Missing one credit card payment is “inadvertent”. Miss 17 and the bailiffs will be at your door.
Is Westminster the place where rules go to die and accountability is practically a swear word?
This grifter should be removed from parliament and be told, in no uncertain terms, never to darken their door again. But if the “Watchdog” - I assume said dog has no teeth - has acquitted him, then what chance is there of that?
I am sick and tired of seeing the wealthy get away with murder (almost literally, sometimes - see excess deaths cause by austerity and the farcical handling of the pandemic) while we are left fighting over the crumbs under the table. And then those crumbs become even more scarce and are rationed through harsher and harsher eligibility criteria.
If any of us “inadvertently” missed seventeen notices, the system wouldn’t write a politely worded letter, it would turn up wearing a stab vest and a clipboard. But in Westminster, the rules are apparently more like vibes, and accountability is treated like an optional extra you can remove for weight reduction.
And that’s the bit that makes people feel like they’re going mad. Because you are right, the watchdog does look toothless, and when the people at the top keep wriggling out of consequences, it tells everyone else the same message, loud and clear: the rules are for you, not for them.
The austerity excess deaths point, the pandemic point, it’s the same pattern in different outfits. Ordinary people get lectures and penalties. The powerful get process, delays, and a fresh coat of “nothing to see here”.
Scream into the abyss if you need to. Just don’t do it alone, that’s how they win. We’ll keep dragging the receipts into the daylight.
They don’t do rules, they do vibes, volume, and plausible deniability. Then when the consequences land, it’s suddenly everyone else’s fault, plus the EU, plus a judge, plus a wokey ghost in the machine.
Inadvertent? 17 times is inadvertent? Pull the other one nige it has bells on it. You are taking the fucking piss and Westminster is letting you get away with it. So you're not computer literate nige? Tell me how do you do your Cameo messages? How do you write your bilge for the nazigraph? And then you blame someone else in your office. I have to say it makes a change to hearing you blame someone and not immigrants.
And yes, we hold Political Satirical in properly high regard, they spot patterns early and they do not flinch.
As for Rycroft, quietly, his CV is not a hobbyist’s. And if all the titles, boards, and committees make your eyes water, that is normal, not a personal failing. So, is he “good at what he does”?
“Good” here mostly means trusted to run complex, high-pressure Whitehall machinery without dropping the constitutional china. On that narrow test, the fact he hit Permanent Secretary level and kept getting the heavy, constitution-soaked briefs suggests he is competent, process-literate, and steady.
Which is exactly why the loud lads who treat governance like a pub dare might find him… inconvenient.
Missing one credit card payment is “inadvertent”. Miss 17 and the bailiffs will be at your door.
Is Westminster the place where rules go to die and accountability is practically a swear word?
This grifter should be removed from parliament and be told, in no uncertain terms, never to darken their door again. But if the “Watchdog” - I assume said dog has no teeth - has acquitted him, then what chance is there of that?
I am sick and tired of seeing the wealthy get away with murder (almost literally, sometimes - see excess deaths cause by austerity and the farcical handling of the pandemic) while we are left fighting over the crumbs under the table. And then those crumbs become even more scarce and are rationed through harsher and harsher eligibility criteria.
Excuse me while I go and scream into the abyss.
Suze,
If any of us “inadvertently” missed seventeen notices, the system wouldn’t write a politely worded letter, it would turn up wearing a stab vest and a clipboard. But in Westminster, the rules are apparently more like vibes, and accountability is treated like an optional extra you can remove for weight reduction.
And that’s the bit that makes people feel like they’re going mad. Because you are right, the watchdog does look toothless, and when the people at the top keep wriggling out of consequences, it tells everyone else the same message, loud and clear: the rules are for you, not for them.
The austerity excess deaths point, the pandemic point, it’s the same pattern in different outfits. Ordinary people get lectures and penalties. The powerful get process, delays, and a fresh coat of “nothing to see here”.
Scream into the abyss if you need to. Just don’t do it alone, that’s how they win. We’ll keep dragging the receipts into the daylight.
Like his mates Trump, Farridge don't do rules. 🤬
Too right Wolds,
They don’t do rules, they do vibes, volume, and plausible deniability. Then when the consequences land, it’s suddenly everyone else’s fault, plus the EU, plus a judge, plus a wokey ghost in the machine.
Inadvertent? 17 times is inadvertent? Pull the other one nige it has bells on it. You are taking the fucking piss and Westminster is letting you get away with it. So you're not computer literate nige? Tell me how do you do your Cameo messages? How do you write your bilge for the nazigraph? And then you blame someone else in your office. I have to say it makes a change to hearing you blame someone and not immigrants.
Afternoon Leg’end, Any other job and you would be out on your arse!
Exactly. How on earth can they let it slide?
Like our friend Political Satirical says, Rycroft is coming. And farage is going to find out the hard way
Too right, Janet.
And yes, we hold Political Satirical in properly high regard, they spot patterns early and they do not flinch.
As for Rycroft, quietly, his CV is not a hobbyist’s. And if all the titles, boards, and committees make your eyes water, that is normal, not a personal failing. So, is he “good at what he does”?
“Good” here mostly means trusted to run complex, high-pressure Whitehall machinery without dropping the constitutional china. On that narrow test, the fact he hit Permanent Secretary level and kept getting the heavy, constitution-soaked briefs suggests he is competent, process-literate, and steady.
Which is exactly why the loud lads who treat governance like a pub dare might find him… inconvenient.