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The New Tories - Ruthlessly Incompetent. Post Examples of Tory Stupidity Here

I do think all this "he wrote the rules" is wildly optimistic, I doubt he's written any fucking rules since he's been there.

Ostensibly he's the CEO of Post-Brexit Britain. Its rather a shock for those not already aware of how the world actually works to discover that just because your in charge doesn't mean you have any responsibility towards the company or for its actions.
 
It's back to the future with this one. Expensive Tory scam-fiasco from the Major era coming back to haunt them in an outcome that was predicted at the time and should be a surprise to nobody:

UK seeks to unwind £7.6bn housing deal with Guy Hands’ Annington Homes​

Ministry of Defence wants to take back ownership of tens of thousands of properties sold off in 1996

The move is likely to spark a legal battle between the MoD and Hands’ business, Terra Firma, over whether the government can force through the acquisition of the estate. Terra Firma, which is headed by Hands, bought Annington from Nomura Holdings for £3.2bn in 2012. However, Hands was also part of the Nomura team that struck the original 1996 deal.

The MoD sold 57,400 properties to Annington Homes in 1996 for £1.7bn, making it the biggest residential property owner in England and Wales. It then leased back the homes on a 200-year lease at a discount but in return also agreed to pay the costs of refurbishment and maintenance. The deal was struck by the then defence secretary, Michael Portillo.

The portfolio is now valued at £7.6bn, according to accounts for Annington, while the MoD has to pay close to £183m a year in rent as well as the cost of upkeep of the 38,000 homes it still leases. The National Audit Office said in 2018 that the deal had already lost the taxpayer up to £4.2bn given the huge increase in the value of property after 1996.

 
...our Baltic allies across the Black Sea...
She can only be referring to the Kievan Rus, the ethno-nationalistic basis for Putin's claims on Ukraine. Their empire stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Has she let slip a secret alliance with Putin? Listen to the robotic, unconvincing way she criticised Putin. The truth revealed!

That or she's a fucking idiot who knows not of what she speaks.
 
She can only be referring to the Kievan Rus, the ethno-nationalistic basis for Putin's claims on Ukraine. Their empire stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Has she let slip a secret alliance with Putin? Listen to the robotic, unconvincing way she criticised Putin. The truth revealed!

That or she's a fucking idiot who knows not of what she speaks.
Eh, is it necessarily an "or", there..?

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She can only be referring to the Kievan Rus, the ethno-nationalistic basis for Putin's claims on Ukraine. Their empire stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Has she let slip a secret alliance with Putin? Listen to the robotic, unconvincing way she criticised Putin. The truth revealed!

That or she's a fucking idiot who knows not of what she speaks.

She could be speaking from a Byzantine perspective, vis-a-vis the Varangian Guard.
 
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