You Spin Me Round - U-Turn Within a U-Turn

The government is in chaos over its pledge to legislate against LGBT conversion therapy after performing two U-turns within the space of a few hours yesterday.

The Enemy Within

 

Yesterday a clip was widely circulated on social media to frame a narrative of Boris Johnson being snubbed at the NATO summit.

Certain sections of the media and various "celebrities", with an axe to grind against the Tories/Boris, chose to use it to frame their own political narrative.

The list of shame includes, but was not limited to:

- The Independent

- The BBC

- Channel 4 News

- The Mirror

- Nigel Farage

- Deborah Meaden etc

Danny Baker, to his credit, realised he had been duped and apologised:

'We can't just bend the news to suit our views' Danny Baker (who withdrew the edited video)

— Sir Trapper 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 (@ArtsTrapper) March 25, 2022

Here is the reality 

President Biden Meets With NATO Allies In Brussels https://t.co/DeAEiJw9s4 pic.twitter.com/lYIQqJqIhh

— Forbes (@Forbes) March 24, 2022

The media do themselves and the country no favours by deliberately misleading people in this way, especially when we are on the verge of war with Russia.

Boris Leads The Free World

 

Kremlin declares UK PM Johnson as the “most active anti-Russian leader”

— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) March 24, 2022

Rishi's Thin Gruel Satisfies No One

 

Rishi's thin gruel has not pleased anyone (including the papers and Tory MPs)

- Fuel duty cut by 5p 

- the threshold at which people start to pay NI will rise by £3,000 to £12,570

- basic rate of income tax to be cut from 20p to 19p by the end of this parliament

- VAT will be removed from green home renovations eg heat pumps/solar panels. 

All this to cover the largest fall in living standards since the mid 50's!

The cost of the lockdowns and chaotic energy markets are coming home to roost.

As to whether more should have been done to help those facing a bleak financial year is open to debate. However, when the government proactively makes things worse (eg via green taxes and NI rises) it should be well and truly lambasted.

The fact is that the British state needs a massive overhaul viz:

- the civil service is next to useless, and is incapable of handling real time events and crises.

- the Met has reverted to the bad old days of the 70's wrt corruption and loss of trust of the public

- our energy policy is an utter shambles (a mishmash of wannabe green initiatives that will be paid for by the hapless taxpayers)

- education is chaotic and politicised in the classroom

- defence has been cut to the bone, at a time when it needs to be ramped up

- the NHS is a failed organisation not fit for purpose

- migration controls are non existent etc

Quite simply, the Tories are failing to act like Conservatives at a time when people desperately need them to act like Conservatives!

Angela Rayner's Car Crash Interview

 

Here is the clip for those asking.

Thanks Chris Steve for downloading. pic.twitter.com/ZwAGmqYucp

— Tommy Gribbin (@TommyGribbin) March 22, 2022

The Addams Family Shamed

 

Zelensky To Address The Commons at 17:00

 

President Zelensky of Ukraine will address the Commons at 17:00 today.

His speech will be shown on screens installed in the chamber, and some 500 headsets will be handed out so MPs can hear a live translation. 

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle says:

 “Every parliamentarian wants to hear directly from the president, who will be speaking to us live from Ukraine, so this is an important opportunity for the House.”