Government Watch - 2

ygg yes Orgreave is a good example of what any government will do when feeling threatened.

Judging by the conference attendance and deadly dull speeches, this government is more likely to send people to sleep as a defence mechanism rather than knock them on the head with a baton.

I see the Telegraph is reporting that Davis is retiring in 2019, which presumably will be before Brexit is completed.

Looks more and more likely that Johnson will be a shoe-in as leader.
Well I suppose it was inevitable that we have to have a British version of Trump.
Heaven help us.

By the time brexit happens will any of it's instigators be doing anything other than counting how much money they have personally made from it? Other than Johnson who appears to be in it for self glory of some kind....

Apparently he is the father of Brexit???????

Is there no end to their delusion and vanity

According to The Spectator -Less than one in three people say that they would vote for the Tories. Hardly anyone under 49 would vote for them

Boris calling his speech let the lion roar. Idiot has forgotten that the lion is the new symbol of UKIP.

www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9965

What the IFS thinks of Tory changes to student finance.

"We are going to crack global warming, with British clean technology and British green finance – in which we lead the world."

Hasn't the government closed the green investment bank?
Hasn't it stopped investment in renewable energy?

Johnson obviously hasn't been told yet.

I watched his speech -he is the silliest man imaginable and the average 71 year old at the Tory party conference lapped it up. You would think they knew better.

"According to The Spectator -Less than one in three people say that they would vote for the Tories. Hardly anyone under 49 would vote for them."

After listening to Boris I think it may now be one in four. How interesting to talk about the share of the vote that 'May' won when they are so against PR ... currently

I wonder what percentage of these speeches are actually about Jeremy Corbyn and the left? Surely if you are in power you don't give your opposition air time.

I am sure Corbyn doesn't mind, particularly when Channel four factcheck shows how wrong Hammond was on every attack.

www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/philip-hammonds-attack-on-labour-over-market-economics

This man has just lost any youth vote they ever had among the young unemployed.

uk.businessinsider.com/tory-mp-tells-unemployed-brits-to-get-on-your-bike-and-work-on-farms-with-gorgeous-eu-women-2017-10

Hard to believe he's under investigation for fiddling the election against Farage.

Unbelievable. The man is a fool.

I believe we will, eventually, find a cure for the psychological contamination of radical, Islamist, extremism. Just as we eradicated smallpox and polio, it came and it will go.

The arrogance about other cultures, however much we think they are wrong is simply thoughtless and almost certainly dangerous.

Jeremy Hunt ought to know better than to claim the Tories set up the NHS, as well. If there's one thing that there is a well known history of, it's the NHS.

www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/nhs/news/89517/excl-jon-ashworth-conservative-claim-they-set-nhs-laughable

Yes, I couldn't believe he said that, either, GracesGran.
He'll be telling us there's a cure for being foreign next.

Quite.

Jeremy Hunt didn't tell people about this, either, when he was telling everyone how well the NHS was doing in Tory hands.

evolvepolitics.com/tories-just-handed-55m-nhs-contract-tax-haven-firm-never-paid-penny-corp-tax/

According to Michael Gove, Tories are friends of the earth, as well. I'd better tear up my card and stop my direct debit, then.

evolvepolitics.com/the-green-partys-reaction-to-michael-goves-absurd-tory-environment-claim-is-absolutely-priceless/

The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. ... It sets out certain rights of individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment ...

Surely what the Tory party are doing to TM comes under this heading?

Oh, well said, GracesGran.
She's not going to complain about it though, because she doesn't notice.

It's nearly as bad as Hunt praising the nurses, even asking for a round of applause for them, then saying he's going to have an app for them so their bosses can ask them to work longer for less pay. He didn't understand, either.

Good to know once we’ve have cleared all those rotting bodies out of the way then Libya can then pursue the Capitalistt ideal.

Vote for Boris = a vote for crassness and insensitivity.

It's lucky all the plane companies are going bust, then, otherwise we'd be queuing up for cheap flights to Libya.

Not forgetting the Tories talking of JC taking us back to the 1970s, pretending it wasn't Ted Heath who presided over the 3-day week and the oil crisis.
It would be nice if we could undo all the damage done by Thatcher's version of capitalism from 1979 onwards, but at least we have a hope of making a start with Corbyn

Mrs May is expected to announce plans for a significant expansion in council housing - including measures to make it easier for authorities to get land.

I do hope this isn't the usual drop in the ocean and that they aren't sold off to those with masses of capital.