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2nd August 2022, 11:11 AM | #1 |
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General UK Politics III - Dumb and Dumber
Most of the ones that were implemented as UK legislation will have been Statutory Instruments made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 so won’t generally have needed a vote. And EU regulations generally had direct effect without needing national implementation. |
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2nd August 2022, 12:49 PM | #3 |
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2nd August 2022, 03:32 PM | #4 |
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Check out the size of this contract
https://www.contractsfinder.service....rchResults&p=1 ETA, It's the potential work that could be generated by a consortium of councils so is actually OK |
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2nd August 2022, 07:08 PM | #5 |
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3rd August 2022, 12:04 AM | #6 |
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Let's be clear. Truss is referring specifically to the UK Acts of Parliament albeit predicated on EU law, itself heavily influenced by the UK (I believe Boris Johnson's grandparent actually wrote some of these up as a Brussels bod), namely the Human Rights Act and the Equality Act, as if they have been imposed on us unwillingly. She wants to get rid of workers rights and those bleedin' elf and safety acts which unreasonably prevents teachers from taking kids deep sea rafting for white sharks and character building'em. Truss is following the ERG script led by JRM. They are not talking about EU standards about the dimensions of nuts and bolts, except maybe doing away with pesky metrics and then there are those awful food standards stopping our brave entrepreneurs (a French word we need to get rid of by the way) from using sunset orange in Smarties. Let's get rid of all this EU crap and bring back common sense!
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3rd August 2022, 02:13 AM | #7 |
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Quite: start Carrot Flower Queen running on how to set up, run, repair, modify with every daft change some manager or politician invents for no reason, keep up with tax and NI changes and...and...and...any large scale computerised payroll system, like the NHS one, all while using IT technology which is several years out of date, won't be replaced, just bodged, which will not keep up withh the memory and speed demands made on it when it is pushed into doing more and more and what the costs and consequences of that are...How long have you got?
Especially when the politicians and their stooges at Quarry House ****** up their best chance at simplifying and streamlining, thus making it cheaper to run, NHS payroll and HR by botching the implementation of Agenda for Change nearly 20 years ago. |
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3rd August 2022, 04:55 AM | #9 |
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Meanwhile, we have a strong entry in today's "Who is the Stupidest Tory?" competition from Brandon Lewis, who is a serial winner of this competition, with this gem - https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ers-says-lewis
Seriously, Brandon, where was that £8.8 billion per year saving coming from without reductions in pay? My Hanlon's Razor is getting pretty knackered cutting through all this nonsense, to the point that I am wondering which is stupidity and what is malice, bearing in mind that the 2 are not mutually exclusive... |
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4th August 2022, 01:27 PM | #11 |
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Just read a good funny from Have I Got News -
New series of Big Brother receives 50 million applications after producers confirm that the house will have food and central heating. |
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Inflation is spiralling out of control.
The economy is likely to slip into recession later this year. People are getting poorer. The NHS is prostrate. Strikes are affecting the majority of people. And yet somehow none of this is the government's fault. The economic woes are all down to the governor of the Bank of England and the rest is down to unions and The Labour Party. Meanwhile, the triple lock means that the blue rinse brigade will be relatively OK. |
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Sunak boasts to Tories in Tumbridge Wells how he has reversed Labour's policy "that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas" so that wealthy areas could get at the funding as well. So much for levelling up.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...ed-urban-areas There is a paywall, so it is not clear when Sunak said that, but you can see the video of him saying it. |
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Aaaaah, nevermind, there is always a useful idiot like Richard Holden (C, NW Durham - which includes such prosperous towns as Consett and Willington...) toclaim that Sunak is right...
Holden, another one of those who has never had a job outside of working for a political party...Oh, sorry he worked as a waiter for a short time... |
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Oh, look - https://www.theguardian.com/politics...tygate-inquiry - Tory party wants to cover its arse and stop even a half-hearted Commons investigation...
What ever happened to the party of Laura Norder? Poor Laura... |
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And yet another amazing thing the Lib Dems have discovered once they are no longer part of a government - https://www.theguardian.com/environm...s-say-lib-dems
Gosh, Tim, how did you and your colleagues not spot this stuff when you were swanning around in your ministerial cars, collecting your ministerial salaries and expenses? Or has this all just magically happened since 2015 and you lot were out on your ears? Anyone else remember us all being told that the private sector would be able to borrow money on the open financial markets in a way not available to publicly owned water companies and so fix all these sorts of problems like instantly? And how long ago was it we were told that? And how much did all your Orange Book types go along with the Tory sell offs? **** off, Farron! |
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I’ve just seen Boris on the telly, talking about “the spirit of service to other people”.
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Today's Daily Express headline is "In Liz We Trust". We're all ****** |
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I have, indeed, mentioned Hunt's hypocrisy on these matters several times, as it was on his watch that my job, along with many other nurses, was "disappeared" and that internal trust memos to senior staff, self-included, were warning of 20% cuts to clinical budgets (no copies of these internal documents still exist that I know of, and I wasn't going to compromise myself any more than I already was by copying or forwarding to an external address), not to mention him being responsible for cutting numbers of medical and nursing trainees...Cuts which have been coming back to bite us recently, just as he was warned they would.
But somehow, he couldn't know about all that at the time... Nor the encouraging of the whole "Bring me solutions, not problems!" culture, which encourages blame and silence down the hierarchy. Really makes you wonder what government ministers actually do, what with the numbers of them who clearly had no idea what was happening in their own departments or in government as a whole. |
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This week’s David Squires cartoon has Truss promising to not only bring back the classified football results, but also to “establish a league table system to identify the best and worst performing teams”.
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Now we see Boris cunning plan. Patterns to resign, put the alternatives on display, then come back to snatch victory when people realise it can only get worse.
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Boris Johnson is on holiday. Again. Second time in a fortnight. Someone has lied on Twitter claiming that footage has been that footage has been shown on Italian TV of him walking around a Greek supermarket and someone shouts "get back to work you fat ponce."
Hasn't stopped the phrase becoming a hashtag and going viral. |
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I don't get the MPs on holiday moans. It is well known and well proven that people perform better at work when they are rested and get good days off and holidays.
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