it's a bit....
First rule of tory spending announcements isn’t it? Check how many times the same amount has already been announced, then check how many years it’s over, and when the funding starts.
Hadn't Shelter flagged up the social housing budget was the same money but was now over 8 instead of 5 years.
@Klunk I had thought the same thing.
Quick summary of today’s “rambunctious” speech…
If we let property developers (coincidently our donors) do what they want over the next ten years, it’ll help us deal with the economic impact of Coronavirus this year. And also hide a small part of the damage caused by No Deal Brexit on 31/12/20 whilst allowing our mates to trouser huge sums, just like we always wanted
You mostly nailed it, but I thought I could improve it. Like a hideous, out of character, gauche, postage stamps for gardens, crammed in, over-priced, Jerry built, housing development on the outskirts of a village with a tiny primary school, no bus service to speak of, two pubs and one shop.
The profiteering stupid ****s.
Maybe the lectern notice should have read: Bish – Bash – Bosh
Blah - Blah - Blah might have been more appropriate.
Is it pmqs tomorrow? Will SKS go after this? Seems like an open goal.
Would definitely use the H.O.P repair bill as a comparative.
There’s no new money at all. He’s basically packaged up every infrastructure project they’ve got and sold It as a ‘New Deal’
*!
He must think we’ve all just fallen out of a *ing tree
John Crace is always bang on with his analysis of Boris and Chums
https://twitter.com/johnjcrace/status/1278030381695086592?s=21
There’s no new money at all. He’s basically packaged up every infrastructure project they’ve got and sold It as a ‘New Deal’
Yep it’s a good game he loves to keep playing, now about about those promised 40 hospitals.
Must be bad if even the beeb are picking it apart...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/53236921?__twitter_impression=true
I'd been avoiding the Johnson for a while. When I saw him on the news I thought he really didn't look at all well.
The Beebs Reality Check regularly pulls things apart, but they rarely give it any prominence, and when they do, they get pulled apart for anti-government propaganda. 🤷♂️
When I saw him on the news I thought he really didn’t look at all well.
"This week, I have mainly been bullshitting about infrastructure."
Heseltine is presently being interviewed on Five Live. As you can imagine, he is absolutely tearing apart Joris Bohnsons pathetic speech yesterday, his centralisation of power at number 10 and pointing out the utter madness of going ahead with Brexit and piling more economic misery on top of the devastation of Covid.
He's correctly observing that they have learnt nothing from the 1980's and we're about to repeat the mistakes and return to the same levels of unemployment, and the same devastation in the same places.
I’d been avoiding the Johnson for a while. When I saw him on the news I thought he really didn’t look at all well
I can't bear to look at him or even listen to his voice, quite apart from the vapid mealy mouthed nonsense he spouts, his plummy affectations and received pronunciation makes me feel sick; a constant reminder that we ve not progressed at all and the upper class are still lording it up over us
And his pasty fat face disgusts me, he's a very odd man, he looks increasingly unhinged; like an Oxford footlights Benny hill impersonator and extra from one flew over the cuckoo's nest. That he's ostensibly leading the country is deeply shameful and profoundly embarrassing.
No I couldn't sit through one of his speeches, even if it's just hate watching or seeing him flounder when a police cadet faints behind him. We all know he's going to fall flat on his fat face politically but that's scant compensation for the pulverised country we ll be stuck with
He reminds me of Mungo from blazing saddles, although he doesn't have the strength to knock out a horse, or even complete a press up. Fat knacker
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So Heseltine thinks the Tory govt actions in the 80s were a mistake? Didn't seem too concerned at the time did he?
Re the FDR new deal- my economics & history memory is a bit vague after 30+ years, but I think although it got people working in the short term in the US, the UK's approach to economic stimulus in the early 1930s gave it a better recovery than the US. The UK didn't spend on infrastructure projects, but reduced taxes etc to encourage private sector growth.
he looks increasingly unhinged;
There might be something in that
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53081022
"It's clear now that this virus does cause problems in the brain whereas initially we thought it was all about the lungs. "
He reminds me of Mungo from blazing saddles, although he doesn’t have the strength to knock out a horse
Bojo just pawn in game of life.
So Heseltine thinks the Tory govt actions in the 80s were a mistake? Didn’t seem too concerned at the time did he?
He certainly did seem concerned at the time. To give him his due, Hezza constantly harangued Thatcher that the deindustrialised regions should see huge government investment not just be left to rot. He has been a lifelong advocate of power and money being devolved to the regions so that they can make their own spending decisions. She ignored him. He was also fiercely pro-EU too.
Actually... if you study his opinions, it's amazing to think he was ever a member of a Thatcher government. He didn't seem to agree with much that she did.
In fact he doesn't even fit in anywhere in the present Tory party. At the last election he was very clear that he had voted Lib Dem, and subsequently had the whip withdrawn. He's absolutely scathing about Boris Johnson and his Brexiteer chums
he looks increasingly unhinged;
There might be something in that
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53081022
“It’s clear now that this virus does cause problems in the brain whereas initially we thought it was all about the lungs. ”
Fair enough, the escaped mental patient look and demeanour owes a lot to his lockdown haircut (I suspect he was welcomed the opportunity or excuse to go full Einstein or Doc Emmett brown)
But I meant pre covid too. He's a weirdo. Remember the deeply strange gestures and hand movements he was making in that joint presser with leo varadker - like Elisa Lam/ the girl in the lift, the handcrafted buses, the football tackle that had Richard Ashcroft peeing himself in the background etc
His natural home is soda hosing booze dressed up in a toga and lighting fifty pound notes in front of the homeless, not leading a government
Marina Hyde is on form:
Marina Hyde is on form
Brilliant article.
