Tory Leadership contest 2022

[Elpenor]

All three great offices of state occupied by people of colour with a third female PM feels like something Truss would do purely to throw it back in Labours face that Tories party of equal opportunity / meritocracy etc

 

[Pickman's model]

All three great offices of state occupied by people of colour with a third female PM feels like something Truss would do purely to throw it back in Labours face that Tories party of equal opportunity / meritocracy etc

yeh the tories are doing a great job of equal ops for everyone else. anyone who climbs to the top of their slimy ladder has done so by being more of a wanker than their fellow politicians.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If Badenoch becomes education secretary I'm leaving the teaching profession. We've got enough to deal with without some loon telling us we can no longer talk to kids about anything woke like history or science.

 

[andysays]

OFWAT already fines companies for leaks and returns the money to customers. Maybe it needs to do this more, but linking financial penalties to hosepipe bans instead of leaks is just ridiculous.

I don’t agree that it's ridiculous.

I pay water rates not just for my home supply, but also for the water supply at my allotment.

The supply there has already been affected by the water pressure being significantly reduced to reduce leakage on the system, but if I'm going to be told I can't water my crops effectively or adequetely, then I'm not sure why I should pay for a supply I can't actually use.

None of which means I support Sunak, to get back to the subject of the thread.

 

[contadino]

OFWAT already fines companies for leaks and returns the money to customers. Maybe it needs to do this more, but linking financial penalties to hosepipe bans instead of leaks is just ridiculous.

So you're not wholy in favour of water companies investing in new infrastructure then? Just repair what you've got, and do nothing to react to increased flood or drought risks?

Don't get me wrong. I agree, but I also think they shouldn't be run as private companies either.

 

[platinumsage]

I don’t agree that it's ridiculous.

I pay water rates not just for my home supply, but also for the water supply at my allotment.

The supply there has already been affected by the water pressure being significantly reduced to reduce leakage on the system, but if I'm going to be told I can't water my crops effectively or adequetely, then I'm not sure why I should pay for a supply I can't actually use.

Most people are metered, so anyone prevented from using a hosepipe won’t pay for that water.

 

[platinumsage]

So you're not wholy in favour of water companies investing in new infrastructure then? Just repair what you've got, and do nothing to react to increased flood or drought risks?

Don't get me wrong. I agree, but I also think they shouldn't be run as private companies either.

Surely the proposal would incentivise water companies not to introduce hosepipe bans, rather than incentivising them to invest against leaks. There are various ways they could achieve the former without doing the latter, so the incentive is perverse. There are already mechanisms to directly incentivise them to repair and invest, these just need to be used more often and more stringently.

 

[Wilf]

Rishi Sunak considers compensation for people hit by hosepipe ban

Fuck me, that's actually genuine! Next thing will be compo for anyone caught driving home pissed from the golf club.

 

[Wilf]

Fuck me, that's actually genuine! Next thing will be compo for anyone caught driving home pissed from the golf club.

... oh, I misread that. Thought he was wanting to compensate people fined for hosepipe use. Still, when you live in a loonocracy, everything is possible.

In fact I'd better shut up, he'll be picking that up as an actual policy.

 

[andysays]

Most people are metered, so anyone prevented from using a hosepipe won’t pay for that water.

Most people may be metered (though I'd be interested in seeing the figures), but that still leaves many who are not, including me and everyone else at my allotment, who pay a fixed annual charge for water.

I guess this means you'll be supporting Liz Truss, who has suggested that one of her first acts as PM would be to temporary scrap the green levy, which helps fund a range of environmental policies.

 

[A380]

I see disappointment in all our futures.

No, you can't be disappointed if you have no hope to start off with...

 

[Karl Masks]

If Badenoch becomes education secretary I'm leaving the teaching profession. We've got enough to deal with without some loon telling us we can no longer talk to kids about anything woke like history or science.

Patel to Braverman....knightmare takes racist...checkmate

 

[Artaxerxes]

If Badenoch becomes education secretary I'm leaving the teaching profession. We've got enough to deal with without some loon telling us we can no longer talk to kids about anything woke like history or science.

Birbalsingh will be advising so I’m sorry

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[xenon]

OFWAT already fines companies for leaks and returns the money to customers. Maybe it needs to do this more, but linking financial penalties to hosepipe bans instead of leaks is just ridiculous.

I agree. Throw few of the CEOs in prison. Not for hosepipe bands. For the sewage and the repairs gone and done. Obviously renationalise water goes without saying.

 

[xenon]

Actually no I take that back. Drown them in raw sewage. Make an example.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Bet she's taken an E.

 

[Karl Masks]

voted to starve children

 

[existentialist]

... oh, I misread that. Thought he was wanting to compensate people fined for hosepipe use. Still, when you live in a loonocracy, everything is possible.

In fact I'd better shut up, he'll be picking that up as an actual policy.

Hosepipe bans == wokeness

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[sheothebudworths]

I am (for some reason) watching the Sky leadership debate...

Recently graduated Jude from Chippenham wants to know how Truss will 'solve the housing crisis' - on the basis that he had, 'perhaps naively', assumed that when he moved to London, to take up his new job as a commercial lawyer, it would 'make sense' for him to buy instead of renting only to discover that the cost of a deposit on a starter home ruled that out - what will she do to make it easier for young people to own their own home?

Crying for Jude, rn.

 

[wow]

As has been mentioned many times - look at member's fave kemi badenoch. level of eyeswivel trumps ethnic back ground.

Maybe it's even an advantage. "The fact I hate woke stuff and we have anti-woke policies can't be racist because look at our leader"

Lol

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Saying the quiet part out loud

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[two sheds]

Funding disproportionately goes to wealthy tory councils anyway

 

[magneze]

Saying the quiet part out loud

FFS

 

[Puddy_Tat]

levelling up? my arse

 

[Pickman's model]

the lady is for turning

 

[Rob Ray]

If Labour had any sense they'd be loading that admission of Tory mendacity onto a projector and sound system to blast out in every former red wall town centre in the country for the next two years. Starmer on the other hand will no doubt be telling Andrew Marr "well the old formula was a bit unfair" in short order.