So, the government get Henry Dimbleby to put a report together for a white paper on future UK food policy. He proposes an extension of free school meals, tackling climate change with a reduction of meat and dairy consumption and a tax on salty and sugary foods to address obesity
But the government decide to completely ignore all that and suggest that instead, we should all eat more venison
Literally, let them eat deer
https://twitter.com/clearrealist/status/1535424265138237440?s=21&t=UMnEDBH5tfm0VDdKYnB8vw
Well that'll keep those poor folk in Ambridge in business for a while then.
The problem with venison and the cost of living crisis is that it is awfully deer (IGMC)
Everything coming off the tory bench is a whiff of an idea with no substance to try and keep Boris in power and/or a dead cat.
At the same time, this is rumbling on: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/housing/east-anglia-green-pylons-national-grid-norfolk-villages-8966724
Green my arse.
Government minister (Heather Wheeler - so probably one you haven't heard of) describes Blackpool and Birmingham as 'godawful'😂
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61767856
The whole 'levelling up' thing definitely isn't bullshit...
I can't think what it/they were, but I'm sure there were other Tory policy "one liners" since '10 where they could be construed as one thing for Tories and their donators and then given weak alternative explanations as regards the greater good of the nation.
"Levelling up" to me seems more like trying to make the Tory supporting rich more equal with the world rich.
Yeah, although Blackpool is objectively godawful.
At the same time, this is rumbling on: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/housing/east-anglia-green-pylons-national-grid-norfolk-villages-8966724
/blockquote>We need more power at as low a cost as reasonable due to current economic conditions. Those bitching about the overhead lines could opt to pay more for their electricity if they want the route diverted, but guess what they won't. The usual those with a little expecting everyone else to pay for their comfort. It's being buried in Dedham Vale an AoNB but overground everywhere else, where there is all ready an overhead transmission line that is currently being updated with new cable and insulators.
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1535699386491092994?t=-5Y6cdjOBkOjXb4Ad6KD-A&s=1
Lol at the typo.
Thanks Binners. Time had almost purged that Dougie Wallace photo essay from my mind.
Thanks Binners. Time had almost purged that Dougie Wallace photo essay from my mind.
I’d never seen it, now where is this fabled place,looks fun 🙂
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Binners - where is this Northern Riviera?
A place to be avoided.
Anyway issues with the stag do ‘culture’ not the location.
My m8’s family make him go to center parcs which he refers to as posh butlins,he’d rather go to butlins and not pay the posh premium:-)
Anyway your leaders a bullingdon boy he’d love to get hammered in Blackpool or butlins.
A great analysis of the present Tory party situation by Andrew Rawnsley in this mornings Observer.
Basically, Boris has successfully stuffed the senior ranks of the party with so many useless mediocrities that they’re all too spineless to do anything about him, and even if they did have the will, they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone a successful leadership campaign
Boris Johnson’s spineless cabinet of mediocrities are too feeble to wield the dagger
What a state to end up in as a country? The worst PM in history, by a country mile, who’s there because those around him are so crap that they can’t get rid of him
The only redeeming feature for us poor mugs is that though he regards the title of PM as his birthright, he has absolutely zero interest in actually doing the job
The worst PM in history, by a country mile
So not just worse than Thatcher but worse than any other PM in history, by a country mile.
I'm getting excited by the thought of Liz Truss becoming PM now. Or whatever other thatcherite right-winger they decide to choose.
Edit: Although apparently voters think that the worse PM in history, by a country mile, makes a better PM than the current Labour leader would. So might have to wait a while 😟
I stuck a tenner on the Poundshop Fatcha being the next Tory leader about six months ago. It’s got that air of inevitability about it.
The senile old racists in Eastbourne that constitute the Tory membership literally wet themselves when they see her driving around in tanks and doing her best Iron Lady impressions
A shoe in.
I imagine her Premiership will finally achieve what Boris has longed for all his life, by making him look like Winston Churchill in comparison. The woman is so dense, light bends around her
Edit: Although apparently voters think that the worse PM in history, by a country mile, makes a better PM than the current Labour leader would. So might have to wait a while 😟
It's not a good look for Starmzy. Imagine the bar being that low.
