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By *uninlondon69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

@RussInCheshire had some time off but he's returned with an updated list of fun facts from the last few weeks.

1. Theresa May couldn’t agree a Withdrawal Agreement (WI) because – in news that will shock the millions who warned about this – it’s impossible due do without accepting EU rules, or harming NI, or breaking up the UK, or crippling the economy, or all of the above

2. Nevertheless, Boris Johnson agreed a WI from the EU

3. Then Tories voted to accelerate the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament, specifically so it wouldn’t have to face scrutiny

4. And Boris Johnson withdrew the whip – sacked – 21 Tories who didn’t support the delay

5. Then he won an election by promising the WI was "oven-ready" and "brilliant"

6. Later, in a massive shock, it was discovered the WI contains all the problems that prevented May from agreeing it

7. So the govt announced it would just break the law and ignore its own treaty

8. Each MP’s Oath of Allegiance includes "I will give my loyalty to the United Kingdom… uphold its democratic values … and observe laws faithfully"

9. All 5 living ex-PM’s oppose this plan

10. Every living ex-Tory leader opposes it (except IDS, but c’mon, it’s IDS)

11. So now the govt which sacked 21 MPs for opposing the WI is threatening to sack any MPs who support the same WI

12. The actual Police Minister said it’s OK to break the law

13. The Lord Chancellor, Britain’s highest law officer, said it’s OK to break the law

14. The Attorney General, responsible for advising the govt on legal matters, said it’s OK to break the law

15. The Lord Chancellor and Attorney General are barristers, and the Bar Council guidelines say you will be struck-off if you "knowingly advise a client to break the law"

16. Same day, Foreign Secretary and irony no-fly-zone Dominic Raab said Iran "must comply with its legal commitments and treaties"

17. Gavin Williamson and Mark Francois were nominated for the MP Of The Year Award

18. This was the last known sighting of Mark Francois

19. Michael Gove said in a July speech "failures of policy and judgement", are generating a "crisis of authority" and "Politicians like me must take responsibility for the effect of their actions"

20. Gavin Williamson is still in his job

21. But the head of Ofqual was sacked

22. And the most senior education civil servant had to stand down

23. In fact, resignations by senior civil servants are up 14% in a year

24. But 44% of new senior appointments are personal friends of Michael Gove, in one of those amazing coincidence things

25. Other amazing coincidences, a sub-thread:

a. Public First, a company led by Govt and Cummings associates, was handed a contract to help Ofqual with the exams fiasco. The contract wasn’t put out to tender

b. Gove appointed ex-girlfriend Simone Finn as adviser to Cabinet Office. Finn immediately paid her own company to "shake up the Cabinet Office"

c. Gove handed a contract (without tender) to PWC, a company that pays him £5000 per hour to give speeches

d. Gove gave £21k to Signal AI, a company associated with Gove and Cummings, to ask Tunisians what they think about Covid

e. Faculty AI, associated with Gove and Cummings, got £400k to analyse tweets by UK citizens. So if I vanish one dark night, tell my family I tolerated them

f. And another contract went to the cousin of Tory MP Tom Tugendhat to "analyse the awarding of govt contracts", which is like a spiral, wrapped inside a Möbius strip, encased in a corkscrew, and tethered to a twat

26. Anyway, back to the fun: Home Secretary and Nurse Ratched cosplayer Priti Patel authorised “more painful” Taser guns, clearly anticipating more determined rioters

27. She then abandoned a deportation flight after it was found every passenger had leave to stay in the UK

28. Matt Hancock said we should get back to work as there is "little evidence" coronavirus is passed on in offices, having seen Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings catch coronavirus in their office

29. Then he voted for himself to continue to work remotely for 11 more weeks

30. Tories told us to lose weight

31. Then they paid us to go and eat out

32. Then they told us face-masks were essential

33. But not in schools

34. Then they were essential in schools

35. Then they told us to keep social distancing

36. Then they held a meeting of 50 PMs in a room with a capacity for 29

37. Then only 8 minutes later, they tweeted that the were updating advice to ban meeting in groups of 30

38. Then they banned you from meeting more than 6 people

39. But you can still go to the pub, 30 of you can attend a wedding or (more likely) a funeral, 30 of you get in a rugby scrum, and you can sit on a packed train carriage with 80 other people

