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Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 6:38 am
by refitman
Morning all.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 11:02 am
by RogerOThornhill
Good morning.
Sometimes you get the right people on your side but at other times...
Shaun Bailey Retweeted
Stefan Boscia
@Stefan_Boscia
Former Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has come out today to back Shaun Bailey's mayoral campaign. He says Sadiq Khan has not been a mayor "who owns the problem [of violent crime], shows leadership and supports our police".
9:16 AM · Mar 11, 2021·Twitter Web App
Ah yes, Sir Paul Stephenson who had to resign as Met Chief during the phone hacking scandal due to his links with Neil Wallis...and the timing after yesterday...
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 12:31 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
Dregs will attract dregs, I suppose
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 12:47 pm
by RogerOThornhill
"Oh no, he didn't mean that document at all!"
https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/statu ... 3588794373" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Peter Walker
@peterwalker99
Replying to
@peterwalker99
This means, as far as No 10 are concerned, Hoyle will not get his clarification. This is an unexpected twist. At PMQs, Johnson said Starmer "voted against the document in question", after Starmer had just waved a copy of the NHS budget, and made no mention of Queen's speech.
12:33 PM · Mar 11, 2021·TweetDeck
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 12:58 pm
by RogerOThornhill
From one year ago...
Mr B
@MrB_online
Matt Hancock claims there are no plans to shut schools due to #COVID19
This is a contradictory from previous statements. If strict isolation rules are applied, schools would be forced into difficult decisions, impossible staff planning & chaotic closures.
#CoronaVirusUpdate
7:37 PM · Mar 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 1:13 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
We really should have learned to mistrust the phrase "no plans to" by now.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 1:39 pm
by RogerOThornhill
I guess this was inevitable...
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Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
NEW:
Govt delays post Brexit import paperwork checks due next month and in July... until October, and into next year
1:25 PM · Mar 11, 2021·Twitter for iPad
Completely underestimated the scale of the issues thrown up by Brexit - who, us? never!
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 1:43 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
Today is ten years since the Japanese tsunami.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 1:44 pm
by RogerOThornhill
And this is not good news for the anti-Woke brigade...
Charity Commission
@ChtyCommission
We have found no grounds for regulatory action against the National Trust. However, we welcome the charity’s ongoing commitment to learning lessons and taking into account diverse opinions within its membership and society.
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Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 5:49 pm
by refitman
So, Labour are running on increasing nurses wages in the local elections, but have rowed back on the 5% increase they had in the last election(?). They really are spectacularly useless.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 5:59 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
But being in the last manifesto makes it automatically bad, apparently.
Fortunately for Labour (if not actual health workers) it seems Sunak is sticking to his guns - claiming the planned figure is "proportionate, fair and reasonable".
So that's us all told
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 8:10 pm
by refitman
All going swimmingly.
Howard Beckett
@BeckettUnite
·
1h
Of all of the Labour NECs I have attended today’s was the most depressing.
The motion to recall conference was refused, no vote taken.
When @LauraPidcock
questioned how this could be explained to members Margaret Beckett called her a “silly cow”.
Truly shocking.
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Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 8:19 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
Beckett is no angel himself, however. I certainly hope that Steve Turner succeeds McCluskey rather than him.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 9:01 pm
by tinyclanger2
"Despairing Clanger" emoticon
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 9:14 pm
by RogerOThornhill
And on QT tonight (not that I watch it but might be amusing...)
Panellist Mims Davies
Panellist Steve Reed
Panellist Victor Adebowale
Panellist Bonnie Greer
Panellist Dan Hodges
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 9:44 pm
by refitman
RogerOThornhill wrote:And on QT tonight (not that I watch it but might be amusing...)
Panellist Mims Davies
Panellist Steve Reed
Panellist Victor Adebowale
Panellist Bonnie Greer
Panellist Dan Hodges
Thoughts and prayers for Sky
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 10:18 pm
by gilsey
refitman wrote:So, Labour are running on increasing nurses wages in the local elections, but have rowed back on the 5% increase they had in the last election(?). They really are spectacularly useless.
Tbf, it's hard to see what
anyone can run on in the locals, given the current state of LA finances.
We'll issue a section 114 notice 6 months later than the other lot?
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 10:26 pm
by gilsey
RogerOThornhill wrote:I guess this was inevitable...
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/ ... 6371795968" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
NEW:
Govt delays post Brexit import paperwork checks due next month and in July... until October, and into next year
1:25 PM · Mar 11, 2021·Twitter for iPad
Completely underestimated the scale of the issues thrown up by Brexit - who, us? never!
Interesting choice of headline in the G
UK forced to delay checks on imports from EU by six months
Makes it sound like an Act of God, rather than carelessness.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 11:37 pm
by RogerOThornhill
I'm shocked, shocked that the tedious right wing buffoon who runs Save Our Statues took a dim view of the outcome of the CC investigation!
Save Our Statues - Robert Poll
@_SaveOurStatues
Who regulates the regulators?
Earlier we had Bristol Police praised for their bystander "policing" & now we have
@ChtyCommission
saying
@nationaltrust
did not breach guidelines with its political witch-hunt. It seems the wokes' "long march" through the institutions is complete.
Fascinating in some ways to see someone so convinced in his own knowledge that it never occurs to him that maybe he might be wrong...people like this won't ever be satisfied.
Re: Thursday 11th March 2021
Posted: Thu 11 Mar, 2021 11:40 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
The use of "long march" (a phrase based on a widespread Gramsci misquote) tells its own story really.