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Why is it that under the Tories things get worse rather than better? If I'm travelling from Edinburgh to London by train you can be damn sure I expect to have wifi available.
This country is going to the dogs.
https://t.co/lruaHXJ1b4Quote:
So it turns out that a senior member of the Government that pushed through a huge change to our democracy can publicly admit it was a deliberate attempt to suppress the vote, and not a single official body thinks this is in any way worth investigating
Leading weapons expert Dan Kaszeta reveals how he fell victim to a Soviet-style blacklist after officials discovered he had criticised the GovernmentQuote:
I Was Cancelled by Sunak's Government For Criticising Them on Twitter
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/23/i...em-on-twitter/
Oh.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7...f52f6edc31d3c2Quote:
Boris Johnson referred to police over new lockdown rulebreaking claims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi...ign_type=owned
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Two or three Charlie dealers in Central London swiftly dumping their burners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
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I don't get the police saying they are responding to reports about Johnson receiving guests during lockdown. Surely the police were there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
We’re talking about the MET here.[emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Sunak’s failure to get a grip of inflation is going to be expensive for us all.
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A car crash in Downing Street. The jokes just write themselves these days.
Weird as it looks about 5mphQuote:
Originally Posted by grunt
https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1661764182914527237
Lol... looks more like a parking in the wrong space incident :rofl:
Look at the ferry "scandal", don't look at this ...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ovid-contractsQuote:
An American banker was paid a £73m dividend in 2021 after his firm won hundreds of millions in Covid contracts, figures show.
Look at the ferry "scandal", don't look at this ...
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PPE: Supplier of millions of 'not fit for use' gowns received £47m dividends
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-63971493
"Due diligence was carried out on all companies that were referred to the department and every company was subjected to the same checks"
Apparently not.
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https://youtu.be/J2uhWTFvug8Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
Said before but tories could be out of power for a long time soon, unless they move left. Under 40s are the first generation ever to not turn right. Possibly due to less owning a home as has been mentioned here before
https://archive.ph/wNLZ8
How millennials are creating an ‘electoral timebomb’ for the Tories
Wonder if the same electoral timebomb exists for the union?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
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I definitely think so. I don't know if people traditionally turn to staying in the union, younger groups definitely more pro independence thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
More nhs incompetence from the tories. Plans to cut doctors degrees by a year to cut gaps. Ridiculous, sure it won't happen. Hopefully they are voted out before they can do more destruction
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...-b2346370.html
Nursing and doctor degrees to be cut short in bid to plug NHS staff shortages
Critics warn the move would put patient safety at risk and even drive potential recruits away from NHS
Ministers desperate to plug NHS shortages are floating plans to shorten doctors’ training by a year.
The radical plans would see doctors’ degrees reduced from five to four years, while nursing students could be fast-tracked to be qualified in just two-and-a-half years
that Carol Vorderman certainly isn't hitting and missing they slimy corrupt gits (1) Carol Vorderman on Twitter: "NEW INFO re @GregHands, Chair of the Tory party. Hands personally recommended his mate Mark Higton for £25.8m (or more) PPE contract. Higton's company Luxe Lifestyle had a turnover of only £10,000 & had NEVER dealt with PPE before. I've just checked Companies House & they STILL… https://t.co/zEbrH0eXnu" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/britain_people/s...dxJXScFNwz8V4A
Yeh, but ferries and all that.[emoji849]
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I think this one may pass the sniff test, it's a weird story although I don't know all the details. There was a piece about the broader subject on Radio 4 a little while back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
The firm in question is NI-based and built the Routemaster red buses in London, amongst other things. They then went into administration. lots of talk of the then-owner putting millions towards some sort of US-style evangelical superministry in Ballymena.
Jo Bamford bought it out of administration and has been developing zero-emission buses there, some based on battery, some on Hydrogen, and I think they have orders for both on their books.
They got a wedge of money from the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund a couple of months back to develop the hydrogen buses for wider development and production.
I appreciate that people will see the Bamford connection and assume the worst, but Sunak and Hunt are meant to be at loggerheads with Johnson anyway, aren't they? I don't doubt it does any harm having the clout of the Bamford name but by the same token (bus token?), the firm has a solid track record of delivering big contracts for buses and developing zero-emission products.
Donations to political parties should exclude you from govt contracts. Second jobs shouldn’t be allowed. Any second job. I don’t care if your a Doc and want to keep your hand in. If you want to be an mp it should be your only focus. If that’s not for you, fine, there are plenty others willing to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
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To see ourselves as other see us. From the New York Times:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxcmvQIX...pg&name=medium
When it has the media in its pocket does it matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Yeah as the under 45s literally aren't turning more right wing for the first generation ever and that's with the media. Under 45s also consume media differently. I think Labour could be in for a long time unless the tories come into the centre.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBHibees
It might take a little while because old people vote much more, but it's inevitable
Unmooring it from its foundations is a fantastic line. Citizens have went from owning utilities, oil reserves, telecomms, postal services, huge amounts of land and property along with reasonable benefits systems, good health and social care, community resources such as parkies, toilets etc etc etc. all of which came with less national and local tax burden to owning next to nothing while all the systems that make communities function have been left at the dock while we drift into the middle of the sea awaiting the next round of stormy weather. Thatcher started it but Cameron and the morons that followed have accelerated it. New Labour never really reversed much of the harm more put a sticking plaster over the gaping wound. We are now so far from land I don't think it is possible to return to the safety of shore and we are constantly shouted at from those on the shore they stole from us to "grow some sea legs".Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt