The state of the UK

[rainbow]

You know what they say - what the UK does in the spring the Netherlands will do in the autumn.

In your dreams.

It takes years for the Dutch to catch up.

With whom?

Try to pay attention

[Scot Dutchy]

What is your argument? Your are accepting a premise that I dont especially when the reverse is true and also the UK will never catch up now thanks to Brexit.

[rainbow]

What is your argument?

"It takes years for the Dutch to catch up. "

Can't you read?

[Scot Dutchy]

What is your argument?

"It takes years for the Dutch to catch up. "

Can't you read?

Where is your evidence to justify that claim?

[rainbow]

What is your argument?

"It takes years for the Dutch to catch up. "

Can't you read?

Where is your evidence to justify that claim?

They wear wooden shoes.



Deny it!

[Scot Dutchy]

Do in the UK and many countries.

Clogs

We just made them into a tourist attraction.

[laklak]

Shoes are for weak-soled white people.

[Brian Peacock]

Shoes are the sampans which sail your soul to Satan.

[Scot Dutchy]

Once again corruption. The UK lives off it.

Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson arrested in fraud investigation

Labour mayor among five detained as part of police inquiry into building contracts in city

The mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has been arrested as part of a fraud investigation and suspended from the Labour party.

Anderson, who has led Liverpool for a decade, was one of five men arrested across Merseyside on Friday in an investigation into building and development contracts in the city. He is being interviewed by police on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.

Merseyside police have not named any of the men arrested, but the Guardian has been told by several sources that the 62-year-old mayor is one of those being held.

A Liverpool city council spokeswoman said: “Liverpool city council is cooperating with Merseyside police in relation to its ongoing investigation. We do not comment on matters relating to individuals.”

The others arrested are: a 72-year-old man from Aigburth, on suspicion of witness intimidation; a 33-year-old man from West Derby, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation; a 46-year-old man from Ainsdale, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation; and a 25-year-old man from Ormskirk, on suspicion of witness intimidation.

BROWN ENVELOPES

[Brian Peacock]

Surprise surprise. And the Tories were praising him a few weeks ago while they were pitting the regions against each other.

[Seabass]

Not sock, moving on from being bad to the bone, towards a higher purpose. What that purpose is? You must know these are unusual times and they require unusual intellects. Almighty death defeated.

[Scot Dutchy]

I would not say corruption is taking hold but it has a firm grip

Under Boris Johnson, corruption is taking hold in Britain

Cronyism is rife, our system of checks and balances is being dismantled, and ordinary people will soon start to suffer

Many people view the government’s handling of Covid-19 and the Brexit negotiations as incompetent and lacking common sense. But beneath all the controversies about test and trace, PPE and deal or no deal, what if there is an ideological agenda being cunningly and cynically executed during this time of crisis?

Boris Johnson once described Covid-19 as an “invisible mugger”. I’m starting to wonder if that is how we will come to see his government’s impact on our country. That’s because Johnson has used his parliamentary majority, and the Conservatives’ innumerable business and media friends, to systematically relieve us of our democratic checks and balances, and even our freedoms.

Consider Johnson’s actions: he’s been willing to resort to emergency legislation to avoid awkward questions or debate in the House of Commons; clauses in the internal market bill would have allowed him to break international law; his covert intelligence bill (known as the “licence to kill” bill) implicitly permits undercover agents to break the law if they perceive a threat to national security.

Further to this, he has used hundreds of statutory instruments (which allow him to evade parliamentary scrutiny), and introduced a judicial review, aimed at denying access to the courts for those who wish to challenge the government, and giving the prime minister the power to appoint judges. And now he has set up a review of the Human Rights Act. In addition to all these, Johnson has taken powers on himself under the Coronavirus Emergency Act – a power grab on a scale unseen in this country for 400 years.

A true undemocratic system.

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, but she's that nasty woman who tried to get Brexit stopped, so "Nyurrr!"

[Scot Dutchy]

Yeah, but she's that nasty woman who tried to get Brexit stopped, so "Nyurrr!"

Not all of us are perfect

[laklak]

Perfection would be boring. That's why I have a small mole on my left ass cheek.