Build Build Build Boris!

[youthleth]

Tax Tax Tax!

[PCPhil]

Tora Tora Tora

[iarmhí]

Is this the new Boris thread?

[youthleth]

Aren't the press wet blankets? Kuntsberg, peston and Beff

[Biffer]

This comparison with the New Deal is pish taking. The deal spent over 5% of GDP, multiple years in a row. £5billion is less than a quarter of one percent of GDP. If the UK was investing on the same scale as Germany it'd be nearer £80billion.

Best description I've seen of it is prostate tickling the Daily Mail Readership.

[SaintK]

This comparison with the New Deal is pish taking. The deal spent over 5% of GDP, multiple years in a row. £5billion is less than a quarter of one percent of GDP. If the UK was investing on the same scale as Germany it'd be nearer £80billion.

Best description I've seen of it is prostate tickling the Daily Mail Readership.

Comparing his spending to Roosevelt's New Deal Worth just about £100 per head!!
So full of shit, hot air and empty rhetoric

[sturginho]

so he's just reannouncing what he already said in the manifesto and hoping people don't notice?

[youthleth]

so he's just reannouncing what he already said in the manifesto and hoping people don't notice?

Looks that way.... just bringing it forward.

[Biffer]

so he's just reannouncing what he already said in the manifesto and hoping people don't notice?

Looks that way.... just bringing it forward.

Pushing some of it back. The money for affordable housing was meant to be over 5 years, now it's over 8

[The Druid]

Please Please Please.
Do not tell Bimboman about this bored.

[Biffer]

And another thing - this pish about house building being held up for 'newt counting'. It's bollocks. It's not red tape that holds up house building it's all houses being built for the same market, i.e. sale only of 2/3 bed flats and 4/5 bed houses. These twats have been cutting red tape for ten years and it's not sped anything up. Cut more environmental and planning regulations and all you get is poorer quality housing and greater profit for big home builders. If you want faster home-building then you need to have a mix of rental, sale and social housing built.

[C69]

Please Please Please.
Do not tell Bimboman about this bored.

The little bitch is complaing on PR he has been banned already

[iarmhí]

He'll be here.

Think the crowd on F365 rugby bored may suit him better

[The Druid]

Please Please Please.
Do not tell Bimboman about this bored.

The little bitch is complaing on PR hr has been banned already

Let's hope he stays in self isolation.

[Hal Jordan]

Quite a lot of people, businesses and business groups: "You should probably look to include some proper green measures as it's quite the growth area"

Johnson: "Reduced regulations and concrete all round!"

Less FDR, more Herbert Hoover mixed with Warren G. Harding.

[Paddington Bear]

The interesting element wasn't the money it was what he was saying about our planning laws. If he goes after those it will be fantastic for those of us looking to get on the housing ladder and with links to the rail industry...

[Gav]

Yes you’ll be delighted to live in your polluted, flood prone, poorly insulated hovel :thumbup

[Hal Jordan]

But Dominic and the Donors will be happy, and that's what counts.

[Matt Handincock]

Can’t see too many hospitals getting upgraded and built with a cut from the £5 billion infrastructure budget.
Looking at the €1.8 billion cost the Irish tax payer is paying for a new children’s hospital in Dublin, puts things into perspective.

[youthleth]

They built one in glasgow for half that. Granted it was full of pigeon shit and crap ventillation and started killing the patients - but it was cheap.

[Matt Handincock]

They built one in glasgow for half that. Granted it was full of pigeon shit and crap ventillation and started killing the patients - but it was cheap.

That sounds about right.

[TB63]

Build quicker, build better, he's talking out of his arse..

[.OverThere]

I had a look at the beeb to see where the old catch phrases the tories have used, to see what impact today's speech will have on these headline infrastructure projects. As HS2 has not been mentioned can we take that the Northern Powerhouse project now amounts to some bridge repairs in Sandwell + some other things?

[Uncle fester]

There's a concerning lack of Boris fellation in this thread.

[iarmhí]

There's a concerning lack of Boris fellation in this thread.

We have lost the reacharound crew to F365. That can only be a good thing.

London clique have disappeared. Just the swarm , cuntron, precious and saffas here

[iarmhí]

David Frost to be British national security adviser.

What a joke this Tory government is. A political appointment. Boris should be ashamed of himself

[salanya]

David Frost to be British national security adviser.

What a joke this Tory government is. A political appointment. Boris should be ashamed of himself

I think you need morals and some form of self-awareness or integrity to experience shame.

