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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.
This Government doesn't have any morals or shame, and the British public don't care about scandals when it comes to Tories.
The PM literally said he doesn't care if bodies pile up ffs, nothing will change until the public decide to care.
The PM literally said he doesn't care if bodies pile up ffs, nothing will change until the public decide to care.
I don't get why you wouldn't sack Hancock. He's one of the most sackable people in the UK. It's remarkable that he's sustained regular employment for this long.
Sky reporting that the woman’s brother is an executive at a healthcare company that was given several contracts by the health department.
Exactly this. When enough of the public care about something, they can genuinely make change. As we see when this shambles of a Government make u-turns on free school meals when Rashford has much of the country backing his campaign.
Frustratingly though, most people are entirely apathetic to how this Government behave. They can lie with impunity, funnel taxes to their wealthy mates, break their own laws. Hardly anyone actually gives a shit. It’s embarrassing what a nation of boot lickers we are really.
Because he is the scapegoat that Johnson wants to hide behind when the dust settles on the shambolic handling of the pandemic. Same reason he keeps even worse people like Gavin Williamson around.
The whole cabinet is made up of incompetents. The two or three criteria for being in the cabinet are 1. Brexiteer 2. Incompetent and if possible 3.Nasty. Nothing else matters.
Because it would set a precedent. Boris will know full well that someone (Cummings) is holding compromising evidence of Boris breaking the rules during the pandemic. If Boris took a hardline, people would be expecting his resignation when that’s released.
Yep reckon this is sadly it. Give it a year or two, the commission will highlight the failings, such as failing to protect care homes (rightly so) and Hancock of he survives till then will be the convenient scapegoat.
We're only bootlickers when it comes to Tories because the electorate are hyponotised into believing that voting for them will mean that someday, somehow, they too will become wealthy enough to benefit from Tory policies.
If this was Labour MP's or Lib Dem's, they would've been flung in the streets and shamed ala Cersei by now. Think about the things that Labour MP's still get criticised for in comparison to the things that Tories say, do & lie about.
Hancock must have some right filth on many of the cabinet to survive that
Boris is clearly playing the long game.
When the right time comes to chuck Hancock under the proverbial bus, in order to save himself, then he will be gone.
Hancock is a terribly convenient lightning rod.
Far too useful just to sack him over something like this.
Yes indeed.
But Boris won't need to worry. Love Island is back on the TV. Something far more important than any of the government ineptness and catastrophic failings.
No accountability for anything, shutting down media, suppressing protests, ID for voting. All right out of Trump/Republican playbook.
And lots of flags, pictures of the Queen and now that song that schoolchildren are encouraged to sing.
I just checked the Beeb and couldn't stop pissing myself at the headline they're using.
"The PM's spokesman said he accepted *insert name here" apology and considers the matter closed."
I've lost count of how many times I've read this line in the last couple of years.
Well Johnson set a precedent on Covid over the Barnard Castle incident. And he can hardly fire him on a family values pretext….
I bet Laura wrote that headline.I just checked the Beeb and couldn't stop pissing myself at the headline they're using.
Little Britain nailed this 15 years ago
Politics should be disbanded imo. Come up with something else. Rule by twitter poll.
Normal people should stay out of politics, though. People should stick to their lanes. Unless it's a politician talking about something that isn't political, like the civil service or how many boiled eggs I'm allowed to put in my mouth.
What’s this about a dragon man?!?!I just checked the Beeb and couldn't stop pissing myself at the headline they're using.
Holy moly!!!!
and trying to make it harder for citizens to seek justice in the courts where the government are acting illegally
Next week:
CON: 56 (+18)
The more I think about Whitehall and the government the more it sounds like some Caligula ridden orgy pit.
People will rightly criticise Hancock for appointing his lover to a lucrative role and awarding contracts to his friends.
But the much bigger issue is that the UK is run by a small social circle of families and friends who all went to University together, generation after generation. Why wouldn't Hancock think he can hand his university friends contracts and easy-money jobs when it seems to be taken as read that his university friends will find themselves in those roles anyway? The system is built so that Matt Hancock's university friends find themselves in these positions, whether he's fecking them or not. And so too their children, their children's children, etc.
