Robert Jenrick - concerned son or hypocrite?

[Mortgagehound]

May 10, 2021 14:49:46 GMT 1 staffordshrew said:

May 10, 2021 14:20:00 GMT 1 Mortgagehound said:

That may not be the case as we don't know who took the photograph in John Lewis.  If it was Stammers office staff then I believe they are paid from the public purse in which case the comparison to Boris is as broad as long

One of Starmer's office staff may have been told to take a snap, but Boris actually employs a photographer at public expense.

Boris Johnson's personal photographer is paid £100k pro rata from taxpayers' money on a part time contract, Channel 4 have revealed. Andrew Parsons was hired earlier this year under the official job title of 'Special Adviser' at No. 10, but his actual job entails taking flattering, candid photographs of the prime minister as he goes about his daily business.

Ah but.......

Nick Danziger's photos catch Tony Blair in the act. This was a commission by Downing Street to capture Tony Blair as PM. Commissioned for Tony’s 50th birthday. Article can be found in the Socialist Worker

I rest my case M’lord

[staffordshrew]

May 10, 2021 19:13:43 GMT 1 Mortgagehound said:

May 10, 2021 14:49:46 GMT 1 staffordshrew said:

One of Starmer's office staff may have been told to take a snap, but Boris actually employs a photographer at public expense.

Boris Johnson's personal photographer is paid £100k pro rata from taxpayers' money on a part time contract, Channel 4 have revealed. Andrew Parsons was hired earlier this year under the official job title of 'Special Adviser' at No. 10, but his actual job entails taking flattering, candid photographs of the prime minister as he goes about his daily business.

Ah but.......

Nick Danziger's photos catch Tony Blair in the act. This was a commission by Downing Street to capture Tony Blair as PM. Commissioned for Tony’s 50th birthday. Article can be found in the Socialist Worker

I rest my case M’lord

If Boris only hired a photographer for a special occasion, like a 50th birthday then it would be ok, but he spends £60K of public money PER YEAR in a vain attempt to counteract the free ones the press take, like the one of him hiding in the fridge.

£60k would go a long way towards unjustified sudden removal of PIP payments for around a dozen people who are plunged into desperation, depression and potential suicide.  The family of a woman who took a fatal overdose after her benefit payments were cut say they have begun a legal claim against the government.

[northwestman]

www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/housing-secretary-robert-jenrick-visited-20554833

The Secretary of State for Housing visited the 19-storey block of flats which caught fire in Poplar yesterday but did not speak with residents.

Robert Jenrick, the government’s Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, visited the New Providence Wharf yesterday (May 7) after a fire broke out in a 19-storey block of flats in the morning.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: “The Housing Secretary visited New Providence Wharf yesterday to speak to and give thanks to the fire service and other responders in person.”

The Secretary of State has been criticised for not speaking with residents yesterday, who were waiting to approach Mr Jenrick with their concerns.

Tower Hamlets Justice for Leaseholders (THJL) said on Twitter: ‘ @robertjenrick You should be ashamed of yourself. You did your helicopter visit to @ballymore ’s New Providence Wharf and met no affected residents. Why are you hiding?’

[northwestman]

Robert Jenrick upsetting Tory backbenchers.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9585715/Eighty-MPs-set-oppose-Governments-house-building-spree-party-heartlands.html

More than 80 Tory MPs could rebel over planning reforms that some have dubbed a ‘developers’ charter’ that would hit the party’s ‘Blue Wall’ shire constituencies.

The Planning Bill was announced in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month. Boris Johnson has vowed to build 300,000 homes a year by 2025.

But the plan has put the PM on a collision course with many of his backbenchers. And countryside campaigners have warned that the reforms – the biggest shake-up of the system for 70 years – would mean ‘open season for developers’ in rural areas.

[northwestman]

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/18/residents-fire-risk-flats-consider-buying-rope-ladders-smoke-hoods

Residents of apartment blocks with fire safety problems are exploring buying abseiling equipment, rope ladders and personal smoke hoods to help them evacuate burning buildings, amid rising anger that thousands of homes remain unfixed.

It follows the latest blaze in an apartment block with fire safety defects earlier this month at New Providence Wharf, in east London, where residents were trapped on balconies because they could not escape through thick smoke.

The government has so far pledged £5bn to fix fire safety problems, but MPs believe the bill is about £15bn, and tens of thousands of leaseholders are in standoffs with developers and freeholders over who should pay the rest.

