[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[nicko31]

This story was ignored the right wing rabids, so the Beeb etc felt it wasn't newsworthy

I appreciate its quite normal for your Dad's second cousin to give you an £800k line of credit.

But, why didn't Johnson declare this while he was in office?

Boris Johnson had '£800,000 in credit to fund lavish PM lifestyle’

Boris Johnson's spokesman said all of the former prime minister's finances ‘are and were properly declared’.

metro.co.uk

 

[Thunder Bolt]

One victory over the Think Tanks lodged in 55 Tufton Street and more to come, hopefully. The ERG is the big one, but smaller ones will do for now.

Success: Restore Trust caves in to legal challenge - Good Law Project

Last year, Good Law Project launched a legal campaign to uncover the insidious network of think-tanks and lobby groups based around 55 Tufton Street. These organisations have had a disproportionate and harmful influence over our politics – and we have set out to expose who’s behind them and...

goodlawproject.org

 

[nicko31]

One victory over the Think Tanks lodged in 55 Tufton Street and more to come, hopefully. The ERG is the big one, but smaller ones will do for now.

Success: Restore Trust caves in to legal challenge - Good Law Project

Last year, Good Law Project launched a legal campaign to uncover the insidious network of think-tanks and lobby groups based around 55 Tufton Street. These organisations have had a disproportionate and harmful influence over our politics – and we have set out to expose who’s behind them and...

goodlawproject.org

They're really not very good at covering their tracks are they?

 

[drew]

I read yesterday, there are 48 different Trades Unions, of which only 11 have any affiliation with the Labour Party.

How many companies have affiliations with the Tories, I wonder? JCB are even housing Johnson at the moment, via Lady Bamford.

Not sure if anyone has commented on that but there are far more than 48 unions in the UK, more like 130. But you are right about 11 affiliating to Labour.

 

[nicko31]

Well Sunak did say places like Tunbridge Wells were missing out on levelling up, time to let those northern monkeys rot.

Unless your in Richmond (North Yorkshire), who’s the MP?

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/yorkshire-to-get-half-the-funding-of-tory-held-south-east-3992490

 

[wellquickwoody]

‘A minimal level of service?’
OK. Then you give us one too.
Enough nurses, beds, teachers and doctors.
No standing in a food bank queue.
Warm homes with proper insulation.
Cheap buses, affordable trains.
Child care which befits a rich nation
And papers which don’t rot our brains.

We had most of that, once, in this country.
We called it the great Welfare State.
Then Thatcher swapped ‘nanny’ for ‘welfare’
And Murdoch changed hope into hate.
We need a new plan for the nation:
Make the rich Tory press barons quail.
Fair wages and proper taxation
And send those who would dodge it to jail.

Wow, some freeloading wanted there! Nurses, teachers etc paid for by tax increases, no food bank queues is a reasonable request. Warm homes/insulation, free for everyone? Cheap public transport. OK. Childcare for everyone? And papers that agree with you, mmmmmm.

Some of what you ask makes sense, but how would you differentiate between needy and lazy?

 

[raymondo]

It simply never ends with this mob. Ceaseless bloody con merchants and thieves. To a man.

Nadhim Zahawi facing questions about tax payment

The ex-chancellor is under pressure over reports he will pay millions to settle a dispute with HMRC.

www.bbc.co.uk

The only news-worthy item for me would be if they could find a Tory MP who HADN'T tried to screw the public purse for their own benefit.

 

[attila]

Wow, some freeloading wanted there! Nurses, teachers etc paid for by tax increases, no food bank queues is a reasonable request. Warm homes/insulation, free for everyone? Cheap public transport. OK. Childcare for everyone? And papers that agree with you, mmmmmm.

Some of what you ask makes sense, but how would you differentiate between needy and lazy?

Truss's 'Britannia Unchained' 'budget' cost the taxpayer £40 BILLION - into the pockets of short sellers and hedge funds. The Daily Mail: 'At last! A proper Tory budget'. No apologies from either. If the £40 billion was recovered from the stinking vultures the pay rises would not be a problem. It's just a matter of the political guts to do it. There's hardly any lazy people any more. Just people doing three jobs who still can't pay their bills while others (including PL) wallow in wealth. It will change: perhaps not in my day, but it will.

 

[The Clamp]

The only news-worthy item for me would be if they could find a Tory MP who HADN'T tried to screw the public purse for their own benefit.

Quiet.

Plough the bloody lot of them into a ditch. Rotten to the very core.

