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

[Machiavelli]

Did they really just stop off shore wind energy while effectively subsidise non renewables

Yes, yes they did

 

[beorhthelm]

LHR/LGW have been using the same concrete for the runways

Who signed this off?

civil engineers, who want to use a cheap, light material, under the misapprehension they'd be properly built and well maintained to avoid problems.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Yes, yes they did

still can't get my head around why they did that

.....but then I'm not a **** that gets massive donations from ****s

 

[Hugo Rune]

MP’s sneaked through a cheeky little change on the August bank holiday.

MP’s losing their seats will no longer get an extra 2 months pay after the next election, they’ve doubled it to 4 months.

A cynic might suggest that the pay review committee who decided this are being influenced by the rats just about to jump ship? £2.3m extra for the taxpayer to help those poor MP’s who have been kicked out. Disgraceful.

 

[Bakero]

To me it's bizarre that you wouldn't know who your partner votes for. Don't couples have conversations? Fair play to him for doing the right thing when he found out

 

[The Clamp]

This really does show how low down the pecking order we have slipped.

Sunak was told he’d likely not be invited to talks alongside other world leaders because of his weak climate goals and cow-towing to lobbyist corporations that he, his cronies, and his family have links to. So his schedule suddenly became too busy.
What a ****.

What has the U.K. become? A pariah state. And the worst thing? It’s a deliberate act by Sunak to make his chums rich.

“The UK government has caused consternation in capitals around the world by seeming to waver on its commitments to net zero emissions and the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Sunak’s decision over the summer to “max out” the North Sea by licensing new oil and gas fieldsraised eyebrows among many countries and climate diplomats.
Sunak would risk falling foul of the UN secretary-general’s strict stipulations if he were to attempt to participate in the climate segment. The potential embarrassment he faced throws a new light on his decision not to attend the UN general assembly”……

Rishi Sunak avoiding UN summit after being warned about potential rejection | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Exclusive: PM risked embarrassment of downgraded status if UN deemed UK’s climate policies lacking ambition

amp.theguardian.com

“World leaders received letters from the UN last month making these terms clear, the Guardian understands. They were told that merely having net zero targets would not be sufficient to guarantee participation, and evidence of clear and ambitious policy measures and commitments was needed. Without this, countries could attend but not participate in the discussions”.

 

[Springal]

Revealed: China spy suspect is parliamentary aide Chris Cash

Arrested researcher unmasked as GP’s son, 28, who attended public school and uses dating app

www.thetimes.co.uk

We’re in safe hands

 

[Pevenseagull]

Revealed: China spy suspect is parliamentary aide Chris Cash

Arrested researcher unmasked as GP’s son, 28, who attended public school and uses dating app

www.thetimes.co.uk

We’re in safe hands

Hang on, the spy for China worked for the China Research Group?

Audacious!

 

[Randy McNob]

Tory news engineering dept realise they've gone a bit overkill with refugees on boats, decide to put it on the shelf for a week or so and come up with some new material. Got to find a new wolf at the door, how about CHINA? So, Chinese spies infultrating our democracy so they are the new enemy. Investigation underway, it's either Keith in accounts or sumyung Guy. You just also have to temporarily forget we want to fall over ourselves to join a trading block with China because they are our real friends not those pesky EU lot over the Channel

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Hang on, the spy for China worked for the China Research Group?

Audacious!

The Tories seem to have a lot of "research groups" for various things, they all seem to be set up for no reason other than to advance some nefarious plan, funded in a highly opaque way and normally leading to disastrous outcomes

 

[pb21]

Revealed: China spy suspect is parliamentary aide Chris Cash

Arrested researcher unmasked as GP’s son, 28, who attended public school and uses dating app

www.thetimes.co.uk

We’re in safe hands

OMG, he uses a DATING APP

 

[cheshunt seagull]

The Tories seem to have a lot of "research groups" for various things, they all seem to be set up for no reason other than to advance some nefarious plan, funded in a highly opaque way and normally leading to disastrous outcomes

One of the features of these 'research' groups is that they show little interest in actually doing any research. They start off with a simplistic position and just look for a few random bits of 'evidence' to back it up knowing that most of the media won't ask any probing questions.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The Tories seem to have a lot of "research groups" for various things, they all seem to be set up for no reason other than to advance some nefarious plan, funded in a highly opaque way and normally leading to disastrous outcomes

Funded by taxpayers for 'research' in the same way that Johnson engaged with lots of 'consultants' for the river bridge, and Irish tunnel. Lots of real estate sold off with profits going back into the government coffers. Magistrates courts, police stations, fire stations (Johnson sold off 10 alone in London)

We are being robbed blind, whilst austerity bites into every aspect of public services.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The first part of Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos is on iPLayer - it's essentially the story of what happened in Westminster from 2016. It includes lots of interviews with civil servants who have not spoken publicly before and is very interesting.

 

[Pevenseagull]

One of the features of these 'research' groups is that they show little interest in actually doing any research. They start off with a simplistic position and just look for a few random bits of 'evidence' to back it up knowing that most of the media won't ask any probing questions.

ERG

Ugh

 

[nicko31]

The first part of Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos is on iPLayer - it's essentially the story of what happened in Westminster from 2016. It includes lots of interviews with civil servants who have not spoken publicly before and is very interesting.

Watching this is a reminder of why the country is on its knees today, literally nothing happened in the zombie government for years…

Then we almost seamlessly moved to covid with the worse leader at the worse time.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Here we have the Office of Environmental Protection -

identifies possible failures to comply with environmental law in relation to regulatory oversight of untreated sewage discharges ​

https://www.theoep.org.uk/news/oep-...vironmental-law-relation-regulatory-oversight

No big deal really. just another woke quango...The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) was legally created in November 2021, under the Environment Act 2021.

Let me get this right. The same government who thought it would be a good idea to focus on their extraodinary success at stopping the boats in the middle of a calm warm summer, has managed to fall foul of a department they created as recently as 2021!

It isn't just the concrete that is crumbling.

 

[Pevenseagull]

The first part of Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos is on iPLayer - it's essentially the story of what happened in Westminster from 2016. It includes lots of interviews with civil servants who have not spoken publicly before and is very interesting.

Goodness me, when it's all condensed like this it's even more shocking.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Goodness me, when it's all condensed like this it's even more shocking.

Watching that, it is still incredible the level of decimation in every aspect of a nation that can be achieved in just 7 years of idiocy, incompetence and dishonesty. And that was only episode one finishing with Johnson eventually making his power grab. Truly remarkable

 

[CheeseRolls]

The Tories seem to have a lot of "research groups" for various things, they all seem to be set up for no reason other than to advance some nefarious plan, funded in a highly opaque way and normally leading to disastrous outcomes

Not to mention, many have charitable status so don't pay tax and even worse some are funded as part of government for no apparent reason (ERG)