40. Oh, and obviously, grouse-shooting is exempt. After all, what are we: French!?

41. And the new ban didn’t start for a week, and excluded the St Leger horse racing meet, where 3640 people crowded together making money for The Jockey Club; and isn’t it amazing that Matt Hancock is MP for Newmarket, where his major donors The Jockey Club are based?

42. So now the R number (which Boris Johnson was "absolutely committed to keeping below 1") is at 1.7

43. Matt Hancock made a big deal of £60k compensation for families of NHS workers who died fighting Covid. The govt simultaneously stopped all their benefits

44. Hancock then started a scheme to financially support those forced to self-isolate, paying them up to (that’s “up to”) £13 a day

45. In preparation for the forthcoming homelessness epidemic, Tory councils voted to fine people £1000 for being too poor have anywhere to sleep

46. The govt said it was "ramping up to 150k tests a fortnight" 3 months after they claimed they were doing "over 100k tests a week"

47. Matt Hancock said he was changing the law to allow nurses to give flu vaccinations, unaware nurses already give over 93% of flu vaccinations

48. Then he launched a campaign to fight obesity, and immediately closed the agency responsible for delivering it

49. And then he advertised for a person to replace the head of Public Health England. The advert said no experience in health is required. In a pandemic.

50. The govt announced Operation Moonshot!, an exciting-sounding £100bn plan to test 10m people a day using technology that doesn’t exist, delivered by the people behind the PPE crisis, Brexit, Gavin Williamson, and Chris Grayling literally failing his own intelligence test

51. Meanwhile, we ran out of home testing kits

52. Then more shortages led us sending people on 500-mile round trips for a Covid test, in what experts have dubbed “the full Cummings Experience”

53. Six months after the first case in the UK, despite having diligently spent over £1bn on contracts with sweet suppliers and dormant companies with no employees, the UK still is not capable of producing a single piece of hospital-standard PPE

54. Researchers from King’s College London found Tories “employed overt disinformation” with “new levels of impunity” in the 2019 General Election

55. The govt was “formally warned for threatening press freedom” (putting us in the same classification as Russia) by the Council of Europe, which the UK co-founded in 1949 to protect human rights

56. It was then reported Boris Johnson plans to opt out of human rights laws

57. Meanwhile, a cross-party group of MPs is threatening to sue Boris Johnson if he continues to ignore calls for an enquiry into Russian interference in UK politics. People connected to the Putin regime paid £160k to play tennis with Boris Johnson

58. The leader of Scottish Tories tweeted “I would have no hesitation in voting against any legislation which would allow chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef. That’s a categorical assurance.”

59. He then voted to allow chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef

60. The govt voted not to implement the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower enquiry

61. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was quoted as saying “it is not my job to worry about people starving to death in the UK”

62. The govt announced new Covid restrictions with a densely worded 10-page legal document, released at 11.38pm on Sunday night, just 22 minutes before police, hospitals, health officials, local councils, schools and businesses had to implement them

63. The document ends: “no impact assessment has been done”, surprising nobody familiar with Brexit

64. Environment news, and as a liveable world slips relentlessly from our grasp, the UK spent just £2000 – not a typo - tackling environmental damage to the British countryside

65. They spent £46m (2300 times as much) telling us to get ready for a Brexit that didn’t happen

66. And the Tory-appointed head of the Environment Agency endorsed proposals to weaken laws on the cleanliness of rivers, lakes and coastlines

67. Meanwhile the Fisheries Minister posed "catching mackerel" with a rod that had no line in a sea that has no mackerel, and I had to order a fresh barrel of satire

68. Nine months into Boris Johnson’s "levelling up" agenda, the gap between rich and poor pupils has grown 46%

69. And finally, because no list of abject failure is complete without him, Chris Grayling literally resigned from Intelligence

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Other than that it’s going great..............

