Making the news today....

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

I don't belong to Twitter or Face book or Linked in or Instagram or any of those other jobbies . Just Arbtalk . So, can't read the full version or any other version come to that .

That makes us two old fogeys then

[nepia]

Not that bloody old - I'm the same!

[Mark J]

This takedown of Rishi Sunak over his family’s Russian investments was magnificent

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The morning after his mini budget was widely derided as an ‘up yours’ to people struggling with the cost of living crisis...

 

[eggsarascal]

I guess it's just how it is.

 

Awkward Boris 'ignored' by world leaders before NATO group photo

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One Twitter user said it looked like 'an undress rehearsal for The Emperor's New Clothes'.

 

[eggsarascal]

This has taken a while to come out.

 

Roman Abramovich 'poisoned' at peace negotiations with Ukraine

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The Russian oligarch reportedly suffered peeling skin on his face and hands, and red teary eyes

 

[Johnsond]

On 21/03/2022 at 13:18, Mark J said:

It doesn't make it right though, does it?

This is the sort of thing I mentioned a few days ago Mark. 

[Johnsond]

Rotherham: Grooming gang detective cleared of misconduct

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In total 47 officers were investigated over the handling of claims of child sex abuse in Rotherham.

Not a surprising outcome sadly. 

[Mark J]

 

 

[Mark J]

On 29/03/2022 at 08:14, Johnsond said:

This is the sort of thing I mentioned a few days ago Mark. 

Gavin Andrews

54 m  · 

In case anyone's interested in how come P&O were able to shaft 800 British workers, but their EU colleagues are all still in their jobs...

The government aren't in a position to take legal action against P&O because of the law they pushed through parliament excluded shipping companies from the requirement to notify the secretary of state in this country before announcing mass redundancies.

They only have to notify the equivalent person in the country the ships are registered in, but there's no legal penalty listed for them failing to do that, whereas there is a legal penalty for non-shipping UK companies who did this.

So the government specifically put in place a new law on leaving the EU that allowed ferry operators and other shipping companies to do exactly this without any penalty.

Yet they've spent the last 2 weeks publicly proclaiming how wrong it all is, while not mentioning the fact that they wrote the law that allowed it to happen.

Coincidentally the minister responsible now has a cushy £100k a year job for 1 day a week working for one of the biggest international port operators.

Working class tory voters - this is what they really think of you.

Edited March 31, 2022 by Mark J

[Johnsond]

3 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Gavin Andrews

54 m  · 

In case anyone's interested in how come P&O were able to shaft 800 British workers, but their EU colleagues are all still in their jobs...

The government aren't in a position to take legal action against P&O because of the law they pushed through parliament excluded shipping companies from the requirement to notify the secretary of state in this country before announcing mass redundancies.

They only have to notify the equivalent person in the country the ships are registered in, but there's no legal penalty listed for them failing to do that, whereas there is a legal penalty for non-shipping UK companies who did this.

So the government specifically put in place a new law on leaving the EU that allowed ferry operators and other shipping companies to do exactly this without any penalty.

Yet they've spent the last 2 weeks publicly proclaiming how wrong it all is, while not mentioning the fact that they wrote the law that allowed it to happen.

Coincidentally the minister responsible now has a cushy £100k a year job for 1 day a week working for one of the biggest international port operators.

Working class tory voters - this is what they really think of you.

Been going on for years under successive governments Mark. Try and make a political anti Tory thing if you want but your about 40 years behind the curve.