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@Catogrande Very much so.
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@Catogrande I think it's a group account that some UK media people use to parody a certain type of smug liberal.
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This isn't a parody. It's an actual written question to the PM.
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@Tim I couldn't resist posting this about Jones (from a blog).
"Every rally that Jones has claimed to organise appears to have resulted in a Labour loss. One of his rallies in 2019 General Election in Uxbridge that tried to topple Boris Jonson’s reduced 5,000 majority from 2017 actually resulted in an increase of 50%. Back in 2018, when the Labour Party were apparently still relishing their 2017 revival, every single local election campaign at which Jones made an appearance resulted in a Labour defeat. In fact, the one district where Jones cancelled an appearance enjoyed a Labour victory."
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
An ordinary NHS nurse, retiring at 60, now gets a pension worth just over £1m in the annuity market.
What could possibly go wrong?
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
An ordinary NHS nurse, retiring at 60, now gets a pension worth just over £1m in the annuity market.
What could possibly go wrong?
Problem is public sector hasn’t adopted private remuneration rigour.
Annual remuneration ought to be measured as salary, benefits, present value of pension benefits during year AND change in present value of historic pension liability because of salary increase in year.
A £5k increase in the pay of a 59 year old nurse could increase their pension pot by £150k in that year alone.
Which is why very few listed companies have schemes open to future accrual.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
UK Police - desperately under funded etc etc
Also UK Police:
Solve crimes you fucking idiots. Not hurty fucking feeling on Twitter.
For me separate police by spinning off ideological watchdog element with 5% of funding and make it plain that the residual doesn’t police wokedom but just sticks to the basics of catching crooks and preventing violence.
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Two new things on the Post Office scandal came to light this week.
It now it turns out MPs investigating the Horizon system were deliberately misled (see below). Secondly, a report from a KC in 2015 told the Post Office their prosecutions were unsafe but the Business Secretary was told by Civil Servants the report said everything was OK.
The sheer rotten-ness and lies told by the Post Office and civil servants is staggering. Nadhim Zahawi is calling for a manslaughter investigation.
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ITV has just been tearing them apart with these leaked audio tapes. It's been fascinating to open YouTube everyday and see what new shit they've dragged up of these fucking crooks.
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Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
Well let's hope it's not a complete fucking sham like the Covid 'chat'
That certainly wasn't an inquiry.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
I imagine that Womble Bond Dickinson are feeling every bit as fucking ridiculous as their name suggests they are.
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@gt12 said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
I imagine that Womble Bond Dickinson are feeling every bit as fucking ridiculous as their name suggests they are.
Not as fucking ridiculous as the same MP's who fought against and attacked BoJo for setting up the Inquiry now enthusiastically getting in on the Post Office bashing..
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