Westminster Politics

Cheesy said:
Exactly. I feel like railways are actually pretty much the perfect rebuttal/example that can be used against people who think that everything should be left to market forces and that competition is always beneficial etc.
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Japan has done it perfectly well, privatized and improved both profitability and maintains near perfect timeliness.
 
Sweet Square said:
No The Conservatives Are Not Six Points A Head - September 2018

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2018/09/no-conservatives-are-not-six-points-ahead

Er......short term memory loss anyone ?
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Fair point - and good article by Stephen Bush. I’d probably look at this tracker instead then:
Conservative Lead over Labour since 2017 election

Still makes for pretty dire reading, particularly considering how long the Conservatives have been in power and how dreadful May’s government have been.
 
Sassy Colin said:
That's Japan, the British Government, of whatever colour, have shown themselves to be completely incapable of running the railway with even a modicum of competency.
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That’s true, just pointing out privatizing is not always bad
 
Adisa said:
After 8 years of austerity. I don't know if Labour are terrible or this country has lost its marbles.
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Those who were hoping Labour will take a hard stance against Brexit or at least advocate for the need of 2nd ref. are turning their backs as Corbyn failed massively. When your support is made up from 70+% remain it's a pretty dumb tactic to try and piss this part of your electorate off as evident by falling popularity in polls. Unless, he shifts the position dramatically (openly) towards 2nd ref. that number will continue to drift further down.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46834533

I find this quite astonishing when you read into the arguments for each side. Basically the high court has ruled in favour of the parents due to our own government being too stupid to work out maths properly or understand how their own law works, and then just trying to pretend nothing could be done about it instead of admitting they made a mistake.

Whatever you think about how much of a scumbag Amber Rudd is or isn't for trying to oversee this nonsense, what this tells you beyond any point of doubt is that she is also an absolute incompetent moron. It's also just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to Universal Credit feck ups.

The most worrying thing is that this is being overseen by one of the supposed senior/respected members of the Tory party. So presumably her fellow members somehow don't see that she is a dangerously stupid person.
 
noodlehair said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46834533

I find this quite astonishing when you read into the arguments for each side. Basically the high court has ruled in favour of the parents due to our own government being too stupid to work out maths properly or understand how their own law works, and then just trying to pretend nothing could be done about it instead of admitting they made a mistake.

Whatever you think about how much of a scumbag Amber Rudd is or isn't for trying to oversee this nonsense, what this tells you beyond any point of doubt is that she is also an absolute incompetent moron. It's also just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to Universal Credit feck ups.

The most worrying thing is that this is being overseen by one of the supposed senior/respected members of the Tory party. So presumably her fellow members somehow don't see that she is a dangerously stupid person.
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Your being far too kind. The tories have designed the system with the intention of failing with the hope that people wil give up and won't claim at all.
 
Adisa said:
Think it's incredible she's not resigning.
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Yes I think it's a year in prison and you can't be an MP... So presumably she has 3 months in an open prison on a grand a half a week...

Will be interesting to see if the recall facility is used to trigger a by-election... A labour seat but also a high leave vote in the referendum... Wouldn't be surprised to farrage pop up if there was a by election
 
Another good speech from Jess Phillips here



Rapidly turning into my fav politician
 
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Uncanny
 
Ducklegs said:
Because after 8 years of austerity the actual people on the street dont see any difference between now and when we were pissing money away left right and centre.

Plus the complete failure of Corbyn and his team to mount anything like a credible opposition cant be over looked, he has failed every challenge and fallen at every hurdle and missed every opportunity to capitalize on the failings of Mays governent.

So now he doesnt just appear to be a relic from the bad old days of socialist labour, he looks stupid and ill advised as well.
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And most people living on the street can't/don't vote!
 


https://www.theguardian.com/society...-for-work-appeal-seven-months-after-his-death

family of a man who spent the last 18 months of his life fighting a decision that he was fit to work has won his case – seven months after he died.

Jeff Hayward, from Clitheroe, Lancashire, was 52 when he died of a heart attack in June last year, two weeks before he was due to go to a disability benefit appeal tribunal.

The father-of-two and grandfather had cellulitis – a painful bacterial skin infection – on his legs and his GP deemed him unfit to work. Nevertheless, in November 2016, after losing his job of more than 25 years, he was refused employment support allowance (ESA) after a health assessor awarded him no disability points. He went through five stages of applications and appeals, according to Ribble Valley Citizens Advice, which assisted him. But it was only last month that his daughter Holly, who took up his case after his death, was told he was entitled to the highest rate of ESA.
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Nye Bevan - That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
 
James Cleverly was asked to stand down as a patron of a charity, that works with disabled and vulnerable people, after voting for cuts that were targeted at those same people. He's a monumental piece of shit.
 
Scamland (continued):

Garden bridge charity spent £53.5m with no construction, TfL finds
Review finds £43m of public money went on abandoned Thames bridge scheme
Boris Johnson signed a directive as mayor in 2016 which watered down some of the conditions that had to be met before more public money was released. Questioned by the London assembly last year on why he did this, Johnson said he could not remember.
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In the end, the trust spent more than 70% of its £60m public money allocation without building anything. Johnson’s successor, Sadiq Khan, eventually ended the scheme by refusing new funding.
As part of its review, TfL sought legal advice about whether the charity’s trustees might have breached their legal duties. It concluded there was no reasonable prospect of getting back any of the money.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ity-spent-535m-with-no-construction-tfl-finds
 
If they had just spoken to me first I would have not built a bridge for a fraction of the cost that those rip off merchants didn't build you a bridge.

Please keep this in mind for other projects.

CrossRail2, I can not build you this for 12m.. no wait, I will do it for an unbelievable price of just 10 million pounds with Heathrow non expansion thrown in for free.

Save on the disruption of actually building something, save on the environmental costs and leave room for an infinite number of future non building projects.

You know it makes sense.
 
The Conservative Party: down with the kids since 1834.
 
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