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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2022 19:50:46 GMT 1
And along pop the tory boot lickers! Not sure about boots, but erhaps you should have been licking up Starmer's late night curry....'before he went back to work " Erhaps you’re right😂😂
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Post by shrewsace on May 11, 2022 20:21:46 GMT 1
Jesus Christ!
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Post by block12massive on May 12, 2022 8:47:05 GMT 1
'If' guilty. Starmer's press conference the other day was a deliberate ploy to put untenable pressure on Durham Police who have now been forced into a position of knowing that if they were to find him guilty that they would be opening themselves up to accusations that they are interfering in politics. I'd find it very difficult to conceive the idea that a career lawyer and knight of the realm would fall on his sword so willingly if he didn't think he had a watertight case / could somehow prejudice the outcome in his favour. He's also got the Dominic Cummings lockdown breach in the same police jurisdiction as an ace up his sleeve as well. To his supporters, a humble man of principle. To his detractors, a man guilty as sin at least on the charge of hypocrisy. I know which one I think. I'm not a massive fan of Starmer. But claiming he's a hypocrite if he doesn't offer to resign, then saying he's putting 'untenable' (intolerable?) pressure on the police when he does is peak Daily Mail 'logic'. No I'm pretty sure it's untenable. Thanks for the grammar suggestion though! I never said Starmer was a hypocrite for offering to retire but a hypocrite for his behaviour. In my opinion he should have probably kept quiet until after the findings and worked out what his response was going to be from there. That would have been the obvious thing to do in my opinion.
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Post by northwestman on May 12, 2022 19:03:39 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/12/government-refuses-to-release-lebedev-peerage-details-despite-mps-instructionThe government has declined a Commons instruction to release information about the decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a peer, saying this would undermine the confidentiality of those nominated and could degenerate into “political point-scoring”. Labour called the decision “a cover-up” and promised more action over what it called a contempt of parliament. The announcement said information had instead been provided to parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC). This prompted an immediate rebuff from the ISC, which said its request for details about Lebedev was separate and should have remained classified.
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Post by martinshrew on May 12, 2022 19:18:08 GMT 1
He's a proper oddball to be fair.
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Post by servernaside on May 12, 2022 20:19:54 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/12/government-refuses-to-release-lebedev-peerage-details-despite-mps-instructionThe government has declined a Commons instruction to release information about the decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a peer, saying this would undermine the confidentiality of those nominated and could degenerate into “political point-scoring”. Labour called the decision “a cover-up” and promised more action over what it called a contempt of parliament. The announcement said information had instead been provided to parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC). This prompted an immediate rebuff from the ISC, which said its request for details about Lebedev was separate and should have remained classified. Still reading the Guardian?
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Post by Pilch on May 12, 2022 21:03:35 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/12/government-refuses-to-release-lebedev-peerage-details-despite-mps-instructionThe government has declined a Commons instruction to release information about the decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a peer, saying this would undermine the confidentiality of those nominated and could degenerate into “political point-scoring”. Labour called the decision “a cover-up” and promised more action over what it called a contempt of parliament. The announcement said information had instead been provided to parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC). This prompted an immediate rebuff from the ISC, which said its request for details about Lebedev was separate and should have remained classified. and bad news links on beergate ?
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Post by wookeywombat on May 12, 2022 22:31:41 GMT 1
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Post by servernaside on May 13, 2022 14:25:39 GMT 1
I don't read the Daily Mail.
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Post by wookeywombat on May 13, 2022 16:35:47 GMT 1
I don't read the Daily Mail. Weird. You seem to have identical opinions
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Post by northwestman on May 13, 2022 16:42:22 GMT 1
I don't read the Daily Mail. Weird. You seem to have identical opinions I've put on links from the Daily Mail, The Times, The Telegraph and numerous other publications as well as the Guardian, but I still get the cracked record from him of only posting Guardian articles.
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Post by northwestman on May 13, 2022 16:47:17 GMT 1
Boris Johnson failed to apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she described the “massive impact” his false claim had on her six-year detention in Iran, her husband said.
The prime minister was seemingly “shocked” after the British-Iranian dual national told him she had lived for years in the “shadow of his words” during their first meeting since her release.
Speaking to reporters in Downing Street, Ratcliffe said his wife challenged the prime minister on “why did it take so long” to secure her release.
