Failing Grayling

Prohibiting books in prisons was another of his good ideas.

Beleaguered transport secretary Chris Grayling faced fresh criticism when the health secretary instead answered MPs’ questions about the Brexit ferries fiasco.

Matt Hancock fielded queries in the Commons over Friday’s shock £33m payment to Eurotunnel to settle controversy over cross-Channel contracts.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grayling-brexit-ferries-statement-transport-avoid-mps-health-secretary-a8806626.html

How does he survive?

www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/world/europe/grayling-ferries-uk.html

Maw ???

One of my fondest memories of him is when he flung open his car door and knocked a passing cyclist off his bike ?????

What’s the phrase -“He knows where the bodies are?”

One has to wonder- perhaps he has information or ???? that makes him un-sackable.

In today’s DT, I thought it worth quoting although the criminal incompetence of the present government is doing serious damage to my BP.

What exactly would Chris Grayling have to do for Theresa May to sack him? Re-route HS2 through Buckingham Palace? Commission a new hub airport on Ben Nevis? Award the East Coast railway franchise to al-Qaeda?
It would clearly have to be something special. As Transport Secretary, he’s awarded (then been forced to tear up) a £14 million ferry contract to a company that didn’t have any ferries; faced a vote of no confidence in the Commons after a disastrous revamp of train timetables; and cancelled the promised electrification of various railway lines (but held back the announcement until the general election was safely out of the way). And that’s before we take into account his similarly chaotic record as justice secretary: his unlawful ban on prisoners’ books, his unlawful new employment tribunal fees, his failed prisoner tagging scheme… According to Labour, his entire back catalogue of blunders has cost the taxpayer a total of £2.7 billion. Over the course of his ministerial career, that’s almost £1 million a day
Yesterday, however, Mr Grayling surpassed himself. In a parliamentary first for a Cabinet minister, his cock-ups were the subject of two separate Urgent Questions on the same afternoon
Bizarrely, however, he didn’t turn up for either of them. No one seemed to know why. Cowardice? Arrogance? Or had he accidentally caught his tie in the toaster while making breakfast, and was still, eight hours later, struggling to fight his way free?

He takes incompetence to a whole new level
I wonder if he was behind or at least inspired the Downing Street Tweet commiserating with the inhabitants of Salisbury and congratulating them on their stoicism featuring a photograph of BATH

It’s £33million the government ( taxpayers) have to give to Eurotunnel as an out of court payment whether os not May gets a deal. Grayling couldn’t face the Commons. ( isn’t that part of his job?) so the Health Secretary had to answer questions ( badly). The New York Times has even done an article stating how incredible it is this embarrassment is still in post.

blinkered

It was suggested, in a newspaperI think, that the problem is with Davies and Johnson gone Mrs May needs to keep at least one -blinkered- Brexiteer in the cabinet and he is the only one left.

"Chris Grayling:- Government sends health secretary to answer Brexit ferry questions instead of transport chief
Mr Grayling signed the contracts - which led to £3m payment to Eurotunnel - but 'human shield' Matt Hancock will face MPs"

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grayling-brexit-ferries-statement-transport-avoid-mps-health-secretary-a8806626.html

Apart, of course from TM who was ostensibly a Remainer but has only ever listened to the bonkers brexiters.

What do these incompetents have in common apart from being Tory MPs? They all voted Leave.

The problem is who can you find who is competent?- Gove messed up Education, Hunt- messed up the NHS. Boris-messed up the Foreign office etc. Mrs May -messed up the Home office and PM. They all stick together and hope no-one notices.

If you had to make an important decision, you could ask "what would Chris Grayling decide? Then do the opposite.

Chris Grayling voted Leave!!!!

I’ve met and worked with him......I never saw a glimmer of light behind the eyes. Possibly the dullest man I’ve ever met. I saw no signs of ability or intellect at all and the charisma of a slice of luncheon meat. I think he survives by making the others look better.

I thought it was Damien Green and T.M who go back a long way?! Perhaps Chris Grayling too! He does seem extraordinarily inefficient!!!!!!!

Not a good track record is it paddyann ?

petra ??

I think he knows where the bodies are buried
Him and Theresa go back a long way.

taken from FB.

Tory Minister Chris Grayling Has Cost YOU The Taxpayer £2,700,000,000 (£2.7 Billion Pounds) So Far!!!

£33 million to Eurotunnel to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of no-deal Brexit

£800,000 on consultants’ fees assessing the bid of a company with no ships that was temporarily awarded a Brexit-related ferry contract

£50 million – £70 million due to drone scare at Gatwick airport following delays to bringing forward legislation

£38 million was the cost to the economy in the north of England due to the rail chaos in July 2018

£2 billion cost to taxpayers on the collapse of Virgin Trains east coast franchise

£72,000 was blown on defending book ban for prisoners

£15 million a year in additional costs to the Carillion contract to run facilities management in prisons

£467 million in additional projected payments to CRCs

£32 million of charges that were unlawfully collected which the government were ordered to pay back

£23 million contract to develop a new generation of GPS tracking tags for dangerous offenders was written off because the project had proved “too challenging”

£60 million over the £130 million original budget relating to the wider electronic tagging programme has been described by the PAC as “fundamentally flawed” and a “catastrophic waste of public money”.

£1.9 million paid back to benefit claimants.

I am reminded of those two other incompetent twits, Davies who had no idea how to negotiate Brexit, and Johnson, who made us a laughing stock overseas.

Again ! Whichever ministerial department he works in it goes t*ts up. Read about his disastrous career. Useless.

Indeed maw. It must be getting embarassing even for his colleagues now.