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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 6, 2020 13:10:56 GMT 1
Is this a one man crusade.......... It seems to be the case. I especially wonder why the prolific poster deems this message board as the place to carry on his rant. Bury Football Club was perhaps more deserving of his and our attention. Politics has its place and Blue & Amber is not the place for it. Here we go again, shoot the messenger when reporting what these devious so-and-so's are up to. Never mind that no one is forcing anyone to read the thread when it's obvious what you are going to find in the thread from the title. If people don't like it then just read the football threads. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 13:17:05 GMT 1
It seems to be the case. I especially wonder why the prolific poster deems this message board as the place to carry on his rant. Bury Football Club was perhaps more deserving of his and our attention. Politics has its place and Blue & Amber is not the place for it. Here we go again, shoot the messenger when reporting what these devious so-and-so's are up to. Never mind that no one is forcing anyone to read the thread when it's obvious what you are going to find in the thread from the title. If people don't like it then just read the football threads. All true, but it's much, much easier for people to slag NWM off than actually post a rebuttal, or counter-argument. |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 6, 2020 14:50:45 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jul 6, 2020 16:15:39 GMT 1
antisemitism.uk/breaking-steve-reed-apologises-for-puppet-master-tweet-hours-after-sir-keir-starmer-said-he-would-speak-to-him/This just shows how dangerous it is to use Twitter. Jenrick's opposite number Steve Reed has put his foot right in it by describing Desmond as a 'puppet master' for the entire Tory Cabinet. The notion of Jews as all-powerful puppet-masters is apparently a classic antisemitic trope, and Desmond is Jewish. The Jenrick supporters will be all over this. Jenrick is married to Michal Berkner, an Israeli-born corporate lawyer. She is 9 years older than Jenrick and is the child of Holocaust survivors.They have three daughters, whom they are bringing up in the Jewish faith. He is a friend of Idan Ofer, an Israeli billionaire. Jenrick is also a member of the Parliamentary Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) group.In June 2019, he represented the government at the Israel-Palestine peace initiative, led by Jared Kushner. In July 2019, he said: "I want tackling antisemitism and ensuring that the Jewish community feels protected and respected to be one of my priorities as secretary of state", adding about his visit to Auschwitz concentration camp, "It had a huge impact on me and in particular because my wife is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from modern day Poland and the Ukraine." Jenrick has said his connection to the Jewish community forms "a very important and integral part of my life". It's now an absolute certainty that in order to deflect attention from the evidence against him, Jenrick will at some point use Reed's remark to claim that Reed's investigation against him and Desmond is motivated by antisemitism. Thanks for nothing Steve Reed. Let's hope The Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee can come up with something when Jenrick is scheduled to appear before them next Monday.
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Post by northwestman on Jul 7, 2020 9:30:04 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jul 8, 2020 17:59:25 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 8, 2020 18:09:59 GMT 1
I signed and here is the update received: You recently signed the petition “Publish the Russia report”: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300059The Chair of the Petitions Committee, Catherine McKinnell MP, has written to the Prime Minister to ask for an update on the establishment of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). The Russia report is the property of the ISC, so this Committee needs to be established in order for the report to be published. The Government's response to this petition, which was given in March, stated that the new Committee was being formed in the normal way and at the normal pace. The Chair of the Petitions Committee has highlighted the now more than hundred thousand signatures this petition has received, and urged the Prime Minster to expedite the establishment of the Intelligence and Security Committee, so that this report can be published. |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 9, 2020 11:01:26 GMT 1
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jul 9, 2020 11:53:50 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jul 9, 2020 14:50:19 GMT 1
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Post by stfcfan87 on Jul 9, 2020 19:18:04 GMT 1
Not Jendrick, but that leaked letter from Liz Truss was quite an eye opener. Even senior tories are now calling out issues
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 21:35:50 GMT 1
