Jon the Hat Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 2 hours ago, Dahnsouff said: Some valid calling to task, but some actual witch hunts Its fine to be partisan, but if it colours all speech, the speech itself becomes inaudible There needs to be a parliamentary enquiry after this is all behind us as to how we responded, particularly where there were no tenders for large sums, and where the obvious providers were ignored. Also though they need to review whether the contracts actually delivered. For example I read some comments the other day about a £96M contract for PCs for school kids which sounds a lot. A day later the Govt said they provided 500,000 laptops and tablets to kids homeschooling, which means it is quite possible they got good value. We do also need to accept that when the shit hits the fan value for money becomes secondary to providing PPE to front line NHS staff, or ventilators to ICU. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 1 minute ago, Jon the Hat said: There needs to be a parliamentary enquiry after this is all behind us as to how we responded, particularly where there were no tenders for large sums, and where the obvious providers were ignored. Also though they need to review whether the contracts actually delivered. For example I read some comments the other day about a £96M contract for PCs for school kids which sounds a lot. A day later the Govt said they provided 500,000 laptops and tablets to kids homeschooling, which means it is quite possible they got good value. We do also need to accept that when the shit hits the fan value for money becomes secondary to providing PPE to front line NHS staff, or ventilators to ICU. This, This and a million times this. Calling out now is tantamount to name calling with little or no evidence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKLFox Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, RoboFox said: What a surprise. I'd love to hear our right wing friends' defence of the continued and disgraceful levels of nepotism with multi-million - even billion - pound contracts during the current regime. Chandler: Okay, okay, okay. Uh, Chloe works with that guy Issac... Issac's sister is Jasmine... and Jasmine works at the massage place with Phoebe. And Phoebe's friends with Rachel. And that's the trail, I did it! Edit - Will be lost on you if you never watched Friends of course but still.... Edited 12 January 2021 by BKLFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the Hat Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 15 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said: This, This and a million times this. Calling out now is tantamount to name calling with little or no evidence I think we also need to take into account the fact we are WAY ahead of the game in terms of vaccinations. Compared to Europe we are storming ahead, and ultimately this will be the game changer, and might be what overall evens things out in terms of overall impact on the nation. It is also coming towards the end, so I think a lot of the early issues might well be forgotten once we are allowed out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 33 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said: There needs to be a parliamentary enquiry after this is all behind us as to how we responded, particularly where there were no tenders for large sums, and where the obvious providers were ignored. Also though they need to review whether the contracts actually delivered. For example I read some comments the other day about a £96M contract for PCs for school kids which sounds a lot. A day later the Govt said they provided 500,000 laptops and tablets to kids homeschooling, which means it is quite possible they got good value. We do also need to accept that when the shit hits the fan value for money becomes secondary to providing PPE to front line NHS staff, or ventilators to ICU. Absolutely no chance we get a free and fair public inquiry with any kind of meaningful powers out of this mob. We're talking about people who ran a pandemic preparedness exercise a couple of years ago and then threw the results in the bin because they were inconvenient and made them look bad. Anything unfavourable will be hidden or buried and the gaslighting bullshit train will roll on and on. Still waiting on the Russia report and that Islamophobia inquiry aren't we? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 Just now, ealingfox said: Absolutely no chance we get a free and fair public inquiry with any kind of meaningful powers out of this mob. We're talking about people who ran a pandemic preparedness exercise a couple of years ago and then threw the results in the bin because they were inconvenient and made them look bad. Anything unfavourable will be hidden or buried and the gaslighting bullshit train will roll on and on. Still waiting on the Russia report and that Islamophobia inquiry aren't we? A Grenfell enquiry which has protected all parties giving evidence If you compare that to the enquiry surrounding the Colectiv fire in Bucharest, Romania it’s pretty damning for a national whose government use the terms ‘world beating’ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 18 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said: I think we also need to take into account the fact we are WAY ahead of the game in terms of vaccinations. Compared to Europe we are storming ahead, and ultimately this will be the game changer, and might be