Lucy Powell, the shadow housing secretary, tabled an amendment to the Queen’s speech bill attempting to get the government to underwrite the cost of repairs before clawing back the money from those responsible for the faults.

“The government must step up and end the waking nightmare for millions of residents trapped in unsafe, unsellable homes,” Powell said. “Through no fault of their own, leaseholders’ lives are on hold, faced with crippling costs, with the fear of fire a real and present danger for many.”

[northwestman]

One for Jenrick's in-tray.

www.theguardian.com/money/2021/may/30/private-renters-in-england-on-cliff-edge-as-eviction-ban-ends

Almost two million private renters fear they will be unable to find another property if they lose their home after the eviction ban is lifted, ministers are being warned.

With the ban coming to an end this week, the government is facing demands for emergency legislation to increase the permanent protection for those struggling to pay their rent as a result of the Covid pandemic. Councils are also warning of a “cliff edge” of homelessness in the months ahead unless action is taken, with a potential £2.2bn bill for the state.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9635985/One-million-Britons-fear-losing-homes-eviction-ban-ends-tomorrow.html

As the ban on evictions is lifted almost one million households fear being made homeless, new research has suggested.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said 400,000 have already been served with an eviction notice or told they may be evicted and a further 450,000 households are in arrears with rent, JRF said.

A ban on evictions in England ends today, leading to warnings from housing campaigners that tenants face a wave of proceedings as bailiffs are allowed to resume using court orders for repossession.

[northwestman]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9635425/The-property-tycoons-not-tackling-Grenfell-cladding.html

A member of David Cameron’s family and a multi-millionaire Tory party donor are linked to firms which are yet to strip Grenfell-style cladding from high-rise buildings, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Britain’s biggest freehold investors are implicated by a Government list shaming companies that have yet to start removing deadly cladding from fire-trap flats.

It comes after the owners of a London tower block were blasted for failing to replace cladding before a fire left 44 people needing treatment this month.

Work has been completed on just 247 of 469 buildings with Grenfell-style ACM cladding almost four years after the west London tower blaze claimed 72 lives. Repairs have yet to begin on 43.

[northwestman]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-57329960

A second senior UK minister has urged Delyn MP Rob Roberts to resign his seat and trigger a by-election.

The call, by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, follows the MP's six week suspension for sexual misconduct.

Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg as well as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have also said Mr Roberts should quit.

Mr Jenrick said he should resign "so that the by-election can be called and somebody better able to represent that part of the country can be elected".

Good heavens!

[ssshrew]

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious. Hypocrites are us it would seem.

[northwestman]

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told BBC Radio's 4 Any Questions programme: "There's a task to be done, Matt is on the job doing that, and I think we should allow him to get on with the job."

He added: "The rules have been hard. It is everybody's duty to follow the rules, but equally I've not been somebody who has criticised and condemned people when they've made mistakes."

Unfortunate turn of phrase!

That lack of criticism would also of course include himself and his travel arrangements between his various homes and his parents' residence. Another hypocrite.

[northwestman]

www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/05/thousands-of-leaseholders-in-unsafe-homes-will-be-unable-to-sue-developers

Thousands of leaseholders living in dangerous blocks will not be protected by the latest government attempt to tackle the spiralling cost of the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis, it has emerged, as ministers publish legislation allowing developers to pass on costs to residents.

The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, will introduce a bill extending leaseholders’ rights to sue developers, but residents in at least 239 buildings will not be able to take advantage because their buildings are too old, according to research by the UK Cladding Action Group. Representatives in 79 blocks could in principle sue because their homes were built after 2006, but all except a handful could not afford it.

The snap study appears to undermine Jenrick’s claim on Sunday that the “lion’s share” of the buildings identified as fitted with dangerous cladding would qualify under the 15-year retrospective law.

Leaseholders are also outraged that the government appears to have decided against legislating to protect homeowners from bills to fix fire safety defects, which in the worst cases run to £100,000 per household. The building safety bill will enshrine the existing legal right of developers and building owners to pass on costs to leaseholders as long as they can show they explored “alternative ways to meet remediation costs before passing these on to leaseholders”.

One leaseholder described it as a “slap in the face”. Another said it was devastating. Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders are facing bills to repair fire safety defects that could run to £15bn. The government has so far set aside £5.1bn.

Rituparna Saha, a co-founder of the UK Cladding Action Group of affected leaseholders, said: “Four years on [from Grenfell] this is the shambolic response from the government instead of tackling the issue head on and making sure buildings that need to be made safe are made safe so people can get on with the rest of their lives. It’s outrageous.”

