How is the Tory government doing?

gloswhite wrote:Has he really got 7 kids?

Officially 6 by 3 different women, but there's another woman who claims her kid is Boris's and it was not contested.

No wonder he looks as rough as he does. Nothing to do with contracting Coronavirus, he's just not getting enough sleep !

He's clearly irresistible to women just like Paul Daniels was to Debbie McGee, as Mrs Merton (alias Caroline Aherne) famously pointed out in a TV interview.

But you have to laugh at this article which features our slimline Lothario proposing to outlaw junk food in order to solve the obeslty crisis in the UK....the phrase "Physician, heal thyself" springs to mind:-
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/junk-food-deals-will-be-banned-in-boris-johnsons-assault-on-obesity-lr8fg8lqt

One of the reasons he avoids a direct answer to the question is that there would be legitimate claims against him from the CSA. No doubt he has already been into the CSA Department and deleted any records.
He avoids a direct answer to this with more of his bumbling subterfuge.

Why are we cancelling the Huawei deal? Because America told us to do so. It will cost at least £2billion.

Taking back control? Does Boris have a backbone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53406464

xmiles wrote:Why are we cancelling the Huawei deal? Because America told us to do so. It will cost at least £2billion.

Taking back control? Does Boris have a backbone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53406464

Right from the beginning it was said that the deal would be reconsidered, depending on a review/report of the security services, as I understand it. Although many of the Tory party are vehemently against the deal, the decision will be carried over the line by the technical report provided by the Security services. 
China are the most dangerous country in the world of electronic espionage, denial of service, etc. and are flexing their muscles more and more. The cancellation of the deal is the correct one, and it will be £2bn well spent. 
Just for you XM, that £2bn will be more than made up in trade with the countrties that will then trust us and trade with us.

I am no fan of the Chinese government and it may well be the right decision to drop Huawei but it is clear it is only being dropped because of American pressure. Which pretty much guarantees we will be eating chlorine flavoured chicken fairly soon.

As for the delusion that we will be getting an extra £2bn in trade where is the evidence for that? It certainly won't cover the £13bn cost of post brexit border checks announced in the Times today.

xmiles wrote:Why are we cancelling the Huawei deal? Because America told us to do so. It will cost at least £2billion.

Taking back control? Does Boris have a backbone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53406464

A humungous u-turn.
Proper 180. 
There is no suggestion that cancelling the deal is the most cost-effective way of achieving the objective so it does give credibility to the idea that trade talks with the USA have already led to concessions by Boris.

For media balance he will have to claim a victory somewhere down the line so let's hope he's gained something more exciting than chlorinated chicken which our buyer power already gives us control over.

wanderlust wrote:

xmiles wrote:Why are we cancelling the Huawei deal? Because America told us to do so. It will cost at least £2billion.

Taking back control? Does Boris have a backbone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53406464

A humungous u-turn.
Proper 180. 
There is no suggestion that cancelling the deal is the most cost-effective way of achieving the objective so it does give credibility to the idea that trade talks with the USA have already led to concessions by Boris.

For media balance he will have to claim a victory somewhere down the line so let's hope he's gained something more exciting than chlorinated chicken which our buyer power already gives us control over.

Here's something different to read rather than social media forming your views and opinions on everything all the time -

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/summary-of-ncsc-analysis-of-us-may-2020-sanction

So the BBC is merely "social media" now?

To take two direct quotes from the NCSC report:

In para 1 it states "This update was driven by the US Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule Amendment (FDPRA)" thus proving that the measures are indeed driven by American pressure on the UK government and vindicating the BBC report.

Para 41 reads in full: Given the increasing risk associated with Huawei, it is natural that some will argue that the UK should remove the latent risk by removing Huawei equipment entirely from all the UK’s fixed and mobile networks. As part of its analysis, the NCSC considered this option in detail and concluded that this would present substantial resilience and security risks for the UK, and that these far outweighed the risk of retaining this equipment within UK networks.

Yet the government has ignored this advice and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced that the UK's mobile providers must remove all of Huawei's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.

So yet another example of Boris backing down under American pressure despite the advice of the NCSC.

Is that the only advice the NCSC gave, or are you cherry picking again?

Read the report glos. Para 41 is the summary and specifically advises against what this government has now announced it is going to do.

OK, I was just being lazy 

xmiles wrote:So the BBC is merely "social media" now?

To take two direct quotes from the NCSC report:

In para 1 it states "This update was driven by the US Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule Amendment (FDPRA)" thus proving that the measures are indeed driven by American pressure on the UK government and vindicating the BBC report.

