Maugham and a few journalists have been furtling around this story for a couple of weeks. Interesting to see someone from The Times mention it: hopefully it's starting to gain some traction. Hopefully, too, some will start linking it with the contract-tracing app contract that went to one of Cummings' mates and the Jenrick/Desmond scandal, which might start to create a 'Tory sleaze' narrative of the kind that did the Major government no good.
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Maugham and a few journalists have been furtling around this story for a couple of weeks. Interesting to see someone from The Times mention it: hopefully it's starting to gain some traction. Hopefully, too, some will start linking it with the contract-tracing app contract that went to one of Cummings' mates and the Jenrick/Desmond scandal, which might start to create a 'Tory sleaze' narrative of the kind that did the Major government no good.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
How on earth is it possible that these cunts can routinely do this kind of thing and not be held accountable. What has gone so wrong?
As we've found over the last five years the British machinery of government is all founded on the assumption that people will behave like jolly good chaps, and there's nothing to restrain those who won't play by the 'rules,' especially when the baying right-wing press are on their side.
On a more politically positive note, BJ has shat the bed with his attempt to blame care homes for the number of deaths they've suffered. Seems to have gone down like a nice cup of cold vomit in most quarters.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
His complete unwillingness to take any responsibility is a fucking gift isn't it? Its also something he's never hidden away so its just so funny watching people realise it and being astonished when its always been there front and centre.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think that is its own species' equivalent of a self-satisfied, smug chuckle.
teqniq
DisMembered
Yeah maybe, epic fail for me though.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
TBH, Mark Francois is the very definition of epic fail, whatever noises he makes.
Wasn't it Marina Hyde who described Francois as 'a sort of inflatable idiot'? Perhaps that's the sound of him inflating - or deflating, even. She was certainly right about him being an idiot.
Not obvious from Googling, but did Hancock really vote against this bill?
Or against some previous version?
This billNot obvious from Googling, but did Hancock really vote against this bill?
Or against some previous version?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
he has never voted in favour of anything similar to this bill, he has always opposed it.Not obvious from Googling, but did Hancock really vote against this bill?
Or against some previous version?
prunus
Tick tock.
I’m not sure he did - he voted against a motion to include in it a new clause 22 (recourse to public funds), a vote which they nays won (largely split on party lines), but the bill itself was passed on 3rd reading and is now with the lords.
E2a: I don’t think there was a vote on the bill itself, 3rd readings can pass unopposed if fewer than 6 MPs request a vote. Or something.
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Not obvious from Googling, but did Hancock really vote against this bill?
Or against some previous version?
Matthew Hancock, former MP, West Suffolk
Read Matthew Hancock's contributions to Parliament, including speeches and questions
www.theyworkforyou.com
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
Be thankful he remembered his PE kit and didn't have to do it in his pants.
gosub
~#
Face coverings will not be made compulsory in shops, Michael Gove says
Government backs away from compulsion – after Boris Johnson had hinted at copying Scotland by introducing the rule
www.independent.co.uk
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Gove says people will use their common sense in using face coverings in shops.
That clearly worked well with all the drunk people in Soho last weekend, also using their common sense...
That clearly worked well with all the drunk people in Soho last weekend, also using their common sense...
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I imagine that common sense, being something completely alien to Govey-babes ( (c) Dead Ringers), assumes some kind of magical significance, as far as he is concerned.
ska invita
back on the other side
three references to ww2 in there, great stuff
Why Britain must ditch the Brexit deal
Only by replacing the Withdrawal Agreement will Britain become a truly sovereign nation.www.politico.eu
ska invita said:
Bonkers Article said:
Not just WWII references, but at least one actual lie too!! (bolded bit)
2014 New Statesman review by Dr. Richard Evans** of Johnson's 'Churchill biography' here -- just to remind you
of how lazy and stupid Boris Johnson was even seven years ago! 
**Actual, genuine historian!!
Right so after covid 19 was clocked there were a lot of UK farmers complaining that the cheap exploitable labour would not be around to pick the fruit and veg this year.
We (travellers) assumed that we might get our old jobs back !
Nope. They just flew in a couple of planes of workers from eastern Europe during full lock down.
On top of that they have been using covid to evict us more, and in more interesting ways.
Fucking Tories.
We (travellers) assumed that we might get our old jobs back !
Nope. They just flew in a couple of planes of workers from eastern Europe during full lock down.
On top of that they have been using covid to evict us more, and in more interesting ways.
Fucking Tories.
ska invita
back on the other side
Two planes of people doesnt come close to filling the workforce gap that has existed...there was a recruitment campaign to get british people to do the work - it fell short of the numbers needed, though despite lower capacity a majority (definitely more than 50%) of the picking has been getting done - final figures on what has gone to waste aren't yet clear at this point in the year.
Long thread on it here,
Agree about fucking tories though
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