A Political Thread pt. 2

[TRF_Olyy]

Don't threaten me with a good time

 

[Reiser99]

Well she already said there was a culture issue in Downing Street and the culture usually depends on the person in charge. Only way it could be more damning is if it says Johnson not only allowed it to happen, but actively encouraged it, organised it and led it knowing it was against the rules.

 

[Reiser99]

Donald Trump held in contempt in New York legal battle

The former president will be fined $10,000 (£7,850) every day until he turns over requested files.

www.bbc.co.uk

"Everything that your honour and the attorney general said that we haven't done - we have done," attorney Alina Habba said in court. After a "very diligent" search, there were simply no more relevant documents to provide, she said.

Unfortunately the shredder had already been emptied.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Working 9-5 doesn’t mean being chained to a desk. Someone tell Jacob Rees-Mogg | Simon Jenkins

The minister is leaving letters to civil servants as if they’re his butler, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

This comment by "Stinky" in the comments section made me laugh:

Perhaps Rees-Mogg should ask himself why civil servants seem so unhappy to return to a workplace where a creepy, badly-dressed, half-witted aberration and Stan Laurel/grim reaper hybrid prowls around in the shadows sticking patronising pimped-up post-it-notes on desks asking where people are.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Donald Trump held in contempt in New York legal battle

The former president will be fined $10,000 (£7,850) every day until he turns over requested files.

www.bbc.co.uk

"Everything that your honour and the attorney general said that we haven't done - we have done," attorney Alina Habba said in court. After a "very diligent" search, there were simply no more relevant documents to provide, she said.

Unfortunately the shredder had already been emptied.

Pity they didn't apply it retroactively to every day since the missed deadline. The thing is that penalty is peanuts to him and really is not any sort of punishment. It's about 1/1000th of his wealth a year. For the average person in the UK to get a similar % as a fine it would work out about £20-30 a year, hardly enough to compel you to do anything.

 

[Reiser99]

Angela Rayner: Tory source of misogyny claims would be punished, PM says

Boris Johnson condemns claims about Labour's deputy leader as "a load of sexist, misogynist tripe".

www.bbc.co.uk

Downing Street will not be asking for an inquiry into who made the comments to the newspaper, with a source saying this was because such inquiries rarely found the person in question.

But they will conduct inquires into who leaked Sunak's dodgy tax dealings and Hancock getting his cock wet during a lockdown.

 

[Reiser99]

Pity they didn't apply it retroactively to every day since the missed deadline. The thing is that penalty is peanuts to him and really is not any sort of punishment. It's about 1/1000th of his wealth a year. For the average person in the UK to get a similar % as a fine it would work out about £20-30 a year, hardly enough to compel you to do anything.

Dunno, hypothetically if he didn't pay for a year that's 3 million. That not small change. Also there is a lot of doubt about how much he is actually worth isn't there? I thought most of it was based on assets that could well not be worth that amount.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Dunno, hypothetically if he didn't pay for a year that's 3 million. That not small change. Also there is a lot of doubt about how much he is actually worth isn't there? I thought most of it was based on assets that could well not be worth that amount.

It is a bit blurred but his assets are still worth multi-millions and the Saudis have just chucked a load of money into Kushners investment fund. If nothing else, Trump could simply go to his supporters and ask they pay for it "to help defend their dear leader" or some other ******** and they would definitely do it. Raising 3 million a year from his supporters is well within the realm of possibility.

I just can't see any way even $3 million a year would be damaging enough to compel him to do anything.

 

[The Seeker]

 

[McTallshort]

Angela Rayner: Tory source of misogyny claims would be punished, PM says

Boris Johnson condemns claims about Labour's deputy leader as "a load of sexist, misogynist tripe".

www.bbc.co.uk

Downing Street will not be asking for an inquiry into who made the comments to the newspaper, with a source saying this was because such inquiries rarely found the person in question.

But they will conduct inquires into who leaked Sunak's dodgy tax dealings and Hancock getting his cock wet during a lockdown.

It's all Cummings's!

On different note, Angela Raynor's legs would distract the hell out of me but Im a messed up gen xer with a very questionable moral compass not the Prime Minister

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Guardian, FT and Mirror journalists 'excluded' from Home Secretary’s Rwanda trip

Journalists from the Guardian, Financial Times and Mirror were allegedly blocked from joining Home Secretary Priti Patel’s trip to Rwanda this month.

pressgazette.co.uk

I wonder which papers have been critical of it/the Tories?

 

[General Melchett]

Guardian, FT and Mirror journalists 'excluded' from Home Secretary’s Rwanda trip

Journalists from the Guardian, Financial Times and Mirror were allegedly blocked from joining Home Secretary Priti Patel’s trip to Rwanda this month.

pressgazette.co.uk

I wonder which papers have been critical of it/the Tories?

I watched her update the HoC on this Rwanda policy last week and again came to the conclusion that she's a bit thick. Her smug smirk doesn't help matters either.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I watched her update the HoC on this Rwanda policy last week and again came to the conclusion that she's a bit thick. Her smug smirk doesn't help matters either.

Yeah, having a ruthless streak and absolutely zero conscience will get you far in politics

 

[Reiser99]

Guardian, FT and Mirror journalists 'excluded' from Home Secretary’s Rwanda trip

Journalists from the Guardian, Financial Times and Mirror were allegedly blocked from joining Home Secretary Priti Patel’s trip to Rwanda this month.

pressgazette.co.uk

I wonder which papers have been critical of it/the Tories?

Nothing shouts democracy like restricting certain news outlets and only going with the ones you favour. No wait sorry...that's authoritarianism. My bad.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Call for extra bank holiday to be made permanent

Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden is among business leaders who signed an open letter to ministers.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Honestly every month should have at least 1 bank holiday either on a Friday or monday

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I'm all up for another bank holiday, though they should put it earlier/later in the year - there's already a load bunched up around easter, stick it in Feb or October, breaks up those long blocks and there's also school half-terms then so can combine it in that for minimal school disruption

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Screw bank holidays on arbitrary days. Just let people buy extra annual leave (my favourite gift to myself).

 

[Which Tyler]

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

BBC news have a reporter casually walking right next to an unexploded rocket...