Keep your eyes on the dinghies people

Remember tomorrow Boris and fiends will want to keep your eyes on the dinghies. Don't look into the A level fiasco, nothing to see there or with the many contracts which were agreed without a tendering process in recent weeks. Most to those connected to Demonic Cummings and vote Leave fiends.

Remember think dinghies.

 

The world is a racket,cronyism rules,it’s not what you know it’s who you know and there is not one thing you can do about it,you either sink or swim,sadly like the poor sods in the dinghy

 

Plenty of working class boys and girls tomorrow who'll be diddled over for grades they don't deserve.
Said state affairs we've got a minister for education who's only achievements in life are telling the Russians to 'shut up and go away', leaking information (semi treasonous act) and keeping spiders.

 

Oldest racket in the book and you see it working every day.

 

I'd like your post but that seems macabre. 1000% agree, if that was possible.

 

After a week of demands for the SNP Education Minister to resign, the same people will suddenly be very quiet about the fate of the Tory Education Minister even though the issues are very similar.

 

We never stopped through lockdown, we haven't been given £20 by our local authority as a thank you for continuing in accepting their waste and supplying their highways depts so we feel a bit left out but we’ve broad shoulders. We shut the country down for four months, what did we all think was going to happen ? We’ve been busy throughout, currently flat out - with construction output increasing now we’re all back, the media will cause this recession to be deeper and longer lasting than it needs to be just like they’ve scared the country to death with Covid.

 

@Trickster Two Six
That’s the thing, nobody said there wouldn’t be an economic impact of shutting things down.
The criticism is based on the fact that our comparable neighbouring countries faced the EXACT SAME crisis (except they didn’t even have the extra security of being an island) and we have come out worse by every metric.
This falls squarely on the head of the incompetent government in power- there isn’t a way of arguing against that (though I’m sure you will).

 

Was I arguing against it? I was just saying that it was expected. Government have made a very poor fist of handling this crisis and anyone with half a brain can see that. No ones under any illusions as to where the responsibility lies. Do you really think that folk who are losing their jobs will somehow be deflected into thinking that the government arent culpable because Pretty is trying to tackle the illegals crossing the channel ? If I’m ever unfortunate to be in that position I can’t see me being distracted by conservative propaganda.

 

This is where we need to unite the country, at the moment it’s people who wanted a stricter lockdown vs those who didn’t want one. Those stances are keeping us from seeing the thing we have in common - we both think the government handled it badly. That’s what we should be concentrating on and pointing out now. We have 65k excess deaths, it doesn’t matter if someone believes they are all Covid related or all lockdown related or a mix of the two, the fact is that the government got it badly wrong and allowed 65k extra people to die through their action/inaction *delete as you think is appropriate*.

 

This. To be fair to our lockdown toting friends, they absolutely acknowledged that it would have economic consequences (albeit I don’t think they realised how bad and they still won’t acknowledge the ensuing knock-on effect on health and lives lost) but to come out of it with the worst deaths AND the worst economic impact is some going.

I said in April, this Government is like one of those refs where both sets of fans are booing and singing ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ by half time.

 

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/epic-monologue-recession-migrants-ice-cream/

 

The Labour shadow minister demanded that the SNP education minister resign.

Do you think he was wrong to do so, and do you think Labour should "be very quiet" about Alan Partridge?

 

Let's not mention how the overeaction to Covid by the Tory party has made the NHS struggle even more....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...land-waiting-18-weeks-hospital-treatment.html

 

Some encouraging figures we’ve been looking at today whilst working out our budgets for next year : quarterly construction output plummeted 35% in Q2 which hasn't surprised anyone, it rallied in May (up 7.7%) then again in June up 23%, we’re still down but if we keep building and keep paying wages then folk will have income to spend which will all aid the recovery. It’s a shame folk cant see the positives in relaxing the planning process, its just taken us 7 years to get a quarry extension at one of our sites you wouldn't believe the nonsense we’ve had to wade through from planners to get it over the line. Unfortunately too late for the 6 blokes who worked there because the consented reserves ran out over 2 years ago. But 6 new jobs and an order for new plant and equipment still to come. Not everything the tories are doing is ballax.

 

Unfortunately, while construction was relatively unaffected by COVID - buildings under way were always going to be finished even if there was a delay in demand for construction materials - it is expected to face a big fall in demand due to Brexit. The current prediction is a 12.5% fall in demand going into 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...e-shock-to-uk-economy-study-finds-coronavirus

As for the planning laws, most of them are there for a reason. Ignoring that reason has the potential to lead to more deaths due to poor construction materials or techniques (as per Grenfell).