37.5 million quid ...

"Inquiry Chair Sir Wyn said it was possible her refusal was a criminal offence but that seeking a conviction in her absence and then extradition from Australia would delay the inquiry too long."

Errr WHY?

The inquiry doesn't have to stop while she is prosecuted now does it?

Sounds like avoidance via feeble excuses from Wyn there eh?

Yep - investigate Jenrick, Johnson, Cummings and the dozens of 'multi-home Tory MPs and Peers who undoubtedly (and in some cases seemingly self-confessed) did what the Torys tried to smear Raynor with.

as expected

Greater Manchester police says it won't take any action over Tory allegations against Angela Rayner

Greater Manchester police has said that it is not taking any further action over allegations that Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, broke the law after she bought a council home which she subsequently sold before becoming an MP.

so now lets get Jenrick, Johnson, Cummings and all the others claiming here there and elsewhere as their main homes during lockdown home hopping

2 foot of sea level rise

The Thwaites Glacier — dubbed the “Doomsday” glacier because of the grave impacts for global sea level rise if it melts — is breaking down “much faster” than expected, according to a peer-reviewed study published on Monday in the academic journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Using satellite imagery, scientists determined that widespread contact between the glacier and warm ocean water is speeding up the melting process.

The climate crisis is interrupting natural processes across large parts of the continent, according to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition.

The glacier, roughly the size of the United Kingdom, could cause global sea levels to rise more than two feet if it melts completely, according to the study.

“Thwaites is the most unstable place in the Antarctic and contains the equivalent of 60 centimeters of sea level rise,” study co-author Christine Dow said in a statement.

“The worry is that we are underestimating the speed that the glacier is changing, which would be devastating for coastal communities around the world,” she continued.

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or here ... from the India civil service currents affairs exam

Doomsday glacier

• Antarctica‘s Thwaites Glacier, roughly the size of Britain, is a fast-moving glacier in West Antarctica.
• Because of the risk it faces — and poses — Thwaites is often called the Doomsday Glacier. Because of its size (1.9 lakh square km), it contains enough water to raise the sea level by more than half a metre.
• Thwaites’s melting already contributes 4% to global sea level rise each year.
• Thwaites are important for Antarctica as it slows the ice behind it from freely flowing into the ocean.

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Vigorous melting

• Salty and relatively warm ocean water is infiltrating beneath Thwaites Glacier, leading to significantly speedy melting. This process, termed as “vigorous melting“, is eroding its stability.
• However, its potential collapse could lead to a staggering 10-foot rise in sea levels, posing a dire threat to coastal communities worldwide.
• Previous studies discovered a deep connection to the east through which deep water flows from Pine Island Bay. That study also attributed the melting to the heat transport caused by channels bringing warm water towards the glacier from the north.
• With melting, glaciers become light and float off the land where they used to be situated. The resulting retreating grounding line exposes more of a glacier’s base to seawater, increasing the risk of melting.
• Since the late 1990s, the glacier has seen a 14km retreat of its “grounding line.”

The grounding line is the point where the ice flowing off the land and along the seabed floats up to form a huge platform.   https://www.pmfias.com/current-affairs-for-upsc-civil-services-exam-may-28-2024/   or here Satellite data reveals Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting faster than we thought | Space WWW.SPACE.COM Seawater rushing miles beneath the glacier makes the ice more vulnerable to melting.

Smug Hunt

Steve Baker, a Tory Brexit veteran, is currently on a pre-booked holiday in Greece because, he said, the PM assured the party the election would be later in the year. “I’ve chosen to do my campaign work in Greece,” he said, in a quotation for the ages.

- new statesman (Rik would be proud)

I've got my silicone valley life vest  .. and my missus says 'get on with it, we've got all the contracts we'll get and and dont want to pay that non-dom tax i said i would - lets get gone from this sh**hole your party has created

Questioners at Sunak warehouse speech turn out to be Tory councillors | Rishi Sunak | The Guardian

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First campaign day marked by concerns about ‘plants’ in audience and PM putting Euros foot in mouth in Wales

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All the mishaps, unforced errors, pratfalls – they only make sense if we assume the prime minister has a secret and unspoken plan up his sleeve...

That is bang on if still somewhat 'conservative in outlook - just not as fantasy conservative as most reports

- note he includes a conservative estimate for other greenhouse gases like methane rather than just co2 - over 500ppm

Note

Conservative is used in the traditional sense here, not the more modern lie through your teeth and route money to your pals meaning

Looks like sunak has been - watching them ...

(2 birds ..)

Another farce kicking everything into the long grass - as usual for these corporate and political alleged criminals.

Post Office scandal: Police to deploy 80 detectives for criminal inquiry.

Investigation will dig into potential perjury offences and perverting the course of justice by senior leaders and Fujitsu

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Exclusive: Investigation will dig into potential perjury offences and perverting the course of justice by senior leaders and Fujitsu

something to remember from prior links ..

