Current Affairs
Christmas Comedy
On Christmas Day, millions of people across the globe put Netflix on the TV to watch Ricky Gervais’s new stand up routine. Gervais is making millions and millions from these shows, allowing him a string of “I don’t care, I’m loaded” jokes that Billy Connolly perfected decades ago. It’s a clever way of getting the audience onside. Micky Flanagan does it as well but in a far funnier way than Gervais, in my opinion. From The Office ...
The Movement of Employment Mystery
I spent some time reading about work visa applications last night. I’m afraid you are going to have to look it up yourself as it is ridiculously confusing. It looks like it has been hashed together at the breakfast table of a year one business studies student forced into going to university by status obsessed parents. “Did I tell you Connor is at Oxford (Brooks). That boy is soooo clever”. The Skills Reversal Scheme Connor should ...
The Tax Bribe – Can it Work?
The UK government is having a hard time at the moment. As it frantically tries to make an impact in the opinion polls, nothing appears to be working for them. In metaphorical terms they are like a football team embarking on a series of shots from 40 yards that are hitting the corner flag. The Rwandan policy was too racist even for racists, and the pathetic attempt to ban peace marches was ridiculed by the Met Police, who so often in ...
Planes to Rwanda – Yeah That’ll Work
When the UK government put together the Rwandan refugee plan, they must have known it was illegal. Someone would have advised them that there would be a legal challenge and they would lose. So, why did they do it? Why did they waste £160 million on a ‘cash for humans’ scheme that was never going to work? I am only an amateur observer but it looks to me that there were two reasons. Red meat to throw to their far right voting base, and ...
Desperate Sunak Praying for Short Memories
If nothing else, by employing David Cameron, Rishi Sunak got the embarrassment of ever employing Suella Braverman out of the headlines. Could it be that the man who allegedly fucked the head of a pig, is being used as a dead cat? It’s more likely that, whilst it was a handy distraction, Sunak thinks Cameron is useful. It depends, I suppose, what is regarded as useful. If you were to compare Cameron to the outgoing Suella Braverman, I guess ...