UK Politics Thread

sausy wrote: Been working on loans under the UK business bounce back scheme for the past couple of days. f**k me this is going to be a sh1t show in the future. Little to no credit assessment by the lenders as 100% guaranteed by the UK government. Who knows how easy or difficult it will be to call in the guarantee when a high percentage of these loans go bad.   https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/ourpartners/coronavirus-business-interruption-loan-schemes/bounce-back-loans/for-businesses-and-advisors/

That was the point of them wasn't it, the banks weren't really supposed to be deciding what SMEs got credit as the government didn't want the banks to be just sorting out their friends.

Johnson is totally brutal as a leader. Listened to some of his press conference there. He literally can barely string a coherent sentence together.

Nissan are closing their EU plant in Spain and investing in their non EU plant in the UK.

Edited by Jackal - 28 May 2020 at 7:30pm

Why would they do that when it would mean huge tariffs on cars made in Sunderland sold in the EU?

newrynyuk wrote: Why would they do that when it would mean huge tariffs on cars made in Sunderland sold in the EU?

deise316 wrote: newrynyuk wrote: Why would they do that when it would mean huge tariffs on cars made in Sunderland sold in the EU? especially being located in an area that suffers from high unemployment and has recently turned Tory

I saw this. Surprising to see it in the Spectator given their political leanings and the position of Mary Wakefield ( DC's wife ) as commissioning editor there. The Spectator has been put in a bind due to her recent article contradicting significant elements of her husband's account of his recent adventures. They now have to print a justification re the accuracy of Mary's article and that will be more fun when it happens. The article about Bojo is certainly accurate. He has been truly awful now that he has been exposed to the job, it will all get a lot worse and the Tories will discard him in due course as they do not tolerate leaders who become liabilities. Cummings has become the story himself rather than " a Government source" peddling the narratives of his choice and his days are numbered. Daily Mail is saying he will be gone in six months and would be sooner if they didn't need him to navigate Brexit. If he does go within the year, don't bet on Johnson lasting any longer himself. Downing Street's Wizard Of Oz will no longer have a curtain to hide behind.

Certainly Gove would be their highest placed source ( via his wife Sarah Vine who is one of their columnists ).

Yeah, saw this one in yesterday's Observer, excellent article by Nick Cohen. The exposure of the lie Cummings told about the warning he claimed to have given on coronaviruses and the urgent need to plan for them should be enough to get anyone the sack. It took a fact checker in Cologne to reveal that the claim was bogus and that retrospective editing had been done on a blog.That aside, the bullsh*t about the eyesight testing and all the rest of it, and the arrogance of the twat holding court in the rose garden, has caused massive and lasting damage. The only Tory MPs that are not up in arms about it all are those on the Ministerial payroll ( but not all of them, even ) and a handful of sycophants who have an eye on promotion if they lick arse. Shocking series of misjudgements by Bojo and you do wonder just how much dirt Dom has got on him.