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boris johnson visited a police station yesterday, he got a ride in a police car and they let him turn on the siren, meanwhile in parliament sunak was setting forth the most important economic policies, the equivalent of a budget

you would think he'd be there for such an important speech

how do the tories get rid of him as pm ? an internal vote of no confidence / call an election ? long knives

Parliament rumours are Johnson will resign by January to spend more time with his latest family.

There’ll be waiting to blame him for the complete shit show that brexit is going to be in New Year and then replace him with whoever is favour of the month, Sunak. the great unwashed will be sold the lie that this is a brand new government and nothing to do with bojo nightmare. It’ll be a rerun of what happened to TM.

Parliament rumours are Johnson will resign by January to have an affair and make a new family.

Ftfy

Worth remembering that the government employs a lot of people, councils and other civil servants many of whom will have h&s protection well beyond the private sector will be included in the kind of scheme Sunak is outlining.

does cumming go hand on hand with bojo
or is has he got his feet under a few tables

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officer-shot-croydon-station-a4555936.html

I can’t believe Johnson will go, his ego won’t allow it. Covid is the perfect scapegoat when things fall apart in January.

hopefully he won't be given the choice

No. He and Gove will put another puppet in place to continue dismantling oversight and concentrating their power. Johnson gets to carry the can for the no-deal shitshow.

so gove is the uk's iron hand in a velvet glove

really, he's the power broker ?

Thanks now can’t unsee Gove wearing velvet gloves 🤮

and don't even think about where he's shoving that glove

An amazing amount of people are trying to claim that the current Tory government had nothing to do with the governments of the past ten years. Entirely different people it seems. Just a coincidence that they happened to vote along with everyone else.

Turns out that its the public's fault for moaning about unfair stop and search that an arrested man was able to take a gun to a police station. I have no doubt emotions are running very high but this stood out as a remarkable statement to make.

Asked about how someone could enter the building while armed, former Det Ch Insp Chris Phillips said: "I think police officers are probably less likely to search people now with all the furore that goes on

Asked about how someone could enter the building while armed, former Det Ch Insp Chris Phillips said I haven’t knicked anyone, searched a prisoner or been in custody for years so I have no fucking idea.

I think it is based on forcing businesses to make tough decisions, do you really want to keep lazy Dave because it was a bit of pain to get rid of him or he's been hear a long time when you are now going to have to overpay him for his output. It will force businesses to make 'efficiencies' which I guess is the intention but pretty shit for sectors like events and the arts where revenue is near zero now, so keeping people on will be incredibly hard.

It's a pretty short-sighted view of job protection either way.

One of the things I was mulling over recently is the implied fact that if you have a job you're worthy of protecting and if you've already lost your job, it's UBI and Fuck You Very Much

There's no retraining cash in the new plan.

"some of your jobs will go, but that is a price I am willing to pay"

The German schemes from what I read DO offer training / upskilling.

One of many, many similarly themed tweets today. For people who realise that comparisons to the Holocaust are not on but still want to be deeply stupid and insulting.

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You've got a point there.

Well she has a point about curbing of freedoms. And the Stasi in East Germany weren’t responsible for the holocaust.

Jesus Christ.

He really had his freedoms curbed by those pesky Romans.

I may have missed a post up thread... didn't all these tweets stem from a DUP MP complaining about being fined for not wearing a mask, and comparing this to East Germany under the Stasi?

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1309375909863010304?s=19