Should we trust Sunak or the next PM to fix the Country's problems? (title revised 24/10/22)

[honeybee13]

The voter ID scheme won't be ready in time for the local elections next year, according to the Electoral Commission. And the government won't budge even though it amounts to voter suppression.

 

Fears voter ID card delay could disfranchise many in England | Politics | The Guardian

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Website for those without ID to apply will not be ready in time for electoral changes publicity campaign

 

[tobyjugg2]

Which is exactly what the not so populists want ..

[unclebulgaria67]

www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue

 

[tobyjugg2]

Conservative party: A new grassroots Tory group pushing for 'more democracy' in the party is “a budget front organisation” for the campaign to bring back Boris Johnson, some Conservative MPs fear.

 

The Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) argues that the party’s constitution must be overhauled to give members more say in how it is run. Its leaders have accused Rishi Sunak of orchestrating his own coronation after being rejected by members – but deny the claims that they are aiming to restore Mr Johnson to No 10.

 

i's Political Editor Hugo Gye has the exclusive. 

[honeybee13]

but deny the claims that they are aiming to restore Mr Johnson to No 10.

 

I'm not sure about that, Peter Cruddas talks about bringing back Boris all the time.

 

 

 

[honeybee13]

HMG want to take away the right to strike.

 

 

[honeybee13]

Misleading information from Oliver Dowden.

 

The lowest paid nurses aren’t getting a 9% pay increase - Full Fact

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Oliver Dowden MP said multiple times that the lowest paid nurses were given a 9% increase. A newly qualified nurse in England has seen their pay...

 

[tobyjugg2]

I'll bet knewsborg was nodding when he said it.

I dont watch it - but have little doubt.

 

Report from New York (See oorsel as others see us)

 

Restaurants across London are so short-staffed that they have had to curtail operating hours, close on some days of the week and, in extreme cases, shut their doors altogether. While the city’s once-thriving dining scene has also been hurt by the pandemic and by soaring energy prices, the labor shortage is almost wholly a result of Brexit.

London restaurants used to recruit many waiters, chefs and bartenders from Italy, Spain and Greece. That talent pool has dried up since Britain ended the free movement of labor from the E.U. An estimated 11 percent of jobs in Britain’s hospitality industry are vacant, according to a recent industry survey, compared with 4 percent for the broader economy.

More than a third of restaurants, pubs and hotels could face insolvency or even closure by early 2023, according to a recent survey. The Christmas holiday had beckoned as a year-end redemption

 

[tobyjugg2]

and as if shooting yourself in the kneecaps at home isn't enough

Lets look at some real world export markets self-kneecappings:

 

More than 40 per cent of British products previously exported to the EU have disappeared from European shelves since Brexit, new figures show.

 

More than 40 per cent of British exports have disappeared from European shelves since Brexit. The scale of British unilateral economic disarmament has been truly vast.

 

As a former Brussels correspondent, I occasionally paid visits to the Belgian capital’s “British shop”, where expats missing home could stock up on familiar UK produce like Marmite or shortbread. But visit today, and everything possible has been replaced with an Irish analogue because it is easier to procure within the single market

[tobyjugg2]

[wry]

 

"The government's next fleet of armoured ministerial cars will be made in Germany because supply chain issues hampered by Brexit mean no British manufacturer is able to meet its requirements, The Independent has learned.

 

The Metropolitan Police announced over the summer that it was ditching armoured Jaguar XJs for Baden-Württemberg-assembled Audi A8s – prompting criticism.

 

But it has now been revealed that the decision was made because there no British car maker is "able to meet the requirements of the tender", forcing the Met's hand."

 

 

Brexit means no British manufacturer able to build government’s ministerial cars

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UK carmakers ‘unable to meet the requirements’ of the Metropolitan Police protection service

 

[honeybee13]

 

[honeybee13]

Charities and employers struggling due to post-Brexit funding delays | Voluntary sector | The Guardian

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Some voluntary groups have closed and farmers report problems after slow disbursal of UK funds to replace EU money

 

[tobyjugg2]

Can't afford that and give the bankers £3.2 billion of tax payers' money ... now can we

 

 

Scrapping tax cut for banks for one week could feed 1.9 million children, Sunak told

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Exclusive: Pausing cuts could fund holiday vouchers for all pupils receiving free school meals, analysis shows

 

Edited December 28, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Are you in the Banking business?

