Tory Cabinet Thread

[Red74]

Sad thing is, these cunts have been in power for 10 years and have rubbed our noses in it every year and Labour can’t lay a glove on them.

 

If they called a GE tomorrow they’d win by a landslide.

 

This country’s fucked and they’re here for good. 

Keep telling my kids to learn another language and get the fuck out of here and when we can get into our pensions, we’re selling up and joining them.

 

Be arsed getting old or sick in this shithole

[Creator Supreme]

6 minutes ago, Red74 said:

Sad thing is, these cunts have been in power for 10 years and have rubbed our noses in it every year and Labour can’t lay a glove on them.

 

If they called a GE tomorrow they’d win by a landslide.

 

This country’s fucked and they’re here for good. 

Keep telling my kids to learn another language and get the fuck out of here and when we can get into our pensions, we’re selling up and joining them.

 

Be arsed getting old or sick in this shithole

I'd love to be able to formulate a believable rebuttal to this, but it's simply not possible!

 

Things may be able to be changed on a local level, but nationally it's over! Perpetual Tory rule, fucking depressing!

[Red74]

Once this pandemics over someone’s getting punished for paying it back and we’re gonna be high on the list of cities being starved of funds. 
 

Hopefully this new mayor backs herself up and brings in the outside investment we need because the professional opposition Labour Party aren’t gonna help us. 
 

The 80’s are on their way back. Hope we’re ready for it. 

[Anubis]

Guardian/Observer editorial on Hancock and the government. Every single word of it on point. 
 

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/26/the-observer-view-on-the-matt-hancock-affair?__twitter_impression=true
 

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‘There must be no actual or perceived conflicts of interest. The precious principles of public life – integrity, objectivity, accountability, transparency, honesty and leadership in the public interest – must be honoured at all times.”
 

So reads Boris Johnson’s foreword to the ministerial code, written almost two years ago. Yet Matt Hancock, who resigned as health secretary yesterday evening, is only the latest minister to disrespect the citizens of this country by flouting this code.

 

Health secretary Matt Hancock’s private affairs are his own business, but he has made his intimate relationship with his old friend, adviser and paid director of the Department of Health a public matter. First, as he has openly admitted, he has broken the Covid regulations he was responsible for. Members of the public who were unable to hug loved ones before they died, who missed funerals and who went months without seeing newborn grandchildren will be justified in feeling furious at a minister breaking the rules to engage in an affair.

 

Hancock has also said that public figures in far less high-profile positions were right to resign for breaking the regulations. His hypocrisy undermines faith in the government’s approach to public health during a pandemic. This alone was enough to prompt his immediate resignation.

 

But the affair also underlines his lack of integrity. He first appointed Gina Coladangelo as an “unpaid adviser”, a role with potentially hugely significant influence, but little transparency. Such roles are not governed by a code of conduct and there are no formal means by which parliament can hold them to account. Hancock then appointed her as a paid, non-executive director of the Department of Health. This is a role meant to scrutinise decision-making, yet since they were introduced by the Conservatives a decade ago, have increasingly become filled with friends, supporters and donors.

 

The following questions still hang over Hancock, even after his resignation: was he in an intimate relationship with Coladangelo when he appointed her, first to an unpaid, then a paid, position? Did he declare this relationship as a potential conflict and when, and if not, why not? It has also emerged that Coladangelo’s brother is the director of a company that won significant contracts from the Department of Health.

 

Hancock has form: he failed to declare that the 15% of shares he owns in a company that is a supplier to the NHS in Wales has his sister as a director. More broadly, the National Audit Office has found personal ministerial contacts were directed to a high-priority PPE procurement channel, where they were 10 times more likely to be successful in winning government contracts.

 

Hancock is also responsible for many deaths in this pandemic. It is true that he learned from the mistakes in delaying the first lockdown to push for an earlier lockdown in the second wave, unlike Boris Johnson and the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. This is, however, a low bar. He also oversaw disastrous government policy on care homes early in the pandemic. A lack of testing and PPE meant care homes quickly became the centre of the pandemic, with thousands of residents losing their lives.