She also told him the “massive impact” his comments had on her, even saying the Iranian authorities brought Johnson’s words up during interrogation shortly before her release.
Asked if the prime minister apologised, Ratcliffe responded: “Not specifically.”
The Guardian.
But if servernaside prefers the Daily Telegraph:
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe "clearly and categorically" told Boris Johnson she lived in the "shadow of his words", her local MP has said as she met with him for the first time since her release.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was held hostage in Iran for six years before her release in March amid a £400million deal with Iran.
Mr Johnson was accused by some commentators and activists of prolonging her detention in 2017 when, as foreign secretary, he wrongly stated that she was in Iran 'teaching people journalism'.
She was sitting next to the Prime Minister, and she told him very clearly and categorically that his words had had a big impact on her and that she had lived in the shadow of his words for the best part of four-and-a-half years.
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Post by staffordshrew on May 13, 2022 16:49:09 GMT 1
I don't read the Daily Mail. Weird. You seem to have identical opinions I'd say more Daily Express.
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Post by northwestman on May 13, 2022 18:41:53 GMT 1
The Prime Minister did agree to consider giving evidence to the foreign affairs select committee, which is currently conducting an inquiry into the failures which led to Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s lengthy imprisonment.
So they've actually asked if the Prime Minister would give evidence because that would be quite compelling and powerful, and he said he would look into that.
Daily Telegraph.
Methinks he'll be 'looking into that' for some considerable time.
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Post by northwestman on May 14, 2022 10:42:48 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on May 15, 2022 10:25:52 GMT 1
Talk about tinkering round the edges:
So far we've got MOTs to be every 2 years, ban on buy-one-get-one-free deals for unhealthy food products to be delayed, and now the freezing of prescription charges.
Thanks to better-than-expected tax revenues, the chancellor has a windfall of around £20bn. But rather than spending all of that on new measures, he chose to spend only £10bn (largely on lower fuel duties and higher National Insurance thresholds) but pocketed the remaining £10bn.
Measures that would really help include:
Windfall tax. Scrapping of the N.I. levy. Removal of the freezing of personal allowances. Benefits and pensions to be increased in line with inflation. Removal of VAT from energy bills. Removal of 'green' levies from energy bills.
None of which, apart from the windfall tax which would be a one off tax anyway, do I expect to happen.
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Post by Exkeeper on May 15, 2022 10:36:37 GMT 1
Weird. You seem to have identical opinions I'd say more Daily Express. They will soon be concentrating on the white Christmas and severe winter that will be coming our way from October onwards. Surely they will get it right one year in a generation, or maybe not.
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Post by zenfootball2 on May 15, 2022 11:05:30 GMT 1
The Prime Minister did agree to consider giving evidence to the foreign affairs select committee, which is currently conducting an inquiry into the failures which led to Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s lengthy imprisonment. So they've actually asked if the Prime Minister would give evidence because that would be quite compelling and powerful, and he said he would look into that. Daily Telegraph. Methinks he'll be 'looking into that' for some considerable time. "Methinks he'll be 'looking into that' for some considerable time." i think that can has just been kicked into a black hole never to be seen again.
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Post by northwestman on May 15, 2022 19:50:51 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on May 15, 2022 20:12:08 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/jeremy-hunt-ignored-nhs-staff-shortages-while-health-secretaryJeremy Hunt has been accused of ignoring serious NHS staff shortages for years and driving medics out of the profession while health secretary after he intervened this weekend to warn of a workforce crisis. But his comments drew sharp criticism from healthcare staff, who said Hunt – the longest-serving health secretary in the 74-year history of the NHS – failed to take sufficient action to boost recruitment while in the top job between 2012 and 2018. Instead, critics said, his tenure saw health workers quit the NHS in droves for jobs abroad or new careers outside medicine. There are now 100,000 vacancies in the NHS, and the waiting list for treatment has soared to 6.4 million. “There’s an avalanche of pressure bearing down on the NHS. But for years Jeremy Hunt and other ministers ignored the staffing crisis,” said Sara Gorton, the head of health at Unison, the UK’s largest health union. “The pandemic has amplified the consequences of that failure. Experienced employees are leaving at faster rates than new ones can be recruited.”
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Post by Pilch on May 15, 2022 20:17:54 GMT 1
any links on beergate ?
