Nobody Cares about Britain

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Bojo the clown is riding again... and this time it comes to an embarassing full circle!

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID
Former PM made the requirement to bring photo ID a stipulation of the Elections Act in 2022

Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station when trying to cast his vote in Thursday’s elections after forgetting to bring the required photo identity.
The former prime minister was initially told by polling station staff he would not be allowed to vote in the police and crime commissioner election in South Oxfordshire without proving his identity.

The misstep was embarrassing for Johnson because the requirement to bring photo ID is a stipulation of the Elections Act which he introduced in 2022 while still in Downing Street.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I was about to post the same story (this is where it originally appeared)

Politics latest: Scottish Parliament votes against legalising assisted dying

MSPs have voted against legalising assisted dying for terminally ill adults in Scotland. The legislation would have allowed those aged 18 or older with decision-making capacity and six months or less to live to seek medical help to end their life.

news.sky.com

 

[Soen Eber]

I do so hope some enterprising journalist has an opportunity to interview his hair.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Bojo the clown is riding again... and this time it comes to an embarassing full circle!

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID
Former PM made the requirement to bring photo ID a stipulation of the Elections Act in 2022

Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station when trying to cast his vote in Thursday’s elections after forgetting to bring the required photo identity.
The former prime minister was initially told by polling station staff he would not be allowed to vote in the police and crime commissioner election in South Oxfordshire without proving his identity.

The misstep was embarrassing for Johnson because the requirement to bring photo ID is a stipulation of the Elections Act which he introduced in 2022 while still in Downing Street.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Wow. Just.... wow.

‘We were kids’: infected blood report welcomed by survivor of school trials | Contaminated blood scandal | The Guardian

As a child Richard Warwick, 58, was infected with HIV and hepatitis C during experimental trials when he was pupil at Treloar’s college – a specialist school in Hampshire for haemophiliacs.

“We were expendable,” Warwick told the Guardian. “We know that 80 pupils have died out of the 122 who went through the school between 1970 and 1987.”

He added: “We were given injections of different types of factor VIII [the infected blood product] – it was all prepared in syringes for us. They were chopping and changing different manufacturer in batches in what today would be called infectivity trials. We were eight- or nine-year-old kids.

“I hate the term guinea pig, but that’s what we were. We were ‘cheaper than chimps’ as was stated in a letter at the time.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Khamon]

That's good because most people will be off work that day, wait, nm

 

[Sid]

That is more an attempt at damage control than an effort to win the elections, right?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

So the UK's GE will be held at the USA's independence day... brillant.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

That is more an attempt at damage control than an effort to win the elections, right?

I think they've finally accepted that things aren't going to get any better -- possibly because their forced announcement yesterday that compensation for historical damages claims for transfusions using infected blood will be paid out by the end of the year shot all hopes of a pre-election tax cut -- and they might as well bite the bullet rather than stagger on from crisis to crisis.

The country has quite simply stopped listening to the Conservatives and wants a change.

Election 2024: This wasn't a campaign announcement. It was a death rattle.

Rishi Sunak finally gives up the ghost.

iandunt.substack.com

So the UK's GE will be held at the USA's independence day... brillant.

Yes. US public holidays aren't observed in the UK other than by theme bars. Maybe it's different in Germany?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

It's not, but still an interesting coincident.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And in four years after being handed the disaster, the memory will be the time Labour fucked Britain up. “NEVER AGAIN! :UK-FLAG:”

 

[Tigger]

I've been keeping an eye on Paula Vennells at the post office inquiry. Two things have struck me, firstly the enormous number of things that she, the CEO of the post office, did not apparently know about the post office and the way she keeps attempting to talk about how the post office failed in various ways in a blame shifting exercise "the post office failed to...." as if we might forget that she was the head of the organisation she is trying to blame or as if she's trying to position herself as yet another victim of the post office.

But this next thing just boils my blood. Prior to giving evidence to a parliamentary committee she says that she sought clarification about the capacity of the Horizon system to permit remote access to individual post office accounts. This was the phrase she used:

"I need to be able to say remote access was not possible."

This is not a question. This is not a request for information. This is a request for plausible deniability. A question would be "Is remote access possible?". But she didnt want to hear the answer to that question so she didnt ask a question. she requested a way to say that what she wanted to be true was true, so she could claim to believe it and blame shift later on to the people she asked.

This is how she explains herself:

Jason Beer KC asks “Why did you need to be able to say no, its not possible?”

She says:
I expected that this might be a question, as you explained before, that would come up, and my understanding was that it was not possible. And so I wanted to be able to say that. But what I also wanted to be able to do was to explain why I knew that was the case.

I phrased this point very specifically … if you want to get the truth and a really clear answer from somebody, you should tell them what it is you want to say very clearly, and then ask for the information that backs that up. That was why I phrased this that way.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2024/may/22/paula-vennells-post-office-horizon-it-inquiry-alan-bates-live-updates

 

[Innula Zenovka]

We'll see. I suspect that the likely scale of the Conservative's defeat, combined with the identities of Tory MPs in ultra-safe seats who are likely to survive it, is likely to push them even further to the right, at least for the immediate future. It's pointless trying to predict the outcome of the election after the forthcoming one, of course -- no one saw the current Conservative collapse coming until the combined economic impact of Covid, Ukraine and Liz Truss hit us -- but I think it's going to take until after the election after this one that the Tories realise they're going to have to start tacking back to the centre to stand any chance of regaining power.

I could well be wrong -- I didn't expect Brexit or Donald Trump, after all -- but that's how it looks to me at the moment.

 

[Tigger]

Not often someone will say this... but go look at the comments for this you tube video, they'll make you smile.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

So the UK's GE will be held at the USA's independence day... brillant.

If the UK took off the date every country declared independence from them it would seriously cut into the number of days they work.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I'm not sure how that would work. Since the king has agreed to dissolve parliament, I think that makes it a done deal, and the fact the existing PM could no longer command a majority in parliament would reaffirm the need for an election.

 

[Innula Zenovka]