Mark Albrighton Posted January 13, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 13, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 I feel like I've seen this movie before. Twice, in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Maybe there's a civil servant in the Department for Education who just *really* likes having meetings with Marcus Rashford. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 (edited) They're **** at it again, doing they best to stop kids being fed. Read the **** room. If only they were so committed to saving money in other areas. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/14/schools-in-england-told-not-to-provide-free-school-meals-at-half-term Quote Headteachers in England have been told not to provide either free school meal vouchers or food parcels for disadvantaged children over the half-term holiday next month, it has emerged. With the dust barely settled following a furious row this week over substandard food parcels, the government appeared to be heading into yet another damaging dispute over children going hungry during the holidays. Fresh guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) published this week states: “Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half-term.” Instead, it says there is already wider government support available to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid winter grant scheme. The government set up the £170m winter package last November, following an earlier intervention by the footballer and anti-poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford, who has already forced the government into a series of U-turns over free school meals. 4th time's a charm, eh fellas? I reckon the only reason the PL is still playing is so that Rashford is kept busy. Edited January 14, 2021 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted January 14, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 14, 2021 Just... How socially unaware is it possible for an actual human person to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTed Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 1 minute ago, Lichfield Dean said: Just... How socially unaware is it possible for an actual human person to be? What, in the blue word removed, is word removed that?!? Do they all look like villains from really poor American 80s sitcoms? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Just imagine the concept of accountability *ever* meant anything in this country 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 15, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 15, 2021 Ah, that's just the Dutch being weak. You just front it out until the papers forget. That's how you get the big money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post icouldtelltheworld Posted January 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2021 On 15/01/2021 at 14:30, HanoiVillan said: Just imagine the concept of accountability *ever* meant anything in this country Interestingly something very similar happened here on a massive scale from around 2012 for a few years. Huge numbers of people were told they'd been overpaid child tax credit, often by many thousands of pounds and lots of them ended up on direct debits paying back money that they didn't even owe. I know because me and my ex-partner were harassed for around £3500 in child tax credit overpayments for several years. Whenever theyd send out a letter we'd send one back asking for evidence that we owed the money (there isn't the time or space here to explain how farcical some of the replies were, but once we received around 100 pages containing nothing but images of a PC showing that annoying 'performed an illegal operation' message - 100 **** pages of it). We were teenage parents and the whole thing was obviously very stressful and worrying. After about three years of back and forth, I received a phone call from HMRC one day informing me it had all been an error and that they actually owed me £150. Happy days. However, I know for a fact lots of people ended up paying money back on even bigger sums than we were being chased for. You can only imagine how easily a single mom would agree to a direct debit over the phone if a gov agency rings and tells her she owes thousands of pounds. I barely noticed anything about this in the news, except the odd paragraph buried away in newspapers around the time I was offered my £150 explaining that the government had rectified an administrative error (given the rhetoric of the Cameron years I don't believe that this was an error for a second). You can probably make an accurate guess as to how many politicians resigned or lost their jobs over the whole thing. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 Perpetuating further culture war as a distraction. I **** hate this Government. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2021 13 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Perpetuating further culture war as a distraction. I **** hate this Government. Revisionist Purge of road names? The only place I'm aware of this happening in some form is Liverpool, where they aren't changing the names of the roads at all, just erecting plaques explaining who the road is named after and their associaton with the Slave Trade It's legislating for something that isn't happening And names of roads get changed quite a lot throughout history Also it appears to be National Government geting involved in local politics for no apparent reason other than to create headlines 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Just Tory things. Slash benefits. Hear the opposition argue against it. Doctor video to smear them by claiming they want to cut benefits even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Just Tory things. Slash benefits. Hear the opposition argue against it. Doctor video to smear them by claiming they want to cut benefits even more. As always they are shameless scumbags. They play a rigged game of bullshit aided and abetted by their oligarch mates in the Sun/Express/Mail/Telegraph square of propaganda lameness. The newspapers are perhaps beside the point as this is obviously a tweet, but it's all part of the same bullshitting process: most corrupt states have to win control of the press. These words removed didn't even have to bother. Edited January 18, 2021 by Rolta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 It’s just crap isn’t it, total and utter crap. There should be laws around editing media and reposting for effect.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 As someone once said, ‘scum’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Quote Dido Harding’s Test and Trace system is splashing out nearly a million pounds every day to private consultancy firm Deloitte, newly-released government figures have revealed. David William’s, a top-ranking civil servant at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), told MPs on Monday that 900 of the firm’s consultants were currently employed – at a rate of £1,000 per day. The disclosure of the astonishing level of expenditure comes after parliamentarians were told that DHSC expected to spend £15 billion on coronavirus in the next three months on testing alone – particularly the rollout of controversial rapid testing – to tackle the pandemic. It emerged last year that more than a thousand consultants from Deloitte had been hired by the government – but Williams’ admission to the Commons Public Accounts Committee is the first time the true cost has become clear. “The latest number I’ve got suggests that’s come down to around 900 [consultants],” he told the committee. “We have a plan in place to see that number reduce markedly over the course of the next few months, although there is a dependency on our ability to backfill a number of the roles they are currently doing with permanent civil servants. “The average cost across our consultancy support, I imagine it’s about the same for Deloitte, is around £1,000 pounds a day.” ‘All that combined expertise’ Giving evidence to MPs, Harding defended her reliance on consultants. “I think it is appropriate to build a service in extreme emergency circumstances using short-term contingent labour and consultants for some of those roles,” she said. “I think they’ve done very important work alongside the public servants, the military, the healthcare professionals and members of the private sector who have come and joined us as well. We couldn’t have built the service without all of that combined expertise.” Shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves told HuffPost: “It is scandalous that this incompetent Tory government has chosen to waste enormous sums of public money on 900 management consultants paid £1,000 a day rather than put public health teams in charge of contact tracing like other countries have. London Economic Filth at the trough. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Xann said: London Economic Filth at the trough. Do members of The Taxpayers Alliance make a fuss about all this too? I'm genuinely wondering. Edited January 19, 2021 by Rolta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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