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I am no fan of Marr but I am appalled by what he had to endure this evening

It feels like yet another leaf of the putrid artichoke has been peeled away and there is no going back. These are new depths and a glimpse of what is to come.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:11 pm Why don't any of the Journos respond to "Yeah but Ukraine" with "Why did Johnson ennoble an Oligarch? Why has your party consistently chased the Londongrad pound and why did you appoint a chief adviser with a record of 3 lost years in Moscow"

Or the fact that Russia hadn’t actually invaded Ukraine 2 years ago

Watchman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 8:03 am

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:11 pm Why don't any of the Journos respond to "Yeah but Ukraine" with "Why did Johnson ennoble an Oligarch? Why has your party consistently chased the Londongrad pound and why did you appoint a chief adviser with a record of 3 lost years in Moscow"

Or the fact that Russia hadn’t actually invaded Ukraine 2 years ago

Errrr... Crimea in 2014? Plus there's been skirmishes all that time along the Eastern border since.

Said it before, but he must think the high point of his life was getting his prefect badge.

It was probably stopping some terribly common little scholarship kid from getting theirs.

Lots of the civil service is hot desking, apparently. So who's away from "their desk", and how will he know when he next sees them?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:22 pm Lots of the civil service is hot desking, apparently.

Since c2003

Just contemplate it. The Brexit opportunities minister has nothing better to do than this.

Couldn't he at least have written it in Latin (badly)?

Still, all those Brexit opportunities...

...oh, wait.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:15 pm Said it before, but he must think the high point of his life was getting his prefect badge.

He's the type of sociopathic cunt that when he (hopefully) gets his eventual comeuppance of God-tier proportions, you'll display a wry smile on the outside but on the inside you'll be laughing your fucking head off.

I’m surprised he didn’t get his fag from lower school to deliver them

Fenton on Smoggy's latest jape: (warning - comment from you-know-who present)

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2022/0 ... iency.html

I particularly liked the tweet from The Secret Barrister:

“A simpering affectatious halfwit born on a pile of money, who has been handed every privilege imaginable and boasts that he is too lazy to have ever changed his own children’s nappies, is possibly not best placed to pass judgement on how hard people are working”.

A good point raised in this: the Dalek/pendulum hate-sex progeny's full title is "Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency of the United Kingdom"

At last! A Brexit opportunity! The Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency has created an opportunity for some companies to sue the Government. This would never have happened without Brexit.

Some of Britain’s biggest seaports are considering legal action against the government to recover the costs of building border control posts they fear will never be used, after confirmation that post-Brexit import checks will be delayed for a fourth time.

Physical checks on fresh food and plants from the EU were due to begin in July but have been pushed back to the end of 2023, the Brexit opportunities minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, confirmed in a written statement published on Thursday. Instead, he announced plans to digitise all checks and paperwork at the border, with a new strategy published in the autumn...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -rees-mogg

On the subject of WFH, as someone on the radio pointed out the other day "Johnson and Rees-Mogg have never actually run anything, so how would they know what's best for their employees?"

Well well well...

Downing Street’s demands that civil servants get back to the office has backfired for the Department for Education, where desk shortages have resulted in staff being sent home and others forced to work in “chaotic” conditions.

Officials working in cramped corridors or sharing desks have led to protests from civil service unions to Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, who last month ordered an end to homeworking after pressure from the efficiency minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg.

The extent of the chaos was revealed by Schools Week which reported that Susan Acland-Hood, the DfE’s permanent secretary, had ordered staff to spend 80% of their time in the office – despite the DfE having twice as many staff as desks...

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2 ... conditions

Insisting on the impossible isn't very efficient. Someone needs to inject some efficiency into the Ministry of Government Efficiency

Civil servants said the first week of the new policy was “chaotic”, with staff milling around trying to find space to sit and canteen tables being taken up. One described the DfE’s Great Smith Street office as like “a tube station in rush hour” after the new policy was implemented.

One said they had attended a meeting on a landing, describing the atmosphere as “less like the West Wing, and more like The Thick of It”.

According to Schools Week, the DfE has 4,200 desks for 8,000 full-time staff in its 12 offices across England, including just 95 desks for nearly 300 staff in Bristol, and 24 desks for 110 staff in Leeds. It reported that some staff at the DfE’s office in Sheffield had been sent home because of overcrowding, as nearly 1,500 staff tried to use the 790 desks...

An efficient man would have seen this coming

The whole principle of "hot desking" relies upon there not being full attendance...

They're really not very clever, are they?

I think their idea of 'efficiency' is a key insight into the impoverished Tory worldview: no space for counter-intuitive thinking, no space for imagination. Just 'do what you've always done, there's a good peasant'. Resulting in less-than efficient practices and outcomes. Brilliant.

Are they being kept busy? That's all that matters.