The Conservative Party

[bluethrunthru]

They seem happy to lose the farming vote.

EFRA select committee said they should allow in more seasonal workers and reduce the English language standard required (e.g.) to pack chicken, and cut meat.

Govt response (probably Home Office led rather than DEFRA) "wholly inadequate". "Automate, employ local people." They just don't get it. Ireland is recruiting meat cutters from Brazil.

Best start building chicken processing plants in housing estates when they plan new developments then. Maybe sell houses with no gardens at all and sell the land for grazing or arable - the bit these dipshits don't seem to get is that a lot of these jobs that need doing are where there are no people living - and given current fuel costs nobody is gonna want to take a job disembowelling chickens which involves a 50 mile a day round trip

 

[lazerblue]

Shouldn't be allowed? Tell me why please I fancy a laugh.

cos he's a ****? ;-) GNIAC

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Mediocre is a bit harsh, he lasted eighteen seasons in Heartbeat. :)

The problem is that his real life persona is 1960s Claude Greengrass in the 2020s.

 

[bluethrunthru]

They have gone full Trump

 

[bluethrunthru]

Mediocre is a bit harsh, he lasted eighteen seasons in Heartbeat. :)

The problem is that his real life persona is 1960s Claude Greengrass in the 2020s.

Sorry to be picky but that is PC Ventress - this is Claude Greengrass

 

[ganganvince]

Sorry to be picky but that is PC Ventress - this is Claude Greengrass

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Preferred him in the gaffer

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Sorry to be picky but that is PC Ventress - this is Claude Greengrass

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I'm aware mate. Posted because his saggy arse face shares a likeness to Alf Ventress (William Simons).

 

[The perfect fumble]

Sorry to be picky but that is PC Ventress - this is Claude Greengrass

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[bluethrunthru]

That is currently being shown of Forces TV. Its as bad as I recalled it was

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

That is currently being shown of Forces TV. Its as bad as I recalled it was

Although Bill's kid did sing a song that captured the sentiment of post-brexit regret. :)



The song is about a man "running in the night" to a woman he has previously left, hoping he is not too late and that his former lover will forgive him and take him back.

 

[Gabriel]

The Times reporting that 6 Conservative MPs are considering defecting to Labour. Sounds more of a threat at this stage but likely to add to the pressure on Johnson.

 

[bluethrunthru]

no shit Sherlock

Levelling up to cost billions more than government thinks, says think tank

The economic gaps between different parts of the UK are "significant", the Resolution Foundation says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

no shit Sherlock

Levelling up to cost billions more than government thinks, says think tank

The economic gaps between different parts of the UK are "significant", the Resolution Foundation says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Simply shows that the Tories have absolutely no clue how far the north (North of Watford Gap that is ) has been left behind

 

[bluethrunthru]

Simply shows that the Tories have absolutely no clue how far the north (North of Watford Gap that is ) has been left behind

They think north of Watford its all crack dens and illegitimate children

 

[mat]

The Times reporting that 6 Conservative MPs are considering defecting to Labour. Sounds more of a threat at this stage but likely to add to the pressure on Johnson.

We don't want them. They can stand as independents.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

no shit Sherlock

Levelling up to cost billions more than government thinks, says think tank

The economic gaps between different parts of the UK are "significant", the Resolution Foundation says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Too expensive. Time to cut.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

no shit Sherlock

Levelling up to cost billions more than government thinks, says think tank

The economic gaps between different parts of the UK are "significant", the Resolution Foundation says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Bluethrunthru
Yours is the right exclamation. Levelling up is a great notion and a mighty fine slogan. It will remain these things until Bozo is hung and quartered.
I know that significant bits of infrastructure costs are funded from investment from the private sector but many massive infrastructure projects are all at taxpayers expense.
How do you level up when just 30 seconds thought produces these projects and approx costs. Tideway London, £4B; Crossrail 19B; HS2 P1 to Brum £45B; probable Heathrow extension £14B; probable refurb of the Houses of Parliament £22B?
Mind you the NE could get a new coal mine and Lancs will probably be opened up to fracking again.

 

[joe123]

We don't want them. They can stand as independents.

I agree. It doesn't do anything too dramatic to parliamentary arithmetic, and more importantly defector MPs tend to lose their seat or leave politics not long after. Am sure Starmer would love the symbolism of tories crossing the house, but it's by not being a Tory (or Johnson) that will win him votes in the next election.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We don't want them. They can stand as independents.

They should do what the Stonecutters do and form the No Boris Party.