Cont: General UK politics [2]

[dudalb]

Liz Truss says the UK is crippling Putin's war machine and rallying the international community.

God, she is trying to take credit for what Joe Biden is doing.

 

[dudalb]

From what I am reading, Truss is more then even some Tories can swallow.

 

[jimbob]

From what I am reading, Truss is more then even some Tories can swallow.

We have a lot of really dim Government ministers.

Often not MTG tupe aggressively ignorant but thick and DIM.

The intellectual equivalent of fog

 

[Andy_Ross]

From what I am reading, Truss is more then even some Tories can swallow.

The Select committee took her apart today, the Chairman is a Tory MP and he was obviously angry with her.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Priti Patel said in the House today "Putin's cronies have hidden dirty money in the UK and we do not want it here"

Yes, they hid it in the Tory Party's bank account Priti! Give it back if you don't want it!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Priti Patel says "we are setting up" a visa centre away from the port of Calais to prevent a "surge"

At the moment Ukrainian families arriving in Calais are being turned away and must go back to Paris to apply for a visa.

 

[zooterkin]

We have a lot of really dim Government ministers.

Often not MTG tupe aggressively ignorant but thick and DIM.

The intellectual equivalent of fog

Can’t risk appointing someone brighter or more capable than the PM.

 

[Darat]

Priti Patel says "we are setting up" a visa centre away from the port of Calais to prevent a "surge"

At the moment Ukrainian families arriving in Calais are being turned away and must go back to Paris to apply for a visa.

Which translated from this government's newspeak means "I've made an announcement about setting up a visa centre".

 

[jimbob]

Can’t risk appointing someone brighter or more capable than the PM.

Fortunately for Johnson, there is a huge pool of... um... "talent" in the Parliamentary Conservative Party that Johnson can choose from, and which meets that requirement.


And not all the Parliamentary party are in there. Some are knaves instead of fools (there is a Boolean OR)

 

[Lothian]

Which translated from this government's newspeak means "I've made an announcement about setting up a visa centre".

Instructions for applications will be displayed in the cellar in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'[/HGTTG]

 

[Andy_Ross]

So far, there were more people invited to a Downing Street party during lockdown than Ukrainian refugees invited to the UK during a war.

 

[Andy_Ross]

James O'brien on LBC said this morning There’s no mystery or surprise behind our refugee policy. This is what the Government intends, it's working perfectly. People fleeing Ukraine can't get into the country.

 

[Darat]

James O'brien on LBC said this morning There’s no mystery or surprise behind our refugee policy. This is what the Government intends, it's working perfectly. People fleeing Ukraine can't get into the country.

Whilst that could indeed be the case, you must remember that the current lot are totally incompetent, so even if they intended to allow some refugees into the country they wouldn't be able to organise it. This lot blunts Hanlon's razor!

 

[Andy_Ross]

From the committee yesterday

Chris Bryant asked How many additional visas have been given to the Ukrainians since the Invasion began?

Liz Truss, No idea

CB, It's 50

 

[Andy_Ross]

Thatcher put together a task force to retake the Falklands over a weekend, Boris can’t even set up a temporary consulate in Calais.

 

[Darat]

From the committee yesterday

Chris Bryant asked How many additional visas have been given to the Ukrainians since the Invasion began?

Liz Truss, No idea

CB, It's 50

He should have asked her about Stilton exports to Japan - she's red hot about that.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Patel has designed it to be as difficult as possible. Proof of ID and biometrics when these people are fleeing during a war.

 

[Darat]

Patel has designed it to be as difficult as possible. Proof of ID and biometrics when these people are fleeing during a war.

Seems she is doing her job well....

 

[Darat]

Thatcher put together a task force to retake the Falklands over a weekend, Boris can’t even set up a temporary consulate in Calais.

Have we ever had a more incompetent government than the one we have today? Serious question. Many governments have made huge mistakes, many have implemented policies I think are abhorrent, but I can't recall any government so thoroughly incompetent from top to bottom as these lot.

 

[erwinl]

And here the government is preparing for the first group of 25.000 fugitives, with a next group of another 25.000 fugitives after that.
And this is just the beginning.

(I've just listened to our prime minister explaining this).

Edit:
Even the possibilities of them finding work here are being made more easy for them.