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By *uninlondon69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Cheers op..

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them."

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism..

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By *L RogueMan
over a year ago

London

How people can defend this level of corruption and elitism is beyond me.

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach

Point 25. f. is the one that I "enjoyed" the most.

I say it every time this comes out. Can you imagine the hue and cry arising from the media if this list was about a Labour government?

Yet this lot are basically getting a free pass from the majority of the print and TV news.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That was great fun and hugely depressing, all at the same time.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral


"@RussInCheshire had some time off but he's returned with an updated list of fun facts from the last few weeks.

1. Theresa May couldn’t agree a Withdrawal Agreement (WI) because – in news that will shock the millions who warned about this – it’s impossible due do without accepting EU rules, or harming NI, or breaking up the UK, or crippling the economy, or all of the above

2. Nevertheless, Boris Johnson agreed a WI from the EU

3. Then Tories voted to accelerate the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament, specifically so it wouldn’t have to face scrutiny

4. And Boris Johnson withdrew the whip – sacked – 21 Tories who didn’t support the delay

5. Then he won an election by promising the WI was "oven-ready" and "brilliant"

6. Later, in a massive shock, it was discovered the WI contains all the problems that prevented May from agreeing it

7. So the govt announced it would just break the law and ignore its own treaty

8. Each MP’s Oath of Allegiance includes "I will give my loyalty to the United Kingdom… uphold its democratic values … and observe laws faithfully"

9. All 5 living ex-PM’s oppose this plan

10. Every living ex-Tory leader opposes it (except IDS, but c’mon, it’s IDS)

11. So now the govt which sacked 21 MPs for opposing the WI is threatening to sack any MPs who support the same WI

12. The actual Police Minister said it’s OK to break the law

13. The Lord Chancellor, Britain’s highest law officer, said it’s OK to break the law

14. The Attorney General, responsible for advising the govt on legal matters, said it’s OK to break the law

15. The Lord Chancellor and Attorney General are barristers, and the Bar Council guidelines say you will be struck-off if you "knowingly advise a client to break the law"

16. Same day, Foreign Secretary and irony no-fly-zone Dominic Raab said Iran "must comply with its legal commitments and treaties"

17. Gavin Williamson and Mark Francois were nominated for the MP Of The Year Award

18. This was the last known sighting of Mark Francois

19. Michael Gove said in a July speech "failures of policy and judgement", are generating a "crisis of authority" and "Politicians like me must take responsibility for the effect of their actions"

20. Gavin Williamson is still in his job

21. But the head of Ofqual was sacked

22. And the most senior education civil servant had to stand down

23. In fact, resignations by senior civil servants are up 14% in a year

24. But 44% of new senior appointments are personal friends of Michael Gove, in one of those amazing coincidence things

25. Other amazing coincidences, a sub-thread:

a. Public First, a company led by Govt and Cummings associates, was handed a contract to help Ofqual with the exams fiasco. The contract wasn’t put out to tender

b. Gove appointed ex-girlfriend Simone Finn as adviser to Cabinet Office. Finn immediately paid her own company to "shake up the Cabinet Office"

c. Gove handed a contract (without tender) to PWC, a company that pays him £5000 per hour to give speeches

d. Gove gave £21k to Signal AI, a company associated with Gove and Cummings, to ask Tunisians what they think about Covid

e. Faculty AI, associated with Gove and Cummings, got £400k to analyse tweets by UK citizens. So if I vanish one dark night, tell my family I tolerated them

f. And another contract went to the cousin of Tory MP Tom Tugendhat to "analyse the awarding of govt contracts", which is like a spiral, wrapped inside a Möbius strip, encased in a corkscrew, and tethered to a twat

26. Anyway, back to the fun: Home Secretary and Nurse Ratched cosplayer Priti Patel authorised “more painful” Taser guns, clearly anticipating more determined rioters

