WTF is happening in the UK?

[OFSO]

Slimey Matt Hancock given the boot....

[Boac]

It does not get better - https://news.sky.com/story/matt-hancock ... t-12735587

[Boac]

His basic mistake is to think he is a celebrity.

[barkingmad]

"To protect yourselves from the plague, wash your hands thoroughly in soap and water for at least 20 seconds, it's the temperature* of the water which kills the virus". *70C/158F!!!

Maybe the bushtucker organisers will set the contestants this particular challenge, before they get to the 'roo's testicles trial and first into the hot water will be the former disgraced Health 'supremo' for Perfidious Albion to demonstrate what fun this exercise can be?!

And take pity on him, thrown out by SWMBO, liable to lose his seat in '24 if not earlier and hoping his imminently released book will keep him alive in the manner to which he's become accustomed.

And let us not forget the temporary reduction in anti-social distancing, according to his example from the grapple in the stationery cupboard, to this dimension;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis_size

My mental maths ability varies with the lunar cycle but I'm sure the Wiki example is a fraction of 2 metres or even 6 foot as per the US?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

So now Rishi IS going to COP27

Frankly, I thought the puppetry in 'Thunderbirds' was less obvious.

Ooh, and he's reviewing every other "promise"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... ng-street/

[Boac]

Wonder not - the simple fact is we do not have a governing party that is capable of governing.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

That has been the case for a long time.
What you also have now is a party in government that can no longer even pretend it's governing,
AND a bunch of people in the shadows giving them orders who can't govern either.

Fortunately, my Provincial government has just decided to give up all pretense, and buy my vote by giving me $500.
I commend this approach!

Video re-located - you know where....

[Woody]

Don’t tell MrsWoody, but last month our energy bill after our £67 government support grant was less than £50

However the really bad news is this

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... stmas.html

[barkingmad]

Re our late lamented "Health Secretary" and his forthcoming holiday with similar reptiles and cockroaches, there is now a petition on the 38Degrees petition site worded as follows;

:---He's no celebrity - stop Matt Hancock appearing on I'm a Celebrity
His appearance will cause real pain and anguish to those of us who lost loved ones to Covid-19.

Why is this important?

Matt Hancock isn’t a ‘celebrity’, he’s the health secretary who oversaw the UK having one of the highest death tolls in the world from Covid-19 whilst breaking his own lockdown rules.

The fact that he is trying to cash in on his terrible legacy, rather than showing some humility or seeking to reflect on the appalling consequences of his time in Government says it all about the sort of his person he is.

Families were ripped apart by Matt Hancock’s actions, and turning on the TV to see him being paraded around as a joke is sickening.

If he had any respect for families who lost loved ones to Covid-19, he would be sharing his private emails with the Covid Inquiry, not eating bugs on TV.

Then again, perhaps if those emails came to light no TV station would touch him with a barge pole. ITV should do the decent thing and remove him from the programme.Over 200,000 people lost their lives to Covid-19 across the UK.

Matt Hancock was at the very centre of decisions such as locking down late, allowing large scale sporting events to go ahead as the virus ran rampant and failed to get our healthcare workers the PPE they needed.

On top of that he was fired after breaking the rules he helped set.

His profiteering and shameless search for publicity in the run up to his book launch is another insult to already grieving families.:---

It's good to know that unlike our parliament, some are doing their best to hopefully rid us of this expensive destructive nuisance. Apparently the amounts of Midazolam ordered and dispensed in a suspiciously short time are verifiable in the public record. :

One quote from an interview with a funeral director in UK;

"It's very interesting. So Matt Hancock over here, some time ago, when he was in government. He announced that he was having all the patients from hospitals, covid patients, transferred into care homes to give them a good death. Now the Greek translation of a “good death” is the word, “euthanasia”. So he told everyone and they still never saw it because most people don't know Greek in the UK. But yeah, they are telling us what they are doing, and people are just missing it.So you've got to...sometimes people listen but they don't actually listen, you know. So that's what's happened. The death rate in care homes correlates perfectly with the use of Midazolam [Midazolam = a drug sedativum and hypnotikum] and the amount procured.
You know, it's been well-covered. Well-covered by a number of people using Freedom-of-Information Acts to obtain the numbers. You know, it is what it is, sadly; it is what it But I would agree; I've seen a growing number of people come in extemely angry with the lack of care their loved ones have had. And more harrowingly, I've had some very difficult conversations with nurses who have called me and they've described in great detail how they're putting people - I mean they put DNRs [DNR = Patient’s provision meaning: Do Not Resuscitate] on people without even asking them. You know, and then they give them things like Remdesivir [Remdesivir = antiviral medication]

Remdesivir, excellent stuff for putting folks to sleep under the guise of systemic organ failure, though it takes on average 10 painful days;

https://expose-news.com/2021/09/02/remd ... ng-people/

So maybe Matt Hancock and others should be on remand in UK prisons, passports removed and spending their days briefing their legal teams?

