werthersoriginal
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Ha, a bridge from nowhere much to nowhere much. Look, a squirrel!
Ha, a bridge from nowhere much to nowhere much. Look, a squirrel!
Quite. Boris and his ilk base their politics on the "look, over there...isn't that awful/great* (*delete as applicable)" approach to keep your attention off what is really going on and whose wallets they are stuffing with money. Same approach as Trump (lock her/him up.....drain the swamp (while I fill it with my own mates,crims and general slimeballs)....it's the politics of self-interest.Ha, a bridge from nowhere much to nowhere much. Look, a squirrel!
Wow. Loved this quote though...Its moved onto a tunnel connecting Northern Ireland, Scotland and England which includes a roundabout under the Isle of Man.
Boris Johnson ‘wants to build roundabout under the Isle of Man’
Prime minister Boris Johnson wants to build a giant roundabout under the Isle of Man, connecting England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, according to The Sunday Timeswww.architectsjournal.co.uk
Another said the proposal ‘cannot die’ because of Johnson’s fervent belief in it, adding: ‘Just as Hitler moved around imaginary armies in the dying days of the Third Reich, so the No. 10 policy unit is condemned to keep looking at this idea, which exists primarily in the mind of the prime minister.’
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Absolutely.Good to see standards of government transparency haven't declined, though, @Sheik djibouti
The revelations about the dumping of nuclear waste material in the Irish Sea have brought calls from environmental organisations for a comprehensive inquiry to determine how the British government could have misled the public for so long.
FOR 13 years British government ministers have repeatedly insisted that no radioactive waste was ever deposited in Beaufort Dyke. Such was their confidence in this assumption that officials denounced environmentalists as "scaremongers" for having the temerity to even suggest that departments may have authorised the dumping.
But later this week, a British government minister will finally publicly admit that the environmentalists were right all along. Secret official papers between the Scottish Office and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), dating back to the 1950s, have suddenly been "rediscovered". These state that up to two tonnes of radioactive waste was dumped in Beaufort Dyke.
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Environmentalists also fear that more secret British government papers, which may only be publicly released after 30, 50 or even 1OO years, will reveal the full extent of the cocktail of chemicals and radium dumped by the Ministry of Defence.
Dr Dixon believes that chemical and nerve gases such as anthrax and sarine, which was used in recent attacks on the Tokyo underground, may well have been dumped after the second World War. Even though the gases may have been sealed in metal drums encased in concrete, this casing will slowly degrade, enabling the poisons to leak into the sea.
*Article's from '97.
Wow. Loved this quote though...
A 'few' words from the Good Law Society
"3 days after the High Court ruled Government had acted unlawfully by failing to publish Covid contracts, Boris Johnson stood up in the House of Commons and reassured MPs and the public that all Covid-related contracts were “on the record”. However, the final Order handed down by the Judge today shows that what the Prime Minister told the House was not true.
The Judge confirmed:
“The Defendant has published 608 out of 708 relevant contracts for supplies and services relating to COVID-19 awarded on or before 7 October 2020. In some or all of these cases, the Defendant acted unlawfully by failing to publish the contracts within the period set out in the Crown Commercial Service’s Publication of Central Government Tenders and Contracts: Central Government Transparency Guidance Note (November 2017).”
Remarkably, the Judge’s Order is based on Government’s own figures – so at the same time as Johnson was falsely reassuring MPs, Government lawyers were preparing a statement contradicting him – revealing 100 contracts and dozens of Contract Award Notices were missing from the public record. You can read the final Court Order here and consequential judgment in full here.
Over the course of our judicial review, Government made no less than four attempts to provide an accurate witness statement setting out the number of contracts and Contract Award Notices that had been published late – and they kept getting it wrong. As late as the hearing itself, they said they had published 28% of Contract Award Notices within the 30 day legal limit.
But when asked by the Judge to follow up with evidence of the figures so he could make his final Order, it transpired that Government had actually only published 3% of CANs in the legal timeframe.
Government has not only misled Parliament and placed inaccurate information before the Court, it has misled the country.
Unless contract details are published they cannot be properly scrutinised – there’s no way of knowing where taxpayers’ money is going and why. Billions have been spent with those linked to the Conservative Party and vast sums wasted on PPE that isn’t fit for purpose.
We have a Government, and a Prime Minister, contemptuous of transparency and apparently allergic to accountability. The very least that the public deserves now is the truth. "
It looks like that she is hiding somethingAnd the Scottish Tories are demanding Nicola Sturgeon resign for lying to the Scottish Parliament, so what is good for the goose is good for the gander....
Wtf is he going there for? Do they have a particular skill for screwing up education or is he going there to give them a few tips?Gavin Williamson's going to Beijing next week; what's the betting he rolls up his sleeve and offers his elbow to them?
Come on, you don't want him in the country when the schools are going back!Wtf is he going there for? Do they have a particular skill for screwing up education or is he going there to give them a few tips?