27. She then abandoned a deportation flight after it was found every passenger had leave to stay in the UK

28. Matt Hancock said we should get back to work as there is "little evidence" coronavirus is passed on in offices, having seen Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings catch coronavirus in their office

29. Then he voted for himself to continue to work remotely for 11 more weeks

30. Tories told us to lose weight

31. Then they paid us to go and eat out

32. Then they told us face-masks were essential

33. But not in schools

34. Then they were essential in schools

35. Then they told us to keep social distancing

36. Then they held a meeting of 50 PMs in a room with a capacity for 29

37. Then only 8 minutes later, they tweeted that the were updating advice to ban meeting in groups of 30

38. Then they banned you from meeting more than 6 people

39. But you can still go to the pub, 30 of you can attend a wedding or (more likely) a funeral, 30 of you get in a rugby scrum, and you can sit on a packed train carriage with 80 other people

40. Oh, and obviously, grouse-shooting is exempt. After all, what are we: French!?

41. And the new ban didn’t start for a week, and excluded the St Leger horse racing meet, where 3640 people crowded together making money for The Jockey Club; and isn’t it amazing that Matt Hancock is MP for Newmarket, where his major donors The Jockey Club are based?

42. So now the R number (which Boris Johnson was "absolutely committed to keeping below 1") is at 1.7

43. Matt Hancock made a big deal of £60k compensation for families of NHS workers who died fighting Covid. The govt simultaneously stopped all their benefits

44. Hancock then started a scheme to financially support those forced to self-isolate, paying them up to (that’s “up to”) £13 a day

45. In preparation for the forthcoming homelessness epidemic, Tory councils voted to fine people £1000 for being too poor have anywhere to sleep

46. The govt said it was "ramping up to 150k tests a fortnight" 3 months after they claimed they were doing "over 100k tests a week"

47. Matt Hancock said he was changing the law to allow nurses to give flu vaccinations, unaware nurses already give over 93% of flu vaccinations

48. Then he launched a campaign to fight obesity, and immediately closed the agency responsible for delivering it

49. And then he advertised for a person to replace the head of Public Health England. The advert said no experience in health is required. In a pandemic.

50. The govt announced Operation Moonshot!, an exciting-sounding £100bn plan to test 10m people a day using technology that doesn’t exist, delivered by the people behind the PPE crisis, Brexit, Gavin Williamson, and Chris Grayling literally failing his own intelligence test

51. Meanwhile, we ran out of home testing kits

52. Then more shortages led us sending people on 500-mile round trips for a Covid test, in what experts have dubbed “the full Cummings Experience”

53. Six months after the first case in the UK, despite having diligently spent over £1bn on contracts with sweet suppliers and dormant companies with no employees, the UK still is not capable of producing a single piece of hospital-standard PPE

54. Researchers from King’s College London found Tories “employed overt disinformation” with “new levels of impunity” in the 2019 General Election

55. The govt was “formally warned for threatening press freedom” (putting us in the same classification as Russia) by the Council of Europe, which the UK co-founded in 1949 to protect human rights

56. It was then reported Boris Johnson plans to opt out of human rights laws

57. Meanwhile, a cross-party group of MPs is threatening to sue Boris Johnson if he continues to ignore calls for an enquiry into Russian interference in UK politics. People connected to the Putin regime paid £160k to play tennis with Boris Johnson

58. The leader of Scottish Tories tweeted “I would have no hesitation in voting against any legislation which would allow chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef. That’s a categorical assurance.”

