posted on 17/6/2022 14:03Not done for a while: The week In tory - Gramsci.

 

2. As foodbank use reached 2.6 million, JRM spent £1400 per person for ministers to learn how to create a “powerful personal presence” 

3. Last year Lord Geidt, Boris Johnson’s ethics advisor – think of it as like being Shane MacGowan’s dental hygienist – had said his resignation would be a “last resort” and would only be used to send “a critical signal into the public domain”

 

4. This week he resigned 

5. Geidt said prime minister and abandoned candyfloss Boris Johnson had placed him in an “odious” position by asking him to approve (another) breach of the ministerial code

 

6. Johnson has had 2 ethics advisors, and they have both resigned over Johnson’s irredeemable behaviour 

7. John Penrose, govt anti-corruption tsar, said “You can’t just pretend it doesn’t matter”, and also quit

 

8. But the truth is, it doesn’t matter to Johnson, who is now reported to be scrapping the ethics role, meaning there will – quite literally – be no ethics in Downing St 

9. The govt’s new “cost of living” tsar was discovered to have said Johnson should resign over PartyGate and the overwhelming tsunami of other ethics breaches and corruption

 

10. He also said Johnson “lacks intelligence” 

11. Speaking of lacking intelligence, deep-cover minister for gibberish Grant Shapps was reportedly considering temporary visas for EU workers to sort out our airport chaos, which is the worst in Europe because we threw out EU workers 

12. Airlines bosses said “idiot ministers” and Brexit are to blame for the crisis

 

13. Shapps said it was cos airlines overbooked seats

 

14. So obviously Peter Bone, a child’s drawing of his vampire grandad, said the govt should deliberately overbook deportation flights Rwanda 

15. A number of things have subtly changed since the Rwanda plan was first announced by Priti Patel, a smirking, razor-faced ghoul with all the warmth and tenderness of a Klingon backstreet abortionist. I will now describe them... 

16. Patel had promised she’d only deport asylum seekers after they’d been vetted by an independent watchdog

 

17. The watchdog hasn’t been set up

 

18. She had promised children would not be deported to Rwanda

 

19. Her policy treats children the same as adults 

20. She had promised people would be processed in Rwanda and, if accepted, could return to the UK

 

21. Deportees can’t return to the UK under any circumstances

 

22. And in April she promised “tens of thousands” would be resettled. Oh is that right, Priti? 

23. By May the promise had dropped from tens of thousands to “about 300”, and at that rate it would take Patel 34 years to meet her original target

 

24. Then the promised number of deportations dropped to 50

 

25. Then to 30

 

26. Then to “fewer than 10” 

27. A govt source said “we will operate the flight even if there is just 1 person on it”

 

28. Patel said the policy was “about securing value for money”

 

29. She paid Rwanda £120 million, hired a jet at £500,000, and by this week was deporting just 7 people 

30. Patel said the policy “would act as a deterrent to people crossing the channel”

 

31. The day she announced the deterrent, 116 crossed the channel in boats

 

32.On Tuesday 260 people crossed, an increase of 124%. Excellent deterring, Priti!