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[Tubey]

He's just great isn't he? An absolute idiot.

 

[dead_soft]

Even if true, the majority of sensible people will still blame Labour and Corbyn........Boris is fireproof on this.....

Have a quick re-read of this

 

[The binman chronicles]

He's just great isn't he? An absolute idiot.

He can't be called an idiot for that. For once he has actually spoken something that wasn't a lie. The only thing he should have done was just to add "unlike Scotland who have got the worst of it as they didn't vote to leave either! Piffle! Something in Latin! RARRRR!".

 

[summerisle]

Are you now, or have you ever been the a member of the car crash party ?

 

[peteblue]

Pete it's pretty difficult to argue in favour of competence when you're supporting a Government with a cabinet that contains a man sacked as Defence Secretary for accidentally leaking national security information, a foreign Secretary that didn't understand the significance of the Dover/Calais crossing, a secretary for international trade that 'inadvertently' sold arms to Saudi Arabia against a UK court order, a home secretary that had secret meetings with a foreign government, a health secretary that can't understand that 20000-21000= -1000, a Minister that has just resigned for endorsing a former aide despite knowing about his role sabotaging a rape trial, a man who thinks that 72 people dying in a national tradegy did so because they didn't have 'common sense', Grant Schapps and a Prime Minister whose most significant achievements include wasting hundreds of millions of public money on failed vanity projects, as foreign Secretary interveening to help sentence a British woman to 5 years in Iranian prison and pulling the one Brexit deal to pass through Parliament in favour of a general election.

Well, when you put it like that.......

 

[degsy]

I go to and fro on it to be honest. I saw Johnson drinks Tetley tea today - if Corbyn drinks Yorkshire Tea then the above answer will be different.

These are the important things.

Seriously though, they're just both terrible. I'm not voting for either, or Cyborg Swinson. I'll probably be spoiling a ballot paper for the first time ever, which in Kirkby makes absolutely no difference anyway as Labour win it no matter what.

I can't decide, doesn't really matter in my town, it's a Tory stronghold.

All down to the marginals and not so marginal as per usual

 

[catcherintherye]

What's PV?

Sorry People's vote.

 

[catcherintherye]

hahahahaha......sorry, but Starmer is a waste of space. He was a disaster running the CPS, he would be completely out of his depth running a Political Party...even a party of opposition...

How so Pete? He's widely regarded as one of the best QC's in Britain, and was awarded a knighthood for his role at the CPS wasn't he?

I'm not being horrible but his career is another league to career politicians/leaders like Corbyn and Johnson.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

All down to the marginals and not so marginal as per usual

I can't vote Tory, look at the hardship they've created since 2010, the foodbank figures are a direct correlation to how they look after people in this country.

I'll vote Labour, but it means knack all in my town, no chance of beating the Tories.

 

[peteblue]

How so Pete? He's widely regarded as one of the best QC's in Britain, and was awarded a knighthood for his role at the CPS wasn't he?

I'm not being horrible but his career is another league to career politicians/leaders like Corbyn and Johnson.

I remember reading this little summary about his time in the CPS which I thought said it all....

Decided not to prosecute John Worboys for 75 sex assaults
Yet spent four years failing to prosecute 23 journalists

Insisted on prosecuting Paul Chambers for making a light-hearted joke on social media (the infamous Twitter joke trial)

Failed to build a case against Jimmy Savile and forced to apologise after being damned by report into failings

Repeatedly championed the innocence of convicted murderer who later admitted that he was actually guilty

Failed to prosecute police officer who killed newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson

Ordered the CPS in Wales to drop the prosecution of a primary school teacher who had been accused of sexting a 16 year old boy, who went on to commit suicide

Damning report into Starmer’s tenure at the CPS showed it was performing well below the necessary standard, with the report attributing part of the blame to a ‘overload of initiatives’ from the CPS’ national leadership

Survey of CPS staff found that just 12% of them thought that the organisation was being well managed under Starmer’s leadership

Accused of reopening a spurious sex abuse case involving a friend of Tom Watson – the accused was cleared in an hour

Chose not to prosecute two doctors accused of carrying out abortions on grounds of gender

 

[peteblue]

I can't vote Tory, look at the hardship they've created since 2010, the foodbank figures are a direct correlation to how they look after people in this country.

I'll vote Labour, but it means knack all in my town, no chance of beating the Tories.

Don’t forget the financial incompetence from the previous government that drove all this.....

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

How so Pete? He's widely regarded as one of the best QC's in Britain, and was awarded a knighthood for his role at the CPS wasn't he?

I'm not being horrible but his career is another league to career politicians/leaders like Corbyn and Johnson.

Whilst I do rate Starmer as a politician, I recall his visit to Carlisle's CPS offices when he was the Director of that service... A memo was circulated to all staff a week before the visit instructing them that they were only to address the Director if spoken to and were not to ask anything only provide answers and that he must be addressed as "Director" at all times.

Which kind of makes me believe he is excactly the sort of person who rises to become PM.

 

[dwightschrute]

Don’t forget the financial incompetence from the previous government that drove all this.....

The global recession you mean where we ended up growing out of it slower than other countries due to the brutal austerity the tory/lib dems decided to enact...

 

[peteblue]

The global recession you mean where we ended up growing out of it slower than other countries due to the brutal austerity the tory/lib dems decided to enact...

You forgot to add Browns oft repeated excuse, “which started in America”......

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

You forgot to add Browns oft repeated excuse, “which started in America”......

Well that's true... It's just unfortunate for Brown that a lot of his reforms as chancellor had left Britain less well prepared than it's European neighbours for the recession. I think Darling made a key error in buying out the banks rather than just guaranteeing deposits and letting them fail, but given we were potentially hours away from people not being able to get at their own money and runs on them, I can't hold that against him too much.

The fact that as a country Britain learned absolutely nothing from this is the real tragedy, however.