Government Watch - 2

Freezing tuition fees after they've just put them up by another £250 a year; what a wheeze.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pro-life-tory-multi-millionaire-11267331

The People's Assembly Take Back Manchester festival will really love all this.

Apparently Rees-Mogg thinks the vatican would be okay about him making money from a company that sells abortion pills. So that's okay, then. Such a hypocrit.

They were headlines and may prove to be a little different in detail but something tells me ...

Ah the May misled the Queen story is about May saying she had reached a deal with the DUP and it then taking 17 days to do so. Does that mean this government isn't legal? (Tim Shipman in new book)

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-privatisation-health-service-exposed-private-cancer-patients-hospitals-treatment-work-government-a7974096.html

It leaves satirists with nothing to do, as the Tory government are doing it all themselves.

You really couldn't make it up could you - JRM and abortion pills; BJ and The Road to Mandalay; freezing tuition fees and increasing help to buy. I sense a good few days coming up

Government definitely lost the plot on this one.

Headlines in the Sunday Times "Queen misled by broken May" but I am not sure what that is about.

Sunday Mirror - Pro-Life Tory profits from Abortion Pills [JRM]

Oh and she is going to extend help to buy I think they said. Just screw the housing market up a bit more why don't you. We need to ensure there are enough houses where jobs are or jobs where houses are. This will not help!

The BBC is saying the government is going to freeze the level of student fees - which they had promised and then gone back on and also to raise the level of income that paying them back starts - which they had promised and then gone back on.

I wonder who will pay for this. It can't be the wealthy because the Tories say it can't and they have taken everything (and still are) from the poor and disabled so I expect attacks on Pensioners next - perhaps frozen Pension Credit?

Here is Lord Heseltine - "This government is not governing."

mobile.twitter.com/Stone_SkyNews/status/913522898190598144/video/1

That's the reason for a lot of things now. No-one is actually in charge of anything.

So true

Kipling had Johnson sussed.

twitter.com/davidschneider/status/914110610111164416/photo/1

Having no feet on the ground will make life very difficult during the next election.

Good

Everyone has more sense than Johnson.

That was appalling, whitewave. He didn't understand, either even after he'd been told to shut up. He has no idea of appropriate behaviour.
May needs to get rid of him. She could even give the job to Jacob. That would keep him close, and I am sure he'd have more sense than Boris in that situation.

Did you see Johnson began to recite The Road to Mandalay in a sacred Buddhist temple?!!!!! It was only the British ambassador that stopped him.

He really ought to be got rid of

David Henke has indicated that the Tories are heading towards oblivion as a political party. 40000 left this summer and they are down to their last 100k.

Everyone's joining labour

Maizie an article in the New Statesman of last week began:

Boris Johnson is a liar, a charlatan and a narcissist. and then goes on to show why. I cannot believe that May, who I do not believe to be a bad person, is not saying "this may be my downfall but I cannot look at myself in the mirror if I do not sack this man".

Backing up to Jen's link re what we are not being told about economics, all I can say is how true. Sadly, just as cults can take a lot of people with them when their predictions turn out to be untrue. so can parties with their economic predictions. His comparison with the cult of economic theories is frightening because you can see it with the Tory 'TINA' brainwashing.

Just as cults do, they first deprive you and then appear to give you love. When their predictions prove to be untrue you are blamed for not believing long enough and hard enough in what they have proselytised.

Luckily, they found in the 80s that deprogramming is rarely necessary as the effects of brainwashing is temporary at its best, and completely ineffective at its worst so we must hope that when shown what the right-wing of the Tory party are doing - for the same reason as cult leaders - skimming the cream off for themselves and being held in esteem by others, then they will turn on these self-servers and never let them back into power again.

That's good, Maizie.

Mrs May's school report from all her teachers; not sufficient progress.

Oops, errant apostrophe in 'Norths'

Boris lost his chance of being PM?

Oh, I was going to post a comment by one of his ardent admirers from Dr Richard North's Leave EU blog. But between my reading it earlier this morning and finding it again now to copy it's been deleted by Richard North! Who sets out his reasons for deleting it very clearly:

I'm sick to the back teeth of your mindless paeans of praise for that sociopath. You are just the sort of stupid Englishman who in the 1930s would have lined up behind the Daily Mail and supported Adolf Hitler, thinking him a "jolly good chap" who's really sorting out Germany's problems.

Incidentally, Leave EU is a blog that's really worth reading, the North's are Leavers who are absolutely appalled at the mess the tories are making of Brexit. Some civilised BTL comments, too. Both from Leavers and Remainers.

eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=86621#disqus_thread