[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[Pevenseagull]

sorry, you want the state to pump near £4bn in to a business with unproven technology and no customers?

I'd rather the state punt £4bn on emerging technology that would be on line within 5 years than many times that on nuclear power stations that won't be operating for a decade.

The U.K. Is missing the boat on development and it needs to be developed under a state owned growth fund.

 

[The Clamp]

I agree Cameron is responsible for the shit show we have now. It's like a school teacher saying they were just nipping out and never came back.
But there appears to be no actual alternative that can galvanise the country.
The opposition can't even agree with themselves, anyone who even speaks diffsrently is stupid, the country is gone..
But in the morning, we wake up, life is still good.

You think life is still good for everyone?

New research from Shelter shows at least 271,000 people are recorded as homeless in England, including 123,000 children. Shelter's detailed analysis of official homelessness figures and responses to a Freedom of Information request shows that one in 208 people in England are without a home as of 11 Jan 2023.


For the first time outside of the first year of the pandemic, food banks in the Trussell Trust network have distributed over 2.1 million food parcels in 2021-22.
...
Total.

TOTAL	London
2018/19	167,727
2019/20	204,335
2020/21	423,263
2021/22	283,563

 

[Thunder Bolt]

sorry, you want the state to pump near £4bn in to a business with unproven technology and no customers?

Better than billions pumped to cronies for unusable PPE.

 

[TomandJerry]

Here we go....

Patients should be charged for GP appointments and A&E visits, Sajid Javid has said, as he called the present model of the NHS “unsustainable”.

The former health secretary said “extending the contributory principle” should be part of radical reforms to tackle growing waiting times.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Here we go....

Patients should be charged for GP appointments and A&E visits, Sajid Javid has said, as he called the present model of the NHS “unsustainable”.

The former health secretary said “extending the contributory principle” should be part of radical reforms to tackle growing waiting times.

They'll be hard at work now looking for possibilities to bring in private companies at huge cost, getting friends and relatives setting up those private companies and figuring out a way of illegally awarding contracts completely dependant on being referred by Ministers, MPs, SPADS and donors.

Because they would never bleed money out of the NHS like that would they. Luckily we actually only voted for another 2 years of this

 

[chickens]

I'd rather the state punt £4bn on emerging technology that would be on line within 5 years than many times that on nuclear power stations that won't be operating for a decade.

The U.K. Is missing the boat on development and it needs to be developed under a state owned growth fund.

Absolutely. We’re so completely backwards at the moment, missing opportunities to develop battery technology and expertise in harnessing tidal power, and instead granting licenses for new coal mines.

We do look like the Ralph Wiggum of the international community. It’s embarrassing. The world has moved on around us, and here’s us, fighting the battles of the 20th Century.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

there's one factory in Sunderland doing similar (owned by China) and over 30 factories in the EU in various stages of development looking to steal the march of progress in this.

Germany has had huge foreign investment regarding these chip and battery things. I read they literally use Brexit and the general instability of the UK in their sales pitch.

Germany wins big as Intel spreads chip investment across six EU countries

Production in Germany will attempt to produce chips smaller than 2 nanometers, something the company has yet to achieve.

europe.autonews.com

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

sorry, you want the state to pump near £4bn in to a business with unproven technology and no customers?

Given the UK government’s recent woeful history with tech absolutely no.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Absolutely. We’re so completely backwards at the moment, missing opportunities to develop battery technology and expertise in harnessing tidal power, and instead granting licenses for new coal mines.

We do look like the Ralph Wiggum of the international community. It’s embarrassing. The world has moved on around us, and here’s us, fighting the battles of the 20th Century.

This current cabal know they only have another 2 years until they sink into oblivion and the Conservatives start working on getting their party back. The next 2 years will be exactly like the first 3 with them concentrating solely on lining their pockets while they can and fuelling culture wars to try to hang on to power for as long as possible, and **** what happens to the country.

Incredible though it seems, 5 years of absolutely no leadership, complete incompetence and no plan other than bleeding the system dry is going to take decades to recover from with a lot of suffering for normal people

 

[beorhthelm]

there's one factory in Sunderland doing similar (owned by China) and over 30 factories in the EU in various stages of development looking to steal the march of progress in this.

right, we are building capacity for batteries. shouldnt pour public money in to another without clear demand. then 5 years later we're complaining how we spent all the money on unusable batteries and why didnt we spend that on something else. much better to money spent on nuclear tech (SMR) that will solve a very pressing problem of generating enough power in near term.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

right, we are building capacity for batteries. shouldnt pour public money in to another without clear demand. then 5 years later we're complaining how we spent all the money on unusable batteries and why didnt we spend that on something else. much better to money spent on nuclear tech (SMR) that will solve a very pressing problem of generating enough power in near term.

You already have peer reviews of the batteries being unusuable? Remarkable.

 

[The Clamp]

Pathetic really, isn’t it. Utterly contemptible. Headlines all concerning the wrong-doings of our esteemed leaders. Most of them concerning their efforts to evade blame.

 

[TomandJerry]

Ministers were using the electric car battery maker Britishvolt as a prime example of the government’s record for “securing business investment in the UK” just months before the scheme collapsed without any public investment.

The company, once heralded as Britain’s potential champion for battery making, fell into administration last week after the failure of last-ditch talks to find emergency funding to keep it afloat. Its demise has been criticised as showing the government’s lack of industrial strategy, the shortcomings of “levelling up” and Britain’s failure to grasp new manufacturing opportunities in the wake of Brexit.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Not sure about the customers, but I feel batteries are a fairly well-proven technology.

This was the flagship levelling up poster company for our new “Levelled Up” Britain. Though we both know that it was always a fig leaf to hide the absence of any form of long term industrial strategy.

Im sure a well connected do gooder will be along soon to purchase the company at. 5 pence in the pound and remind us of why this is great opportunity for public funding investment

#OurFuture

 

[Nobby]

Bonnee de douche

Labour urges probe into claims BBC chair helped Johnson secure loan guarantee

The BBC chairman helped him secure a loan guarantee weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role, a paper says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WATFORD zero]

Pathetic really, isn’t it. Utterly contemptible. Headlines all concerning the wrong-doings of our esteemed leaders. Most of them concerning their efforts to evade blame.

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So his defence is that, on this occasion, he was incompetent rather than corrupt

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Bonnee de douche

Labour urges probe into claims BBC chair helped Johnson secure loan guarantee

The BBC chairman helped him secure a loan guarantee weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role, a paper says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Delicious slip of the tongue from James "Not So" Cleverly. Said he didn't know about allegations but he did know the bloke who got the job had wealth and experience.

 

[mikeyjh]

Delicious slip of the tongue from James "Not So" Cleverly. Said he didn't know about allegations but he did know the bloke who got the job had wealth and experience.

Shamelessly stolen from Twitter but.... "Boris Johnson wouldn't need to borrow £800,000 if he cooked from scratch and cancelled Netflix"

 

[nicko31]

Pathetic really, isn’t it. Utterly contemptible. Headlines all concerning the wrong-doings of our esteemed leaders. Most of them concerning their efforts to evade blame.

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Digging in, with fellow offshorers in Tory party showing their support.

Estimated net worth £100m, too much is never enough

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Nadhim Zahawi wrongly told officials that he had not exchanged WhatsApp messages with David Cameron before it emerged that they had been deleted from his phone, The Times can disclose.

Nadhim Zahawi misled his officials over Greensill texts from Cameron

Nadhim Zahawi wrongly told officials that he had not exchanged WhatsApp messages with David Cameron before it emerged that they had been deleted from his phone,

www.thetimes.co.uk