Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Grey Fox]

Do you people not have paint?

[Sheilbh]

Chintz? 

Heavily patterned - mainly floral - fabrics or wallpapers. Lots of them = chintzy. It became very unfashionable/associated with elderly people in the 90s when minimalism came in. But now we're back at maximalism, thank God.

[Duque de Bragança]

A cross between a belle epoque Parisian brothel and a British 1970s high street Indian restaurant 

I can't imagine what Sheilbh is complaining about 

Yeah, too much beard on the wall paintings for even an orientalising Belle époque brothel. 

[Sheilbh]

Lulu Lytle is claiming that for her it was a work event and only went into the cabinet room for the birthday party "as requested":

Henry Zeffman
@hzeffman
Spox for Lytle: "Lulu was present in Downing Street on 19 June working on the refurbishment. Lulu was not invited to any birthday celebrations for the prime minister as a guest. Lulu entered the cabinet room briefly as requested, while waiting to speak with the prime minister."

[The Brain]

The Man with the Golden Gun is a great song.

[Tamas]

Lulu Lytle is claiming that for her it was a work event and only went into the cabinet room for the birthday party "as requested":

Henry Zeffman
@hzeffman
Spox for Lytle: "Lulu was present in Downing Street on 19 June working on the refurbishment. Lulu was not invited to any birthday celebrations for the prime minister as a guest. Lulu entered the cabinet room briefly as requested, while waiting to speak with the prime minister."

[Jacob]

Who is Lulu Lytle, and why is that funny?

[Sheilbh]

Who is Lulu Lytle, and why is that funny?

Lulu Lytle is the interior designer who refurbished the Number 10 flat at the cost of a couple of hundred thousand pound (paid for by a Tory donor) - which has been a separate ongoing scandal for Johnson. Although a chunk of the scandal there was because his wife was apparently moaning about the "John Lewis nightmare" left by Theresa May - and John Lewis is seen as a solidly middle class, quite expensive, slightly aspirational brand that lots of people are quite fond of.

It also turned out the PM lied or at least misled the internal investigation into that.

And "work event" is, I think, still Johnson's excuses for some of the parties he attended: he didn't realise they were parties and thought they were work events he just went to say a few words at (with tables of booze and nibbles - and, in any event, when work social events were banned).

Edit: Plus it's just a bit writer's room that Lulu Lytle is suddenly back:

Marie Le Conte
@youngvulgarian
now the wallpaper lady has been brought back, which characters from previous seasons would you like to see on the show again? I'm voting Petronella Wyatt

[Syt]

Do you people not have paint?

Seriously, on Zoom calls that people here have from home, 90% have the walls painted white, maybe there's something hanging on the wall, but that's it.

[Sheilbh]

Seriously, on Zoom calls that people here have from home, 90% have the walls painted white, maybe there's something hanging on the wall, but that's it.

It's nice to have a bit of self-expression in your decor - and maximalism. I love grey walls and Scandi-ish mid-century modernism, but it's a bit meh now. So I'm all for the maximalism revival.

[Iormlund]

Maximalism. 

[Jacob]

Thanks for the explanation Sheilbh

[Syt]

Seriously, on Zoom calls that people here have from home, 90% have the walls painted white, maybe there's something hanging on the wall, but that's it.

It's nice to have a bit of self-expression in your decor

That's what I have the Kandinsky prints for.

[The Brain]

I have white walls with some Hiroshige prints and some European 17th century prints, and some other stuff. The late Victorian boudoir look isn't really for me.

[Sheilbh]

I have landlord chic: variations on magenta