[Youngian]

No views published on his Wiki biog except this hobby horse of his. Seems a very pedestrian journeyman, otherwise. Perhaps this is his original thought and is cherishing it.

During a debate on International Men's Day, Fletcher has blamed traditionally male roles being given to females as a reason for men being more likely to commit suicide and making up the majority of prisoners in England

[Youngian]

In search of local male role models from Doncaster is this actor. Playing a very similar role to Nick Fletcher.

12 famous people who are all from Doncaster

Thomas Howes
Thomas, 33, was trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is best known for having played the role of William Mason, the second footman in ITV's Downton Abbey. https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/he ... HVrM0syOXA.

[The All New KevS]

If I was a cynic of course, I'd say CCHQ told Nick Fletcher to come out with that Gallifreyan related nonsense so we weren't talking about 31 people who drowned yesterday.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think the dead cat theory is overrated, And anyway, hardly anyone who votes Bluekip is going to blame the UK for the drownings, They'll agree with Patel that it's the fault of France.

[kreuzberger]

I might be wrong, but Kev's tongue seemed so far in his cheek that it crossed in to a different time zone...

[satnav]

Wasn't the whole international men's day debate thing the brain child of Philip Davies about 5 years ago? At the time it was a bit of a joke but I think the joke is now wearing a bit thin.

[The All New KevS]

It'd be terrible if someone told someone else they knew about the Fletcher gaffe, wouldn't it? Especially if that someone else was a Twitch streamer from Los Angeles who has now retweeted it to their 25k global followers.

*Walks away whistling innocently*

[The Weeping Angel]

I might be wrong, but Kev's tongue seemed so far in his cheek that it crossed in to a different time zone...

I think he is being tongue in cheek but Tubbs is right that dead cat is overrated.

[Bones McCoy]

Alexander's prompter is reaching for the bolt gun

[MisterMuncher]

I think the dead cat theory is overrated, And anyway, hardly anyone who votes Bluekip is going to blame the UK for the drownings, They'll agree with Patel that it's the fault of France.

It's France's fault they're dead, but they'll give Boris credit they didn't get here

[Youngian]

If the beaches of Kent were covered in razor wire and ruled out of bounds, how many of these blowhards would sacrifice days at the seaside with the grandchildren as a price worth paying?

[Cyclist]

Collapsed energy supplier Bulb Energy appears to have used its role advising ministers on green business to exaggerate its own environmental credentials, while playing down rivals’ progress.
Bulb’s chief executive, Hayden Wood, used a meeting of the Council for Sustainable Business (CSB), attended by key government officials and MPs, to highlight its green progress ahead of the Cop26 climate talks and boast about £4.5m it has donated to organisations fighting climate change.

Now he's picking our pockets with government blessing

Bulb this week became the biggest energy supplier casualty of the gas price spike, when it was taken over by the British government via a so-called “special administration”. That means the effective nationalisation of the company, which has 1.7m customers, and could cost the taxpayer more than £1.7bn over the winter, as the government underwrites its power purchases.

Wood, 38, who co-founded Bulb in 2015, is still running the company during the administration on a salary believed to be £113,000 – something that has stoked further controversy given that he was the architect of Bulb’s meteoric but heavily loss-making growth...

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/20 ... nst-rivals

For a party of fiscal responsibility they ain't arf free with taxpayers' money.

[Boiler]

Whatever happened to the "if you fail, you fail and that's that" of capitalism?

[Cyclist]

And all those Bulb customers aren't stuck with no electricity - it's never been easier to switch suppliers.

[Bones McCoy]

Whatever happened to the "if you fail, you fail and that's that" of capitalism?

It was always bullshit, and only applied if you got sacked form MacDonalds (or similar tier jobs).

[Andy McDandy]

Wingnut welfare. Uncle Monty's holiday letting policy. Too big to fail. Etc.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What Dr Dunc said.

[Bones McCoy]

Googled NHS reserves, and got a page advising NHS staff on joining the TA.

I think they need to pick a more distinct name.

[mattomac]

“We treat foreign people like shit and they don’t want to come here anymore…..”

“We for some reason about three years ago removed the nursing bursary”

All much more accurate than whatever Javvid is bleating.

[Boiler]

Covid bereaved families 'sickened' over No 10 Christmas party (links to BBC)

And yet this will bounce off them as though they're covered in PTFE with a side order of molybdenum disulphide and graphite sprinkled on top.