Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

[tobyjugg2]

 

The Uk isnt applying rules (that they haven't implemented) to the EU are they - apart from hostile environment ... bacause 'hostile environment' is all they have implemented

... likely hoped that the EU would reciprocate allowing the UK cake and eat it by the back door

- but the EU did the work defined by the UK requirements of 'UK sovereignty from standards' even if the UK didn't

 

There seems to be hardly a week go by without the populists piling even more shame on our Nation.

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23 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

As if he hasn't done enough damage already, Demonic Cummings is writing in his [paywalled] blog about organising a political movement with the help of Silicon Valley billionaires.

 

 

This lifts the curtain slightly on the two main sets of players

 

Right wing capitalists - who seem to largely fund Johnson and (Murdock is a player in this IMO but there are far worse in the US - but Murdock revs up the noisy minorities)

Russia (who largely manage this as war) - who seem to be the ones spreading disinformation and support which helps Johnson, but who were more focused on Trump/US and Farage/european theatres

 

Then theres China ... and Turkey as the significant bit player.

[tobyjugg2]

Quote of the day:

"England has become a country where the pubs have no beer, farmers don't have anyone to pick their fruit, & even if they did there aren't enough lorry drivers to get it to the shops."

- Ian King - Sky news

 

 

Edited September 5, 2021 by tobyjugg2

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So lets take the 'easier documentation route

 

What have the Brexit government, who shouted about all the benefits with no risks, actually done to manage rather than munge the brexit they sold? (apart from 'hostile environment' shipping people who have lived and worked here all their life off to Jamaica)

* Border/customs? - as they shouted so loudly about protecting them

* Standards ec/kite mark ? - as they claimed standards would increase

* trade deals bigger than the EU across the world? - or even English produce able to be picked and shipped across England let alone anywhere else

 

Even that claimed 'billions spent on training' unclebulgaria regurgitates from some populist ministers dishonest and deceiving soundbite:

- where's that then other than on some populist spreadsheet claiming some actually reduced existing/prior 'possible' (as in not against the laws of physics despite nothing real being in place) expenditure, as new ... let alone actually implemented/spent on training

 

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Maybe HB - were they really that incompetent?

- they will no doubt claim 'how could anyone know' despite many others who clearly did know and say, but were they really that incompetent? - and there is no excuse for claims of 'no one could have expected it' now

They managed to set up a fast track lane for approving £millions for pubs landlords, pet and cake shop populist pals to get money for PPE they didn't have pretty damn quick - and they've apparently paid them in advance

 

Edited September 6, 2021 by tobyjugg2

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Seems odd to let scientists/politicians promoting damaging policies/narratives; let alone in a pandemic; off the hook because they CLAIM they were only doing what they believed in. When what they believed was not evidenced & what they said did untold harm.

 

- slightly paraphrasing Deepti Gurdasani

 

[tobyjugg2]

Millions of vegetables thrown away as labour shortages hit farmers

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3.5m heads of broccoli and 1.9m heads of cauliflower have been thrown away by just one producer

 

 

Farmers Weekly Podcast Episode 72: Red Tractor funding and labour shortage - Farmers Weekly

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In this episode, cereal growers have voted to withhold funding from the Red Tractor farm assurance scheme. We examine why. A shortage of UK farm...

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2021 by tobyjugg2

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LOL

 

taxing working pensioners more to pay for those not working and in care homes aren't they - bet that doesn't include 'pensioners like Prince Charles and Lord hahhaw of France .. (who, last I heard, was leaving France because they wanted details on his earnings) or the many over 65-67's in the lords and parliament let alone MD's

 

.. in addition to Johnsons 2.5% increase in NI .. yep 2.5% NOT the 1.25% Johnson lies about 1.25% from employees and 1.25% from employers - many of whom will undoubtedly consider it a raise for the workers ..

So thats around 12 billion in extra NI charges plus the 25 billion in other taxes - they'll be able to cover their mates bills in just a few years at that rate

- no way the NHS and care system will get more than a tiny bit of it.

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

 

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and the (literally now - see wild weather)  poopulists think US trade is going to be 'better'

LOL - they should ask the US's more important partners mexico and Canada how that works

 

Mind you. Johnson will get a taste of his own medicine in that the US will happily 'renegotiate' (renege?) any deal as soon as it suits

- although unlike Johnson, they tend to get a better deal at the other parties expense.

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Thats actually a superb response in so many ways

 

Can the UK hire him?

