Government Watch - 2

Mark Twain [I googled it...]; it's usually him or Oscar Wild [or sometimes even Hitler...but his quote was something like tell a lie, make it big and, if you say it enough times they will believe you...which is similar]

I do know that but have forgotten (showing my age)

Who was it that said "it is easier to fool people than to get them to admit they have been fooled"?

From your Guardian link on rip off Britain, dj, a fine 'below the line' comment!

"It is because the British public keep on voting for the governments that do it. It may be the government that actually pulls the trigger, but it is the great unwashed who hand them the gun and seem to be happy to hand over fresh supplies of ammo on a five yearly basis. We live in a democracy where peoples priorities no longer seem to be not being ripped of, caring about the poor, the mentally ill and the disabled. We can sit in our ivory towers and blame it on misinformation, Rupert Murdoch, the Tories or god, but whilst large chunks of the population ask for it, they will continue to get it. They don't care, because most people are alright or think they are and if they don't think they are, they will blame immigrants, the left, the Guardian or god sooner that own the misery they force on minorities and the less well of. That's how democracy works."

You couldn't make it up could you.

A sure sign of Tory incompetence.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/04/us-surgeon-may-be-forced-to-quit-uk-because-of-visa-nightmare

It would probably make a good documentary.

Labour gain Milton Regis from UKIP.

Marine, Worthing first Labour councillor for over 40 years, whitewave.
Well done, Worthing. Seeing sense at last.

Labour won Thanet . Ukip collapses

Margate South Thanet

Labour 57%
Tories 24%

Ukip out

Worthing Marine returned the first LABOUR councillor I can ever remember!!!!

It is a bastion of the right, in fact has returned someone from UKIP in the past.

Labour 47%

Tories 38%

More or less matching the national polls

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/03/britain-world-beater-ripping-off-citizens-rail-fares-water-energy-bills

One very angry reporter, and he's right to be.

For some reason the https gets removed.
However, you can see it if you go on save the children website.
If you want to, that is.

t.emails.savethechildren.org.uk/r/?id=h2c65f00,2369e6f7,2378d386

Powerful stuff from Save the Children.

t.emails.savethechildren.org.uk/r/?id=h2c65f00,2369e6f7,2378d387

The government is still arming the Saudis to bomb Yemen.

The government have really just taken the summer off. Isn't it time they caught up with everyone else?

Petitions had to stop because of the recent general election. After a new Petitions Committee is set up by the House of Commons, petitions will start again. This will be after Parliament returns in September.

So no new petitions - which often alert journalists to issues - until after September.

Growth and wages rate downgraded

Just read that they have failed to do a deal with pairing up of Labour/Tory MPs when voting. This will put more pressure on the government.

The other one is
"The light at the end of the tunnel just might be a train."

Even more Harry Potter.

sounds a bit Harry Potterish.

Very appropriate.

Anyone vote for the Tories because they promised a cap on energy prices?

politicalscrapbook.net/2017/08/gasbags-tories-break-manifesto-promise-on-energy-prices/

nhsfunding.info/staffing/nearly-40-per-cent-gps-plan-leave-nhs-within-five-years/

nhsfunding.info/

What the government is doing to the NHS.

At least it explains why there's massive infrastructure investment needed in London.