Tory Lies, Corruption and Hypocrisy- Add Them Here

[Soapy FFC]

15 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Funny, isn't it? Dinosaurs in the House of Commons telling others to modernise their working practices. Has anyone ever watched how the voting procedures work there? 

The Dinosaur in Chief leads by example in the modernisation debate for the HoC

 

[Dan Steele]

In the latest round of Taking Back Control & Making the UK a laughing stock. Let's do away with anything remotely "European" so out goes the ECHR and in comes a bill of rights. In the name of f**k, "protect the public from dangerous criminals". It's time to go, Scotland.

The justice secretary, Dominic Raab, said: “The bill of rights will strengthen our UK tradition of freedom whilst injecting a healthy dose of common sense into the system.

“These reforms will reinforce freedom of speech, enable us to deport more foreign offenders and better protect the public from dangerous criminals.”

[GordonD]

37 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Funny, isn't it? Dinosaurs in the House of Commons telling others to modernise their working practices. Has anyone ever watched how the voting procedures work there? 

Apparently there's a rule that MPs can't wear overcoats in the voting lobby because Tories who couldn't be arsed to walk down a corridor used to get their coachmen to put on a coat and impersonate them.

[Clown Job]

Workers are going to get absolutely shafted again ain’t they 

[Clown Job]

46 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Funny, isn't it? Dinosaurs in the House of Commons telling others to modernise their working practices. Has anyone ever watched how the voting procedures work there? 

They don’t even let the guys take the suit jacket off in Parliament 

 

[Granny Danger]

3 hours ago, The Skelpit Lug said:

In the latest round of Taking Back Control & Making the UK a laughing stock. Let's do away with anything remotely "European" so out goes the ECHR and in comes a bill of rights. In the name of f**k, "protect the public from dangerous criminals". It's time to go, Scotland.

The justice secretary, Dominic Raab, said: “The bill of rights will strengthen our UK tradition of freedom whilst injecting a healthy dose of common sense into the system.

“These reforms will reinforce freedom of speech, enable us to deport more foreign offenders and better protect the public from dangerous criminals.”

 

3 hours ago, Clown Job said:

Workers are going to get absolutely shafted again ain’t they 

I don’t see it getting passed tbh.

[williemillersmoustache]

6 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

 

I don’t see it getting passed tbh.

The bits that might pass don't matter and the bits that matter won't pass.

 

 

 

[Granny Danger]

17 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

At the next PMQs Starmer has to ask Johnson about the validity of the claim that he tried to get his (now) wife a job at the FO.  Must be asked and must be pushed for an answer.

If Starmer doesn’t do it hopefully Blackford will.

The prime minister has failed to deny he offered his lover Carrie Symonds a top job while foreign secretary, when challenged in the Commons.

Boris Johnson ducked the question – which follows an allegation that he was stopped from making his future wife his chief of staff.

ETA this should be the lead story in every media outlet.   In normal times it would be.

Edited June 22, 2022 by Granny Danger

[Michael W]

I'm convinced we could resolve most problems in this area by passing a one-line Statutory Instrument. 

"Substitute 'The Human Rights Act 1998' for 'The British Bill of Rights". 

Bloody British rights, stopping the government doing as it pleases!

I also don't think it'll pass, but even if things that do are meaningless, it's just another sign of a government that is increasingly losing the rag. 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2022 by Michael W

[guinness]

Just take a minute to read the post below, from a Rail Worker, that gives a different perspective to the hyperbole being flung out by HMG's client journalists...

