Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

[honeybee13]

I've also seen it mentioned that the two parts of Ireland becoming closer is concerning HMG.

 

And that NI still coming under EU rules for trade could be showing that it's better to be in the EU than in Brexit Britain. If people start to think it shows Brexit isn't working, that's going to be a problem for Johnson et al.

[tobyjugg2]

breaking:

 

In rumors of what some are calling a coup, Pritti Patel and Dominic Rabb are rumored to have used their new powers to interpret whatever they like however they like to declare the rest of the cabinet as hateful extremists to be dealt with under the new terror laws recently passed.

 

Many of the cabinet have simply vanished and are rumored to be on a transporter to Guantanamo bay, Now ex PM Johnson is alleged to have legged it deserting his wife and child(ren) and has reportedly been seen sleeping on the American consulate floor after having been refused asylum at the Russian consulate. This was alledgedly as a result of Pattel removed his UK citizenship (on the strength of him also having had US citizenship) when he escaped through a toilet window prior to his arrest, although others claim the picture was taken on his recent return from one of his many, many holidays

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBpEushWQAI7QOJ

 

 

 

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

On 17/10/2021 at 09:05, Ethel Street said:

 

Mind you Rachel Johnson's a staunch Remainer and doesn't agree with most of what Boris says! 

 

 

Boris the liar was also a remainer until being a Brexiter became his route to power

 

 

14 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

Fintan O'Toole has an article about the Brexit negotiations and what he thinks HMG's aims are.

 

Facing chaos and needing a scapegoat, the Tories seek an endless fight with Europe | Fintan O’Toole | The Guardian

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The EU’s proposals on the Northern Ireland protocol offered what business leaders wanted, but the prime minister prefers failure and grievance

 

 

 

Johnson and Frost (both previously remainers) are trying to force the EU into a corner:

Either give us cake and eat it everything, or YOU will have to impose a border in Ireland to protect the single market to stop us doing whatever we like with your border

 

What they fail to understand is that the EU have the mechanisms to allow all NI sourced goods into the market while blockading 99% of all UK sourced goods from the EU either through RoI or otherwise

It will cost the EU to do that, but it will put the UK back into the worst suez crisis scenario.

 

All that aside from Johnson the Liar and the Brexiters effectively forcing Ireland into unity apart from the minority 'loyalists' - and the potential for horror that holds - means nothing to Johnson and his Brexiters.

 

Edited October 18, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Duncan Buchanan of the RHA tells a parliamentary committee why the visa scheme for truckers isn't going to work.

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

If you were planning to train a virus to escape vaccine induced immunity

If you were negotiating an agreement that you never intended to honour

If you were arranging PPE in a way that would be inefficient and expensive

If you were designing a VISA system to fail

 

.. you would do it the way Johnson the incompetent liar and his oppos do

 

and add to that that there is currently plenty of pfiser vaccine for boosters and jabs, and plenty of people willing to have them

- but nowhere near enough people to actually put the doses in arms as all the volunteers (trained cabin staff etc) who did it before have gone back to work ...

[tobyjugg2]

I see Johnson/Truss have signed a deal with NZ similar to the Australia deal

- so 6x better for NZ than it is for the UK, just to get a headline, with further nails in the coffin of UK farming then ...

 

Boris Johnson secures Australia-like trade deal with New Zealand – follow live

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Follow the latest updates from Westminster and beyond

 

[honeybee13]

It's just PR, isn't it, TJ? Their own figures say that at best it will add 0.01% to growth and at worst will cost money.

 

One journo thinks it's because it might help them to get into the Trans Pacific trade agreement [why?] but if they start breaking international law, I don't see NZ standing by them.

[tobyjugg2]

Like COP26

 

Boris Johnson Is Playing Another Trick

"Countries across the world, Britain foremost among them, are willfully pursuing an economic strategy that is heating up the planet, to the devastation of communities everywhere. They prefer private profit to a livable planet."

 

"Cambo is the most egregious example of a political and economic approach that knocks Britain off its moral high ground. The list of sins is long. It includes airport expansions, missed biodiversity targets, a botched attempt to insulate homes, not ruling out a new coal mine in Cumbria and, of course, failing to regulate the world’s biggest financiers of fossil fuels in the City of London. At every juncture the government has made clear where its priorities really lie."

 

Opinion | Britain, COP26 Host, Is Not Leading the Way on Climate Change - The New York Times

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Britain’s prime minister claims the country is leading the world on climate change. It’s not.

 

[tobyjugg2]

Quote(s) of the day:

"“There is a real problem that this is now the third Asia-Pacific agreement in a row - Japan, Australia and now New Zealand - where more than 80 per cent of the projected growth in trade, by [the trade] department, has gone to exporters in those other countries"

 

- Emily Thornberry

 

"If Johnson will renege on the EU deal, Surely Johnson will renege on deals that bad"

- me

Edited October 21, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Asia taking UK ‘to the cleaners’ on Brexit trade deals – as it happened

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Follow the latest updates from Thursday

 

[unclebulgaria67]

Very funny video.  If UK needs someone funny to be PM, there are better choices.  How about Frankie Boyle ?  Would make PMQ's more entertaining. 

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

They would undoubtedly also make a better job of the actually PM duties

[tobyjugg2]

and for those who might think Tory **** voting to leave British kids hungry was a 'one off'

- It may have been the worst - but its nothing unusual.

