Boris Johnson-Prime Minister (Vol 8)
Discussion
Spare tyre said:
How much more tax payers money can be wasted on this stuff, bonkers
Quite agree. Ensuring honesty and integrity in politics isn't important at all.
The money would be far better spent on useless PPE equipment, or non-existent ferries, or maybe a pointless garden bridge accross the Thames.
Rivenink said:
Spare tyre said:
How much more tax payers money can be wasted on this stuff, bonkers
Quite agree. Ensuring honesty and integrity in politics isn't important at all.
The money would be far better spent on useless PPE equipment, or non-existent ferries, or maybe a pointless garden bridge accross the Thames.
The problem for me is that if there's no comeback on any of this, for Boris in this case or people like Mone and others for various other things then we continue with a public that thinks "they're all as bad as each other", a reluctance to vote because "what's the point if they're all the same" and then we end up being governed by a party voted for by an even bigger minority that we do now.
We need a proper political clean-up but who would do it?
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hstewie said:
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Do subsequent DPPs benefit from the same or similar schemes?
No idea.If Starmer sat down and negotiated a unique type of pension package that only he has and that he now says other people shouldn't be able to have then I'd agree that would be hypocritical.
What I think more likely is that he accepted a job and that's the type of pension that came with it and it would be the type of pension that came with it no matter who got the job.
Who knows?
cgt2 said:
It's baffling how the millions spent on polling and market research cannot convey to politicians the simple fact that normal people don't want extreme agendas and invented bogeymen.
Sadly about 17 million of us voted for exactly this in a referendum in 2016. This encouraged the Tory party to believe that was exactly what people wanted, and here we are, the only thing the Tory party can come up with any more is extreme agendas (e.g. Rwanda policy) and more invented bogeymen (ECHR, EU law in Northern Ireland, illegal immigration "swarms").The sooner they are defeated, and defeated comprehensively, removing all the cancerous MPs they have like Raab, Braverman, Gullis, Anderson etc, the sooner we might return to a more moderate, productive and progressive politics.
Like you I'm an ex-Tory voter. It'll be a very, very long time before I consider lending them my vote again.
Bannock said:
Like you I'm an ex-Tory voter. It'll be a very, very long time before I consider lending them my vote again.
Yes, it's difficult to see how their performance at the next election can be anything other than dismal.A party now dominated by oligarchs (Sunak), liars (Johnson) and caricatures (Rees Mogg) deserves to be hung out to dry.
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