Brexit Megathread Part 3: COP26 and beyond. The Empire is no more.

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The old thread is nearly full so as COP26 is in my home town, I thought I'd start the next one.

I'm not expecting anything wonderful from COP26. The selfishness that is Brexit will extend to the rich nations - or rather corporations, countries and cronies - not wanting to do anything that might actually cost them money or hurt their profits and having made their money on the back of the resources of the poorer nations (in some cases quite literally ), they'll expect them to pay the price for the riches of the West.

The deliberate mistranslation of France's letter to the EU will distract from real issues - but that's ok for BJ as he can then blame the perfidious French.

Nothing changes.

[quote DuncinToffee]The NHS and Care Bill (NHSCB) will be back in the Commons tomorrow

westcountrybylines.co.uk/after-48-years-with-the-nhs-reader-begs-tobias-ellwood-dont-support-that-nhs-bill-please/[/quote]
Why is there no press coverage on this? More stealth privatisation of the NHS. Talking with someone I know today who was going on about how free at the point of use is a broken model and people must may a fee to use GPS etc.

The NHS is woefully under funded but is far more cost efficient than many other health care models. Bet so many businessmen are sniffing the potential of profits from healthcare. Lots of money to be made from people’s poor health now that every other bloody industry has been run into the ground.

Maybe Johnson refusing to wear a mask on a train isn’t a narcissistic-look-at-my-beaming-face-don’t-you-love-me moment but a Machiavellian plot to spread viruses, further overload the NHS and use that as a convenient excuse to push through privatisation?

GMB

Adil Ray - Why are we not telling people to wear a mask?

Paul Scully - We want people to use common sense

Adil Ray - Boris Johnson was pictured on a train maskless... so Boris Johnson has no common sense?

PS - That's what newspapers do

AR - So it's the newspapers fault

(From Haggis_UK)

Thread by Lewis Goodall on the care bill

twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1461119793340243968?s=21

Remember, as things stand the proposals would mean someone with a £1 million would retain the vast majority of their assets, someone with £100,000 would lose most of theirs.

It is being discussed on the radio this morning, lots of Tory back benchers unhappy with it.

lots of Tory back benchers unhappy with it.

Red Wall new Tories I suspect. Not those sitting in safe seats in the South East with million £ property prices.

Very likely, I was only half listening so don't know if they mentioned who these unhappy Tories are.

Christian Wakeford (Bury South) and Robert Buckland are mentioned in the article linked by DrBlackbird

I’ve emailed my (Tory, female) MP again, for what it’s worth.
She did abstain on the Paterson vote, which astonished me.

She did abstain on the Paterson vote, which astonished me.

Ah but was it a matter of principle, or was it because she fears for her seat? Last year they had postbags full of people complaining about Cummings' eyesight jaunt, which they dutifully had to defend. Then Cummings got the boot. Faced with the prospect of having to defend Paterson, and then find that he gets the boot too, what would a Tory of few principles do?

Oh it was because she was worried about her seat for sure. Shes a woman of zero principles, going by correspondence dating back many years now.

[quote Chersfrozenface]Well, I never.
Remember that bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59368707[/quote]
How much tax payers cash has been wasted on this so far?

Embarrassing

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-loses-place-rambles-25515669

And yet people were claiming they voted for him because he was so eloquent...

It's working as a distraction, lots of talk about Peppa Pig but not a lot about the Social Care bill.

But maybe he is gone too far this time.

Laura K's latest tweet
Senior Downing St source says “there is a lot of concern inside the building about the PM....It’s just not working. Cabinet needs to wake up and demand serious changes otherwise it’ll keep getting worse. If they don’t insist, he just won’t do anything about it."

Sometimes I wonder if BJ is actually an escaped character from an unpublished PG Wodehouse novel. He needs Jeeves to lock him in a room and feed him beef tea and soothing words until he regains his wits.

Breshit still going so well.

Highland hotels forced to shut due to lack of staff post-Brexit

And here's a little "world beating" gem.

"Chances that a single Nobel or Turing laureate would move to the UK to work are zero for the next decade or so,” says [Manchester Nobel laureate] Andre Geim.... “The scheme itself is a joke – it cannot be discussed seriously,” he says."

Ouch

Chances that a single Nobel or Turing laureate would move to the UK to work are zero for the next decade or so,” says Andre Geim at the University of Manchester, UK. Geim won a Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on graphene.

www.newscientist.com/article/2298455-uk-visa-scheme-for-prize-winning-scientists-receives-no-applications

Oops sorry Hannibal, you already posted this

It did look like Johnson was unravelling before our eyes with that Peppa Pig moment. I don't think it is a distraction from the Social Care Bill as it sounds like the Cabinet are struggling to get him to pay attention. Which is a running theme (cf. Brexit details).

To paraphrase something I saw on twitter;

If you think that was bad, you should have seen the speech he gave about the CBI at Peppa Pig World...

Mrs Nigel Farage
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Peppa Pig has issued a statement to say that she and Boris Johnson most definitely did not have a ‘thing’. That was her Uncle Hamish and it wasn’t Johnson anyway but David Cameron.

More giggles...

@HannibalHayeski

More giggles...

Lewis Goodall:

NEW: Govt wins vote on social care amendment to Care Act 2014 (removing means test contributions from the cap)

AYES: 272
NOES: 246

Maj: 26

So, a Tory rebellion. But bill goes to the House of Lords where it’ll almost certainly be amended.