NurembergVillan Posted September 26, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 26, 2018 Maybot incapable of deviating from the pre-loaded script. Not enough RAM to work on more than one thing at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 She's legitimately a walking soundbite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 definitive statements about general elections aren't really her thing are they 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 26, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 26, 2018 27 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: She's legitimately a walking soundbite. good_deal.wav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 26, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 26, 2018 2 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: good_deal.wav Rare Kraftwerk tune? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted September 26, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted September 26, 2018 36 minutes ago, bickster said: Rare Kraftwerk tune? It's more "Europe Endless" for May, isn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 26, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 26, 2018 25 minutes ago, blandy said: It's more "Europe Endless" for May, isn't it? Or "Trade Europe Distress" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 £40k spent hiding how rarely northern powerhouse minister visited north Quote The government has spent two years and £40,000 of taxpayers’ money trying to hide how little the northern powerhouse minister visited the north of England in his role, in what one prominent northern figure called “a blatant disregard for the principles of democratic accountability”. In February 2016 the Guardian submitted a freedom of information (FoI) request to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) asking how regularly James Wharton, who had then been northern powerhouse minister for just over six months, travelled outside London. The department flouted a requirement to respond to the request within 20 working days and did not provide a response for more than four months – at which point it denied the application. The Information Commissioner’s Office then undertook an investigation, during the course of which it found that the department adopted “what appears to have been a strategy of wilful procrastination in order to obstruct a request for information”. The DCLG appealed against the decision to the first-tier tribunal of information rights, where in early 2018 Judge Hazel Oliver ruled that the department must hand over Wharton’s diary. From start to finish, the process took 26 months. The department fought for so long to prevent the release of the information that two other men, Andrew Percy and Jake Berry, have since taken up the role of northern powerhouse minister, and the entire department has been renamed as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. However, internal communications revealed by subsequent Guardian FoI requests show that despite spending £40,000 trying to stymie the release of information, the government knew as early as March 2016 it had little chance of preventing the information being made public. Hidden in 111 pages of internal DCLG emails relating to the FoI request is a document headlined “Official – Sensitive” dating from March 2016 which includes official advice stating “there is a strong likelihood of a decision to withhold the requested information … being overturned”. Legal experts are unimpressed. “It sounds like a classic: they knew they were likely to lose and still wasted time and money on it, and come out looking even worse,” said Paul Bernal, senior lecturer in law at the University of East Anglia. Manchester-based data protection consultant Tim Turner said: “Departments have shown time and again that they’re very secretive about who ministers meet and what they do, and spending £40,000 to hide it doesn’t seem close to the spirit of open government.” The information that the government tried to suppress for two years shows that Wharton rarely left London as part of his role as the north’s representative in government. Of the 693 lines of entries in Wharton’s ministerial diary, just under half contain identifiable addresses or office rooms in the “Location” column. Ninety percent of them are based in London. Sarah Longlands, director of IPPR North, a Manchester-based thinktank, said: “It is of course disappointing that the minister charged with the northern powerhouse spent so little time in the area getting to understand what’s important to the people, communities and businesses of the north. “But the attempts to thwart access to information about the work of the northern powerhouse minister show a blatant disregard for the principles of democratic accountability. “The government need to use this as an opportunity to build a much more robust system of transparency and accountability, so that voters in the north can have confidence that the government are really serious and committed to supporting northern leaders to build a better future for the north.” A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, said: “We respect the outcome of the tribunal and have now released the information as requested.” They did not acknowledge queries about the low number of visits to the north of England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) Mogg and Lavery on QT now talk about polar opposites , I need a translator for Lavery , can’t understand a word he says wouldnt want to be a dentist in Bishop Auckland , don’t think anyone in this auidance have ever been to one before Edited September 27, 2018 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 27, 2018 4 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: I need a translator for Lavery , can’t understand a word he says 1 You shall have a fishie on a little dishie, when the boat comes in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 17 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Mogg and Lavery on QT now Why is anyone still watching this shit? I see the Beeb thought it was the right time to get Rod Liddle on, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 27, 2018 15 minutes ago, snowychap said: Why is anyone still watching this shit? I see the Beeb thought it was the right time to get Rod Liddle on, too. I think I'd gladly chin most of the panel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 10 minutes ago, bickster said: I think I'd gladly chin most of the panel The “comedian” first yeah ? ’don't think I’ve ever seen so many gag attempts miss their mark ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted September 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2018 QT researcher 1: 'Mogg says he'll do Question Time as long as he isn't the weirdest most extreme most hated person on there' QT researcher 2: 'I'll give that wife beating racist piece of shit Rod Liddle a bell shall I?' 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 27, 2018 8 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: The “comedian” first yeah ? ’don't think I’ve ever seen so many gag attempts miss their mark ... I'm sure the Trades Description Act should be applied there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 9 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: QT researcher 1: 'Mogg says he'll do Question Time as long as he isn't the weirdest most extreme most hated person on there' QT researcher 2: 'I'll give that wife beating racist piece of shit Rod Liddle a bell shall I?' Tbf the audience reaction suggested he was far from hated , extra credit for not screaming “shut the **** up” when the two women on the panel were schreeching over him I’ll give you weird though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Have to confess, I didn't watch it. Perhaps the audience was never punched by him when they were pregnant. As much as I like to see what the other side are up to and thinking, QT just got too much for me about a year or so ago. Don't recognise a couple of the names on this week's panel, but Mogg and Liddle together would do nothing for my mood. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1 hour ago, snowychap said: Why is anyone still watching this shit? 14 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: QT just got too much for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted September 28, 2018 Moderator Share Posted September 28, 2018 So, Boris Johnson has said in public that his boss's plan to deal with the big thing is rubbish and that he's made his own plan instead which he's given everyone a copy of and is much better. Why hasn't she sacked him on the spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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