Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

[honeybee13]

Spoiled ballots got twice as many votes as Jason Pilley.

[tobyjugg2]

shhh

He'll claim they were all his votes (People incapable of correctly marking an x in a box? so he may have a point) and demand a recount despite it not being able to change anything,

.. except perhaps reduce the immense scope of no-one with sense wanting him ... just a bit maybe ..

[tobyjugg2]

So lets look at Sunak

 

Created a covid loan system without even basic safeguards to prevent crooks by the score just creating companies with no history to get the loan and vanish with billions in taxpayer money

 

Insists that simple working taxpayers must pay more, while at the same time giving banks an increased  £Billion a year in tax breaks - despite mega bank profits

 

Created a PPE fast lane system with Johnson that allowed hyped up prices for faulty/unusable PPE at a cost of billions to the taxpayer to the financial benefit of VIPal middlemen rather than following tender process and getting better, cheaper, more appropriate deals via experienced civil servants. (reported as around 75% wastage of the £billions of taxpayer money squandered)

 

Allows water companies to increase costs, simply for these companies to increase already high payments in dividends and boss bonuses, while these companies continue to pour polluted and polluting Sewage into UK waterways, and history tells us more money to water companies = more profits and bonuses NOT more or even adequate investment.

 

Tells the population they must pay more for energy amid MASSIVE increases in profits to the oil/gas companies, and plans to effectively undermine the price cap with rises every few months. While MP's can claim £3500 a year in energy cost paid for by taxpayers.

 

UK infaltion at the highest in 30 years - and increasing

 

Wont feed hungry UK kids

 

Now saying wage increases to pay for all the increased prices must be 'restrained' while the cost of living rises out of control

 

and thats just for starters

I wouldn't let him run his own kids piggy bank

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Brexit assessment from US embassy has played out precisely as predicted

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The clip was filmed in 2018 as part of a three-part documentary on the US embassy called Inside the American Embassy.

 

 

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

Profiting from others misery and destitution in expectation of extended dividends

 

Energy stocks (.FTNMX601010) outperformed, rising 3.8% to their highest level in nearly two years as oil prices extended gains on U.S. supply concerns amid frigid U.S. weather and ongoing political turmoil.

[unclebulgaria67]

 

[tobyjugg2]

What gets me is that the 'Tory' party, despite all Johnsons abuses, self-serving, mismanagement and incompetence, is still struggling to get rid of him.

 

ERG still largely in the driving seat.

[tobyjugg2]

An explanation of the many spoiled votes

 

"Thousands of voters in the uncontested Southend West by-election spoilt their ballot papers with messages directed at the government, according to local BBC reports."

 

Voters in uncontested Southend election spoil ballot papers

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The Psychedelic Movement came runner-up in the contest with 512 votes, ahead of UKIP candidate Steve Laws in third place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lets have some real Tory 'references

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

 

Andrew Pierce

@toryboypierce

French government to force @edfenergy , the state run giant, to take £7bn hit to protect households by limiting bill hikes to 4%. The Govt should here should consider a windfall tax

9:50 AM · Feb 6, 2022

 

 

Emma Kennedy

@EmmaKennedy

 

If France can impose a windfall tax why can’t we? Can someone ask our Billionaire Chancellor please?

8:27 AM · Feb 4, 2022

[honeybee13]

I agree with Emma Kennedy.

 

Not connected really but here's a quote from John Major.

 

[honeybee13]

I wonder how Guto Harri enjoyed his first day in charge of comms for no10.

 

Is he going to join the people telling the PM he must apologise for the Savile slur on Keir Starmer and withdraw the remark completely? A lot of MPs on both sides of the house think that the insults hurled at Starmer yesterday were emboldened by what the PM said. Very dangerous.

 

Meanwhile, any day now the media expect Demonic to start tweeting more dirt on no10 parties, etc.

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

escort to the gallows?

[honeybee13]

[honeybee13]

This is an excellent tweet from James Blunt, ref the PM's recent prouncements.

 

'Could all past and present soldiers of D Squadron please DM me. I’m putting something together.'

 

[tobyjugg2]

"Boris Johnson’s new director of communications said just over a week ago that his new boss’s integrity was “hard to judge” and those who had previously worked for the PM did not want to go into Downing Street to “walk him to the gallows”.

 

Interesting that macron has been meeting Putin, and the yanks are primarily allied with the Germans/EU re sanctions

.. seems 'irrelevant Johnson hasn't been invited to the 'party

 

 

PM’s new spin doctor suggested Johnson’s integrity was ‘hard to judge’

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Guto Harri made the comments last week in an interview on a BBC podcast.