The woman is so dense, light bends around her
🤣
I love that Government is always so far behind the times, finally recognising that Netflix exists and is apparently something to aspire to
The news quiz on Friday r4 covered this brilliantly. eg: if the NHS runs on netflix lines, will it be "if you enjoyed that heart bypass why not try a hip replacement?" And if you don't get off the table quickly enough at the end of the operation then they start another for you
Yep Netflix lines, health subscription service, with a wait time depending on whether you took the HD version or not.
It’s a myth that Britain doesn’t have a revolutionary past: the Civil War, Chartism, General Strike
Barons's wars, glorious revolution, peasant's revolt..?
I stuck a tenner on the Poundshop Fatcha being the next Tory leader about six months ago.
I imagine her Premiership will finally achieve what Boris has longed for all his life, by making him look like Winston Churchill in comparison.
So you feel that the worse PM in history, by a country mile, will soon be replaced by someone who will make him look like the PM that many consider to be the greatest ever.
Well as a harbinger of relentless doom and gloom and apocalyptic prophecies perhaps you should revisit that appropriate scene in you favourite movie binners and listen very carefully to the lyrics:
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Come on
Always look on the right side of life
It’s a myth that Britain doesn’t have a revolutionary past: the Civil War, Chartism, General Strike
TBH I didn’t realise the suffragettes were actually doing a little bombing and arson,
So you feel that the worse PM in history, by a country mile, will soon be replaced by someone who will make him look like the PM that many consider to be the greatest ever.
We've been going down this route for years. Cameron - not the worst but pretty poor - oh look, now we've got Theresa May who is really bad, surely things can't get worse?
Oh, yes they can here's Boris.
I mean, it really is the thin end of the wedge when you look back at Theresa May and think "you know what, maybe she wasn't that awful after all..."
And any of the current list of possibles will all be even worse than Dear Boris. Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries... We're truly royally screwed.
What a state to end up in as a country? The worst PM in history, by a country mile, who’s there because those around him are so crap that they can’t get rid of him
Caught up with our old pre-Covid friendship group last night for a BBQ, and this was the universally accepted description
And any of the current list of possibles will all be even worse than Dear Boris. Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries…
At last a bit of good news....... things could be a lot worse.
We should all be celebrating that despite attempts to replace him Johnson is still PM.
That's really cheered me up and thanks for reminding me
Copying the US again- Trump made GW look like an intellectual heavyweight
The interview with Chris Patten is worth a read in todays Observer. He’s pretty scathing about Boris and his useless cabal of ‘Ideologue's and nutjobs’
The former Conservative party chairman and current rebellious Tory peer was dismayed to see the “Johnson cult still hanging on”. He described the government as “shameful and seedy”. “The most depressing thing is I’ve been watching interviews with ministers this evening,” he said, “and the titles alone are so depressing. Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. And nobody should ever see the words ‘Nadine Dorries’ and ‘culture secretary’ in the same sentence.”
“What I should say,” he said, “is that we don’t have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party which is populist, but – fatally – without being popular.”
you can’t help but reflect on an essential loss of rigour in Britain’s dealings with the world; contrast the likes of Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Ri****d as foreign secretaries with the incumbent, Liz Truss.
OK now we are arguing about the arguing
No we’re not.
Well you should be. People like you are part of the problem because…..reasons….
So now you're arguing about arguing about arguing ?
which is populist, but – fatally – without being popular.
If only that were actually true. The Tories are currently polling about 33-34% which isn't too bad for any UK ruling party midterm.
And when coupled with the latest poll which finds that more people believe Johnson makes a better prime minister than Keir Starmer would suggests that evidence of lack of popularity is rather thin on the ground.
Obviously things might change if Johnson does something stupid. Or Starmer suddenly realises that "not being a member of the Tory Party" isn't good enough.
Everything coming off the tory bench is a whiff of an idea with no substance to try and keep Boris in power and/or a dead cat.
With bonus points if it anti-net-zero and sticking it to climate change alarmists. Pretty clear what kind of ‘red meat’ they think will help Johnson shore up his support, even if it alarms most of rest of the population. Wonder what Carrie thinks of it all…?
