[kezo]

I thought I would make a thread on what caught you eye in the news good or bad. This follows on from last week when I posted about the MP Lee Anderson who suggested we could cook a meal from scratch for 30p and foodbanks weren’t needed if we could cook.

So today another Tory MP Racheal Maclean the safeguarding minister has said “That people struggling with the cost of living should take on more hours or move to a better-paid job”

How does a comment like this help the most vulnerable in society. Those that can’t work, the disabled pensioners or even those that can only take up low paid work for what ever reason. I find Mp’s and ministers are so out of touch with with the public, the comments they come out with are beyond nonsense.

 

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[Daf]

I think there will be a second referendum with or without Westminsters blessing. If the Scots vote yes then it will be up to the UK government of the day whether or not they have the courage  to comply with the settled will of the Scottish people.

Brexit was always going to put a severe strain on the Union, especially the “Boris” version which resembles a slow motion car crash. I believe, as many warned, that Brexit might just be the source of the impetus to accelerate the process of self determination for Scotland.

One thing is for sure the next few years will be very interesting!

[kezo]

Brydo wrote:

Independence will of course have financial consequences, there’s no doubt about that, and the cost of all the bits and pieces should be laid out in front of the voters so an informed decision can be made.

I agree everything should be laid bare truthfully for voters to see. Something she  has never done previously is set it out truthfully. I can imagine there would be huge financial consequences as Ive stated previously, on top of that no funding from Westminster.

Do I agree with another referendum no. Reason why is we are a democratic society and if another were held and the answer was still no would she want another in 5yrs and so on. It would never be laid to bed. Just like brexit should not continue to have referendums just because one side was not happy because they lost and it wouldn’t in my opinion be democratic.

Also consider what the next government will do, sturgeon only got in this time with a collation government, so that tells me her popularity is waning.

If the good people of Scotland do choose independence I wish them all the luck but at the end of the day it will have no affect on me.

[Brydo]

I agree Kezo it would have absolutely no effect on the English people.

[Wigwam]

Well-known for it, of course…

[wmcforum]

I have this sneaking feeling that he might call a General Election as a last shot to hang onto power.

 

[kezo]

Sunak and Javid quit….. Sunak quitting actually made my evening I even had a drink or two ?

wmcforum wrote:

I have this sneaking feeling that he might call a General Election as a last shot to hang onto power.

I feel what you have said is getting closer day by day.

[joss]

kezo wrote:

Sunak and Javid quit….. Sunak quitting actually made my evening I even had a drink or two ?

wmcforum wrote:

I have this sneaking feeling that he might call a General Election as a last shot to hang onto power.

I feel what you have said is getting closer day by day.

Well the news yesterday of Rishy and Javid resigning from the government is a step closer and massive pressure on bojo. Can’t wait for today’s resignations.

Joss
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[kezo]

So my celebrations were short lived when I heard who is taking over from Sunak.

The situation as I see it has gone from very bad to very very bad = We are doomed.

Sunak registration letter stated:

“the public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously”

I do wonder if he wrote that with himself in mind!

[kezo]

Sevenoaks MP Laura Trott resigns from Department of Transport

Downing Street cat Larry ‘resigns’ and says he can’t live with Boris Johnson anymore

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/downing-street-cat-resigns-and-says-he-can-t-live-with-boris-johnson-anymore/ar-AAZexSL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=32da0b8b07d44186b1c6ecd57395a070

 

 

[struth]

THose that have gone so far…

 

Cabinet
Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Health Secretary Sajid Javid
Ministers
Will Quince, education minister
Alex Chalk, solicitor general
Robin Walker, education minister
John Glen, Treasury minister
Victoria Atkins, justice minister
Jo Churchill, environment minister
Stuart Andrew, housing minister
Kemi Badenoch, levelling up minister
Neil O’Brien, levelling up minister
Alex Burghart, education minister
Lee Rowley, business minister
Julia Lopez, culture minister
Mims Davies, work and pensions minister
Parliamentary private secretaries
Jonathan Gullis, Northern Ireland Office
Saqib Bhatti, Department of Health and Social Care
Nicola Richards, Department of Transport
Virginia Crosbie, Welsh Office
Laura Trott, Department of Transport
Felicity Buchan, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Selaine Saxby, Treasury
Claire Coutinho, Treasury
David Johnston, Department of Education

 

Embattled PM vows to keep going amid Tory revolt…Old brass neck … i hope he stays

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[joss]

joss wrote:

Well the news yesterday of Rishy and Javid resigning from the government is a step closer and massive pressure on bojo. Can’t wait for today’s resignations.

38 resignation! Holy shit, I never expected this.

Joss
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[kezo]

Senior ministers including Zahawi the new chancellor and Gove are meeting bojo this evening to tell him to go.

I wonder if Zahawi is aware that on he unlikely event bojo does go. The chances are the next PM  will pick a new team and Zahawi’s his new found fame is likely not to last long.

[Wigwam]

Johnson will be gone either tonight or before the newly elected 1922 committee meet next Tuesday.

[struth]

its like an episode of  the Wheeltappers and Shunters club…. On behalf of the Committee, we are offering you  the raffle prize of a diving suit if you vacate the building…..lol

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[Wigwam]

[Wigwam]

[struth]

up to 53 now. well done big dawg… stick with it lol

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[kezo]

Michael Gove sacked by defiant bojo.

[Wigwam]

And in Scotland:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9120310/snp-staffer-patrick-grady-disciplinary-action/

[Tharg]

BBC just announced that BJ to resign later to day. A Good Thing. There again, which similarly self-serving, power-freak bully will we get to replace him?

[struth]

apparently he has agreed to go.

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[struth]

Wigwam wrote:

And in Scotland: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9120310/snp-staffer-patrick-grady-disciplinary-action/

 

that will end up crucifying the nats… they never did have any idea on these things. bunch of arseholes coming away with this.

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[wmcforum]

Quitter. Clearly it’s not the size of the dog in the fight..,;

[Wigwam]

Probably not, Struth. The esteemed leader’s devoted followers aren’t troubled by mis-doings. Her talk of independence keeps her halo bright.

[Wigwam]

Raab, as deputy PM is ikely to be interim PM. Tharg until a new Party leader is elected.

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