He’s presently looking as bumbling and useless as ever at PMQ’s, unsuccessfully trying to bluster his way through, yet again. There’s lots of finger jabbing and banging on the despatch box. He’s also blatantly lying, as usual.
He really doesn’t like interacting with grown ups, does he?
‘What about the deaths?’
‘You should welcome the fact that we didn’t all die’
‘What about the jobs?’
‘You should welcome the fact that we are not all out of a job’
Marina Hyde is on form
She always is,along with John Crace .
Have a peep at the article that Binners linked.
Marina references that review of Johnson's pitiful Churchill book.
Always worth a read:
Boris is at it again... not letting the truth get in the way of a good story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53276461
"The PM's speech was pure fiction," Craig Bennett, head of the Wildlife Trusts, which runs conservation projects and education projects, told the BBC. It may sound funny referring to newts, but actually it was rather sinister. In the environment movement we know referring to newts is a dog whistle to people on the right of his party who want environmental protections watered down."
Lying little toad.
When that NS review came out I don't remember anyone else in the press putting the boot in. Shows what an easy ride they give him and I'm astonished that he didn't even bother to get some RW historian to check over his dictation. Talk about too arrogant or thick (or both) to know your own limitations or maybe that's what happens when you've spent a lifetime telling porkies on platforms and in newspapers, you just go on and do the same in books.
And yet, he still gets to use the li(n)es…
'We cannot edit our past'
'to lie about our history'
'We can't photoshop our history'
Probably a case of the publisher on the phone, again, lazy and hungover he gives a dictation.
“The PM’s speech was pure fiction,” Craig Bennett, head of the Wildlife Trusts, which runs conservation projects and education projects, told the BBC. It may sound funny referring to newts, but actually it was rather sinister. In the environment movement we know referring to newts is a dog whistle to people on the right of his party who want environmental protections watered down.”
Nudge, nudge. We're going to let developers rip up greenfield sites to stick closely packed oversized and max priced houses on them.
Affordability? Sustainability? Nah, **** that, we're letting our mates trouser the profits and everything that comes after (overburdened school, negative equity, poorly built, crumbling infrastructure) will be someone else's problem.
****ing cynical shits.
...and the building industry is renown for paying astronomical sums to its BoDs, how much of that will be taxpayers' money?
the newt reference is a complete lie, and indeed dog whistling of the highest order. the regs have been pretty much as they currently are since the early 80s. the failures in the provision of infrastructure of all types lies squarely with the management by governments past and present, it has nothing to do with newts, or any other ecological receptor. it also has absolutely nothing to do with the planning system, despite what cummings has been bleating on about. the planning system definitely isn't perfect, but it isn't the problem here.
more importantly, this is already being framed as a choice between development and sustainability. the idea that this is a choice is also a lie. we need both, and it can be done, but big changes are needed. in my view, the conservative party (and more than likely some politicians in other parties) will do everything within their power to prevent these changes from happening, as such changes will require future decisions to be made for the greater good, rather than the enrichment of themselves, and those who bankroll them.
So, to nobody's surprise, Boris...
...doesn't research any facts to write a "history" book
and
...doesn't research any facts to make a speech about how environmentalists can just go ahem themselves and we should build houses everywhere, millions of the ahems.
We had a housing estate built several years back in 'the village'. They had an ongoing newt count thing whist the construction went ahead, but the estate was never held up by the wildlife survey.
He's just been on LBC convincing everyone that No Deal is actually a good thing.
I suspect a revival of the No Deal is better than a bad deal mantra. Selling it to the public, blaming the EU / Remoaners, bit of distraction over here while his Dad ****s off to his holiday home in Greece via Bulgaria to get round those minor travel restrictions that are only for plebs....
I suspect a revival of the No Deal is better than a bad deal mantra. Selling it to the public, blaming the EU / Remoaners,
Yup,and selling it to the pleps after they have been beat down by Covid,perfect timing.
At least we are'all in it together'. 🙁
Eye Test Bummings and Senior Moments Johnson are not in it together with us.
The contempt with which this government holds us may yet come back to haunt them. One can hope. They've certainly given ammunition to their opponents.
will today's lectern have
DRINK DRINK DRINK on it ?
I'm hoping for
****, ARSE, GIRLS
Maybe they could jolly it up a bit with some colours, and make the writing look even more like a box of Daz than the Build Build Build one.
what, I can't quote father jack!?
No f-e-c-k-s allowed on here, down with that sort of thing.
I got a fortnight ban a few years ago for using f-e-c-k, despite it being used on national radio/tv.
what about ****less morons, can I say that?
Apparently I can.
What about ****le?
Well that's ok. I can at least state than Johnson is a ****less moron who ****les.
what, I can’t quote father jack!?
No fupping way!
