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  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    edited March 2020








    The resignation of the Home Office's most senior civil servant makes the front of several of Sunday's newspapers.
    According to the Observer, Priti Patel's future as home secretary is being called into question following the departure of Sir Philip Rutnam.
    The Sunday Times believes it leaves the government reeling at a time when the Home Office is expected to play a pivotal role in an expected coronavirus outbreak and the new points-based immigration system, due to begin next January.
    The Sun on Sunday feels Sir Philip's decision to go to war with Ms Patel revealed the "breathtaking arrogance which triggered the showdown in the first place".
    Allies of the home secretary claimed Sir Philip had jumped before he was pushed, the Mail on Sunday reports, calling the ex-civil servant "Sir Calamity".



    In the Sunday Mirror's view, Ms Patel is a symptom of what is wrong with the government.
    For Sir Philip to be driven to resign and to give up a handsome payoff, the paper argues, that "shows there is something rotten at the core of government".
    The Sunday Telegraph reports that civil servants have turned on the government's most senior adviser, Sir Mark Sedwill, accusing him of going "native" after having failed publicly to back Sir Philip last week.
    The resignation also prompts a debate about the role of civil servants and ministers.
    The Sun argues that the government cannot be ruled by Sir Humphreys - a reference to the Yes Minister character - "employing every trick in the book to delay and frustrate those elected to enact the will of the people".
    Unfortunately, says the Sunday Telegraph, Whitehall has come to regard itself as a semi-constitutional check on the executive - and that needs to change



    Meanwhile, there is much speculation about the Budget.
    The Sunday Times reports that Chancellor Rishi Sunak, is planning to pay for a spending spree in the north of England by scrapping entrepreneurs' relief, which allows businesses to pay a preferential rate of tax.
    The Observer suggests he will have to rethink key parts of his statement because of growing fears that the spread of coronavirus will trigger a global economic downturn.
    Elsewhere, the Mail on Sunday's lead story focuses on leaked emails from a Treasury adviser, who has suggested that Britain does not need its own farming industry.
    It describes the comments by Tim Leunig as "astonishing", saying they exemplify the "radical thinking within the prime minister's inner circle against bastions of the establishment".

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-51693177





    Priti Patel’s future in doubt after senior Home Office civil servant resigns
    Sir Philip Rutnam will sue for unfair dismissal, saying the home secretary began a ‘vicious’ campaign against him




    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/29/priti-patel-home-office-chief-resigns-unfair-dismissal






    Boris Johnson and fiancée Carrie expecting - but how many children does he have?
    The Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to answer how many children he had when asked during a radio interview on LBC in November, instead focusing on Brexit


    Lara Lettice Johnson



    Milo Arthur Johnson



    Cassia Peaches Johnson



    Theodore Apollo Johnson



    Stephanie Macintyre
    Stephanie's mother Helen hit the headlines when it emerged she was the mother of Boris Johnson's lovechild. She was born in 2009.
    Ms Macintyre lost a three-year legal battle to stop the press naming Boris as the father to Stephanie.
    But lawyers for the Daily Mail argued it was in the public interest.


    Baby number six?



    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-fiance-carrie-expecting-21605955
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    It’s not a leveling up, it’s a leveling down, via the stock market.
    pffffffft.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899











    The paper adds: "At last, Boris stung into action", as it reports on the prime minister's plan to chair his first Cobra meeting on the coronavirus.

    In its coverage, the Daily Telegraph reveals Downing Street and the Department of Health are involved in a row about whether Britain will retain membership of an EU pandemic warning system, previously used to stem the SARS and bird flu outbreaks.
    According to the Telegraph, the government's trade negotiators do not want to do anything which risks giving Brussels leverage to demand alignment with EU rules.



    Floods heartbreak



    The owners tell the Express they are heartbroken because the property will need to be demolished.
    The Daily Mail says that anger at the prime minister's failure to visit the flooded areas is growing - and in an editorial the paper urges him to "put on his wellies".





    For the Times though, the episode raises "troubling questions for the government about its approach".
    It urges ministers to work with civil servants and existing institutions rather than waste energy trying to overthrow them all at once.

