General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

The Don said:
I worked closely with a number of board members of a major water utility in the late 90s. Most of them could have been replaced with garden gnomes to the benefit of the company.
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I remember hearing on the Today programme, sometime in the late 80s, that a water company was defending pay rises given to their board on the grounds that they hadn't had a performance-related bonus. But I was half asleep (my alarm clock was set to play Radio 4 at 8am) so I might have dreamed it.

But I also remember which specific water company it was, and this detail makes me think I didn't imagine it.
 
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The Don said:
I worked closely with a number of board members of a major water utility in the late 90s. Most of them could have been replaced with garden gnomes to the benefit of the company.
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Your assessment is not the most surprising thing I have read today
 
Andy_Ross said:
I add coffee mate to my coffee along with the milk.
I suppose that counts as milk powder.
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Where I used to work, they claimed that coffee mate was grated cow hooves...

(Not the most ridiculous claim that was often voiced.)

When I told them what gelatin and gelly were, i.e. bones and skin, they were a bit shocked.

(Yes I know you can get vegan jellies, but still.)
 
The Don said:
I worked closely with a number of board members of a major water utility in the late 90s. Most of them could have been replaced with garden gnomes to the benefit of the company.
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During my long career I have advised dozens of Boards and never failed to be depressed at how few of their members were capable of doing basic stuff such as reading and understanding financial statements. Obviously you have specialists for the most complex things, but the amount of handholding along the lines of ‘with this number so high and that number so low you’ll be out of business within a year’…
 
UK economy grew more than expected in first three months of year.

But according to the Tories and Reform, Reeves has crashed the economy and it's a disaster for Britain

The economy expanded by 0.7% in the January-to-March period, which was stronger than the 0.6% that analysts had forecast.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said growth was largely driven by the UK services sector, although production also "grew significantly"
Business investment is up nearly 6% on the quarter and the service sector is doing well as well.
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www.bbc.co.uk

Rachel Reeves says UK economy 'beginning to turn a corner'

The economy grew faster than expected between January and March, before UK and US tax rises were brought in during April.
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Andy_Ross said:
UK economy grew more than expected in first three months of year.

But according to the Tories and Reform, Reeves has crashed the economy and it's a disaster for Britain



www.bbc.co.uk

Rachel Reeves says UK economy 'beginning to turn a corner'

The economy grew faster than expected between January and March, before UK and US tax rises were brought in during April.
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Yesterday at PMQ BadEnoch claimed that the department store 'Beales' was closing down because of Rachel Reeves and the employer's NI rise conveniently ignoring the fact that it was part of a 23 shop chain that went bankrupt in 2020, pre COVID & under [Checks notes] the Tories, three of the stores were subsequently reopened but the other two have already closed.
 
A newly elected Leicestershire county councillor was sacked from the police last year for breaching professional standards on "honesty and integrity, discreditable conduct, orders and instructions, and duties and responsibilities".

Andrew Hamilton-Gray won a seat in Loughborough for Reform, with almost 40% of the vote.

Posting on social media after his election on 1 May, Hamilton-Gray said he had spent most of his life "serving the Crown".

He pledged to serve Loughborough North West "with honour, integrity and transparency".

Now it has emerged that he was a former police officer, and had been dismissed from Leicestershire Police in January 2024.
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Newly elected councillor Andrew Hamilton-Gray was sacked as police officer - BBC News

Andrew Hamilton-Gray won a seat in Loughborough for Reform, with almost 40% of the vote.
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Andrew Husband has been selected as Reform UK group leader in County Durham, so is in line to become the leader of Durham County Council next week. He describes COVID vaccines as genocide and a crime against humanity.


Darren Grimes has been made deputy group leader so he is in line to be deputy leader of the council. He says they have "plans up their sleeves" for getting asylum seekers out of Durham.

Both newly elected with no experience.
We are no longer a serious country.
 
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Navy blue double breasted waistcoat with a blue check single breasted Matalan suit and a shirt about 3 sizes too big for him.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Andrew Husband has been selected as Reform UK group leader in County Durham, so is in line to become the leader of Durham County Council next week. He describes COVID vaccines as genocide and a crime against humanity.


Darren Grimes has been made deputy group leader so he is in line to be deputy leader of the council. He says they have "plans up their sleeves" for getting asylum seekers out of Durham.

Both newly elected with no experience.
We are no longer a serious country.
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Correction: Untergruppenfuhrer.
 
I keep wondering if those are so young because they are more naive than the older Reform councillors and so have ended up where they have more legal responsibilities.
 
Via the Private Eye Paul Foot awards and this shocking video about lead contamination in the UK.



And the paper involved

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Lead exposure sources and public health investigations for children with elevated blood lead in England, 2014 to 2022

Background Lead exposure at any concentration can adversely impact health, with children being more vulnerable to its effects. In England, children with an elevated blood lead concentration (BLC) are reported to Health Protection Teams (HPTs) for public health investigation. A detailed review of...
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jimbob said:
I keep wondering if those are so young because they are more naive than the older Reform councillors and so have ended up where they have more legal responsibilities.
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There also might be little choice, I wasn't entirely joking about the Young Conservatives, these would have been the freaky, misfit, Tory Boy Lites that would have been activists, canvassers, assistants or researchers for local MPs for a few years until they moved on, got laid or got selected to stand in an unwinnable seat to pay their dues & maybe get a one with a chance next time.. Instead they've managed to skip the whole 'learning how things work' stage and jump straight to ruining people's lives for real.
 
This man was in the Cabinet

John Redwood
@johnredwood
We used to sell few sausages to the EU before they stopped our exports. The UK should not surrender our fish and our right to make our own laws in order to sell a few sausages to them.
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Apropos of nothing, someone in a twitter chat group just posted a link to this Blackadder III video clip.

 
Apparently Charles Pugsley had a £50,000 a year private education and is a Landlord of several housing properties.
 
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