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There were three comments made by PM Boris Johnson in his keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference which caught my attention and made me go back to the text to check them:
"We have been through too much frustration and hardship just to settle for the status quo ante".
"I have read a lot of nonsense recently, about how my own bout of Covid has somehow robbed me of my mojo".
"We will fix the long-term problems of this country not by endlessly expanding the power of the state, but by giving power back to the people - the fundamental life-affirming power of home-ownership, the power to decide which colour to paint your front door".
On the last point the PM might be well-advised to discuss the topic with HRH The Duke of Cornwall, since residents of Poundbury are expressly forbidden to decide which colours they can choose to paint their front doors. It is a breach of the stipulations to make external alterations such as painting front doors in anything than in "identical colours" to those originally selected by the Duchy.
https://www.poundburymanco.co.uk/home-alterations/
It is impressive that the PM can use such a wide range of words and registers, from the Latin (status quo ante) , to the Afro-American "mojo".
What was the status quo ante of his mojo?
Muddy Waters, live, Got my mojo workin':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-APvKTcUW9Y
Stereo version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gNs-29s-0Q&list=RD1gNs-29s-0Q&start_radio=1&t=44
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