[hibeejim21]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/fu...d=msedgdhp

Brexit exposed again and about time too with many more critical issues to follow this one incl the NI one which looks like it could turn into a potential "powder keg" with extreme factions of NI unionism involved!! Great to see one of the biggest Brexit "decepticons", Gove, being shown up as the con man that he is alongside lotsa other shameless bastards in the Brit Cabinet who are as deceitful as him - the same unscrupulous, callous mentality that has been self-evident for a long time!

It's going to be a xxxx disaster, just wait til the summer when the import checks kick in. Just wait til that pretend border in the Irish Sea starts to cause real problems in NI.

The UK is gonna end up the number one exporter of empty lorry space. I'm already resigned to the fact I'll be looking for a new job later in the year.

What can you say man ? Tories gonna tory.

[0762]

I'm also reading a report slamming the Brit govt re consistently placing the economy above public health. From the first lockdown, there were calls for the gen public to support struggling restaurants and shops - a simple feel-good message to show some love to your local. Ordering a takeaway to offset the doom of lockdown. The message, although well-intended, was misplaced!! For example, remember the Sunak idea in July 2020 to "Eat out to help out" - the CoE never consulted his SAGE panel as mentioned in a Institute of Government report. And research by the University of Warwick suggested the scheme can be linked to 17% of clusters last summer, a finding that the Treasury rejected. Note Eat out to help out fellwithin the Brit govt's overall COVID strategy to prioritise individual responsibility over state duty - they have consistently pitted the economy against public health as if they don't rely on one another BUT ULTIMATELY NOT WORTH THE THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH! The biggest laugh was the fact that Sunak's novel idea had a fairly marginal effect on the sector. The big worry is that the Tories will continue to follow a recovery cycle with such a brutal disregard for public health and with no accountability or self-reflection, both absent so far anyway.

[theo_luddite]

From the Grauniad

"The Observer revealed at the weekend that the Road Haulage Association (RHA) had written to the Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove, last week suggesting there had been a drop of as much as 68% in the volume of goods exports passing through UK ports and calling for an “urgent intervention”.

Whitehall sources vehemently rejected that claim, insisting freight flows were up to 95% or even 100% of normal levels on some days in January – though part of the RHA’s argument was that in many cases lorries were travelling back empty from the UK to the EU."

Which Sundays were those then?

[hibeejim21]

Who to believe Theo ?
The hauliers who have been describing in great detail the problems the industry would face with Brexit for some time now....or the tories who will literally lie about anything and everything ?

This of course is why Gove is demanding the EU extend the grace period with NI til 2023 and is using Snarlene as his attack dog. A handy smokescreen for their incompetence.

[theo_luddite]

I thought Bodgit didn't want any grace periods for anything with his oven ready done deal?

Another one bites the crust(aceans).
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...rced-close

[theo_luddite]

Why am I not surprised that Bodgit's Cabinet return to normal after basking in the glow of the NHS and Local Government delivering a so far successful vaccine rollout on the face of it (apart from 3 weeks for dose 2 being stretched to anywhere between 12 weeks and 12 months by Bodgit's mob)? Yes they (or we, when it comes to it) paid through the nose to get the vaccines delivered in the first place, almost in spite of the f*ck up at the borders that is Brexit*.

Of course, when it comes to controlling those "forriner's" bringing their nasty local illicit version of Corry in with them, we've got the racist bitch that is Pritti Useless telling Handsoncock to threaten 10 year jail sentences for anyone lying on a form (like ticking the wrong box).

The return to normal? Communication to the troops on the ground appears to be somewhat lacking - just for a change.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/f...quarantine

Oh, and another world beating bit of hotel room booking software apparently doesn't work either. F*ck me rigid, the whole of the travel industry and even chancers, sorry, upstarts like AirBnB sorted this out years ago. Like how hard is it to tap into their knowledge and websites?

Mitie, PWC, EY, G4S and all the rest can't organise hotel rooms. They can clean them (maybe), they can (badly) audit the books (maybe), they can escort you to and from the prison cell our Government is now apparently so keen to put you in (maybe), but they are not travel agents ffs. Ah, but they all line the CONS pockets with silver ......  

