Westminster Politics

“There are other ways in which people can express their opinions, protesting in the way that people did last summer was not the right way at all … I didn’t support the protests. Those protests were dreadful.”
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So protests are not allowed and neither is taking a knee. But apparently there are other ways to express your opinions. I'm guessing that Patel and the rest of the people against the protests think the best way to speak out against injustices is to just keep your mouth shut. Unless it's something like millionaires paying a bit more tax, obviously.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Deliberate that I think. Plays right into their base and backs up the law = enemies narrative which will ultimately allow them to bend it to their own nefarious ends.
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I suspect refusing to spend tax payers money on housing a sex offender is actually a vote winner

If she carries on like this the mail will go full on pritster for pm
 
Mr Pigeon said:
So protests are not allowed and neither is taking a knee. But apparently there are other ways to express your opinions. I'm guessing that Patel and the rest of the people against the protests think the best way to speak out against injustices is to just keep your mouth shut. Unless it's something like millionaires paying a bit more tax, obviously.
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She's a fecking monster and she's home sec. She scares the crap out of me.
 
Foxbatt said:
She is of Asian ethnicity. Why is she so racist?
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Ex colonies have been indoctrinated by the British Empire of old imo.

My Gran has some similarities, nowhere near as bad as Priti Patel mind! She is 93yrs old from Trinidad. She was raised and educated with the ethics of the British empire from 90+ years ago.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
So protests are not allowed and neither is taking a knee. But apparently there are other ways to express your opinions. I'm guessing that Patel and the rest of the people against the protests think the best way to speak out against injustices is to just keep your mouth shut.
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It's so fecking terrifying.
 
Protest is not allowed, but spending £600k of public money to cover up giving billions of pounds of public money through improperly awarded government contracts to Tory donors is fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...o-spend-up-to-600000-defending-covid-contract

Government to spend up to £600,000 defending Covid contract
Good Law Project is challenging award of contract to firm run by associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings
 
Our laws are weak. For all the weirdness in Yankeeland, they have tougher laws about government behaviour and corruption.
It feels our entire system is based on written and unwritten codes. All it takes is for one government not to give a feck.
We need proper checks and balances.
 
There is something deeply wrong with this country.



People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite of widespread condemnation of the practice last year and an urgent investigation by the care watchdog.

Mencap said it had received reports in January from people with learning disabilities that they had been told they would not be resuscitated if they were taken ill with Covid-19.



The Care Quality Commission said in December that inappropriate Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notices had caused potentially avoidable deaths last year.

DNACPRs are usually made for people who are too frail to benefit from CPR, but Mencap said some seem to have been issued for people simply because they had a learning disability. The CQC is due to publish a report on the practice within weeks.

The disclosure comes as campaigners put growing pressure on ministers to reconsider a decision not to give people with learning disabilities priority for vaccinations. There is growing evidence that even those with a mild disability are more likely to die if they contract the coronavirus.

Although some people with learning disabilities such as Down’s syndromewere in one of four groups set by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) which the government promised would be offered the vaccine by tomorrow, many were classified lower categories of need and are still waiting.

NHS figures released last week show that in the five weeks since the third lockdown began, Covid-19 accounted for 65% of deaths of people with learning disabilities. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the rate for the general population was 39%, although the two statistics are drawn from different measurements.

Younger people with learning disabilities aged 18 to 34 are 30 times more likely to die of Covid than others the same age, according to Public Health England.

Edel Harris, Mencap’s chief executive, said: “Throughout the pandemic many people with a learning disability have faced shocking discrimination and obstacles to accessing healthcare, with inappropriate Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notices put on their files and cuts made to their social care support.

“It’s unacceptable that within a group of people hit so hard by the pandemic, and who even before Covid died on average over 20 years younger than the general population, many are left feeling scared and wondering why they have been left out.

“The JCVI and government must act now to help save the lives of some of society’s most vulnerable people by urgently prioritising all people with a learning disability for the vaccin



More than 14m people have received a first vaccine dose so far, and care providers who spoke to the Observer said many people with learning disabilities had been vaccinated in the last week. But some are still waiting. One woman from the West Midlands who has a rare form of Down’s syndrome told the Observer she had not yet been given a date.

“It’s really frustrating – it’s been a fight and it shouldn’t have been a fight,” she said. Her condition means she is in category four – people who are clinically extremely vulnerable – but her GP did not have details of her condition on record – a common problem, according to Mencap.

