Careless Tories!

[Geoff Parkstone]

Has Sunak totally lost it? Promoting Grant Shapps or is it Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath and Sebastian Fox? Names which he has allegedly used over the years, to defence secretary is utterly bizarre. Its his 5th cabinet post in under 12 months, which just shows you how utterly ****ed the Tories are as a party of government!. But in all his other jobs he has been utterly useless.

This post though is a critical one, it requires somebody with a degree of understanding of the Armed Forces and a semblance of competence.

But surely a man leading a military department who has many aliases is the ideal minister. They seek him here, the seek hime there, that elusive minister. My name is Schapps, Grant Green

[SithHappens]

They aren't even treading water. We need a government with a mandate to govern. You can't have 2 changes of PM and have that.

Sadly the other lot, in my opinion, don't offer much more, its why I hope at least we get a hung parliament so we get a labdem coalition.

The only downside of that is Davey would likely be deputy PM and while I don't have an issue with that it would mean Raynor loses out, and in my opinion she would make a better leader than starmer.

[ramAnag]

The only downside of that is Davey would likely be deputy PM and while I don't have an issue with that it would mean Raynor loses out, and in my opinion she would make a better leader than starmer.

Now that is an interesting and unexpected observation.
Personally I was disappointed to see Lisa Nandy ‘dropped’.

[swaledale]

And now we ahve the schools crisis where the Minister responsible moans that nobody has praised her for the "good" job she is doing and that despite being a member of the government which it seems ignored for years the need to address known issues in schools reckons its "nothing to do with her". Jeeze how do these people get to such dizzy heights?

Sunak of course is really in it, because despite his protestations, he admitted only agreeing to fund building programmes for 50 schools, when at least 200 was required and 100 were in the original programme. Not that they ahve managed the 50 a year!!

[swaledale]

The Tory party conference confirms that they can't run a piss up in a brewery!!

[Geoff Parkstone]

But they can at least cancel HS2 continuance

Hurrah

[swaledale]

But they can at least cancel HS2 continuance

Hurrah

Why hurrah? Its being built, they should as they promised build both legs to Manchester and Leeds, now they ahve wasted billions and it wont achieve what it was intended to do, which is both provide fats links and improve connectivity between North and South of the UK, and more importantly create the additional capacity on existing routes (by removing fast trains from them), for moving more freight by rail.

They have wasted billions for virtually no benefit.

[SithHappens]

What happens with the work done on the A38 South of Burton now?

[Andy_Faber]

What happens with the work done on the A38 South of Burton now?

I visited a big design firm near Birmingham about six years ago who were working on (and charging the earth for) contingencies like that for the London/Brum link so I guess they or someone has the same for the Mcr link

[ramAnag]

It’s been a huge potential ‘white elephant’ for years as many on here recognised, in an entirely ‘cross party’ way, ages ago, but Sith’s point is a good one. What the hell is to be done with all the places north of Birmingham where there has been a lot more than ‘spades in the ground’...how is it to be put right and how much will that cost us all?