"Two years earlier (2013), the inquiry has heard, in the evidence of the Post Office’s then senior in-house lawyer, Chris Aujard, it was Vennells who insisted that prosecutions of subpostmasters continue, despite contrary evidence raised in Second Sight’s interim report.

Susan Crichton, Aujard’s predecessor as general counsel, had resigned after being excluded from a meeting about that report after, she said refusing to “manage or manipulate the [information] in the way that Alice Perkins [former chair of the board] was expecting me to.” In meeting notes about Crichton’s departure, Vennells wrote that the lawyer had “put her integrity as a lawyer above the interests of the business”

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Lots of blubbing from poor old Paula there 

eye for an eye is whats needed as a minimum

case trying to point the finger elsewhere- when he was up to his follicles in it.

Nowt new there then?

Dont forget about half the previous so called NI 'tax cut (as if - tax shift and increase in actuality eh?) was funded (just the recent costs) from piling somewhere around 4 billion quid on top of the taxpayers existing record debt mountain and added a requirement to further cut services on top of that wasnt it?

So pile £4,000,000,000 extra debt on the taxpayers credit cars to give them a couple of quid ..

... and the 'draft of sunaks is just a plot with the hope of forcing 18 yos to work for free in the NHS and care industries isnt it?

- certainly doesn't do squat for the 18yo or a professional army that hasn't got the money to equip or train them.

Like the poops - sorry its caused herself problems

 and sorry the plebs didnt just shut up and rot in a ditch somewhere

Mind you, she'll likely have an eternity free of heating bills eh? - BUT lets get kingdom befores justice in first eh?

.. Which the poops dont give a monkeys about as long as they stay in power to enable their real income from their rel employers, and sunak doesn't care about as hell be jogging off back to america

Starmer better get a handle on these second jobs and ban them for all MPs as a matter of prime urgency. Then stop all the oustanding crony payments and get the chargebacks going while he sorts out the country.

The Post Office has plummeted from its position as Britain’s sixth-most-trusted financial, banking and insurance brand to 135th in the space of just 12 months amid public outcry over the Horizon IT scandal, new polling suggests.

The company is now at risk of losing a third of its “heartland” older customer base, the study found, with the number of over-50s considering using Post Office services falling (by a third) in less than a year

Frankly, I'm astonished theres any trust left at all let alone that much

Trust in Post Office plummets following outrage over Horizon scandal

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Exclusive: Post Office at risk of losing a third of its over-50 customer base, Savanta polling suggests

Wonder whos getting his 'safe' seat?

... still waiting for the announcement that Johnson the Liars carcass is being dragged back by the remnants of the same dead horses that dragged it out.

... should be dragged into the courts on multiple counts

New blow for Sunak as cabinet minister says he will stand down at election

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Chris Heaton-Harris, who has a majority of 26,000, is the 65th Conservative to announce he is leaving parliament

I see

Greater Manchester police chief defends decision to investigate Angela Rayner | Angela Rayner | The Guardian

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Stephen Watson says process will be carried out ‘fairly and impartially’ in his most extensive public comments on the claims

So when Is Johnson, Jenrick, cummings and a number of other 'multi homed' Tories who  claimed under lockdown that there country estates were their main homes so it wasn't breaking lockdown to go there - while voting in constituencies

Let alone all the expenses for multiple homes claimed ..

Let alone the following selling houses largely paid for by the taxpayer - and pocketing millions in profit as well  ..

FOUR Tory MPs face Angela Rayner-style probes into tax affairs

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No fewer than FOUR Tory MPs decline to disclose whether they paid tax on the sale of their taxpayer-funded 2nd homes.

Monaco based Ratcliffe isnt happy as he hasn't got the Brexit he wanted .. for his interests from his base in Monaco ..

When do we hear about how Brexit should be from vacuous from Indoniasia Dyson, or tractors from India man?

Starmer cosying up to right wing outliers and Brexitish (who seem to be just pointing the fingers away from themselves for the failures resulting from what they financed and promoted) to the outrage of huge swathes of the party is a real problem IMO

- probably the main thing that could generate vast quantities of 'I'm not voting' among regulars

Looks like hes taking the core for granted and embedding himself in the 'they have nowhere else to go fallacy' - well they may decide the else is redundant and they simply have nowhere to go

how did Paula Vennells, an ordained priest, fall so far and so fast from grace?

- because she was never in grace - and always just another devil in shepherds clothing

Post Office scandal: how did Paula Vennells, an ordained priest, fall so far and so fast from grace? | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian

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The former chief executive and archbishop’s confidant appears at the Horizon IT inquiry this week to explain her role in the affair that wrecked the...

British decline linked to Brexit, weak leadership and poor finances in damning report

British decline linked to Brexit, weak leadership and poor finances

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A damning report has shown that the UK has dropped out of the top 10 countries for good governance under Rishi Sunak’s leadership

and how does Sunak and hunt address this? by lying their bosoms off about it of course:

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Chancellor seems to cherrypick data as he tries to outline how the Tories have got the country back on its feet