    The Daily Mirror leads with an investigation into what it calls the "probation scandal".
    Using a Freedom of Information Act request, it has analysed the performance of probation firms in the six years since the system was part-privatised by the then-Conservative Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling.
    It found a total of 309 people had been murdered by criminals monitored by the private firms - far outnumbering the 196 killed by those managed by the National Probation Service.
    The paper notes the private companies manage about 150,000 medium and low-risk offenders, while the publicly run service is responsible for 106,000 high-risk criminals.
    The Ministry of Justice says it is bringing all offender management back under the public sector's probation service from December

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-51700575












  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    chilling said:

    It’s not a leveling up, it’s a leveling down, via the stock market.
    pffffffft.
    </blockquote

    I admire your attempts to emulate Boris, in the way you often disappear, and avoid any questions.

  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    Boris Johnson's ex-wife Marina Wheeler 'is crushed' and their four children 'furious' that he has become engaged to girlfriend Carrie Symonds and they are expecting a baby



    Ms Wheeler, who recently beat cervical cancer, is divorcing Mr Johnson (together below in 2015) after throwing him out in 2018 amid claims he was having an affair with Ms Symonds (together top). She is said to be aggrieved that Boris became engaged and tried for a baby while they are divorcing. A friend told the Daily Mirror : 'Marina has had a tough year with her health scare and the divorce and is very worried about how the kids are handling it too. She's just in pieces over it all' - another insider added the 55-year-old QC was 'crushed' by the news. Mr Johnson is thought to have told their four children Lara Lettice, 26, Milo Arthur, 24, Cassia Peaches, 22, and Theodore Apollo, 20, last week that he and Carrie are having a baby.
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    HAYSIE said:

    Boris Johnson's ex-wife Marina Wheeler 'is crushed' and their four children 'furious' that he has become engaged to girlfriend Carrie Symonds and they are expecting a baby



    Ms Wheeler, who recently beat cervical cancer, is divorcing Mr Johnson (together below in 2015) after throwing him out in 2018 amid claims he was having an affair with Ms Symonds (together top). She is said to be aggrieved that Boris became engaged and tried for a baby while they are divorcing. A friend told the Daily Mirror : 'Marina has had a tough year with her health scare and the divorce and is very worried about how the kids are handling it too. She's just in pieces over it all' - another insider added the 55-year-old QC was 'crushed' by the news. Mr Johnson is thought to have told their four children Lara Lettice, 26, Milo Arthur, 24, Cassia Peaches, 22, and Theodore Apollo, 20, last week that he and Carrie are having a baby.

    Restrain from tittle-tattle. Fill up yer freezer. You know it makes sense.🦠
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    edited March 2020
    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:

    Boris Johnson's ex-wife Marina Wheeler 'is crushed' and their four children 'furious' that he has become engaged to girlfriend Carrie Symonds and they are expecting a baby



    Ms Wheeler, who recently beat cervical cancer, is divorcing Mr Johnson (together below in 2015) after throwing him out in 2018 amid claims he was having an affair with Ms Symonds (together top). She is said to be aggrieved that Boris became engaged and tried for a baby while they are divorcing. A friend told the Daily Mirror : 'Marina has had a tough year with her health scare and the divorce and is very worried about how the kids are handling it too. She's just in pieces over it all' - another insider added the 55-year-old QC was 'crushed' by the news. Mr Johnson is thought to have told their four children Lara Lettice, 26, Milo Arthur, 24, Cassia Peaches, 22, and Theodore Apollo, 20, last week that he and Carrie are having a baby.

    Restrain from tittle-tattle. Fill up yer freezer. You know it makes sense.🦠
    Boost to UK economy from US trade deal could be 450 times smaller than loss from no-deal Brexit, government analysis finds
    Official document puts likely benefits of free trade agreement with Donald Trump at below 0.2 per cent of GDP – and possibly as little as 0.02 per cent





    The economic benefit from a trade deal with the US may be as little as 0.02 per cent of GDP – around 450 times smaller than the potential loss from a no-deal Brexit - according to the government's own figures.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/us-trade-deal-brexit-uk-economy-boris-johnson-trump-gdp-a9369611.html










    ‘Embarrassing, petty and pathetic’: Home Office ridiculed over tweet announcing return of blue passports
    ‘It’s like Grand Big Mac is back in participating McDonalds’






    They have been billed by Brexiteers as a symbol of “sovereignty and independence” – a statement of revolt against meddling bureaucrats in Brussels.
    For others the return of blue passports – manufactured in Poland by a Franco-Dutch company – epitomises the absurdity of the UK’s departure from the EU, and serves as unwelcome reminder that Britons voted away their automatic right to live and work across the continent.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blue-passports-home-office-tweet-brexit-eu-a9369796.html














    Boris Johnson news: Brexit talks 'risk collapse' over fishing rights row with EU, as Tory members suspended over Islamophobia


    British negotiators have taken part in the first round of Brexit trade talks in Brussels amid escalating tensions over access to UK fishing waters.

