Politics

[Casino]

3 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It is literally just coincidence, though

IPSA is independent of the Government and these changes have been on the cards for a while

There's no conspiracy

Has Dorries gone?

[Casino]

Btw, for a seemingly bight chap @Lt. Aldo Rainedo you think the independent pay review boards are independent?

[Jol_BWFC]

8 hours ago, Casino said:

Btw, for a seemingly bight chap @Lt. Aldo Rainedo you think the independent pay review boards are independent?

Also consider that independent pay review boards are given parameters by the Government. For example, the NHS pay review body was told:

1. the 2023/24 budget has already been set (ie there will be no extra money for additional wages);

2. in determining any pay increase, front line services should not be impacted (so wages can’t be increased in such a way that it would take away from that);

3. the Government wants to increase the workforce by 50,000 and there is a “direct relationship” between pay and staff numbers (ie more staff = wage budget is spread more thinly);

4. the review body will be expected to take into account evidence the government provides (as well as NHS).

 

So, crack on and independently decide on wage increase within the straight jacket we’ve put on you, based on information we provide.

 

Edited August 26, 2023 by Jol_BWFC

[Spider]

8 hours ago, Casino said:

Has Dorries gone?

She’s too busy working hard for her constituents.

She knows she’ll still get plenty voting for her, even though she’s shitting in their shoes and laughing as they put them on and all the shit is oozing from the lace holes.

She’s being paid not to work, and the folk paying her are happy to do so.

Its really more about them than her.

Edited August 26, 2023 by Spider

[BobyBrno]

18 hours ago, Casino said:

Has Dorries gone?

Yep. 

[Cheese]

Only took 2 months for her to "immediately" resign. Cracking effort.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

🥲

 

[Winchester White]

Stole a living until her staff (daughters) were sorted is my guess. Maybe I am just cynical though. 

[leigh white]

Mad Nad finally gone, thank fuck.

[Not in Crawley]

Well, not sure it's worth a bet on the by-election.

[Spider]

So

Instead of a life peerage, she’s now employing an agent to get her some increasingly awful gigs on the telly?

Im sure Boris will be on the phone offering to help.

[Casino]

Sinister slag

[Spider]

I’m just looking forward to the die hard Tories on here leaping to her defence 

<narrator: the silence was deafening>

[Casino]

Even the three stooges have given up, i reckon

[Spider]

28 minutes ago, Casino said:

Even the three stooges have given up, i reckon

Dorries resignation letter to Sunak is comedy gold

[kent_white]

25 minutes ago, Spider said:

Dorries resignation letter to Sunak is comedy gold

Apparently she's got a book out or something? Although you'd never have guessed.....

[jmjhb]

Good riddance to an abject abhorrent cunt.

[Ani]

She epitomises everything that is wrong with politics and politicians at the moment. 
 

She is as rotten as it gets and they made her a minister. 

[Spider]

Fortunately, we’ve avoided having to stump up for her a lifetime of doing fuck all as a peer.

The fact that she’ll let that eat away at her rotten soul for the rest of her days is ok by me.

[Not in Crawley]

The sad thing is she was right about Cameron and Co when she came into parliament, an elite boys club with an arrogance that they were born to rule.

She could have been a refreshing face of conservatism, a working class woman who did well despite everything, a popular author (I don't agree with the snobbish attitude to the books, people enjoy them) who could understand what it's like not having been born with a silver spoon.

But unfortunately she drank from the populist cup, and started defending anything that Johnson did in a bid to become a minister, and then followed Johnson's lines and started attacking things like the BBC. Then finally this strop about not being made a Dame when it was obviously promised to her was a very sad end to what could have been a successful, popular MP if she'd have concentrated on the role of being a public servant, rather than a pole climber.

[jeep]

She's 67. Would you?

[Not in Crawley]

15 minutes ago, jeep said:

She's 67. Would you?

There's loads on here around that age, so I think the answer for a lot would be yes.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

I'd imagine this might please @BobyBrno

I'm not sure the country can afford not to raise taxes if it's to prosper but there we are

[Casino]

Speaking of taxes, the fail and 30p lee have made dicks of themselves again

[BobyBrno]

1 hour ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I'd imagine this might please @BobyBrno

I'm not sure the country can afford not to raise taxes if it's to prosper but there we are

😊 I mentioned months ago that she isn’t that popular within her own party and whether she’ll be in her position come the election. We’ll have to wait and see.