I just accidentally broke the Geneva Protocol.
Frying some chopped up tortillas to make some crisps for a salad. Chucked in some hot smoked paprika. The second I tossed the pan it went airborne, landed on the hot stove and instantly produced what I can only describe as CS gas which filled the kitchen. Eyes instantly painful can barely open them and coughing barely breathing.
Won’t be doing that again any time soon 
You just peppered sprayed yourself 
Was the food worth it?
Tortilla baked into crisps is one of the world’s best-kept secrets.
I owe Hello Fresh big time for that one.
Goes great with a chicken laksa.
Can’t say I’ve tried inhaling it though.
The calibre of our politicians is no better. Our anti corruption minister has just had to resign for … Corruption
That’s not what she did. The report said she did nothing wrong, but should have known better now close to the wind she was sailing.
If anything, the fact she resigned is a good thing for our politics, because integrity matters again, look at the last lot and how they’d hold on over much worse stuff.
I think you’re missing some key information. She is heavily linked to the ousted regime in Bangladesh (her aunt was the prime minister) and received various highly valuable properties in London through dodgy offshore trusts. The Bangladeshi government has placed her under criminal investigation! It is not a dignified return to standards in public life but the inevitable conclusion of the exposure of years of grifting
I saw all that. But the independent ethics investigation has found that she herself did nothing wrong. It’s more a question of optics.
Think back to even a year ago. There probably wouldn’t have been a report by the ethics investigator (Sunak left the post vacant for a while IIRC) because only the PM could instigate investigations, now the adviser can start their own, irrespective of what the PM thinks, (which is something Sir Keir brought in because the old system was stupid.)
And with a report they’d done nothing wrong a Tory Minister would probably have carried on as if nothing had happened at all, as so many of them did, even when they’d committed actual crimes. (As Sunak did, twice.)
Now we have a ministerial resignation because someone inadvertently mislead the public? That’s good!
This is how I saw it. Report said nothing technically wrong. Resigning as the optics are obviously poor at best.
Certainly no comparison to our friends over the pond.
I think you’re rather over egging Sunak’s crime (fixed penalty notice fine of 50 quid for eating a cake) Vs the multimillion pound international corruption linked to Siddiq but hey ho
Still a crime. Hence the FPN.
And you’re missing his other one, the stupendously stupid incident of driving without a seatbelt and filming it.
And, pardon me if I don’t blindly accept the allegations of one illegitimate dictatorial government against the previous, ousted illegitimate dictatorial government…
Certainly no comparison to last year
that is just the direct last Govt - consider the greater run the Tories had and look at Boris and his partygate scandal which resulted in a FPN (Apr22)
ok so he “won” a vote of no confidence (June22) but by July was in the news again for appointing Chris Pincher despite knowing his history of sexual misconduct.
Johnson might have won the House/party round but his attitude towards partygate won him no fans in the electorate and rather than resign stood firm.
this, and @Baldrick’s example of Sunak without a seat belt are just two examples where Torie PMs were less than law abiding and yet dodged calls to resign.
in the Siddiq resignation, the ministerial code has not been broken, nothing wrong has been done - the MP in question is being considered “guilty by association” and so stepping down to avoid being a distraction to the Govt as it doesn’t look good for an anti corruption minister to be linked to corruption even though there is no rules broken. that link was sufficient to raise questions which are avoided by stepping down - it is not a sign of guilt
The second in 6 months and probably a third in the next three months.
Which is still lagging behind Sunak, who was on about 4 by now by my quick maths.
And Truss, who lost three in just 49 days…
Now it’s this government, just wait for the investigation into the local councils MPs etc regarding the cover ups over CSA in particular in the Northern towns.
Which will have happened under… Wait for it… The last government…?
Moving away from politics…
MML - Ages ago we quoted a job up that we thought was just ridiculously difficult and complicated and the nature of it meant someone else would likely be able to do it a lot cheaper. We can do it, we think, but we’re not the best people for the job.
Guess who just emailed over a purchase order…
I’m now going to have a headache for a couple of weeks!
