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Has the Conservative Party lost all sense of competence

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GracesGranMK2 Sat 02-Dec-17 10:10:45

This is not an attack on individuals but on the ethos of conservatism. Since the war the CP has created the myth that they are competent. Recently we have seen:

Incompetence with the economy.
Incompetence with benefits
Incompetence with state pensions
Incompetence with support for business and industry via infrastructure
Incompetence in many areas with government administration
Incompetence with transport
Incompetence in the criminal justice system
Incompetence in defence
Incompetence in education
Incompetence in the NHS
Incompetence in running their own election

I am sure there are other areas. Why does anyone vote for this incompetence? Surely we deserve better?
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whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 20:42:29

We started out this morning being told that this reshuffle was all about promoting women, being more diverse and revitalising mays Government.

That went well grin

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 20:36:10

Faisal Islam

“Greening is a very damaging loss for May. Because May caved into the men but not the woman”

Looks bad doesn’t it?

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 20:31:52

Osborne has described the reshuffle as “unusual” grin

durhamjen Mon 08-Jan-18 20:21:22

Good. Esther McVey being suggested for DWP now!!!

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 20:09:59

Rumour has it that Greening didn’t just resign because she didn’t want the DWP but also because she is frothing at Young’s appointment

durhamjen Mon 08-Jan-18 20:01:23

Right, from now on it's tory incompetence thread for this!

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 19:51:48

Greening joining back benches

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 19:34:09

I think Greening has taken up residence in No 10, she’s been there for 2 hours now. Perhaps she’s trying to shove May out.

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 19:23:42

Latest Reported

Larry remains as cat

durhamjen Mon 08-Jan-18 19:23:12

Gove staying on. He looks pleasantly surprised - or like the usual idiot.

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 19:16:23

We seem to be witnessing the very slow death of a very old dinosaur.

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 19:07:35

I thought it was Dacre perhaps it’s a shared portfolio

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 19:06:50

Gove just gone into No 10.

So if he doesn’t get prime minister what else?

durhamjen Mon 08-Jan-18 19:01:28

I read she'd appointed Murdoch with overall control.

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 18:58:43

May will be outside of no 10 soon saying

“Nothing has changed
Nothing has changed”

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 18:40:25

Someone said that May has promoted Gove as prime minister

It gets sillier and sillier

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 18:36:55

Andy Shaw twitter

“The minister offered his promotion, and the prime minister accepted it”

grin

MaizieD Mon 08-Jan-18 18:09:37

I suppose May wouldn't dare put Ann Milton in charge of Health, as she is married to a director of Virgin Care.

Sorry, he's not a director, dj

twitter.com/GuardianAnushka/status/950390482240196608

Just to be clear on Graham Henderson's role with Virgin care, he was a local medical director (which is equivalent to senior doctor) when company took over NHS services in Surrey. But isn't company director, and he left in early 2015.

MaizieD Mon 08-Jan-18 18:04:51

KPMG has withdrawn from their role as advisors to the Grenfell enquiry

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2018/01/08/kpmg-quits-grenfell-tower-inquiry/

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 18:04:10

May has zero authority

durhamjen Mon 08-Jan-18 17:58:46

Whitewave, I read it was Hunt who refused to move to business, so Clarke had to stay.

I suppose May wouldn't dare put Ann Milton in charge of Health, as she is married to a director of Virgin Care.

Still got ten millionaires in the cabinet. Very representative.

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 17:54:31

Marie Caufield who supports the criminalisation of women who ends their own pregnancy has been given the post of CCHQ vice chair for women.

durhamjen Mon 08-Jan-18 17:48:01

Eazybee, would you like to comment on the idea of KPMG being appointed as advisers to the Grenfell Tower enquiry?

"The failure of KPMG to disclose a clear conflict of interest – that KPMG audit Celotex, the parent company which produced the flammable cladding, alongside its role as auditors of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and Rydon Group, the principal contractor, raises serious questions about the professionalism of KPMG and its ability to define and serve the public interest.

KPMG’s reputation has already been seriously tarnished by the failed HBOS and Cooperative Bank audits in the UK, as well as its flawed auditing of overseas banks including Wachovia, New Century Financial, Wells Fargo, Countrywide and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (for which it has paid out millions of dollars in fines and settlements). KPMG failures are also closely associated with the developing Gupta political scandal in South Africa."
From the link in the post you criticised.

Don't you see anything thoroughly unpleasant about this, and about the government thinking it's okay for the elderly to die in ambulances, in hospital corridors, and even while waiting four hours for an ambulance to arrive?

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 17:46:17

David Green on twitter.

“Impressed by this new form of reshuffle where ministers tell the PM what they want”
grin

whitewave Mon 08-Jan-18 17:43:13

Greg Clarke who is universally considered as the most useless minister ever , refused to budge.

What a joke

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