sidcow Posted August 20 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20 I guess rather like the Timpsons prisons guy my main question is how qualified Is she for the role? I don't know enough about the job to understand the implications of having someone who once worked for the party in the role but I'm inclined not to get too excited at the moment if this Henry Newman is the same one who was political advisor to Michael Gove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted August 20 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20 Fwiw, I used to be more up to the minute in knowing the latest BoJo **** up because I would read what X, Y and Z political commentators were saying on Twitter. That was my number one source of political stories. Due to how Twitter now works, that isn’t an option (I never joined Twitter and obviously have no intention to do so now). So that’s one (and really the main) reason why you won’t be seeing too many tweets from me regarding the current government, or the current opposition, and indeed why you didn’t see many from me since Musk took over Twitter so not too many regarding Sunak’s tenure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 20 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20 Politicised appointments to independent positions sucks, whether it's Tories or Labour cosplayers doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 20 Moderator Share Posted August 20 1 hour ago, sidcow said: I guess rather like the Timpsons prisons guy my main question is how qualified Is she for the role? I don't know enough about the job to understand the implications of having someone who once worked for the party in the role but I'm inclined not to get too excited at the moment if this Henry Newman is the same one who was political advisor to Michael Gove. Before her last job she worked for the Institute for Goverment, specialising in Constitutional change. She’s a a policy wonk She's specialised in constitutional reform, you know like the House of Lords, which is what she'll be doing in this role too If the serial drunk driver that is Guido Fawkes is outraged, it’s probably not going to be that bad See Labour are appointing people with actual knowledge of the fields they'll be advising on unlike the other lot that appointed serially useless “business people” to run things like Track and Trace from a f***ing spreadsheet 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 3 hours ago, tonyh29 said: a smiley at the end would have made a difference as then I'd have known you were posting with jest rather than malice , but I'll assume the former I don't really know enough about this type of appointment to comment .... tbh i'm not sure I care enough about this type of appointment to comment either but well done for being the first leftie to comment on something potentially negative by this government , small steps and all that I don't really *do* emoticons. Happily though, I'd like to think that I don't really *do* malice either. I try not to raise stakes any higher than playful digs in the online ribs, so I think we're good. I do take umbrage with "leftie" though. I imagine that many of the actual "lefties" on here would be horrified by the suggestion that I was one of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 25 minutes ago, bickster said: See Labour are appointing people with actual knowledge of the fields they'll be advising on unlike the other lot that appointed serially useless “business people” to run things like Track and Trace from a f***ing spreadsheet Isn't the issue though that they shouldn't have anything to do with this particular bit of "appointing"? Like I said, I'm sure it'll be fine. But it's a blurring of lines of the impartiality of the Civil Service and the partiality of the party system, lines which are already blurrier than they have been in the past. And while this person seems sound and qualified, if say, someone from the Institute for Fiscal Studies had been given a high up Civil Service role in the Treasury under Johnson, I don't think people would have just shrugged and said "well, (s)he's qualified enough, so nothing more to see here". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Thiiiiiings, can only get worse, before they get better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 It would appear the magic money tree now only reveals itself to doctors and train drivers. You’ll remember levelling up funding. My town had £20million allocated. We now have all the stars aligned, a Labour run council, a Labour MP, a Labour MS, Labour in control of the Senedd, Labour in control of Westminster. The £20 million levelling up funding has been ‘paused’ pending an unspecified review at an unspecified future date. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 27 Administrator Share Posted August 27 34 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: The £20 million levelling up funding has been ‘paused’ pending an unspecified review at an unspecified future date. Money that never existed not existing. Shock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Did anyone see the 14 year con and asset stripping exercise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 23 minutes ago, limpid said: Money that never existed not existing. Shock. Well, it started off as £4.1billion for transport in Wales, that was then allocated to HS2, that was then scrapped, the £20 million was the compensation. Still not a long con in some people's eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 (edited) Wonder what is coming in the Budget. Think there's going to some reversals to their manifesto promises and blaming on the £22 ,billion black-hole. Unpopular decisions in the beginning but they won't be able to get away with blaming everything on the tories for ever. In the question asked by Beth Rigby today he said he wouldn't raise taxes and Ni for working people but beyond that everything is on the table Edited August 27 by PaulC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 27 Administrator Share Posted August 27 10 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Well, it started off as £4.1billion for transport in Wales, that was then allocated to HS2, that was then scrapped, the £20 million was the compensation. Still not a long con in some people's eyes. All of "levelling up" was a con. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 27 VT Supporter Share Posted August 27 Prepare yourselves, he's going in dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Been told by local.bisinsss people that the funding for The Eden Project in Morecambe is 99% certain to be delivered. Some issues I won't go into but the money is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 27 VT Supporter Share Posted August 27 (edited) Austerity scans in D:Reams Things Can Only Get Better, right? ... Ha, reams. Like they'll do to the country. Edited August 27 by Chindie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted August 27 VT Supporter Share Posted August 27 1 hour ago, PaulC said: Wonder what is coming in the Budget. Think there's going to some reversals to their manifesto promises and blaming on the £22 ,billion black-hole. Unpopular decisions in the beginning but they won't be able to get away with blaming everything on the tories for ever. In the question asked by Beth Rigby today he said he wouldn't raise taxes and Ni for working people but beyond that everything is on the table My guess is NI to be paid by pensioners as a start. Tbh I would rather the NI be raised back to the levels they were for everyone and the money used to help the NHS, maybe look at how it's run, find its inefficient practices, what ever they are and use extra funds to make a real difference in the direction it's going rather than just pumping money into a system that's wasting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 1% wealth tax on the top 1%. The end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 27 VT Supporter Share Posted August 27 13 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: 1% wealth tax on the top 1%. The end. Yep, and watch them walk out of the country and lose whatever it is they do pay now. And their spending power on British goods and services, and the staff they employ. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 2 hours ago, sidcow said: Yep, and watch them walk out of the country and lose whatever it is they do pay now. And their spending power on British goods and services, and the staff they employ. Ah the trickle down that's worked so well. Cool, more Tory style policy and austerity then. Which has also worked so well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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