New planning rules – do whatever the hell you want. His developer buddies must be rubbing their hands with glee.
Yep. Race to the bottom. As if developers are going to provide 'affordable' housing unless someone holds a gun to their heads.
Farmer going out of business? No problem, sell your land to a developer and retire.
Developer rips up the greenfield site to stick as many boxy, overpriced bits of bricks and mortar tat on as possible. Mugs pay over the odds and saddle themselves with mortgages they can't pay.
Developers avoid 'brown field' sites like the plague as they usually have pre existing foundations or drainage that is costly to remove.
Net effect = countryside ruined, village facilities overwhelmed and inadequate, developer minted, developer buys a big country estate for himself and spends the rest of his days fighting against any development within five miles of his lovely country idyll.
Bloody crooks.
Developers avoid ‘brown field’ sites like the plague as they usually have pre existing foundations or drainage that is costly to remove.
Generally not as costly as getting new services / drainage / telecoms infrastructure to a greenfield site, but we won't let that get in the way of an otherwise good rant.
Generally not as costly as getting new services / drainage / telecoms infrastructure to a greenfield site, but we won’t let that get in the way of an otherwise good rant.
Even if that greenfield site is on the edge of an existing settlement?
Versus having to dig out / tunnel through / replace / detoxify foundations and derelict infrastructure from a factory demolished in the 1980s?
Can't see it myself.....
detoxify foundations
I was told that the land and development where Brentfords new stadium was built was bought for just £1 - the clean up costs ran into 10's if not £100m, so toxic land is usually built into the sale price as would other developers costs, so would nullify both your arguments 🤔
^^^^
If you were a major developer you would have all sorts of bods pricing stuff like that etc.
If you are one of the smaller 'have a go heroes' the current rabble seem to want to encourage one such screwup would bankrupt you.
And they know that farmers are going to be pushed closer to and eventually over the edge too, so prices for easy to rip up greenfield land may well fall.
https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1291244082145177600?s=20
Just an example of the kind of shenanigans going on at the moment under this kleptocracy. Its only one example, apparently there's been no end of multi million pound contracts for PPE awarded to start up companies with zero track record of working in the area but a good track record of being either advisors to the Gov't or mates of Dom.
Many of these companies have zero track record in anything, having been set up purely to steal public money, the suspension of compettitive tendering due to Covid providing a perfect cloak. As corrupt as Putin or the Lebanese Gov't.
So how do we stop this?
Kryton.
Bombers I'm afraid. It's the only option left.
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apparently there’s been no end of multi million pound contracts for PPE awarded to start up companies with zero track record of working in the area but a good track record of being either advisors to the Gov’t or mates of Dom.
Apparently...
£186m to Uniserve. PPE not delivered
£116m to P14 Medical Supplies, with assets of just £145. PPE not delivered
£108m to PestFix, with just 16 employees. PPE not delivered
£107m to Clandeboye Agencies, a sweet wholesaler. Yes, a sweet wholesaler. PPE not delivered.
£40m to Medicine Box Ltd, with assets of just £6000. PPE not delivered.
£48m to Initia Ventures Ltd, which registered itself as “dormant” in March. PPE not delivered.
£28m to Monarch Acoustics, which makes shop furniture. PPE not delivered
£25m to Luxe Lifestyle, which has no employees, no assets, and no turnover. PPE not delivered
£18m to Aventis Solutions, which has total assets of £332. Not a typo, £332. PPE not delivered
£10m to Medco Solutions, incorporated just 3 days after lockdown, with share capital of (not a typo) £2. PPE not delivered.
This is surely enough to bring down a government?
Not a chance.
Most people honestly dont care.
A friend is adamant that Boris is/has done great in this crisis. If I told him about those millions above he would just excuse it in some way. He doesn't care.
More than simply not caring you have to consider that there's many who consent to a bit of demagoguery. It's what those that voted for Johnson voted for. As corrupt and unconstitutional as rhey are, the Government are actng with the consent of the electorate.
The constituency that helped to bring down the red wall by voting Tory exemplify this. They were prepared to vote against their class instincts and economic interests to give consent to a mob that they knew were going to break the rules. For them the ends justify the means regardless of legality or morality.
colournoise - you're wrong to assert that PPE has not been delivered; much has been but - a lot arrived after the peak requirement and is taking up space in warehouses. This calls into question the gov's use of emergency procurement under the Public Contracts Regs.
Some of the supplied test certificates are not reliable so stock cannot be safely used.
Some deliveries have been rejected by NHS testing.
Much of the warehoused stock hasn't been tested yet so cannot be issued.
None of the contracts will provide for any financial redress and are likely to have been let with significant up-front payments.
Don't forget Ayanda Capital who received the biggest order at c£250 million as Andrew Mills (see below) said they had existing payment mechanisms in place which implies that he didn't.
Mills - adviser to both the Board of Trade and Ayanda - claimed that his company, Prospermill, which was incorporated in Feb 2019 with £100 share capital had '...secured exclusive access to the production capacity of a large Chinese factory'.
I call that a lie and look forward to him proving his statement.
I have seen it said on here that Sunak is the only one who is coming out of the current fiasco with any credibility. He is in the job because his predecessor wouldn’t do as Cummings told, and he does, just another sycophant for the puppet master.