59. He then voted to allow chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef

60. The govt voted not to implement the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower enquiry

61. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was quoted as saying “it is not my job to worry about people starving to death in the UK”

62. The govt announced new Covid restrictions with a densely worded 10-page legal document, released at 11.38pm on Sunday night, just 22 minutes before police, hospitals, health officials, local councils, schools and businesses had to implement them

63. The document ends: “no impact assessment has been done”, surprising nobody familiar with Brexit

64. Environment news, and as a liveable world slips relentlessly from our grasp, the UK spent just £2000 – not a typo - tackling environmental damage to the British countryside

65. They spent £46m (2300 times as much) telling us to get ready for a Brexit that didn’t happen

66. And the Tory-appointed head of the Environment Agency endorsed proposals to weaken laws on the cleanliness of rivers, lakes and coastlines

67. Meanwhile the Fisheries Minister posed "catching mackerel" with a rod that had no line in a sea that has no mackerel, and I had to order a fresh barrel of satire

68. Nine months into Boris Johnson’s "levelling up" agenda, the gap between rich and poor pupils has grown 46%

69. And finally, because no list of abject failure is complete without him, Chris Grayling literally resigned from Intelligence

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You must have a sad life being able to write all this pointless crap.Also how can Grayling resign from intelligence he does not have any to start with lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I sometimes wonder about Grayling. I wonder if there was a Frankenstein's monster situation with him, where the aim was to create the ultimate man. Only the experiment went horribly wrong and the world ended up with the ultimate idiot.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism.."

... indeed, cultism before our very eyes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism.."

Replace the l with an n and that gives us a more accurate assessment

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By *uninlondon69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South


"

You must have a sad life being able to write all this pointless crap.Also how can Grayling resign from intelligence he does not have any to start with lol"

I don't write it, @RussInCheshire does. I just copied it from his page on the thread unroller. If I researched all that I'd probably lose my mind.

And you've objected to the Grayling point. Any of the rest of it you don't agree with? Obviously you'll be showing your working along with your objections?

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism..

Replace the l with an n and that gives us a more accurate assessment "

Was christened a Catholic..

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By *ackal1Couple
over a year ago

Manchester

Love it and hate the fact it’s true.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

God.... you write some bollocks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism..

... indeed, cultism before our very eyes "

Reporting the truth, even with a touch of humour, is reporting the truth. It is not cultism

I suppose being heavily into cultism yourself, you wouldn't realise that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"God.... you write some bollocks"

Which part of the OP isn’t true??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"God.... you write some bollocks

Which part of the OP isn’t true?? "

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before you get a wonderful and comprehensive answer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"God.... you write some bollocks

Which part of the OP isn’t true??

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before you get a wonderful and comprehensive answer."

Yeah, I am looking forward to it

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"God.... you write some bollocks"

Ironically...

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism..

... indeed, cultism before our very eyes "

Imagine thinking 'no you!' is a good comeback.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here


"Russ has done about 15 of these now and he's finding fresh material every time! And still people defend them.

They will to their dying day some of them..

Cultism..

... indeed, cultism before our very eyes

Imagine thinking 'no you!' is a good comeback. "

Lighthearted ... very much in line with the nature of the op.

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool


"God.... you write some bollocks"

A concise critique.

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr


"Point 25. f. is the one that I "enjoyed" the most.

I say it every time this comes out. Can you imagine the hue and cry arising from the media if this list was about a Labour government?

Yet this lot are basically getting a free pass from the majority of the print and TV news."

Agreed. I quite liked 25 e), too.

It's all quite a litany of incompetence and failure, isn't it?

Apparently, even Fraser Nelson thinks Boris has only got six months to save his premiership.

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Christopher grayling has been appointed advisor for Hutchinson ports.

He will be paid 100k a year for 7 hours work a week.

And people still believe that if you work hard in life you get what you want in life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Christopher grayling has been appointed advisor for Hutchinson ports.

He will be paid 100k a year for 7 hours work a week.

And people still believe that if you work hard in life you get what you want in life."

Well with his huge success at overseeing railways and his unique talent for ferry spotting he was obviously a shoo in.

"It's not what you know it's who you know" was never a more apt maxim.

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By *rishmocha2Couple
over a year ago

Beds

40. Oh, and obviously, grouse-shooting is exempt. After all, what are we: French!?

I'm still laughing about this

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool


"Christopher grayling has been appointed advisor for Hutchinson ports.