Jenrick has repeatedly said he wants to protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs. Appearing on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Jenrick said: “It should be the builders and the developers who should be paying for this. It is not right that either the leaseholder or the taxpayer has to step up.”

Government policy has been to put the onus on developers to volunteer to pay for repairs, which has happened in a few cases, while offering grants where they refuse, but only for works on cladding on tall buildings and not for other fire safety faults.

“They have said all along that leaseholders shouldn’t have to pay, but here it is in black and white [that they should],” said William Martin, a leaseholder in the affected Metis building in Sheffield. “I can’t believe that this far on from Grenfell this is all they are doing to protect leaseholders … How on earth does the government think this is adequate?

[northwestman]

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/05/government-cladding-scandal-grenfell-inquiry-residents-towers-safe

The government is removing the deadly cladding from some 500 of the most at-risk towers, but beyond that, the residents of an estimated 1,500 high-rise buildings in England considered unsafe – and therefore unsellable, unmortgageable and uninsurable – are on their own, in a perilous financial position. The housing minister, Robert Jenrick, has told them to sue the builders if they can afford it. The taxpayer – by which he means his department – will not bear the cost.

By their nature, tall buildings require the most meticulous safety monitoring. In Britain this is lacking. A Commons report on Grenfell came to a clear conclusion last year: “The residents are in no way to blame and it is our view that they should bear none of the cost of remediation.” The blame lies with corporate greed and regulatory failure. The cost of remediation, currently estimated at £15bn, should therefore fall on the builders and the government. Both have spent four years passing the buck.

Boris Johnson has squandered public money on his friends and on party donors, on his electoral ambitions, his gimmicks and his vanity projects. Remedying the cladding fiasco would cost just three years of his vacuous HS2 project, which he still lacks the guts to cancel. The one thing Johnson should never be allowed to say is that we can’t afford it.

[northwestman]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9979509/Biggest-change-planning-laws-Second-World-War-DROPPED-Ministers.html

Ministers are set to water down a shake-up of planning thanks to opposition in the Tory shires, it was reported last night.

Many of the reforms - which are designed to help build 300,000 extra homes per year - are set to be scr@pped and watered down by the Government, reports suggested.

It is understood they are now considering abandoning the plan to make local housing targets mandatory.

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is also likely to scr@p the 'zonal system' under which neighbours would be unable to object to new homes in many areas, The Times reported.

The threat of losing votes always concentrates politicians' minds. Hence the triple lock will be restored and the N.I. increase removed (though left as a separate Health and Social Care Levy) just before the next General Election.

[northwestman]

Jenrick has been sacked by Boris.

After nearly two and a half years of posting numerous posts on this thread about his many shortcomings, I now feel totally vindicated.

[Deleted]

So, farewell then 'Honest' Bob...

[zenfootball2]

Sept 15, 2021 15:30:39 GMT 1 northwestman said:

Jenrick has been sacked by Boris.

After nearly two and a half years of posting numerous posts on this thread about his many shortcomings, I now feel totally vindicated.

at last but it is a disgrace that it took so long

[northwestman]

Robert Jenrick, housing secretary until he was sacked in 2021, becomes a health minister.

I guess I'll now be revisiting this thread.

[block12massive]

Sept 7, 2022 16:21:10 GMT 1 northwestman said:

Robert Jenrick, housing secretary until he was sacked in 2021, becomes a health minister.

I guess I'll now be revisiting this thread.

Without speaking on behalf of the rest of the forum I'd say most of us probably rather you don't, with all due respect.

[wookeywombat]

Sept 7, 2022 16:22:15 GMT 1 block12massive said:

Sept 7, 2022 16:21:10 GMT 1 northwestman said:

Robert Jenrick, housing secretary until he was sacked in 2021, becomes a health minister.

I guess I'll now be revisiting this thread.

Without speaking on behalf of the rest of the forum I'd say most of us probably rather you don't, with all due respect.

Obviously in true Johnson fashion you would advocate sweeping it under the carpet saying "Nothing to see hear"

[block12massive]

Sept 7, 2022 16:28:32 GMT 1 wookeywombat said:

Sept 7, 2022 16:22:15 GMT 1 block12massive said:

Without speaking on behalf of the rest of the forum I'd say most of us probably rather you don't, with all due respect.