    Ahead of the first round of talks, French minister Amelie de Montchalin said the negotiations could turn into a "nasty battle" as the EU puts a premium on adequate access to fishing waters for European boats.

    Elsewhere, the prime minister was warned against 'cosying up' to Donald Trump over US trade as under-fire home secretary Priti Patel faces a probe into allegations of bullying.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-coronavirus-brexit-latest-cobra-meeting-today-a9367846.html







    Key Points
    Johnson urged to stop ‘cosying up’ to Trump as blueprint shows meagre gains from US deal
    ... as fishing rights row looms over first round of negotiations in Brussels
    Probe into Priti Patel bullying row launched by cabinet office
    Spread of coronavirus to become 'more significant' in coming days, says PM
    Tories suspend fresh group of members over Islamophobia complaints




  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    It’s not a leveling up, it’s a leveling down, via the stock market.
    pffffffft.

    TBH Haysie, I’m totally bored with your incessant newspaper gossip.
    I know you’re on a mission, I’m not.Youre very negative.
    This Government of three months has more on its plate than any other for decades.
    I was quite interested to see if they could make a fist of things and shake things up.
    Do things differently.
    Albeit Brexit was pushed by a few Tories, not all from the start.
    Keir Starmer will make an awful leader imo.Theres nothing about him to suggest he’s got what it takes.
    There’s been so many opportunities to tear the government apart, but the Labour Party just jibber and have no clout.
    So we expect to hear austerity mentioned every time the virus is mentioned Zzzzzz.
    When will Labour change their tune?They won’t, they’ll moan and moanZzzzz.
    It was put on the plate for them at Election time.
    What went wrong Haysie?
    All those Labour voters that voted Tory suddenly turned racist? Or are ignorant?
    Best not win their votes back then.
    There’s not one thing the current government could do to make you( the happy chappy) feel that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
    It’s gonna be a long 4+ years for you.
    Some folk wanted change, they voted for it, others don’t like change.
    I’ll bump all the irrelevant articles you’ve posted later in the year, to show how far off the mark they are.That will be an exciting month for sure.
    Good health.
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    Essexphil said:

    chilling said:

    It’s good to see Boris and the Government not rising to the media bait, after they got their nose put out of joint.
    Deflecting all this media tosh will just make him a stronger PM.
    The media are sinking to new lows,poor souls.

    The media are overwhelmingly pro-Conservative and pro-Brexit.

    Which one do you classify as "media bait"?
    Expecting a PM to pretend to care about natural disasters in his own country?
    Or superforecasters-people who believe they know more than experts in every single field. 21st Century Mystic Megs. Pah.
    Boris going to the flooded areas would achieve nothing at all for anyone. Don’t kid yourself it would.Everyone would be overjoyed to see a PM that’s been in power for such a short time, turn up?
    Or is it the negative reaction from the locals , captured by the media, that folk want to view.
    BBC's David Dimbleby slams 'liar' Boris Johnson as 'arrogant and untrustworthy'
    The former Question Time host savagely attacked the Prime Minister during an interview and allegedly said he 'lies everywhere to everyone' - including to his own family




    David Dimbleby has savaged Boris Johnson, branding him 'arrogant' and a 'liar' in a brutal interview.
    The former Question Time host, 82, said the Prime Minister "lies everywhere", including to his own family, and claimed "nobody" trusts him.


    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-dimbleby-slams-liar-boris-21551610
    And?
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    HAYSIE said:





    Many of Tuesday's newspapers continue to focus on the flooding caused by Storm Dennis, which an expert tells the Daily Mirror now represents a "national emergency".
    Angela Terry, an environmental scientist, says the response so far - including sending in the army to fill sandbags - amounts to a "sticking plaster".
    "Where the floody **** is Boris?" the Sun asks.
    "The prime minister is in danger of misjudging the public mood," its leader column says.
    "Whole communities are under water for the second time in months... but Boris Johnson is nowhere to be seen."



