Penny Mordors aspiration nation, adding a few million more to those who aspire to buy their food.
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The fact is that governments can make changes and recent governments in this country have tended to let/make things get worse for the poor. But even ones who made public commitments to make them better (Tony Blair on child poverty, Gordon Brown on pensioner poverty) found it was anything but āa piece of pissā. In the case of children hereās what actually happened
(these figures are from the Child Poverty Action Group, not some dogma-driven right-wing think tank). To start with things went well. They picked off the low-hanging fruit and got the overall fraction of children in relative poverty down from 34% to about 29%. But then things started to flat-line. It turned out that improving things any further was hard. As it so often is.
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Ok thenā¦
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I donāt suppose itāll actually happen, but itās the right noisesā¦
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Superb.
The Environment Agency would not have released this unless their Cabinet Minister and the Prime Minister were essentially dear ducks.
The best response the government machine could offer was some decrepit statement from a spokesperson at DEFRA.
Canāt see DEFRA bringing any prosecutions, looking after their rich mates is the Tory way.
Will played the environment agencyš
thats why I was so surprised to see the proposal - fines have always been the way because the customers pay themā¦
No CEO would ever be prosecuted.
They should be fined one months net profit for every serious incident.
Shareholders will soon get very upset as dividends disappear when Anglian, Southern and Thames have an entire years profit wiped out.
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Before anyone else mentions it - the fact that the incidence of serious pollution in Anglia topped the table the year after I moved there is sheer coincidence. 
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Environment Agency striking while DEFRA is fucked.
CEOs should be jailed, along with a smattering of Directors. Also the Company ( shareholders) fined, think of it as punishment for employing shit CEOs.
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The punishment needs to be unshakeable - anything that can be passed on to customers is useless
thatās what the companies and their Tory chums have always relied on, and with this Gov nothing is going to change
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To be fair, itās not a uniquely Tory approach. Itās an āIām also on the board of another company, you scratch my backā approach common to all those sorts of people. Same with the pathetic attempts to reign in exec remuneration
Made me laugh
āā¦ I eventually found confirmation of my accreditation for Liz Truss in the spam folder. Perhaps my email was trying to tell me something. ā¦ā
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Itās reported that Boris Johnson could make north of Ā£1m for his memoirs. Why not make a film ?, then I remembered Billy Liar had already been made back in 1963. Late to the party again Boris.
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Boris Johnson My Part In His Downfall
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Other than newspapers, who the fuck would buy it.
He still has loads of supporters
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