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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 15, 2020 19:44:46 GMT
yeah i think the principle here is it's not what you say (now) jeremy it's what you do (when you're the minister). cock.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2020 20:41:19 GMT
I have to admit I was wrong about Matt Hancock. The other day I suggested that the Government was so far off the number of covid-19 tests it had said it was going to perform that Hancock must have made the figure up on his way to the podium.
Actually it is more likely to be because the programme is being run by one Lord Bethell. Who hell he? I hear you cry. One might expect to find someone with years of experience spending vast amounts of public money, perhaps an expert in procurement or someone with experience of project managing the massive logistical exercise required or delivering services to multiple end users. Well, you'd be wrong.
Lord Bethell, ennobled during a House of Lords "by election" in which he was elevated to the hereditary peerage by no less than 37, yes, a whole thirty seven Tory peers had previously been a lobbyist, paid vast amounts of money by private interests trying to get their trotters into the trough of NHS privatisation. A Tory donor and a man so wealthy he helped finance Hancock's bid for the leadership of the Tory Party.
So there you have it, experts are absolutely not required, you don't even need to have political experience and experience as a minister of state? pfft, who needs that when all you need to be is wee Matty's mate. Yes, the man charged with delivering the testing required to control the spread of this disease is an individual who has made a fortune out of the privatisation of the NHS and who has financed the man who has just given him the job as well as his party. Anybody wanting to know what political corruption looks like need look no further than this.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 15, 2020 21:19:20 GMT
By like I actually mean hate. But I presume you guessed that
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 8:55:13 GMT
By like I actually mean hate. But I presume you guessed that Quite. There's no doubt that the edict that if you scratch my back I'll scratch yours is as old as politics itself but it's now so brazen that it's become the norm. Apparently Bethell isn't getting paid but that isn't the point. He will use the connections he has and is making as a result of this to line his pockets further still and as for accountability? Accountability, rather like taxes is for little people. How else do these imbeciles continue to get away with such failure. Hancock promised 25000 tests a day by this week. The figure currently stands at 16000 or 64% of that promised. Hancock has already started trying to lie his way out of it by claiming that he made no such statement and still large sections of the press refuse to hold them to account. If this had been a Labour Government they'd be getting slaughtered.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 16, 2020 11:26:08 GMT
And those who do try to hold them to account are simply accused of being only focused on the negatives, when in a time of national crisis we should all pull together... but then the tories pretty much fun the media here anyway!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 16, 2020 20:22:07 GMT
Hancock promised 25000 tests a day by this week. The figure currently stands at 16000 or 64% of that promised. it feels like they're working a distraction magic on the british public (who, let's be fair, are like a kitten given a ball of wool). like duds said, any criticism is tantamount to treachery, and the 'we're ramping up the testing', 'the ppe is being delivered', etc has been on repeat play for at least three weeks. i don't particularly criticise them for not having done as well as germany, who have done brilliantly, but we had a delayed start in which we could plan more in comparison to italy in particular, but spain and france too, so why are we running at a similar level as they were at the same stage in the timeline?
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 16, 2020 20:22:52 GMT
By like I actually mean hate. But I presume you guessed that yes duds. very much that^
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 21:21:06 GMT
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 20, 2020 12:39:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 13:59:11 GMT
There's no smirk without fire
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 20, 2020 14:07:25 GMT
Would be headline news at any other time and number 1 status on all news bulletins.
What the phrase - "a good day to hide bad news" ?
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 20, 2020 14:55:10 GMT
Indeed, Lennie. The story has finally, in the past hour, gone up on the BBC site - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52356574 - albeit not as part of the homepage, is far as my screen is concerned. I only managed to find it with the help of a word search!
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Post by gazz on Apr 20, 2020 15:35:06 GMT
Indeed, Lennie. The story has finally, in the past hour, gone up on the BBC site - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52356574 - albeit not as part of the homepage, is far as my screen is concerned. I only managed to find it with the help of a word search! The BBC are an utter disgrace, much more interested in protecting their own existence now, especially with this government supposedly looking into scrapping the licence fee - they should no longer be considered a reliable nor impartial source of news, in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 16:15:01 GMT
Indeed, Lennie. The story has finally, in the past hour, gone up on the BBC site - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52356574 - albeit not as part of the homepage, is far as my screen is concerned. I only managed to find it with the help of a word search! The BBC are an utter disgrace, much more interested in protecting their own existence now, especially with this government supposedly looking into scrapping the licence fee - they should no longer be considered a reliable nor impartial source of news, in my opinion. You might be interested in this www.medialens.org/2019/the-arrogance-of-bbc-news/
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Post by gazz on Apr 20, 2020 17:17:13 GMT
The BBC are an utter disgrace, much more interested in protecting their own existence now, especially with this government supposedly looking into scrapping the licence fee - they should no longer be considered a reliable nor impartial source of news, in my opinion. You might be interested in this www.medialens.org/2019/the-arrogance-of-bbc-news/ That's a brilliant read, mate, cheers for posting.
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