The Daily Post Election Politics Thread

[duke63]

15 u turns in 5 months and more cronyism with failed companies.

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Germany saying Brexit is no longer worth discussing.

Daily Mail laying into Johnson and his Government again.

Senior Tories getting very concerned that no one is in charge.

CBI saying not enough companies going back to work.


Time for Boris and his cronies to go before they bust Britain.

[StMarks]

15 u turns in 5 months and more cronyism with failed companies....

Fwiw I don't have a problem with decisions being revoked, when retrospectivly it is clear that another choice would be better. Deciding on something, then sticking to that decision when it's manifestly the wrong choice (just because "the decision has been made" ) is far worse imho.

Having said that: 15x poor initial decisions Now that I do take issue with.

[Blade]

15 u turns in 5 months and more cronyism with failed companies....

Fwiw I don't have a problem with decisions being revoked, when retrospectivly it is clear that another choice would be better. Deciding on something, then sticking to that decision when it's manifestly the wrong choice (just because "the decision has been made" ) is far worse imho.

Having said that: 15x poor initial decisions Now that I do take issue with.

100% with you there.

[Cav]

Ironically, a 16th U-turn on the Brexit vote would be good right about now.

[duke63]

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More corruption and cronyism.

Said Javed now being paid a substantial undisclosed sum by J P Morgan despite still being an MP.

Theresa May has earned over £1 million through the lecture circuit in the last year despite being a complete failure as PM.

[D41]

Well yes, but many politicians & business leaders move on to the lecture circuit at some point without necessarily having had a blameless track record in their field.
And while she didn't exactly set the world in fire while she was at No.10, she must have been doing something right at some point along the way before she got into the top office.

[StMarks]

Well yes, but many politicians & business leaders move on to the lecture circuit at some point without necessarily having had a blameless track record in their field.
And while she didn't exactly set the world in fire while she was at No.10, she must have been doing something right at some point along the way before she got into the top office.

So her speech as Home Secretary in June 2010 to ACPO was honing her skills for public speaking..?
- Presumably she must have improved her rapore with her audience since then to make any money from it...

[duke63]

All they have to do to get into power is lick the right arses.

[D41]

Well yes, but many politicians & business leaders move on to the lecture circuit at some point without necessarily having had a blameless track record in their field.
And while she didn't exactly set the world in fire while she was at No.10, she must have been doing something right at some point along the way before she got into the top office.

So her speech as Home Secretary in June 2010 to ACPO was honing her skills for public speaking..?
- Presumably she must have improved her rapore with her audience since then to make any money from it...

I'm not familiar with it, but I'm sure it was dreadful.
And I agree, she must have improved enormously...or else why the huge paycheck??
It's the same old story at the end of the day.....I might not think she's worth it - you might not think she's worth it - but the person writing the cheque does....& that's all that really counts.

[duke63]

It’s about what they know rather than their lecturing skills.

[duke63]

Another U turn.

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I see a senior Tory said yesterday the lack of clarity, leadership and multiple u turns cannot continue for much longer.

[duke63]

And another. Is everything they do crisis management?

Greater Manchester lockdown easing U-turn after cases rise https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-53995677" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[StMarks]

I'm surprised that no one has questioned the fact that "children must now all go back to school" just happend to be the day that the politicians had to go back to work.?

[duke63]

Most Government bodies are not back at work and are still working from home.

HMRC, VAT and valuation Office are the three I have encountered.

[StMarks]

Most Government bodies are not back at work and are still working from home.

HMRC, VAT and valuation Office are the three I have encountered.

But politicians don't give a ** about them, any more than the rest of us do they Duke.?
As long as their kids are back at school so they can get on with the job of skimming all they can from their positions of power.

[duke63]

Probably the scummiest Government in my lifetime, certainly in my voting lifetime.

No morals, no plan (other than to thieve from the taxpayer) and probably not going to last a lot longer now the Tory press have the knives out.

[D6Nutz]

Clonk..... Clonk..... There to another couple of wheels off Boris's waggon... Not sure he'll last 6 months at this rate. Now he is blaming his staff because he keeps getting torn a new one at PMQs... The PMs desire, make great policies, show how the Tories are a better party and he is a better leader.... Nope... Step up personal attacks

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ir-starmer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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[duke63]

Anyone who knew anything about Johnson's past would have known he would be useless as a leader.

The fact we now have the biggest crisis for decades and we have the biggest idiot in charge in my lifetime is a recipe for disaster.

[Cav]

Boris is lining up for No Deal.

[D6Nutz]

Boris is lining up for No Deal.

I don't honestly think they had any other intention. They're not smart enough to negotiate properly with the EU, all they want is to find a sticking point so they can blame the EU for not making the deal. Currently it's fishing, but if they resolve that there will be something else.

Stupid thing with the fishing is we export about 80% (possibly more) of what we catch anyway so unless they sort out the export tariffs nobody will buy the fish, and the other barrel is the importing of all the fish we eat so also be easy more expensive.

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