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@PecoTrain said in British Politics:
As for the resignations, Sir Philip Rutnam gets his day in court regardless of this report
I hope all the multi-billion £ fuck-ups he was responsible for get well and truly aired in public.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
It blows my mind that a paper allows such utter crap to be published.
The Guardian is as a crap as the Daily Express - just has bigger words.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
It blows my mind that a paper allows such utter crap to be published.
The Guardian is as a crap as the Daily Express - just has bigger words.
The Express can spell its words though.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@PecoTrain said in British Politics:
As for the resignations, Sir Philip Rutnam gets his day in court regardless of this report
I hope all the multi-billion £ fuck-ups he was responsible for get well and truly aired in public.
Rutman's statement on report's findings: 'Enormous efforts were made from top to bottom in the Home Office to support the new Home Secretary and respond to her direction, and significant achievements have resulted.'
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@pakman said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@PecoTrain said in British Politics:
As for the resignations, Sir Philip Rutnam gets his day in court regardless of this report
I hope all the multi-billion £ fuck-ups he was responsible for get well and truly aired in public.
Rutman's statement on report's findings: 'Enormous efforts were made from top to bottom in the Home Office to support the new Home Secretary and respond to her direction, and significant achievements have resulted.'
Just not in any measurable form...
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Text from a mate who loves to wind me up ...
"Your buddy Owen Jones is using the US Capitol break-in to play the victim again ...."
Sure enough,
LOOK AT ME!
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He really is an unspeakably whiny little prick.
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
He really is an unspeakably whiny little prick.
You are what you eat?
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@pakman said in British Politics:
@Catogrande said in British Politics:
He really is an unspeakably whiny little prick.
You are what you eat?
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
You’re on a roll tonight. Pure gold!
I particularly like the time that Corbyn’s lesson has.
He knows how to pad things out!
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Text from a mate who loves to wind me up ...
"Your buddy Owen Jones is using the US Capitol break-in to play the victim again ...."
Sure enough,
Weird how something of significance happens on the other side of Atlantic and Owen Jones (and a few others) think it's all about them.
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So it seems Education secretary Gavin Williamson went on GMB this morning and got his arse completely handed to him. Couple of points of view here.
I've given a fair bit of leeway to many a minister during the last year, but undoubtedly GW has been completely out of his depth. It's one thing to u-turn on a lockdown due to a changing situation, but better foresight could have been handled for education where lives are not at stake. Out of his depth, incompetent must go.
SEcond point is I see quite a few Labour MP's jumping on the bandwagon. Question to Labour - where the fuck have you been? Why are you jumping on loudmouth journalists to make your point instead of making your own fucking point?
Make not mistake, the real issue is with Gavin. But if Labour were doing their job properly, he'd have been toast ages ago.
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@MajorRage Your last is a good point. We need a strong opposition (whoever they are) to keep the Government more accountable. Weak opposition allows too many excesses.
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
@MajorRage Your last is a good point. We need a strong opposition (whoever they are) to keep the Government more accountable. Weak opposition allows too many excesses.
See Thatcher.
See Blair.Labour won’t be strong til they completely purge the internal opposition. See corbyn, long Bailey etc
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@MajorRage I agree. I see parallels with the early to mid 80's with Michael Foot and the Militant Tendency. Serial losers (usually by a large margin) until they got a strong leader in John Smith and eventually got rid of the loony left. This left the door open for Thatcher to push through a lot of stuff that might not (and in some cases should not) have seen the light of day with a strong opposition.
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
We need a strong opposition (whoever they are) to keep the Government more accountable
There's a sizable section of Labour MPs more interested in banging on about BLM, identity politics and virtue-signally rather that do their job.
You end up with fuckwits like Dawn Foster accusing Priti Patel of not knowing what racism is and getting rightly schooled in return. (I'm no fan of Patel, but her response was absolutely bang-on).
As as for Captain Hindsight...tells the government keep the schools open in the morning and when they announce they are going to close, asks why they weren't closed earlier. I have some sympathy with the bloke inheriting Corbyn's mess, but he really isn't helping himself.
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