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20 minutes ago, honeybee13 said:

It's David and Goliath, isn't it? Fairly obvious who will win, plus a US trade deal can take up to 10 years.

 

 

Not if one side (the USA) gets everything it wants straight away HB

If Australia can get a deal thats 6x better for Australia than the UK ....

- seemingly without even trying very hard

- I doubt the UK could afford a US deal - even before Johnson bankrupted us

 

.. let alone just England and wales

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[tobyjugg2]

 

Boris 'Inveterate and unapologetic LIAR' Johnson lies:

“We should never forget, after all we’ve been through, that we are the party of free enterprise, the private sector and low taxation.”

 

While the so called party of low taxes is implementing the highest tax load on the nation since world war 2 (IFS)

- despite running away from a quite small war in Afghanistan as they just can't cope on their own - and nobody trusts them enough to work with them

-  mostly because of monstrous waste and mismanagement in the COVID crisis, and monstrous incompetent and neglectful  mismanagement of Brexit

 

The so called party of business and the private sector

is putting UK businesses out of business through populist policies and failures, NOT business capability and competitiveness and failure to manage the Brexit issues the populists themselves generated

 

The so called Party of 'free enterprise'

implements a preference for crony pals (no matter how lacking in requirements) fast lane - hardly free enterprise, just preference for pals - massively at the cost of the NHS - to pay which (their pals) the tax increases are undoubtedly aimed

 

The so called Party of sovereignty

runs whinging to the US and Australia 'please please give us a deal, anything, we wont cheat you like we do the others just give us a deal headline' 

and to France to help police sovereign UK waters ... in a way that breaches international law)...

.. and to the USA or France to host the UK  'sovereign' nuclear deterrent

Edited September 9, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Oh and another over streached bubble going pop

Property market rocked as giant Evergrande struggles to repay $300bn debts | China | The Guardian

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Shares in Hong Kong-listed firm slump 10% and bond trade suspended amid fears for shaky Chinese real estate market

 

With more properly regulated businesses moving to the EU, whats left with in the incompetent poopulist run UK may well make the UK and its taxpayers IMMENSELY vulnerable to this sort of thing ...

 

Yes, Brexiters like Redwood, Smugg and dyson have moved a lot of their business to the EU, but its what movers (rats/sinking ships?) leave in the UK we should worry about: are they liferafts .. or lead weights?

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by tobyjugg2

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Oh and back to the Australia deal Truss/UK poopulist surrender terms ...

 

"Just weeks before the UK hosts what have been described as the most important climate talks ever, it has emerged ministers dropped pledges to bind Australia to climate targets in its efforts to strike a trade deal.

The revelation, coming from a leaked email obtained by Greenpeace, will heap further pressure on Johnson ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow at the end of next month. Greenpeace said the concession “rips the heart out of” the landmark Paris aims, while Labour called it “a massive betrayal of our country and our planet”"

- Independent

 

 

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/uk-secretly-ditches-climate-pledge-in-australia-trade-deal/

 

"In a leaked email seen by Greenpeace UK, three senior ministers, Liz Truss (Secretary of State for International Trade), David Frost (Minister of State for EU Relations) and Kwasi Kwarteng (Secretary of State for Business) are named as agreeing to ditch references to the temperature commitments in the Paris Agreement on climate in order to get the Australian trade deal “over the line”.

This renders using the term Paris Agreement utterly useless."

 

"Just last month the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wrote to Greenpeace and other environmental NGOs reaffirming that any trade deal with Australia would, “include a chapter on trade and environment which not only reaffirms commitments to multilateral environmental agreements, including the Paris Agreement but also commits both parties to collaborate on climate and environmental issues. We are clear that more trade will not come at the expense of the environment.”

Details from the leaked email demonstrate that what Boris Johnson wrote in that letter was a lie."

Edited September 9, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Paypal introduces new fees between UK and EU

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The new fees will come into effect in November, PayPal has said

 

Using your credit card abroad?

"Visa and Mastercard have announced that such fees will be increased fivefold from mid-October."

 

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Supermarket Food shortages here for the long term and going to get worse says Food and Drink Federation boss.

 

JIT (just in time) system relied on by many industries for the last 25 years has (as long defined as a cost of brexit, but falsely denied by Brexit cheerleaders) has collapsed mostly due to Brexit generated 'hostile environment' labour shortages including food pickers, lorry drivers and food processing workers and Brexit generated customs delays and costs

 

 

UK supermarket shortages will be permanent, trade body says

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‘We are now in for permanent shortages’, says boss of Food and Drink Federation

 

 

 

Perhaps Patel should be asking the boat migrants if they can drive lorries, pick fruit or process food before she risks drowning them?