The Tories are currently polling about 33-34% which isn’t too bad
Who did the research? Anything from you.gov should be treated with a shovel full of salt as they're a Tory PR organisation not a polling company.
Who did the research?
On who would make the best PM? Opinium.
It’s reasonable to accept that Johnson has engineered a slight bump in opinion of him, the government have packed out front page headlines with “delivery” messages… (mostly with a announcements about things they haven’t and probably won’t deliver on, but hey). Many people are “moving on”, and buying the “at least he gets things done, even when lawyers, backbench MPs, the EU, the establishment… try and stand in the way”. What he’s getting down is, and will, but negatively effecting their own lives… but hey… he’s still the best person to keep digging the UK a deeper hole.
Who did the research?
In this case me. All the national poll results are listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
Click on "national poll results". YouGov only represents a very small minority of the national polls.
It's now at 342 pages of telling me what I already knew. Blotus is crap along with his self serving scum party. If I may say, saying Keir is worse or not as mouthy as Blotus is a reason if any to vote for him. I'd rather see an intelligent measured person than a slogan based populist that has failed to deliver anything. Personally I'd vote anyone to get these liars out...
JeZ
I feel that Johnson's candidacy for worst PM is based on quite different criteria to what puts other candidates in with a chance at the title. Many of the others in a chance for the title were awful because they effectively carried out their awful agenda. Johnson is awful because he's a mendacious populist who despite his majority seems disinterested in actually doing much other than remaining in position, apparently mistaking announcing policies for achieving them.
Thatcher had dangerous goals but could do the job, Johnson seems to have few goals beyond retaining the job (and whatever things his advisors tell him will go down well with the public, for as long as they generate positive press) but does not seem to be actually any good at doing the job itself.
Huh, I say down to type more or less exactly what ChrisL just said. Johnson's legacy, other than "getting brexit done" will be mostly the fact that we don't have a functioning government. The lost years on energy policy alone will be a massive blow- Cameron/Osborne were bad on this but Johnson's government is doing essentially nothing.
Well, nothing that we can see anyway. My guess is they're all beavering away behind the scenes making sure that their own nests are fully stocked for when the crap inevitably starts flying around. There's been lots of chipping away at rights for us lot going on that will only really come to light when we have a change of government, the skeletons in the closet from this lot are going to be measured in very high numbers.
This government has been implementing an agenda, in the background without scrutiny as everyone looks at the clowns antics. The opposition need to be focussing on the policies, and tying them into the governments character as an additional indication of why the policies are failing the majority of people.
There’s been lots of chipping away at rights for us lot going on that will only really come to light when we have a change of government, the skeletons in the closet from this lot are going to be measured in very high numbers.
Yep, there's been almost nothing positive at all.
The Government has basically been crippled since the Brexit vote - that paralysed "oh shit, Leave won!" feeling that dragged on and on while everyone tried to rationalise it and work out exactly what "Brexit" was since no-one had bothered to calculate that beforehand. Covid certainly had a bit to do with it although more down to the catastrophically shit response from a still-paralysed Government in general.
A lot of positive announcement stuff which is then quietly rolled back or ignored. The whole "levelling up" thing, well absolutely nothing has come of that. HS2 has been progressively pared back on the quiet, NPR is basically no more, the 40 hospitals was never going to happen anyway... A few half-arsed policies. Nothing actually delivered other than stripping away more rights, it's not far off outright fascism.
And their sole issue now seems to be staying in power as long as possible, no matter the damage to the country.
I get the impression that Boris thinks of writing policy in the same way as writing his Telegraph column.
Rattle a few paragraphs together after a long lunch, chuck it out there, hope it grabs a few headlines and that’s that. Job jobbed!
It wouldn’t ever cross his mind that there was more required than that. Maybe a photo op in a hi-viz jacket if he’s really making an effort, but that’s your lot
I’d say that we should be thankful he’s so bloody lazy, but unfortunately the years of aimless drifting with a yawning vortex where the government is meant to be is going to have serious long term implications
Johnson’s legacy, other than “getting brexit done”
Even in parentheses, this seems like a generous assessment.