Off Topic Politics Thread

Yeah, I ordered the book online ages ago but hadn’t got found to reading it because I thought it was going to be a dry academic textbook. Couldn’t have been more wrong, he’s a very accessible writer, tells a story well.

 

It’s being reported by a few media outlets, and I have seen a video clip in which he claims that he is being forced to relocate because of an arson attack on property belonging to his wife.
I don’t advocate violent behaviour, but him using that as an excuse, when he advocates a zero tolerance towards immigrants that sometimes manifests as violence, is karma.
It also pisses me off because he has helped bring about the end of freedom of movement, and as a result I cannot make the same move now, as I would have to fund my wife’s ongoing cancer treatment, something I cannot afford.

 

We are through the looking glass now people...

 

They need to keep the incompetent buffoon away from the public as he has this innate ability to shoot himself in the foot. He is also the most inept prime minister we have ever had. His laziness means he is never on top of his brief. How can we ever forgive the people who voted him into power?

 

Isn’t that part of his job?

What’s next?
£100k per annum for someone to engage in foreplay with Carrie, so that he can just bumble in at the end and unleash another load of bollocks?

 

We can’t. The damage his government will inflict over a 5 year period will be devastating for this country, particularly to those on low incomes and the vulnerable.

 

Paxman being incredibly restrained and polite.

 

Twerps is not how I would describe a bunch of cheating, lying, incompetent, corrupt bastards.

 

He can certainly turn a phrase, can Paxman.

 

This is a good video, highlighting that Nick Ferrari, LBC, doesn’t understand what is going on, yet has an open microphone to use, to mislead millions of people.

 

What sort of sense does it make to extend the return to work? None whatsoever. The isolation period is now 10 days and the quarantine in place for people returning from Spain and probably other countries as infection rates rise across Europe and elsewhere. By the way how are these regulations going to be monitored and enforced?
Where is the (world beating) test, trace and isolate program that should have been in place from day one it should be the cornerstone of CV crisis management?

 

Another lie/deceit/misleading statement from gobshite Johnson. The list is long and ongoing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53588275.
And
https://boris-johnson-lies.com/

 

You can’t accuse LBC of being a left-leaning liberal broadcaster, that’s for sure! For every bit of good James O’Brien does, they can always find a Nick Ferrari or even worse, a Farage or a Grease-Mogg to hammer home the bollocks.

 

O'Brien is in there to balance things up a bit. It's just a fortunate accident, that he has twice the intellect of all their other broadcasters combined.

I think George Galloway once had a night time slot on LBC? Whatever station it was, a black cab driver mate of mine would often ring in and lock horns with Gorgeous George. Apparently, he was infuriating difficult to get the better of in an argument, but that didn't stop my mate from trying in the wee small hours when business was slow.

 

In other words, he thinks he’ll lose.

 

That's chilling. Though not entirely surprising.

 

Herman Cain, who was (briefly) the polling leader in the 2012 GOP nomination race, has died from COVID. His last public appearance was at Trump's rally in Tulsa, where neither he nor those with him wore masks or observed any sort of social distancing.

 

Annunziata Rees-Mogg gives handy tips on avoiding food poverty, courtesy of Mark Steel:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...-potato-chip-tesco-food-poverty-a9646341.html

 

“Not delivered”

1. The govt launched a “Fix your bike” voucher website

2. It broke in less than an hour

3. The govt said we should all lose weight

4. The govt is still issuing vouchers to help us buy burgers

5. It was revealed the govt spent £400m buying a bankrupt satellite company, OneWeb, to replace the Euro GPS system we lose due to Brexit

6. Months before, a study by MIT found that OneWeb’s tech is 6x less efficient than the EU solution: the worst of the technologies studied

7. In June the govt merged the Dept for International Development into the Foreign Office, and said the move "guaranteed there would be no cuts in International Aid"

8. This week the gov cut International Aid by £2.9bn

9. And the govt quietly granted permission for your health records to be given to Palantir, a controversial data-mining company said to have worked with Cambridge Analytica on Brexit