Para 41 reads in full: Given the increasing risk associated with Huawei, it is natural that some will argue that the UK should remove the latent risk by removing Huawei equipment entirely from all the UK’s fixed and mobile networks. As part of its analysis, the NCSC considered this option in detail and concluded that this would present substantial resilience and security risks for the UK, and that these far outweighed the risk of retaining this equipment within UK networks.  

Yet the government has ignored this advice and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced that the UK's mobile providers must remove all of Huawei's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.

So yet another example of Boris backing down under American pressure despite the advice of the NCSC.

Eh???

Don't know what you are talking about?

Have you read the report yourself or just jumped directly to read the 'summarised' summary?

What the report says in a nutshell is that the UK government is happy to progress with Huawei to put in 5G (within defined limits) but the affect of Americas sanctions means Huawei - who use American components/technology needed to do this are no longer able to do so.

It was thought that it might have been possible for Huawei to manufacture their own components/technology in China (hence why Johnson confirmed the continued approval for the deal (and what the constraints placed on it were) but a further round of sanctions from America prevented the possibility of that happening.

That meant the only way Huawei could continue without breaking sanctions was to source the components/technology from a third party.  

Which third party could that be because it wouldn't be from a westernised country as I don't think many/any trust working with Huawei even before US sanctions and certainly wouldn't be complicit in helping them avoid them - so who is left to supply the components - Russia, North Korea and who else?

Anyway the report says whoever it might have been was a risk too great and thus the withdrawal from the partnership on security grounds.

If America hadn't imposed sanctions, then compounded this by later adding more, then we would have continued with Huawei.

As for Para 41, what it means is this - yes it would be ideal if there was no longer ANY Huawei kit and systems embedded anywhere in our networks BUT to stop and strip it all out now would cost billions, compromise security and set the development to 5G back years.  The report said however that risk was greater than leaving it in situ.

I'll emphasise that point again, namely there is still a RISK in leaving existing Huawei kit and systems embedded.

So if it can't be removed right away and it a risk leaving it, then the only solution is to dismantle it all within a acceptable time scale which is exactly what is going to happen.

So yes we are doing all this because America doesn't trust China (which I believe is a reasonable position to take) and I assume visa versa from the Chinese point of view - and not because America has done all this simply to get a trade deal with us post Brexit and sell us dodgy chicken (which I most point out, that we all EAT when we go on our holidays to America and which I assume our American based Nut posters such as Obs and Fin have probably been eating for years now, with little if any ill effects).

As I so often say all this is simply politics (read politics as 'power') at work.

It's all a big game.

Yes it effects all our lives but clearly after all these millenniums of evaluation we still as the human race can't all get along and play nice and help each other, then what alternative is there short of blasting each other out of existence?

China almost certainly caused the current world pandemic by not being honest and open from the very start and America has bought up the world supply of the proposed vaccine for themselves - both put themselves first before everyone else and both are as bad as each other to me.

But there's nothing I'm capable of doing to change that, so I can't see any reason to get het up and angry over such stuff and can't really understand why so many people do?

We are all being manipulated to some extent, so my philosophy is to enjoy the ride - as the only other alternative is not being happy and not enjoying the ride and what's the point of life in doing that?

As the wise man sang...

...don't worry, be happy.

Visa Test:- Nearly 750,00 foreign key workers currently in the UK would have been blocked from coming under the Government's post-brexit migration plan, the Home Office has admitted.

 Low-skilled migrants, including carers, taxi drivers, hospital porters and prison officers will be unable to apply for work visas from January in a points-based system which has been labelled as "an insult" to carers and other migrant workers. 

Will low-paid Brits fill the void, do you think?

John Crace nails it, as usual......

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/14/mattbeth-fails-to-mask-governments-latest-u-turn-on-face-coverings

okocha wrote:John Crace nails it, as usual......

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/14/mattbeth-fails-to-mask-governments-latest-u-turn-on-face-coverings

Good article and he mentions the Huawei fiasco.

okocha wrote:Visa Test:- Nearly 750,00 foreign key workers currently in the UK would have been blocked from coming under the Government's post-brexit migration plan, the Home Office has admitted.

 Low-skilled migrants, including carers, taxi drivers, hospital porters and prison officers will be unable to apply for work visas from January in a points-based system which has been labelled as "an insult" to carers and other migrant workers. 

Will low-paid Brits fill the void, do you think?

I don't see why not. Were coming into a time when there will be many many people out of work. isn't it right to give them the opportunity to change career, rather than pay them to stay at home and import other workers to cover the jobs?

gloswhite wrote:
I don't see why not. Were coming into a time when there will be many many people out of work. isn't it right to give them the opportunity to change career, rather than pay them to stay at home and import other workers to cover the jobs?

Seeing as the opportunities for migrants came about by Brits refusing this type of work in the first instance it seems highly unlikely unless the Government withdraws benefits from able- bodied folk who refuse the work.