Just how awful is this government? June 2020 edition

[The Clamp]

Yet Corbyn could have got it passed?

Grow a pair and take responsibility.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Grow a pair and take responsibility.

Sort of avoids my point, but well done.

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

Yet Corbyn could have got it passed?

Labour set out what needed to change to make it acceptable.

May went with the DUP.

The gullible then voted for Johnson, with his 'oven ready deal'.

I am sorry that you got duped into the mirage of brexit. But it's yours. Be proud. Pay more for the basics.

But own it.

 

[A1X]

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So this puts the Government now at war with the following, as far as I can tell;

- The EU
- The BBC
- Greater Manchester
- The Church
- It's own scientific advisors
- Scotland
- Wales
- Good Morning Britain
- Reality

Anyone else?

 

[vegster]

Watching Johnson's presser and its difficult to watch without thinking of him as a Poundland Matt Lucas.

 

[beorhthelm]

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not all bad then.

 

[vegster]

not all bad then.

I thought that Johnson had already severed his personal ties with Christianity some time ago given his previous in politics and his personal life ?

 

[Randy McNob]

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So this puts the Government now at war with the following, as far as I can tell;

- The EU
- The BBC
- Greater Manchester
- The Church
- It's own scientific advisors
- Scotland
- Wales
- Good Morning Britain
- Reality

Anyone else?

divide and rule

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Johnson seems determined not to extend free school meals despite the efforts of Marcus Rashford. The (non-binding) vote in the Commons tonight will probably see the Tories* supporting their 'leader'. What really grates is that the Fat One talks about a government that 'puts its arms around the British people'. This clearly doesn't include the children of the poorer British people. Why does he come out with this sort of crap?

*for what it's worth I've written to my specimen to ask him to do the decent thing

 

[Randy McNob]

So looks like Boris will do a runner after Brexit and leave the mess with someone else

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[GrizzlingGammon]

So looks like Boris will do a runner after Brexit and leave the mess with someone else

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See my earlier thread.
https://www.northstandchat.com/show...-quit-as-PM-early-next-year&highlight=Johnson

 

[daveinplzen]

He cant affford a no deal.. he will fold to the EU, and claim victory. Then scarper.

 

[A1X]

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Freebies. Can't have those kids becoming dependent on food for the rest of their lives, can we?

 

[The Clamp]

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Freebies. Can't have those kids becoming dependent on food for the rest of their lives, can we?

A government point blank refusing to feed its citizens. While it gives itself a pay rise.

That’s worth a white moment of reflection.


What have we become?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Johnson seems determined not to extend free school meals despite the efforts of Marcus Rashford. The (non-binding) vote in the Commons tonight will probably see the Tories* supporting their 'leader'. What really grates is that the Fat One talks about a government that 'puts its arms around the British people'. This clearly doesn't include the children of the poorer British people. Why does he come out with this sort of crap?

*for what it's worth I've written to my specimen to ask him to do the decent thing

Paul Scully MP explained it today by the fact that Children have gone hungry for years. That's alright then. If only his party were in government and could fix it.

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[A1X]

A government point blank refusing to feed its citizens. While it gives itself a pay rise.

That’s worth a white moment of reflection.


What have we become?

To refer to a different thread in this forum, this is why I struggle to take seriously the complaints of many on the right who bemoan international aid under the "we should be helping our own" banner, they palpably don't actually give a shit about our own disadvantaged except as a stick to beat poor foreigners with.

 

[The Clamp]

To refer to a different thread in this forum, this is why I struggle to take seriously the complaints of many on the right who bemoan international aid under the "we should be helping our own" banner, they palpably don't actually give a shit about our own disadvantaged except as a stick to beat poor foreigners with.

The Tory party have put most of them in this position. Why would they now spend money helping them?

And this living wage bullshit. Until that’s law hardly any company will pay it. It’s a farce.

 

[CHAPPERS]

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...itain-nhs-corporate-executives-test-and-trace

Like so much surrounding this pandemic, the identity of Harding’s team at NHS track and trace was withheld from the public, until it was leaked to the Health Service Journal last month. Clinicians were astonished to discover that there is only one public health expert on its executive committee. There is space, however, for a former executive from Jaguar Land Rover, a senior manager from Travelex and an executive from Waitrose. Harding’s adviser at the agency is Alex Birtles, who, like her, previously worked for TalkTalk. She has subsequently made a further appointment to the board: Mike Coupe, an executive at another of her old firms, Sainsbury’s.

The “world-beating” test-and-trace system she oversees has repeatedly failed to reach its targets. Staff were scarcely trained. Patients have been directed to nonexistent testing centres, or to the other end of the country. A vast tranche of test results was lost. Thousands of people, including NHS staff, have been left in limbo, unable to work because they can’t get tests or the results of tests.
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Having demonstrated, to almost everyone’s dissatisfaction, that she was the wrong person for the job, Harding has now been given an even bigger role, as head of the National Institute for Health Protection, to run concurrently with the first one. This is the government’s replacement for Public Health England, which it blames for its own disasters. Harding’s appointment looks to me like a reward for failure.

The test-and-trace system might be a public health fiasco, but it’s a private profit bonanza. Consultants at one of the companies involved have each been earning £6,000 a day. Massive contracts have been awarded without competitive tendering. Astonishingly, at least one of these, worth £410m and issued to Serco, contains no penalty clause: even if Serco fails to fulfil its terms, it gets paid in full. Serco has indeed missed its targets, achieving an average by September of only 58.6% of contacts traced, against the 80% it was meant to reach.

Though this is an issue of great public interest, the contracts have been shrouded in secrecy. We have not been allowed to discover how the contractors were chosen, or why the government has repeatedly appointed them without competition. Time and again, in contracts for both the test-and-trace programme and protective equipment, sums of £108m have been disbursed. No one can explain why this magic number keeps recurring. Does it lie just below some threshold of accountability? Or is the government simply handing out standard wads of money to favoured companies, regardless of the cost of their work?

What is this about? Why is failure rewarded? Why are contracts issued with so little accountability or transparency? There may be a perfectly reasonable explanation, but you might expect the government’s Anti-Corruption Champion to investigate. Or perhaps not. He is John Penrose MP, Dido Harding’s husband.

Bit ****ing PALLY all of this outsourcing isn't it.

 

[vegster]

A government point blank refusing to feed its citizens. While it gives itself a pay rise.

That’s worth a white moment of reflection.


What have we become?

Indeed, absolutely shameful.

 

[Randy McNob]

The Tory party have put most of them in this position. Why would they now spend money helping them?

And this living wage bullshit. Until that’s law hardly any company will pay it. It’s a farce.

and they suddenly care about people using food banks to make a point about helping refugees