Westminstenders: Put Your Faith In The Home Office

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Because there doesn't seem to be a new thread yet. I'm no RTB or any of you other experts, but these threads need to keep going.

Give me a couple weeks and I'll be able to post cat placemarks!

To be fair, things are out of stock more often in Belgium too. So not all of it is Brexit related.

Vegetables are plentiful hete though.

We get our online shop delivered on a Saturday morning, and the milk ALWAYS has more than a week left on it, usually until the Tuesday of the following week. The last few weeks, the dates have been for the weekend instead, and this morning our milk from last week’s delivery (had today’s date on it) had gone off. Also this morning, no whole chicken - it wasn’t substituted, just didn’t appear, which presumably means that there were no whole chickens of any kind available

Hancock resigns!

@HarrietPierce

Hancock resigns!

He must have been tipped off to tomorrow's headlines in the Sunday papers.

And/or he's run off with Gina C.

Hancock resigning is a clear signal that Boris power is waning.

I look forward to a Tory sharkfest as they smell blood.

In his resignation letter, Mr Hancock reiterated his apology for "breaking the guidance" and he apologised.

Neatly sidestepping anything else (we have yet to discover) as the reason for resigning.

Suspect the mrs H said something to the effect of "you either stop working with that woman or find yourself somewhere else to live"

RainbowZebraWarrior I hope you continue to be unaffected. I'm in the NW and it's pretty high here, we have had higher cases than everywhere else since last summer/autumn. I'm waiting for the school bubbles to burst again and hoping they won't. I wish they would put more measures into schools like improved ventilation. I wish they would stop listening to Us4Them and act with some sense for a change. We all want the schools to stay open, mitigation will help them get there.

I'm getting a supermarket delivery so I'll see what I get this time.

Thanks @HappyWinter and I agree. Hope your supermarket delivery was successful. I've been at loggerheads with Sainsbury's recently. They are usually very good. I have to use them and Waitrose in tandem. Waitrose are definitely better at helping a disabled person.

So Sajid Javid is the new Health Secretary.

@FrankieStein402

Suspect the mrs H said something to the effect of "you either stop working with that woman or find yourself somewhere else to live"

A Tory wife ? Unlikely.

Either way, to resign so soon after getting Boris' support suggests something is afoot.

Agree. The last thing the Tories need is a detailed look at their awarding of contracts to chums, paid for by taxes.
Boris's power is on the wane, but don't think he'll care much.
He's been " King of the World" and will happily shuffle off to earn loadsa money.

Immediate thoughts about seeing "The Saj" back in town is that it's pushed Priti Patel down the rankings one place.

God. Javid as new Health Secretary.

Is that so Johnson has has an anti Cummings ally in cabinet meetings? Or someone happy enough to preside over further privatisation plans for the NHS?

The snogging debacle used to cover up the corruption of him using his private email account to handle contract discussions.

Cummings's revenge: "Sajid Javid is new wife". Clever editing. Well, devious.

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Will Hutton Observer columnist re government stance on Brexit :
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To acknowledge weaknesses would delegitimise the whole enterprise: thus further deceit compounds the original deceit, sin on sin" article in The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/case-for-brexit-built-on-lies-five-years-later-deceit-is-routine-in-our-politics?

I think it's clear there's a school of thought that the further away we can get from 2016, the easier it will be for the Tories to spin it as something which "had" to happen. Like the abolition of slavery or digital watches.

Which allows them to permaswerve the blame by just saying "But Labour ....."

Which allows them to permaswerve the blame by just saying "But Labour ....."

It’s interesting that even on the Hancock threads there are attempts to deflect with “but Starmer/Diane Abbot/Corbyn//Labour in general”. They’re not working very well though.

Which allows them to permaswerve the blame by just saying "But Labour ....."

Or as with the Telegraph stating that the reintroduction of roaming charges is Nothing To Do With Brexit, but BT being 'opportunistic'. I thought that was what Making our own Laws was about.

@Peregrina

Which allows them to permaswerve the blame by just saying "But Labour ....."

Or as with the Telegraph stating that the reintroduction of roaming charges is Nothing To Do With Brexit, but BT being 'opportunistic'. I thought that was what Making our own Laws was about.

Ooh, I'd like to see an explanation of how one can be opportunistic without being there being an opportunity.

Reintroducing roaming charges = taking advantage of an opportunity created solely by Brexit.

Another one using a private email.

I note that this was leaked to the Guardian - perhaps people at last are getting thoroughly sick of the members of Johnson's Government thinking that the rules don't apply to them.

Annual £7.5bn cost of EU trade as bad for business as no-deal Brexit

British businesses will spend £7.5 billion a year handling customs declarations — as much as they would have done under a no-deal Brexit — the tax office admitted yesterday.
Jim Harra, chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), told MPs that the number of customs forms needed to trade with the European Union under the Brexit deal “is not materially different from a no-deal situation”.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/annual-7-5bn-cost-of-eu-trade-as-bad-for-business-as-no-deal-brexit-jd7llrtb6

Catherine West MP
@CatherineWest1
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Just asked the new Health Secretary to guarantee that the NHS will remain in public hands. He failed to do so.

Not a great start.