Edited to add; More for Matt's CV;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56125462

[OFSO]

I see a politician has just shot himself in the foot.

[barkingmad]

I see a politician has just shot himself in the foot.

But will he be eligible for footshot treatment in what remains of the NCS?

Hang on, they’ve stopped being the National Covid Service and they’re trying to revert to the National ‘Health’ Service whlst breaking under the weight of 30 months of neglecting their main task!

OFSO I presume we are both referring to the following honourable member (NPI!);

https://lauradodsworth.substack.com/p/m ... ry-excuses

[OFSO]

I was thinking of a Pakistani gentlemen, however it appears someone else fired the shot.
Hancock of course would not be injured by a shot fired at his foot as the projectile would pass harmlessly through one of the many holes already there.

[Boac]

BM - does Richard D Hall figure in your researches for the Manchester Arena and the Westminster Bridge attacks.

"Lisa Bridgett, a survivor of the Manchester Arena attack, who broke her ankle and lost one of her middle fingers in the blast, was tracked down at her place of work by a conspiracy theorist, called Richard D Hall. He posed as a customer, with the aim of secretly recording her, to discover whether she was lying about her injuries.

The conspiracy theorist, based in Wales, has described on his website how he physically tracks down survivors of the Manchester Arena attack – in which 22 people were killed and more than 100 injured – to determine whether it was staged. Hall suggests that those who were killed are alive and living abroad.

He profits from selling books and DVDs outlining his theories that terror attacks were staged, as well as speaking at events and posting videos online. As recently as mid-October, he had more than 16 million views and 80,000 subscribers on YouTube."

[barkingmad]

BM - does Richard D Hall figure in your researches for the Manchester Arena and the Westminster Bridge attacks.

"Lisa Bridgett, a survivor of the Manchester Arena attack, who broke her ankle and lost one of her middle fingers in the blast, was tracked down at her place of work by a conspiracy theorist, called Richard D Hall. He posed as a customer, with the aim of secretly recording her, to discover whether she was lying about her injuries.

The conspiracy theorist, based in Wales, has described on his website how he physically tracks down survivors of the Manchester Arena attack – in which 22 people were killed and more than 100 injured – to determine whether it was staged. Hall suggests that those who were killed are alive and living abroad.

He profits from selling books and DVDs outlining his theories that terror attacks were staged, as well as speaking at events and posting videos online. As recently as mid-October, he had more than 16 million views and 80,000 subscribers on YouTube."

Nope, never heard of him, next slide please...

bo, if that's the best you can do then you're losing it.

I would have expected a better pushback from you but it looks like your towbar shearpin has fractured?

I do however enjoy this Richard Hall very much, perhaps you'd be better off following his input instead of venturing down the dirty rabbit hole wherein you discovered your R Dickhead Hall?!?!?

[Boac]

Nope, never heard of him, next slide please...

Well, now you have. None of your sources talking about him and his 'facts'?

[barkingmad]

Nope, never heard of him, next slide please...

Well, now you have. None of your sources talking about him and his 'facts'?

Nope, but keep trying, if it makes you feel better banging your head against a brick wall.

You're letting yourself down in front of the forum, which is not in your nature, so please retire to a dark room until the insanity passes.

[OFSO]

I have an idea for a 'Game Show'. On a far-off island, loathsome wastes of space such as Matt Hancock* instead of being filmed eating insects, would be tied down and eaten BY insects. Surely no eco-freaks and Greenie Tree-huggers would object?

* and..... others.

[llondel]

BM - does Richard D Hall figure in your researches for the Manchester Arena and the Westminster Bridge attacks.

"Lisa Bridgett, a survivor of the Manchester Arena attack, who broke her ankle and lost one of her middle fingers in the blast, was tracked down at her place of work by a conspiracy theorist, called Richard D Hall. He posed as a customer, with the aim of secretly recording her, to discover whether she was lying about her injuries.

Ah, so a UK equivalent to Alex Jones over here.

[Boac]

I would have thought BM would have been all over this guy's website since he is definitely of 'the same mind'. https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre. ... t=1&gen=99

[TheGreenAnger]

Another trade fail because of the arrogance, short sightedness and general incompetence of our benighted government. Has all the hallmarks of another trade Trussterfluck! <<article copied in full lest the article is not available to non-subscribers>>

There is little prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal with Brazil in the near future because of strained relations between Britain’s Conservative government and the new administration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, The Independent has learned.

Successive Tory ministers have previously sought cordial relations with outgoing hard-right leader Jair Bolsonaro while neglecting Lula, figures close to the newly elected president have pointed out.

The 77-year-old left-winger sealed a stunning comeback on Sunday night in a narrow victory over populist Mr Bolsonaro, five years after he was jailed for alleged corruption following an investigation initiated by his successor and political rivals.

Britain has had minimal contact with Lula and his Workers Party in recent years, while a number of Conservative politicians have met Mr Bolsonaro and his associates. In some cases, the meetings took place before the latter became president but when his extremist views were well-known.

