How on earth are Raab and Patel getting senior jobs? 
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Those sweet, sweet 0 hour contracts eh.
Those sweet, sweet 0 hour contracts eh.
Well in the blue corner we have Mr Johnson and in the red corner Ms von der Leyen (seems anyone can become EU president these days) ....... both of whom are as as bent as 9 bob notes. In all seriousness I fail to see how anyone can hold up politicians from other European nations as being less elitist, and more honourable than those in the UK. I would not give houseroom to any of them. The lot of them are rogues and charlatans who are only interested in staying on the gravy train. Still we get the politicians we deserve
Surely I am not reading your right in assuming that should we remain in the EU that we should exercise our veto on new member states joining irrespective of merit. Bloody hell what is the point of the UK being in the club if we are going to continue to be reluctant participants. Stay in and continue to stamp our feet and refuse to participate that's as daft as leaving without a deal. At least IMHO. And it does not address the other issues in respect of development or evolution. If we remain do we oppose the creation of a European Army? Do we move towards joining the Euro? Do we commit to becoming a Schengen area? And thats just 3 off the top of my head. Not so easy is it for a clear picture to emerge when what we mean by remain is probed a wee bit deeper.
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It is clear that the poorest have not seen income rise in real terms.
https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk
Even if they had, it entirely depends on your definition of helps and this is ideologically based.
The gap between rich and poor continues to grow, the social support network continues to collapse impacting the most vulnerable, ideologically driven monthly benefits payments based on a concept of thrift and budgeting continue to fail in the practical real world environment. Redistribution of wealth is not a position that the Tory party support. This is to the detriment of society as a whole, irrespective of income.
I believe in redistribution of wealth (and say this from a high tax bracket) and vote accordingly (my country has higher income tax on higher earners than England). This puts me fundamentally at odds with the Tory party (and this is but one reason). There are those who believe that low tax and small government is good. I consider the latter anti-society and the former pro-society.
Tories would disagree with my position no doubt. Some do so on genuine principle (disagreeable principle to me, but principle nonetheless), some do so because they care about short term fiscal gain. Irrespective, there is certainly no evidence to support the claim that the Tories are a more economically successful party...at least not for those who are not wealthy (see Brexit) and I consider their social policy, at best, reckless.
Patel as home secretary is as bad as it gets. What a disaster.
Anyone looked at the OP recently?
How on earth are Raab and Patel getting senior jobs?
Why do you think.
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She of the opinion that the death penalty should return. Going back to the dark ages.
Nothing of the sort.
The austerity programme had been in place since 2010 which even with my awful maths was about 6 years ago.
This government completely conned the public that they HAD to savagely cut public services in order to balance the books.
Well have the books been balanced. Of course not. It was never going to happen and now, after all that hardship, balancing the books has been kicked into touch.
What a surprise.
And why would you believe that Brexit has prolonged the austerity programme. The economy has been largely resilient to the predicted slump.
But for those who say Project Fear was completely wrong, we haven't left yet.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson forms his cabinet
Heartbroken for Liz.
It doesn't dismiss the claims at all. Also
Genuine question if thats ok - what is your line for work(You don't have to be too specific) ?
Interesting... He said he was pro HS2 and lending more to boost infra schemes... Even starting hs3 at the same time as HS2
Wonder if he will be given that freedom or if his wing will be clipped?
Is this Boris supposed to be hated or loved? Most of this thread is painting him as an idiot yet we have #borisday in the title as if he is celebrated.
Poor old Foxy, never got his hundreds of imaginary trade deals.
Wonder who the new Trade secretary will be - Davis would be a good laugh.
Wonder who the new Trade secretary will be - Davis would be a good laugh.
#BorisDay was the top trend on twitter yesterday preceding the results. The title is taking the piss out of that.
Que sera sera.
I know it should have sunk in by now, but I still feel absolutely sick about this.
Something that is so clearly corrupt being rewarded. How many times do I have to sit and watch blatant cheaters be rewarded? Absolute scum of society be lifted up to the very pinnacle.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. Why even bother? Links with racism? Doesn’t matter. Leader who is a massive prick but the press love because he is a “lovable fool?”.
It makes me physically sick.
EDIT: FFS meant to post this in the Liverpool Champions league winning thread.
Something that is so clearly corrupt being rewarded. How many times do I have to sit and watch blatant cheaters be rewarded? Absolute scum of society be lifted up to the very pinnacle.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. Why even bother? Links with racism? Doesn’t matter. Leader who is a massive prick but the press love because he is a “lovable fool?”.
It makes me physically sick.
EDIT: FFS meant to post this in the Liverpool Champions league winning thread.
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Patel is such a wank politician.
Anyone who voted for this should be ashamed.
Can I butt in ??
If you want to complain about Full Fact being founded by a Conservatibve Party donor, then we should also make it clear that IPPR was founded is still ' run ' by Clive Hollick and his wife - a Labour Supporter and Donor who was appointed to The Lords by Bliar.
Commercial pilot - now retired ( age barred from commercial flying ) and now I part own an Airline / Logistics Company with a T/O of €67 million in 2018, most of that generated from West and Central Africa.
It's a dream team of incompetence. Just need David Moyes in some role.
What an odious cabinet
Interesting that the full fact was founded in that way. Difficult to know whether that in some way changes things...I mean facts are facts. They do appear to do a good job on the whole and it’s a site I always read.
I work in science. So in terms of my personal interests funding is flat (real terms cut) at the moment I think for science. With Brexit the government so far have been fairly good with the noises made about protecting funding, it doesn’t seem to be a contentious point at the moment!
She has a particular dislike for Ireland it seems.
Speaking of which who is the fave for NI secretary?
I heard Gove mentioned...
jesus fecking christ
Someone having secret meetings with the Russian or Chinese government would be relentlessly attacked by the media and voters; not sure why Patel gets away (and rewarded) with it.
Revenge...
Jacob Rees-Mogg rumoured to be leader of the house of commons.
The what?
She shouldn't be near any senior position.