Wattie
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Failure.
(she already knows this and is lining up the CEO position at Deliveroo)
The whinging bitches politics poo-bin thread
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(she already knows this and is lining up the CEO position at Deliveroo)
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Triplets.
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Liz mentioned it in her speech outside Number 10.
Something about the energy crisis. Something about the health and care services.
Something about unleashing the potential/entrepreneurial spirt/greatness/? of
the British people. As you may surmise. It made a great impression.
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Indeed. Its a weak leader who must surround herself by non-threatening sycophants.
I don't know any of them. Including Truss. Although I know enough of her, to be lowering
my expectations, faster than the pound is falling.
I gather Cleverly, whom Truss has made Foreign Secretary, is held in contempt by the majority of
back benchers. He obtained his degree is Hospitality Management in the University of West London.
Speaks for itself. And despite being a commissioned officer in the Royal Horse Artillery since 1991
and in the unit supporting the Paras in the Air Assault Brigade, he never saw service outside the UK.
I know that he'd have had the opportunity to serve in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, because just about
everyone in the Air Assault Brigade did. Units from the brigade were almost constantly on ops in
sand land for two decades. I can only conclude that he chose not to serve abroad.
Yet, he never wastes an opportunity to make hay by mentioning his service in the Army.
A know-nothing degree from the college of nowhere, is the calibre of person who is now
our Foreign Secretary. God help us!
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What a bit like Putin? Thank God for the leader of the opposition Edit: Royal Horse Artillery? Say no more, bunch of over-privileged knobs. (Officers of course!)
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Martin. Putin is weak. That's why he's surrounded himself with oligarchs and those personally tied to him.
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Read an interesting article about Russia's ability to sustain munitions for their Special Operation in Ukraine mainly due to their kleptomania, as well as the Western World's Special Financial Operations. I'll find it an post it on the other thread.
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You mean inability? Yeh, apparently that was one reason why the pause happened. Allegedly the Russians are asking client states if they can buy their munitions back. Since much of it hasn't changed since the collapse of the USSR.
Allegedly also, there have been strikes at the very few Russian munitions factories that remain. But the media is being kept out of those cities and / or are being censored. Russia relied on Ukrainian electronics for just about everything their military uses. The Chinese would love to supply them, but the US is putting pressure on China not to.
One thing is certain. It may be over by Christmas. Which Christmas is the question.
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Has something like that ever happened before...?
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It’s a prerequisite amongst politicians.
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...would certainly seem so. No one who wants the job should be allowed to have it.
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She’s certainly changed her tune.
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Did anyone see her attempt to curtsey to The King at her first audience?
I wonder was she chewing gum at the time.
Out of sixty-five ish million of us. This is who we get as P.M.?
Seriously. The country is completely f**ked.
I wonder was she chewing gum at the time.
Out of sixty-five ish million of us. This is who we get as P.M.?
Seriously. The country is completely f**ked.
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Can you really choose not to serve abroad ? Or is that just the officers
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...Italy, Sweden...it's contagious
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I believe Wattie, that you're edging into Peter Principle territory.
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Laurence J. Peter
Here is Laurence Peter, speaking and recorded by the BBC. In 1974.
Vietnam was ongoing. In the UK, Ted Heath is succeeded by Harold Wilson
and in the U.S., Gerald Ford succeeds Richard Nixon.
this phenomenon personally or witnessed it first hand. Almost half a century later.
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CHANCELLOR WANTS TO SCRAP BANKER’S BONUS CAP
So the priority of this new administration is to remove the cap on bankers bonuses to deal with the cost of living crisis and fuel economic growth? This madness is trickling down from a bunch of ideological nutters.
As the top comment in the FT stated: they want to prioritise in-year and short-term performance over longer term performance. What could possibly go wrong?
The City does not have a challenge of hiring the best and brightest, but it does have a problem of people willing to bet the future on a quick quid now. And this will make that much worse.
www.independent.co.uk
So the priority of this new administration is to remove the cap on bankers bonuses to deal with the cost of living crisis and fuel economic growth? This madness is trickling down from a bunch of ideological nutters.
As the top comment in the FT stated: they want to prioritise in-year and short-term performance over longer term performance. What could possibly go wrong?
The City does not have a challenge of hiring the best and brightest, but it does have a problem of people willing to bet the future on a quick quid now. And this will make that much worse.
Chancellor wants to scrap bankers’ bonus cap to boost City of London
Boris Johnson backed away from move, fearing political backlash – but Kwasi Kwarteng has put it back on agenda
www.independent.co.uk
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CHANCELLOR WANTS TO SCRAP BANKER’S BONUS CAP
So the priority of this new administration is to remove the cap on bankers bonuses to deal with the cost of living crisis and fuel economic growth? This madness is trickling down from a bunch of ideological nutters.
As the top comment in the FT stated: they want to prioritise in-year and short-term performance over longer term performance. What could possibly go wrong?
The City does not have a challenge of hiring the best and brightest, but it does have a problem of people willing to bet the future on a quick quid now. And this will make that much worse.
Chancellor wants to scrap bankers’ bonus cap to boost City of London
Boris Johnson backed away from move, fearing political backlash – but Kwasi Kwarteng has put it back on agenda
Playing devils advocate here. If a banker previously had his bonus capped at say 500k. The government get circa 250k in tax.
Now if the same banker now gets his bonus uncapped and gets a 5m bonus then the government gets 2.5m in tax.
Might not look good to the average man in the street but it means the government earn more tax. Which helps everyone (in theory).
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