He will be paid 100k a year for 7 hours work a week.

And people still believe that if you work hard in life you get what you want in life.

Well with his huge success at overseeing railways and his unique talent for ferry spotting he was obviously a shoo in.

"It's not what you know it's who you know" was never a more apt maxim."

V true

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"40. Oh, and obviously, grouse-shooting is exempt. After all, what are we: French!?

I'm still laughing about this"

It's lawful to have 30 or so shooting grouse but only 6 can bird watch..

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"Christopher grayling has been appointed advisor for Hutchinson ports.

He will be paid 100k a year for 7 hours work a week.

And people still believe that if you work hard in life you get what you want in life.

Well with his huge success at overseeing railways and his unique talent for ferry spotting he was obviously a shoo in.

"It's not what you know it's who you know" was never a more apt maxim.

V true"

Maybe he'll advice on costings..

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral


"I sometimes wonder about Grayling. I wonder if there was a Frankenstein's monster situation with him, where the aim was to create the ultimate man. Only the experiment went horribly wrong and the world ended up with the ultimate idiot."
No thats Hancock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"@RussInCheshire had some time off but he's returned with an updated list of fun facts from the last few weeks.

1. Theresa May couldn’t agree a Withdrawal Agreement (WI) because – in news that will shock the millions who warned about this – it’s impossible due do without accepting EU rules, or harming NI, or breaking up the UK, or crippling the economy, or all of the above

2. Nevertheless, Boris Johnson agreed a WI from the EU

3. Then Tories voted to accelerate the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament, specifically so it wouldn’t have to face scrutiny

4. And Boris Johnson withdrew the whip – sacked – 21 Tories who didn’t support the delay

5. Then he won an election by promising the WI was "oven-ready" and "brilliant"

6. Later, in a massive shock, it was discovered the WI contains all the problems that prevented May from agreeing it

7. So the govt announced it would just break the law and ignore its own treaty

8. Each MP’s Oath of Allegiance includes "I will give my loyalty to the United Kingdom… uphold its democratic values … and observe laws faithfully"

9. All 5 living ex-PM’s oppose this plan

10. Every living ex-Tory leader opposes it (except IDS, but c’mon, it’s IDS)

11. So now the govt which sacked 21 MPs for opposing the WI is threatening to sack any MPs who support the same WI

12. The actual Police Minister said it’s OK to break the law

13. The Lord Chancellor, Britain’s highest law officer, said it’s OK to break the law

14. The Attorney General, responsible for advising the govt on legal matters, said it’s OK to break the law

15. The Lord Chancellor and Attorney General are barristers, and the Bar Council guidelines say you will be struck-off if you "knowingly advise a client to break the law"

16. Same day, Foreign Secretary and irony no-fly-zone Dominic Raab said Iran "must comply with its legal commitments and treaties"

17. Gavin Williamson and Mark Francois were nominated for the MP Of The Year Award

18. This was the last known sighting of Mark Francois

19. Michael Gove said in a July speech "failures of policy and judgement", are generating a "crisis of authority" and "Politicians like me must take responsibility for the effect of their actions"

20. Gavin Williamson is still in his job

21. But the head of Ofqual was sacked

22. And the most senior education civil servant had to stand down

23. In fact, resignations by senior civil servants are up 14% in a year

24. But 44% of new senior appointments are personal friends of Michael Gove, in one of those amazing coincidence things

25. Other amazing coincidences, a sub-thread:

a. Public First, a company led by Govt and Cummings associates, was handed a contract to help Ofqual with the exams fiasco. The contract wasn’t put out to tender

b. Gove appointed ex-girlfriend Simone Finn as adviser to Cabinet Office. Finn immediately paid her own company to "shake up the Cabinet Office"

c. Gove handed a contract (without tender) to PWC, a company that pays him £5000 per hour to give speeches

d. Gove gave £21k to Signal AI, a company associated with Gove and Cummings, to ask Tunisians what they think about Covid

e. Faculty AI, associated with Gove and Cummings, got £400k to analyse tweets by UK citizens. So if I vanish one dark night, tell my family I tolerated them

f. And another contract went to the cousin of Tory MP Tom Tugendhat to "analyse the awarding of govt contracts", which is like a spiral, wrapped inside a Möbius strip, encased in a corkscrew, and tethered to a twat

