I'd grab it while you can fella. They certainly will.
I'm dreading next year under these bastards. They're going to crucify us. Again.
I just still can't believe they got so many people up here to vote for it.
Turkeys... christmas....
So today we add to the list with the Priti Patel decision:
Breaking lockdown laws, fine
Handing vast sums to mates' companies with no oversight, fine
Taking backhanders for development decisions, fine
Bullying, fine
What a great example to the country.
FFS another freeze on public sector workers, I'm still waiting on the 'cost of living' one I was supposed to get in August 2019 which was going to be less than 1.5% at that point. So I got sweet FA then, I'm getting sweet FA now and nothing to make up for the bit in between when there wasn't a financial crisis but we still had inflation. Anyone else noticed the cost of normal goods hasn't gone down?
In the meantime I've now got more work than ever, a massive new project on the horizon, no extra staff to work on it and wages that are falling even further behind private sector so we can't compete to employ people.
We are entering The Second Age of Austerity.
This'll make the first ideological purge seem like a picnic on a fine summer's day.
Boris Johnson's actual words on the MPs WhatsApp group...
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1329751236074237952?s=20
'The Prittster'? Christ on a *ing bendybus, I despise these *s!!
‘The Prittster’?
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She's certainly sticking around.
I wouldn't call her safe and solvent free though...
Love the "form a square" reference, definitely on brand with current rose tinted days of empire and military spending thinking.
All the Tories will be watching Zulu tonight no doubt.
News thump on form today with this take on it
School bully unintentionally takes dinner money from five pupils and punches another
Ahem... Rorkes Drift wasn't a square... they would need to watch Waterloo... or the 28th regiment at quatre bras...
I know pedantic...
I never thought there'd be a time when I'd be pointing out how right Gavin Williamson was.
Nice to see the victim-blaming and 'woke left' conspiracy theories from the Tory MPs who heeded the 'form a square around the Prittster' call.
Jeez I hadn't realised it was anti-bullying week. This government really are beyond satire. :-/
They’re trolling us
The non-apology is as hard-faced as it gets. I’m sorry if you interpreted me shouting and swearing and belittling you as bullying, I was just being hard-working
The jury have come back with a guilty verdict so we've jailed the jury. British justice, envy of the world
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Ahem… Rorkes Drift wasn’t a square… they would need to watch Waterloo… or the 28th regiment at quatre bras…I know pedantic…
It's ok, in a pedant too.Lol It did occur to me that they didn't form a square there but it was the first film of empire that came to mind.
I’m sorry if you interpreted me shouting and swearing and belittling you as bullying, I was just being hard-working
If there is any justice in the world she will 'get hers' at some point, like most bullies do.
Perhaps one of her victims will just chin her.
But the PM says that she didn’t bully anyone. Caesar has spoken. His word is truth no matter what the evidence, report, findings… etc.
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According to the Tory MP’s rushing to defend her, she was just ‘being direct’ as she was frustrated.
So if we all get frustrated with someone in work then it’s fair game to shout and swear at them, and that’s all fine.
Righto
Only if the PM has your back. Your past pronouncements about him suggest to me that he might not be willing to make wrong right, and lies truth, for you.
As for no-one telling patel that her behaviour was unacceptable, interesting that Philip Rutnam is, effectively, calling her a liar...
Issuing a statement exclusively to the BBC, he says: "As early as August 2019, the month after her appointment, she was advised that she must not shout and swear at staff.
"I advised her on a number of further occasions between September 2019 and February 2020 about the need to treat staff with respect."
So much for government being held to a higher standard; complete bollocks - a different standard, certainly.
What about patel having any self-awareness; you know, asking herself if it's acceptable to shout and swear at staff.
Further confirmation, if any was need, that johnson and his polyps are arrogant, ignorant, self-serving hypocrites - that's a polite description.
Have any of the Ministerial Code five deadly sins NOT been broken since the foreword by the PM was published in August?
There must be no bullying and no harassment; no leaking; no breach of collective responsibility. No misuse of taxpayer money and no actual or perceived conflicts of interest. The precious principles of public life enshrined in this document – integrity, objectivity, accountability, transparency, honesty and leadership in the public interest – must be honoured at all times; as must the political impartiality of our much admired civil service.
Boris is ever-dependable. In that whatever he clearly states one day, can be discarded in a heartbeat when it no longer suits him.
This is usually when rules that he has made are then expected to be applied to him and his mates.
Cummings and Jenrick being two other recent examples
Rules, like taxes, are apparently only for the little people
Have any of the Ministerial Code five deadly sins NOT been broken since the foreword by the PM was published in August?
Yeah, but he didn't mean a single word of it. He probably doesn't remember it either, as he was most likely pissed when it was drafted for him.
Lies, lies, lies.
So she wasn’t aware that her behaviour was bullying cos she wasn’t told? If you need to be told that shouting and swearing isn’t acceptable then you’re not really cut out to hold that position. Oh, hold on this is the Tory cabinet we’re discussing.