 

Here they are voting to BLOCK a simple requirement for water companies NOT to dump sewage in UK waters to save their profits

- something I'll bet most thought was already a requirement.

 

"Just 22 Conservatives rebelled against the government last week to vote in favour of a bill amendment that would place a legal duty on water companies not to pump sewage into rivers."

 

Think about that when you are paddling in the sea on a British beach .. or eating British shellfish.

 

Concern grows as MPs vote against amendment to stop sewage dumps

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‘MPs must vote to make it a legal obligation for water companies to end sewage pollution’

 

[honeybee13]

From Bloomberg, about COP26.

 

'Filth spewing into a picturesque stretch of U.K. coastline is far from the image of post-Brexit Britain that Boris Johnson wants to portray.'

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/beach-filth-forces-boris-johnson-u-turn-ahead-of-climate-talks

 

[tobyjugg2]

and although Johnsonites have 'crapped themselves' over a rebellion they still only propose to 'require' some unqualified endeavors from water companies to reduce the sewage being repeatedly poured into UK waters

 

Johnson says customers would have to pay thousands each for these companies to improve

EH? - what about share holder and director dividends paying? - they've had enough payments for not meeting requirements

 

Downing Street to oppose raw sewage amendment in standoff with Lords | Pollution | The Guardian

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Government to maintain resistance to tougher action against water companies despite backlash

 

 

 

Horrifying Map Shows You Which Rivers In England And Wales Are Filled With Sewage | HuffPost UK

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It's just the latest development in the ongoing debate about waste in UK waterways ahead of COP26.

 

 

Edited October 27, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

 

[honeybee13]

I don't know enough about the detail on the France/UK fishing dispute to express a view, but it's a bit rich for David Frost to start throwing around accusations of not abiding by the WCA and breaking international law.

[honeybee13]

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility says that Freeports won't help the economy.

 

Freeports of no economic benefit says Treasury watchdog, in damning verdict

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Chancellor’s flagship policy will ‘alter the location rather than the volume of economic activity’, Office for Budget Responsibility concludes

 

[tobyjugg2]

neither will the main tax beneficiaries of rich business people flying across the UK drinking cheaper spirits and bolli to 'meetings'/jollies rather than being climate, cost and efficiency competent and having meetings via video,

mind you with the projected increases in train fares, it will probably cost little more to fly than train, but still craploads of everything more expensive/costly than video conferencing.

[tobyjugg2]

Well, cop is already an unmitigated failure, but that was always likely given the host (Johnson the deal reneging liar) asking others to do more while proposing he will

* Increasing oil production (in Scottish waters)

* Not only allowing, but protecting water companies pouring sewage endlessly into UK waters

* reneging on local trade while proposing very poor deals thousands of miles away with heavily climate polluting counties

* Reducing rather than increasing taxation on the most polluting, climate destroying short hop plane journeys (take off, short trip and landing is worst)

* reducing overseas aid

* stealing already promised foreign aide (despite that being prohibited in the agreement) to 'promise' (from Johnson the Liar) sometime in the future maybe a return to maybe future overseas aide to address climate issues - with loads of get out clauses added

* ad nauseum

 

also add Johnsons further protection of polluters

UK flouting UN treaty over cost of legal action to protect environment

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Campaigners say the ruling over the Aarhus Convention shows that the government is ‘not serious about holding itself to a high standard’

 

Edited November 1, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Disappointing stuff, TJ.

[tobyjugg2]

dangerous stuff

Global warming is pretty much certain to pass 1.5 degrees well within the next 5 years, let alone 2030 .. or 2050

and sea level rise is also certain to break records in the same period

 

No doubt some will claim 'temporary' - but as emissions are still set to actually increase during that period .. it will actually be temporarily only in passing through 1.5 degrees of warming, and quite possibly the climatic tipping point, to higher average temperatures and world as different as the changes at the 'end' of the ice age 12,000 years ago.

Hopefully it wont be to a runaway greenhouse effect - I dont know about that one way or the other.

[honeybee13]

Katya Adler of the Beeb has posted some interesting tweets in the last couple of days.

 

On fishing, she's explained that some of the media [including the BBC and ITV] have been using an incorrect translation of what the French PM said. And on the NIP, people in Brussels are convinced that David Frost is playing for time with the negotiations so that Article 16 can be triggered after COP26.

 

https://twitter.com/BBCkatyaadler?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

 

[tobyjugg2]

All quite possible HB

and re the 'legal action' that should tie any possible resolution process up for a considerable period which should suit Johnson and Frost

 

The only paper that Johnson and Frosts words should be on is many times recycled toilet paper

- and that quickly and quietly flushed away before the smears they carry pollute the planet even more

 

I'm somewhat unclear why France is simply not 'imposing the agreement to its interpret-able  letter (no matter how stretched) until the distant future where it might eventually be proven thats not compatible with the law' as Johnson and Frost are doing

- got to be French elections involved there

- maybe good for Macrons image, but not for real effect

Edited November 2, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Well I'm sure that both sides are playing to their political audiences. But the French also believe the UK should carry out its legal obligations over fishing, borders and so on.

 

I think it was Katya who said that some in Europe think the UK should be held to account for not having IT systems or infrastructure for borders, for example.