    No 10 disagreement
    Meanwhile, the Times says Boris Johnson is at odds with senior Downing Street advisers, including Dominic Cummings, over plans to scrap the BBC licence fee and replace it with a voluntary subscription.
    On Sunday, it was reported that Downing Street wanted to "whack" the corporation.
    But the Times says it's been told by an ally of Mr Johnson that he's "not as gung-ho on the licence fee as Dom", adding: "With the PM it's more reform than revolution".



    Many of the papers digest the resignation of the Downing Street adviser and self-styled "super-forecaster" Andrew Sabisky, following criticism of alleged past remarks on pregnancies, eugenics and race
    The Daily Mail says the 28-year-old had been one of the first to respond to an appeal from Dominic Cummings - the prime minister's most powerful aide - for "weirdos and misfits".
    The Daily Telegraph calls it an "embarrassing setback" for Mr Cummings - a man whose "abrasive approach" to government, the Guardian suggests, is causing "consternation" among some Tories.


    "What is the point of saving?" is the Daily Mail's headline, as it reports that National Savings and Investments has "slashed" interest rates to "rock-bottom" levels, and cut its prizes.
    Instead of trying to reverse the "race to the bottom" savers face, the Mail says, the government is "joining it".
    Its editorial urges the new Chancellor Rishi Sunak to "make his mark" by overturning the cuts in the forthcoming budget.
    According to the Times, Mr Sunak could have other priorities, as it reports he and the prime minister are considering cutting pension tax relief for higher earners.
    It says the Treasury has drawn up plans to reduce it from 40 to 20 per cent, a move that would raise £10bn a year.
    Currently, the wealthy get more relief than lower earners. "If that's levelling up then I'm a flying pig," a government source tells the Times.





    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-51540161
















    For Boris Johnson’s pantomime authoritarians, overt cruelty is a winning hand

    The cabinet’s culture warriors are targeting ‘foreign criminals’ and ‘unelected judges’. Legal challenges alone won’t stop them





    It has become received wisdom among Westminster pundits that the new winning formula in politics is to “move left on economics and right on culture”. Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle looks like an attempt to put this lesson into practice: forcing Sajid Javid, an advocate of strict spending limits, out of the Treasury suggests that the prime minister wants to strategically splash money around – however superficial this moving “left” might prove to be. At the same time, Johnson’s government has sent a series of clear signals to the right – on immigration, on perceived liberal bias at the BBC, on the “free-speech crisis” in universities – the latest of which is the appointment of Suella Braverman as attorney general.
    This suggests that the government intends to pursue the pantomime authoritarianism displayed by the home secretary, Priti Patel, at last year’s party conference: an ostentatious cruelty, directed at people who supposedly threaten public safety, and waved like a taunt to the liberal elite that stands in the government’s way. Braverman comes from the hard-right milieu that has increasingly set the tone in the Conservative party since the EU referendum. Last year, she drew criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and others for saying the right was engaged in “a battle against cultural Marxism”, echoing a conspiracy theory with antisemitic connotations that has made its way from the extremist fringe into the mainstream via websites such as Breitbart.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/18/boris-johnson-panto-authoritarians-cruelty

    The cartoons a very funny.
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    It’s good to see Boris and the Government not rising to the media bait, after they got their nose put out of joint.
    Deflecting all this media tosh will just make him a stronger PM.
    The media are sinking to new lows,poor souls.

    I remember as a young boy, my Father asked me what I thought of something, and I replied "rubbish".
    He then pointed out to me that just to criticise something as being rubbish, was inadequate, and nobody would take me seriously.
    He explained that to have my opinion respected, I would need to be much more specific, and explain the reasons for my criticism.
    He was right of course.

    You have reminded me of this conversation.
    You continually do this by criticising the media as if it was a single organisation, that was always completely out of touch, and had decided to publish slurs about Boris and The Government at every opportunity, and ignore any good deeds.
    They even have a single nose that has been put out of joint?
    You also blame Tony Blair for everything under the sun, despite the fact he no longer plays a part in day to day politics.

    Yet you never explain anything.