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Post by northwestman on May 15, 2022 20:26:33 GMT 1
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Post by zenfootball2 on May 15, 2022 21:10:57 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/jeremy-hunt-ignored-nhs-staff-shortages-while-health-secretaryJeremy Hunt has been accused of ignoring serious NHS staff shortages for years and driving medics out of the profession while health secretary after he intervened this weekend to warn of a workforce crisis. But his comments drew sharp criticism from healthcare staff, who said Hunt – the longest-serving health secretary in the 74-year history of the NHS – failed to take sufficient action to boost recruitment while in the top job between 2012 and 2018. Instead, critics said, his tenure saw health workers quit the NHS in droves for jobs abroad or new careers outside medicine. There are now 100,000 vacancies in the NHS, and the waiting list for treatment has soared to 6.4 million. “There’s an avalanche of pressure bearing down on the NHS. But for years Jeremy Hunt and other ministers ignored the staffing crisis,” said Sara Gorton, the head of health at Unison, the UK’s largest health union. “The pandemic has amplified the consequences of that failure. Experienced employees are leaving at faster rates than new ones can be recruited.” Jeremy Hunt has been accused of ignoring serious NHS staff shortages for years and driving medics out of the profession while health secretary after he intervened this weekend to warn of a workforce crisis.he also ignored a report highlighting that hte NHS would not cope with a pandemic. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jeremy-hunt-ignored-nhs-staff-shortages-while-health-secretary/ar-AAXiRwv?ocid=msedgdhp
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Post by northwestman on May 16, 2022 11:16:57 GMT 1
www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/world/europe/russian-money-uk-tories.htmlOne of the biggest donors to Britain’s Conservative Party is suspected of secretly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party from a Russian account, according to a bank alert filed to Britain’s national law enforcement agency. The donation, of $630,225, was made in February 2018 in the name of Ehud Sheleg, a wealthy London art dealer who was most recently the Conservative Party’s treasurer. The money was part of a fund-raising blitz that helped propel Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his party to a landslide victory in the 2019 general election. But documents filed with the authorities last year and reviewed by The New York Times say that the money originated in a Russian account of Mr. Sheleg’s father-in-law, Sergei Kopytov, who was once a senior politician in the previous pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine. He now owns real estate and hotel businesses in Crimea and Russia. “We are able to trace a clear line back from this donation to its ultimate source,” Barclays bank wrote in a January 2021 alert to the National Crime Agency. The bank, which maintained some of the accounts used in the transaction, flagged the donation as both suspected money laundering and a potentially illegal campaign donation. New York Times. A serious investigation into the bankrolling of the Tory Party by Russian money is surely long overdue.
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Post by martinshrew on May 16, 2022 11:18:46 GMT 1
One of the biggest donors to Britain’s Conservative Party is suspected of secretly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party from a Russian account, according to a bank alert filed to Britain’s national law enforcement agency. The donation, of $630,225, was made in February 2018 in the name of Ehud Sheleg, a wealthy London art dealer who was most recently the Conservative Party’s treasurer. The money was part of a fund-raising blitz that helped propel Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his party to a landslide victory in the 2019 general election. But documents filed with the authorities last year and reviewed by The New York Times say that the money originated in a Russian account of Mr. Sheleg’s father-in-law, Sergei Kopytov, who was once a senior politician in the previous pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine. He now owns real estate and hotel businesses in Crimea and Russia. “We are able to trace a clear line back from this donation to its ultimate source,” Barclays bank wrote in a January 2021 alert to the National Crime Agency. The bank, which maintained some of the accounts used in the transaction, flagged the donation as both suspected money laundering and a potentially illegal campaign donation. New York Times. A serious investigation into the bankrolling of the Tory Party British politics by Russian money is surely long overdue. Fixed it for you.
