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Is there anyone left that him or Mad Nad haven't threatened with privatisation?
It's quite quaint, in an 80's retro sort of way, that they think that's going to solve anything. Thick as mince, the pair of them
Who says they think it'll solve anything? It's not about improving the service really, is it.
Fair point
Who says they think it’ll solve anything? It’s not about improving the service really, is it.
Precisely.
Ah, the muddy waters are becoming clearer 🙄
Serco have to be one of the front runners to operate a private sector Passport Office, no?
Anyway… that appointment…
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/home-office-names-new-passports-and-visas-dg
Note mention of the thing that must not be mentioned [begins with B] as regards the increased workload for a department known to be already understaffed.
Brainbox Grant Schapps has proposed - as part of this ‘innovative new thinking’ Boris requested - having an MOT every two years instead of every year to tackle the cost of living crisis
That’s it folks. Cost of living crisis sorted! Job jobbed!
We can all sit back and relax…
Christ on a ****ing bendybus!
Serco.
Nuff said.
Over-tender, under-resource, take a dividend / exec salary, under-deliver, repeat until you've totally screwed it up and then walk off into the sunset whilst the operation is nationalised in all but name, with the public purse footing the bill.
Truss will be wetting her knickers at this kind of thing.
Privatise the profits and nationalise the losses. Tory wet dream.
Grant Schapps
In any normal work environment he would have the nickname 'Taps'.
Thick
As
Pig
Shit
And he'd never figure it out.
Brainbox Grant Schapps has proposed – as part of this ‘innovative new thinking’ Boris requested – having an MOT every two years instead of every year to tackle the cost of living crisis
Great so the poorest (who could struggle to legally maintain a vehicle can run around for longer in a potential deathtrap) to save £50 every second year, meanwhile energy has doubled and food is up significantly
Great so the poorest (who could struggle to legally maintain a vehicle can run around for longer in a potential deathtrap) to save £50 every second year, meanwhile energy has doubled and food is up significantly
Yep, but they're appealing to idiots, so par for the course.
And he’d never figure it out.
He would just think its another name to use for a web spamming campaign.
Lets take half of every MOT test centres business away!
It’s like Alan Partridge shouting out programme ideas
The next Tory manifesto… literally Monkey Tennis
Note mention of the thing that must not be mentioned [begins with B] as regards the increased workload for a department known to be already understaffed.
Fancy that.
I saw something pop up on Facecloth from an acquaintance of mine. He's a Brexie, but of the cheerful nobhead kind who combines low grade oi oi nationalism with a totally unfounded optimism.
He was saying how we really ought to do more for St George's Day, get behind England blah blah, lots of English flags and roses etc.
I pointed out that, as St George was born in modern day Turkey it is likely that, if he appeared in England today, he would be sent to Rwanda for 'processing'.
I know he is basically a well-meaning peckerhead, but he has a lot of red-faced, angry footie mates who have not taken the bait yet. I'm surprised by this to say the least. And a little disappointed.
I’m going to watch only fools and horses all day today, justifying it at work that it’s definitely connected to my Sales function. I’m sure I’ll be fine…
even the Tories dont want you to vote Tory
https://twitter.com/cllralankopitko/status/1519101131640684545
^^^^
Unpatriotic traitor!
even the Tories dont want you to vote Tory
But not once does Alan Kopitko mention Johnson in that letter, his problem seems to be Dominic Raab.
Nor does he mention that last month he appeared perfectly happy to remain a Tory councillor, until the party decided not to select him as a candidate again.
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/councillor-claims-local-conservative-party-23324339
It comes after he received an email in October from the branch chair for Cobham & Oxshott Conservatives, Catherine Davies, about not being re-selected to stand in the local elections in two months time
I haven't had time to listen to R4 this morning. Too busy with work, but I'm a hand-wringing liberal elitist who doesn't drive a van, so that's tough on me I guess.
Anyhoo...
Who was rota'd in for 'Dick of The Day' today?
Shapps? Jenrick?
'Dick of the day'? Are you referring to the senior Tory MP watching porn on the green benches?
its only wednesday lunchtime and the guy that writes ThisWeekInTory must be exhuasted
Who was rota’d in for ‘Dick of The Day’ today?
The bit I caught was Raab lying that Covid caused the backlog of cases in the courts system and being allowed to get away with it.
The bit I caught was Raab lying that Covid caused the backlog of cases in the courts system and being allowed to get away with it.
Raab seems to have more leeway than the usual rent-a-tools like Shapps.
I presume it was a day that required using up one of Dildo Dom's enhanced 'do not scrutinise this bullshit' passes. They must be worried about something.
Steady on with the insulting of the base for bolognaise sauce there, Binners!
It's a black hole of ignorance, bright ideas will fail to escape.
Edit @Ernie Have a re-read of para 7 in the letter.
Thanks sandwich, yes indeed the last 2 words in his letter is "Boris's Conservatives", not exactly the most damning criticism of Johnson just as calling Labour "Starmer's Labour" wouldn't be a huge criticism of Starmer, but he does nevertheless mention Johnson.
However 5 weeks ago he claimed that he had resigned from the Conservative Group because they hadn't selected him. From the link at the top :
Cllr Kopitko, 64, tweeted after the meeting: "So tonight I publicly resigned from the Elmbridge conservative group. Why?.. In an email from a Conservative branch chair apparently thinks I'm too old to represent them."
