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[JimmyJeffers]

No different to benefits cheats are they? Or its ok as they are not poor

In my experience, people who’ve been found to have committed benefit fraud have generally ‘forgotten’ to update authorities of a change in circumstances. Usually if a partner has moved in to their property. Means they have a bit of surplus income instead of living off scraps. These guys have plenty income and contacts and are simply plain greedy.

 

[orchard]

No different to benefits cheats are they? Or its ok as they are not poor

It hasn't been legislated against though, surprisingly...it's the ethics of milking the system that they're supposed to be the custodians of for the benefit of the UK that riles me.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Corruption is running wild in the UK.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whitehall’s failure to adapt to devolution has left the Union on the brink – report

A study by Cambridge political scientists, including a former Permanent Secretary, charts two decades of central government’s inability to get to grips with devolution, and the role this has played in the current parlous state of the Union.

www.cam.ac.uk

 

[Aberblue]

Whitehall’s failure to adapt to devolution has left the Union on the brink – report

A study by Cambridge political scientists, including a former Permanent Secretary, charts two decades of central government’s inability to get to grips with devolution, and the role this has played in the current parlous state of the Union.

www.cam.ac.uk

Symptomatic of the UK Government's whole "If it isn't happening in London it's not important" mindset.

 

[sbbefc]

Symptomatic of the UK Government's whole "If it isn't happening in London it's not important" mindset.

It'll be interesting to see how things pan out in the Welsh elections. I can see Labour losing a lot of ground despite the failings of the UK government.

Whilst the independence movement has grown, I equally see the number of people supporting the abolition of the assembly to grow. Won't be long until it's main stream tory policy.

 

[Xizor]

It'll be interesting to see how things pan out in the Welsh elections. I can see Labour losing a lot of ground despite the failings of the UK government.

Whilst the independence movement has grown, I equally see the number of people supporting the abolition of the assembly to grow. Won't be long until it's main stream tory policy.

Wales is such a weird one (the brewing political situation, not the place itself). I've met Welsh people in England who hate the place and are ashamed to even have the accent, but I've known some fairly militant Welsh language-speakers who still don't countenance an independent nation. Now that's fair enough, they don't have the size and history (as in, opposition to England) of Scotland, and nor do they have the unique Norn Irish problem of being torn between two possible states.

But if Scottish independence and Irish unification do happen in the next few decades, where does that leave them? Is there a future in being essentially West Anglia?

 

[summerisle]

 

[tsubaki]

Wales is such a weird one (the brewing political situation, not the place itself). I've met Welsh people in England who hate the place and are ashamed to even have the accent, but I've known some fairly militant Welsh language-speakers who still don't countenance an independent nation. Now that's fair enough, they don't have the size and history (as in, opposition to England) of Scotland, and nor do they have the unique Norn Irish problem of being torn between two possible states.

But if Scottish independence and Irish unification do happen in the next few decades, where does that leave them? Is there a future in being essentially West Anglia?

I appreciate that this is quite a commonly held view of history, but its almost entirely wrong.

What is now Wales actually has the longest history of any current nation on this island; indeed its the only one of the three nations that is actually British. Nor was it confined to the small area that it now occupies - before the invasions it was everything on the island south of the Antonine Wall (early Welsh histories refer to that area as "Yr Hen Ogledd" (the old North)), and there are loads of place-names (including London, and Britain) that remember this past.

This does lead on to why many Welsh speakers are anti "Welsh" independence; to limit "Wales" to just the area it currently occupies is to desecrate history. All of this island is British, and we need to make people realise this before the idiocy of English and Scottish nationalism ruins us all.

 

[Xizor]

I appreciate that this is quite a commonly held view of history, but its almost entirely wrong.

You're correct, but you're also now talking about events, invasions, and migrations of people that are closer in time to the golden age of Athens and the founding of Rome than you are to the current day. I was considering more relatively recent relationships that might play more into the attitudes of modern voters.

 

[tsubaki]

You're correct, but you're also now talking about events, invasions, and migrations of people that are closer in time to the golden age of Athens and the founding of Rome than you are to the current day. I was considering more relatively recent relationships that might play more into the attitudes of modern voters.

Not really, and the effect of those things are still felt in what is now Wales. Don't forget parts of (and then all of) the country have been exploited by the English government continually since that time in various ways up to the present day, and in pretty much any area you care to look at the country gets the worst deal out of all three nations.

Even just referring to it as "Wales" is a reminder of this lower status (given what the word "Welsh" originally meant).

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Build some flats with public money they all can rent flat out MP wage as long as they are serving...

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

There really is honor amongst thieves.

Johnson wants to 'understand intention' behind David Cameron lobbying

The government has launched an independent review into David Cameron's efforts to lobby ministers on behalf of firm Greensill Capital.

www.cityam.com

Greensill: Tories reject Labour plan for MP-led lobbying probe

Boris Johnson clashes with Sir Keir Starmer over the best way to investigate allegations.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[orchard]

Is this scummy lids?

• The new Lead Commissioner for the UK Government’s Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) recently spoke at an American anti-immigrant hate group that regularly circulated anti-Semitic, white nationalist materials.
• He also promoted racist conspiracy theorists, including a proponent of the ‘Great Replacement’ ideology which inspired recent far-right terror attacks, Byline Times can exclusively reveal.
• The new Government appointee even has close ties to a senior Trump administration official with a history of promoting anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. A former advisor to then US Secretary of State John Kerry (currently US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in the Biden administration) has now spoken out about the danger of falsely equating British Muslim community organisations with the Muslim Brotherhood.
• The Home Office, however, has doubled down – refusing to condemn the appointee’s shocking affiliations and endorsements, while insisting on his “wealth of expertise”.

 

[tsubaki]

Is this scummy lids?

• The new Lead Commissioner for the UK Government’s Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) recently spoke at an American anti-immigrant hate group that regularly circulated anti-Semitic, white nationalist materials.
• He also promoted racist conspiracy theorists, including a proponent of the ‘Great Replacement’ ideology which inspired recent far-right terror attacks, Byline Times can exclusively reveal.
• The new Government appointee even has close ties to a senior Trump administration official with a history of promoting anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. A former advisor to then US Secretary of State John Kerry (currently US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in the Biden administration) has now spoken out about the danger of falsely equating British Muslim community organisations with the Muslim Brotherhood.
• The Home Office, however, has doubled down – refusing to condemn the appointee’s shocking affiliations and endorsements, while insisting on his “wealth of expertise”.

TBF the worst thing about Simcox is that his “wealth of expertise” is that he wrote a few articles and had some wonk jobs. His actual experience at countering extremism appears to be zero.