Boris's Brain is missing

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I know two of the old/new cabinet people. I know a little Buckland through work I do and respect him. I believe he stayed hoping he could retain some decency and fairness in the justice system and retain the independence of the judiciary.

I have known Anne-Marie Trevelyan, former (and last) S of S for International Development for many years. We were on a prison charity board and she also became my MP. Following the end of the DFID she became responsible for travelling around the world on green issues. As someone who didn’t really believe in climate change and who had voted against every single climate/green policy, and who considers driven grouse shooting as the pinnacle of conservation, she was an interesting choice.

I actually like her but have zero respect for her policies.
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I mentioned earlier that Anne-Marie Trevelyan had pretty well zero credibility in the climate issues she led on. The evidence resurfaces:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... SApp_Other
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"New housing secretary Michael Gove is facing calls to return £100,000 in donations he received last month from a property developer, with political opponents warning of a potential conflict of interest."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -developer

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It really is quite amazing that ministers are able to take any money from business at all.
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Oldjohnw wrote: 17 Sep 2021, 6:49am It really is quite amazing that ministers are able to take any money from business at all.
Nothing,and I mean absolutely no thing would surprise me where some politrickians are concerned,moreso Tory politickians!
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"Boris Johnson and at least three of his Ministers, Matt Hancock, Lord Bethell and Greg Hands, have repeatedly breached their own national security guidance by using private emails and phones for Government business."
https://goodlawproject.org/update/boris ... y-guidance

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Jdsk wrote: 17 Sep 2021, 8:37am "Boris Johnson and at least three of his Ministers, Matt Hancock, Lord Bethell and Greg Hands, have repeatedly breached their own national security guidance by using private emails and phones for Government business."
https://goodlawproject.org/update/boris ... y-guidance

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As I posted elsewhere NO thing would surpise me of these moronic inept pocket fillers we now have as an excuse for government.
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We didn’t want an EU army but it’s looking like we are on the way to being part of the US army.
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Oldjohnw wrote: 17 Sep 2021, 5:00pm We didn’t want an EU army but it’s looking like we are on the way to being part of the US army.
Next step is to rename us as Airstrip One! :twisted:
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Last weekend, the then Secretary of State, Oliver Dowden, announced his intention to muzzle the third sector. In his blog about the process for appointing a new Chair of the Charity Commission - the Government’s regulator of charities - he complained about “a worrying trend in some charities that appear to have been hijacked by a vocal minority seeking to burnish their woke credentials”. He said the Chair will be selected based on how they “rebalance” charities away from that agenda using the Charity Commission’s powers. And that Ministers will only appoint someone who does this.

It’s a chilling thought. What would a politically motivated regulator mean for food banks who push back against policies that mean people don’t have enough to eat? What would it mean for a housing charity which challenges legislation that leaves people without a roof over their head? What about charities that campaign against Government policies that could do untold damage by baking in racial injustice or poverty? Will these fit with the Government's views?

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Together, through our taxes, we subsidise the activities of charities to the tune of £2bn a year. We give them this relief because they exist for “public benefit” - various types of do-gooding which Parliament wants to encourage.

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Oh! The irony!

From The Sun of 2016.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1218703/b ... ck-brexit/
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And yet more irony, as the truly Orwellian Ministry of Levelling Up is invented:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mich ... 56092.html

You have to wonder if it is a spoof.

Edited: but it’s not a spoof.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ambi ... -up-agenda
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And Boris Johnson flies to New York to lecture the rest of the world on climate change.
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Oldjohnw wrote: 20 Sep 2021, 8:07am And Boris Johnson flies to New York to lecture the rest of the world on climate change.
I feel he is a significant hindrance to the world taking action. His failure to e.g. stop a new coal mine, kick new oil a few months past COP, that he is more interested in himself (and the status he'll gain from agreement), that he is a compulsive liar, tc. - all stuff all the other world leaders are well aware of. Same words from somebody else might have more impact but out of Johnson's mouth and too many other considerations.

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