Build Back Bollocks

Steyn Online ^ | 14 June 2021 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Further to my recent remarks on seat-warmer conservatism, here is Boris Johnson at his apparently spectacularly successful global summit:

Johnson said that he wants the G-7 to be 'building back better, building back greener, building back fairer, and building back more equal and in a more gender-neutral and perhaps more feminine way.'

The Boris of twenty years ago would have hooted with derision at the above, and would have pelted with bread rolls and mange-tout anyone who uttered such twaddle at a Spectator lunch. I'm not sure even "long Covid" can account for a grown man committing to build back gender-neutrally. Is it all a giant leg-pull?

I see what remains of the Tory Twittersphere calls him "Fat Blair", but, to be fair to Tone, even he might jib at bollocks the size of the above. [UPDATE: "Fat Blair" is the coinage of Ronan Maher, who protests that, reasonably enough these days, he is no Tory.] And BoJo sold himself to the populace not as Fat Blair but as Thin Winston: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, greener, more feminine men will still say, "This was their most gender-neutral hour."

[Rummyfan]

[Rummyfan]

...the Markles, after a year of pissing all over the Queen and her family, named their baby Lilibet - appropriating a childhood nickname for Her Majesty hitherto used only by her parents and her husband (not many others get to call her anything but "Ma'am"). Like everything these hollow insincere poseurs do, it's cynically calculated - and one can imagine how the aged monarch feels about a unique closely-held soubriquet now being bandied by Colbert or Oprah or wherever the whingeing bolters are next scheduled. If it still had its bearings, the Telegraph would have been ordering its columnists to jeer at the Markles, not firing them for doing so.

[rfp1234]

That’s 9 of them, not 7. Orwellian math.

[bigbob]

Raise your hand if you, like me, thought “building back better” was just Xiden’s lame response to MAGA. Oh no, it’s trademarked by the globalist marxist new world order. Joe isn’t even that original.

[Noumenon]

One grenade would have gotten them all. Well, okay - maybe two.

[LIConFem]

Nine of the biggest assholes in the world.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Johnson said that he wants the G-7 to be 'building back better, building back greener, building back fairer, and building back more equal and in a more gender-neutral and perhaps more feminine way.'

Call hospice. I'm ready.

[Magnum44]

Good grief, what a bunch of pretentious wind bags...

[WashingtonSource]

Who is the brown one on the left in the second row?

[lee martell]

It’s a clumsy, contrived sounding phrase.
The alliteration doesn’t sound like natural speech.
Probably made up by a non-English speaker.

If you say “Build Back Better” properly, you are very likely creating a little cloud of spittle in front of you.

When I hear it, I keep thinking it’s saying:
“Build Better Buttocks!”

[glennaro]

Send in the clowns.

[Rummyfan]

I don’t know. Anyone?

[PghBaldy]

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga?

[Dr. Sivana]

That’s 9 of them, not 7. Orwellian math.

The two in the "rook" positions are EU presidents (they have several).

[Secret Agent Man]

Build Back Balls

hmmm

Not really original

[Truth29]

Does Covid-19 cause terminal brain rot in certain people or is it that in combination with having a young, very liberal wife?