what overall evens things out in terms of overall impact on the nation. It is also coming towards the end, so I think a lot of the early issues might well be forgotten once we are allowed out again. Which is mainly covering for an absolute cluster **** of their attempt at Track and Trace 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopfkino Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 12 hours ago, Jon the Hat said: Chartwells part of a large, successful existing food service provider to schools among many others. Presumably you would prefer the government to throw money are an unproven company who never fed kids before? I mean it worked so well for PPE and Ferries. FFS at least kick them for the actual incompetence. No, just give people cash or a suitable cash-substitute. Idk why the state needs to either directly or via private business procure food for people. We don’t need gross paternalism to demean and insult people just for being on a low income, empower them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the Hat Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 12 minutes ago, Kopfkino said: No, just give people cash or a suitable cash-substitute. Idk why the state needs to either directly or via private business procure food for people. We don’t need gross paternalism to demean and insult people just for being on a low income, empower them. They provide the food in schools so not that strange to continue that provision. They seem to have seriously dropped the ball though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopfkino Posted 12 January 2021 Share Posted 12 January 2021 17 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said: They provide the food in schools so not that strange to continue that provision. They seem to have seriously dropped the ball though. But they’re not at school. Clearly mass catering in schools and supplying food parcels for individual homes are different problems. If they’d asked Tesco to do it, then it’d make more sense but even then empower people to feed their own children and don’t give kids that don’t like apples some apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 Johnson just said Rashford is doing a better job of holding the government to account. Maybe the government shouldn't get it so wrong (so many times) that it takes a footballer to cause u-turns instead of the opposition 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 Does Johnson get a telling off like this from the Speaker every time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 18 minutes ago, StanSP said: Johnson just said Rashford is doing a better job of holding the government to account. Maybe the government shouldn't get it so wrong (so many times) that it takes a footballer to cause u-turns instead of the opposition So get Rashford in PMQs and poor old Keir can have a well earned sit down 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facecloth Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said: So get Rashford in PMQs and poor old Keir can have a well earned sit down Stick him on the wing for Man Utd. Left wing obviously. Edited 13 January 2021 by Facecloth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 7 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said: So get Rashford in PMQs and poor old Keir can have a well earned sit down I'd actually love to see that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Facecloth Posted 13 January 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 January 2021 27 minutes ago, StanSP said: Johnson just said Rashford is doing a better job of holding the government to account. Maybe the government shouldn't get it so wrong (so many times) that it takes a footballer to cause u-turns instead of the opposition Bit of a self burn really 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 30 minutes ago, StanSP said: Johnson just said Rashford is doing a better job of holding the government to account. Maybe the government shouldn't get it so wrong (so many times) that it takes a footballer to cause u-turns instead of the opposition Yeah I’m shit but not shitter than you argument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Finnaldo Posted 13 January 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 January 2021 I’m not going to clog up the coronavirus thread so I’ll post this here: defending politicians with “It’s a tough job” like they’re rounded up as children and forced in to the profession is ridiculous. Has it been a hard period? Yes. But that’s why they’re paid a good whack with extremely generous benefits and privileges to go with it. Chamberlain had a tough job, arguably a lot tougher than the current period, trying to contain Germany, but no one excuses his appeasement policy and poor leadership in the early days of the war because it was difficult. Politicians should be able to perform under immense pressure and extremely difficult situations, otherwise they’re not fit to be politicians. (Quick note that I’m not criticising the wages or benefits of politicians, theres very valid historical reasons for them to be in place) 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nalis Posted 13 January 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 January 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Finnaldo said: I’m not going to clog up the coronavirus thread so I’ll post this here: defending politicians with “It’s a tough job” like they’re rounded up as children