can insight violence and not go to prison

[Sean @Miseri57]

@lichess Ouch!!

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

Ben Houchen thinks giving away £millions of public assets, turning a 50:50 jv into a 10:90 split without consultation, and leaving the public holding the all liabilities is “a great investment every single day of the week.” 👀

NAO investigation now. #teesside #bbclaurak

[Sean @Miseri57]

@MrTibblesNewEra @ADariya01 Atlanta? Isn't that a suburb of Milton Keynes?

[Sean @Miseri57]

@implausibleblog Is he rehearsing for Officer Crabtree in Allo Allo?

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak refused to provide 10,000 extra beds to the NHS that would have helped during and after Covid.

Because they wanted the NHS to pay the private sector instead.

We must never trust these people with our health again.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We really need to stop making it so hard for NHS staff to go to work

A huge number of NHS workers have to cope with inadequate public transport, insufficient and unsafe parking for cars and bikes, and exorbitant costs

Something needs to be done urgently - please RT if you agree

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

He’s snookered himself in order to (finally) become an MP.
The Clacton issue has him cornered… and he’s getting increasingly riled by being questioned about it. 😄
We see you, fraudster Farage! 😉

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump wins the White House. Again.
The Democrats blew it. Again.
A depressing yet predictable result.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Never has this been truer. Labour needs to step up, wake up, show up, and get us back on the path to EU membership, in whatever form can be agreed. Blair was right then and is right now. Come on, sort yourselves out. Your economic growth doesn’t exist.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I?

Like if you do
RT if you really do