United Kingdom VII: Taking Pride in Your Success

[Cassius_Smoke]

Love it. Fingers crossed for a leak of Patel getting backscuttled across the fax machine by the janitor next.

It's more likely going to be a phone recording of her slapping one of her office staff across the face and calling them racist names.

[Golgo]

It's more likely going to be a phone recording of her slapping one of her office staff across the face and calling them racist names.

That'll do as well. Anything to expose these venal, grabbing bastards for what they are.

[CMcK]

That'll do as well. Anything to expose these venal, grabbing bastards for what they are.

Doesn’t seem to stop people from voting for them though.

[Hirst]

Seeing all the football fans and their shouty/huggy celebrations, I'm starting to feel that 2021 is going to be a repeat of last year where people get giddy by restrictions being lifted too early and cases rise and it all becomes a disaster and we lock down too late and I can't leave the country and then it all just loops back around again.

I can barely tolerate two years of this nonsense, if it's going to be a third or fourth I think I'm just going to quit my job and just go sniff Bostik by the canal and live out my dreams in my head. Someone give me some kind of positive hope (or the number for a spice dealer).

[Golgo]

^ Yeah, the dour case statistics and finger-wagging reports of individuals tongue-lashing their mistresses, and then the blanket coverage of ecstatic fans carousing in their thousands, makes it feel like we're living in two different countries (or one country made schizophrenic through desperation and amnesia).

[fishbowlhead]

Doesn’t seem to stop people from voting for them though.

The idiocy of the general public in this country knows no bounds. Just don’t vote for them, literally all people have to do, but everyone goes out and votes for them and cries why nothing changes.

[Lebowski]

The idiocy of the general public in this country knows no bounds. Just don’t vote for them, literally all people have to do, everyone goes out and cotes for them and cries why nothing changes.

I ended up arguing with the mother in law about this last night, she is like some sort of stereotype 70 year old Tory voter battle axe who seems to be under some sort of delusion that the torys are doing their best for the UK. Her take on the The Hancock story was that its his private life and he shouldn't be hounded by those nasty gutter journalists. To top it off she thinks hes been doing an amazing job for the country.

I normally hold my tongue with her but I told her exactly what i thought of Hancock and his ineptness. The only reason we are seeing any drop in number of hospitalization is nothing to do with what the goverment has done, it feels like an absolute fluke that vaccines where ready so quickly if they hadn't we would be in an absolute **** state now, and its thanks to our Socialists health care system that we are able to roll these out so fast.

Whats Hancocks punishment is he kicked out of the party dose he have to go anywhere? nope he gets to slink off into the background with cash in his pocket. No doubt Sajid Javid will make his money too now, Hopefully he wont sell all the NHS off to his mates before we wake up to whats going on.

[Neon Ignition]

By Xmas Hancock will probably be Education Minister or something, it's the same group on rotation it seems

[Hirst]

The MP job system is rotten - they can have a go at being in charge of a department and if it doesn't work out (due to uselessness or scandal) they can just go back to being an MP and continue to draw that wage until such time that the public has "forgot" and then the process repeats. Imagine if it was like that at a normal job, just becoming a senior manager and knowing the absolute worst case scenario is you can just jack it in and do what you were doing before without consequence. Hancock will be back running some other department within 5 years, guaranteed.

[charlesr]

The MP job system is rotten - they can have a go at being in charge of a department and if it doesn't work out (due to uselessness or scandal) they can just go back to being an MP and continue to draw that wage until such time that the public has "forgot" and then the process repeats. Imagine if it was like that at a normal job, just becoming a senior manager and knowing the absolute worst case scenario is you can just jack it in and do what you were doing before without consequence. Hancock will be back running some other department within 5 years, guaranteed.

^^^^ This. So this.

In business, if you made company policy and then flaunted it yourself, you'd be fired from the whole company. Not just given another job within the company. It's sickening.

[MartyG]

But they're not legally empoyees, so how exactly are you going to sack them? You have to do it at the voting booth.

[Dogg Thang]

Which I think has been clearly shown not to work precisely because there are no standards in place. A candidate can tell any lies they want while running for election or indeed while serving. This is precisely the point. As for how you're going to sack them, that would require some major changes but holding them to some verifiable standards, like advertising is for example, would be a start.

[wheelaa]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57667163

No ****ing ****.

[MartyG]

Which I think has been clearly shown not to work precisely because there are no standards in place. A candidate can tell any lies they want while running for election or indeed while serving. This is precisely the point. As for how you're going to sack them, that would require some major changes but holding them to some verifiable standards, like advertising is for example, would be a start.

Cool - just need to get the MPs to pass legislation for that to become law

[Dogg Thang]

Exactly!

Or take them down in a bloody revolution. One or the other.