Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #3 majority 📷 You get this when the majority put their cross in the wrong box.

London petrol station charging nearly double the average price for fuel sells out - The Independent Disgusted that this petrol station is charging twice the usual price

Boris Johnson condemned for saying ‘never mind’ about cancer outcomes Johnson’s mask slips Boris Johnson has sparked outrage on the eve of the Conservative Party conference after saying “never mind” about cancer death rates and the recent fall in life expectancy. Grilled about his plans for …

One of the best lines in Kier Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday. “It’s easy to comfort yourself that your opponents are bad people. But I don’t think Boris Johnson is a bad man. I think he is a trivial man. I think he’s a showman with nothing left to show. I think he’s …

This article from The New Statesman website is a sobering read for those of us lucky enough not to worry too much about the odd £20, Will the £20 Universal Credit cut become Boris Johnson’s government’s worst decision? - New Statesman Whitehall’s own analysis finds the cut will have a …

What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about?

“This is a mad way to run the country,” confessed a member of the government. Whether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce. Bravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, …

Did they fix UK social care or just kick the can down the road?

I’m not convinced that the UK social care crisis will be fixed by the rise in NIC contributions. It sounds to me that the additional tax payable from next April, will be used to drive down the NHS backlog, which was already growing pre-pandemic. The new care reforms are slated to come into …

UK Government says polluters can dump sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment

It beggars belief that the UK government is telling businesses they can dump raw sewage into our rivers because of Brexit-related issues with the supply chain. Boris Johnson’s “Sunlit Uplands” will start to stink if this carries on much longer. This is the quote from today’s …

Finished reading

Finished reading: How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran 📚 How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. There’s a lot about post-Brexit …

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville had a message for politicians of all stripes: “The standards of leaders in this country in the last couple years has been poor. And looking at that man there that’s everything a leader should be: respectful, humble, telling the truth”.

A picture is worth 1000 words. Spotted on a hoarding in Bristol. 📷