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Tory Cabinet Thread


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Great header …


 

'If Priti Patel had her way football would come home then get detained at the airport'

If the immigration rules that Priti Patel supports had been in place for the last 30 years Gareth Southgate may have had to opt for a 1-0-1 formation.

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    Priti Patel supports the England team by trying to prevent a future squad even existing
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17 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

You've got more in common with Grimes there fella, you both look like you have your hair cut by a blind man.

Darren Grimes reads your posts every morning out loud to himself in the mirror before putting his blue tie on and logging into Twitter. 

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So, Dickhead makes a speech today about 'levelling up' an idea that has no real basis in reality, policy, plans or a vague sense of direction and will not go to white paper for another year or so.

 

Typical bluster from the lier in chief.

 

Some ideas leaked...

 

'Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

 

There is usually nothing politicians hate more than seeing their noble acts of public service turned into a circus.

 

However, Great Yarmouth has secured £20.1m from the Towns Fund in order to boost its local economy, and £450,000 will go towards turning its historic Ice House into a national centre for circus arts.

 

The cavernous building was key to the Norfolk coastal town’s success when it was a fishing port in the 19th century, as it was capable of storing huge blocks of ice for months. Now arts charity SeaChange Arts plans to repurpose the building by installing state-of-the-art training and fabricating apparatus.

 

In documents submitted to Great Yarmouth council, SeaChange described the Grade II listed building as “uncelebrated” and said the “big, dark, brick box” is perfect for the circus. A bar is also being installed on the site.

 

Preston, Lancashire

 

The claymation comedy duo Wallace and Gromit will get their very own statue in Preston, home of their creator and Aardman animator Nick Park.

 

The bench statue will be funded by some of the government’s Towns Fund, after Preston council received £20.9m for improvement works to the city centre.

 

Designed by Park himself, along with Preston sculptor Peter Hodgkinson – who has also made statues of the city’s late footballer Sir Tom Finney and artist LS Lowry – it will be installed outside Preston Markets.

 

The budget for the Wallace and Gromit sculpture is £150,000. It is one of six “quick win” projects that attracted an initial £1m of accelerated funding from the Towns Fund, to support Preston’s objective of getting people visiting the city centre again after the pandemic.

 

Darlington, Durham

 

Darlington borough council is preparing a £20,000 paint job that would turn the town hall signage, crest and even the local bins blue. The funding for the rebrand comes from £23m awarded from the Towns Fund.

 

The council has been Conservative since 2019, and the move has been labelled as “sheer political opportunism” by a Labour councillor.

 

But the council’s deputy leader, Jonathan Dulston, said the new logo is “not blue – it’s actually teal … it’s a colour that has been widely used by the council for a number of years now”.

Dulston maintained that the council’s choice of colour has “absolutely nothing” to do with Tory branding. “That would be inappropriate, and we know that,” he said.

 

Sefton, Merseyside

Sefton council’s bid includes plans for the north’s first “flying theatre”. The attraction in Bootle will use a robotic hydraulic platform to create the feeling of flight, enabling visitors to take an exhilarating airborne tour showcasing the history and culture of Bootle and Britain as a whole.

 

The interactive history lessons do not stop there, as the council will spend some of the £14.5m it hopes to receive from the Levelling Up Fund on constructing a “VR time-travel tunnel”.

 

Visitors will go on a virtual reality journey through the “history of Bootle and Liverpool”, which features an immersive experience of the Blitz.'

 

So, it's bread and circuses with slight of hand money, that's if it ever really sees the light of day.

 

Fucking brilliant lets build a few distractions to keep our minds off rumbling stomachs.

 

We didn't expect anything else though, did we?

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Just passed through second reading in the Lords.

 

Elderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill - Private Members Bill.

 

'A Bill to establish a publicly owned body to provide insurance for home owners at cost against selling their homes to pay for elderly social care; and for connected purposes' Full Title.

 

Another brick being removed.

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1 hour ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Just passed through second reading in the Lords.

 

Elderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill - Private Members Bill.

 

'A Bill to establish a publicly owned body to provide insurance for home owners at cost against selling their homes to pay for elderly social care; and for connected purposes' Full Title.

 

Another brick being removed.

Death by a thousand (unreported) cuts.

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