"The government is always saying it wants to talk about things that matter to people, yet it simply will not talk, in public and apologetically, about the grotesque profiteering that happened during Covid." Marina Hyde
#Mone #Barrowman #PPEProfiteers #Covid #GOve #13YearsToryMisrule
"“Everything is now crystal clear. When Magic Mich had threatened journalists with legal action if they tried to connect her with her and Dougie’s own bullshit Medpro company, what she had really meant was she would be furious if people thought she wasn’t the type of person to try to profit from VIP access to a Tory government during a national crisis." John Crace
“So I’ve decided that having a disabilities minister sends out the wrong message. It suggests we think disabled people have special needs. Are different in some way. When what we should be doing is letting them know we think they are skiving in some way. Just scrounging. What we want is for them to make more effort to be like us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/14/disabled-people-dont-need-a-minister-thinks-sunak-they-just-need-to-try-harder
#Sunak #13YearsToryMisrule
"Flash forward to this week and a clown called Mark Francois is once again beckoning to us from a storm drain, while the phrase “ERG star chamber” has been deployed like it presages anything other than the apparently unstoppable rise of the idiots." Marina Hyde
"Time was we just had the People’s Front of Judaea and the Judaean People’s Front. That was so last Brexit. With Rwanda we now have the grandiose Five Families, each certain that a lunatic, unworkable plan could only be improved by making it even more lunatic and unworkable." John Crace
"As with every other Brexiter demand, whatever they are given they always say it hasn’t been done in the right way and they always, always want more." Chris Grey
https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/immigration-and-asylum-rows-are-another.html
"There’s a polite word for this: clusterfuck. An incompetent Tory party falling apart. But it’s worse than that. Everywhere you turn there is the stench of corruption. Of a government whose sole purpose is to live another day."
“This is not a treaty that has been signed because we are a government in search of easy answers or quick publicity,” Jimmy D said. Breathtaking. It’s literally the only reason they are doing it." John Crace
"What they did yesterday is unforgivable. Very few people will care about it. Hardly any news sites will cover it. There won't be interviews with the couples it separates or the children it leaves without a parent. No-one will give a damn."
https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/the-price-they-put-on-love?r=63yls&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"Kyriakos the Greek deserved to be deported to Rwanda. He had tried to talk about the Parthenon marbles, which were 100% British because we had stolen them. What a total shit! Beware Greeks bearing gifts … Scrub that. Beware Greeks. They were all as bad as each other." John Crace
Rosie Walters