[Tubby Isaacs]

That's a good point. It's a way of thinking, not just a line of rhetoric. Pick a criterion, focus ruthlessly on it to the exclusion of everything else, where's my prize?

See also the focus on cuts for 10 years, before discovering "levelling up" and "working class white boys underachieving".

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Au contraire - they don't do criterion referencing, they do comparison. It's a lot easier.

Criterion referencing is an adjunct of critical thinking, and they don't do that, either.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Metric a better word?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fuck me, just seen Gove try and make out that the WA is a "deal" like was promised.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is the kindest tweet I've ever seen about anybody.

[The Red Arrow]

Certainly charitable.

I'm waiting for the lying little twerp to come out with "The badgers moved the goalposts" . Soon, I reckon.

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[Tubby Isaacs]

Some crackers there. From the heavyweight Brexiter.

I see Gove mentioned the UK having cards today.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Love the opening of this. Reminds me of Macbeth saying he's being such a bastard it's too much trouble to stop.

[Kreuzberger]

The great thing about being a columnist is that it is all just a performance. It's a job which has no consequences beyond, as they say, cod 'n chips twice.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[davidjay]

If we're such a "confident, independent" nation we shouldn't have to go begging the EU not to be nasty to us.

[youngian]

I’ve heard Gove compared to Vicky Pollard before. He’s just filling air with sounds.

[Watchman]

Love the opening of this. Reminds me of Macbeth saying he's being such a bastard it's too much trouble to stop.

Was that written by an algorithm? As it has all the standard phrases in, e.g. , confident, free trading,independent, match fit etc. etc

[Tubby Isaacs]

Looks like it. Isn't that a lie about the Japan deal too? First time I've heard them say it's better than the EU-Japan one.

[The Red Arrow]

The trending May far from blameless in this omnifuck, but Gove really should start owning his shit...

I see he got a mention in some leaked papers, too.