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U Turns and Jobs For the Boys!
Amongst all the talk of twelve U-turns by our hopeless government over the last few months, something has been missed. As much as the hopelessness of the government U-Turns needs to be highlighted by the opposition, something else, in my opinion, is even more important. It is this. At some point around February/March time, when a global pandemic became inevitable, members of our government made a choice. They decided that if there was to be ...
Laying Off the Meat!
I am having a go at not eating meat. I have lasted 11 days but unlike other death sentence habits I have stopped in the past, I am not craving it. That said, I am not denying that the day might come where I am crawling the walls screaming “BACON SANDWICH…NOW!” Don’t worry, I haven’t started wearing dungarees or grown one of those ponytails that bald men create to pretend they are not bald; I just thought I would try it out. And ...
Gone Fishing With Mortimer & Whitehouse
When I was coming home from cricket last night, I felt inexplicably sad. It was cool and autumnal, and I had injured myself trying to play cricket. To top it off I had hit a rare shot out of the middle of the bat, only for a certain six to be caught on the boundary. I then got stung on the arse by a wasp that had taken up residence in the clubhouse. Cricket is brutal and so are wasps. Worrying Times Most of all though, it was the recogn...
Incompetence, Negligence, Deceit and Sleight of Hand
I do sometimes wonder whether this government is just taking the piss just for the fun of it. It meanders from cock up after cock up, to U-turn after U-turn and unashamed corruption on a basis daily, yet some people still try to claim they are doing a great job. As the latest cock up is distinguished by another U-turn and a grovelling apology from someone who shouldn’t be in the job, the PM is missing once again? Where is he this time? ...
Bent as a Nine Bob Note
Right, here we go then. Ayanda Capital were handed, without tender, £252 million of taxpayer’s money to supply face masks. The deal was done by Andrew Mills, an adviser to Trade Secretary Liz Truss and the Board of Trade. Coincidentally, he is also a senior board adviser at Ayanda. PPE Offshore Investment Specialists It gets better. Around 50 million of the Chinese masks supplied by Ayanda Capital had ear straps rather than head ...