Government watch

I still don't understand how we can be heading over a precipice because of a referendum that not many people understand and was based on a load of lies and false promises, and yet a government can get into power with a manifesto that they can then almost completely scrap after election day. Democracy baffles me at times ....

Some people want power at any price, Tegan, even if it means dumping their core voters, as GracesGran, I think it was, said.
Gove says public sector pay reviews should be respected, although all the time he was in government he went along with the cap, and rejected Labour's amendment just last week.
Alice in Wonderland world now.

voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/07/02/conservatism-according-to-michael-gove-greed-stupidity-and-short-sightedness/
I hope Gove doesn't read the tweets following his interview today.

On second thoughts.....

I can't understand why Boris and Gove are calling to the end the pay cap and last week voted against lifting the pay cap.....

Because they are spivs and conmen

20% more nurses leaving than joining.

Another bit of manifesto bites the dust.

Plan to scrap free school lunches scrapped

Oh scrap one of the scraps!!!!

Lamont still calling for austerity so in opposition to Johnson and Gove.

They are completely divided on tha subject

It is not just about power for the people currently involved. It is about their ideologies; these have not changed. They see a particular type of state and will do all they can to be in a position to bring that about. A couple of weeks ago they were against a Labour government that would do all they are now beginning to put in place. That is because they are fundamentally in power to put control in the hands of those who live through capital, where those who basically live by their labour are not a consideration except in as much as not allowing them to be in a place where they might take the power from them.

This graphic is a view of those who put the Conservatives back in power; statistically they were older and less well educated and working class (as defined by others not me!). Just as it was this group who swayed the vote in Brexit there particular type of conservatism has put the current government in too. Their view of life, has taken us into the situations which only now are being recognised for what they are by some of them.

Wow GG how very telling!
Mind you, from views expressed here we could perhaps have told them all of that.
Just a thought - maybe GN was one of their sources.
(Where did you find it?)

'The real issue is how Philip Hammond is going to pay for what could be a £6bn bill. Boris sources hint he doesn’t want tax rises (he thinks they can be done “without causing fiscal pressures”). Michael Gove too hints he opposes tax hikes, telling Andrew Marr he “suppresses” his views to agree a collective line. Former nurse-turned-Tory MP Maria Caulfield told Today: "It's a difficult, stressful, responsible job and if people aren't paid enough so they can make ends meet they will go and do something else."

With the teachers’ pay review body due this month and expected to call for a rise greater than 1%, will Hammond really try to find deeper spending cuts? Or will he use the other magic money tree of greater ‘efficiency savings’? Or use the headroom he already gave himself with the surplus date put back to 2025? Don’t forget he still has to find £2bn from somewhere to pay for social care/health from his last Budget (having abandoned the NI rise), let alone billions more for winter fuel. The Chancellor gives a speech to the CBI at 9pm, let’s see if he gives more clues then.'

From Huffpost.

The graphic was on Facebook mcem and I'm afraid I can't remember where it originated. It had been shared by a friend. Obviously I found the words in my head

Don't forget we will soon have £350m a week to spend on NHS. It was on the side of a bus. It must be true.

Oh yes £350million, how could you forget it!!

I wonder how they intend funding lifting the pay cap, as unlike Labour they didn't cost their original manifesto, -perhaps they will take Labour costings -easy really as they have taken the Labour manifesto and replaced it with their rejected one by the majority if the population.

Mind you if I voted Tory I would be annoyed as nothing that I voted for is coming to fruition, including a hard Brexit.

Hope the magic money tree is growing strongly as the news is that Hinckley point has now reach £1.5bn. Perhaps we could feed it a few DUP members.

Not sure how many u-turns this represents, but Downing Street says it won't be lifting the pay cap.

There must be civil war in cabinet!

Just reading about Gove and his threat to leave the fisheries convention. Apparently it no longer exists so I suspected, but now have it confirmed that he doesn't know what he is talking about.

What sickens me is that these career politicians would quite happily be implementing the contents of the manifesto now if they'd got a huge majority. All they care about is furthering their own career and are only asking for an end to austerity for that reason. Makes me !!

Oh, we're also supposed to be getting cheaper heating bills as well [according to Gisela Stuart]....that doesn't appear to be happening, does it?

'Finally on energy, the poorest households spend three times more of their income on household energy bills than the richest households spend. As long as we are in the EU, we are not allowed to cut VAT on domestic fuel. When we Vote Leave, we will be able to scrap this unfair and damaging tax.' Gisela Stuart gransnet Q&A [worth re reading the whole thread and it's promises, by the way, especially as Ms Stuart, along with Cameron, has done a runner]

That isnt quite right re VAT.

At the moment it is at 5%.

So why not a 0 rate. We've always argued that 0 is a rate. Food is 0 rated as are books.

This is interesting. Does anyone not know any stressed teachers?

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/07/01/stressed-teachers-offered-electric-shock-therapy-combat-anxiety/

Anyone think some of the government should try it, too?
Then we might not have Brexit.

especially as Ms Stuart, along with Cameron, has done a runner

Not only has she done a runner but she has said that the referendum should never have been run!

Leading Brexit campaigner says 'vacuous' referendum should never have been called

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-referendum-vacuous-gisela-stuart-leading-leave-campaigner-abuse-democratic-process-comments-a7803631.html

jackofkent.com/2017/07/three-things-about-brexit/

The comments are worth reading as well.
Hope the Labour party don't fall for it.