Westminster Politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66494983

What a wonderful idea. We consistently fail to meet cancer waiting time targets. So, instead of striving to achieve these targets, why don't we just scrap them and pretend that everything is ok.

Yet another example of a total failure by our government.
 
Buster15 said:
If our government actually does go ahead, it will cement the UK position as a third world country.
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The funniest thing is it’s the people that will get shafted by it are the ones that will vote for it. Turkeys celebrating christmas.
 
I see that the Tories narrative is to try and blame France for the small boats... we have given them all that money and they are still not stopping them.
That will play well with the DM readers.
 
Buster15 said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66494983

What a wonderful idea. We consistently fail to meet cancer waiting time targets. So, instead of striving to achieve these targets, why don't we just scrap them and pretend that everything is ok.

Yet another example of a total failure by our government.
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I would get annoyed at this, but someone referred to us as a potential 3rd world country...
 
Buster15 said:
https://news.sky.com/story/bibby-st...w-over-legionella-says-steve-barclay-12939732

What else would you expect from this morally bankrupt government.
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I'm not really surprised by this sadly. A few of my junior colleagues (doctors) years ago had just rotated through Basildon hospital and were living in hospital accommodation at the time.

They found legionella in the water tanks for the accommodation and the advice they were given was just to reduce the amount of time they spent showering to reduce their exposure to the bacteria.

Now imagine we're talking about a marginalised group, that the government is trying to vilify and who aren't paying (like the doctors were).....
 
Nothing is ever going to happen to these people. The worst outcome is they might lose their seat at the next election and they'll then walk into an extremely well paid private job.
 
So Nadine Dorries has finally ACTUALLY resigned, with the mother of all rambling resignation letters.

If this is anything to go by, her book about ‘the political assassination’ of Boris Johnson will be the proverbial tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
 
Jericholyte2 said:
So Nadine Dorries has finally ACTUALLY resigned, with the mother of all rambling resignation letters.

If this is anything to go by, her book about ‘the political assassination’ of Boris Johnson will be the proverbial tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Another by-election for Sunak to squirm about though
 
Pexbo said:
Another by-election for Sunak to squirm about though
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He'd have to go some to lose it though. Last election good old Nadine took 60% of the vote. Labour were 24k votes behind. It's been Tory since 1931 and never been Labour in its entire history.
 
Ekkie Thump said:
He'd have to go some to lose it though. Last election good old Nadine took 60% of the vote. Labour were 24k votes behind. It's been Tory since 1931 and never been Labour in its entire history.
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Bet it flips.
 
TheGame said:
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It's shocking how rare it is for someone interviewing a minister to call out something so basic and obvious. And it shows because as soon as someone does it they panic and revert to the default repeat the script until they give up questioning me mode.

Diane Abbott should have adopted the same strategy 6 years ago. She fell into a trap where incorrectly calculating financials on the spot is a far bigger crime than blatantly lying about how you have increased the police force by 23,000 people.

Would be interesting to see the response if the follow up question to Braverman's answer was how much did it cost to increase the police force by 23,000.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
What about increased population? There are less police in reality - 1 per 430 people in 2010, 1 per 455 people in 2023.
Even though the interviewer called Braverman out for lying. She could have really confused her.
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Lying and not being able to understand that 146,000 is not actually more than 149,000. She is definitely Chancellor material. But what do you expect when lying and failure to grasp even the most basic arithmetic is is something this government is very good at.
 
FireballXL5 said:
Grant fecking Shapps is the new defence secretary. JFC.
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Bet he ends up as Sir Grant Schapps.

He’s another yes man that will do and say anything for whoever is in power and will be rewarded as such.
 
Simbo said:
What's the story here? Don't know him but he seems woefully under qualified for the job. Was Wallace at an end of term or push out or something?
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Wasn't he wanting the NATO Secretary job, but when he didn't get it, he decided to go.
 
berbatrick said:
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that has got to be the worst graph ever. The colour usage is awful, the way they are representing data makes it look like they are polling Boris' likeability through the Truss and Sunak periods. They needlessly over-complicated it.
 
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