It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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What's the company. Of course there's no suggestion at all that anything inappropriate happened.
try turning up to protest with 50 or 60 buddies outside the Dail and see what happens.
the Police can't stop you protesting, unless they have good reason. You do have to clear the manner of the protest and route etc with them first though.
Ah. Whataboutery.
The new policing bill is supposed to prevent protests but does so by handing over control of whether or not they should go ahead to the police in very ambiguous language.
no, it doesn't.
The Police can stop a protest going ahead, as they can now, but only if they have good reason and this reason must not contravene the Human Rights act.
This act doesn't give the Police any new powers to stop a protest going ahead, it just gives them more powers if the protestors fail to comply with the restrictions on the protest, or if that protest get out of hand and becomes offensive/violent.
Nonsense. You even admit it yourself. If it gets offensive to them, the police can stop it.
Police state indeed.
Daily mail, for one: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/19/daily-mail-jimmy-wales-fake-news-wikipedia-wikitribune.html . And this was 5 years ago - they've not improved. Didn't they originally run an image from 2019 showing Starmer having a beer for 'beergate?' What was up with that?
The Tories are spoofing about giving a rats for their constituents. Just themselves and their donors, including their RuSSian benefactors like Ledbedev.
then that makes pretty much every state in Europe a police state.
The Police have to be able to prevent a serious breach of the law, even the actual European Convention allows for this. You can't just say "It's a demonstration, we can do what we like".
2. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. This Article shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on the exercise of these rights by members of the armed forces, of the police or of the administration of the State.”
no, that was only a proposal.
the plan is that the IDS won't be free and the councils issuing them is not set in stone.
yes, it does.
the police already have the powers to deal with violent protests and to deal with those who don't comply with instructions so don't need any further ones.
the bill is about banning protesting, the fact being offensive is being included as part of it when being offensive is so objective clearly shows what is going on here.
no just britain as they go way way to far in giving the police powers on such matters.
and, of course, you can back up this assertion that the plan is for these cards not to be free?
Hint, don't look at the commons library website, because they don't agree with you:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9187/
The Government expects detailed secondary legislation needed to for voter ID to work in practice, including the new free voter card, will be passed later in 2022. Voter ID requirements should then be in place for local elections in England May 2023 and at any UK Parliamentary election held after that date.
The types of ID to be allowed are set out in section 5. These include passports, photographic driving licences, biometric immigration documents and some concessionary travel passes. Free voter cards will be made available for those without any other form of photographic ID.
you could, in all fairness, be accused of spreading false news.
It was/is Frank Dolphin's company and as they are more or a less a contact centre, I would guess they were involved in contact tracing.
I have no doubt that there was nothing untoward, but technically the work should have been put out to tender. This was obviously not going to happen in the midst of a pandemic though.
In the UK, the press would have seen the connection and cried foul immediately, followed by The Good Law Project taking the government to court for not following due process.
I mean, the Guardian tried to make a big thing about some guy who owned a pub in the village Matt Hancock lives in and now owns a plastic moulding company, getting a contract to supply millions of test tubes to a medical supplies company that was making kits for the Covid Testing. It was about as tenuous as the failed attempts to call fraud over the links Jennifer Carrol MacNeil has with the company providing temp staff for contact tracing call centres.
Special Panorama on partygate BBC 2 now
I expect PMQs will be a bit bumpy for Johnson tomorrow. Might tune in for a change.
Watching it , still hard to figure out were it will end , I think its down to the Sue Gray report but certainly questions about Boris's meeting with her .
He'll just do his usual blather of waffling on about Ukraine while mentioning "beergate" and not even try to come into the same ballpark as answering any of the questions. PMQs does not work when you have someone as shameless as Johnson and a party willing to allow it.
The Tories filled their boots with dodgy contracts though at least be honest. One of them....conservative peer Michelle Mone is bizarrely getting very little coverage...
If they didn't do it directly they landed plum contracts for their backers/mates.
Ok let's looks at Matt Hancock. The pub landlord/mate won contract after WhatsApp, texts and emails...he won a contract...but if that isn't enough..he isn't exactly squeaky clean....
The partygate programme was meh.
Kuenssberg couldn't really hide her pro Boris bias - she really showed herself up in the past with her entirely unfair attacks on Corbyn. Plenty of other examples of her being anti labour as well.
like I said earlier, any link to a conservative is exploited to the max by the media to create a narrative, no matter small or tenuous.
the pub landlord sent a message to Matt Hancock at the start of the pandemic to see if he could help with the effort to make PPE. Hancock directed him to the correct department to record this.
mover a year later, a company that puts together covid testing kits, orders a few million test tube from him, as they are desperate to find a manufacturer.
but according to the Guardian, this is an obvious case of fraud.
Yep. I live in a chumocracy where the sort of antics one might expect in a backwards banana republic are commonplace and we're not allowed proper media scrutiny.
Hmmm....what about the rest of the post...just happy to ignore that....
Chumocracy lol.
if it’s that bad, you know what to do.
Interesting rampage on behalf of the Tory Party this evening
I honestly thought that when Kier Starmer became leader of the Labour party that, being a barrister, he would really skewer Johnson but it mostly feels like there just is no real opposition.
I think Starmer is fairly decent at PMQs. I think Johnson has been "skewered" multiple times. But it just doesn't matter because he has a cowardly party behind him with a safe majority.
When you consider how badly the Tories did t the local elections, the Labour performance was pretty weak.
Starmer’s problem is that he has nothing to offer other than throwing **** at Johnson. The trouble is, when you start throwing shot around, sooner or later some will come back and hit you.
So you line is basically that the MSM are out to get those poor, unprotected, out upon conservatives.
If only they could get a shot at power, even a year or two, and maybe one paper on their side, maybe then they could make things right.
Damn elites won't give them a chance!
Ok, happy to go in to it.
what you need to remember, is that most of these “revelations” are coming from the “Good Law Project”, who are a political organisation pushing a left wing message but using the courts to do it (who have now got fed up and told them to piss off).
PPE procurement during the pandemic was chaos. Most of the world was fighting each other to get PPE out of China and the only way to do this, was through agents or a network of contacts in China or Hong Kong. If you look at the majority of companies contracts were given to, they had these contacts. Check out the contract given to EKO by the HSE as an example. The one given to Ayanda was similar, they simply knew someone who knew someone and had the means to pay in whatever currency they wanted. It was a sellers market remember.
some of these also had links to the Conservative party so a big fuss is made. I’ve no doubt some has links to the liberals and Labour, but the Good Law Project isn’t looking for them, this is done purely for political reasons.
Great response. Bravo.
To be fair, I would wager that BoJo could take a shít on Monopoli's chest and I have no doubt they would ask for seconds.
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