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[maxk] 11/6/2019 08:17

Good rant by Polly..

[maxk] 11/6/2019 07:55

Which one of them will be the first to promise free tele?

[maxk] 11/6/2019 07:53

Which con artiste will the punters go for?

[xxxxxy] 11/6/2019 07:12

Boris for PM.

Otherwise it will be Farage for PM

LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 11/6/2019 07:11

‘Ignore the howls from Brussels!’ Back Boris and hold EU hostage over £39bn bill, says MP

[xxxxxy] 11/6/2019 07:04

Political Declaration analysis
by an Anonymous Civil Servant

[xxxxxy] 11/6/2019 06:55

Mrs May’s non EU policies
By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JUNE 11, 2019
Mrs May set out a strong vision of a fairer and more prosperous UK in her initial statement of beliefs as she became Prime Minister. It hangs on the wall in 10 Downing Street as a reminder to visitors of what she intended. Unfortunately in office she was unable to make progress with it.

One of her mistakes was to appoint as Chancellor someone who did not buy into her vision, and who had no wish to use more public money to achieve some of the objectives she wished to set where state intervention was seen as part of the answer. The Chancellor did not conceal his wish to dilute and delay Brexit. He used Brexit as an excuse to withhold cash from public services or tax cuts on the grounds he wanted a “war chest” against a possible exit from the EU which he always wrongly thought of as damaging. The PM wanted more money for schools to help raise standards and give people a better start in life. She wanted more money for the NHS, which was eventually extracted after a long battle. She probably wanted or needed more money for social care, though that remains a series of problems in search of a policy.

She saw social care as a major issue. I remember being sounded out by the Downing Street Policy Unit on possible reform prior to the 2017 election. I advised a careful approach and suggested that first the government should issue a general document describing current policy and outlining the problems as they saw them, to invite responses and to trigger a national debate before trying to formulate answers. They said they were interested in how Margaret Thatcher had run things, and I reminded them I had helped Margaret approach welfare reform in this way with a big public conversation and enquiry before offering change. I was very aware from my work as a constituency MP that some people with no direct family experience of care homes did not know that the elderly person’s home had to be sold to pay the bills in many cases, and this needed to be more widely understood to have a conversation on care.

Unfortunately advisers decided they could invent and land a major reform of social care using a General election as a brief period to sell their ideas to the voters. Mrs May accepted a scheme for the 2017 election Manifesto that sounded like the old death tax that Conservatives had rejected under Labour. It turned out to be a predictable disaster which the PM had to reject during the election campaign itself, as criticism of the social care policy drowned out other matters and came from many potential Conservative voters.

She was keen to encourage more housebuilding and put in place various schemes and directions to do so. There was progress in increasing the build rate as she hoped. She saw the need for improved standards in schools, building on the reform work of the previous government. It was not a smooth path given the antipathy of teachers to the Gove reforms, and the shortage of cash for the lower funded schools around the country. She continued to develop and promote her agenda to curb modern slavery and to tackle discrimination.

The bold aim to narrow the north-south divide, one shared with many previous governments, made some progress with welcome acceleration of investment and modernisation in some of the great northern and Midlands cities.

The aim to develop a modern industrial strategy made little progress. The industrial strategy was damaged by the ever dearer energy which made it difficult to keep or expand energy using industries in the UK. The car industry strategy was damaged by the Chancellor’s higher taxes on cars and the general government assault on modern diesel vehicles. The Business Secetrary, like the Chancellor, was downbeat throughout about the opportunities and prospects after Brexit. The various car factory closures in the UK and rest of the EU and currant state of the uk steel industry shows the failure of their so called industrial strategy.

[jordaggy] 11/6/2019 04:07

A good read for insomniacs...

[minerve 2] 10/6/2019 23:12

You Brexiteer fellows who want to strike back at the elite - your hero Bozo 'Eton, Oxford, Bullingdon' Johnson want tax cuts for the rich funded by ordinary people's NIC.

How is this BREXIT = BEING ANTI-ELITE business working out for you?

[minerve 2] 10/6/2019 22:50

Rock Lobster!

[xxxxxy] 10/6/2019 22:40

Fraud in our Democracy will kill Democracy.




Nos da.

Cymru am byth

[xxxxxy] 10/6/2019 22:33

Volunteer please.

But more important VOTE for the Brexit and Brexit Party at every opportunity.
Thanks.




LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 10/6/2019 22:31

Headless Corpse • 4 hours ago

The fact that the fake brexiters Mordaunt and Fox signed up for Hunt tells us all we need to know as to why they stayed slavishly loyal to liar May.

I hope the Brexit Party can unseat her at the coming GE, even suppressing her vote share to allow the marxists or the Lib Dem parasites to take the seat will be a richly deserved reward for her deceit.

[xxxxxy] 10/6/2019 22:28

Tarien , Monday, June 10, 2019, 09:35:

Whichever way, this nation if it is to support over 17 million voters, must have a LEAVE Prime Minister and nothing short of this should be accepted, if riots are to be avoided. Any kind of Withdrawal Agreement whatever any PM candidate may try to endorse will wrap up the United Kingdom in too close an arangement with the EU who are on a path to ruin 26 nations. A NO DEAL BREXIT will keep us clear to negotiate withso whom ever we want, and against terms that favours the UK not some socialistic monster moving closer to communism month by month. NO THANK YOU.

[xxxxxy] 10/6/2019 22:25

Jon, Wales , Monday, June 10, 2019, 14:15:

Off-topic
For readers interested in why MPs must make an oath [or affirmation] of allegiance to the Crown by law, you will find this easy to understand reason at:

(source: parliament.uk)
The question must then be asked what happens when MPs break their Oath of Allegiance by ignoring a majority sovereign vote (ie: where Parliament itself goes against a direct majority instruction from the people in order to subvert it)? As sovereign votes are vested in the electorate, we should question why our majority Leave vote has been betrayed by MPs who gave that decision to us?

Probably

[grahamite2] 10/6/2019 21:32

His moment of triumph, however, was slightly tarnished when the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire became the umpteenth presenter to mispronounce Mr Hunt’s surname live on air. Odd how often that happens. And odder still that it’s always mispronounced in exactly the same way. For some reason, it never comes out as, say, “Jeremy Punt”, or “Jeremy Blunt”, or “Jeremy Front”. We’d better hope he doesn’t become prime minister or they’ll have to move the Today programme till after the watershed.

[maxk] 10/6/2019 20:09

Well, if Roger is giving Hunt the thumbs up, you know he's Brussels man.

[rogerrail] 10/6/2019 19:48

Anything but his coronation would be a disaster for this country

[inaminute] 10/6/2019 19:43

Either would be a disaster for this country.

[maxk] 10/6/2019 19:40

A slip of the tongue bob, or something Freudian?

[bargainbob] 10/6/2019 19:31

i see he got called something else today live on air by Victoria lol

[maxk] 10/6/2019 19:27

Jeremy Hunt is Treeza May in drag.


His coronation would be the end of the tory party.

[xxxxxy] 10/6/2019 19:26

Boris for PM

Otherwise Farage for PM