Not Jendrick, but that leaked letter from Liz Truss was quite an eye opener. Even senior tories are now calling out issues What a bombshell. Surely we won’t have a situation whereby ports aren’t ready . Let’s see Johnson blither and blather his way out of this . Meanwhile Baroness Morgan ( so help me I can barely type her name and title without feeling nauseous) confirms that nothing has changed as far as car parking charges for NHS is concerned . Good to hear if it’s true . Issues are stacking up for the Tory Party . It won’t be long now . |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 10, 2020 6:58:25 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/09/chris-grayling-expected-chair-isc-intelligence-security-committeeChris Grayling closes in on role as chair of UK intelligence committee. Four Tory MPs named on nine-person committee expected to back ex-minister’s appointment. 'The former transport and justice secretary has long been Boris Johnson’s pick for the job but the plan has been partly disrupted by months of wrangling as the Tories searched for colleagues willing to vote for him. Grayling was one of five Conservative MPs announced as members of the nine-person committee on Thursday night. It oversees MI5, MI6 and GCHQ and has the power to release the delayed Russia report, postponed from before the election. The others on the committee are the Conservative MPs Theresa Villiers, Sir John Hayes, Julian Lewis and Mark Pritchard, the Labour MPs Kevan Jones and Diana Johnson, the SNP MP Stewart Hosie and the Labour peer Lord West. Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, said: “It is then deeply concerning that the latest plan devised by Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson will aim to parachute Chris Grayling as chair of the committee by putting forward favourable Tory members who will vote him through as chair.” Opposition nominees were attempting to organise a rearguard action to block Grayling’s appointment, although that would require a Conservative to defect. Normally the Tories would have nominated a peer as a member, but the concern was that any nominee might be less likely to support the former minister'. Absolutely shocking. No one wants to vote for Failing Grayling, so Boris and Cummings pick 4 sycophants to make certain he gets the Chair.
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Post by ssshrew on Jul 10, 2020 8:22:11 GMT 1
But it really is no surprise. It’s the way this country will be run for the next four years.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 8:26:03 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jul 10, 2020 8:44:40 GMT 1
He's lucky to be given any sort of job. I'm sure even he realises that, and will be suitably grateful by following whatever instructions emanate from Boris and Cummings as to how to deal with the Russia Report. |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 10, 2020 9:11:52 GMT 1
I note that one of the other nominated members of the Committee is Mark Pritchard of the Wrekin. Please can anyone in his constituency e-mail him re the total unsuitability of Grayling. I doubt it will do much good, as he's already clearly been hand-picked to support Grayling, but at least it might let him know that there is some opposition to this from his constituents. Pritchard has several business interests outside of politics, with commitments to some 55 hours of non-parliamentary duties each month. I'm surprised he has the time to make it to the House of Commons! Adding them up, they come to an income of over £100,000 a year. www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11946/mark_pritchard/the_wrekin#registerIn November 2013, Pritchard was subject to a series of articles in The Daily Telegraph regarding revelations from undercover investigations that he had offered to use his political contacts to set up business deals with foreign officials and ministers in return for being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds. Following the revelations Pritchard referred himself to the Standards Commissioner. Kathryn Hudson, the Standards Commissioner, subsequently announced that she would not investigate Pritchard, because there was "insufficient evidence", although the Daily Telegraph protested that the Commissioner has failed to contact the newspaper for its evidence. Pritchard maintained that he had not broken the Code of Conduct and that his business contacts were unconnected to his parliamentary work. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10445246/Watchdog-will-not-investigate-Tory-MP-over-Albania-deals.htmlPritchard previously employed his wife as his Office Manager on a salary up to £45,000. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 10, 2020 11:10:17 GMT 1
We have to hope that relying on failing Grayling comes unstuck. Wouldn't really trust him to get it wrong right, if you see what I mean.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 12:11:47 GMT 1
Just signed . The no of signatories now stands at 104,880. |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 10, 2020 12:24:49 GMT 1
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Post by ssshrew on Jul 10, 2020 13:33:17 GMT 1
Well one thing is for sure - Boris won’t give a damn. Having survived so far not doing anything about Cummings, et al, Boris will be feeling invincible. It’s so sad for those of us with standards.
