Neverending Story 3: The Ongoing Brexit Thread

Basically, this guy is treating a relative drop as an absolute drop? Lot of that going around.

 

He did produce some decent pieces back in the day, but since he moved to the Telegraph and subsequently the MoS he's just been a government cheerleader.

This will sound snide, Dan, but I promise it isn't. If the cards had fallen differently I think, as someone with no family money who only ever wanted to be a journalist, I could've ended up peddling the shit you do. So fair play & good luck but I won't be engaging with you again. https://t.co/uhVMjHGrfu

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 17, 2021

 

Are you guys noticing that every shop is hiring?

 

Plenty of hospitality jobs going round here. Amazon opened a big warehouse and hoovered up loads of people during furlough.

 

In the Netherlands there's a shortage of 10K lorry drivers, among others.
Health care, shops, builders etc are screaming for people.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59006619

Retail sales continue to decline despite removing restrictions. It may be -- and I'm just spitballing here -- that the rise in cases has something to do with people not wanting to shop? And it may also be that increased prices due to global supply chains factor in? Or maybe the added snarls due to Brexit?

Can't wait to see what Kwarteng, Sunak, and Boris blame instead.

 

That's because you're not in charge of a tiny toddling tyrant who keeps outgrowing clothes and shoes.

 

Nah, I think the BBC got it wrong in the initial reports or maybe I misheard it.

If your lad has at least one parent that's British and is good at sport he'll be British when he wins, Welsh when he loses and if he's no good at sport, nobody will care unless he starts going around shooting people like this fella.

 

I think it's pretty obvious some of these changes have been accelerated hugely by the pandemic but the impact on the UK will be greater due to the disruption of brexit.

Also, there was a good piece on the beeb website about people not returning to work. They're calling it 'The Great Resignation'.

Well, some people are...

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211028-what-were-getting-wrong-about-the-great-resignation

There are a few pieces about it...

https://eu.rgj.com/story/news/money...ion-why-people-not-returning-work/5661302001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/10/29/great-resignation-cycle-more-people-quit/6181129001/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/great-resignation-accelerating/620382/

As usual I'm guessing it's being over hyped but seems to be a real thing. We'll have to wait and see how it all shakes out I suppose.

 

Mogg just announced a U-Turn on the new Paterson GOOJFC committee. Ostensibly it's because they realized they couldn't kick out all the defectors in the party, or maybe they hadn't actually realized the optics of an oversight committee only staffed by members of the majority party, or maybe it was that big donors realized how much of their money would get set on fire in the next GE if they kept this bullshit up.

 

That's an interesting point.

Even if he hasn't 'done anything wrong' what about them?

Come on, you're one of our legal eagles. What's the word?!

 

On the other hand, speaking as deputy chair of finance of a local council, I might try and employ this new found 'flexibility'



I mean, it makes you think, doesn't it. Why is it OK for the tories and not for us?

That's the annoying thing. As the start of every council meeting we all have to declare any interests and, if there is, we have to leave the meeting for that part.

The thing is we're not talking about getting a bung from a business. That's just straight up corruption. We're just talking about having ANY interest in a specific area under discussion.

I find it absolutely incredible what's gone on with Patterson, tbh.

 

And yet Paterson got to vote on his own fate on Wednesday.
It was also pointed out that almost a quarter of the MPs who signed the amendment are either under investigation, or have been recently.

 

The big problem is that most Tories, and especially Johnson, don't see it as corruption. They see it as their entitlement.
Take Johnson's holiday in Spain - paid for by Zac Goldsmith, who lost his seat in 2019 and was moved to the Lords by Johnson. The holiday was just a "thank you".

 

Rules are for the little people

useful Times guide to the 19 Tory MPs who voted to overhaul the standards system - and who just happen to have been reprimanded by the standards commissioner pic.twitter.com/JCql5bz7pW

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) November 5, 2021

 

Somehow Nigel Mills slipped through the net when Johnson purged the sensible Tories.

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His days are numbered I'd think.

 

The problem with that sort of thing is that, unless they come forward and say it publicly, (not in an off the record briefing), it's worthless.