This bit says it allâŚ
Despite all its levels and dimensions, this game has just one rule and allows for just one winner. It dictates that the United Kingdom, and its people, currently exist for one purpose and one purpose alone â and that is to serve the ego of Boris Johnson. This is the mutant algorithm. The rest is noise.
Shameful
About right though
Back up procedures for a system that doesnât exist. In fact they are the only procedures and will swamp everyone in paperwork. The CEO of a NI road haulage company explained last week that a batch of quiches coming from Limerick through NI to the UK (something he ships a lot of it would seem) it will need certification for the eggs, cheese and milk involved every trip. Each costing around 50 quid if I remember correctly. And a quiche is a pretty simple item.
One problem seems to be that a typical lorry load could be hundreds of different products going to multiple destinations.
This has been specified as part of the problem ever since people actually started to thing about the impact on the UK border in Ireland - but they still âhavenât understood the issue.
They donât give a flying fuck⌠itâll all be blamed on someone else
Who might it be this week
Superbly written commentary from Jonathan Lis that nails Johnson to the floor. I just wish and hope he reads it. He is at heart a thin-skinned wretch, the Eton veneer is tissue thin and getting thinner.
You can see contempt on the faces of some of the children he sits with, disbelief on othersâ. âIs this stupid idiot really our Prime Minister?â
Are you really surprised?
The end user has always been totally ignored by this government.
Just wait until the average family finds their supermarket shelves bare and then the shit will hit the fan.
letâs hope we can find him a very high building. Unfortunately someone else will have to clear up the mess
Or that there are simply no covid cases in UK!
(so it didnât have the have the highest excess death rate in Europe then!)
This report is damning:
Itâs all the more damming because it is in the Torygraph.
Exactly
This is really shocking⌠and revealing of just how close Johnson/Cummings is to Trump - in both politics and incompetence!
Hopefully this will end up with them giving him a push.
But a likely replacement could be worse. Gove, for instance would keep Cummings on and none of them would make more than a puppet PM.
My last post went wrong.
Here is what I wanted you to know about Gove and Cummings:
Dear Friend,
On 11 July, we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for awarding an ÂŁ840,000 contract to long-time associates of his and Mr Cummingsâ. You can read the documents relating to that claim here.
In those proceedings we said that Mr Gove had broken the law in bypassing the normal procurement rules, rules that exist to ensure fair competition and to guard against croney-ism. We also said that Mr Cummings and/or Mr Gove had acted with apparent bias, just as had his cabinet colleague Mr Jenrick.
Last night we received a response, which you can read here. It is a remarkable letter in its tone â unrepentant and bad-tempered. But its content is even more striking.
It attacks Good Law Projectâs âstandingâ â its interest in the proper administration of public funds. It asks why no other communications firms challenged the award of a contract they were never told the scope of or given an opportunity to bid for. And it ignores the climate that this Government itself has created â one where businesses understand very well that if they raise their voices in opposition they will pay a heavy commercial price.
But it makes no attempt, none at all, to defend the lawfulness of Mr Gove and/or Mr Cummingsâ actions. We, the letter seems to suggest, do not need to explain ourselves; we are above the law.
The experienced public law solicitors we instruct have never seen its like before from central Government.
We will file a fully particularised claim form, with supporting evidence, on or before 30 July. And we have asked the Administrative Court to address our claim urgently. We will, of course, keep you fully informed.
Thank you,
Jolyon Maugham
Director