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Post by Minormorris64 on Jul 10, 2020 16:01:43 GMT 1
Not Jendrick, but that leaked letter from Liz Truss was quite an eye opener. Even senior tories are now calling out issues What a bombshell. Surely we won’t have a situation whereby ports aren’t ready . Let’s see Johnson blither and blather his way out of this . Meanwhile Baroness Morgan ( so help me I can barely type her name and title without feeling nauseous) confirms that nothing has changed as far as car parking charges for NHS is concerned . Good to hear if it’s true . Issues are stacking up for the Tory Party . It won’t be long now . ...........what until Jeremy gets the call at the allotment about it all being a bad dream and he will be Prime Minister by Christmas |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 18:56:01 GMT 1
What a bombshell. Surely we won’t have a situation whereby ports aren’t ready . Let’s see Johnson blither and blather his way out of this . Meanwhile Baroness Morgan ( so help me I can barely type her name and title without feeling nauseous) confirms that nothing has changed as far as car parking charges for NHS is concerned . Good to hear if it’s true . Issues are stacking up for the Tory Party . It won’t be long now . ...........what until Jeremy gets the call at the allotment about it all being a bad dream and he will be Prime Minister by Christmas With a bit of luck it won’t be the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had , (after the Devil Incarnate Thatcher of course ) Johnson . |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 10, 2020 20:35:25 GMT 1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/robert-jenrick-richard-desmond-westferry-tory-donor-a9612511.htmlJenrick kicking the can down the road. 'Mr Jenrick accepted an invitation to answer questions on the Westferry plan at the House of Commons Housing Committee, but rejected their proposal to hold the on-camera evidence session on Monday next week, offering instead to fix a date in the week of 20 July, in the final days before parliament breaks up for the summer'. In a letter, Jenrick has now told the Committee: “The revised scheme would have provided more than double the number of affordable housing units than the consented scheme". However, what Jenrick disingenuously fails to point out is that the proportion of affordable housing at Westferry Printworks would have fallen from 35% in the original 700-home plan in 2016 to 21% in the 1,500-home revised plan submitted in 2018. And in his recovered appeal document, Mr Jenrick acknowledged that the 21% on offer did not represent the “maximum reasonable amount of affordable housing”
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Post by northwestman on Jul 12, 2020 9:23:16 GMT 1
Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, has given a “multibillion-pound” planning windfall to freehold investors including those in a fund run by David Cameron’s brother-in-law.
Under reforms, owners of residential tower blocks will be allowed to extend their developments upwards by two storeys without planning permission from the start of next month.
One of the biggest beneficiaries is a fund run by William Waldorf Astor IV, Samantha Cameron’s half-brother, which contains hundreds of residential freeholds. Other potential beneficiaries include Vincent Tchenguiz, the property tycoon, as well as anonymous and offshore investors.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 12, 2020 10:56:53 GMT 1
Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, has given a “multibillion-pound” planning windfall to freehold investors including those in a fund run by David Cameron’s brother-in-law. Under reforms, owners of residential tower blocks will be allowed to extend their developments upwards by two storeys without planning permission from the start of next month. One of the biggest beneficiaries is a fund run by William Waldorf Astor IV, Samantha Cameron’s half-brother, which contains hundreds of residential freeholds. Other potential beneficiaries include Vincent Tchenguiz, the property tycoon, as well as anonymous and offshore investors. The Times. Is that dangerous? If you take away the requirement for planning permision do you still know it's being built right? Do the Fire Service get to find out a block is two storeys higher, that might alter their ladder requirements? If you want to make an opportunity (for the taxpayer) out of a loophole, you would make bringing the whole building up to top level energy saving standards and cladded correctly a condition of taking advantage of this. |
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Post by northwestman on Jul 12, 2020 12:07:40 GMT 1
Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, has given a “multibillion-pound” planning windfall to freehold investors including those in a fund run by David Cameron’s brother-in-law. Under reforms, owners of residential tower blocks will be allowed to extend their developments upwards by two storeys without planning permission from the start of next month. One of the biggest beneficiaries is a fund run by William Waldorf Astor IV, Samantha Cameron’s half-brother, which contains hundreds of residential freeholds. Other potential beneficiaries include Vincent Tchenguiz, the property tycoon, as well as anonymous and offshore investors. The Times. Is that dangerous? If you take away the requirement for planning permision do you still know it's being built right? Do the Fire Service get to find out a block is two storeys higher, that might alter their ladder requirements? If you want to make an opportunity (for the taxpayer) out of a loophole, you would make bringing the whole building up to top level energy saving standards and cladded correctly a condition of taking advantage of this. Jenrick has also come under fire with regard to his handling of the cladding issues. www.leaseholdknowledge.com/top-civil-servant-warns-robert-jenrick-over-1bn-cladding-bailout-promises-post-grenfell-blame-game-wont-happen-again/ |
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Post by staffordshrew on Jul 12, 2020 12:32:57 GMT 1
"Poor value" for the taxpaayer, exactly the reason any planning benefit should have the condition that the entire buiding is brought up to today's standards at the owner's expense.