Id’d like Starmer to start PMQs with the most viscous foul mouthed rant at Boris. When challenged he should just say “Sorry, didn’t think that would be seen as bullying” and leave PMQs at that.
So she wasn’t aware that her behaviour was bullying cos she wasn’t told?
Well its not like she is home secretary and hence in charge of a legal system which works on the notion that ignorance of a law is no defence.
Oh
She was told. She wasn’t told directly by those she bullied, because they complained using the appropriate channels. She was then told by people more senior in the civil service than those she bullied to change her behaviour… some of whom than had their careers ruined by her. Would you complain direct to her, with a rep like that? Hell no.
Seems to me that patel's behaviour could accurately described as harassment...
it’s harassment where the behaviour is meant to or has the effect of either:
- violating your dignity
- creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
This means it’s harassment even if the person harassing you didn’t mean to offend or intimidate you, as long as the harassment has one of the above effects.
Harassment is unwanted behaviour which you find offensive or which makes you feel intimidated or humiliated. It can happen on its own or alongside other forms of discrimination.
Unwanted behaviour could be:
-spoken or written words or abuse
- offensive emails, tweets or comments on social networking sites
- images and graffiti
- physical gestures
- facial expressions
- jokes
You don’t need to have previously objected to something for it to be unwanted.
Rotten ****s.
My job is ‘secure’, I earn a decent private sector wage but irrespective of all that my conscience is clear. No way I’d vote for these contemptuous ****s in a million years.
80 seat majority
He doesn't give a shit, none of them do
Would you complain direct to her, with a rep like that? Hell no.
yeah the two times I would complain to someone directly is either if I really didnt give a toss about my career (I did walk out on one interview when the person was being a ****. Not sure whether it was just them being normal or seeing how I would "handle pressure" but decided I couldnt be arsed risking spending several years with them and pointed that out to them before exiting) or I really thought it was just an accidental, inadvertent personality clash and they would feel crappy they had come across how they did.
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I know a couple of people who were pretty senior in the party and are still involved in the background. In the past they’ve been very supportive of Johnson irrespective of what he’s done. That support is noticeably waning now and has been for the last couple of months. I suspect Johnson may not see out 2021 as PM.
JP
Isn't the current thinking that he'll barely see 2020 out as pm?
Although, maybe too much of a useful idiot and will take the flak until the meltdown is almost complete, perhaps...
Please tell me the gammons wouldn’t be able to vote for someone with this vile person’s surname.
Another day.
Another pile of steaming Johnson.
Johnson won’t see out January. But he’ll be made to carry the can for the shitstorm of Brexit first.
Whoever follows him will somewhat amazingly be even worse.
The hang’em and flog’em Tory grassroots absolutely bloody love ‘The Prittster’ for a start, as she echoes their own small-minded nastiness back at them, so she’s definitely in the frame
Depressing to even consider which **** they'd choose to replace him.
Heart wants them to pick Gove as he's perhaps the least electable, head says it'll be Sunak - but he might be too smart to go for it this time round.
Would have said Patel was too nasty and too dirty, but nobody knows anything any more, eh?
Radio4 dial in listener thing this afternoon whilst tinkering the car nearly had me smashing the radio to bits with the amount of gammons ringing in support of fit face/fat arse.
The hang’em and flog’em Tory grassroots absolutely bloody love ‘The Prittster’ for a start, as she echoes their own small-minded nastiness back at them, so she’s definitely in the frame
Yep. As they piously pontificate to the rest of us about hard work and thrift whilst living off of gold plated pensions having worked for barely 50% of their lives.
Hypocrisy is the core value here.
Another scathing yet entertaining description that The Guardian manages so well.
Love the line “lapse of competence” 🤣
Boris doing PMQ's via Zoom link is reminiscent of an ISIS hostage video.
It's about as animated and inspiring. All he needs is an orange jumpsuit. I'm just waiting for him to state that his captors are treating him well
It's unbelievable just how bad he is. He seems to get worse every week. It's like he knows he's on borrowed time, he's waiting for the knife between the shoulder blades and he just can't really be arsed any more.
Aaaaah... erm.... mumble mumble...... aaaah... erm.... mumble mumble...... aaaah... erm.... mumble mumble......erm.... erm.... aaah.....wiffle-waffle..... aaaah... erm.... mumble mumble......
Shredded again at PMQs; loved the way Starmer took him through the code of conduct, point by point, and humiliated him question by question.
I'm also really enjoying the speaker cutting him short and refusing him to allow his continued blathering.
He truly is incompetent.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is sat on a 80 seat majority.
Jesus wept. How low have we stooped?
I really enjoyed seeing Starmer tear into Boris this week, seemed at point 2 Boris was waving a white flag.
God Boris is awful, how people thought this guy could run a country is beyond me. He never comes out looking good against Starmer but this one was painful to watch.
