[Politics] Boris Johnson, the new UK Prime Minister

[BensGrandad]

Will we ever get back to the 'village bobby' where like Chris Fretter at Ferring 1 room of the house acted as his office/police station.

 

[Icy Gull]

Will we ever get back to the 'village bobby' where like Chris Fretter at Ferring 1 room of the house acted as his office/police station.

The Ferring Police station was sold as a house ages ago and no we’ll never get a village bobby back on the beat. He’d get beaten up every weekend

 

[vegster]

They are both sticks that have been used to beat the Tory government, whether with any real evidence of cause/effect or not. If it doesn't cost much in total govt spending terms to make it go away, and it seems to be popular with the voters, it is not really a very surprising move from the new PM, is it?

Just means that the last ten years Tory austerity policy was not only pointless, wrong and, is going to cost more government cash to put right. This from the party of Fiscal Probity ! Dedicated to 10 years of getting the national debt down at the expense of creating more in-work poverty, food banks and homelessness and then spaffing the savings back up the wall in order to get re-elected ! Shameless !

 

[darkwolf666]

Seems a strange policy after presiding over cuts to the Police budget for the last 10 years. Did the last ten years actually happen ? Has Boris awoken from a 10 year slumber to see his house robbed and trashed and then been left on hold on 101 ? Next up is a minor reverse ferret to increase funding for education, despite 10 years of year on year cuts and the mass exodus of experienced staff.

It's a strange thing, you never see weekly half page ads in the paper begging people to become solicitors, lawyers or bankers ? I wonder why there seems a permanent shortage of teachers despite the government allegedly " Putting more money in to education than EVER before " ?

To be fair to Boris, while Mayor of London, he largely kept the budget at a reasonable level, whilst more drastic cuts were happening elsewhere.

Also, in fairness, to the Tories it’s not them that have been flogging off the police stations, but the police themselves, to realise the valuable assets of property prices, in prime locations in London.

 

[Titanic]

Just means that the last ten years Tory austerity policy was not only pointless, wrong and, is going to cost more government cash to put right. This from the party of Fiscal Probity ! Dedicated to 10 years of getting the national debt down at the expense of creating more in-work poverty, food banks and homelessness and then spaffing the savings back up the wall in order to get re-elected ! Shameless !

These will cost a tiny fraction of the massive budget deficit that we were facing in 2010.

 

[vegster]

These will cost a tiny fraction of the massive budget deficit that we were facing in 2010.

You mean the budget deficit that has gone up since then ? Despite the austerity .

 

[vegster]

To be fair to Boris, while Mayor of London, he largely kept the budget at a reasonable level, whilst more drastic cuts were happening elsewhere.

Also, in fairness, to the Tories it’s not them that have been flogging off the police stations, but the police themselves, to realise the valuable assets of property prices, in prime locations in London.

Unfortunately the police have pretty much been forced in to selling whatever assets they can to meet the funding shortages they have had to suffer. Sadly you can only sell those assets once. No different to local councils closing toilets, " outsourcing " or flogging off municipal assets in order to provide the services they need to supply.

Another case in point was shifting the administration for the free over 75's TV licence from the government to the BBC. The BBC then have to fund it by cutting back on its services and trying to come up with a fair Means Test for which they will have to take the flak, not the government.

 

[Ernest]

In public spending terms it's very modest... but it seems like a popular thing to do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49123319

At least we won't need to build extra prisons to cope with all these extra criminals we catch as the present ones are over full, we will EXECUTE them instead

 

[BensGrandad]

The Ferring Police station was sold as a house ages ago and no we’ll never get a village bobby back on the beat. He’d get beaten up every weekend

Chris lived there and used 1 room as a police station and also played football for Ferring and at a guess I would say it was sold mid 70s but could be wrong.

 

[BensGrandad]

At least we won't need to build extra prisons to cope with all these extra criminals we catch as the present ones are over full, we will EXECUTE them instead

some of them hopefully.but society will not allow the death penalty back.

 

[Titanic]

You mean the budget deficit that has gone up since then ? Despite the austerity .

No the deficit has not gone up since then. The debt has, though (and usually does).

 

[vegster]

No the deficit has not gone up since then. The debt has, though (and usually does).

As you are well aware Titanic... Deckchairs

 

[Dick Head]

I guess you didn't bother reading any further at all, because I suppose it's easier to argue that way.

If we had a referendum in 1991-92, we wouldn't have had the referendum party, UKIP, Nigel Farage, brexit, Dominic Cummings, cable as low as it is, a parliamentary democracy crisis and Boris Johnson.

I read the whole post and agreed with it on the whole but my point still stands.

 

[BensGrandad]

I couldn't sleep last night so went and watched Thursday in Parliament on BBC and must say that I was very impressed with the manner in which Jacob Rees-Mogg answered the question thrown at him

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Can't wait to see these new 20k policemen we are getting , only one slight problem is that the Tories have closed and sold off plenty of police stations in the last 9 years so I wonder what the cost will be to reopen or build new ones

And that will only take us back to where we were years ago, we need more than that to cope with today's crimes.
Another huge mistake to get rid of them, and the new ones will have nowhere near the years of experience that the sacked ones had.
See also prison officers who are getting beaten up on a regular basis.
The protection of the Tories record over the past 10 years by some on this board is laughable, totally got their head in the sand and their fingers in their ears.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I couldn't sleep last night so went and watched Thursday in Parliament on BBC and must say that I was very impressed with the manner in which Jacob Rees-Mogg answered the question thrown at him

Thank God it was you who posted that crap otherwise I would have taken it seriously.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Never voted Tory, never will but the negative mentality of folk makes me grin.

20,000 new coppers, and people see the negative.....where will we put them, why did they do it in the first place, why do it when it's too late?

I'm all for it.

 

[BensGrandad]

Thank God it was you who posted that crap otherwise I would have taken it seriously.

He was very good and very eloquent

 

[rogersix]

He was very good and very eloquent

do you mean spiritually good, bg?

 

[beorhthelm]

As you are well aware Titanic... Deckchairs

no deckchairs, is basic economics. you cant reduce the debt until the deficit is removed and there is net surplus. ~50bn spent on interest, you dont think this would be better spent elsewhere?