    Why is the media nose out of joint?

    Which media tosh?

    What media bait?

    Which new lows?

    Wouldn't you think that having a free press is fundamental to any democracy?

    How do you hide behind freedom of the press?

    Why would you describe the media as poor souls?

    Why is Tony Blair responsible for all our terrorism?

    Why is Tony Blair responsible for Islamophobia?

    Is he responsible for all the terrorism, and Islamophobia throughout the world, or just in this country?

    You have previous convictions for an unwillingness to answer questions, so I wont hold my breath.

    There’s many a well know star from this country who know exactly what I mean when I’m referring to our press.Thats why they’re leaving or have already left.
    They are just so wrong with their facts, far too often.
    There’s always plenty of gullible readers ready to pay their wages though.
    The media have fallen into the social media trap. Full of absolute c rap.
    They have to try and compete with social media, as the latter are nearly always first with stories.
  • tomgooduntomgoodun Member Posts: 3,754
    What’s happened to the “ Oven Ready” Brexit deal we heard so much about from the serial liar/philanderer/ Prime Minister ( Delete as appropriate)

    Googled Oven Ready Deal,


    The “oven ready” Brexit deal, the Brexit pot noodle (“just add water” – just add ****), already is no more.

    All of the pledges that Boris Johnson signed up to then begged the voters to please, just let him, sign and pass into law have already been tossed away. All the assurances on environmental protections, workers rights and so on and so on, have been tossed away.

    Is that ^ fake news?
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    tomgoodun said:

    What’s happened to the “ Oven Ready” Brexit deal we heard so much about from the serial liar/philanderer/ Prime Minister ( Delete as appropriate)

    Googled Oven Ready Deal,


    The “oven ready” Brexit deal, the Brexit pot noodle (“just add water” – just add ****), already is no more.

    All of the pledges that Boris Johnson signed up to then begged the voters to please, just let him, sign and pass into law have already been tossed away. All the assurances on environmental protections, workers rights and so on and so on, have been tossed away.

    Is that ^ fake news?

    Just about sums it up.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    chilling said:

    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    It’s good to see Boris and the Government not rising to the media bait, after they got their nose put out of joint.
    Deflecting all this media tosh will just make him a stronger PM.
    The media are sinking to new lows,poor souls.

    I remember as a young boy, my Father asked me what I thought of something, and I replied "rubbish".
    He then pointed out to me that just to criticise something as being rubbish, was inadequate, and nobody would take me seriously.
    He explained that to have my opinion respected, I would need to be much more specific, and explain the reasons for my criticism.
    He was right of course.

    You have reminded me of this conversation.
    You continually do this by criticising the media as if it was a single organisation, that was always completely out of touch, and had decided to publish slurs about Boris and The Government at every opportunity, and ignore any good deeds.
    They even have a single nose that has been put out of joint?
    You also blame Tony Blair for everything under the sun, despite the fact he no longer plays a part in day to day politics.

    Yet you never explain anything.

    Why is the media nose out of joint?

    Which media tosh?

    What media bait?

    Which new lows?

    Wouldn't you think that having a free press is fundamental to any democracy?

    How do you hide behind freedom of the press?

    Why would you describe the media as poor souls?

    Why is Tony Blair responsible for all our terrorism?

    Why is Tony Blair responsible for Islamophobia?

    Is he responsible for all the terrorism, and Islamophobia throughout the world, or just in this country?

    You have previous convictions for an unwillingness to answer questions, so I wont hold my breath.

    There’s many a well know star from this country who know exactly what I mean when I’m referring to our press.Thats why they’re leaving or have already left.
    They are just so wrong with their facts, far too often.
    There’s always plenty of gullible readers ready to pay their wages though.
    The media have fallen into the social media trap. Full of absolute c rap.
    They have to try and compete with social media, as the latter are nearly always first with stories.
    Which bits aren't true?
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:





    Many of Tuesday's newspapers continue to focus on the flooding caused by Storm Dennis, which an expert tells the Daily Mirror now represents a "national emergency".
    Angela Terry, an environmental scientist, says the response so far - including sending in the army to fill sandbags - amounts to a "sticking plaster".
    "Where the floody **** is Boris?" the Sun asks.
    "The prime minister is in danger of misjudging the public mood," its leader column says.
    "Whole communities are under water for the second time in months... but Boris Johnson is nowhere to be seen."



