Current Affairs EU In or Out

[NilSatisOptimum]

A government of all the talents.

Tony Abbott has featured in marketing for a pro-Brexit group co-run by Nigel Farage

The former prime minister is not formally affiliated with the group.

www.sbs.com.au

Tony Abbott leads the charge for the gay marriage 'no' vote

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has signalled he will take a lead role in campaigning for the "no" vote on same-sex marriage, as the Senate votes down the compulsory plebiscite.

www.afr.com

Tony Abbott says climate change is 'probably doing good'

Former Australian PM delivers speech in London comparing global warming action to ‘killing goats to appease volcano gods’

www.theguardian.com

Abbott knocks excessive acknowledgment of traditional owners

Tony Abbott says we’re showing respect for indigenous culture at the expense of acknowledging Australia’s Christian roots.

www.news.com.au

He fits into the the authors of Britannia Unchained, who incidentally are in key UK Government ministries, and Johnson is known fan... They basically see the average UK working citizen as over paid and over protected and see China Labour policy as much more productive...

Britannia Unchained - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

And quelle surprise!

Fresh controversy over Tony Abbott’s Brexit trade role

Proposed UK envoy at odds with Boris Johnson’s assurances on environment and workers’ rights

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Blues Harp]

For far too long, politicians and the heads of our public services have gotten away scot-free for any shambles they have created, while senior people in the private sector always pay the price of failure with their jobs. This will no longer be possible nor acceptable, someone has to pay the price. Recently that cretin Williamson has clung to his job, but at least one or two quango or department heads have paid the price (even though they will no doubt pop up again somewhere within the public sector). We need renewal throughout the top layers of our public ‘servants’ and Politicians, who have progressively become more useless as each decade goes by......

Will no one think about the poor senior people in the private sector? FFS!

 

[dead_soft]

For far too long, politicians and the heads of our public services have gotten away scot-free for any shambles they have created, while senior people in the private sector always pay the price of failure with their jobs. This will no longer be possible nor acceptable, someone has to pay the price. Recently that cretin Williamson has clung to his job, but at least one or two quango or department heads have paid the price (even though they will no doubt pop up again somewhere within the public sector). We need renewal throughout the top layers of our public ‘servants’ and Politicians, who have progressively become more useless as each decade goes by......

Yet you keep supporting and voting for the governemt that, by your own reasoning, is full of the worst politicians we have ever had?

 

[dead_soft]

He’s just another government employee. Of course you can get rid of him, just Vote in another government and they can sack him, Now explain how you could get rid of any EU officials.....

This is a quite boggling bit of rational. The EU has officials that work for the elected body, the British Government has officials that work for the elected body. When we vote for our representatives in either case we are voting for their decision making in approving members of the European Commission.

Unless you believe in hyper local governance and 100% democracy for every position I'm not sure what the difference is.

I'm fairly sure Britain has more unelected people within government bodies than the EU does

 

[peteblue]

Yet you keep supporting and voting for the governemt that, by your own reasoning, is full of the worst politicians we have ever had?

Best of a bad bunch unfortunately.......

 

[Harryflashman]

Best of a bad bunch unfortunately.......

I mean if these are the best we’re really in trouble

 

[Blues Harp]

Best of a bad bunch unfortunately.......

Deluded...you have no grasp of either politics or the civil service....just greedy business tax avoiding "captains of industry"...selfish beyond belief

 

[JimmyJeffers]

This is a quite boggling bit of rational. The EU has officials that work for the elected body, the British Government has officials that work for the elected body. When we vote for our representatives in either case we are voting for their decision making in approving members of the European Commission.

Unless you believe in hyper local governance and 100% democracy for every position I'm not sure what the difference is.

I'm fairly sure Britain has more unelected people within government bodies than the EU does

I was wanting to answer this but couldn’t be bothered in the end. Britain does indeed have more unelected officials in government than the Eu.
The EU, with about 33,000 civil servants, is dwarfed by the British government, which employs over 400,000

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[roydo]

Its pretty cool that the £35000000000 per week (or what ever was on that bus), we wont be paying the EU, means we can pay off the Covid bills by Christmas.

Magic.

Blue passports too. Seismic.

 

[Blues Harp]

Its pretty cool that the £35000000000 per week (or what ever was on that bus), we wont be paying the EU, means we can pay off the Covid bills by Christmas.

Magic.

Blue passports too. Seismic.

The Richter Scale has just malfunctioned....

 

[roydo]

The Richter Scale has just malfunctioned....

I am sure it will be an equivalent. Or sommet.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yet you keep supporting and voting for the governemt that, by your own reasoning, is full of the worst politicians we have ever had?

Pete wants the option of voting out those he deems incompetent, not to actually exercise that right

 

[Brennan]

I am sure it will be an equivalent. Or sommet.

At this point I wouldn’t actually be surprised to see the Mogg meter as a replacement for the Richter scale to be announced as government policy.

We’ll measure earthquakes our own way free of the EU.

 

[peteblue]

Deluded...you have no grasp of either politics or the civil service....just greedy business tax avoiding "captains of industry"...selfish beyond belief

I’m sorry my friend, I try to be respectful in every reply I make to yourself, even though I usually get some form of abusive response from you, such as the above. In future I will treat you with the same respect that you show myself.....

 

[peteblue]

Pete wants the option of voting out those he deems incompetent, not to actually exercise that right

Not so, I would personally deliver the bullet to those deserving of it....I‘ve had to sack a lot of people in my time, many not deserving of it, but required nonetheless. I’ve also had to sack a number of senior people fully deserving the bullet, and while it’s never nice to do so, if it’s for the good of the company and it’s people it has to be done......I would have no problem having this conversation with Williamson.....