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EU Youth mobility scheme rejected, FFS…
They'd only come over here, get a priority GP appointment within an hour, get a sick note and take part in our sick, Sick Note Culture the PM has been promoting... all whilst selling drugs from their 6 bed council house they got an hour after seeing the GP.
Is that what you want, 'COS THAT'S WHAT'LL 'APPEN!!?? 😡
The fact that Labour are against it is even worse. The tories brought in Brexit so obviously they are going to be against free movement and proudly so - no suprise there.
But labour are so ****ing scared of being labelled weak on immigration that they are pandering to tomorrow’s potential headlines. Absolutely pathetic.
How bad is it going for the Scott's?
Not a good look.. She'll be selling her dirty keks on 'only fans' before we know it.
If we get a Tory at the door they'll be invited in and we'll keep them talking for as long as possible.
That way it stops them from bothering quite so many other people.
If we get a Tory at the door they’ll be invited in and we’ll keep them talking for as long as possible.
That way it stops them from bothering quite so many other people.
Do not try this with Jehovah's Witnesses....
Do not try this with Jehovah’s Witnesses….
Oh I've a few choice words that could abusing cult.
my Jehovahs Witness story:
Mum decided to engage the witness in conversation about their beliefs and values meanwhile I was washing up, the family dog, two year old whole male springer spaniel made very friendly with the witness's leg, my Mum maintains eye contact and acts as if nothing is happening. Dog finishes, not so much sowing his seed on stony ground but on grey trousers and wanders off. Mum says "I think we're done here and closes the door. 🙂
I'm still waiting for some wag to replace the lectern at No10 with an full sized one. Just the mental image of having Rishi Sunak dwarfed by it cracks me up.
my Jehovahs Witness story:
I had to inspect a property in a previous job. Arrived just as the attractive female tenant was practically pushing a couple of Jehovahs Witnesses back out the door.
She had seen two smartly dressed people with a briefcase at the door, assumed they were me for the inspection, and invited them into the front room.
The front room was empty apart from a pole dancing pole in the middle and some chairs.
Anyway, we digress
The government's response to the youth mobility rejection is “We are not introducing an EU-wide youth mobility scheme – free movement within the EU was ended and there are no plans to introduce it”. So their only defence of the decision is just an absolute lie, this wasn't free movement, it was time limited and visa constrained and the government had the right to require health insurance and proof of sufficient funds to live on. *s.
Labour's response isn't massively better, it just seems to muddle the whole thing up with normal working immigration and bangs on about how they'll have a scheme that'll deliver for "British businesses and consumers" and talks about vererinary deals, and qualification acceptance, just completely unrelated issues. I mean, a scheme like this could benefit businesses and consumers but that's not what it's for, they just seem afraid to say "let's do something great for young people that costs us nothing and makes things a bit better for once", everything has to be about business and money. *s.
A CNN piece about Sunak's never ending woes.
One little titbit from the article for instance:
A former government official told CNN: “The Conservatives just feel dead overall, there is nothing to be done to save it. There is no way back and it’s coming across in every little thing. Rishi comes across as unlikeable and a bit weird and tetchy.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/20/uk/rishi-sunak-conservatives-gbr-intl/index.html
everything has to be about business and money
And cutting ourselves off. Which isn’t about either of those things at all, quite the opposite, but about a sentiment that has diminished these nations and made the world smaller for young people not born into means. Because at some level these politicians believe the British people, or at least enough of them in key seats, demand that we cut ourselves off, and restrict people. Give the young people (of the UK and EEA countries) back some of the freedoms that NI young people have kept, and the voters will burn you as traitors. That’s the fear driving our politics. Let’s hope it’s not like that once a generation of new voters have come, and enough older ones gone.
"Let’s hope it’s not like that once a generation of new voters have come, and enough older ones gone."
More than that, it needs those new voters to become politicians.
Politics (not just in the UK) has become about winning and losing (votes, the argument, face, whatever) rather than about making things better.
That needs to change before anything else will.
Quite a good deconstruction of the sick note culture issue reported by the woke traitorous lefties at the Beeb. It may have something to do with 15 years of government austerity.
BBC News - Why are we so ill? The working-age health crisis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68849843
In other news, bears shit in woods.
Ah the man whose missus gets another £10.5 million lobbed in her direction(by virtue of being daddy’s little girl) goes after the workshy sick note culture.
Not sure that anyone living in that world will ever have a clue what it’s like to need a support net on the day you wake up unable to work.
Looks like plenty of Tory MPs have taken the Nadine Dorres route and have essentially given up any pretence to be representing their constituents and have begun their lucrative consultancy jobs already, while still picking up their parliamentary salaries of course. We don't reaally have a government in any real sense of the word, do we?
Outgoing Tory MPs take lucrative second jobs and ‘swan off on jollies’
At the top of the list was former justice secretary Brandon Lewis, who has taken on five new part-time roles worth £410,000 a year alongside his commitments as an MP.
I presume Brandon and all the rest will be fully supportive of Rishi's cutting of sickness benefits?