 

Edited February 8, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Thank you for the explanation, I hadn't seen that. Harri hasn't been complimentary at all recently, has he? Makes it more surprising that he took the job, but maybe his boss at the PR agency Ben Elliott persuaded him.

[tobyjugg2]

"“This would represent a stunning retreat from the pro-climate posturing we saw from the government at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.”"

 

"Rishi Sunak - who said last week he wanted to encourage more investment in new fossil fuel drilling - is reported to have pressed the business secretary to fast-track applications.

 

A new oil and gas field in the North Sea has already been given the green light this year - just two months after the UK held the global climate Cop26 summit. Green groups fiercely criticised the move, accusing the government of hypocrisy"

 

 

 

 

UK set to ‘torpedo climate action’ by approving six new North Sea oil and gas fields

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he wants to encourage more investment in new fossil fuel drilling

 

 

No surprises as

"The UK declined to join an international alliance aimed at ending new oil and gas projects at the Cop26 summit in November hosted in Glasgow."

 

 

Some might say we need this given the price rises

- Nope - just entrenching the issues waaaay into the future.

[honeybee13]

Thoughts for the day.

 

[unclebulgaria67]

I see the leader of the DUP is calling the Tory party English Nationalists, more interested in red wall seats in England than anywhere else in the UK.

 

Surprised it took this long for the DUP to realise the reasons why many Tories supported Brexit, as one of the only ways to win a majority in Westminster.  Brexit was always more about creating an issue, which voters from left and right could support, as it suggested that UK Government without interference of the EU could deliver a better quality of life. Which is why many outside of London and South East England voted Tory for the first time in 2019.

 

Now the realities of Brexit are starting to be revealed and the Tories have a massive task in improving quality of life issues before the next General Election.

[honeybee13]

I agree, UB, they're going to find it very hard and the finances look bad.

 

One serious problem is going to be the NHS. They admitted yesterday that waiting lists are likely to grow over the next two years, so until the probable election, when Tory MPs want them reduced. None of the promises to recruit doctors and nurses seem to have come to anything and Brexit didn't help when so many EU staff left.

 

And the new hospitals haven't materialised. There's no one to blame, really, they've been in power for so long now.

 

Of course, the politicians are talking as if the pandemic is over but the last I read was that hospitals are still under huge strain.

[tobyjugg2]

Theres an underlying assumption in uncs assumption that the Corrupt Party Party want to improve lives other than their own

... in that the brexiters actually wanted to deliver on the lies they spun, and that they were just stupid and incompetent, rather than that they simply were and are piling lie upon lie to get their way in the moment

 

I dont accept those assumptions as holding any validity or credibility whatsoever

Edited February 9, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Is the short version of what you said that they'll say whatever they think will keep them in power, TJ?

[tobyjugg2]

 

No HB

Its more that the Brexiter 'Tories NEVER had any intention of delivering on what they promised then, so why would they now?

 

 

lets look at Sunak protecting big oil/gas profits:

 

BP posted gargantuan profits of £13bn last year – but has paid £0 (zero, nil, nada ) tax in the UK for the past five, according to research by Uplift and first reported by Channel 4 News. BP, whose chief executive previously described the pandemic as a “cash machine” for the company, is also extracting billions of pounds from the UK taxpayer to help decommission its operations in the North Sea.

 

and

the chief executive of Ofgem has admitted the energy regulator should have acted sooner to prevent firms from collapsing amid soaring prices. 

 

 

Its the massive profiteering by these large energy companies which has caused and is causing  the independent energy retailers to go bust/run up massive debt

- win win for the big energy companies - massive profits + those driving prices down who broke their cartel going bust

 

 

PLUS:

"extracting billions of pounds from the UK taxpayer to help decommission its operations in the North Sea."

 

That these large profiteering companies are ALSO getting UK taxpayer support to decommission their junk once theres no profit in it adds insult to injury

 

 

Looong past time the people actually feeding the cash cow got some of the milk, rather than just the bill for cleaning up its ****

Edited February 9, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Its official

 

A day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed a “Brexit opportunities” minister, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said that the “only detectable impact” of Brexit so far has been to increase burdens on businesses.

 

"Britain’s departure from the European Union has brought higher costs, more red tape and border delays for businesses"

[honeybee13]

The Mirror have a new photo of the Downing Street Xmas quiz. Demonic says there are far better photos, including in the flat.

 

New Partygate image shows Boris Johnson and open bottle of bubbly at No 10 Xmas quiz - Mirror Online

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The image shows the Prime Minister flanked by three members of staff, one wearing tinsel and another a Santa hat, at the event on December 15, 2020