How is the Tory government doing?

okocha · 91 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Wed Sep 30 2020, 16:40

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When the (Boltonian) speaker is saying you have shown nothing but contempt for parliament, it shows how bad things truly are.

The imminent press conference (leaked to friendly reporters and not discussed, as usual) will involve more restrictions to cover the fact he has no handle on track and trace.

wanderlust · 92 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Wed Sep 30 2020, 16:56

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okocha wrote:I was for a while posting every other day about Boris and the poodles, but there are now so many issues daily that I'd be accused of wearing out the same old record.....and I must admit I feel that way too now! I've been worn down by the sheer volume of errors and sly manipulations!

But I've been driven to comment on the most sinister thing which imo is this pursuit of absolute power with no scrutiny allowed.

Attempts to prorogue parliament was one thing and now attempts to ensure that there can be no involvement of any MPs beyond ministers on vital national decision-making is another, but.....
.... I object massively to the Tories' recommendations for senior positions at OFCOM(?) and on the BBC board (as potential chair), both loud, crass critics of our world-renowned BBC news reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/27/no-10-told-charles-moore-appointment-could-put-bbcs-independence-at-risk

We seem to be trying to discredit the parts of the UK which are held in the greatest esteem globally. Trump tactics must not be allowed to take place here.

The hand of Murdoch is all over this government.

wanderlust · 93 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Wed Sep 30 2020, 17:29

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wanderlust wrote:Gove travels to Brussels to begin the climb down.

...and so it begins....

okocha · 94 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 11:39

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Latest from the BBC website:

The EU has begun legal proceedings against the UK after it refused to ditch plans to override sections of its Brexit divorce deal.

An EU deadline for the government to remove sections of the Internal Market Bill passed on Wednesday.

The "letter of formal notice" could eventually lead to a court case against the UK at the European Court of Justice, the EU's top court.

Sluffy · 95 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 12:04

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wanderlust · 96 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 15:16

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London used to be the financial capital of the world and the sector has contributed 7% of our total GDP but as the Brexit business exit continues, this week 7500 finance jobs and £1.2 TRILLION of assets moved to the EU. Ooops.

Guest · 97 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 15:23

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Finally starting to see some Brexit benefits as the government plan what to do with Asylum seekers.

The (genuine) suggestions so far include:

- Flying them 4,000 miles to Ascension Island and building a facility for them there
- Holding them on a disused ferry offshore
- Using a wave machine to rock the boats sufficiently enough for them to return back to France

..dunno..

wanderlust · 98 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 16:06

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This is worrying.
I've mentioned the German Kurzarbeit (short time work) scheme before in the context of Sunak's furlough scheme and after criticism Sunak promised something similar to the Kurzarbeit programme but unfortunately he's fallen way short and put huge costs on employers.
Kurzarbeit has been in place for years and is a tried and tested way of retaining jobs and skills so why try to reinvent the wheel - especially as it's been proven to work?

Unfortunately Sunak has come up with a formula that makes it cheaper for employers to sack one employee than to retain two.

Basically it's a financial incentive to sack people.

How dumb is that?

sunlight · 99 Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 16:10

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What the Tories do, everytime they get in, is hurt the working class as much as they can, and help the wealthy. This sort of thing isnt incompetence its possibly deliberate.
Everytime the working class starts doing ok they put a stop to it.

wanderlust · **100** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 16:47

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Things should improve next week. Parliament is having a holiday so there'll be no discussion of the Tory back bench revolt, the £ plummeting, being sued by the EU or the little matters of Covid and Brexshit.

sunlight · **101** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 17:46

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karlypants · **102** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:03

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Just when people started to forget she existed. Mad

sunlight · **103** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:22

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Im just using her gif for entertainment purposes.

Cajunboy · **104** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:29

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Pain in the neck, shouldn't she be in school?

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sunlight · **105** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:30

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Cajunboy · **106** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:33

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sunlight · **107** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:34

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I am not a fan of hers. I am just being silly.

Cajunboy · **108** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Thu Oct 01 2020, 18:41

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wanderlust · **109** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Fri Oct 02 2020, 12:41

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This article in the Independent is quite sobering as it lists some of the unresolved issues which "remain to be solved and can blow up into a Brexiternity of rows and problems in years ahead, even if a face-saving deal on trade and state subsidies is concluded by Christmas."