Lula, described by Barack Obama as “one of the most popular politicians on Earth,” has cordial relations with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Sir Keir Starmer. But communications with Britain’s Conservatives “have really been limited to the tweet of congratulations from Rishi Sunak after Lula won the election,” said a member of the new president’s team.

Eyebrows were also raised when Downing Street said Mr Sunak might not attend the Cop27 summit in Egypt. Lula is an environmentalist and is keen to reverse Mr Bolsonaro’s regressive climate actions.

“We heard that your prime minister was not going to Cop27, which was surprising because it is such an important topic for the whole planet,” the Lula team figure said. “But now we are told he has changed his mind, so there may be an opportunity for the prime minister to meet the president-elect.”

A trade deal with Brazil – a G20 member, and Latin America’s largest economy and most populous nation – has been a stated priority for the British government. It proposed an Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP) to Brazil in February this year but there has been little progress made in negotiations, and a senior member of Lula’s team said the impasse was unlikely to end unless Britain makes substantial changes to its terms.

Ms Truss, then chief secretary to the Treasury, went to Brazil at the time to promote “free markets, an open economy, and privatisation”. She met officials in the administration of the then president Michael Temer, who had been the subject of a number of corruption investigations and had sought to open up part of the Amazon rainforest to commercial concerns – a move which led to such severe criticism it was later revoked.

It has been claimed that, during the visit, Ms Truss and the then British ambassador to Brasilia met Mr Bolsonaro who was to take over from Mr Temer.

The ambassador’s attendance at the meeting is recorded in UK official documents, but the name of another Briton present at the meeting has been redacted. The British investigative website Declassified made a freedom of information request about whether Ms Truss was present at the meeting but there was no response and the request was eventually passed to the information commissioner.

In October 2019, Ms Truss, then international trade secretary, was asked by SNP MP Martyn Day about “illegal deforestation [that] takes place in the [Brazilian] Amazon rainforest – something the Paris agreement explicitly sets to tackle and reduce”. She replied: “I am a great believer that free trade and free enterprise help us to achieve our environmental goals through pure better technology, more innovation and more ingenuity.”

Liz Truss is not the only Tory minister to be questioned about links to the Bolsonaro camp. In August 2019, the then trade minister Conor Burns was criticised for failing to raise the issue of Amazon wildfires, which had become a particularly acute problem at the time, while meeting a Bolsonaro minister. Mr Burns was fulsome in his praise of Mr Bolsonaro’s “superb” deputy economy minister Marcos Troyjo after meeting him to discuss “expanding trade and investment partnerships”. Mr Burns shared pictures of himself on Twitter drinking champagne with Brazilian officials after signing a new deal to “facilitate ease of business” between the countries.

Labour’s trade spokesman Barry Gardiner commented at the time: “While Bolsonaro lets agribusinesses burn the Amazon … a UK government minister has been busy cosying up to the Brazilian president’s officials. Instead of posing for photographs with far-right Brazilian politicians, ministers should be calling on Brazil to do everything they can to protect the rainforest.”

“In our view, the proposals being made by the UK are unbalanced and unfair in their current form,” said the Lula team figure. “They want access to the financial market, IT and education, yet there are barriers to the import of Brazilian meat products, especially beef. They seem to have EU regulations in place despite Brexit.”

In contrast, president-elect Lula says there is a real prospect of a trade agreement within six months between South America’s Mercosur bloc – which also includes Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – and the EU.

The EU-Mercosur deal was meant to have been finalised in 2019 but has been in limbo due to European concerns about Amazon deforestation and Mr Bolsonaro’s authoritarian rule. Lula’s victory, officials say, has removed those obstacles.

“Given that [Ms Truss] has spent so much time cosying up to President Bolsonaro, rather than challenging him on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the attack on fundamental human rights in Brazil, will she use her diplomatic pressure to help ensure these elections are able to be independently observed, with all sides respecting the outcome and result afterwards?” Mr Hamilton asked,

The “cosying up” claim alluded to a visit by Ms Truss to Brazil in April 2018, just a few days after Lula was jailed on corruption charges despite being a frontrunner in elections at the time. The conviction, which prevented him from running, was later quashed by Brazil’s Supreme Court which said the charges had been trumped up.

Ms Truss, then chief secretary to the Treasury, went to Brazil at the time to promote “free markets, an open economy, and privatisation”. She met officials in the administration of the then president Michael Temer, who had been the subject of a number of corruption investigations and had sought to open up part of the Amazon rainforest to commercial concerns – a move which led to such severe criticism it was later revoked.

It has been claimed that, during the visit, Ms Truss and the then British ambassador to Brasilia met Mr Bolsonaro who was to take over from Mr Temer.

The ambassador’s attendance at the meeting is recorded in UK official documents, but the name of another Briton present at the meeting has been redacted. The British investigative website Declassified made a freedom of information request about whether Ms Truss was present at the meeting but there was no response and the request was eventually passed to the information commissioner.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 17663.html