The Conservative Party

[bluethrunthru]

I am so fu..king angry. It is taking months/years to pass legislation to keep kids safe on the Internet, it finally passed through the HoC today. The antistrike legislation took days. Just shows this f..king governments priorities. F..k the kids look what the strikers are doing.

Bearing in mind they have also been dreaming up fantasy hospital beds and fantasy ambulances - Rome wasn't built in a day but I am guessing it was burned down in that sort of time period as they are showing us

 

[Gabriel]

again the wash up on the shores of the only desert island they have left......... The Island of We Must All Just Believe More

Most worrying thing is that I still forecast him retaining his seat.

General election 2019: South Thanet

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Craig Mackinlay	27,084	56.1	+5.3
	Labour	Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt	16,497	34.2	-3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Martyn Pennington	2,727	5.7	+2.7
	Green	Rebecca Wing	1,949	4.0	+2.4
Majority	10,587	21.9	+9.0
Turnout	48,257	65.8	−3.0
	Conservative hold	Swing	+4.5

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Has Sky got yet another Tufton Street billionaire think tanker on to promote the needs of billionaires to get even richer while the poor get poorer?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The UK has slipped to 18th place in the global corruption index, with a warning the slump is a "powerful indictment of a recent decline in standards in government".
The UK has fallen down the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) to its lowest ever score as a report warned "slipping standards are being noticed on the world stage".

Britain fell seven places to be ranked 18th in the world after a year marked by the controversy around PPE procurement and a series of breaches of the ministerial code.
It was one of only five countries to see their year-on-year scores drop by five or more points, along with Qatar, Myanmar, Azerbaijan and Oman.

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-gets-...ption-index-after-string-of-scandals-12799961

 

[Vic]

The UK has slipped to 18th place in the global corruption index, with a warning the slump is a "powerful indictment of a recent decline in standards in government".
The UK has fallen down the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) to its lowest ever score as a report warned "slipping standards are being noticed on the world stage".

Britain fell seven places to be ranked 18th in the world after a year marked by the controversy around PPE procurement and a series of breaches of the ministerial code.
It was one of only five countries to see their year-on-year scores drop by five or more points, along with Qatar, Myanmar, Azerbaijan and Oman.

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-gets-...ption-index-after-string-of-scandals-12799961

18th?

So number 1 in the Corruption Perceptions Index is the least corruptible?

 

[Gabriel]

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

18th?

So number 1 in the Corruption Perceptions Index is the least corruptible?

Yes. That’s Denmark.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

They've turned us into a right tinpot country. Nothing runs well to the point where we're the Everton of the world.

 

[bluethrunthru]

They've turned us into a right tinpot country. Nothing runs well to the point where we're the Everton of the world.

they are also destroying the Arts - this today

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Well, this is a bit awkward.

Good Law Project, amplified by Carol Vorderman, note that the govt hasn't kept Raab's WhatsApp messages used for govt business - obviously, it took the Information Commissioner to get involved before they swallowed their own 17-month lie/blocking position and admitted it.
But it's okay, because a transcript was made so it's all fine. Ministerial Code, you say? Pah, not for this lot.

Oh, and the Good Law people note Sunak saying he didn't know about the allegations about Raab when he was reappointed.
No. 10 say that Sunak wasn't "directly told" about the allegations that civil servants made, and no-one actually advised against reappointing him (would it be their job? that sounds like distraction to me by raising a different but irrelevant point).
That seems to beg the question of whether a complaint is actually made if no-one actually does anything with it (a bit like the tree falling in the forest).

Awkward.