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@PaulOnBooks

Oct 5, 2022

Truss is manning the barricades now - "I refused to confine our great country to decline". Unfortunately, she looks and sounds like a militaristic bag of Cheesy Wotsits. And then Greenpeace, who presumably were allowed into the room to make up the numbers, raise their banner.

Truss: "I've seen people with no hope turning to drugs"

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@PaulOnBooks

Oct 3, 2022

Upkeep and repairs to the homes of soldiers and their families have proved to be a disgrace under contracts awarded to moneygrubbing private contractors.

Yet again, MoD under a Tory government have proved unable (or unwilling) to negotiate a professional contract - where are

the timetables and schedules? Where are the success and failure criteria? Where are the penalty clauses?

Risk your life for your country while your spouse and children live in a house with holes in the exterior walls.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/o…

This is sadly unsurprising. Read the sorry tale of the sale of 50,000 Army homes to another bunch of private equity bandits. And the generals who okayed this are the ones now apologising for decay of housing stock and misery for the poor bloody infantry.

theguardian.com/news/2017/apr/…

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Paul

@PaulOnBooks

Nov 3, 2021

My thoughts on Owen Paterson:

1) I sympathise with anyone close to a suicide, regardless of his acts and thoughts before the event - recriminations can come later, if ever

2) I do not sympathise with an MP who, for several years, took large amounts of money in recompense for

acting selfishly, unwisely and, most importantly, illegally.

Mr Paterson is making much of the charity he has founded in his wife's name. Perhaps he could donate to that charity the hundreds of thousands of pounds he has been paid (and is still being paid) by companies

to break the law.

ps to the Tory MP who did a sponsored event and earned for the charity a sum less than he gets paid doing two days a week for a cushy little consultancy, bravo.

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Paul

@PaulOnBooks

Jan 26, 2021

Does Boris Johnson think he sounds noble and wise when he says says that when the pandemic is over “we will make sure we learn the lessons and reflect and prepare"?

Does he think that the gross inequalities in society, the impoverishment of people and public services, weren't

known and understood well before the pandemic brought them into focus? Illness and mortality rates amongst the poor were already soaring after a decade of misgovernment, cruel half-baked ideology, arrogance and exceptionalism.

But Boris Stormcrow stumbles on, fearful of science and fact, terrified of ERG and CRG, testicles gripped by the pseudo-philosophers of Telegraph and Mail. He will not change, he cannot change. He will paper over some cracks with ill-thought sops to Northern constituencies, he

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Paul

@PaulOnBooks

Dec 30, 2020

Good to hear that the ERG star chamber has approved the Brexit trade deal (or Deal--- as I think it should be called). It "preserves the UK's sovereignty as a matter of law" they say. I wonder what they'd have said if they'd actually read it.

Boris Johnson: "we have pressed ahead with this task, resisting all calls for delay, precisely because creating certainty about our future provides the best chance of beating Covid"

Eh?

I'm pretty sure Brexit preceded pandemic but there we are. I would advise, having read extracts from the speech Johnson is to deliver, that people put away sharp objects, bricks etc if they're going to watch the debate. And there is never an excuse for kicking the cat.

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Paul

@PaulOnBooks

Oct 5, 2020

I think I understand Tory economic policy now. Cinemas close, thousands of redundant ppl retrain under the "new" JEST* scheme as care workers to replace those who've died, while property developers get gov't subsidies to convert cinema buildings into tiny flats.

* not a typo

Meanwhile, the money train to nowhere, aka HS2, cuts a swathe through ancient woodlands and villages to cater for business travellers who don't have businesses to go to, charging fares that can't be afforded even by those lucky enough to get a serf's job in a care home.

On the bright side, we're getting six physical and 34 imaginary new hospitals, all based on a plot from Yes Minister. Or Yes Dominic, perhaps.

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