26. Anyway, back to the fun: Home Secretary and Nurse Ratched cosplayer Priti Patel authorised “more painful” Taser guns, clearly anticipating more determined rioters

27. She then abandoned a deportation flight after it was found every passenger had leave to stay in the UK

28. Matt Hancock said we should get back to work as there is "little evidence" coronavirus is passed on in offices, having seen Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings catch coronavirus in their office

29. Then he voted for himself to continue to work remotely for 11 more weeks

30. Tories told us to lose weight

31. Then they paid us to go and eat out

32. Then they told us face-masks were essential

33. But not in schools

34. Then they were essential in schools

35. Then they told us to keep social distancing

36. Then they held a meeting of 50 PMs in a room with a capacity for 29

37. Then only 8 minutes later, they tweeted that the were updating advice to ban meeting in groups of 30

38. Then they banned you from meeting more than 6 people

39. But you can still go to the pub, 30 of you can attend a wedding or (more likely) a funeral, 30 of you get in a rugby scrum, and you can sit on a packed train carriage with 80 other people

40. Oh, and obviously, grouse-shooting is exempt. After all, what are we: French!?

41. And the new ban didn’t start for a week, and excluded the St Leger horse racing meet, where 3640 people crowded together making money for The Jockey Club; and isn’t it amazing that Matt Hancock is MP for Newmarket, where his major donors The Jockey Club are based?

42. So now the R number (which Boris Johnson was "absolutely committed to keeping below 1") is at 1.7

43. Matt Hancock made a big deal of £60k compensation for families of NHS workers who died fighting Covid. The govt simultaneously stopped all their benefits

44. Hancock then started a scheme to financially support those forced to self-isolate, paying them up to (that’s “up to”) £13 a day

45. In preparation for the forthcoming homelessness epidemic, Tory councils voted to fine people £1000 for being too poor have anywhere to sleep

46. The govt said it was "ramping up to 150k tests a fortnight" 3 months after they claimed they were doing "over 100k tests a week"

47. Matt Hancock said he was changing the law to allow nurses to give flu vaccinations, unaware nurses already give over 93% of flu vaccinations

48. Then he launched a campaign to fight obesity, and immediately closed the agency responsible for delivering it

49. And then he advertised for a person to replace the head of Public Health England. The advert said no experience in health is required. In a pandemic.

50. The govt announced Operation Moonshot!, an exciting-sounding £100bn plan to test 10m people a day using technology that doesn’t exist, delivered by the people behind the PPE crisis, Brexit, Gavin Williamson, and Chris Grayling literally failing his own intelligence test

51. Meanwhile, we ran out of home testing kits

52. Then more shortages led us sending people on 500-mile round trips for a Covid test, in what experts have dubbed “the full Cummings Experience”

53. Six months after the first case in the UK, despite having diligently spent over £1bn on contracts with sweet suppliers and dormant companies with no employees, the UK still is not capable of producing a single piece of hospital-standard PPE

54. Researchers from King’s College London found Tories “employed overt disinformation” with “new levels of impunity” in the 2019 General Election

55. The govt was “formally warned for threatening press freedom” (putting us in the same classification as Russia) by the Council of Europe, which the UK co-founded in 1949 to protect human rights

56. It was then reported Boris Johnson plans to opt out of human rights laws

57. Meanwhile, a cross-party group of MPs is threatening to sue Boris Johnson if he continues to ignore calls for an enquiry into Russian interference in UK politics. People connected to the Putin regime paid £160k to play tennis with Boris Johnson

58. The leader of Scottish Tories tweeted “I would have no hesitation in voting against any legislation which would allow chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef. That’s a categorical assurance.”

