Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

[Alan Whittle]

Covid, Furlough, Brexit, Ukraine….

Test and Trace, PPE contracts to mates that turned out to be not fit for purpose.
Fraud on a massive scale with no way to recoup the money.
NI protocol not understood and no discernible benefits.
Plenty of photo opportunities but part of a NATO coalition where he does as he’s told.

No leadership, no coherent policy.

Next?

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Even his wife has had enough of him. Allegedly.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Spot on.
Why do so few even question the obscene bonuses handed out to greedy Ceos who have grown rich at the expense of the people they employ, and are able to make employees redundant at the drop of a hat.
Then it's a case of stashing their money in off shore tax havens whereas their employees have no choice in the matter.
Government for the people?
You're having a laugh

It's why the Tories and backers are now worried and want to eject Johnson, before someone with half a brain cell might undo their years of hard work selling the UK down the river for their own gains.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

It's why the Tories and backers are now worried and want to eject Johnson, before someone with half a brain cell might undo their years of hard work selling the UK down the river for their own gains.

Didn't their backers write a strongly worded letter in support of him on Monday, as he's doing such a good job at the process you describe?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Didn't their backers write a strongly worded letter in support of him on Monday, as he's doing such a good job at the process you describe?

Metaphor time, the vote of confidence, in being the dreaded.

"When there is regular speculation in the media over the future of a struggling manager, a club will always issue the dreaded vote of confidence. This process allows the club's directors to find a new manager while stressing their 'complete faith' in the hapless incumbent."

Johnson is dead in water and it's when not if.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Test and Trace, PPE contracts to mates that turned out to be not fit for purpose.
Fraud on a massive scale with no way to recoup the money.
NI protocol not understood and no discernible benefits.
Plenty of photo opportunities but part of a NATO coalition where he does as he’s told.

No leadership, no coherent policy.

Next?

If you think about anything that requires planning, considered policy and implementation, they've all been undelivered or poorly implemented

Test and trace
Levelling up
Brexit (we got it done, but what it is remains a problem)
Extra funding for the NHS, 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP appointments a year (Lol)
No rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance raise
Net Zero - not even on track to meet the previous 80% reduction.

All of these require sustained policy interventions across several sectors, which are complex, costly and time-consuming.

I'll give Johnson one accolade, he's very good at wildly throwing lots of taxpayer money at a problem and hoping that existing systems will perform, then taking the credit.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

If you think about anything that requires planning, considered policy and implementation, they've all been undelivered or poorly implemented

Test and trace
Levelling up
Brexit (we got it done, but what it is remains a problem)
Extra funding for the NHS, 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP appointments a year (Lol)
No rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance raise
Net Zero - not even on track to meet the previous 80% reduction.

All of these require sustained policy interventions across several sectors, which are complex, costly and time-consuming.

I'll give Johnson one accolade, he's very good at wildly throwing lots of taxpayer money at a problem and hoping that existing systems will perform, then taking the credit.

Levelling up is a joke. No one knows what or how it is meant to operate.

The Industrial strategy became the plan for growth. Again, no idea what the actual plan is.

Energy / energy security policy? By all accounts it was an absolute poop show in it's making and is wholly unsatisfactory.

But let's be fair to Johnson, we've had the Tories since 2010. Anyone feel like they live in a Big Society? Has austerity worked (i.e. cleared the deficit / national debt)? Has our housing stock increased and diversified as required?

Back to Johnson, it's a low base to start with, incredibly he's below par. Damning.

 

[Thomasc]

Even his wife has had enough of him. Allegedly.

Don’t tell Pete that FFS.

If he’s seen this already, he’s probably en route to Westminster, just so he can drop to his knees in front of his glorious leader and take his load as a sign of gratitude.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Covid was a disaster, the highest death rate in Europe for 18 months, billions wasted (unless you’re his mate)

Furlough, they bailed us out with our money which we will pay back somehow

Brexit, perhaps his biggest failure

Ukraine, sanctions that were too late


Skills

Winning

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Levelling up is a joke. No one knows what or how it is meant to operate.

The Industrial strategy became the plan for growth. Again, no idea what the actual plan is.

Energy / energy security policy? By all accounts it was an absolute poop show in it's making and is wholly unsatisfactory.

But let's be fair to Johnson, we've had the Tories since 2010. Anyone feel like they live in a Big Society? Has austerity worked (i.e. cleared the deficit / national debt)? Has our housing stock increased and diversified as required?

Back to Johnson, it's a low base to start with, incredibly he's below par. Damning.

These supposedly sound stewards of money waste it in absurd proportions

MPs accuse government of wasting billions on levelling up agenda

The government has been accused of wasting billions of pounds through poor allocation of its Levelling Up Fund, says a Westminster committee.

www.cityam.com

 

[Bruce Wayne]

If you think about anything that requires planning, considered policy and implementation, they've all been undelivered or poorly implemented

Test and trace
Levelling up
Brexit (we got it done, but what it is remains a problem)
Extra funding for the NHS, 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP appointments a year (Lol)
No rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance raise
Net Zero - not even on track to meet the previous 80% reduction.

All of these require sustained policy interventions across several sectors, which are complex, costly and time-consuming.

I'll give Johnson one accolade, he's very good at wildly throwing lots of taxpayer money at a problem and hoping that existing systems will perform, then taking the credit.

Sadly there appear to be enough people with the mental faculty of Nadine Dorries who blithely swallow everything they're told without looking beneath the bluster.

 

[Walken]

Calling this governments covid performance anything other than appalling and corrupt isn't just wrong, it is insulting and utterly heartless to those who have suffered and lost. Trolling or playing tribal politics over such a tragedy is really quite a disturbing trait.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

These supposedly sound stewards of money waste it in absurd proportions

MPs accuse government of wasting billions on levelling up agenda

The government has been accused of wasting billions of pounds through poor allocation of its Levelling Up Fund, says a Westminster committee.

www.cityam.com

Not surprised in the slightest. I have experience of dealing with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Department for International Development's DFID) initiatives (directly or indirectly) spanning several party leaders and ministerial stewardships.

I've seen serious money wasted on appalling ideas or policy related projects that, to me, achieve little. In my view, the most heinous is the ODA money that I've witnessed wasted that never gets near DAC list countries. Of course, that was before DFID was collapsed. Which, needless to say, was not done to address the above. The money will be wasted in other ways, I'm sure.

 

[mahermi1]

Never thought there has been a more apt quote, but too stupid to realise he was talking about his own party, inept and totally bereft of ideas on how to fix the abomination that have caused and most of all he's talking about himself, greed, lies, desperation, bullying his own party, which if he carries on, could well destroy it totally and the Country with it. Never has there been a more selfish person than Boris Johnson.

 

[mahermi1]

Sadly, I think old toryboy Petey is just a run off the mill, obtuse, bigoted, idiotic Tory true believer, and he actually believes with his heart and soul the codswallop he puts up in defence of this shambolic prime minister and atrocious government.

Or he’s a piss poor troll.

I’d sooner he was the latter tbh.

Sadly I'm beginning to think both your opinions are right.