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Post by northwestman on Jul 14, 2020 10:38:20 GMT 1
The new chairman of the intelligence and security committee Chris Grayling, is a No 10 stooge.
As a cabinet minister Mr Grayling was constantly doing the political equivalent of getting his tie stuck in the sushi conveyor belt or accidentally blowing up his fellow agents. There was the ferry company with no ferries that was given a contract in the event of a no-deal Brexit and the disastrous privatisation of the probation service that had to be reversed. The former transport secretary is rarely mentioned without the adjective “hapless” attached to his name. His ministerial blunders are said to have squandered £2.7 billion of taxpayers’ money over the years. One Tory grandee, who served in cabinet with him, says of the ISC chairmanship: “Whatever the reason for manoeuvring Grayling into that position, it’s clearly not to do with ability.” Another former minister describes him as a “perpetual failure”, while a former Conservative strategist reveals that when he worked in No 10 “aides regularly scratched their heads about why he was considered worthy of senior cabinet roles”.
Although in theory the members of the Intelligence and Security Committee are responsible for electing their own chairman, few doubt that what one senior Tory describes as this “committee of stooges” will approve the Downing Street choice. The Conservatives have a majority and the other Tory nominees are widely seen as “farcical” figures in Westminster too.
One of them, John Hayes, once spent two hours hiding in his office and lavatory to avoid an interview. As a minister during the David Cameron era he was seen as “a comedy character carrying the faint whiff of bulls**t wherever he went”, according to a Downing Street adviser from that period.
As for the other Conservative MPs put on to the committee, a former minister claims: “Theresa Villiers is nuts, Julian Lewis is obsessive, Mark Pritchard is a complete Walter Mitty figure. Those lacking in intelligence are now watching over intelligence. It is the emasculation of the committee; it would be better to abolish it.”
The ISC, established in 1994, is a uniquely powerful committee with an important constitutional role overseeing the most sensitive activities of the state. Its members operate within the “ring of secrecy” meaning that they are given privileged access to classified information and receive regular confidential briefings from the spooks. Their job is to use that knowledge to ensure that the correct balance is maintained between civil liberties and national security. At a time when the intelligence agencies have been given greater rights to intercept and hold data, and the terrorist threat is now matched by growing questions about the role of Russia and China, it is more important than ever that the committee can be trusted to act impartially.
Already Downing Street has intervened to delay the publication of an ISC report into alleged Russian interference in British politics and to hold up the establishment of the new committee.
The problem is that it’s part of a pattern. No 10 seems almost resentful of the institutions that traditionally provide a balance to executive power: there have been attacks on the judiciary, the universities, the media, the military, parliament and the civil service. Sir Mark Sedwill has been ousted as cabinet secretary and is being replaced as national security adviser by David Frost, a political appointee. Last week it was also revealed that Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s senior adviser, will visit five of the UK’s top secret security sites ahead of the integrated defence and security review.
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