Everyone loves the person dishing out the cash,it’ll be a different story a few months after furlough finishes unless the money tree keeps shaking 🙁
Most people honestly dont care.
A friend is adamant that Boris is/has done great in this crisis. If I told him about those millions above he would just excuse it in some way. He doesn’t care.
Yep weird, they buy into the ‘dream’ and are blind to what is actually happening.
We’re sat centre stage in the middle of the ‘Emperors New Clothes‘.
As corrupt and unconstitutional as rhey are, the Government are actng with the consent of the electorate.
This is the unfortunate truth. Everyone knew what Boris was, many people knew how dishonest and corrupt vote.leave was, but they still voted for him in droves, and he's still way ahead in the polls.
One of the richest countries in the world with some of the worst excess deaths from a virus we had plenty of prior warning about, doling out tens of millions to it's mates to provide non existent PPE to our frontline workers who are crying out for it, while not returning phone calls of companies who actually make PPE.
And we know how much people like admitting they made a terrible, terrible choice.....
This country is in big trouble.
This country is in big trouble.
Particularly when it was done by encouraging people to indulge their inner racist/xenophobe.
That genie can't be put back in the bottle.
What could come next after this current rabble have taken their ill gotten gains and ****ed off overseas is truly frightening.
Not a good advert for Oxford. Half of these incompetents have got degrees in PPE.
colournoise – you’re wrong to assert that PPE has not been delivered; much has been but
Absolutely. Should have been clearer, they're not my words. I was quoting from Russ and his #theweekintory tweets. Apologies.
http://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1288475848748740608?s=19
Reality is far scarier than art these days…
https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1293080952974053376?s=21
That photo… needs to be on ledbydonkeys bill boards.
Anyone know where Boris is?
I can't remember the last time I saw him on TV / doing / saying anything.
Perhaps we should send someone around to No. 10 to shout 'Are you OK?' through the letterbox.
Anyone know where Boris is?
Hiding. Letting his inept subordinates screw things up and take all the blame. Cumstains is probably ordering him to stay out of sight. He's probably feeding him a ration of vodka to keep him calm. Not too much, not too little, just enough to keep him quiet.
He's chilling out somewhere chuckling to himself about how the great British public would still vote for him in droves despite the utter shit show he's supposedly in charge of.
Trying to out-do Corbyn as 'least visible party leader' ever?
Being debriefed by Putin before the Brexit hits the fan?
Technology lessons?
Perhaps we should send someone around to No. 10 to shout ‘Are you OK?’ through the letterbox.
Let's hope the **** has popped his clogs.
Do these companies have to show accounts or hand back anything not spent? I suspect not.
I can’t remember the last time I saw him on TV / doing / saying anything.
Perhaps we should send someone around to No. 10 to shout ‘Are you OK?’ through the letterbox.
I hope he's remembered to cancel the milk.
he's probably sporting another shiner.
Apparently on holiday in Scotland.
Before it becomes an independent country and refuses him entry.
Can MI5 have him arrested when he re-enters England on charges of conspiring with foreign powers to the detriment of the UK?
Given the amount of 'dubious' (downright dirty) russian money the tories have accepted in 'donations' (bribes) to push a destabilising agenda, I reckon we the people might have an even chance of getting a charge to stick....
Let’s hope the **** has popped his clogs.
My worry is that we'll find his body in a rarely used room, and the cat will have eaten half his face.
My worry is that we’ll find his body in a rarely used room, and the cat will have eaten half his face.
I have other things I'm more worried about to be honest. I forgot to buy celery for instance.
though she voted green at the last GE, mother has always liked Bozo. She said today on the phone "he doesn't seem up to the Job!"
Yes, ma and pa Gammon are finally starting to see the chinks in his armour. Ma Gammon even stated she'd never vote Tory again over their handling of the Covid crisis. She still thinks Brexit is a good idea though.
She still thinks Brexit is a good idea though.
I'm sure she does until it slaps her in the gammon chops as a consequence of both the event itself and its horrendous mismanagement at the hands of these sociopaths.
My worry is that we’ll find his body in a rarely used room, and the cat will have eaten half his face.
I reckon I'd be able to get over that.
I’m sure she does until it slaps her in the gammon chops as a consequence of both the event itself and its horrendous mismanagement at the hands of these sociopaths.
If I thought it would make a difference I'd slap her in the gammon chops.
Wait, he's up here? Ah of course we're past the glorious 12th he'll be bagging birds.
And maybe get a bit of shooting in.
Yep...
Hmmm robust...Didn’t last long
It’s like watching a slow moving accident or perhaps a pantomime. Behind you !!
On every opportunity they’ve sleep walked into a disaster with everyone pretty much shouting from the rooftops that there’s problem on the track but they still manage full steam ahead to inch into it.
All the papers focusing on Frank Spencer really
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-53829638
there he is - just left of "reunion"
You are doing a disservice to rats (of all sorts).
Has the Star ever been critical of Boris before? They normally run a front page with some distracting tinsel stuck to it whenever Boris is any sort of hot water.
borises disappearing tricks normally succeed in leaving it to other ministers to be the one that has to field the questions when things go wrong so that the egg is publicly on their face rather than his. So quite unusual for the Star to shift the focus back to him
it is more daily mash than daily star