    No 10 disagreement
    Meanwhile, the Times says Boris Johnson is at odds with senior Downing Street advisers, including Dominic Cummings, over plans to scrap the BBC licence fee and replace it with a voluntary subscription.
    On Sunday, it was reported that Downing Street wanted to "whack" the corporation.
    But the Times says it's been told by an ally of Mr Johnson that he's "not as gung-ho on the licence fee as Dom", adding: "With the PM it's more reform than revolution".



    Many of the papers digest the resignation of the Downing Street adviser and self-styled "super-forecaster" Andrew Sabisky, following criticism of alleged past remarks on pregnancies, eugenics and race
    The Daily Mail says the 28-year-old had been one of the first to respond to an appeal from Dominic Cummings - the prime minister's most powerful aide - for "weirdos and misfits".
    The Daily Telegraph calls it an "embarrassing setback" for Mr Cummings - a man whose "abrasive approach" to government, the Guardian suggests, is causing "consternation" among some Tories.


    "What is the point of saving?" is the Daily Mail's headline, as it reports that National Savings and Investments has "slashed" interest rates to "rock-bottom" levels, and cut its prizes.
    Instead of trying to reverse the "race to the bottom" savers face, the Mail says, the government is "joining it".
    Its editorial urges the new Chancellor Rishi Sunak to "make his mark" by overturning the cuts in the forthcoming budget.
    According to the Times, Mr Sunak could have other priorities, as it reports he and the prime minister are considering cutting pension tax relief for higher earners.
    It says the Treasury has drawn up plans to reduce it from 40 to 20 per cent, a move that would raise £10bn a year.
    Currently, the wealthy get more relief than lower earners. "If that's levelling up then I'm a flying pig," a government source tells the Times.





    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-51540161
















    For Boris Johnson’s pantomime authoritarians, overt cruelty is a winning hand

    The cabinet’s culture warriors are targeting ‘foreign criminals’ and ‘unelected judges’. Legal challenges alone won’t stop them





    It has become received wisdom among Westminster pundits that the new winning formula in politics is to “move left on economics and right on culture”. Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle looks like an attempt to put this lesson into practice: forcing Sajid Javid, an advocate of strict spending limits, out of the Treasury suggests that the prime minister wants to strategically splash money around – however superficial this moving “left” might prove to be. At the same time, Johnson’s government has sent a series of clear signals to the right – on immigration, on perceived liberal bias at the BBC, on the “free-speech crisis” in universities – the latest of which is the appointment of Suella Braverman as attorney general.
    This suggests that the government intends to pursue the pantomime authoritarianism displayed by the home secretary, Priti Patel, at last year’s party conference: an ostentatious cruelty, directed at people who supposedly threaten public safety, and waved like a taunt to the liberal elite that stands in the government’s way. Braverman comes from the hard-right milieu that has increasingly set the tone in the Conservative party since the EU referendum. Last year, she drew criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and others for saying the right was engaged in “a battle against cultural Marxism”, echoing a conspiracy theory with antisemitic connotations that has made its way from the extremist fringe into the mainstream via websites such as Breitbart.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/18/boris-johnson-panto-authoritarians-cruelty

    The cartoons a very funny.
    I think so.

    I also think that this Government provides the cartoonists with endless ammunition, which makes our country look very foolish to the rest of the world.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    Essexphil said:

    chilling said:

    It’s good to see Boris and the Government not rising to the media bait, after they got their nose put out of joint.
    Deflecting all this media tosh will just make him a stronger PM.
    The media are sinking to new lows,poor souls.

    The media are overwhelmingly pro-Conservative and pro-Brexit.

    Which one do you classify as "media bait"?
    Expecting a PM to pretend to care about natural disasters in his own country?
    Or superforecasters-people who believe they know more than experts in every single field. 21st Century Mystic Megs. Pah.
    Boris going to the flooded areas would achieve nothing at all for anyone. Don’t kid yourself it would.Everyone would be overjoyed to see a PM that’s been in power for such a short time, turn up?
    Or is it the negative reaction from the locals , captured by the media, that folk want to view.
    BBC's David Dimbleby slams 'liar' Boris Johnson as 'arrogant and untrustworthy'
    The former Question Time host savagely attacked the Prime Minister during an interview and allegedly said he 'lies everywhere to everyone' - including to his own family




    David Dimbleby has savaged Boris Johnson, branding him 'arrogant' and a 'liar' in a brutal interview.
    The former Question Time host, 82, said the Prime Minister "lies everywhere", including to his own family, and claimed "nobody" trusts him.


