Westministenders: No Australia Don't Have A Deal

[RedToothBrush]

Since Friday, far from letting things calm down, Johnson has doubled down stating that if we can't have a Canada Deal (which the EU says wouldn't be equal because we are much closer than Canada geographically) we will go for an Australia Deal.

This is the latest rehash of a managed no deal package up as something else which the EU have already repeatedly said no to.

So we are on track for no deal.

At the same time Johnson has got very excited about American food and how its great. Almost as if he wants no deal wit the EU to force a shitty bad deal with the us through.

Johnson and his chronies have also been trying to undermine journalistic transparency by blocking access to the lobby to some media outlets in a move that makes us look like a tinpot dictatorship. Fortunately there was a mass walk out of journalists but it remains to be seen how long that can be maintained.

Far from being a clean slate to move forward from its already proving that nothing has changed and old divisions are as deep as ever, if not worse...

But none of those criticisms DGR will stop Johnson wasting the taxpayers money on such a project.

I'm suspecting there are some Boris backers on the receiving end of that cash.

Imagine a future where cronies are rewarded by "consulting" on completely hatstand schemes. There's the UK moonshot, of course. Plus the plan to move Manchester onto stilts over London.

Anymore for anymore ?

Cabbages : truth is stranger than twitter
www.fruitnet.com/fpj/article/180862/win-for-british-farm-as-cabbages-allowed-into-malaysia
but yes, in Spalding the pickers are going to be in short supply soon ...

My first thought on reading that was "Bless !".

My second thought was how much it reminded me of a primary school newspaper, where the headline might have been about a new dinner lady (it was the 70s, I realise it's dinner assistant now) or what the school rabbit had been up to in the half term.

Just PMK again, as keep falling off the thread.

That bridge is a total fucking fantasy at stupid people.

It's in the same category as stories about mining for minerals on asteroids that the press regularly reports.

If journalists weren't so fucking credulous, then conmen like Johnson would find this much harder to get away with.

aimed at stupid people (I should make it clear that the stupid people I'm referring to are mainly the journalists and commentators, and not their readers).

What chance a monorail?

-monorail?

Monorail!

It's in the same category as stories about mining for minerals on asteroids that the press regularly reports.

I'd be more inclined to go for that - but it would need a working moonbase. Tow an asteroid into the moon, and break it down there.

Some asteroids have ice, so you could (in theory) use that to sustain a colony, rather than trying to synthesise water from whatever the moon is made of (I may just be letting on I am no geologist ) or transport the fucking heavy stuff from earth (which itself could do with a bit more fresh water anyway ...).

But all of that requires a level of expertise that a government that forgets the VAT on something doesn't really suggest.

I may just be letting on I am no geologist

I’m no geologist either, but even I know that the moon is made of cheese

Goodbye to JiT
www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/10/checks-on-eu-bound-goods-inevitable-gove-tells-business-leaders

mockers
😂😂😂

Is the SF vote because voters are turning to their hard left policies in desperation for change,
or turning to nationalism - as we've seen in England ?

imo, this exit poll for Reunification referenda probably reflects more a vague hope for sometime in the future rather than a united Ireland in the next decade or so.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/10/sinn-fein-declares-victory-irish-general-election

An exit poll found that 57% of people supported Sinn Féin’s desire to hold referendums on unity on both sides of the border in the next five years.

What happens when the ireland to scotland viability report comes back saying:

"Hahahahaha! Nice joke. You weren't serious, were you?"

Will Johnson go and plough ahead with it anyway?

Bye bye to large scale car manufacturing, airbus, and others.

Agriculture will suffer too. Fishing industry as well.

RedToothBrush
Commissioning reports is the modern version of patronage/bribery.
Nothing will ever come of it, but its a good way to make friendly firms stay on the right side of Government

Was there a viability study on that London Garden bridge, before BJ as London Mayor spaffed £45 million of public money on it ?

BigChoc
Not an impartial one ....
www.nao.org.uk/report/investigation-the-department-for-transports-funding-of-the-garden-bridge/

Wasn't the 54 million on the viability study and proposals ?

Good days to be in consultancy!

Suspect Heatherwick and Ove Arup did very nicely out of the Garden Bridge fiasco.

Heatherwick also designed the new Routemaster - you know the one that causes fare dodging
guess who paid him to do that

A friend of mine told me of a political scam from many years ago. The local political party hq put forward plans for an underground carpark for their premises. The local council gave them money to fund drawing up plans. The idea was nonsense from the start and they knew it. The site was right next to a river. As in on the banks.

I'm surprised that figure is as high as 57% BCF. Here's a breakdown of the figures.

www.thejournal.ie/ge2020-border-poll-4999083-Feb2020/

It's very popular with the young uns.

If journalists weren't so fucking credulous, then conmen like Johnson would find this much harder to get away with.

^this

Journalists are not credulous
Reporters are massively under funded.
Columnists get paid megabucks to pontificate.
Actual reporting and investigating has been stripped to the bone.