He doesn't seem completely sure why he's resigned but I think it's probably fair to assume that had they reselected him he wouldn't have resigned. After all he himself says that was the problem.
He tried to stand again on a “local policies, not national policies” ticket, because of the bin fire that is this government, led by Johnson. He’s been deselected, with his age given as a reason, but lack of loyalty to the national government has been implied. But it’s very clear in his letter that he thinks Johnson and his lying and conduct in office is a very good reason to vote against the Conservatives. Whatever his reasoning privately, he is publicly calling for people to vote for the party most likely to beat the Conservatives (something everyone should be thinking of doing) and citing the actions and untrustworthiness of Johnson and his government as a reason.
So more of our rights were taken away from us last night
https://twitter.com/marinapurkiss/status/1519549720892522498?s=21&t=LFPR4lTEEQR3F7mo0pUGVw
I’m seriously worried that he’ll be in power for another 5-6 years. God help us.
So more of our rights were taken away from us last night
Bloody hell, that's huge! How has that sneaked under the radar?
Tbh I’d be surprised, probably depends on how much of the covid timeline/history they can rewrite before that ‘inquiry’.
The issue is that whoever is in charge will have a useful set of tools to use to do whatever they want.
Pretty funny whilst publicly decrying Russia they enact laws to ensure they can implement their own version,
I’m seriously worried that he’ll be in power for another 5-6 years. God help us.
If that is the case we're screwed. The damage he will do to UK democracy to save his filthy hide will be abused by someone who actually knows what they are doing.
Bloody hell, that’s huge! How has that sneaked under the radar?
Dangerw*nks, Rayner's legs, MoTs every two years etc etc.
Bloody hell, that’s huge! How has that sneaked under the radar?
It wasn’t. they don’t need to sneak with a moosive majority.
I think there has to be a crowdfunding to buy channel4.
You need to be setting up the resistance now 🙁
The Guardian flagged it up when it was proposed
Anger grows at Tory move to weaken power of election watchdog
From the day he got into number ten it’s been open season on the democratic norms. When he said he wanted to be ‘World King’ he meant it. It’s clear that he has no time for the normal unwritten parts of the constitution, which he can just ignore, but he’s also set about dismantling the legally binding checks and balances that he can’t just ignore.
Johnson and those around him clearly believe that their should be no constraints whatsoever on the power of the executive (them) in the UK
He’s getting away with it because people think that dictators all look like Putin, but ‘Boris’ has got scruffy hair and he’s funny, so he couldn’t possibly be one, could he?
But underneath, they both share the same opinion… that they can do what the hell they like, without constraint, and should be accountable to nobody
Ah 2024 will soon be with us. Orwell was slightly out on his dates 🙂
The MPs I follow on that there twitter have been banging on about this for a long time now. No one listens to MPs though, as "they're all as bad as each other"... etc, etc. The warning that Johnson and his crew are seeking to disable/disarm anything that stands in their way... from Judicial Review to the Electoral Commission... from Channel4 to the BBC... from the Standards Committee to the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests... from Ofcom to the Boundary Commission... from the Right to Protest to the Right to Appeal... has been shouted loudly and clearly ever since he ousted May. Checks and balances aren't for them. The public might find them out if they are allowed to function.
Pretty funny whilst publicly decrying Russia they enact laws to ensure they can implement their own version,
This is the thing that needs pushing. A nice timeliness of legislation eroding our democratic freedoms compared to a timeliness showing how Putin did it. Or Hitler in the 1930s.
The MPs I follow on that there twitter have been banging on about this for a long time
And there's part of the issue. I don't do Twitter, I get my news from FB and more mainstream media sites, and it's so buried its too easy to miss. Spreading peoes range of information sources is obviously a good thing in many ways, but too easy to be swamped.
The public might find them out if they are allowed to function.
Which can't be allowed to happen because the flagship policy is damaging for 99% of the population.
The next Tory leader will be a rabid Brexiteer. They have to be:
Cameron - Remainer and 'smooth' PR man. No way he way going to go through with it.
May - Remainer but with enough of a nasty edge to keep the loons happy. But ultimately she knew how damaging a full on hard Brexit would be. Easy to undermine.
Johnson - Leaver, but totally opportunistic. He would have backed any policy if it got him closer to power. But he's a bellend, so his incompetence can be blamed on his bellendery.
Next - will have to be a dyed in the wool Leaver. As the Brexit car crash escalates (we've a long way to go yet, folks) there will have to be some kind of media censorship to deflect, distract and lie.
In the end, the whole rotten shitshow will collapse and we'll have to start being grown ups again, accepting the UK's place in the 21st century world and making some friends. The end and the descent into it will claim a lot of victims.
🤷♂️
but too easy to be swamped.
Most people aren't swamped though, mot folk pare down their news feeds to stuff they find acceptable. That's why FB's newsfeed is designed like it is.
I don’t do Twitter
I wouldn't advise anyone to start using Twitter now. But, back in the day, I decided to ensure my feed has a wide range of political views by following MPs and local councillors from all parties. Many of which will never even get a mention on national or local news. It's changed a bit now, as so many of the interesting and considered Tory and Lib-Dem politicians are now ex-politicians. Still plenty of Tweeters from the other parties worth following. People get a very strong view of politicians from the media based on hearing very little from the actual politicians, beyond those elevated to a position of media fog horn.