10. It did both these things the day parliament broke up, so there couldn’t be any questions

11. But in answer to questions about the Russia Report, the gov’s suggested solution is to (I'm not making this up) to ask Russia to tell us who their spies are

12. Ex-Russian intelligence staff say 85% of their work is not spying, but “political funding and misinformation"

13. Which brings us to: Funding and Misinformation news

14. Since 2012, the Tory party has had almost £3m in donations from members of Putin’s cabinets

15. 14 current govt ministers have received donations from individuals or companies connected to the Russian leadership

16. Priti Patel said the Russia Report could be ignored because it was now 9 months old and “out of date”

17. The govt delayed the release of the report for 9 months, and the reasons given were described as “simply not true” (aka "misinformation") by the Intelligence Committee

18. Now Covid news, and Matt Hancock boasted he had met the targets on his “Six tests” on Covid 19

19. Full Fact found 4 of the 6 targets were missed, one target couldn’t be met because it had never been defined, and 1 “relied on a definition [that] does not reflect practice”

20. The cross-party Media & Culture Committee found that the gov’s support for arts was “vague and slow-coming” and “jeopardised UK culture”

21. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee found there was an “astonishing failure to plan for the economic impact” of Covid 19

22. It also said the policy of discharging patients into care homes was a “reckless and appalling policy error”

23. It called the govt “slow, inconsistent [and] negligent”

24. The chair of the Committee said “A competent government does not run a country on the hoof”

25. More on-the-hoof news: the gov quarantined tourists returning from Spain because Spain was a danger

26. The day before, Spain had 2 Covid deaths. Britain had 114

27. The transport secretary was on holiday in Spain, so was effectively trapped by his own dept’s decision

28. Which brings us to Brexit, and a report from London School of Economics showed a WTO Brexit will permanently shrink 16 out of the UK's 24 industry sectors by up to 15% each. Permanently.

29. A Tory MP tweeted “WTO here we come!”

30. Another pro-Brexit Tory MP with a grasp of what's to come tweeted “my strong advice is: take the opportunity to live abroad”

31. Dominic Cummings tweeted that leaving the EU "could be an error”

32. And now PPE contracts, so prepare to begin eternal screaming:

33. £252m to Ayanda Capital, registered in Mauritius for tax purposes. PPE not delivered

34. £186m to Uniserve. PPE not delivered

35. £116m to P14 Medical Supplies, with assets of just £145. PPE not delivered

36. £108m to PestFix, with just 16 employees. PPE not delivered

37. £107m to Clandeboye Agencies, a sweet wholesaler. Yes, a sweet wholesaler. PPE not delivered.

38. £40m to Medicine Box Ltd, with assets of just £6000. PPE not delivered.

39. £48m to Initia Ventures Ltd, which registered itself as “dormant” in March. PPE not delivered.

40. £28m to Monarch Acoustics, which makes shop furniture. PPE not delivered

41. £25m to Luxe Lifestyle, which has no employees, no assets, and no turnover. PPE not delivered

42. £18m to Aventis Solutions, which has total assets of £332. Not a typo, £332. PPE not delivered

43. £10m to Medco Solutions, incorporated just 3 days after lockdown, with share capital of (not a typo) £2. PPE not delivered

44. In all, approx £1bn to inexplicable suppliers for PPE that hasn’t been delivered

45. The gov still polls well for economic competence. Go figure

46. Meanwhile a Nuffield Health study found after 10 years of "chronic underinvestment", UK is at the bottom of the league table for health resources; and diagnostics and surgery by the NHS will take 4 years to return to pre-Covid levels. But £1bn for non-existent PPE

47. The gov’s “world beating” test-and-trace programme was described as “scandalous” by the British Medical Journal, and found to miss its 80% target in every Covid hotspot announced this week

48. And finally, Boris Johnson refused a public enquiry into gov handling of Covid 19