[Camroc2]

The BBC have absolutely filleted Boris' speech. Most unlike them to have a go at a UK PM.

https://www.bbc.com/news/53236921

[iarmhí]

The BBC have absolutely filleted Boris' speech. Most unlike them to have a go at a UK PM.

https://www.bbc.com/news/53236921

I was thinking the BBC with Laura doing the reporting were if anything pro government the last few few years.

[Camroc2]

The BBC have absolutely filleted Boris' speech. Most unlike them to have a go at a UK PM.

https://www.bbc.com/news/53236921

I was thinking the BBC with Laura doing the reporting were if anything pro government the last few few years.

Covid has found out Laura and her ilk. With face to face meetings not allowed, it's very difficult to pick up the "unattributed" leaks and chit chat that are their stock in trade as glorified gossip mongers.

[youthleth]

David Frost to be British national security adviser.

What a joke this Tory government is. A political appointment. Boris should be ashamed of himself

I think the position has only existed for 10 years, and I'm not sure which of the 4 holders hasn't been a political appointment, they'd will be remoaners anyway. May was always going to put her man in charge - guessing that's why she's so pissed off.

[Biffer]

There's a concerning lack of Boris fellation in this thread.

We have lost the reacharound crew to F365. That can only be a good thing.

London clique have disappeared. Just the swarm , cuntron, precious and saffas here

Don't forget the Scots.

Never forget the Scots.

[Biffer]

The BBC have absolutely filleted Boris' speech. Most unlike them to have a go at a UK PM.

https://www.bbc.com/news/53236921

I was thinking the BBC with Laura doing the reporting were if anything pro government the last few few years.

Covid has found out Laura and her ilk. With face to face meetings not allowed, it's very difficult to pick up the "unattributed" leaks and chit chat that are their stock in trade as glorified gossip mongers.

If it's an indication of the BBC starting to understand modern journalism is more about drilling down through the bullshit rather than relying on chummy contacts, that can only be a good thing.

[Biffer]

By the way, £5 billion is equal to about £1.50 per person per week for a year.

Both an indication of how little money it actually is on a national scale, and what a small additional tax payment from everyone might enable.

Flat banded recovery tax anyone?

<£20,000 £5/month
£20-30k £10/month
£30-50k £20/month
>£50k £30/month

Based on overall income not earned income.

Plus some kind of additional property gain tax.

[SaintK]

I wonder how he will lie his way out of this one at PMQ's today

It is 1 July, and that means we’ve hit the deadline for the government to ensure that all coronavirus test results should be available within 24 hours. Boris Johnson made this commitment at PMQs at the start of this month when he said:

"We already turn around 90% of tests within 48 hours. The tests conducted at the 199 testing centres, as well as the mobile test centres, are all done within 24 hours, and I can undertake to him now to get all tests turned around in 24 hours by the end of June, except for difficulties with postal tests or insuperable problems like that."

Johnson was speaking in response to a question from Jeremy Hunt, his main rival for the Tory leadership in 2019 and the chair of the Commons health committee, who has repeatedly saying testing in Britain is inadequate.

Today Johnson is certain to be asked if the 24 hours target is now being met. We have no real idea how close it has been to this, because the government has never published figures for what percentage of tests are completed within 24 hours. When No 10 was asked about this last week, it just said the majority of tests were completed within this timescale.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

The BBC have absolutely filleted Boris' speech. Most unlike them to have a go at a UK PM.

https://www.bbc.com/news/53236921

I was listening to the BBC earlier today, they described Boris's use of stats as wrong and misleading, this is in no way unusual (either as a descriptor of Boris or the BBC being happy to criticise a PM)

[SaintK]

The BBC have absolutely filleted Boris' speech. Most unlike them to have a go at a UK PM.

https://www.bbc.com/news/53236921

I was listening to the BBC earlier today, they described Boris's use of stats as wrong and misleading, this is in no way unusual (either as a descriptor of Boris or the BBC being happy to criticise a PM)

Fact checked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53236921

[Rhubarb & Custard]

The tree planting ambition is one that's currently being fouled up around the world, and that's seemingly an easier one to get right, and yet....

[youthleth]

By the way, £5 billion is equal to about £1.50 per person per week for a year.

Both an indication of how little money it actually is on a national scale, and what a small additional tax payment from everyone might enable.

Flat banded recovery tax anyone?

<£20,000 £5/month
£20-30k £10/month
£30-50k £20/month
>£50k £30/month

Based on overall income not earned income.

Plus some kind of additional property gain tax.

I don't think anyone earning less than £20K should be paying tax

[Titania]

There's a concerning lack of Boris fellation in this thread.

We have lost the reacharound crew to F365. That can only be a good thing.

London clique have disappeared. Just the swarm , cuntron, precious and saffas here

Don't forget the woke.
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