Obviously in true Johnson fashion you would advocate sweeping it under the carpet saying "Nothing to see hear"

It is a football forum after all, could northwest's comments not be shoehorned into one of the various other government bashing threads available?

And if I did advocate ignoring it completely as you suggest, I would be saying 'Nothing to see here'.

[Deleted]

Sept 7, 2022 16:22:15 GMT 1 block12massive said:

Sept 7, 2022 16:21:10 GMT 1 northwestman said:

Robert Jenrick, housing secretary until he was sacked in 2021, becomes a health minister.

I guess I'll now be revisiting this thread.

Without speaking on behalf of the rest of the forum I'd say most of us probably rather you don't, with all due respect.

I’m in favour of every MP having their own thread where we can analyse their individual performances and sleaze related activity.

[Pilch]

use the B&A political stance flowchart


are you a tory ?


NO, have a go any anyone complaining about this thread coming back and say you agree with it

YES , post about trawling back though old threads , and make it personal 

Neither,  take the p**s out of everyone 


lovin' it 

[Deleted]

Sept 7, 2022 16:58:39 GMT 1 Pilch said:

use the B&A political stance flowchart


are you a tory ?


NO, have a go any anyone complaining about this thread coming back and say you agree with it

YES , post about trawling back though old threads , and make it personal 

Neither,  take the p**s out of everyone 


lovin' it 

I’m not sure that neither is an applicable answer to a question such as are you a Tory.

[Pilch]

Sept 7, 2022 17:17:40 GMT 1 @feedoknasher said:

Sept 7, 2022 16:58:39 GMT 1 Pilch said:

use the B&A political stance flowchart


are you a tory ?


NO, have a go any anyone complaining about this thread coming back and say you agree with it

YES , post about trawling back though old threads , and make it personal 

Neither,  take the p**s out of everyone 


lovin' it 

I’m not sure that neither is an applicable answer to a question such as are you a Tory.

I'm really not quite sure why I got labelled a boris defender,   I clearly stated on 12th January this year when the garden party photos came out that he shouldn't resign but should have been removed from office and their seats put up for election

tory you say ? 

Jan 12, 2022 20:05:38 GMT 1 Pilch said:

for the record I dont think Boris should resign, there should be some sort of intervention higher up and everyone involved in that gathering be removed from government with their seat up for vote like Patterson recently, this rule should become standard for all MPs

[northwestman]

There have been suggestions that Jenrick could in effect be in charge of the day-to-day running of the NHS, given that the health secretary, Thérèse Coffey, is also Truss’s deputy prime minister.

Surely not!

[ssshrew]

I’m more worried about Coffey’s reported stance on abortion to be honest. I’m not sure she is impartial enough to hold such an important role. She says she won’t look to change the laws but she’s a politician so I wouldn’t believe a word she said.

I just don’t think someone with such a definite and well known view should have been appointed Health Secretary. It just doesn’t sit right and, apart from JRM who I can’t even begin to talk about, this is the one appointment that worries me.

[kp]

Look at the pictures and tell me that having this person as Health Secretary is not some sort of joke.

news.sky.com/story/who-is-therese-coffey-the-new-karaoke-loving-health-secretary-who-admits-shes-not-a-role-model-12691842

[block12massive]

Sept 8, 2022 9:49:28 GMT 1 kp said:

Look at the pictures and tell me that having this person as Health Secretary is not some sort of joke.

news.sky.com/story/who-is-therese-coffey-the-new-karaoke-loving-health-secretary-who-admits-shes-not-a-role-model-12691842

Fat shaming a woman isn't as progressive minded as you might think.

[kp]

Sept 8, 2022 9:51:08 GMT 1 block12massive said:

Sept 8, 2022 9:49:28 GMT 1 kp said:

Look at the pictures and tell me that having this person as Health Secretary is not some sort of joke.

news.sky.com/story/who-is-therese-coffey-the-new-karaoke-loving-health-secretary-who-admits-shes-not-a-role-model-12691842

Fat shaming a woman isn't as progressive minded as you might think.

I didn't mention gender. (or indeed body shape)

You, however, did.

[northwestman]

Jenrick is now the Immigration Minister.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/01/jenrick-refuses-to-criticise-braverman-over-invasion-comment

The UK immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, said he would “choose his words very carefully” when asked if he would defend Suella Braverman calling migrant boats “an invasion”, but refused to criticise the home secretary.

But he said the phrase “invasion” – for which Braverman has been criticised – was “a way of describing the sheer scale of the challenge”.