Monday 18th January 2021

[refitman]

Morning all.

[tinybgoat]

Morning (& happy new year)
Someone's managed to combine two of my least favourite things,
Sea Shanties & Rees Mogg

[citizenJA]

Good afternoon, everyone.

[citizenJA]

Priti Patel is on nutmeg

[citizenJA]

It's unfortunate the Vaccine Minister isn't

[citizenJA]

Patel looping Red Hot Chili Peppers Give It Away & the cat programme videos on her phone

[Willow904]

Talking of Priti Patel, all but one of the authors of Britannia Unchained are now top government ministers.

And today, George Monbiot tweeted this:

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George Monbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
A few more years of this and we'll be a failed state.
6:53 AM · Jan 18, 2021

Coincidence?

[citizenJA]

Talking of Priti Patel, all but one of the authors of Britannia Unchained are now top government ministers.
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(cJA edit)
and destroying doesn't require competence

[tinybgoat]

Patel looping Red Hot Chili Peppers Give It Away & the cat programme videos on her phone

Priti Patel picked a perpetual playlist of pungent peppers,
A perpetual playlist of pungent peppers,Priti Patel picked
If Priti Patel picked a perpetual playlist of pungent peppers,
Where's:the perpetual playlist of pungent peppers, Priti Patel picked?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Priti Patel is on nutmeg

Is this a euphemism?

[RogerOThornhill]

Good afternoon.

This is just...weird.

Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
BREAKING—FBI has charged & have obtained an arrest warrant for 22-year old woman suspected of stealing
@SpeakerPelosi
’s laptop during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege with the intent of selling the device to Russia’s foreign intelligence services.
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That's Trumpish patriotism for you...

[RogerOThornhill]

EHRC undermined by pressure to support No 10 agenda, says ex-chair

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Addressing the EHRC’s decision to halt an investigation into Conservative party Islamophobia, Isaac said it was only a pause, while the Tories carried out their own inquiry.

“It [the party inquiry] was due to report by the end of the year [2020] so I’m interested to know whether or not it has reported or whether it’s slipped,” he said.

“My view is that the commission needs to look at the recommendations of that review and if it is unhappy with the approach that it’s taken and whether or not it is sufficiently independent and robust, if it’s not satisfied about those things, then it should investigate Islamophobia in the Tory party in the way that it investigated antisemitism in the Labour party.”

Ah but will it though?

I think we know the answer to that one.

[citizenJA]

Priti Patel is on nutmeg

Is this a euphemism?

nope

[AnatolyKasparov]

EHRC undermined by pressure to support No 10 agenda, says ex-chair

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Addressing the EHRC’s decision to halt an investigation into Conservative party Islamophobia, Isaac said it was only a pause, while the Tories carried out their own inquiry.

“It [the party inquiry] was due to report by the end of the year [2020] so I’m interested to know whether or not it has reported or whether it’s slipped,” he said.

“My view is that the commission needs to look at the recommendations of that review and if it is unhappy with the approach that it’s taken and whether or not it is sufficiently independent and robust, if it’s not satisfied about those things, then it should investigate Islamophobia in the Tory party in the way that it investigated antisemitism in the Labour party.”

Ah but will it though?

I think we know the answer to that one.

They may surprise us, tbf. Though probably not.

[PorFavor]

'A multiple pile-up in the fog': wine agent's fury at Brexit red tape

Daniel Lambert blasts government and on Twitter castigates bureaucratic procedures (Guardian)

Worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... t-red-tape

[AnatolyKasparov]

Again, this can just be dismissed as "teething problems". How long will that one fly, though?

[gilsey]

According to Johnson, the fish exporters have been filling in the wrong forms.

I suppose he works on the assumption that they all vote SNP anyway.


Meanwhile

John Redwood
@johnredwood
Time for the government to sort out the fishing issues. The industry expects a better deal. There's plenty the government can do to improve things.

[gilsey]

Sunak also entering the unpopularity contest.

Sebastian Payne
@SebastianEPayne
Replying to
@SebastianEPayne
Rishi Sunak does not want UC uplift becoming permanent.

“It would cost £6bn — that’s the equivalent of putting 1p on income tax and adding 5p a litre on fuel duty. Hopefully this will help focus minds among Conservative colleagues on what we value most.”

I believe we're about £100bn down on fuel duty since Osborne froze it.

[PorFavor]

The fish exporters should have read the fin print then their problems wouldn't have been on this scale.

Anyway - what forms? I thought there weren't going to be any.

[AnatolyKasparov]

According to Johnson, the fish exporters have been filling in the wrong forms.

I suppose he works on the assumption that they all vote SNP anyway.


Meanwhile

John Redwood
@johnredwood
Time for the government to sort out the fishing issues. The industry expects a better deal. There's plenty the government can do to improve things.

Tories gained the main Scottish fishing constituencies in 2017, so.......

[tinyclanger2]

The fish exporters should have read the fin print then their problems wouldn't have been on this scale.

Anyway - what forms? I thought there weren't going to be any.

Boom boom.

[RogerOThornhill]

Jenrick's article in the DT was always about throwing some culture war stuff to the right - truth didn't come into it.

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[RogerOThornhill]

Petty, small-minded people. Good riddance.

Peter Alexander
@PeterAlexander
“Melania Trump will become the first modern first lady not to invite the woman who will replace her to the White House for a walk-through of the private living quarters on the second and third floors.”

[citizenJA]

Petty, small-minded people. Good riddance.

Peter Alexander
@PeterAlexander
“Melania Trump will become the first modern first lady not to invite the woman who will replace her to the White House for a walk-through of the private living quarters on the second and third floors.”

Agreed

[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA