What is really depressing is that there is no-one in politics who would do a better job
They are all mediocre, middle management types in the tory party, and labour are no better, they just try to be more authentic and jump on whatever is the latest bandwagon to get down with the kids.
The rot set in when we started to have professional politicians who went straight from school to PPE at university, then a job in politics until they got thrown a seat as a reward. This has been compounded by years in the EU where they just rubber stamped whatever was handed to them and didn't have to actually make good decisions or improve the state of the country. And of course there was always the EU to blame when things went wrong, as they always do.
And it's not just Westminster, everywhere you look there are the same hopeless, yet overconfident and overpaid incompetent wankers who build personal empires, fail miserably at the jobs they were entrusted with and always trot out "lessons will be learned" type of excuses when their inability to perform the most basic of tasks leads to mayhem and death.
It's hard to conclude anything other than we are on a downward spiral into a bureaucratic atrophy where everything grinds to a halt.
Other than that I'm having a nice day.
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 10:12, Reply)
you sound a bit upset about privately educated people earning more than you do
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 10:26, Reply)
That's what we call "a bit of a stretch"
I don't care about private education and parents wanting to give their kids the best start in life, it's called choice. I wish everyone could do it. I also don't care if people earn more than me, I care about whether I am adequately rewarded for what I do.
What I object to is incompetence not being punished. If you are going to be in a position of power and influence, then you should also be prepared to fall on your sword when you fuck up. It comes with the territory, or used to anyway. There are no consequences for executives in the public sector or politics any more, just more falling upwards in their careers.
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 11:58, Reply)
I had a rather expensive education, and I completely agree with him.
Regardless of their party or background, I'd like our politicians to have actually done something like proper hard work at some point prior. All the top parties have a tranche of PPE students on the fast track, whose entire lives are directly, or tangentially, about cultivating their political career.
I want people who built their own business for 20 years, or who worked in a steel mill and stood up to protect their colleagues from nefarious practices, who are later convinced by others that their talents could serve the public good.
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 23:18, Reply)
Compare Fatso's pre-politics career to Starmer's
Absolutely no contest. Ridiculous to claim they are the same
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 10:52, Reply)
I wouldn't wave Starmer's career around as any kind of example
He has presided over some monumental cock-ups in his time at the CPS, like the Rochdale grooming gangs, Saville and Warboys cases, but seems able to point the finger at others and get away with it.
Johnson is just a chancer who main ability is to surround himself with people who he has a hold over, hence promoting "Bottom" Pinscher. Until it all comes unstuck, but then again Johnson thrives on chaos.
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 12:04, Reply)
you're dead right, ignore the career of a man who dedicated himself to the law, worked on many cases on a pro bono basis, and excelled in human rights law
Because of failures in the organisation that he led resulting in cases either not actually crossing his desk, or in fact there not being sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.
You're one of those awful 'aLl PoLiTiCiAnS aRe ThE sAmE' twats, aren't you?
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 13:01, Reply)
Not all politicians are the same
but they're all twats.
You better get ready for Prime Minister Gove next week.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 16:22,
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Why not?
Genuine question. I'm not British but I find British politics so much more fascinating than the wankers we have here.
Seeing a live 'resignation counter' on BBC news (currently at 36!) is hilarious. It's like Thatcher in 1990 all over.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 17:47,
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He might do but he's up to his neck in brexit so he's going to find it very hard to dodge the blame for the recession
Very few of them now will be able to avoid that
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 18:00, Reply)
worked his way up from basically fuck all to grammar school, Oxford, the bar, QC, and a knighthood (from a tory government)
Compared to a pampered fat shed with every advantage in life ambling into a journalistic career because of his dad's connections and then getting on HIGNFY a couple of times.
"But ooh Savile". Do fuck off you child.
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 15:10, Reply)
Who the HECK do you think you are with your calm and accurate delivery of facts?
(, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 16:16, Reply)