Don't worry - we've sorted out £3.2 billion quid of taxpayer money for you

 

Much better than wasting it on poor kids who contribute nothing to our party eh?

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/24/rishi-sunak-rebuked-over-excruciating-exchange-with-homeless-man

 

[honeybee13]

New trade deals are going so well that HMG doesn't want to release the figures for the Israel one.

 

Government refuses to publish economic benefits estimate of latest Brexit trade deal

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Department for International Trade says releasing an estimate isn’t appropriate

 

[honeybee13]

Here's Luke McGee of CNN on the state of play with Brexit. He was previously with the Telegraph. 'Brexit remains the elephant in the room.'

 

Britain weathered political turmoil in 2022. But Brexit remains the elephant in the room | CNN

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The past year has been one of the most tumultuous in modern British politics. The country has gone through three prime ministers, mourned the...

 

[honeybee13]

James Kirkup of the Social Market Foundation thinks Cameron took the UK in the wrong direction on energy policy.

 

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[theoldrouge]

Just one look at Wales tells you all you need to know about Labour 
 

Pound Shop Authoritarian Mark Drakeford to Step Down as Wales’s First Minister
 

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/29/pound-shop-authoritarian-mark-drakeford-to-step-down-as-waless-first-minister/
 

 

[tobyjugg2]

Brex-hits bonus - to our competitors

 

"When the government launched trade talks with the US in 2020 it revealed that it was expecting the agreement to provide just a 0.16 per cent boost to GDP by 2035 – the size of a forecast rounding error.

 

And its strategic case for a deal with New Zealand estimated a gain of “between 0.00 per cent and 0.01 per cent” in the long run, under the best scenario.

 

These figures were set against an expected CURRENT hit to GDP from leaving the EU of 4 per cent."

 

and as these are 'best case scenarios" and 'by 2035" in real world terms based on a median result they have signed deals which DAMAGE the UK economy

 

Government refuses to publish economic benefits estimate of latest Brexit trade deal

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Department for International Trade says releasing an estimate isn’t appropriate

 

Edited December 29, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[brassnecked]

Drakeford's  default 20mph limit is likely to be extended to ALL roads as time goes by, including Motorways, Drakeford could not run a whelk stall and is banned out of JW Lees Hotels throughout UK.

One of his nicknames is  "Y hen crwban ofnadwy" (The old terrible tortoise)  They do nothing for Mid and North Wales its all Cardiff centric, its almost akin to Sadiq Khan being the First Minister of an All England Assembly.

Here is a link to the Torygraph article

 

Mark Drakeford is bringing Wales to its knees

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The Welsh First Minister's pitiful record is surely all the evidence needed that devolution is a disaster

 

[tobyjugg2]

Must be doing a good job if the Torygraph is attacking him eh?

[theoldrouge]

I can see the day coming when everyone has to walk in front of a car up the valleys waving a red flag BN
If it was just the valleys that would teach his supporters 

[tobyjugg2]

and doing really well on the covid management front if anti-vaxxers are attacking him ..

 

.. even if they are too ashamed to admit thats what they are

Edited December 29, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[brassnecked]

You don't  live in Wales  so don't know the half of it. Drakeford when Health Minister, and his successors have made an even worse job of it than England, and BCUHB in north Wales messed up a world class vascular Service on the altar of Centralisation, and has a Fraud investigation ongoing over some cash discrepancies. Similar issues in South Wales with 10 hour waits for ambulances, if one even turns up

Betsi Cadwaladr health board: £122m fraud probe launched

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Specialist investigators have been called in to Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales.

 

 

 

 

Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board slammed over vascular services failings

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Frontline staff and patients are being let down by the “double blow of mismanagement and the Welsh Government’s inability to get a grip” on...

 

[tobyjugg2]

Seem to have posted the following to the wrong thread - probably due to massive stalls and runnaway tasks on the site especially that cretinous runaway background

So here it is

 

 

* Heard of the westminster UK guvs waste of £billions in its interactions with and via Dido Harding and Michelle gimme the Mone'y?

 

* or its routing of taxpayer money by the 10s and 100s millions to Tory pal rat companies, cake shops and pub landlords for duff ppe?

 

* Or selling headlines about creating loads of Nightingale hospitals at a cost to the taxpayer of £millions - to use a few of them as waiting rooms?

Edited December 30, 2022 by tobyjugg2