 

[The Clamp]

Wow, some freeloading wanted there! Nurses, teachers etc paid for by tax increases, no food bank queues is a reasonable request. Warm homes/insulation, free for everyone? Cheap public transport. OK. Childcare for everyone? And papers that agree with you, mmmmmm.

Some of what you ask makes sense, but how would you differentiate between needy and lazy?

You met many lazy nurses, then?

 

[nicko31]

Truss's 'Britannia Unchained' 'budget' cost the taxpayer £40 BILLION - into the pockets of short sellers and hedge funds. The Daily Mail: 'At last! A proper Tory budget'. No apologies from either. If the £40 billion was recovered from the stinking vultures the pay rises would not be a problem. It's just a matter of the political guts to do it. There's hardly any lazy people any more. Just people doing three jobs who still can't pay their bills while others (including PL) wallow in wealth. It will change: perhaps not in my day, but it will.

Every morning I wake up and it feels like the Tories are doing to our country what Archer and Belotti did to our club in the 90's.

At some point we will hit rock bottom, they will be gone and renewal will start, but its a long way back

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Wow, some freeloading wanted there! Nurses, teachers etc paid for by tax increases, no food bank queues is a reasonable request. Warm homes/insulation, free for everyone? Cheap public transport. OK. Childcare for everyone? And papers that agree with you, mmmmmm.

Some of what you ask makes sense, but how would you differentiate between needy and lazy?

Paid for by tax increases, you say?

 

[AlbionBro]

Anybody heard Mr Sunak, splashing some cash on levelling up. He must be hoping this will land a few votes from those northern guys. I have to say he is coming over more human like today.

 

[The Clamp]

£19m to Richmond, a town in his own constituency so “the servicemen and women have a decent town centre to visit”

Huh?

The man is a f***ing thief and a bloody liar. Damn him and his party to Hell.

 

[Bob!]

Yes, all fine and above board, no?
Sunak's constituency gets 19m...

Labour analysis shows that London, which gets £151m, is getting more than both Yorkshire (£121m) and the north-east (£108m), while the south-east (£210m) is the second biggest recipient, allocated nearly twice as much as the north-east.
The biggest regional recipient is the north-west, which receives £350m of the funding pot, and is where the Conservatives are most vulnerable to losing marginal seats to Labour.

Rishi Sunak constituency bid raises ‘levelling up’ favouritism fears

Town in prime minister’s Yorkshire constituency to receive £19m from latest £2.1bn package, which Labour says overlooks neediest

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Clamp]

Watching his Q&A earlier, all the northern folk from North West were smitten with his money for female changing rooms (5.1 million on 20 changing rooms?) and a new town square.

“Eee, say what thee will about them Tory but that lovely Mr Sunak, e’s done reet good be us, we shall not be forgetting that come next elections. Nayer mind abat we can’t pays ooer bills, we’ll just put wood in th’ole and say ours prayers fe a grand summer ”

Forgetting that only a year ago he redirected funds from the North to wealthy areas in the south. And bragged about it. Arsehole.

 

[AlbionBro]

Yes, all fine and above board, no?
Sunak's constituency gets 19m...

Labour analysis shows that London, which gets £151m, is getting more than both Yorkshire (£121m) and the north-east (£108m), while the south-east (£210m) is the second biggest recipient, allocated nearly twice as much as the north-east.
The biggest regional recipient is the north-west, which receives £350m of the funding pot, and is where the Conservatives are most vulnerable to losing marginal seats to Labour.

Rishi Sunak constituency bid raises ‘levelling up’ favouritism fears

Town in prime minister’s Yorkshire constituency to receive £19m from latest £2.1bn package, which Labour says overlooks neediest

www.theguardian.com

To be fair to him he did say the northeast and west got the most per capita, he did come across like it was fact, and it seemed quite fair I thought. I am sure some political experts far more knowledgeable than us will out the truth though.

 

[The Clamp]

On the plus side, it has provided us with a rather lovely “Up The Arse Corner” moment….

 

[Brian Potter]

£19m to Richmond, a town in his own constituency so “the servicemen and women have a decent town centre to visit”

Huh?

The man is a f***ing thief and a bloody liar. Damn him and his party to Hell.

I think the servicemen and women at Catterick, and barracks all over, would rather have accommodation that was not freezing due to no working heating and flooded because the pipes then burst in a cold spell.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

In other news, Diane Abbot takes off her seat belt in a moving car to film a video. Prepare the pitchfo.......

Wait? What was that? Oh, it was Sunak. Sorry, as you were.

Rishi Sunak sorry for removing seat belt to film video

The PM's spokesman says he made an "error of judgment" while filming for social media in a moving car.

www.bbc.co.uk