The below astounded me when I read it a couple of years ago (unsurprisingly) both Hancock and Coladangelo are also graduates of the exact same course.
It's madness to run a country that way, with 3/4 of the country's PMs since the 1720s coming from the same two very exclusive, nepotism-rife universities. If you wanted to build a functioning political system, hacking that stranglehold to bits would be a great place to start. Rather than only pointing to it when two of the people involved happen to be caught having an affair while going about the usual business of handing each other power and money.
But the much bigger issue is that the UK is run by a small social circle of families and friends who all went to University together, generation after generation. Why wouldn't Hancock think he can hand his university friends contracts and easy-money jobs when it seems to be taken as read that his university friends will find themselves in those roles anyway? The system is built so that Matt Hancock's university friends find themselves in these positions, whether he's fecking them or not. And so too their children, their children's children, etc.
The below astounded me when I read it a couple of years ago (unsurprisingly) both Hancock and Coladangelo are also graduates of the exact same course.
MONDAY, 13 April 2015 was a typical day in modern British politics. An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), Ed Miliband, launched the Labour party’s general election manifesto. It was examined by the BBC’s political editor, Oxford PPE graduate Nick Robinson, by the BBC’s economics editor, Oxford PPE graduate Robert Peston, and by the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Oxford PPE graduate Paul Johnson. It was criticised by the prime minister, Oxford PPE graduate David Cameron. It was defended by the Labour shadow chancellor, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Balls.
Elsewhere in the country, with the election three weeks away, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Oxford PPE graduate Danny Alexander, was preparing to visit Kingston and Surbiton, a vulnerable London seat held by a fellow Lib Dem minister, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Davey. In Kent, one of Ukip’s two MPs, Oxford PPE graduate Mark Reckless, was campaigning in his constituency, Rochester and Strood. Comments on the day’s developments were being posted online by Michael Crick, Oxford PPE graduate and political correspondent of Channel 4 News.
On the BBC Radio 4 website, the Financial Times statistics expert and Oxford PPE graduate Tim Harford presented his first election podcast. On BBC1, Oxford PPE graduate and Newsnight presenter Evan Davies conducted the first of a series of interviews with party leaders. In the print media, there was an election special in the Economist magazine, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Zanny Minton-Beddoes; a clutch of election articles in the political magazine Prospect, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Bronwen Maddox; an election column in the Guardian by Oxford PPE graduate Simon Jenkins; and more election coverage in the Times and the Sun, whose proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, studied PPE at Oxford.
Elsewhere in the country, with the election three weeks away, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Oxford PPE graduate Danny Alexander, was preparing to visit Kingston and Surbiton, a vulnerable London seat held by a fellow Lib Dem minister, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Davey. In Kent, one of Ukip’s two MPs, Oxford PPE graduate Mark Reckless, was campaigning in his constituency, Rochester and Strood. Comments on the day’s developments were being posted online by Michael Crick, Oxford PPE graduate and political correspondent of Channel 4 News.
On the BBC Radio 4 website, the Financial Times statistics expert and Oxford PPE graduate Tim Harford presented his first election podcast. On BBC1, Oxford PPE graduate and Newsnight presenter Evan Davies conducted the first of a series of interviews with party leaders. In the print media, there was an election special in the Economist magazine, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Zanny Minton-Beddoes; a clutch of election articles in the political magazine Prospect, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Bronwen Maddox; an election column in the Guardian by Oxford PPE graduate Simon Jenkins; and more election coverage in the Times and the Sun, whose proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, studied PPE at Oxford.
It's madness to run a country that way, with 3/4 of the country's PMs since the 1720s coming from the same two very exclusive, nepotism-rife universities. If you wanted to build a functioning political system, hacking that stranglehold to bits would be a great place to start. Rather than only pointing to it when two of the people involved happen to be caught having an affair while going about the usual business of handing each other power and money.