cabbages outlasted Pms too.
He looks a lot like Paula Poundstone’s cat Larry. Larry and Paula Poundstone love democracy.
…and looks more dignified than any of them.
… except Boris Johnson of course (like when he wore that tutu)
There won’t be a successful PM until they undo Brexit or get used to shit sucking
Brexit was the product of British Exceptionalism - quite a lot of Britons thought the EU would give Britain great concessions during the Leave Negotiations “because of how important Britain is” thus Britain would end up with “the same rights as an EU member without the duties of one” (such as Freedom Of Movement) and even the Remainers thought that “Britain should stay in the EU and change it from the inside” - in other words that Britain was so important that the other 27 countries and 470 million people would let it shape the EU to become what Britain wanted (which back then was pretty much ever more outrageous exceptions, since the Leave Referendum itself was the product of demanding to be exempted from Freedom Of Movement rules - but only from the EU to Britain and not the other way around - and to keep everything else, “or else we’ll do a Referendum on leaving the EU”, to which the answer was “No!”).
The very same British Exceptionalism keeps many if not most Britons thinking that the rest of the EU wants Britain back so much that it would get all the exceptions if it rejoins and keep its own currency.
Britain and Britons simply can’t accept that (as France and most French and Germany and most Germans did) they’re just a middle sized country in a World dominated by large countries (like the US and China) and large blocks (like the EU).
Now, the solution would be to get over the British Exceptionalism thing, but the entirety of the Press over there is constantly blowing the “Britain is important” and “Britons are superior” Nationalist dog-whistles, mostly by spinning international stories to make it seem like everybody else is paying attention to Britain and its leaders (just here the other day I got from a Brit an old good one from just after the 2008 Crash - “Gordon Brown saved the World’s Economy”) as well as reporting some stupid shit from some tiny place in a bigger EU country (say, some idiocy in the City Hall of some obscure small place in Germany) and spinning it as “this would never happen here (we’re so much better than that)”.
Britain has issues, massive issues, and they feed each other. Frankly, until there is massive societal and political change there, Britain will be unable to rejoin the EU as an equal partner willing to work together with the rest for the common good and if they did manage to rejoin somehow without that change (very unlikely given that it would require unanimous approval from all 27 members, and plenty would demand concessions that Britain would see as unacceptable, such as Spain wanting Gibraltar back), they would be back at doing the same old shit within a decade.
The whole point of Brexit was to control immigration, it failed to do that. So now they have uncontrolled immigrations and economic pain on top of it from being out of the common European market. Now, they’re seeking to go back to the EU in some way while keeping the immigration issue unaddressed for the time being, aka back to square one. Truly a 4d chess move.
It gets even more hilarious than that: EU immigrants were roughly 50% people with higher Degrees or above, and this was replaced by immigration from South East Asia which have way fewer people with such educational qualifications.
As it so happens, Britains higher value added Industries were using more highly qualified manpower than Britain can train, so the very people who stopped coming after Brexit - for EU citizens Britain only beat other non-European countries in terms of appeal as a destination to migrate to because there was no need for any kind of Work Visa (and thus none of the problems such as the risk of exploitation by the employer sponsoring it) to go live and work there and EU citizen rights in Britain were pretty much the same as the locals, but once those things were out, then Britain is just an English-speaking country with the same entrance conditions as the other ones, with shit weather and worse pay than some of the others.
Further, the likelihood that all the 27 EU members approve Britain’s return to the EU without some major concessions (like Spain getting Gibraltar back) - which is something that requires unanimity - is pretty much nil and even then Britain can forget all about the exceptions they had and maybe even having its own currency (Euro adoption is now mandatory for new members), so even if Britain managed to get back, it will be in worse conditions than before.
what if we make Larry PM?
After pig’s head I just assume they already enjoy shit sucking.
I wonder if there is someone among the residence stuff that the cat considers their person, or if the cat really thinks this is his house and he graciously lets the others to live there.
These two aren’t mutually exclusive. My cats consider my husband and I to be their persons (one each), but I’m pretty sure they also consider it their house.
My cat considers my bedroom hers everything outside of it as the scary outside and I am a dumb idiot cat who keeps leaving and should really just sit perfectly still in her domain where she can ensure I don’t hurt my self.
Its rather funny.
I hope so, otherwise it’s a sadder story than it means to be. It can take a good year for a cat to settle in and get comfortable with new people. Then poor Larry just has them ripped away and replaced.
… and not only that: a cat certainly wouldn’t have made things worse for the general population.
Things are so bad that the stone I found in my shoe the other day would’ve been a better PM than the last 6, possibly the last 8.
For the general population of mice, yes.
Number of times Larry the Cat has imperiled the NHS: 0
Yeah. Politicians these days have tough competition: are they better or worse than an animal who does literally nothing?
Find me a politician who catches mice and gives free emotional support
I’m curious what would happen if en elect is allergic to cats.
Maybe that’s the real reason some of the PMs failed and they just pretended it had something to do with Brexit 🤔 most certainly not
They either suck it up and deal with it or quit, that’s Larry’s house.
Does Larry get a state funeral when he does?
Larry for Prime Minister!
Maybe Larry is a jynx?
a foreign spy