 

[tobyjugg2]

3 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

Home secretary accused of breaching the ministerial code again.

 

 

Priti Patel breaks rules again after secret meeting with billionaire and British Airways - Mirror Online

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Home Secretary Prite Patel held a secret meeting with a billionaire and British Airways - Labour is demanding a probe as she is accused of a...

 

 

She's claiming that it was a 'private matter' that her and quasi-moronic attended

.. so depending on the content, - could it be treason?

If not 'official', what were mutiple ministers doing there? - I don't think anyone believes it was 'just a free lunch' ...

 

 

 

Mind you, Johnson the incompetent oathbreaking liar (IMOb - In My Observation) has Totally trashed any remaining credibility the UK had to hold or ask anything at cop26:

 

At the start of August, 'Boris the Liar' assured the UK public, and the world, that the Australia trade deal would “reaffirm commitments to multilateral environmental agreements, including the Paris Agreement”, 
.. just as three of his cabinet ministers were agreeing to “drop both of the climate asks” just to get the already 6x better for Australia than the UK trade deal “over the line”.

 

It seems the UK ministers simply offering a six times better benefits for Australia than the UK ministers required for the UK .. obviously wasn't good enough for Australia - or perhaps our negotiators really ARE that bad - sack em.
- lets hope that in this one case Johnson Oathbreaker doesn't change his normal behavior and DOES renege on this deal too.

 

 

Oh and got to this page after clicking on the unread post star HB suggested as the last page option gave Uh Oh

Edited September 12, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

all intended to allow ministers opinion to both 'interpret' and be above UK law

- fully intended to breach/bypass the independence of Judiciary , and a step further than simply appointing senior Judiciary as an arm of the ruling 'executive'

 

= dictatorship

 

[tobyjugg2]

symptoms of a weak government .. as perfectly exampled in their surrender in the Australia deal negotiations

 

A strong and confident government would have got both a better deal and which included the environment protections they were obliged to include .. and tried to claim they had.

 

Walking away from a bad Australian deal would have shown more competence and strength

.. but this government does seem to be in the habit of forcing through really crap deals and simply say they are 'great' doesn't it?

 

[tobyjugg2]

they could cart anyone off who is 'interpreted' by Patel to be causing her annoyance or disturbance  .. as defined by her

 

Well Patel annoys and offends me no end - so arrest her before she finds out Raducanu (and both her parents) weren't born in the UK  and fast tracks her on a deportation flight to Jamaica

Edited September 13, 2021 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

that was the point HB :-)

"before she finds out Raducanu (and both her parents)"

 

Although i really should have put Emma Raducanu

[tobyjugg2]

Johnson’s tunnel to Ireland ends up a 'ditch

It is not yet known how much public money has been wasted on considering the PM’s “world’s most stupid tunnel”

 

Boris Johnson’s tunnel to Ireland ‘ditched on cost grounds’

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Scheme branded ‘world’s most stupid tunnel’ by former aide Dominic Cummings

 

Edited September 15, 2021 by tobyjugg2

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Seems like Johnsons crew are already confusing their reasons for dropping the Valneva vaccine contracts

 

First it was that Vaneva 'breached the supply agreements'

- best endeavors? Wont rather than will breach EU agreements and sneak doses to Australia to buy a trade deal?

 

Then it was 'commercial considerations'

- whats that? aren't they Tory donors?

 

Now its that the regulator would not approve a pretty traditional type vaccine (which seems to be doing quite reasonably in testing)

- Whys that then? Why hasn't the regulator made a statement?

 

UK would not have approved Valneva COVID vaccine, health secretary says

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Britain cancelled its contract for about 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by France's Valneva in part because it was clear...

 

"There are commercial reasons that we have cancelled the contract, but what I can tell her is that it was also clear to us that the vaccine in question that the company was developing would not get approval by the MHRA here in the UK," he said in response to a question from a Scottish lawmaker.

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Boris 'Incompetent liar' Johnson:

“I said last year we’re the Saudi Arabia of wind." 

... (I'm sure he meant wind and wee)

"Probably the Saudi Arabia of penal policy too, under our wonderful home secretary.” 

.. ( ..well ... no doubt he meant puerile policy, despite them both certainly being total dicks - but whichever - yep, largely .. yep)

Edited September 16, 2021 by tobyjugg2