The fall of the Tory party

Sound requests. She clearly wasn’t all bad.

She obviously didn't get the memo from her mate Theresa Coffey to only use reusable mugs

is really the right not to get fired for going on strike.

um... not really.

see @itsbruce point about having an employment contract.

imagine the difficulty that would arise if everyone decided that contracts don't really mean anything.

even setting aside the issue of contracts, it's wholly impractical to, for example, fire 30,000 skilled and competent railway workers and start from scratch.

Sunak can’t be arsed, the King has been told not to attend but the disgraced oaf will be there so at least the UK has representation at COP27

Curious who is paying for it

imagine the difficulty that would arise if everyone decided that contracts don't really mean anything.

But that’s exactly what the right to strike protects - the right not to comply with an employment contract as part of a collective negotiation without facing termination / disciplinary action for the breach.

There’s a reason legislation is required to stop employers breaking strikes. It’s the erosion of this that has allowed some of the more egregious recent cases (BA, P&O etc)

boris johnson - the minister for going on free holidays

Probs the british tax payer.

I’d say a ‘donor’ and that Johnson will turn up for a day (possibly falling asleep with his mouth open like at COP26) then the other 10 days will be a much needed holiday.

Lazy vacuous twat.

And This England was far too easy on Johnson’s criminal negligence/incompetence during the worst of the pandemic but it does portray him as profoundly shallow, ignorant and selfish so there is that

There’s a reason legislation is required to stop employers breaking strikes. It’s the erosion of this that has allowed some of the more egregious recent cases (BA, P&O etc)

Yes, I see what you mean.

It's an interesting area of conflicting rights and responsibilities.

For example, Mick Lynch's response to a journalist who asked him about how he could justify the comparatively higher pay of RMT members compared to other lower paid public sector workers. He pointed out that this had come about through successful organisation and negotiation by the union and its members over a long period of time, and discredited the idea that pay and conditions should be a race to the bottom.

No "politician" can in anyway shape or form tell King Charles III or Any "Monarch" to not do ( or do) anything. He should and will go regardless.

Truss was / is a thick waste of space.

All tories are. Sunak will be gone very very very very soon.

👏🏻 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gullis - deliberately appalling cretin.

The timing of this Truss phone story is interesting for two reasons:

1. It's clearly been suppressed during the running of the leadership contest that she went on to win, and:
   
2. who stands to benefit from it being leaked now?
   

People who don't like Suella Braverman and want to highlight the stupidity of sending secret documents to your personal email?

To be fair, this could be non politically motivated whistle blower territory too. A breach and cover up so egregious it could just be somebody trying to do the right thing with no political goals.

A lot of civil servsnts and other government employees are furious about the slack approach to security among ministers. People lose their jobs and face criminal charges for less every single year and ministers just get to shrug it off. Or st least try to.

Everything is fine again, stability is back.

Last week, only 41% of Conservative voters chose a Conservative government led by Truss as their preference for managing the economy. The latest poll shows that 88% now choose a government led by Sunak

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/30/sunak-tories-labour-repair-economy-voters-new-poll

Utterly depressing but not surprising in the slightest

To be fair, this could be non politically motivated

Typical centrist dad position

Typical centrist dad position

Fair

Seriously though, what happens to Home Office or MoD employees who use WhatsApp or personal email for government business? What happens to a MI5 analyst who mishandles documents and sends to the wrong person?

Two friends who work for the MoD have to surrender their phones at front gate security before being allowed into their Whitehall office. Why is it that MPs are allowed to chat shit on personal phones?

The gap between what is acceptable in Parliament and what is acceptable in Whitehall has never been larger.

Difficulty I suppose for Sunak is that he has a makeshift cabinet, not of his own choosing, and he has no mandate with the electorate. It's not a clean sweep as it would be with a new leader winning a general election. If people in his party want to cause shit then he doesn't have much wiggle room. He's driving an old banger with faulty brakes.

It’s like the brakes want him to crash but are too stupid to realise they will get hurt when it occurs.

New minister for women - officer of the Parliamentary pro-life group, voted to keep abortion ban in NI, wants to reduce the abortion time-limit. Bad time to be a woman.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/30/tory-mp-maria-caulfield-minister-for-women-abortion-rights

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1586743300635213829

Ooof, well played Charles. Well played.