 

Three years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise, two years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise. But this year they came to us with a 0% pay rise plus over 2500 redundancies, changes to terms and conditions. An increase from 28 weeks of nights to 39 weeks of nights. An increase from 32 weekends worked to 39 weekends worked. Currently for a night shift we get time and a quarter, for a weekend turn we get time and a half. They wish to cut both of these to time and a tenth. So that’s a 15% pay cut on every night shift and a 40% pay cut on every weekend turn. But they want us to work more of them. This is their modernisation they talk about. Not technology, we embrace technology and have seen more and more of it in recent years. They also wish to fire and re-hire the operative grades and bring them back under a new job title but on £9000 a year less. They also want them to use their own vehicles to get to work sites, this when fuel is at its highest. They will also be pooled when currently they are part of the team. The press are painting this to be about pay above all else. It is not. But now we’ve said sod them we are going to demand better. I wish everyone could see past the government controlled media smear. #OneRuleForThem

[D Angelo Barksdale]

Episode 475 of The Conservative Party is merely a front for a criminal cartel.

[guinness]

6 minutes ago, Ervin H Burrell said:

Episode 475 of The Conservative Party is merely a front for a criminal cartel.

12yrs of this shite...it boils my blood

[BFTD]

2 hours ago, guinness said:

Just take a minute to read the post below, from a Rail Worker, that gives a different perspective to the hyperbole being flung out by HMG's client journalists...

 

Three years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise, two years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise. But this year they came to us with a 0% pay rise plus over 2500 redundancies, changes to terms and conditions. An increase from 28 weeks of nights to 39 weeks of nights. An increase from 32 weekends worked to 39 weekends worked. Currently for a night shift we get time and a quarter, for a weekend turn we get time and a half. They wish to cut both of these to time and a tenth. So that’s a 15% pay cut on every night shift and a 40% pay cut on every weekend turn. But they want us to work more of them. This is their modernisation they talk about. Not technology, we embrace technology and have seen more and more of it in recent years. They also wish to fire and re-hire the operative grades and bring them back under a new job title but on £9000 a year less. They also want them to use their own vehicles to get to work sites, this when fuel is at its highest. They will also be pooled when currently they are part of the team. The press are painting this to be about pay above all else. It is not. But now we’ve said sod them we are going to demand better. I wish everyone could see past the government controlled media smear. #OneRuleForThem

Modernisation has always meant squeezing more out of workers for less. It's made to sound like an inevitable one-off restructuring but, once it's done, they'll attempt to do it again. The cycle never, ever ends; there is no bottom end at which business will say, "no, this is enough, we can't take more away from the people who've made us so profitable". Which is why we're supposed to have government to step in and impose restrictions on them.

But it's inconvenient, and someone might die, so you should just be thankful you're given anything at all. The booming profits and executive bonuses must never be questioned; they are a natural fact, and can never change, unless it's to increase.

[guinness]

10 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Modernisation has always meant squeezing more out of workers for less. It's made to sound like an inevitable one-off restructuring but, once it's done, they'll attempt to do it again. The cycle never, ever ends; there is no bottom end at which business will say, "no, this is enough, we can't take more away from the people who've made us so profitable". Which is why we're supposed to have government to step in and impose restrictions on them.

But it's inconvenient, and someone might die, so you should just be thankful you're given anything at all. The booming profits and executive bonuses must never be questioned; they are a natural fact, and can never change, unless it's to 

It's an I'm alright jack feck you world I'm afraid but hopefully it's changing. 

[Dan Steele]

"£150 000 loan". Aye, I'd like to see the terms of repaying that loan. 

[Salt n Vinegar]

1 hour ago, The Skelpit Lug said:

"£150 000 loan". Aye, I'd like to see the terms of repaying that loan. 

Oh, come on now. I mean who among us hasn't taken a £150,000 loan from a Russian. Let he who hasn't cast the first stone.

[Clown Job]

 

[GiGi]

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/commons-to-delete-mps-attendance-data-after-pressure-from-ministers

Maybe your MP shouldn't be accountable for not turning up to work.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Spineless p***k Dowden throws in the towel.

Tick tock tick tock.

[ICTJohnboy]

5 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Spineless p***k Dowden throws in the towel.

Tick tock tick tock.

 

18 days ago he was doing the media round, defending the indefensible, explaining how BJ was getting all the big calls right, he got Brexit done, and created the vaccine rollout.

And now...