scottsdad Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 5 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: It must be great being in a Tory think tank. You get paid loads to regurgitate any old shite and add the words "Great British" in front of it. This gets reheated every few years as it always gets a favourable press. But in the end, bringing back National Service is like bringing back Crossroads. If it was really that good, they would never have done away with it in the first place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 15 minutes ago, scottsdad said: This gets reheated every few years as it always gets a favourable press. But in the end, bringing back National Service is like bringing back Crossroads. If it was really that good, they would never have done away with it in the first place. Sorry but that logic doesn't hold. They did away with Texan bars. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 21 minutes ago, strichener said: Sorry but that logic doesn't hold. They did away with Texan bars. Sure was a mighty chew. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 On 25/07/2023 at 23:42, lichtgilphead said: Here's a tweet from the Tory branch office earlier today Leaving aside the fact that the report refers to buildings at hospitals that were built before the Scottish Government even existed (e.g. Ninewells in Dundee - opened in 1974), lets have a look for the picture used to illustrate this damning indictment of the SNP. Oh! Here it is! And what's that caption below it? "This RAAC roof failed at Singlewell Primary School in Gravesend, Kent. Luckily nobody was underneath it at the time" OK, it's a picture of a school rather than a hospital, and it's in Kent (local MP: Adam Holloway, Con), rather than in Scotland, but hey! SNP baaaaad! What a bunch of duplicitous c*nts In RAAC concrete news today: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/31/english-schools-told-to-close-buildings-made-with-crumble-risk-concrete More than 100 schools are facing the immediate closure of buildings constructed from potentially dangerous aerated concrete panels, plunging the beginning of term into chaos for thousands of pupils. The government has found that 156 schools in England have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) materials but only 52 have put mitigations in place against risks including collapse, it admitted on Thursday. Engineers have warned the material is at risk of cracking and spalling and of “shear failure”. I'll look forward to the condemnatory tweet from the Scottish Conservatives. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 24 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said: In RAAC concrete news today: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/31/english-schools-told-to-close-buildings-made-with-crumble-risk-concrete More than 100 schools are facing the immediate closure of buildings constructed from potentially dangerous aerated concrete panels, plunging the beginning of term into chaos for thousands of pupils. The government has found that 156 schools in England have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) materials but only 52 have put mitigations in place against risks including collapse, it admitted on Thursday. Engineers have warned the material is at risk of cracking and spalling and of “shear failure”. I'll look forward to the condemnatory tweet from the Scottish Conservatives. They could maybe ask if the Conservative Govt could have done anything to stop things getting to this situation. Quote In 2010 a long-planned £55bn schools rebuilding programme, Building Schools for the Future, was scrapped by the then education secretary, Michael Gove, during the first months of the coalition government. He has since said he regretted the decision. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Jim Hacker was contemplating bringing back National Service in Yes Minister forty fucking years ago. IIRC, the primary argument against it was that the Army considered itself to be a professional fighting force and didn't want to be a peacetime nanny service for the nation's feral youth. Just imagine being a teenager unnecessarily forced into fatigues by crypto-fascists whose entire generation was never in any danger of getting their bollocks shot off themselves, but who think you're the ones who need toughening up. Anyway, that's the RSPB grovelingly backed down and apologised for calling the government liars, as though it was a casual slip of the tongue rather than a series of pre-planned official announcements illustrated by professionally-produced photos. An interesting tale to be told there, methinks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 38 minutes ago, BTFD said: Anyway, that's the RSPB grovelingly backed down and apologised for calling the government liars, as though it was a casual slip of the tongue rather than a series of pre-planned official announcements illustrated by professionally-produced photos. An interesting tale to be told there, methinks. The odd peerage in Sunak's resignation honours list? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 2 minutes ago, GordonD said: The odd peerage in Sunak's resignation honours list? Mmm. The fervent cries of "liar!" might well be less to do with environmental commitments and something more personal. Or I'm a miserable cynic. Probably both. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 5 hours ago, strichener said: Sorry but that logic doesn't hold. They did away with Texan bars. Scottish dentists were fuming at that decision. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 This dimwit being emptied will be one of the highlights of the next election. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 A classic of the art of Tory lies and hypocrisy by Michael Gove (to the surprise of nobody). Having said Brexit would, amongst many other wonderful benefits, strengthen environmental protections and maintain European standards, well, fast forward. This week an environmental rule, proposed by Gove that he promised to protect, is "defective". Result - he's telling English local authorities to just ignore all that pesky extra sewage problems created by new developments in "sensitive areas" like the Lakes and Norfolk Broads. Great news for housebuilders/developers and the like. Ah, Brexit with its sunlit uplands reeking of shite. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 (edited) Hunt: We'll spend whatever it takes to sort the crumbling schools English parents: Phew. After his media rounds Govt: Out of the existing budget. The school repair budget was halved in 2021 by Chancellor Sunak. Edited September 4, 2023 by Dan Steele 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 38 minutes ago, Dan Steele said: Hunt: We'll spend whatever it takes to sort the crumbling schools English parents: Phew. After his media rounds Govt: Out of the existing budget. The school repair budget was halved in 2021 by Chancellor Sunak. Quote Conservative ministers more widely believed a greater funding priority was to build new free schools, Slater told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 3 hours ago, Dan Steele said: Hunt: We'll spend whatever it takes to sort the crumbling schools English parents: Phew. After his media rounds Govt: Out of the existing budget. The school repair budget was halved in 2021 by Chancellor Sunak. 2 hours ago, Soapy FFC said: Anyone who is surprised by this should have their right to vote removed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Salt n Vinegar Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 I heard on Radio Scotland that the dodgy concrete problems in England will be fixed from within the existing Education budget. I'm sure that the English education authorities will be delighted at the news. Trebles all round. The same report indicated that as a result, there'll be no consequentials for Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 We're so far past the "they don't give a fuck" sign we can't see it in the rear view mirror! Quote Gillian Keegan’s department ‘gave £1m from schools rebuilding pot to company linked to husband’ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Three quarters of schools in England with concrete problems are in Tory constituencies. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/06/raac-crisis-pupils-at-24-schools-in-england-forced-to-study-remotely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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