Johnson becomes 77th PM and forms a government of Brexiteers
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BLACK DOG: Dog days for No 10’s Larry as Sajid Javid’s pet tries to take a chunk out of the Downing Street’s Chief Mouser
By BLACK DOG FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
18 August 2019
Larry, who lives in Number 10, is the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, a role which has been going since 1515
Relations between 10 and 11 Downing Street plummeted last week after Sajid Javid’s dog Bailey tried to take a chunk out of the PM’s Chief Mouser Larry the Cat.
In trademark Treasury tactics, the Chancellor’s camp tried to spin its version of events first, claiming Bailey had been provoked by the No 10 moggy.
Dog hears it differently. ‘Bailey started it but Larry definitely finished it,’ says a source.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7367869/BLACK-DOG-Dog-days-No-10s-Larry.html
By BLACK DOG FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
18 August 2019
Larry, who lives in Number 10, is the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, a role which has been going since 1515
Relations between 10 and 11 Downing Street plummeted last week after Sajid Javid’s dog Bailey tried to take a chunk out of the PM’s Chief Mouser Larry the Cat.
In trademark Treasury tactics, the Chancellor’s camp tried to spin its version of events first, claiming Bailey had been provoked by the No 10 moggy.
Dog hears it differently. ‘Bailey started it but Larry definitely finished it,’ says a source.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7367869/BLACK-DOG-Dog-days-No-10s-Larry.html
A misleading BBC News graphic that claimed pro-Brexit parties lost at the European Election was a 'lapse of editorial standards', the broadcaster has admitted.
The Corporation reported on its website in May that Remain parties had won 40.4 per cent of the vote.
It included votes from the Liberal Democracts, Green Party, SNP, Change UK and Plaid Cymru to arrive at that figure.
But its tally of pro-Brexit parties came to just 34.9 per cent because it only included the Brexit Party and UKIP, and excluded the Conservative Party.
Had the Tories been considered a pro-Brexit party, Brexiteers would have outperformed Remain parties by more than three per cent.
The BBC's complaints unit twice 'rebuffed' the complaint before it was eventually upheld, according to Guido Fawkes.
The graph has now been removed from the online story and a correction note has been issued.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...it-parties-lost-lapse-editorial-standars.html
Larry is a handsome dude. Doe this role follow a bloodline.......like "royalty"?? ;-)BLACK DOG: Dog days for No 10’s Larry as Sajid Javid’s pet tries to take a chunk out of the Downing Street’s Chief Mouser
By BLACK DOG FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
18 August 2019
Larry, who lives in Number 10, is the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, a role which has been going since 1515
Relations between 10 and 11 Downing Street plummeted last week after Sajid Javid’s dog Bailey tried to take a chunk out of the PM’s Chief Mouser Larry the Cat.
In trademark Treasury tactics, the Chancellor’s camp tried to spin its version of events first, claiming Bailey had been provoked by the No 10 moggy.
Dog hears it differently. ‘Bailey started it but Larry definitely finished it,’ says a source.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7367869/BLACK-DOG-Dog-days-No-10s-Larry.html
He is a patriot too ;-) Too cure.
No. There's no line of succession. To do the job you just have to be feline and good at catching and killing mice! So of them do have monarchical-like titles - there's been a Peter, Peter II and Peter III.
The Chief Mouser between 1937 and 1943 was called Munich Mouser.
The Chief Mouser between 2007 and 2009 was Sybil, named after Basil Fawlty's wife.
The first moggy to do the job was Cardinal Wolsey's in 1515.
As for Larry, he made headlines earlier this year when was spotted relaxing under the US President's car.
His great hates are mice, dogs (particular Mr Javid's one next door in No 11) and Palmerston - the Chief Mouser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The two have had some rather famous showdowns.
It's all very eccentrically British.
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Palmerston was an all-purpose scoundrel.No. There's no line of succession. To do the job you just have to be feline and good at catching and killing mice! So of them do have monarchical-like titles - there's been a Peter, Peter II and Peter III.
The Chief Mouser between 1937 and 1943 was called Munich Mouser.
The Chief Mouser between 2007 and 2009 was Sybil, named after Basil Fawlty's wife.
The first moggy to do the job was Cardinal Wolsey's in 1515.
As for Larry, he made headlines earlier this year when was spotted relaxing under the US President's car.
His great hates are mice, dogs (particular Mr Javid's one next door in No 11) and Palmerston - the Chief Mouser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The two have had some rather famous showdowns.
It's all very eccentrically British.
Palmerston, Chief Mouser of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, named after the man who dominated politics in Britain when she was at the height of her imperial power. He hates Larry
Good name for a cat.
For that kind of job loyalty........he should be given a big raise..........in his favorite treats.No. There's no line of succession. To do the job you just have to be feline and good at catching and killing mice! So of them do have monarchical-like titles - there's been a Peter, Peter II and Peter III.
The Chief Mouser between 1937 and 1943 was called Munich Mouser.
The Chief Mouser between 2007 and 2009 was Sybil, named after Basil Fawlty's wife.
The first moggy to do the job was Cardinal Wolsey's in 1515.
As for Larry, he made headlines earlier this year when was spotted relaxing under the US President's car.
His great hates are mice, dogs (particular Mr Javid's one next door in No 11) and Palmerston - the Chief Mouser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The two have had some rather famous showdowns.
It's all very eccentrically British.
Palmerston, Chief Mouser of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, named after the man who dominated politics in Britain when she was at the height of her imperial power. He hates Larry
Who cares for him??? Like takes him to the vet if he gets ill. Being a mouser is not a sanitary job.......and he could get infected.
Of course it begs the question of : Why the heck are there mice in those facilitates to begin with??
Yep.
A cat going after a mouse is like Britain sending the gunboats to some little African country and giving it a right good seeing to.
The mighty against the weak.
Gunboat diplomacy in smaller, furrier, form.
For thousands of years it's been called "an empire".
All mighty empires have been the same, whether Roman, Persian or British.
His ancestors did that. Their feeble offspring can't even stop a handful of fast boats from taking a British oil tanker.
I'm assuming 10 Downing Street staff look after Larry.
He is well cared for and happy.
A rather comical moment on the day Boris became PM saw him removed, live on national TV, from Number 10 Downing Street's doorstep by a member of staff before May emerged to make her resignation speech.
As for No10, it was constructed between 1682 and 1684 and has been occupied by the British PM since George II offered it as a gift to Robert Walpole in 1732, so it's bound to have a bit of vermin. Mice can get in through the tiniest of gaps.
Their feeble offspring sent a second rate Frigate (even when it was new) with 20th Century, Cold War weaponry and defences to face a new kind of threat and they had to kick in the gas turbines and get the hell out of there when the Iranian Schnell Boots turned up.
Brittannia rules the waves ....
... in the Buck House hot tub ...
Wait 'til one of your Type 23s gets bent all out of shape and ends up limping into HMS Jufair for emergency repairs, missing a few dozen crew.
This week?
Next week?
Sooner or later ...
If they handle him with all the dexterity and skill they handled Brexit with, stick a fork in him.
Warships do often get damaged in war.
You Americans might not want to send in your ships because you're scared they might be sunk and some people might get hurt... but not the British.
We actually allow our warships and sailors to do the job they are supposed to do regardless of the dangers.