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Demand for inquiry into alleged PPE lobbying by Priti Patel

Labour claims approach was ‘glaring and flagrant’ breach of ministers’ code

www.independent.co.uk

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Proper amazing this one. "I'M STANDING OUTSIDE OF A BUILDING THAT IS GOING TO EXIST AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE."

He should be in a building that will be imminently demolished

 

[Pickman's model]

Proper amazing this one. "I'M STANDING OUTSIDE OF A BUILDING THAT IS GOING TO EXIST AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE."

If England prevails it won't be because of this shower.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ed Vaizey on Politics Live yesterday, advocating that a new Royal Yacht should be carbon neutral. Below is the first design.

 

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[Pickman's model]

Churchill my arse. He'd not have declared war on Germany to avoid offending Hitler: which makes Johnson worse than Chamberlain. Neville Chamberlain, a former minister of health (he opened the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine), would have done better in countering the virus

 

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Statistics watchdog blasts Matt Hancock over ‘inadequate’ figures on coronavirus testing

Figures on coronavirus testing released daily by the government are “far from complete and comprehensible”, the UK’s statistics watchdog has claime...

www.politicshome.com

Figures on coronavirus testing released daily by the government are “far from complete and comprehensible”, the UK’s statistics watchdog has claimed.

In a scathing letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, UK Statistics Authority chair Sir David Norgrove said the way data on testing is currently analysed and presented to the public gives “limited value”.

He said testing statistics “fall well short of expectations”, claiming “it is not surprising that given their inadequacy data on testing are so widely criticised and often mistrusted”.

 

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Statistics watchdog blasts Matt Hancock over ‘inadequate’ figures on coronavirus testing

Figures on coronavirus testing released daily by the government are “far from complete and comprehensible”, the UK’s statistics watchdog has claime...

www.politicshome.com

2nd June 2020 in case anyone thinks this is recent.

 

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Today's arrivals so far in the UK

 

[ViolentPanda]

Isn't there a flaw in this because if you apply for a postal vote you don't have to show ID?

Actually not a flaw for Tories, given the ahem assistance local Conservative Associations often give to elderly constituents with postal votes. Not that I'm claiming widespread corrupt practices, but half-a-dozen proven cases at retirement complexes may show the tip of an iceberg...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Much better, would have been the sound of Webb knocking the shit out of Hancock.

You just know that a single punch in the slats would make Hancock drop like a sack of soggy shit.

 

[existentialist]

You just know that a single punch in the slats would make Hancock drop like a sack of soggy shit.

You'd only have to feint at him and he'd be crying for his mum.

 

[glitch hiker]

The condition of a trade deal with India is the opening up of our labour market,

Seems like now's a good a time as any!

FFS

 

[Artaxerxes]

The condition of a trade deal with India is the opening up of our labour market,

Seems like now's a good a time as any!

FFS

Thank goodness Prince Phillips already dead

 

[glitch hiker]

Thank goodness Prince Phillips already dead

I think we can all take heart in that

 

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Boris Johnson’s new ethics adviser faces no-confidence vote over university role

Exclusive: Academics call for Lord Geidt’s ‘immediate resignation’ from King’s College London, after openDemocracy revealed his work for arms company

www.opendemocracy.net

Academics at the university have put forward a vote demanding Geidt’s “immediate resignation”, after openDemocracy revealed that he had a paid position working at the arms company BAE Systems.

The company was accused in Parliament of acting “unethically” to sell weapons to “any murderous, brutal dictatorship, and use corruption to secure those sales”.

Members of the University and Colleges Union at King’s College will vote on the motion against Geidt on Wednesday.

 

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Boris Johnson’s new ethics adviser faces no-confidence vote over university role

Exclusive: Academics call for Lord Geidt’s ‘immediate resignation’ from King’s College London, after openDemocracy revealed his work for arms company

www.opendemocracy.net

Either the Tories are exceptionally good at sniffing out bent types, or there's an awful lot of them in the circles in which they move...oh.

 

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Mims Davies on Any Questions is a complete car crash. Why they're allowed to get away repeatedly with procrastination to avoid answering the question put to them I don't know. I'd like the BBC, or any other broadcaster, to explicitly classify a question as "unanswered". If it's done on TV big flashing words would suffice.

 

[stavros]

Peter Bone on R4 this morning, deliberately or not, referred to the Environment Secretary as "George Useless".

 

[two sheds]

It's what he's generally referred to in Cornwall

 

[Ground Elder]

It's what he's generally referred to in Cornwall

Funny how quickly it caught on the rest of the country

 

[quiet guy]

How difficult is it to understand the traffic light system for overseas visits? You can clearly see on the website the countries that come under each level but no some cabinet members have to be so useless as to confuse the message and fuck it up. Then you find that they haven't thought about separating people returning from Amber and Red countries from those coming back from Green countries at airports and Grant Shaps says it'll be another 10 days before they sought it out.
Not enough facepalm emojis for this

 

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Ex-Tory councillor who had sex with girl, 13, asked cops sick question on arrest

The court heard how former Mayor of Godalming Simon Thornton, 46, groomed the girl with sweets and a new phone

www.mirror.co.uk

Ex-Tory councillor jailed for sex with 13-year-old girl asked arresting police: 'Do you know who I am?'

 

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Ex-Tory councillor who had sex with girl, 13, asked cops sick question on arrest

The court heard how former Mayor of Godalming Simon Thornton, 46, groomed the girl with sweets and a new phone

www.mirror.co.uk

Other than being a massive, predatory nonce, no.

 

[stavros]

I saw Seb Coe on BBC Breakfast yesterday, being asked about Park Run. He mentioned "so-called scientists", which made me wince somewhat.

 

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Ex-Tory councillor who had sex with girl, 13, asked cops sick question on arrest

The court heard how former Mayor of Godalming Simon Thornton, 46, groomed the girl with sweets and a new phone

www.mirror.co.uk

I was going to stick that to a Tory I unfortunately know but the cunt will tell me it happened three years ago.

 

[existentialist]

I was going to stick that to a Tory I unfortunately know but the cunt will tell me it happened three years ago.

Yeah. Although nothing about the way the Conservative Party conducts itself today would give any indication that things would be any different now.

 

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Bloody Communists

£7 Billion COVID Bailout for Private Train Firms Includes £70 Million ‘Management Fees’

Private rail operators are still making millions of pounds, despite the difficulties caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, reports Sam Bright

bylinetimes.com

Newly-released data from the Department for Transport (DfT) shows that, from March 2020 to February this year, the Government paid out more than £7.3 billion in operational support to private train operators. The total bill has ranged from £550 million to £710 million a month.

In addition to this day-to-day cost of funding rail services, more than £70 million was paid to the 11 eligible private operators in the form of “management fees” between March 2020 and September 2020. These management fees are payments to the companies for running the services funded by the taxpayer. They represent, in the words of the DfT, earnings that can, “in due course, and subject to conditions… be passed on to shareholders”.

 

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Rob Roberts: Conservative MP told staffer to be 'less alluring' - BBC News

Tory MP faces six-week suspension from Parliament after panel found he sexually harassed an employee.

www.bbc.co.uk

The complainant started working for the newly-elected Mr Roberts in early 2020, and said the MP made his "first advance" ten days later.

The staffer, who wishes to remain anonymous, told BBC Wales they were alone in a car together on a constituency visit when Mr Roberts said: "I find you very attractive and alluring and I need you to make attempts to be less alluring in the office because it's becoming very difficult for me."