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Cressida Dick is not new to obstruction
In June last year an inquiry into police corruption over the Daniel Morgan murder:
“blamed Dick personally for obstructing access to documents the panel thought vital”

3 months later Priti Patel extended her contract by 2 years
 
The Gray report is worthless anyway, as one of the Tories inadvertently admitted when the Met opened their investigation, noting that officials were more likely to be forthcoming when speaking to the police than to Gray.
 
Memorial Device tweeted
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The state cannot be trusted to investigate itself. Hillsborough. Orgreave. The Pat Finucane case etc. The truth about Bloody Sunday took 40 YEARS to emerge. Hide behind a bogus 'official investigation' and ride-out the outrage. The incumbent administration survives.

If the public campaigning is relentless enough, the truth MAY emerge years later. But the political fallout will then be zero. Nobody is ever held to account. A shrug of the shoulders and a 'we will learn from it'. They do learn from it. They learn to do it again.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Memorial Device tweeted
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The state cannot be trusted to investigate itself. Hillsborough. Orgreave. The Pat Finucane case etc. The truth about Bloody Sunday took 40 YEARS to emerge. Hide behind a bogus 'official investigation' and ride-out the outrage. The incumbent administration survives.

If the public campaigning is relentless enough, the truth MAY emerge years later. But the political fallout will then be zero. Nobody is ever held to account. A shrug of the shoulders and a 'we will learn from it'. They do learn from it. They learn to do it again.
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Yes, Minister/Prime Minister was a documentary...Sir Humphrey lives on.
 
wobs said:
My local Look North news recently read out some emails from viewers with comments like:
"He's the best PM since Churchill"
"He's had such a lot to deal with, I thinl he's donea great job".
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Damned with faint praise.

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Ukraine: Boris Johnson to call Vladimir Putin and visit region

Boris Johnson will telephone Russian President Vladimir Putin and visit Eastern Europe in the coming days as the UK steps up its diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukraine border crisis.
No 10 said the PM would repeat the need for Russia to "engage diplomatically" when he spoke to Mr Putin this week.

He would "reiterate the need for Russia to step back", No 10 added.
Mr Johnson has said the UK could deploy troops to protect NATO allies if Russia invaded Ukraine. However, Ukraine is not part of NATO and Russia wants the West to promise it will never join the military alliance, seeing it as a direct threat to its security.

As well as Mr Johnson's visit to the region, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will visit Moscow in the next two weeks, the Russian Embassy in the UK said.
Mr Johnson has asked military and security chiefs to give him more options to mitigate against what Downing Street has called "growing Russian aggression".

This weekend, the prime minister is considering those options - including the deployment of more British troops to NATO countries in the region.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60179127

Send more troops to help NATO allies?
I bet he wishes the Tories hadn't cut the infantry by almost 20% over the last few years.
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"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."
 
Darat said:
Sue Grey - oh that’s last week’s news. How can Labour keep going on about a glass of wine at the office when Starma was seen drinking a beer in the office and Johnson is trying to deal with a possible Russian invasion*.




*Not the invasion of London - that one is fine
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Their incursion into the House of Lords & corporate takeover of Tory Central Office don't seem to have caused much of a stir either.
 
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Maybe if you’re Rishi Sunak and your wife’s richer than the Queen, it doesn’t seem that big a deal to write off £4.3bn in fraud even in a country with more food banks than McDonalds.
 
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Tomorrow marks a tragic day in our history, the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. This was one of the darkest days of the Troubles. We must learn from the past, reconcile, and build a peaceful future for people in Northern Ireland.
 
https://twitter.com/annietrev/status/1486763659212869637

Anne-Marie Trevelyan
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Excited to start negotiations with Greenland on a continuity Free Trade Agreement.
A ���� ���� FTA could reduce tariffs on fish & seafood imports from Greenland, supporting key businesses like supermarkets & hospitality & catering firms
Trade = growth = jobs

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/seafood-sector-set-to-benefit-as-uk-starts-greenland-trade-talks
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Yes you read that correctly.

Background:
In 2020, total UK trade with Greenland amounted to £10 million, and DIT estimates that a further £49 million of coldwater shrimp coming into the UK predominantly originated from Greenland that same year.
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A country with about half the population of a UK Parliamentary constituency.
 
Meanwhile to offset this, I make it that since Thursday we have found that the government has wasted £7Bn.

£4.3Bn in fraudulent Covid loans written off
£2.7Bn in PPE purchased that needs to be written off.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
David Schneider tweeted
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Maybe if you’re Rishi Sunak and your wife’s richer than the Queen, it doesn’t seem that big a deal to write off £4.3bn in fraud even in a country with more food banks than McDonalds.
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Rishi Rich has lost more than that down the back of the sofa.
 
jimbob said:
Meanwhile to offset this, I make it that since Thursday we have found that the government has wasted £7Bn.

£4.3Bn in fraudulent Covid loans written off
£2.7Bn in PPE purchased that needs to be written off.
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"The Party of Fiscal Responsibility"...
 
jimbob said:
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Yes you read that correctly.



A country with about half the population of a UK Parliamentary constituency.
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She's my sodding MP: even going back to when she was the Tory PPC I reckoned she was a talent-free zone (part of my calling her Tory Girl goes back to those times, as her blether was soooooo reminiscent of Harry Enfield's Hague spoof), but that hasn't stopped some of the eejits round here voting for her.
 
Sky News - Trevor Phillips On Sunday

Phillips - Everybody is going to be hit with a 10% increase in National Insurance... 6 weeks shopping, then a £600 increase in energy prices, 12 weeks shopping, where are people going to find that money from?

Liz Truss - We have the fastest growing economy in the G7.
 
Also it's a lie. In the last quarter of 2021 UK economic growth was 5th not 1st.
 
David Schneider tweeted
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Good to hear that the Tories are going to clamp down on Russian money. Perhaps they could start with the £1.9m given to Tories since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.
 
Boris Johnson now has the redacted Sue Gray report into No 10 parties.

Cabinet Office spokesperson: "We can confirm that Sue Gray has provided an update on her investigations to the Prime Minister."
 
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