    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-dimbleby-slams-liar-boris-21551610
    And?
    Why would you sing the praises of such an arrogant liar?
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    It’s not a leveling up, it’s a leveling down, via the stock market.
    pffffffft.

    TBH Haysie, I’m totally bored with your incessant newspaper gossip.


    Why read it then?

    I know you’re on a mission, I’m not.Youre very negative.


    Mission?

    I wouldn't say I was negative.

    However I am interested in reality.

    I don't write the stories, I just post them.






    This Government of three months has more on its plate than any other for decades.



    What have they actually done?




    I was quite interested to see if they could make a fist of things and shake things up.
    Do things differently.


    What have they done differently, or otherwise?




    Albeit Brexit was pushed by a few Tories, not all from the start.


    Theresa May lined up a better deal.

    The Tories were as split as the country.





    Keir Starmer will make an awful leader imo.Theres nothing about him to suggest he’s got what it takes.


    The fact that he is more honest than Boris, is a step in the right direction. Not that I am bothered because I have never voted Labour in my life.




    There’s been so many opportunities to tear the government apart, but the Labour Party just jibber and have no clout.


    That is hardly a ringing endorsement for The Government?



    So we expect to hear austerity mentioned every time the virus is mentioned Zzzzzz.



    At least some Tories are ashamed of the austerity measures, and the misery they caused.
    Others of them don't care, they just hide the suicide numbers that were caused by Universal Credit.





    When will Labour change their tune?They won’t, they’ll moan and moanZzzzz.


    Boris seems to be trying to implement a number of their policies.




    It was put on the plate for them at Election time.
    What went wrong Haysie?


    Corbyn.



    All those Labour voters that voted Tory suddenly turned racist? Or are ignorant?
    Best not win their votes back then.


    Corbyn.



    There’s not one thing the current government could do to make you( the happy chappy) feel that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.


    There is, but they wont.



    It’s gonna be a long 4+ years for you.


    The same as the last 10, I suppose, but worse



    Some folk wanted change, they voted for it, others don’t like change.


    I am not sure how many of those that wanted change will be happy with the outcome.



    I’ll bump all the irrelevant articles you’ve posted later in the year, to show how far off the mark they are.That will be an exciting month for sure.


    You are deluded.

    Which are the specific articles that you think are untrue, or wide of the mark.

    Good health.


    You too.



  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
    chilling said:

    HAYSIE said:

    chilling said:

    It’s not a leveling up, it’s a leveling down, via the stock market.
    pffffffft.

    TBH Haysie, I’m totally bored with your incessant newspaper gossip.
    I know you’re on a mission, I’m not.Youre very negative.
    This Government of three months has more on its plate than any other for decades.
    I was quite interested to see if they could make a fist of things and shake things up.
    Do things differently.
    Albeit Brexit was pushed by a few Tories, not all from the start.
    Keir Starmer will make an awful leader imo.Theres nothing about him to suggest he’s got what it takes.
    There’s been so many opportunities to tear the government apart, but the Labour Party just jibber and have no clout.
    So we expect to hear austerity mentioned every time the virus is mentioned Zzzzzz.
    When will Labour change their tune?They won’t, they’ll moan and moanZzzzz.
    It was put on the plate for them at Election time.
    What went wrong Haysie?
    All those Labour voters that voted Tory suddenly turned racist? Or are ignorant?
    Best not win their votes back then.
    There’s not one thing the current government could do to make you( the happy chappy) feel that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
    It’s gonna be a long 4+ years for you.
    Some folk wanted change, they voted for it, others don’t like change.
    I’ll bump all the irrelevant articles you’ve posted later in the year, to show how far off the mark they are.That will be an exciting month for sure.
    Good health.


    For others the return of blue passports – manufactured in Poland by a Franco-Dutch company – epitomises the absurdity of the UK’s departure from the EU, and serves as unwelcome reminder that Britons voted away their automatic right to live and work across the continent.







  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,899
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