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Post by northwestman on May 16, 2022 11:34:54 GMT 1
One of the biggest donors to Britain’s Conservative Party is suspected of secretly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party from a Russian account, according to a bank alert filed to Britain’s national law enforcement agency. The donation, of $630,225, was made in February 2018 in the name of Ehud Sheleg, a wealthy London art dealer who was most recently the Conservative Party’s treasurer. The money was part of a fund-raising blitz that helped propel Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his party to a landslide victory in the 2019 general election. But documents filed with the authorities last year and reviewed by The New York Times say that the money originated in a Russian account of Mr. Sheleg’s father-in-law, Sergei Kopytov, who was once a senior politician in the previous pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine. He now owns real estate and hotel businesses in Crimea and Russia. “We are able to trace a clear line back from this donation to its ultimate source,” Barclays bank wrote in a January 2021 alert to the National Crime Agency. The bank, which maintained some of the accounts used in the transaction, flagged the donation as both suspected money laundering and a potentially illegal campaign donation. New York Times. A serious investigation into the bankrolling of the Tory Party British politics by Russian money is surely long overdue. Fixed it for you. I've little doubt that other parties have questions to answer as well (e.g Labour's Barry Gardiner and £500,000 of Chinese money). www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/barry-gardiner-china-spy-money-b1992780.html Probably why this issue isn't being pushed as hard by the opposition as it should be. Labour's Mandelson accompanying Osborne on that Russian oligarch's yacht is another incident that comes to mind. www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics-scandal-idUSTRE49L2XG20081022But links between Russian money and the Tories keeps coming up time and time again.
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Post by northwestman on May 16, 2022 19:17:38 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/boris-johnson-brexit-mess-northern-ireland-dupTwo of Boris Johnson’s most reckless chickens are coming home to roost. To get hard Brexit into law and topple his predecessor, Theresa May, he told Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party that he would allow no border in the Irish Sea. He promptly allowed one, and signed a protocol to the Brexit deal to that effect. An enraged DUP is duly refusing to let the new Northern Irish executive take office until that border goes. Johnson is now threatening to unilaterally renege on the protocol, in turn enraging the EU by flagrantly breaching the withdrawal deal. Precisely this trap was built into hard Brexit from day one. Everyone knew it. It was classic Johnson. He lied his way out of each scrape, sacking or ennobling colleagues according to taste. The absence of a new executive in Belfast leaves open the prospect of direct rule from London. If Johnson fails to dismantle the EU-ordained border controls at Belfast docks, the DUP will stall power-sharing. If he gives in and allows the world’s goods to flow freely into the Irish republic, the EU has threatened to retaliate in an all-out trade war. The question is what new “constructive ambiguity” – a euphemism for fudge – Johnson can conceivably fashion to get him out of this mess.
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Post by northwestman on May 17, 2022 17:58:27 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on May 17, 2022 19:21:05 GMT 1
At least, with Covid behind us and the Government raising National Insurance to fund a Health and Social Care levy – giving the NHS an extra £12 billion – we can expect to see a big improvement in waiting times and patient care.
Think again. According to a report by Policy Exchange, NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the pandemic with almost no change in the number of much-needed frontline staff. While officials in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England are busy creating more meaningless layers of management, with hefty salaries attached, the number of nurses rose by just seven per cent.
To your average person, it seems obvious that, with 6.4 million on waiting lists, the new funds must be be ringfenced and channelled as a matter of urgency to clinicians and social care. A lack of beds (and staff) in residential homes means that around 12,000 hospital patients a day who are fit for discharge remain in hospital.
Unfortunately, NHS managers appear to see their role of overseeing the delivery of healthcare as superior to that of care itself.
NHS England does no routine hospital management; it is responsible for implementing government policy. For every type of healthcare “workstream” – elective, mental health, screening, primary care – there is someone in NHS England in charge of overseeing the delivery. Each of those national leads has a team of people and each region (of which there are seven) has a set of people overseeing delivery from a regional perspective. That’s a hell of a lot of staff who are not actually providing any medical care, but are busy reporting on how others are delivering it.
Wait, there’s more. An executive board covers operations, finance, information technology, human resources and analytics. Each of those functions has a similarly extensive national and regional structure.
In between NHS England and the hospitals, there are now Integrated Care Systems, which are basically a partnership between the hospitals, GPs, some local authority services and healthcare commissioners. They too all have boards, heads of delivery, finance structures and business intelligence functions.
One equality and diversity manager absorbs the pay of two nurses.
Policy Exchange revealed that the total pay bill at the DHSC and NHS England actually doubled in the two years since February 2020, from £42 million to £83 million, with the number of senior officials multiplying by an astonishing 125 per cent.
Allison Pearson. Daily Telegraph.
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Post by venceremos on May 17, 2022 20:03:54 GMT 1
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