[theo_luddite]

Just keep calling it what it is. Corruption. We don't live in a corrupt country, we just live with a lot of corrupt politicians, many of whom are MP's for one party in particular

Meanwhile the Corrupt and Racist party continue to strip away more basic rights and freedoms - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...out-notice - all under the cover of their dead cat stories.

[hibeejim21]

Boris is in deep shit now. The tories and the press are turning on him big time. The gaps in the Tory back benches yesterday tell you everything.

The sleaze stuff starting to bite, The effects of Brexit and Covid are starting to become evident, the social care scandal (especially for those of us in the north) and their gradual erosion of our civil liberties and environmental standards.

He's heading up a bunch of gangsters not politicians. That joker on Newsnight the other night dismissing peoples right to 20 quid more Universal credit, whilst being outraged at politicians having their standard of living threatened by depriving them of the right to 2nd jobs/consultancies/schmoozing for big business.

Westminster is rotten to the core, supported by an establishment and an electoral system that make it virtually impossible to change it from permanent Tory rule.

[theo_luddite]

Now if thee 'n' me were to get these "benefits", you can guarantee HMRC would be taxing the shit out of us as "benefits in kind". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...oliday-row
You can guarantee nothing of the sort will appear on Bodgit's tax return, nor will he be taxed for it. Funny how that works, innit?

[0762]

And he more or less admitted to a parliamentary committee yesterday that his proposed rules' reforms to improve MPs standards wouldn't stop any of the Tory sleaze that we've been debating. Ian Blackford slammed in to him exposing Johnson's plans as "half-baked", a known chancer. I've previously said this fact and will repeat it again - the root cause of a lotta their shit covering the sleaze issue, and their attempts to erode our human rights by stealth, is that this country has no constitution to relate to in a proper democratic sense. Therefore the PM is the deciding "higher authority", an absolute abomination in a country that professes openness and true democratic values.

[theo_luddite]

The guy that can't give a speech, tell a joke or take his job seriously, now thinks he's Moses.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...ing-speech

He's not sure if he's Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy or Peppa Pig apparently, but now he thinks he's Moses with his 10 Commandments? Can this guy give one serious speech that matters to anyone on the world stage that also matters? Apparently not. Even with a pile of pages that only contain one 3 or 4 word slogan - he can't put them in the right order. What a complete and utterly useless pillock.

Gimme strength.     

Oh and as for "tearing up Virgin Countryside" between Leeds and Bradford? Well, the bearded wonder wouldn't be allowed to play with that train set for a start apparently, but if it wasn't for the road signs, you wouldn't know where one ends and the other starts apart from where your Council Tax bill comes from.

[0762]

Looking at the details of the proposed Tory govt Care Bill, just voted in tonight on a lesser vote, and what a sham, what a carve-up of less wealthy people and definitely favouring their wealthy protaginists with this supplemented £86k cap. What about a percentage of assets, much like a pay deal that spreads from a higher % to lower paid staff and proportionately reduced to wealthier employees?

[hibeejim21]

It's an outrage, which is conveniently being covered up by that peppa pig shite from yesterday..... He knows exactly what he's doing, Trump pulled the same kind of stunts.

Look at the parts of the country that have median house prices around 100k, and you can see what this for what it is. A lot of those areas happen to be in the "red wall" seats that have flipped to the tories.

[theo_luddite]

Precisely. I see a market on the not too distant horizon for property speculators able to snap up houses for around £90K that are in effect worth well north of £100K. They buy your house so the Government (local or national) gets the money it needs to give the Private Health Care provider (typically American owned) for your "care", covers the legal transactions but bollocks to you that it's worth say £120K - £150K on the "open market" and you should get the balance. How you pay for your food etc. on top of the so called "care costs" is your problem.

Not hard to do if you're single, no direct family and have lost your marbles so can't sign for, agree or disagree with anything they do "on your behalf".

They then resell the plundered property at market value or put it on the rental market to make a nice little profit for themselves. These speculators being the same dodgy crew that landed PPE and other government contracts over the last couple of years because they are "friends of members of The Cabinet". The way this mob works, they'd gift the £90K/property to their mates as a "loan", payable when the property is resold or rented at favourable interest rates, plus the usual back handers in brown envelopes.

[theo_luddite]

Boris Johnson is not unwell and has not lost his grip, says No 10

So we'll put it down to being pissed out of his tree as a result of being on the lash all night after going on all the rides by himself at Peppa Pig World then.

[0762]

That comment is just as bad as Johnson's previous comment at COP26 refuting any insinuation that the Brit government and Tory related institutions were corrupt. Actually saying that at a climate related conference in front of a world audience was absolutely astounding and seriously embarrassing, much like this latest one.