I long for the days when British members of parliament kept their sexual peccadilloes a secret. For Jeremy Thorpe, being an effeminate gay was a career-ender, but now it’s an interesting “identity” which you can exploit to get votes and sympathy. They don’t seem to realize that the public is now indifferent to it. I wonder if there could be a golden mean where somebody’s sexuality is neither condemned nor celebrated, but just kept as their own business. Or if the public isn’t indifferent then I, at least, am indifferent. It changes nothing about this rotten party and their horrible values.
I wish someone would grill Boris on how giving insanely profitable contracts to middlemen, foreign companies and questionable drop-shipping entities fits into his Build Back Better. How much of that money could have been given to British companies who did have the experience but didn’t have access to a Tory WhatsApp convo.
Matt Hancock will forever be the face of Tory sleaze for me. He was on Sky News yesterday morning trying his hardest to not answer a question as to whether Boris broke the law if he ends up with a fine for partying. It should have been an easy question to answer for Matt, seeing as he was Health Secretary at the time AND made it against the law to hold parties during lockdown, but he was stumbling over his words trying to defend Boris.
I hope aside from all the political point scoring there is a core of people able to cut through the crap and improve systems and overwatch so that taxpayers money isn’t wasted like this in future.
I think the hard part is still leaving the rules loose enough so that whatever party is in charge during the next emergency still has room to manoeuvre rapidly and not be tied down by bureaucracy and red tape.
Well I thought the government ran a very efficient PPE scam, it saw the publics money easily flow to their rich mates.
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I long for the days when British members of parliament kept their sexual peccadilloes a secret. For Jeremy Thorpe, being an effeminate gay was a career-ender, but now it’s an interesting “identity” which you can exploit to get votes and sympathy. They don’t seem to realize that the public is now indifferent to it. I wonder if there could be a golden mean where somebody’s sexuality is neither condemned nor celebrated, but just kept as their own business. Or if the public isn’t indifferent then I, at least, am indifferent. It changes nothing about this rotten party and their horrible values.
I wish someone would grill Boris on how giving insanely profitable contracts to middlemen, foreign companies and questionable drop-shipping entities fits into his Build Back Better. How much of that money could have been given to British companies who did have the experience but didn’t have access to a Tory WhatsApp convo.
Matt Hancock will forever be the face of Tory sleaze for me. He was on Sky News yesterday morning trying his hardest to not answer a question as to whether Boris broke the law if he ends up with a fine for partying. It should have been an easy question to answer for Matt, seeing as he was Health Secretary at the time AND made it against the law to hold parties during lockdown, but he was stumbling over his words trying to defend Boris.
I hope aside from all the political point scoring there is a core of people able to cut through the crap and improve systems and overwatch so that taxpayers money isn’t wasted like this in future.
I think the hard part is still leaving the rules loose enough so that whatever party is in charge during the next emergency still has room to manoeuvre rapidly and not be tied down by bureaucracy and red tape.
Well I thought the government ran a very efficient PPE scam, it saw the publics money easily flow to their rich mates.