Westminster Politics
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
I blame the voters. We have allowed thus corruption take hold by being negligent.
The British political system has been built over centuries to ensure that power is held by a minority who play by a completely different rulebook to the rest of us. The corruption isn't something that voters let happen, it's baked in to the system. The electoral system is specifically designed to make it inaccessible to anyone without establishment backing and the parliamentary and party systems are designed to ensure that elected officials are unaccountable to anyone but themselves. No-one who wants to make any radical change to that status quo will get the backing, platform or fair hearing required to gain the office you'd need to do so.
Not that I'm letting people off the hook for voting this lot in, but ultimately 'one rule for them and one for us' has been the status quo in this country for hundreds of years, to the extent that the expectation that our leaders will be corrupt and we can't do anything about it is one of the pillars of British political culture. Being openly corrupt is, perversely, viewed with less suspicion and meets with less derision l than claiming you won't be corrupt.
Absolutely sickening. If there was any backbone left to this country we would take to the streets forcibly remove them from power.
Staggering report on Sky News about the scale of Private Consultants being employed by the UK government on our so called world class Test Track and Trace System.
These consultants are employed on a day rate basis at a equivalent annual wage of £1.5 million pounds per year, or a day rate of between £650/700.
And as everyone knows (apart from the government) the system is anything but world class.
So is the government reducing the number of so called consultants.
Far from it. They are being taken on by the hundred.
The budget is in excess of £120billions.
What fantastic value for money.
Not really. According to Sky, there are no Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Wonder why????
These consultants are employed on a day rate basis at a equivalent annual wage of £1.5 million pounds per year, or a day rate of between £650/700.
And as everyone knows (apart from the government) the system is anything but world class.
So is the government reducing the number of so called consultants.
Far from it. They are being taken on by the hundred.
The budget is in excess of £120billions.
What fantastic value for money.
Not really. According to Sky, there are no Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Wonder why????
media would call you "covidiots" for protesting during a pandemic
Day rates were £7000, not £700. We should not be surprised
Amd the media can join the politicians, they are complicit in keeping these feckers sitting pretty
This is great and spot on. Sadly delivered to basically an empty chamber and nothing will happen because there's no accountability for anything anymore.
Here we go with the normalisation of madness again:
A lockdown implemented in Wales is not a socio-economic principle. Marx's Pandemic Management for the masses is regrettably a work lost to time.
Meanwhile, insane consultancy fees paid to Tory donors, friends and family members rather than to our nation's infrastructure is largely ignored (and, indeed, on this website largely defended) whilst our track and trace capability is run by someone who had either never heard of, or had no budget to build ETL processes or a data warehouse (something the most junior member of my team could sort in a couple of days tops).
Thankfully, we have an opposition who are working hard to be marginally better than this in order to appease the increasingly and consistently right wing voting patterns of England.
That is right. Hardly believable. Clearly I couldn't.
This is also what you get when your supposedly liberal leaning media normalises the view of basic soft left social democracy as “hard left crankery” and theres no fecking push back.
Wallow in it, and rejoice. For they are legion, and we are fecked.
Socialists famously in favour of national borders.
I don't know what is says about the British psyche that Rees-Mogg is considered intelligent because he has a posh accent.
The Government will only bail out TFL in exchange for an increase to the costs of fares AND an extension to the congestion charge zone
This country is done.
UK credit rating downgraded by Moody's amid growth concerns
Ratings agency cites weakening economy, Brexit woes and coronavirus shocks
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ng-downgraded-by-moodys-amid-growth-concerns?
Ratings agency cites weakening economy, Brexit woes and coronavirus shocks
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ng-downgraded-by-moodys-amid-growth-concerns?
After blowing up the Standard's finances, he gets a promotion. Nothing is right with this country.
The Government will only bail out TFL in exchange for an increase to the costs of fares AND an extension to the congestion charge zone
This country is done.
I imagine they'll do the same in New York. When the losses are so colossal, what else would you expect?
SEVEN week-old firm with links to Tory peer lands £122 million PPE contract
Unsurprisingly, there was no tender process when the contract was handed to an associate of Baroness Mone.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...ry-peer-lands-122-million-ppe-contract/08/10/
Unsurprisingly, there was no tender process when the contract was handed to an associate of Baroness Mone.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...ry-peer-lands-122-million-ppe-contract/08/10/
The UK have become the Russia of the 1990's.
Ironic, considering the Tory party oligarch donor scandal.
Sadly unlike the US, we don't have their natural checks and balances.
“Everyone has less money and fewer people are using it, let’s encourage them to do so by putting the price up”
It’s ass-backwards.
It’s complicated. But pressing the ‘More money button’ is so silly.
The Hancock mask thing seems like a "Look, a squirrel!" compared to the whole "Tories once again steal millions of taxpayer's pounds to give to their buddies for no reason whatsoever." story.
Id get banned if I was to say what Id like to do to this utter fecking prick.