Just how awful is this government? June 2020 edition

[Baker lite]

That’s not how ignore works. You don’t see the post.

Did this one sorry [emoji2371]
There’s a few other odd bods I have on ignore,I only see their drivel when someone else quotes them. I’m sure one of our helpful moderators will be able to confirm how the function works..
You’ll be glad to know you are not on my list...I like your style..you’ve got spirit [emoji8]


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[The Clamp]

Did this one sorry [emoji2371]
There’s a few other odd bods I have on ignore,I only see their drivel when someone else quotes them.
You’ll be glad to know you are not on my list...I like your style..you’ve got spirit [emoji8]


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That’s a comfort.
Maybe it’s a Tapatalk thing. If so, you have my apologies.

 

[Lever]

fragile

...anyway....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFW84ugnceY

 

[Baker lite]

That’s a comfort.
Maybe it’s a Tapatalk thing. If so, you have my apologies.

Possibly, no need to apologise.


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[Lever]

Back to the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXzAifchfNc

 

[WATFORD zero]

And on and on the sleaze, cronyism and backhanders continue

Boris Johnson condemned over ‘pathetic’ appointment of ex-Bullingdon Club friend to Whitehall sleaze watchdog

Boris Johnson’s government is under fire after one of the prime minister’s university school friends – a former Bullingdon Club member – was handed a role on Whitehall’s sleaze watchdog. Ewen Fergusson, a member of Oxford’s infamous dining club at the same time as the prime minister, has been named as one of two new members for the committee on standards in public life.

Sir Alistair Graham, former chair of the independent committee, claimed the appointment was “pathetic” – given the friendship between Mr Johnson and Mr Fergusson. “It really is desperate if you have to be a university mate of Boris Johnson to qualify to sit on the committee that is supposed to examine sleaze,” Sir Alistair said.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-bullingdon-club-appointment-b1885184.html

But I'm sure the normal defenders will be on here any minute. You know, the NSCers who have benefited from Johnson's government, the ones who are also multi millionaire, ex Bullingdon club, owners of investment management companies who got awarded Covid contracts with no experience or history.

Not the stupid or naive ones who simply got taken in by Johnson and his waffle, obviously

 

[vegster]

An interesting article from Ian Dunt from Politics.Co.UK .....https://www.politics.co.uk/week-in-review/2021/07/16/week-in-review-even-the-emperor-knows-hes-got-no-clothes/?text=Week

During the Q&A after the speech, Johnson said something interesting: “I’m not attracted to the idea of extra tax rises on hard working people”. That’s particularly pertinent when you consider what happened earlier this week during the debate on foreign aid. Chancellor Rishi Sunak wanted to keep the reduction in international aid so that the government can reduce borrowing. He managed to head off a Tory rebellion by threatening that there would be “fiscal consequences” if the 0.7% spending level was restored. What would those consequences be? Tax rises or spending cuts.

You can do the maths on that. Levelling up is an expensive business. It’s not an easy thing to reverse decades of decline or the deep-seated industrial, geographic, educational factors which have played into it. It requires spending. But it’s clear that it will not be paid for by borrowing or tax rises. So it won’t happen. It cannot happen, by virtue of the priorities the government has committed to.
And that’s really the rub of it. You can be in favour of levelling up or you can be a fiscal conservative. But you can’t be both.

It’s not clear that Johnson understands this. He barely seemed aware of the consequences of what he was saying in that Q&A yesterday. He was just defaulting to his standard Telegraph columnist mode. So not only is there a headlock on policy, there is a prime minister who does not seem to understand that his government is losing a wrestling match against its own inconsistencies.

This is what it means for the emperor to have no clothes. You can live in a country with fierce injustices and lack of opportunity – but you can’t do anything about it. The prime minister does not have the ethical drive, the emotional investment or the mental capacity to address them. So we will have to watch this farce continue to play out, over years, while the injustice continues.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Remarkable

COVID-19: A quarantine dodge by Boris Johnson would unleash a massive 'do as I say, not as I do' row

The timing could hardly be worse. A little more than 24 hours before what he used to call Freedom Day, Boris Johnson is under pressure to self-isolate. As for the prime minister, he was at Chequers when Mr Javid made his announcement at lunchtime on Saturday revealing that he "felt a bit groggy" on Friday evening and so had a lateral flow test. That result has since been confirmed by a PCR test.

The PM, it has to be said, has a reputation as someone who thinks the rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to him. But will he wriggle out of the isolation rules this time?

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-a-quarantine-dodge-by-boris-johnson-after-meeting-covid-positive-sajid-javid-would-unleash-a-massive-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-row-12358112

Priti Patel ‘misled’ MPs over plans for protest crackdown

Priti Patel is under fresh pressure after she appears to have misled parliament on proposed powers to crack down on protests and, separately, issued a statement on her asylum bill that does not seem to be supported by evidence.Both interventions from the home secretary were used to justify some of the most controversial aspects of her bills on policing and the asylum system, which have both been criticised as either undemocratic or cruel.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/18/priti-patel-misled-mps-over-plans-for-protest-crackdown

Government won't publish records of meetings between Dido Harding and Covid firms

None of the meetings Dido Harding held with private firms and consultants while running the UK’s £37 billion Test and Trace programme will be declared, the Government has said.Ministers and senior officials are required to publicly declare any meetings with stakeholders or private companies. But no public record exists of any meetings held by Baroness Harding, a Tory peer and ally of shamed minister Matt Hancock.
Some 121 contracts related to the Test and Trace programme, worth up to £5 billion of taxpayers' cash, were awarded directly using emergency Covid rules.