There are few career options in there Sunlight!

1. Michael Gove has announced 7,000 strong lorry queues from 1 January. Businesses need to employ more than 50,000 customs agents.
2. A special permit or passport is needed for lorries to enter Kent. The old Soviet Union had internal passports, but this is a first for Britain. Kent, and other port towns, become large lorry parks.
3. British car manufacturers face tariffs on components imported from out of the EU, which will make cars – all made by foreign-owned firms, notably Japanese auto firms – more expensive to sell in Europe. Unsurprisingly, the EU will not accept Japanese or Turkish components as British
4. Multi-billion pound UK chemical industry says leaving the EU Reach regulatory system will make it difficult and far more expensive to produce chemical products, plastics, cosmetics, detergents etc. in the UK and it would be foolish to set up a parallel UK regulatory system for chemicals.
5. Latest reports say 7,500 financial services jobs have been relocated to EU capitals. JP Morgan transfers 200 key staff to Frankfurt to become Germany’s sixth-biggest bank. Financial services employers are the single biggest category of taxpayers to pay for public services.
6. Manufacturers cannot print catalogues for next spring as they do not know what prices they will pay for any imported elements of a British made food or product. Nor can they print labels as they do not know what information to put on the labels. They lose the EU quality mark.
7. The former head of MI6, John Sawyer and the former UK EU commissioner, Julian King, have publicly expressed concern about the threat to British security. The UK made 570,000 applications to the EU database on people recorded crossing frontiers. Thousands of requests have also been made to the EU PRUM database for DNA checks on criminals and terrorists. The UK was the biggest user of EU security databases.
8. The UK has so far refused to accept EU data transfer rules necessary to protect privacy. If Johnson and Dominic Cummings maintain this hard line then in theory all data exchanges with the UK that can be transferred to America will be illegal and blocked. There will be a big hit to holiday bookings as such bookings involve data transfers to and from EU.
9. Farms minister George Eustice told MPs there would be five times as many forms to fill on any food exports. Exports of beef and lamb, other animal food products (meat) will be hampered by a severe shortage of vets.
10. Exporters are told to recruit 60,000 new bureaucrats to fill in hundreds of millions of new forms necessary to trade as a “third country” with the EU. This will be the same number as soldiers in the British Army soon. There is no figure on the extra number of customs agents the government will need to recruit.
11. The City of London faces losing 350,000 “EU passports” which allows firms and individuals across the financial services sector to do business with formalities in 27 EU nation states.
12. While Switzerland voted on Sunday in a referendum to overturn a 2014 referendum banning the free movement of people, Priti Patel is putting endless obstacles in the way of care homes, the construction, fruit and vegetable picking, transport and hospitality sectors from recruiting European workers to offset the shortage of British workers.
13. It will be necessary to get an international driving licence to drive in Europe.
14. British pet owners will not be able to take their dogs and other pets to the continent without expensive and time consuming veterinary surgeon vaccinations, checks and documents.
15. British people will lose their free European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and travel for business or holidays will be more expensive as healthcare insurance has to be taken out.
16. Bank accounts of Brits living in France, Spain, Greece are being closed down as Lloyds, Barclays etc. say it is too expensive to set up separate entities in line with 27 national sets of rules.
17. The UK has signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan, which has more stringent rules on state aid than proposed by the EU. Dominic Raab subsequently agreed on a FTA with Vietnam. Vietnam exports $6.02bn to the UK. The UK exports £300m to Vietnam. Smart thinkers, the Vietnamese.
18. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Donald Trump’s Northern Ireland envoy have all confirmed there will be no FTA with the UK if the changes to the Northern Irish border signalled in the Internal Markets Act, which boasts about breaking international law, take effect.
19. Up to 2 million Brits who live in Europe for most or some of the year, do not know their future as they have to get new driving licences in languages they may not speak and can only stay for 90 days in a 180-day period in homes they own, as the UK becomes a third country subject to 27 sets of national rules and regulations on rights of foreigners to live, work and retire.
20. The fishing thing

sunlight · **110** Re: How is the Tory government doing? Fri Oct 02 2020, 12:46

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