How is the Tory government doing?

okocha wrote:Bonce is so right!

And while it's normally petty to criticise someone for their appearance when it's policies, integrity, competence, decency, fairness, articulacy and honesty that matter, nevertheless when I looked at this morning's press photo of the Nato leaders assembled, Johnson's appearance was in marked contrast to the very professional, smart attire of everyone else. They looked like world leaders to be respected.

Boris looked as if he'd just awakened from a night asleep in his car, baggy, crumpled jacket, tie skewiff, creased shirt hanging out of his ill-fitting trousers, stomach to the fore, and of course tousled, uncombed, unkempt hair. His facial expression was grotesquely inappropriate. In short a total embarrassment on the world stage.

And all this would not matter one jot if his appearance were not perfectly symbolic of his shabby,  thought-processes, confused policies and garbled empty rhetoric which confirm him as a clown (who happens also to be a liar and bully to whom empathy and compassion are strangers.)

Whitesince63 wrote:Come on guys, it’s all part of what makes Boris so likeable, though not by you obviously. Equally you can’t seriously compare BoJo with Corbyn and Foot who were both Characterless minnows compared to Boris. The only thing that unites them is the fact that no matter how much time was spent trying to make them look smart, they’d still look like a bag of rags. Fortunately Boris is smart in other ways which the other too never were.

wanderlust wrote:
You have to be kidding White.
If you reckon that a lying, creeping, morally bankrupt, self-promoting con man has "character" you need to give yourself a good talking to.

boltonbonce wrote:T'm saying nothing, in case he gets someone to beat me up.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

He'll have to join the queue.

wanderlust wrote:
You have to be kidding White.
If you reckon that a lying, creeping, morally bankrupt, self-promoting con man has "character" you need to give yourself a good talking to.

Whitesince63 wrote:
We’ll if he is all those things you’ve stated Lusty, then I’d say it proves my point exactly about his character and him being a smart cookie, because he made it to PM!!

Whitesince63 wrote:Lusty, I know you want to have a go at Sunak for everything Financial but this is HMRC we’re talking about, full of your like minded and woke Labourites, so maybe you should be pointing the finger where it really belongs instead of trying to make out it’s the chancellor. Clearly measures were softened during Covid to prevent or reduce damage to both individuals and companies due to measures taken by the government but that shouldn’t stop those in HMRC who are employed to do the chasing from recovering what’s owed now. Just point the finger where it really belongs.

Whitesince63 wrote:
We’ll if he is all those things you’ve stated Lusty, then I’d say it proves my point exactly about his character and him being a smart cookie, because he made it to PM!!

wanderlust wrote:

Whitesince63 wrote:Lusty, I know you want to have a go at Sunak for everything Financial but this is HMRC we’re talking about, full of your like minded and woke Labourites, so maybe you should be pointing the finger where it really belongs instead of trying to make out it’s the chancellor. Clearly measures were softened during Covid to prevent or reduce damage to both individuals and companies due to measures taken by the government but that shouldn’t stop those in HMRC who are employed to do the chasing from recovering what’s owed now. Just point the finger where it really belongs.

Don't want to get into the relationship between politicians and civil servants again otherwise we'll have you know who speculating above his pay grade again, but the point I was making is that the loans that Sunak took on to spend on e.g. £7 billion of PPE that had to be burned or on loans to dodgy businesses made without due diligence has piled on additional interest payments that consume more government spending.
I accept that the failure to chase down bad tax debt especially from the very wealthy lies at the door of HMRC - but it can hardly be said to be apolitical given that it is the PAC that is holding HMRC to account.
And the reality is politicians tell civil servants what to do because they are responsible for the enactment of party policies - lackeys if you like.
You can't argue that the Tories stole a load of northern votes with the promise to deliver HS2 and then blame it's failure on the construction companies or those tasked with procuring it. Or can you?

I don't "blame Sunak for everything financial"- I just think that a Chancellor who wasn't richer than the Queen and didn't focus spending our money on the populist vote in order to position himself for the main job would be more in touch with reality, less frivolous with our money and more aware of the impact of his mess on the lives of ordinary people.

He's just a another posh idiot who thinks he's being clever IMO.

wanderlust wrote:I even went to the trouble of showing you how to spell lackeys and you still f***** it up ya turkie!

wanderlust wrote:Must be a rare form of dyslexia. I know several people who have dyslexia but none of them feel the need to try to make themselves look clever to a bunch of strangers all the time