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

[Badgers]

Good boost for the UK tourism industry

The European commission has launched an app and website that provide travellers with real-time information about coronavirus rules and the status of infections in each European country. A commission spokesman told the Guardian the UK was not included as the government had not asked to be involved.

Dismay after UK fails to join EU-led scheme to revive tourism | Travel & leisure | The Guardian

Hospitality sector calls on No 10 to rethink absence from travel information app and website

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Badgers]

Any update on the £120m Festival of Brexit?

 

[Pickman's model]

Any update on the £120m Festival of Brexit?

it'll be £12 and see boris johnson handing out jars of pickled onions to the first 20 people to turn up

 

[Badgers]

it'll be £12 and see boris johnson handing out jars of pickled onions to the first 20 people to turn up

Lapland new Brexit

 

[Pickman's model]

Lapland new Brexit

boris johnson's festival of brexit will make blobbyland look like disneyworld

 

[isvicthere?]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this already: in the depths of lockdown, Priti Vacant emerged from a period of welcome silence to declare shoplifting was down. Every cloud.....

 

[existentialist]

it'll be £12 and see boris johnson handing out jars of pickled onions to the first 20 people to turn up

...only to discover that they're the not pickled onions, because the mate he awarded the contract to supply them misheard and thought he'd said "ball gags", and supplied jars of pickled fetish gear that explode when you open them. And only a quarter of the number ordered.

 

[Badgers]

An MP has called on the government to ensure there is a new freedom of movement scheme for dogs to replace the current EU pet passport scheme that will be lost as a result of Brexit.

Tory MP Bob Stewart made a plea for an extension of the arrangements as he explained that his two dogs make several trips across the Channel each year

WATCH: Tory Brexiteer calls for new freedom of movement scheme to allow...

An MP has called on the government to ensure there is a new freedom of movement scheme for dogs to replace the current EU pet passport...

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

 

[jakethesnake]

Incompetence a built-in feature of this government...
Incompetence is a built-in feature, not a bug in Boris Johnson's government | Rafael Behr

 

[Roadkill]

It doesn't get much more ruthlessly incompetent than this:



Hoping this one blows up in their faces big time. I imagine even the most dyed-in-the-wool Tory is going to find it pretty distasteful.

 

[Badgers]

It doesn't get much more ruthlessly incompetent than this:

@MarcusRatcliffe

 

[teqniq]

It doesn't get much more ruthlessly incompetent than this:



Hoping this one blows up in their faces big time. I imagine even the most dyed-in-the-wool Tory is going to find it pretty distasteful.

Petition set up by the Good Law Project:

This petition is now closed - Good Law Project

Thank you for your support. Over 200,000 people have signed this petition and helped make it a success. The Government has now said that the nursing students who stepped up to join the frontline of the NHS to tackle coronavirus will be fully paid until the end of their contracts.

actionnetwork.org

 

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Penny Mordaunt calls for cenotaph vandals to be sent to 'battle camps'
She says the move would give them a "new appreciation of just what these people go through for their sakes".

Penny Mordaunt calls for cenotaph vandals to be sent to 'battle camps'

She says the move would give them a "new appreciation of just what these people go through for their sakes".

news.sky.com

 

[Badgers]

Quite enjoying this chaps regular #TheWeekInTory Twitter updates

Thread:

 

[isvicthere?]

Penny Mordaunt calls for cenotaph vandals to be sent to 'battle camps'

She says the move would give them a "new appreciation of just what these people go through for their sakes".

news.sky.com

Tory kneejerk reaction. See also the panacea-for-all-ills of my childhood: "They should bring back National Service!"

 

[Sprocket.]

Tory kneejerk reaction. See also the panacea-for-all-ills of my childhood: "They should bring back National Service!"

And, The Birch!

 

[Dogsauce]

She’d have, what, three people in that battle camp? Waste of time posturing bullshit.

 

[killer b]

'battle camp' sounds like one of those ironman challenge things for camo-clad walts that they advertise on facebook.

 

[isvicthere?]

And, The Birch!

Also, shortly after the referendum, a poll of brexit voters was commissioned to see what things they would most like to see "come back." Imperial measurements and corporal punishment in schools rated high, but top of the pops was, predictably..... the death penalty.

 

[kabbes]

Death penalty for Tory cabinet ministers?

 

[ginger_syn]

Raab has lodged his foot firmly in his mouth with his comments on taking the knee, wouldnt have seen him as a game of thrones fan.
eta spelling

 

[Buddy Bradley]

He could do with being doused in molten gold, though.

 

[DotCommunist]

Raab has lodge his foot firmly in his mouth with his comments on taking the knee, wouldnt have seen him as a game of thrones fan.

he said 'the' game of thrones. Nobody calls it that who actually watched it.

 

[ginger_syn]

I missed that nuance ,my brain was in wtf mode.

 

[Artaxerxes]

He could do with being doused in molten gold, though.

He does like a golden shower

 

[Badgers]

'Ordered to apologise'

That is all okay then

'Patronising' Tory MP ordered to apologise for failing to declare directorships

A standards report found Marcus Fysh made three breaches of the code of conduct for MPs - and took a 'patronising' tone to the officials investigating him

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Badgers]

This will go well...

BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain's unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system

Obviously nothing has gone wrong yet but it will so best to put it on the record.

 

[fieryjack]

This will go well...

BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain's unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system

Obviously nothing has gone wrong yet but it will so best to put it on the record.

Skynet has been running for about 50yrs in various incarnations.

 

[Badgers]

Skynet has been running for about 50yrs in various incarnations.

Cheers

 

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Student nurses irate after NHS frontline contracts cut short | NHS | The Guardian

Paid placements ended early, leaving final-year students in England with no income

amp.theguardian.com