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Cont: General UK Politics IV - Rishi reprise

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I have to admit, I rolled my eyes at the following exchange at the Covid inquiry

Keith asks about the “Bring your own booze” event in the No 10 garden in May 2020 that Reynolds organised for No 10 staff. He puts it to him that this was deeply damaging to trust in government.

Reynolds says he is “deeply sorry” for his part in those events and says he would like to apologise unreservedly for what happened. He was “totally wrong” to invite people to the event, he says.

But he says news of the event only came out 15 months later, and so that limited the damage to trust in government.

Keith says there was another event in June.

Reynolds apologises for that too.
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"I'm deeply sorry for x" "You did y as well" "I'm sorry about that one too"
 
Was he really trying to say because it didn't come out at the time it was all fine?
 
Released WhatsApp messages at the Covid Inquiry have revealed Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson rejected calls for masks in schools because they were in “no surrender mode” towards unions.

Letting kids catch and spread Covid as two fingers to the workers, classic Tories.
 
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Or move to an area more in line with his policial beliefs.
This might explain why The Don is such an Eyore.
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Most of my friends and neighbours are also "champagne socialists". My exposure to the general public is relatively limited, but always disappoints.
 
A ministerial aide has been sacked from his government role after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Downing Street said Paul Bristow had made comments which "were not consistent with the principles of collective responsibility".

In a letter to the prime minister last week, Mr Bristow said "a permanent ceasefire" would save lives and allow aid to reach those who needed it most.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67264814.amp
 
The Conservative economic miracle continues, businesses are going under at a rate not seen since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.

The number of companies going bust this year is on track to be the highest since the depths of the financial crisis in 2009.

Insolvencies rose 10% from a year ago in the three months to the end of September, the latest official figures for England and Wales show.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67261798

It's not surprising. Businesses were barely getting by and have now been hit by Brexit, Covid, a cost of living crisis, soaring energy bills (for which businesses, unlike domestic users, don't receive support), soaring inflation and interest rates returning to long term norms.

It would perhaps be unfair to blame the Conservatives for all these woes but they have directly causes some and their mismanagement has contributed significantly to others.
 
Student historians and economists in the future are likely to be set the exam question of what did the most damage, Brexit, the pandemic or the Tory government?
 
Dominic Cummings if fair laying into the pandemic government and the state of affairs at number 10, as if he was not instrumental in how things were being run and done at that time. He is one of those bizarre people who can detach himself from himself and act as if he had no responsibility for his actions. BJ was another. It is tragic that they were in charge at the time.
 
At the enquiry, according to one of Cummings Whatsapps, he thought that Government ministers were all "**** pigs, ***** and morons"
 
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Dominic Cummings if fair laying into the pandemic government and the state of affairs at number 10, as if he was not instrumental in how things were being run and done at that time. He is one of those bizarre people who can detach himself from himself and act as if he had no responsibility for his actions. BJ was another. It is tragic that they were in charge at the time.
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Absolutely.

And yes he probably was more competent than Johnson or his other acolytes. But that is a low bar.
 
Plans to close rail ticket offices in England scrapped

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the government had asked train operators to withdraw their proposals because they failed to meet high passenger standards.

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In September, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said closing ticket offices was "the right thing for the British public and British taxpayers" as "only one in 10 tickets are sold currently in ticket offices".
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Number of tickets sold might be true, but ticket offices do much more than just sell actual tickets.
 
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