“I had to call them lots of times,” she said. The practice accepted last week that she needed to be vaccinated, she said, but she was still waiting. “For people in a similar situation to me, they won’t have been badgering them as much as me.”

A lack of badgering is part of the reason why people with learning disabilities may be more likely to die from Covid-19 than the rest of the population, according to Dr Keri-Michèle Lodge, a consultant in learning disability psychiatry in Leeds.

“Doctors often don’t understand that someone with learning disabilities may not be able to communicate their symptoms,” she said. “Carers are sometimes not listened to – you might notice something is wrong, but that is often written off as part of their behaviour.

“People with learning disabilities already get a raw deal from the health services. Fewer than two in five people with a learning disability live until they are 65.”

An analysis by the Office for National Statistics last week showed that six in 10 Covid deaths were of people with a disability.

“The biggest factor associated with the increased rate of death from their analysis was living in care homes or residential settings,” Lodge said. “They prioritised people in care homes for vaccinations, but that was only for older adults. They completely forgot about people with learning disabilities in a really similar setting. I don’t know if the government were blindsided or just neglectful.”

Professor Martin Green OBE, Care England’s chief executive, said: “As the largest representative body for independent providers for adult social care, Care England remains concerned that the government has not given individuals with a learning disability a higher level of priority for the Covid vaccine.

“We urge the government to remove the arbitrary distinction between prioritising those with a severe or profound learning disability and those with a mild or moderate learning disability, and prioritise all those with a learning disability in priority group four. People with learning disabilities must not be overlooked at any time.”
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Fluctuation0161 said:
With first past the post, one of the least representative voting systems.

Hardly sufficient checks and balances.
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I thought the winner was always 'first past the post' as befits a two horse race!
There as almost always only been a two horse race for government, Whigs/Tories , now Labour/Tories
The 'checks and balances' are applied through the ballot box, not, as it used to be said 'in smoke-filled rooms' out of sight of the public.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
House prices up 8.5% in 2020 amid tax holiday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56095357

Can someone explain to me how this isn't anything other than thievery where the tax payer has been fecked over twice?
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Stamp duty scheme should never have been extended tbh. Natural supply & demand in effect there, with changing consumer habits of wanting to move houses. Government schemes to stimulate demand tend to have always resulted in market inflation.
 
We’re currently mid-purchase and have been for nearly months now. Our vendors wanted to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday, found a house and their vendors have not even found a house in that time so while they are still in the chain, our vendors are looking for another property but there’s no way in hell it’s going to happen before the holiday ends.

I’m fully expecting it all to fall through once the holiday ends and our vendors realise they have to pay however many grand extra. Stressful to say the least.

My only hope is that there is a glut of properties coming on the market when numerous chains collapse but that’s not exactly a good scenario for the rest of the country! Apparently there is 100k houses currently being purchased and as many as half of them will not complete if the holiday is not extended.
 


Government’s behaviour came under criticism in the judgment. If it had admitted to being in breach of the law when we first raised our concerns, it would have never been necessary to take this judicial review to its conclusion. Instead, they chose a path of obfuscation, racking up over £200,000 of legal costs as a result.
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Reprehensible scum.

Wonder if the BBC will pick this up?
 
The Beeb are reporting it as their second story. The main one is about Harry and Meghan not coming back to perform Royal duties. For fecking fecks sake.
 
Fluctuation0161 said:
That presenter looks like she is reading an update from BBC management. :lol:
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"They were under enormous pressure to sort out PPE contracts."

Yeah, and remind me how those PPE deliverables turned out? Let me go out to the wastebins and double check.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
"They were under enormous pressure to sort out PPE contracts."

Yeah, and remind me how those PPE deliverables turned out? Let me go out to the wastebins and double check.
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Nothing to see in the bins mate. A totally unrelated private company have disposed of the unusable PPE now.

Joris Bohnson & Hatt Mancock Ltd.
 
Marr giving Hancock a soft ride as expected. Letting him waffle to his hearts content and even conceding “yes I appreciate it was a stressful time” and “yes, it’s clear government was under a lot of pressure at the time”.
 
All of these guys are mates, went to the same schools, attend the same parties etc
All this shit is a show and we are the mugs.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Well they will certainly be deaf to it if nobody is reporting it.

Hold on though...

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The Guardian only ran it on p9 in yesterday's paper, which surprised me. They led p3 on Kim and Kanye divorcing ffs.
 
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