59. He then voted to allow chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef

60. The govt voted not to implement the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower enquiry

61. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was quoted as saying “it is not my job to worry about people starving to death in the UK”

62. The govt announced new Covid restrictions with a densely worded 10-page legal document, released at 11.38pm on Sunday night, just 22 minutes before police, hospitals, health officials, local councils, schools and businesses had to implement them

63. The document ends: “no impact assessment has been done”, surprising nobody familiar with Brexit

64. Environment news, and as a liveable world slips relentlessly from our grasp, the UK spent just £2000 – not a typo - tackling environmental damage to the British countryside

65. They spent £46m (2300 times as much) telling us to get ready for a Brexit that didn’t happen

66. And the Tory-appointed head of the Environment Agency endorsed proposals to weaken laws on the cleanliness of rivers, lakes and coastlines

67. Meanwhile the Fisheries Minister posed "catching mackerel" with a rod that had no line in a sea that has no mackerel, and I had to order a fresh barrel of satire

68. Nine months into Boris Johnson’s "levelling up" agenda, the gap between rich and poor pupils has grown 46%

69. And finally, because no list of abject failure is complete without him, Chris Grayling literally resigned from Intelligence

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If it hasn’t affected a TP voter then its forgivable. Don’t provide evidence it depresses them, be positive.

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By *exy couple128Couple
over a year ago

Scarborough

So glad I've got better things to do than write pages of crap like that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"So glad I've got better things to do than write pages of crap like that "

It’s difficult, isn’t it, when faced with a comprehensive list of the incompetence and cronyism of the people you support, to muster a decent response.

What part of it do you think is crap by the way?

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr


"So glad I've got better things to do than write pages of crap like that

It’s difficult, isn’t it, when faced with a comprehensive list of the incompetence and cronyism of the people you support, to muster a decent response.

What part of it do you think is crap by the way?"

That question assumes they actually read it all; which is highly unlikely.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"So glad I've got better things to do than write pages of crap like that "

Yet you took the time to read it and comment on it

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

"

...and the reported Italy trip.

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party "

What's the banking leaks?

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?"

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked.

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked. "

Thought that was well known?

Just seen the Perugia thing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party "

Shhhh, you aren’t allowed to criticism the government

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked.

Thought that was well known?

Just seen the Perugia thing."

Well yes but this puts meat on the bones. A few people will be looking over their shoulder after this one.

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By *uninlondon69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

After just 4 days @russincheshire has enough for another #weekintory. I'm on mobile and can't copy it yet but check his twitter for more fun & games

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"After just 4 days @russincheshire has enough for another #weekintory. I'm on mobile and can't copy it yet but check his twitter for more fun & games "

This is a very sad game for the UK

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked.

Thought that was well known?

Just seen the Perugia thing.

"

Damn, the airport made a mistake. I so wanted that one to be true!

;-)

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked.

Thought that was well known?

Just seen the Perugia thing.

Damn, the airport made a mistake. I so wanted that one to be true!

;-)"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked.

Thought that was well known?

Just seen the Perugia thing.

Damn, the airport made a mistake. I so wanted that one to be true!

;-)"

Apparently he has a doppelgänger, let’s hope it is the fake Boris that is doing the Cobra meeting tomorrow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have a feeling with the banking leaks.

This is going to be another good week for the Tory party

What's the banking leaks?

Been another round of banking leaks. Some murky money being washed in the square mile no questions asked.

Thought that was well known?

Just seen the Perugia thing.

Damn, the airport made a mistake. I so wanted that one to be true!

;-)

Apparently he has a doppelgänger, let’s hope it is the fake Boris that is doing the Cobra meeting tomorrow

"

Funniest thing about the apparent non-story was the response when Schapps was asked if Johnson was secretly in Italy on air. He hedged , trotting out the old "not as far as I'm aware" line. Even when they're 99.99% confident of facts, politicians are scared to state them. Especially since Johnson is capable of pulling pretty much any bullshit.

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