It’s more than that in the UK, unfortunately. Suella Braverman’s father ran British concentration camps in Kenya, she’s trying to restart the family business (funded entirely by the taxpayer), the reason they haven’t been processing people is simply so they have enough occupants for their new camps.
Most civil servants are good (for government workers) but the Home Office has been stacked with people by all the vile Home Secretaries the Tories have had over the last 14 years. Sacking them is prudent.
Currently Network Rail owns and operates (nearly) all the railways, signals and ticket offices. Not sure about stations. Train companies rent rail stock, but they pay a high price for this and subsequently pass that onto the consumer, while maintaining that it’s necessary to charge expensive fares because their costs are so high.
The government owns Network Rail. The government will take over the rail companies, and this will probably end up staggered as different companies have different contract dates. The rail stock itself will probably remain under the same ownership with more or less the same ridiculous rental charges.
So all in all this probably won’t make that much difference.
Exactly. The rolling stock is where all the money goes, meanwhile the public-facing train companies you buy tickets from (who rent rolling stock) operate at or near a loss. This way the train companies can negotiate better contracts with local governments - “Look, we’re barely making any money, we have to charge ludicrously high fares for piss poor service!”
“Promises”.
It’s actually embarrassing how cheap it is to buy a politician these days
From what I’ve seen they primarily launder bribes as donations through the party. You speak with a senior MP, one who is on the party payroll and takes a salary from the party, you make a donation to the party, the party writes favourable legislation, the MP gets a cut of “bonus” from the bribe donation.
The main reason GB news exists is to funnel clean money to these gobshites.
The main reason the Tory party exists is to funnel money to politicians. Donate to a politician on the party payrole, have some favourable law written for you, then that politician gets a nice bonus at the end of the year.
Seems like they’re selectively picking their crime stats, starting from the minimal crime that occurred during the lockdowns rather than crime before then.
The UK is on the same track Italy started on 30 years ago, only we’re going to speed run it.
They hate tradition, hate the workers, hate free speech, hate basic human rights
If you go back far enough those are pretty conservative values. It’s been progressives that have provided respite from that.
hate the economy
They don’t hate the economy, they just frame it as their economy. They’re disaster capitalists following the writings of William Rees-Mogg.
A single party has been responsible, but the next party is wringing their hands at the opportunity of doing most of the same while claiming they’re better.
I don’t deny that there is a shortage, I just think that it’s the lesser (lessor?) problem.
Boris had a party breaking election campaign spending laws employing Cambridge Analytica to do last minute targeted Facebook ads.
There isn’t so much a shortage of homes as there is an over-abundance of landlords.
The UK is traditionally 5 years behind the US.
They stab each other in the back, sure, but one thing they do manage to do is band together and vote to deny children school meals at Christmas during a once in a lifetime pandemic. Thats… something.
plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt
So we had:
And now they want to give us 3rd place from a vote of only 172,000 people???
The Tories really are a party of losers.
Ding ding ding
Very few do, I think. It’s been in the deal since the beginning, although until the recent re-write it was Article 16. Same wording as before, different article number.
The House of Lords have asked the government repeatedly just how many migrants the UK will accept in return, and the government have dodged and not answered. For all we know, it could be 1 for 1.
Don’t forget the vulnerable refugees that the UK will be taking from Rwanda, per Article 19 of the agreement.