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Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
I've done a bit of ergonomics and office re-structuring in my time and £11 million is nothing. I've seen companies spend hundreds of millions on complete redesigns for a more "open" workplace with various zones - the Network Zone, the Quiet Zone, the Consumption Zone (where you have your lunch rather than at your desk).
Unfortunately, as soon as one of these half-stories appears on social media, we get the predictable howls of outrage from the usual suspects moaning about "waste".
It's now a factor in political debate that no one stops, thinks and checks - it's all about the instant emotive response which while revealing in its own way, doesn't help move the argument.
Unfortunately, as soon as one of these half-stories appears on social media, we get the predictable howls of outrage from the usual suspects moaning about "waste".
It's now a factor in political debate that no one stops, thinks and checks - it's all about the instant emotive response which while revealing in its own way, doesn't help move the argument.
stodge
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Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
It's a fucking disgrace. HMRC staff, indeed all civil servants, don't need office furniture or equipment. They should stand upright with clipboard and pen in hand, get on with their job, and stop whingeing.Clipboards?! Floors?! Pens?! Woke nonsense.
Slate. Vellum. Their own blood using quills. That’s what they should have.
biggles
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Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
It's a fucking disgrace. HMRC staff, indeed all civil servants, don't need office furniture or equipment. They should stand upright with clipboard and pen in hand, get on with their job, and stop whingeing.
Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
What makes you think May would have agreed it, since it clearly breached her red lines?Certainly. But then wankers like Ed Davey and Keir Starmer refused to map anything like that through Parliament when May would have agreed to it and now they are desperately trying to magic up what they could have had if they hadnt been prats.That approach has consistently failed to win over public opinion in Norway, however. But Norway was never foolish enough to volunteer for a damaging separation, and we would have been less foolish to have copied the Norwegian approach from the beginning.Are we seriously back talking about what “A” customs union, rather than “THE” customs union, looks like in practice?Good morning, everyone.
Ask the Turks what “A” CU looks like, it’s terribly one-sided.
Mr. Sandpit, easier (and less honest) to try and get us closer and closer to the EU then say "We may as well join seeing as we're already bound by their decisions but currently have no say" than it is to actually make a case for rejoining.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-governments-negotiating-objectives-for-exiting-the-eu-pm-speech
If she was prepared to agree to a Norwegian approach why the feck didn't she herself propose it? She was after all the Prime Minister.
Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
She was a crap PM and towards the end torally desperate. However the "lets ignore the referendum" crew just wanted to play the vote till we get the right answer game and in doing so shot themselves in the foot.What makes you think May would have agreed it, since it clearly breached her red lines?Certainly. But then wankers like Ed Davey and Keir Starmer refused to map anything like that through Parliament when May would have agreed to it and now they are desperately trying to magic up what they could have had if they hadnt been prats.That approach has consistently failed to win over public opinion in Norway, however. But Norway was never foolish enough to volunteer for a damaging separation, and we would have been less foolish to have copied the Norwegian approach from the beginning.Are we seriously back talking about what “A” customs union, rather than “THE” customs union, looks like in practice?Good morning, everyone.
Ask the Turks what “A” CU looks like, it’s terribly one-sided.
Mr. Sandpit, easier (and less honest) to try and get us closer and closer to the EU then say "We may as well join seeing as we're already bound by their decisions but currently have no say" than it is to actually make a case for rejoining.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-governments-negotiating-objectives-for-exiting-the-eu-pm-speech
If she was prepared to agree to a Norwegian approach why the feck didn't she herself propose it? She was after all the Prime Minister.
Imagine - outwitted by Boris.
Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
Are we seriously back talking about what “A” customs union, rather than “THE” customs union, looks like in practice?Vox populi, vox dei.
Ask the Turks what “A” CU looks like, it’s terribly one-sided.
We hold all the cards, it'll be the easiest deal in history, plus German car manufacturers as the EU needs us more than we need them.
Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
I do rather enjoy the way Remainers studiously ignore the politics of the EU since we left.Oh, and all of the post-Brexit trade agreements, including with the US and the CP-TPP, will need to be torn up in order to rejoin anything EU-based.Are we seriously back talking about what “A” customs union, rather than “THE” customs union, looks like in practice?Good morning, everyone.
Ask the Turks what “A” CU looks like, it’s terribly one-sided.
Mr. Sandpit, easier (and less honest) to try and get us closer and closer to the EU then say "We may as well join seeing as we're already bound by their decisions but currently have no say" than it is to actually make a case for rejoining.
Currently we are missing the fight on Mercosur, the perennial budget dispute and the death of the AI industry. Not forgetting of course the reverse gear on car emissions.
Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
Reads to me as though Wes Streeting's remedy for crushing debt and heavy taxation is to commit to further vast expenditure.
AnneJGP
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Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
It may be that the rank incompetence and dishonesty shown by Starmer and Reeves in both the run up to and the budget itself will prove fatal. It certainly hasn't done the UK economy any good whatsoever: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/22/uk-economy-entering-2026-amid-sharp-private-sector-downturn-says-cbi
We certainly cannot afford much more of that nonsense. And it obviously suits some to claim this poor economic performance is caused by Brexit as opposed to that ineptitude. But I think we could do without Reform getting the inevitable boost that they would get from such distractions.
We certainly cannot afford much more of that nonsense. And it obviously suits some to claim this poor economic performance is caused by Brexit as opposed to that ineptitude. But I think we could do without Reform getting the inevitable boost that they would get from such distractions.
DavidL
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Re: Wes Streeting displays absolutely no subtlety as he goes on manoeuvres – politicalbetting.com
(Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore.....)Yes.Who was the last Cambridge educated PM?Yes for several reasons and none of them to do with politics.Yes, I am aware of the irony of me calling out other people for a lack of subtlety.He'll be getting your vote then ?
First of all his name brilliant for punning.
Secondly, he's a Cambridge gentleman, which is only one rung below being a lawyer in the awesomeness stakes.
Am I right in thinking it was Stanley Baldwin?
