The banker loving, baby-eating Tory party thread (regenerated)

[markavfc40]

 

[Seat68]

12 hours ago, markavfc40 said:

 

The entire interview lasts about 15 minutes and it's a joy to watch. A completely prepared interviewer that doesn't suffer his bluster. 

[ml1dch]

The Owen Paterson stuff is an impressive new low even for this lot.

 

 

[desensitized43]

5 minutes ago, ml1dch said:

The Owen Paterson stuff is an impressive new low even for this lot.

 

 

I mean, this is bad, but is it really "a new low"?

Remember when they lied to the queen and had parliament dismissed so they could avoid any scrutiny of their horrible Breggzit shambles?

Remember when Theresa May was facing down a no confidence vote and reinstated the whip to an MP that was suspended from the party facing sexual assault allegations?

I'd argue both of those were way worse than this. Disgusting and shameless though it is. Especially the timing of it during COP when they know it won't get the headlines it should.

[HanoiVillan]

1 hour ago, desensitized43 said:

I mean, this is bad, but is it really "a new low"?

Remember when they lied to the queen and had parliament dismissed so they could avoid any scrutiny of their horrible Breggzit shambles?

Remember when Theresa May was facing down a no confidence vote and reinstated the whip to an MP that was suspended from the party facing sexual assault allegations?

I'd argue both of those were way worse than this. Disgusting and shameless though it is. Especially the timing of it during COP when they know it won't get the headlines it should.

This is bad though, don't think we need to spend time arguing about how many angels on a pinhead here, it's all despicable shit.

The corruption is blatant:

Govt source tells me 'I'm pissing on you, as I want to, and you can't stop me, so I don't give a **** if you conclude that it's raining or not'.

[desensitized43]

1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

This is bad though, don't think we need to spend time arguing about how many angels on a pinhead here, it's all despicable shit.

The corruption is blatant:

Govt source tells me 'I'm pissing on you, as I want to, and you can't stop me, so I don't give a **** if you conclude that it's raining or not'.

Oh yes definitely it's all pretty **** despicable but I'm not as outraged by this as I was about some of the other things mentioned...It's all just become so commonplace now. It's like we're living in a completely broken country. A total banana republic.

Edited November 3, 2021 by desensitized43

[Xann]

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“Muddled, overstated, eye-wateringly expensive”: PAC damning on Test & Trace that has “failed on main objectives”

27 October 2021

In a damning report published today the Public Accounts Committee says “NHST&T has not achieved its main objective to help break chains of COVID-19 transmission and enable people to return towards a more normal way of life” despite being handed an “eye watering” budget of £37 billion over two years – and not managing to spend £8.7 billion of the first year’s allocation. Instead,  since the end of October 2020 “the country has had two more national lockdowns and case numbers have risen dramatically”.

NHS Test and Trace has been one of the most expensive health programmes delivered in the pandemic – equal to nearly 20% of the entire 2020-21 NHS England budget – but the Committee says it “focused on delivering programmes but outcomes have been muddled and a number of its professed aims have been overstated or not achieved.”

Only 96 million of 691 million lateral flow device (LFD) tests distributed by NHST&T have been registered - 14% of the total. The Committee says “it is not clear what benefit the remaining 595 million tests have secured”.

While the Committee acknowledges some improvements since reporting earlier this year that NHST&T had “failed to deliver on its central promise of averting another lockdown”, it notes that “when under pressure, as it was over Christmas 2020 and more recently in April, performance deteriorates, with only 17% of people receiving tests within 24 hours in December 2020.”

Most of the testing and contact tracing capacity that NHST&T paid for has not been used, and despite previous commitments to reduce dependency on consultants, it employed more in April 2021 than in December 2020.

Urgent improvements are needed regarding public outreach with over 60% of people who experience COVID-19 symptoms reporting that have not been tested, and certain groups such as older people, men, and certain ethnic minorities less likely to engage with the service.

Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said: Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said:

“The national Test & Trace programme was allocated eye watering sums of taxpayers’ money in the midst of a global health and economic crisis. It set out bold ambitions but has failed to achieve them despite the vast sums thrown at it. Only 14% of 691 million lateral flow tests sent out had results reported, and who knows how many took the necessary action based on the results they got, or how many were never used. The continued reliance on the over-priced consultants who ‘delivered’ this state of affairs will by itself cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.

For this huge amount of money we need to see a legacy system ready to deliver when needed but it’s just not clear what there will be to show in the long term. This legacy has to be a focus for government if we are to see any value for the money spent.”

 

UK Parliament Committees

Did Laura think to mention this?

[Davkaus]

It's non-stop corruption from top to bottom, may as well name their proposed revised committee  "the committee for finding no Conservative wrongdoing". But they know the electorate doesn't care, so they'll keep pushing their luck.

Sex pests, no harm done, get back in here. People who flagrantly sell their votes to private interests, well, that's just market forces isn't it? If you wear blue ties, there's nothing that'll stop you being patted on the back and declared a saint before the PM considers the matter closed.

[Chindie]

Yeah that's all well and good but the alternative was idealistic old man.

[Davkaus]

I think my favourite line of attack the tories trot out, from the same handbook as policing the opposition's "tone", is "playing politics". When it comes to this matter, Labour need to stop playing politics. They're politicians, mate.

 

[StefanAVFC]

All opposition parties refuse to participate in the new (Tory majority) standards committee. 

Not sure they've thought this through.

[bickster]

2 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

All opposition parties refuse to participate in the new (Tory majority) standards committee. 

Not sure they've thought this through.

There's no point in taking part is there? Taking part legitimises it

[OutByEaster?]

There isn't really any consequence any more in politics is there?

 

[StefanAVFC]

11 minutes ago, bickster said:

There's no point in taking part is there? Taking part legitimises it

I mean, the Tories haven't thought this through.

It's basically Tories saying what Tories can and can't do. The optics are horrendous.

[Davkaus]

34 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

I mean, the Tories haven't thought this through.

It's basically Tories saying what Tories can and can't do. The optics are horrendous.

In before CON +5

[Chindie]

7 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

In before CON +5

Missing a billion or so.

[Swerbs]

 

Glad Starmer is calling it out for what is and no dancing around it.

[chrisp65]

Anybody that votes tory next time is complicit in and endorses corruption.

The man earns more lobbying for private companies than he earns as an MP.

They are disgusting.

[ml1dch]

9 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Anybody that votes tory next time is complicit in and endorses corruption.

The man earns more lobbying for private companies than he earns as an MP.

They are disgusting.

Anyone who voted Tory last time is. It's not like this bunch of vermin didn't have a rap sheet as long as their arm prior to 2019.

[markavfc40]

27 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Anybody that votes tory next time is complicit in and endorses corruption.

 

I am seriously starting to think it doesn't matter what they do they'll get voted in again. They are rigging everything they can to ensure they do.

I am not sure I will ever see other than a Tory government for the rest of my days now and I'm 47 and planning/hoping to be around a good while longer yet. What a depressing prospect.