The Conservative Party

[Don Karleone]

That supertanskii is some grifter on Twitter isnt she?

Complete con artist from what I’ve seen, charges folk £40 a month for some bullshit regurgitated stuff.

She often flounces when someone calls her out on stuff, there was some Hitler stuff recently from what I’ve seen.

Can only be centrist dads that lap it up thinking they have some chance of seeing her at some point

 

[bluethrunthru]

going for growth....... guess which economy the profits will benefit

Britishvolt bought by Australian firm Recharge Industries

Recharge Industries is buying Britishvolt, the start-up that collapsed in January.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

going for growth....... guess which economy the profits will benefit

Britishvolt bought by Australian firm Recharge Industries

Recharge Industries is buying Britishvolt, the start-up that collapsed in January.

www.bbc.co.uk

Again .... another strategic industry allowed to be flogged off to a foreign company because of stupid Tory ideology after receiving £800 million of UK Taxpayers cash

Britishvolt: Electric car battery plant gets millions in funding

Britishvolt says the money unlocks huge private investment for a project that will create thousands of jobs.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[threespires]

I see 3 police chiefs including GMP's have punted for the police to be given charging powers again like pre 1986 on the basis that the CPS is no longer fit for purpose as it has insufficient resources. They are not slagging them off as such, saying simply that as a result of austerity they no longer have the people to do the job. Unless I'm being thick, if the problem is insufficient resources their solution only works if they are saying the police have the spare capacity to do the work which I am not aware any police force is saying that? Potentially there might be some efficiency gains for the police but there's no data to suggest it'll be material enough to fix the overall problem.

Also one of the reasons the CPS was created in the first place was because the prior model of police prosecution was considered unfit for purpose. The chief constables presumably have their own agenda and Covid clearly had an effect on the situation but we should not lose sight that the people running the three biggest English forces outside of the Met have in effect said that government policy has hollowed out the justice system to the point it no longer works.

One of the most basic jobs of a government is to keep it's citizens secure and uphold the rule of law, in this and so many other ways they have failed.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[Gabriel]

 

[Lowtower]

Scott Benton, one of the horrific 2019 intake, He's still ranting on about "leftie do-gooders" on his account this morning.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I see 3 police chiefs including GMP's have punted for the police to be given charging powers again like pre 1986 on the basis that the CPS is no longer fit for purpose as it has insufficient resources. They are not slagging them off as such, saying simply that as a result of austerity they no longer have the people to do the job. Unless I'm being thick, if the problem is insufficient resources their solution only works if they are saying the police have the spare capacity to do the work which I am not aware any police force is saying that? Potentially there might be some efficiency gains for the police but there's no data to suggest it'll be material enough to fix the overall problem.

Also one of the reasons the CPS was created in the first place was because the prior model of police prosecution was considered unfit for purpose. The chief constables presumably have their own agenda and Covid clearly had an effect on the situation but we should not lose sight that the people running the three biggest English forces outside of the Met have in effect said that government policy has hollowed out the justice system to the point it no longer works.

One of the most basic jobs of a government is to keep it's citizens secure and uphold the rule of law, in this and so many other ways they have failed.

That does sound like some police chiefs raising that there is a problem that needs fixing. I'd imagine they've been bellyaching about it for ages and have now decided to go public. The minister fr policing is Philp, and he's utterly useless.

They've offered a solution that presumably they think they can achieve, even if it's not a good solution.

 

[metalblue]

Brexit is a factor in the lack of fresh produce and that it is currently rationed. Even before this round of rationing, supermarkets were struggling to keep general produce on the shelves.

Whereas before we (and by extension, RoI) was protected by a seamless supply chain, that is no longer the case and we are more vulnerable to seasonal disruptions because the supply chain is no longer seamless. This has a knock on effect on RoI as it is at the end of that supply chain (hence the work to bypass the UK land bridge). This supply chain will degrade further when full and/or new EU rules on food/produce are applied.

What surprises me is Brexiteers failure to appreciate the consequences of having to constantly deny ‘Brexit is to blame’ narratives. Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of this argument in any one case, it is reinforcing a negative message and is never countered by any positive messages, ie any tangible upside of Brexit.

What is even more baffling, is that the mantra over Brexit was about ‘control’. How by taking back ‘control’ we will do a better job. Yet this has not occurred. No business sector has benefited from this control. Management of supply chains, food security has not benefited from this control. Instead, there is drumbeat of negative stories, from polluting our waterways, having the highest energy prices in Europe, a labour shortage, the NHS, the car industry struggling, scarcity of eggs, rationing of fresh produce, and a Govt that cannot govern, telling us to eat turnips and be grateful.

We set fire to a business and economic trading model that worked and replaced it with fuck all, expect empty nationalist rhetoric.

On the bright side the schadenfreude is enjoyable.

Brexit is a factor, albeit largely insignificant. To say otherwise would be wrong, which is why I didn’t say it. I was merely rebuffing that Brexit is the issue in this case.

You do make a fair connection to the additional costs of avoiding the land bridge - the daft thing is many of these things can be resolved with a bit of common sense but that’s another conversation all together. Hopefully better relationships are upon us and we’ve learnt you don’t get progress by threatening the other side.

 

[blueinsa]

Any deal is better than what we have now and it’s great to hear that at last, both sides have hopefully managed to find some common ground.

Whatever the ERG and DUP say later, fuck them im afraid, this deal has to work for the majority which it will and we can’t allow a few to put a stop to it.

I will go one further and say I hope it’s the start of a process of us rejoining!