and forced in to the profession is ridiculous. Has it been a hard period? Yes. But that’s why they’re paid a good whack with extremely generous benefits and privileges to go with it. Chamberlain had a tough job, arguably a lot tougher than the current period, trying to contain Germany, but no one excuses his appeasement policy and poor leadership in the early days of the war because it was difficult. Politicians should be able to perform under immense pressure and extremely difficult situations, otherwise they’re not fit to be politicians. (Quick note that I’m not criticising the wages or benefits of politicians, theres very valid historical reasons for them to be in place) Agreed. I think its a tough job but they actively choose to do it and literally campaigned to get where they are. If they dont want it to do they can quit. Not like its the begrudging office employee who got told he was being promoted as team leader for no extra money just because the last guy quit. Edited 13 January 2021 by Nalis 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopfkino Posted 13 January 2021 Share Posted 13 January 2021 3 hours ago, Finnaldo said: I’m not going to clog up the coronavirus thread so I’ll post this here: defending politicians with “It’s a tough job” like they’re rounded up as children and forced in to the profession is ridiculous. Has it been a hard period? Yes. But that’s why they’re paid a good whack with extremely generous benefits and privileges to go with it. Chamberlain had a tough job, arguably a lot tougher than the current period, trying to contain Germany, but no one excuses his appeasement policy and poor leadership in the early days of the war because it was difficult. Politicians should be able to perform under immense pressure and extremely difficult situations, otherwise they’re not fit to be politicians. (Quick note that I’m not criticising the wages or benefits of politicians, theres very valid historical reasons for them to be in place) Idk where you’re referring to and cbf to go look and I’d agree that using it as an outright defence is poor for sure, but actually it’s important to put have that context in mind and potentially give some benefit of the doubt as a result. Everyone is guilty of this but the way some people talk, it’s as if it’s all a breeze and they just need to do xyz despite the fact the best they can aspire to is one non-entity middle management cushty job where the conditional formatting in excel not working is enough to get the cortisol flowing. And that turns into people sounding like it must be all the fault of the individuals rather than the more holistic view that it’s the fault of the whole institutional environment. The individual may be useless, lazy, indecisive but even someone that was objectively good in normal times could be properly mugged off by this situation in this setting. Leicester look great away at Stoke but go to Liverpool and many of the same players look terrible. Yeah, you put yourself in the position so suck it up if you get dealt a shit hand but also none of them would realistically have ever thought this sort of thing is what they would face. At least with Chamberlain, he put himself in the position with decent knowledge of the situation rather than it being sprung on him. Focus on the individuals and say they just need to deal with the situation means you’ll miss much of the story of why they didn’t and not learn much for future use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted 14 January 2021 Share Posted 14 January 2021 13 hours ago, StanSP said: Johnson just said Rashford is doing a better job of holding the government to account. Maybe the government shouldn't get it so wrong (so many times) that it takes a footballer to cause u-turns instead of the opposition Personally, I'm not so worried about them getting it wrong than I am about their outright refusal to accept or concede that they've got it wrong. That's what pisses me of. That bellend Hancock on GMB today for example, if he had said "we got it wrong and we're doing everything possible to fix that"..... I would respect that. I could accept that but it must be a Tory party policy to never admit to any wrong doing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain King Posted 14 January 2021 Share Posted 14 January 2021 8 minutes ago, Foxy_Bear said: ...it must be a Tory party policy to never admit to any wrong doing. A trait replicated by their disciples. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kopfkino Posted 14 January 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 14 January 2021 Steve Baker warning of a leadership challenge to Boris because of lockdown on the same day 1500 people died partly as a result of shithouses like him is depraved. His letter is all about liberty and no mention of any public health failures show how much he’s arsed about people dying. Typical tin-pot libertarian, good rule of thumb is self-avowed libertarians are unlikely to have a good grasp of liberty. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 14 January 2021 Share Posted 14 January 2021 I think most people, even the sceptics on here, understand the need for a current lockdown and it seems we're going well in the vaccinaion programme which should hopefully allow restrictions to be eased gradually in the not-too-distant future. Opening up everything now would be madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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