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[Amw79]

My heart somehow fails to bleed:

"These are really, really good people who could make a difference in most organisations and would work hard to prove themselves, they just need a chance. And they’ve held really senior positions – I know former ministers are struggling to find work.”

The problem they have is that if they were ministers in the recent catastrophic Tory governments then the sort of "difference they could make" is a matter of public record and you can understand why no competent organisation would be interested in letting them loose. Gullis is certainly the primary example here. Wore a dunce cap for the whole nation to see and now wonders why he can't get a teaching role.

A trawl of LinkedIn shows how many ex-Tory MPs are jobseeking. Theresa Villiers, the former MP for Chipping Barnet, has a profile that says she is “exploring a new career in the academic and business worlds… seeking new opportunities – university roles, non-executive directorships and advisory/consultancy”

Really feels here like she's very used to not having a proper job and doesn't want to start now? I'm sure we'd all like a couple of non-executive directorships to turn up to for a few hours a month and offer our thoughts over a big liquid lunch before tottering off again but the real world doesn't work like that, happily not even for failed Tories.

Sir Charles continues, “I thought I had a couple of board jobs to go to, but they did not materialise post the general election result. Fortunately my 19 years as an MP has taught me how to deal with disappointment.”

I'm sure we can all relate to that! I've always got board jobs coming and going on the back burner, haven't you?

Unbelieveable sense of entitlement from this lot. I'll also assume the Telegraph has never published similar when large cohorts of Labour MPs have lost seats?

Get em down the dole office, and get them into a meat packing job on a production line for minimum wage on a zero hour contract, on some industrial estate starting at 5am.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Get em down the dole office, and get them into a meat packing job on a production line for minimum wage on a zero hour contract, on some industrial estate starting at 5am.

Batch cooking and canceling those TV subscriptions, maybe Horse & Hound, Country Life Magazine subs should go too.

Still think most of us would cope on this, Loss-of-office payments nearly and upto £17000, Winding-up payments up to near £20000 as one off payment. And there is Winding-up budget which cost is not listed.

 

[Xizor]

Batch cooking and canceling those TV subscriptions, maybe Horse & Hound, Country Life Magazine subs should go too.

"They claim to be hard up but somehow always have the latest iPhone".

 

[Blue 1]

Batch cooking and canceling those TV subscriptions, maybe Horse & Hound, Country Life Magazine subs should go too.

Still think most of us would cope on this, Loss-of-office payments nearly and upto £17000, Winding-up payments up to near £20000 as one off payment. And there is Winding-up budget which cost is not listed.

They can feed themselves for 30p a meal.

 

[Kurt.]

Bag of rice in Aldi is only 3 and sixpence

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Can't imagine you'll be hearing or reading those words, in that order, very often.

Indeed for sure now, what was left of Tory vote base has now been scared off to Reform. Remarkable gaff to be fair...
If it were to happen means test state Pension then we’re being robbed over and over and over again. If some are being asked to make do without the state pension, part of the social contract with the state is a base level for all, then we should get tax cuts to allow us the resources to make suitable provision for ourselves. Not tax us to the hilt and provide sweet FA in return. Then take our homes to fund social care in our old age to boot after years of council tax social care charges.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

The Telegraph showing an admirable concern for the unemployed. About time, I say.

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Gullis, in particular, is a waste of oxygen

 

[peteblue]

Means testing pensions? @peteblue

If it’s true, then it’s the height of stupidity. If it’s been done to get Starmer on his high horse to denigrate it, thereby stopping Reeves from actually doing it, then it’s very clever…….

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

If it’s true, then it’s the height of stupidity. If it’s been done to get Starmer on his high horse to denigrate it, thereby stopping Reeves from actually doing it, then it’s very clever…….

Kin hell have you not heard her MPs and eminent party members squealing like little piggies at market, demanding she qualify her position, in other words they are fuming and [Poor language removed] scared. Not a trap by any stretch.

 

[peteblue]

Kin hell have you not heard her MPs and eminent party members squealing like little piggies at market, demanding she qualify her position, in other words they are fuming and [Poor language removed] scared. Not a trap by any stretch.

It was stupid and God only knows why she did it…and at this particular time. She could just say nothing and let Starmer and Reeves keep digging a big hole……

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It was stupid and God only knows why she did it…and at this particular time. She could just say nothing and let Starmer and Reeves keep digging a big hole……

Was a gaff. Some weird play for the economic comfortably retired of Reform who prescribe that people need to take responsibility for their own lives and fund their own retirement.
Bad news on the digging Labour are indeed infilling the hole. IMF are now upgrading UKs growth...
“We see some positives coming from increased public spending,” Gourinchas said.

 

[Rita_Poon]

"good times".

@peteblue

 

[Blue 1]

Was a gaff. Some weird play for the economic comfortably retired of Reform who prescribe that people need to take responsibility for their own lives and fund their own retirement.
Bad news on the digging Labour are indeed infilling the hole. IMF are now upgrading UKs growth...
“We see some positives coming from increased public spending,” Gourinchas said.

Bastid Tory media trying to talk us into a recession, ain't it.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

It was stupid and God only knows why she did it…and at this particular time. She could just say nothing and let Starmer and Reeves keep digging a big hole……

Because she's a lot of an idiot with the political instincts and nous of a stickleback?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Because she's a lot of an idiot with the political instincts and nous of a stickleback?

not like her to say sorry
was waiting on a different tory...