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Is it any wonder the Nadine peerage move has been stalled? – politicalbetting.com
Is it any wonder the Nadine peerage move has been stalled? – politicalbetting.com
Of the 4 MPs who have recently announced their resignation there is one who has yet to take it the stage further and actually quit the House of Commons. As I write Dorries is still the Westminster MP for Mid Bedfordshire – my neighbouring constituency.
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I'd like to see a system where MP's need to log and evidence hours worked, what they did, and how it was relevant to their role as an MP.
Rather like job seekers.
And for those details to be scrutinised and then published.
Two weeks ago was invited to get a covid booster. Today a message came about a vaccination clinic 1-4 pm. Raced home early from work made it at 3.50. Lady on reception asked if I had a booking. I said no, but was invited by text. She turned me away as I was not clinically extremely vulnerable. I could have asked to see a medic, but decided not, but went straight to the GP surgery to check. They confirmed I was eligible. I was also not the only one treated this way today.
All too typical of a system that doesn’t quite work.
Silly me.
https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/42267&showall=yes
As for her being on TalkTV, that was hardly a secret.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65998914
...In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been classified by an independent body.
Mr Rush responded that he was "tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation".
The tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.
"I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic," he wrote to the OceanGate boss in March 2018. "In your race to [the] Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'".
In the messages, Mr Rush expresses frustration with the criticism of Titan's safety measures, writing in one email: "We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult."
Mr McCallum told the BBC that he repeatedly urged the company to seek certification for the Titan before using it for commercial tours. The vessel was never certified or classed.
"Until a sub is classed, tested and proven it should not be used for commercial deep dive operations," he wrote in one email.
"I implore you to take every care in your testing and sea trials and to be very, very conservative," he added. "As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk."..
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-66001826
I encountered a similar example of broken public services while helping a client who has been trying to get the DWP to reduce, and more recently, stop his Pension Credit (PC) as by his calculation he is no longer due it (because his savings have grown). Despite dozens of letters and phone calls they still keep paying the PC.
When I called the Pensions Service, the agent there said they are so snowed under they can only action emergency issues - i.e. where an individual is not getting the money they are due. Overpayments and recalculations that will reduce payments just never get looked at. This client was mentally stressed by the overpayments and fearful he would have to pay it all back. I managed to get his payments stopped but when, if ever, the recalculation will be done who knows?
I'd hate to think how much money this sort of thing is costing the country.
That's just what someone does in the HofC.
I wouldn't care if my MP never spoke there because they were hard at work on constituency surgeries, engaging with community groups and advocating for investment.
She doesn't appear to be doing much of any of that.
That's the kind of stuff I'd like to see recorded and published.
All those pieces of information were in the public domain prior to the publication of that article. The number of appearances, the lack of address on the parliamentary website, etc.
If they did recover them the betting is they would cremate them and scatter the ashes in the ocean, so it all comes out in the wash.
He's certainly disrupted the sightseeing to the bottom of the deep ocean trade.
Possibly terminally.
ESPECIALLY as documented by legislative roll-call records. Have helped bounce more than one chronic no-show out of a job on that basis.
Why so effective? Because the average (or even sub-average) voter has little tolerance for habitual absenteeism by elected officials. (Even when objectively-speaking it may well be BETTER if they weren't around!)
AND because it is a non-ideological, non-partisan demerit & critique. Pisses off the Woke and the Wack pretty much equally. Again, in my humble experience.
Not a typo
But most remarkably, he claims the explorers were trying to "democratise the ocean floor". WTF?
If I gave people a lift in a car while knowing the brakes were faulty but assumed it would be fine and we crashed and killed me and all the others are you saying I should not be held culpable?
I hold all of parliament in contempt
I hold the justice system in contempt
I hold the police in contempt
I hold our public services in contempt
I am far from alone in this attitude
We have had enough
Speaking of bad MPs, I see Warburton is totally favour of MeToo, oh my yes, it's just when he was hit by allegations that he realised it had gone too far.
And look, he never did anything that bad, just being a cokehead and not disclosing 150k loans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65985598
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_O'Mara
The backlog is such that those on remand have often served any sentence before the court finds them guilty. If they are found not guilty, well. The charity which has generated this story make a very good point. We are fairly well geared for those released from prison, from the court not so much.
I have a friend who cave dives. (Nutter.) And the first time he went down, it was drilled into him that it was an incredibly dangerous, and that even with the best preparations in the world, he could well die.
The guy who did this was negligent, probably highly negligent, and that negligence led to the deaths of a number of people.
But people - so long as they understand the risks - are allowed to go base jumping and cave diving and to try and climb mount Everest.
As for 'leave him alone', that's just nonsense. Right now, when there is so much attention, is a very good moment to get information into the open if the company was acting recklessly. It will all come out anyway, but what harm knowing this sort of detail now? Who knows how the company and others in it might otherwise drag things out and obfuscate. It's not just about him.
If you understand the risks go for it is my view. My suspicion is the guy really down played them
Instead, the adherents of cliodynamics treat historical record just as, say, evolutionary biologists treat the palaeontological record. Theories are constructed and based on general principles and tested empirically with comprehensive databases. In short, we use the standard scientific method that worked so well in physics, biology, and many social science
I'll just wait for Annales types to weigh in.
Which spookily enough is the actual motto of the world cave diving fraternity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_It_Right_(scuba_diving)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12227209/BORIS-JOHNSON-brave-souls-Titan-sub-died-cause-fills-pride.html
It seems awfully trusting to assume everyone did have all the risk knowledge they needed. That will come out in time, but it's bit blase to assume it.
I haven’t seen him for over a year but he did get more responsibility in his high level role relatively recently so will be very interesting if he has an agreement with his current role that he can stand and if he loses, as looks likely, then no problem.
If I speak to him I will ask and if he’s ok with it then post about it here.
Still, having been paid a fortune to generate drivel for the Mail, I suppose that Boris Johnson is at least keeping his end of the bargain.
May they all rest in peace
Whether lefties sneer or not, you're still a fat lying cowardly twat.
Yours
The British People.
Who said that?