 

This serious incompetence coupled with an undermining of the government’s emergency response by transgressing its regulations and a breaking of the ministerial code mean that his position was untenable. But his resignation does not fix the wider lack of integrity in government. Johnson is a prime minister who has ripped up the political honour code. He lies to the public when it is politically convenient and, like Hancock, he has repeatedly failed to declare personal interests: his intimate relationship with Jennifer Arcuri, whose company received thousands of pounds from City Hall when he was mayor of London and the appointment of the mother of one of his children as an adviser. He bears even more responsibility for the terrible pandemic death toll than Hancock. And he has permitted other ministers who have been found to have transgressed the ministerial code, such as Priti Patel, to continue in office.

 

The Hancock affair goes beyond the conduct of the health secretary. It speaks to a rotten culture of impunity, where blind and unswerving loyalty matters far more in high office than competence, integrity and honesty. The cabinet is filled with ministers who do not regard themselves as subject to the same rules as the rest of us, who regard public office as an opportunity for financial gain, who time and again disrespect ordinary citizens who obey the law and stick to the rules. This is government by people who see politics less as a chance to serve their country and more as a game at which they are entitled to play, regardless of the consequences. Hancock’s position was untenable. But his resignation will do nothing to change the fundamental character of our government while Johnson remains prime minister.

 

[Anubis]

 

 

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In many ways this exemplifies the eternal lot of the political spouse: keeping the home fires burning so the ‘Big I Am’ can do more important stuff – in this case saving the world from Covid-19.

Er, you what??!!

 

As for the article, is this Sarah firing a shot across little Mickey’s bow? As someone in the replies puts it - writing for an audience of one. And then this little exchange.

 

 

 

[Section_31]

British public's fault, none of johnson's behaviour or that of his cronies was unpredictable. Johnson isn't lucifer, a great deceiver who slithered his way into number 10 under the guise of integrity, fainess and capable stewardship. He was the worst foreign secretary and 'statesman" in living memory, largely regarded as a clown and a joke, but with an underbelly of quite a heinous contempt for truth and honesty with a string of lies and betrayals behind him. It stood to reason he'd craft a government in his own image.

 

The great Britush public empowered him still further because in their minds all of these traits and "qualities" would only be brought to bear against other people and not them. Remainers, tree huggers and people who were a bit too brown. 

 

Sadly for them, the pandemic became the great leveller and we all wound up in the same Johnson meat grinder, regardless of our backgrounds or wealth. 

 

Bizarrely though, lots of people still don't care, because they derive more pleasure from seeing the "other side" unhappy than they do feeling happy themselves, or possibly don't feel the latter is a realistic goal any more given the general political, economic and social trajectory of the Anglo Saxon world. Like a Texan rooting fot the republicans in a town where every third house has a foreclosure sign.

 

Johnson is a test tube virus but it was the British public that took the lid off the centrifuge. That must never be forgotten or forgiven.

[Kepler-186]

They’re recolonising the country and stripping what’s left to redistribute upwards while the “opposition”’are bogged down in the imported “culture wars” that have bled Labour’s ability to command on the bigger issue. I’m sure when they gamed Brexit and it’s implications nastier pieces of work than Steve Bannon from deep within the British establishment were consulted about what it would do to civic society. 
 

The French might be arrogant cunts but if their politicians go too far they threaten them with violence. Comment allez-vous, Boris, you prick?

[Kepler-186]

Looks like having the son of the ex KGB station chief in the Lords is paying off. 
 

 

[Bruce Spanner]

Biggest story and biggest scalp in a while and Labour send out Lucy Powell, a women so forgetable I had to look up her name three times whilst writing this.

 

She's mouthing words, of sorts, and she remembered the funny line the focus group laughed at, but fucking hell, send out a rottweiler and tear in to them.

 

This is a masssive open goal.

 

At least look like you're trying!

[Anubis]

And to think I was joking about the Russian’s getting their hands on the Type 45 plans. Was the bus stop a drop, with the docs sellotaped beneath the seat? I bet the Ruskies copied them on their phone and then dumped them to be found to embarrass the government.

[sir roger]

11 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Biggest story and biggest scalp in a while and Labour send out Lucy Powell, a women so forgetable I had to look up her name three times whilst writing this.

 

She's mouthing words, of sorts, and she rembered the funny line the focus group laughed at, but fucking hell, send out a rottweiler and tear in to them.

 

This is a masssive open goal.

 

At least look like you're trying!

It will be dog whistle stuff , she's probably Enoch's granddaughter

[Gnasher]

2 hours ago, Anubis said:

 

 

Er, you what??!!

 

As for the article, is this Sarah firing a shot across little Mickey’s bow? As someone in the replies puts it - writing for an audience of one. And then this little exchange.