Let's not forget Brandon's second hand car sales gig, the shiny suited spiv
Mark Menzies has resigned from the tory party.
Still an MP, we’re still paying him, and will continue to pay him for a while after the election. Should resign.
I went to see Jonathan Pie live, last night in central London.... brilliant! let's say he's a bit anti conservative 🙂 Highly recommend seeing him.
@coconut - We saw him a few weeks ago in Salford. Absolutely bloody brilliant! He doesn’t like Rishi much, does he? 😂
"EU Youth mobility scheme rejected, FFS…"
To be fair...this is more an example of the EU fighting with certain member states over who can negotiate with non-EU members over immigration. The UK was (doubtlessly cack-handedly) trying to negotiate bilaterally with targeted states and the EU found out about it. Its offer contained obviously unacceptable and expensive terms: twice as long as the youth mobility schemes with Australia etc, no NHS surcharge, family reunification rights, rights to local uni fees etc...
The EU "offer" was never meant to be accepted - it was only intended to blow up the bilateral negotiations (which probably wouldn't have gone anywhere anyway - nothing else has).
Mark Menzies has resigned from the tory party
Yet apparently he wasn’t guilty of misusing party funds as the Tory flunky paid the ‘bad people’ out of her own account and was then reimbursed from Tory funds.
That's some absolutely top notch shithousery by Tory central office, right there.
Nothing to do with us guv
^^ Tory politics always trumps propriety.
Sunak doesn't want yet another by election so anything goes as the empire falls.
https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1782289299485921443?t=7Ddt6qtuSkTfMW4b-70mJA&s=19
Pay attention everyone.
The school prefect will be talking to us all this morning.
He does love a lectern, doesn’t he?
I expect this press conference will be as pointless as all his previous ones and will be met with a collective bored shrug by the entire nation who just want to know when the general election is, so we can be shut of him
Oh ye of little faith!
"The plan is working. I can't tell you what it is but it's definitely working on Delivering For The People.
Rwanda, inflation, boats, benefit scroungers, Rwanda, Delivering.
Thank you all very much, minions. Now get back to work".
"Ah the man whose missus gets another £10.5 million lobbed in her direction(by virtue of being daddy’s little girl) goes after the workshy sick note culture."
That's unfair. There is a workshy culture in this country. The Daily Mail proved it (by travelling to Jaywick, the most deprived place I the country and finding someone to give them juicy quotes). No link, just the headline:
"'Why would I want a job?': Shameless benefits scroungers in seaside town boast they 'chill out and enjoy life' while claiming 'thousands a month' of YOUR cash as 10m go unemployed and 4,000 a day sign off sick in workshy Britain".
Imagine being the journalist whose task was to go down there and provoke these quotes. How depressing.
So it sounds like no one will be allowed to go home today until lil' Rishi gets his way...
Imagine being the journalist whose task was to go down there and provoke these quotes. How depressing.
along with the unattributed quotes from "doctors" "yeah I just sign anyone off to avoid the aggravation".
Sunak needs anything he can call a win before the locals, expect ever more frantic culture war nonsense for the next 10 days.
A big wipeout will only mean braverman, truss, jenrick, badenoch agitate even more, they're so desperate to get into no10 and like sharks they sense blood, itll take some big losses for any sort of move to depose him-
Backhander Ben Houchen losing his job would be the funniest but needs a 50pt swing to labour which even in these times is unlikely.
Sunak needs anything he can call a win before the locals, expect ever more frantic culture war nonsense for the next 10 days.
I'd just pay a bunch of brown people to stand in front of a plane carrying a few scraps of baggage and claim that they're asylum seekers arriving in Rwanda (very safe there) and the plan is working.
It'd be a lot cheaper than the actual Rwanda plan and probably more believable plus it'd count as a win. 🤷🏻♂️
Apparently Cruella has been on manoeuvres over the weekend about a leadership bid if this Rwanda nonsense doesn’t go through today
So Rishi’s going to have a public hissy fit and all those obstructive buggers in the Lords and their petty nitpicking about international law and all that, can jolly well do what he tells them!
I expect he’ll go full on ‘enemies of the people’
A really nasty "solution" to a problem of my own making will happen. Day is night, night is day, war is peace...........
Just go!
The only time I have for Rich Sunk and his firewood Lectern, is when he calls an election the moron. All of his other frankly boring statements are irrelevant to me. I can't wait for the local election hammering he's going to get. It's not like any of us actually voted for him nor the last...
Here's hoping him and Cruella fugs off to the land of the not so free 😉
JeZ
Keeping in mind all the Lords are asking for is to exempt Afghans who assisted OUR ARMED FORCES in Afghanistan and for Rwanda to be deemed safe by an Independent International Committee.
I suspect all of this might be skewered by the Rwandans who are very very keen to be entirely compliant with International Law...
Even if the law is passed, they still have the minor issue of finding an airline who’ll take them - they’re probably phoning around their dodgy Russian mates trying to find anyone who can rustle-up a CAA operator’s licence
He claimed that they have booked "Commercial Charter Planes".
Suspect that it's bolx to be honest.