Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

And the expected response was forthcoming -

Matt Hancock's spokesperson said he had "acted entirely properly and within the rules".

The greedy gits just can't help themselves, think they are above reproach, and are simply sticking two fingers up at the rest of us - and the annoying thing is that we can do nothing about it.

 

In any moral world these scum-sucking crooks would be behind bars. They remind me of Walker in Dads’ Arm, when challenged by an affronted Captain Mainwaring:

Mainwaring: “You’d sell your grandmother…”
Walker: (shrugs) “There’s not much of a market for ‘em…”

(Apologies for any paraphrasing - working from memory)

 

The follow-ups - Part 1

 

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Part 4 -

 

A masterclass in how to silence a Tory MP - this lady deserves to be England's next prime minister.

 

Even Fiona Bruce couldn't stop this wholly justified tirade.

 

Mr Starmer, this how to address these horrible bastards’ antics without coming across as a smarmy, couldn’t-really-give-a-****, point-scoring ****.

 

Tory corruption rife in Bushey.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/suella-braverman-claims-25000-pay-29613684

 

There is something odd here. “Instead, when she became MP for Fareham, she and her family made a home in her constituency so she could stay there."
Fareham is in Hampshire, not Hertfordshire. I thought she had a family home in London, and Bushey is not London.

 

It's about time Israel was called out - why this hasn't already been shouted from the rooftops by someone with clout has been one of life's mysteries for me.

 

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Just think what this amount of money could fund. This is from a government that thinks it is good with money.

 

Yet another one with his fingers in the trough.

Tory MP Scott Benton offered to table questions, leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling investors who proposed paying him thousands.

 

Some good news and some bad news for the WASPI women.

In direct response to their victory regarding the Ombudsman's decision this week, Tory peer Baroness Altmann claims that "full restoration would not be reasonable" - but fails to say why. I'd say that, given that over 200K of those women are now dead and no restoration is necessary for them, enough of a saving has already been made, and they should stump up at the earliest opportunity.


Waspi women deserve their state pension age victory, but full restoration would not be reasonable (archive.is)

 

My wife is one of the WAPS (in more ways than one) and we would both be happy if they just paid out the pension from this April providing they updated in the way they would if they had voluntarily deferred the pension

Any back payments would be decimated by retrospective tax anyway and you could end up with a large tax bill

 

I guess every individual is different, given the possibility of additional earnings over the relevant time period, but I would assume that income tax wouldn't apply in all cases?

I wouldn't trust this government to do the decent thing and waive it because of the hardship they have caused - they'd tax it out of spite rather than because of any tax rule, spite because they had been shown up as being incompetent.

 

OK. So what happens next is Amnesty International is described as racist and ostracised by the majority. Love ‘democracy’, I really do.

 

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How is this supposed to cater for 500 asylum seekers? Maybe it won't, but will appeal to some who see it as action.

 

2.5 asylum seekers in every bedroom-for-one - wouldn't surprise me if it sank when full.

I note with horror the source for that recommendation at the bottom. My son works for Petrofac in Aberdeen.