 

 

 

Gove apparently on verge of leaving Vine for his male assistant.

[Gnasher]

2 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Biggest story and biggest scalp in a while and Labour send out Lucy Powell, a women so forgetable I had to look up her name three times whilst writing this.

 

She's mouthing words, of sorts, and she remembered the funny line the focus group laughed at, but fucking hell, send out a rottweiler and tear in to them.

 

This is a masssive open goal.

 

At least look like you're trying!

Labour should have called for Hancocks resignation a long time ago. The man deserves to go and spend more time with his own inadequacy.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

15 hours ago, MegadriveMan said:

Something must have changed since yesterday? It seems a bit odd that he'd resign now after Johnson let him off the hook?

Johnson losing control of the higher ground here.  

Hancock is a cunt and has resigned to try and maintain integrity so he can have a shot at another cabinet post under a new leader.  

Johnson left looking like a tit.

Gove slithers in the darkness.

Tory HQ now actively looking to lose Pratley by-election to expedite reasons for leadership change.  

He might be offered an out, a knighthood might help him on his way. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

At least look like you're trying!

This.

 

Opposition shouting might not seem to do much, practically, but at least itraises the idea that what the Government are doing is not normal and is far from acceptable.

 

Depressing as fuck.

[Bruce Spanner]

Sadly, listening to LBC in the back of a taxi.

 

Where the fuck do they get these morons?

 

Sarah from someplace inconsequential just blamed racism in the UK on Russia and China, kinda hard to get the nuance through the hyperventilating shriek, but that was the gist.

 

Now it’s Starmer’s fault and we’re in a one party state.

[magicrat]

apologies if already posted

 

https://youtu.be/NsyQ2Q3QMAw

[magicrat]

 

[halewood pete]

[Bruce Spanner]

'Five Westminster ethics watchdogs sidelined under Johnson.

 

In his interview with Robert Buckland, the justice secretary, the Today programme’s Nick Robinson raised the suggestion that Boris Johnson does not care about standards in government. Regular readers probably don’t need reminding of the evidence to support this but, just in case they do, here is a summary of how, since he has been prime minister, Johnson has systematically ignored five of the watchdog institutions in place to ensure government is conducted ethically.

 

Independent adviser on minister’s interests

Sir Alex Allan resigned from this post when Johnson ignored his conclusion that Priti Patel, the home secretary, had broken the ministerial code by bullying staff.

 

Lords appointments commission

Johnson gave a peerage to the former Conservative party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, even though the commission, which is tasked with vetting people for the Lords, said it was opposed to putting him in the Lords.

 

Parliamentary commissioner for standards

Before he became PM Johnson was twice rebuked by the commissioner for being late declaring items in the register of members’ interests. In a report the Commons standards committee said Johnson displayed “an over-casual attitude towards obeying the rules of the house”. As PM, Johnson is now reportedly refusing the accept a finding by the commissioner critical of what he disclosed about his holiday in Mustique at the end of 2019.

 

The Commons Speaker

The Speaker has only limited powers to enforce standards in the Commons, but Sir Lindsay Hoyle has hinted at his concern about Johnson’s failure to correct false statements he has made from the dispatch box. Johnson has frequently been accused of saying this that are untrue, but he almost never corrects them.

 

The Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is currently investigating the funding of the refurbishment of Johnson’s Downing Street flat. Critics suspect this is related to the government’s recent decision to stop it having the power to initiate criminal prosecutions.'

[Anubis]

Had no idea Gove had met Mook.

 

 

[cloggypop]

Gove was hatched in Aberdeen of course. 

[Bjornebye]

25 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Gove was hatched in Aberdeen of course. 

 

 

[Kepler-186]

The former Vote Leave boss Matthew Elliot and his wife Sarah are linked to all the dirty money stuff that drives UK politics now. Surprised low tax Chloe Westley wasn’t there. 
Javid to end restrictions and ignore the surge in cases. JP Morgan advisor now Health Secretary.  General

incompetence and massive off the scale corruption. Particularly despise Coffey from the DWP, an organisation so flawed it should be scrapped. 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

15 hours ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

My daughter who works in Westminster for a Labour MP has been telling us that for months now. Dianne Abbot also tweeted recently about the Gove marriage not being what it seems. 

This explains so much.  Stuffed away in the Duchy of Lancaster role, despite being the best orator in the party.