The Tory whips office is now claiming that the MP concerned (Brandon Lewis) was asked to vote in error. There is no mention of whether Lewis gently reminded the whip that he was paired. I think we can draw our own conclusion from that.

 

Indeed: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chief-wh...deals-r5rv59fm3

Jeremy Hunt ha been in Beijing trying to suck up to the Chinese. He tied to endear himself to his Chinese counterpart by telling him that he has a Japanese wife. This will have come as news to Mrs Hunt who is Chinese.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45004765

As someone pointed out on Twitter, Jeremy Hunt speaks fluent Mandarin. It would be absolutely hilarious if it turns out that he thought that he was learning Japanese all this time.

Jeremy Hunt ha been in Beijing trying to suck up to the Chinese. He tied to endear himself to his Chinese counterpart by telling him that he has a Japanese wife. This will have come as news to Mrs Hunt who is Chinese.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45004765

 

well, he's made a career out of denying reality, no reason to change now.....

http://uk.businessinsider.com/liam-fox-int...7?r=US&IR=T

 

They aren't even pretending anymore. Bye bye NHS. Nice knowing you.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/liam-fox-int...7?r=US&IR=T

 

They aren't even pretending anymore. Bye bye NHS. Nice knowing you.

 

The NHS is safe, for the simple reason that getting rid of it would inevitably result in a landslide win for Labour.

The NHS is safe, for the simple reason that getting rid of it would inevitably result in a landslide win for Labour.

 

naive.

 

You don't ANNOUNCE you are slowly killing the NHS, you just do it gradually over a period of years and siphon off profits into private companies because the NHS have no option but to use them. Private hospitals use the NHS for expensive operations they cant deal with. This is a fact of life. It costs them nothing. The NHS uses private hospitals to cut down waiting lists. It costs them shitloads.

NHS access costs for private patients are really nothing? Trusts need to Group together across all 4 constituent countries and set a common and realistic access cost for private healthcare providers.

 

I wish we had a decent health secretary. We should have a joint ministerial council for health and social care, we should be sharing best practices across the country, we should be sharing procurement wherever possible.

 

Just because health is a devolved issue doesn’t mean we cannot come up with a pan-UK solution to some issues. NHS Scotland is a central purchasing office for the trusts for example, out trusts are geographically quite large and cover a larger number of hospitals and facilities and thus reducing management expenditure. I’ve said it before but we need a restructure in England. There’s like 6 NHS trusts in Greater Manchester alone. Why?!? Just give us one ffs.

Private Eye seem to believe private hospitals just bundle them off to the NHS. Even if they paid (which would be arguable since the person concerned is still contributing towards the NHS in taxes) they would still come out of it at a profit since they arent having to keep highly-paid skilled staff on standby for complex procedures for relatively small numbers of people with specialist problems. So you are basically paying for faster service on more common procedures, better and more comfortable surroundings, but secure in the knowledge that the NHS is always there as a backstop. Ironically, some private patients end up delaying on vital procedures compared to if theyd gone straight to the NHS in the first place. Apparently!

The Tories now have less members nationally than the SNP do!

The Tories now have less members nationally than the SNP do!

 

that should bode well with Aaron Banks attempts to infiltrate and turn them into UKIP in much the same way as Momentum has warmly embraced former Militant members, so we can have 2 extreme parties and nothing in the middle. fabulous.

A Tory MP is introducing a Private Member's Bill which would force people to pay to visit their GP. Which Tory MP? Christopher Chope, Remember him? He's the one wh usually objects to all Private Members' Bills on principle, including the one that would have made up skirting an offence.

Remarkable admissions from Cabinet Minister Karen Bradley. In an interview, Karen Bradley admitted that she was completely ignorant of how politics work in Northern Ireland, stating -

 

“I freely admit that when I started this job, I didn’t understand some of the deep-seated and deep-rooted issues that there are in Northern Ireland, I didn’t understand things like when elections are fought, for example, in Northern Ireland – people who are nationalists don’t vote for unionist parties and vice versa. So, the parties fight for election within their own community.

 

“Actually, the unionist parties fight the elections against each other in unionist communities and nationalists in nationalist communities.”

 

Now I'm perfectly used to people outside of NI not understanding the political system here, one suspects that Great Britain views Northern Ireland as the ingrown toenail of the United Kingdom. But Karen Brady isn't just anyone. Let's not forget, she's the ruddy SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND.

Yes, she’s admitted to not knowing something that I’d sussed out before I was old enough to vote. It’s a reminder of the (almost certainly apocryphal) story of a new Secretary of State being shown a map of Northern Ireland. The civil servant points out that the predominantly Catholic areas have been coloured green with the Protestant areas orange. The minister nods wisely before asking “What about that big blue area?” “That, minister,” replies the civil servant, “is Lough Neagh”.

Remember those impact assessments Davey Davy said were being prepared? You know, the ones that suddenly didn't exist until, miraculously, they did exist again. Guess who hasn't read them? That's right, his successor at DExEU, Dominic Raab. You really do get the impression that the Cabinet are afraid of being sacked if they show the slightest sign of having even the vaguest clue about their departmental area.

And we now have an example of what sort of changes the government might make with the powers they have granted themselves to change the law without having to worry about trivial matters such as winning a vote in parliament.

 

Many countries insist that visitors have at least six months left on their passport when they enter. One major exception is that EU rules prevent member states applying that rule to each other. In order to avoid people having to renew their passport early and, effectively lose six months' validity each time, you can renew your passport up to nine months early and have the unexpired time added to your new passport. Or rather, you could. The government has abolished that rule without actually telling anyone.

 

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2018...ter-than-expec/

Oh that shower of utter c**ts. I’ve just entered my last 6 months and am not renewing while in Germany coz that’s a pain but was planning on renewing over Christmas when I get back. f*** that. I’ll cling on until it’s on it’s dying days and then renew

Oh that shower of utter c**ts. I’ve just entered my last 6 months and am not renewing while in Germany coz that’s a pain but was planning on renewing over Christmas when I get back. f*** that. I’ll cling on until it’s on it’s dying days and then renew

 

But if you renew now then you'll have an EU passport and not a blue abomination.

 

If I hold off until Feb I’ll still have an EU passport that I’ll gladly have for the full decade just to piss off brexicunts

But if you renew now then you'll have an EU passport and not a blue abomination.

 

Mine is valid until 2025- it's not worth renewing it, I'm just hoping everything will have reverted back by then.

 

I see that UK driving licences won't be valid in the EU either which is going to be a complete shitshow..