When it comes to lying and having form - it's about time they locked up the idiot in charge - Bodgit. Serially, knowingly, lying and the murder of anywhere between 120,000 and 150,000 to date and counting. He didn't even put a tick in a box, though he regularly puts his stiffy into any available box, then walks away from his resultant progeny.

* I was told this week that if things are labelled as "samples" they go through Customs fairly easily with a lot less less red tape. So apparently few million "samples" of Corry Vaccine will be waved straight through. Meanwhile - try selling a boat/plane full of freshly caught baskets of langoustine to dealers in Spain and call them samples.

[BouncingHibees]

George Monbiot
9 Oct 20,
Before I begin this thread, let me make it clear that I do not in any way blame Dominic Cummings or Dido Harding for their antecedents. What interests me is the way power is acquired, transmitted and sustained in the United Kingdom.
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2. Field Marshall Sir John Harding. In 1949, he was sent to Malaya to suppress the insurgency. British actions were notoriously brutal, using Agent Orange, scorched earth campaigns, hunger as a weapon and concentration camps. It’s not clear how much of this he did.
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3. From 1952, as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, he advised the British government on suppressing the Kikuyu revolt in Kenya. This involved the mass murder of civilians, torture, mutilation and mass imprisonment in concentration camps and fortified villages.
4. In 1955, he was appointed Governor of Cyprus, where he sought to stamp out the insurgency against British colonial rule. Under his command, rebels and civilians were detained in concentration camps. Torture was widespread. Rebel leaders were summarily executed.


5. In 1958, for his services to empire, he was created 1st Baron Harding of Petherton. He is Dido Harding’s grandfather.
6. This is Sir Evelyn Baring. He was governor of Kenya from 1952-59. Perhaps drawing on Sir John Harding’s advice, he set up a system of concentration and slave labour camps, in which tens of thousands of Kikuyu people were tortured and mutilated, beaten and burnt to death.
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7. In 1960, for his services to empire, he was created 1st Baron Howick of Glendale. He is Dominic Cummings’s grandfather-in-law.
8. Dominic Cummings and Dido Harding occupy crucial, and highly controversial, positions with the government. Neither were elected, but owe their positions to appointments made within a tight circle of acquaintances.
9. It is this chumocracy, which has replaced professional, competent civil servants with people drawn from a highly entitled (and titled) elite, that is responsible for the fiascos surrounding the pandemic, and is now driving us towards a possible no deal Brexit.
10. I reiterate: I don’t blame anyone for their ancestors or in-laws. But what we see here are lineages that achieved great power and status, including hereditary peerages, through committing crimes against humanity.
11. Inherited power and status helped secure the social position of their descendants and in-laws. This social position secured their place within the current chumocracy. It also buffers them, professionally and socially, against criticism and public complaint.


12. The misrule of this elite has resulted, among other impacts, in the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands, through the mishandling of the pandemic. They don't seem to care.
In other words, this seems like a vignette of everything that’s wrong with the way we are governed.

[0762]

I've previously commented that the highly questionable activities of this Brit govt give me the impression that we are going back in time to a valueless society where cruel and callous people such as the ones described by Monbiot have literally "crawled out of the cupboard" and infected Brit politics with the worst form of governance ever witnessed in this country for a long time. What angers me greatly is the manner in which "animals" representing the Brit state were rewarded with a token Royal Honour after leaving total human devastation trailing behind them. Even now in 21st century Britain we're still observing this brazen political manipulation of an anachronistic Royal Honours system that recognises generous money donors friendly to the C&U Party. Abject political failure is even rewarded in some cases and it is actually getting worse as the HoL is becoming "top heavy" with even more of these hangers-on.

[0762]

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n511

Hancock's contract activities deemed unlawful and any officials who have worked in the Public Service/Civil Service or Local Government will be applauding this judgement because if this was practised in the same manner by said officials, there would be a good chance that a prison sentence would be in order for contravening the rules n regs governing competitive tendering and issuing of contracts and contract docs properly and impartially.

[theo_luddite]

Nowt will come of it though.

In "normal times" this dweeb and most of the Cabinet would have resigned or been pushed into resigning due to even minor occurrences of incompetence. However, given we have the most incompetent Prime Minister ever, who picked his cabinet on the basis of how they voted in a referendum and not on their own competence at what-ever job he gave them, as a result they are all wearing fire-proof suits - unlike the poor buggers at Grenfell.