The National Audit Office reported in December that 70% of contracts handed out by Test and Trace were awarded without competition.Officials wriggled out of releasing details of Baroness Harding’s diary in response to a Freedom of Information request earlier this year, claiming it would cost too much to publish the information. And it comes after the Mirror revealed dozens of meetings between Mr Hancock, Health Minister Lord Bethell and firms who benefited from millions in Covid contracts were missing from public records, due to “admin errors.”

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/government-wont-publish-records-meetings-24555573

Pinging hell: NHS Covid app causing widespread staff shortages

Industry leaders are demanding the government tackle widespread staff shortages caused by workers self-isolating en masse after being “pinged” by NHS test and trace.Online fashion retailer Asos joined carmakers Nissan and Rolls-Royce on a fast-growing roster of businesses wrestling with disruption caused by absent staff on Thursday. From 16 August those who have received both doses of a vaccine, or are under 18, will not have to self-isolate if they come into contact with someone who has tested for positive for Covid-19.

But parts of the economy are at risk of shutting down long before then, industry leaders have warned, amid predictions that rising case numbers could force more than 1 million people to stay at home.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/pinging-hell-nhs-covid-app-causing-widespread-staff-shortages/ar-AAMcAqG?ocid=mailsignout

Even for a Government with such a rich record of elitism, dishonesty, cronyism and complete and utter incompetence, this is a gargantuan effort for a Sunday

 

[Chicken Run]

[emoji2357]


Covid: PM and chancellor not isolating after Javid test https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57877373


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[JC Footy Genius]

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Covid: PM and chancellor not isolating after Javid test https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57877373


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Thanks for posting a slightly more balanced article. But also a bit of a misleading headline from the beeb as the article makes clear they will be isolating apart from working on essential government business. The pilot scheme is already in use amongst numerous public and private organisations so other news sources suggesting it's suddenly been invented for Boris to get round the rules is misleading bollox.

Anyway, it's another beautiful day ... Shirley there must be better things to do than trawl through numerous news feeds, copy pasting edited sections that only fit one biased narrative.

Remarkable. [emoji6]

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[WATFORD zero]

[emoji2357]


Covid: PM and chancellor not isolating after Javid test https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57877373


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I wonder how someone would go about getting on a pilot programme and avoiding self isolation if they weren't Prime Minister, Chancellor, or a good friend/business acquaintance of one

 

[Chicken Run]

I wonder how someone would go about getting on a pilot programme and avoiding self isolation if they weren't Prime Minister, Chancellor, or a good friend/business acquaintance of one

I know, it smells doesn’t it….


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[Dick Swiveller]

Shirley there must be better things to do than trawl through numerous news feeds, copy pasting edited sections that only fit one biased narrative. [emoji6]

Replying to them?

 

[A1X]

The fact is this is a Government built on a lie perpetuated in 2016 and swallowed by the gullible, the desperate, the contrarians and the bigoted. Having got away with it once before they'll keep trying it, and only back down when absolutely shame-faced into it (as they have this morning). Because it's all they know how to do.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

The fact is this is a Government built on a lie perpetuated in 2016 and swallowed by the gullible, the desperate, the contrarians and the bigoted. Having got away with it once before they'll keep trying it, and only back down when absolutely shame-faced into it (as they have this morning). Because it's all they know how to do.

This morning was not so much a U-turn as a two man somersault. Astonishing stuff, even by their lowly standards. Do they not have advisors? Surely no one can be proud of them? (Cue reference to Jeremy Corbyn.)

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

I wonder how someone would go about getting on a pilot programme and avoiding self isolation if they weren't Prime Minister, Chancellor, or a good friend/business acquaintance of one

You can start your own unfunded research pilot scheme if you get the 'ping'.

Plus you will be doing it for good of the nation.

 

[Lever]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqtx2UC9NHE

 

[JC Footy Genius]

The fact is this is a Government built on a lie perpetuated in 2016 and swallowed by the gullible, the desperate, the contrarians and the bigoted. Having got away with it once before they'll keep trying it, and only back down when absolutely shame-faced into it (as they have this morning). Because it's all they know how to do.

For "fact" see the usual prejudiced opinion regurgitated endlessly on NSC.

But I will always forgive you after providing one of the funniest comments on here when you stated Gina Miller voted leave [emoji106]

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[Lever]

Back to the topic.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCCiNLftn4

 

[*Gullsworth*]

If this pilot scheme is fiction and is proved to be in the commons Boris Johnson may soon be the ex prime minister.