Johnson’s Government

MawBroonstack, The right wingers are increasingly playing dirty, as though values and honesty don't exist. Most of those opposed to them have decent values and have been reluctant to use dirty tactics. They're beginning to wake up and realise that the only way to fight the scum is with scum.

Add another £39bn to the above spending plans so far announced by Johnson.

The latest is for HS2 or is it 3?

Well so far spending plans have reached a rattling good £90bn plus.

Good job he isn’t a Labour Leader isn’t it?

So much hot air and pearl clutching would be spent on how profligate he is.

For someone who has lately denied that there will be an election, Johnson is certainly into full electioneering mode.

Definitely gearing up for an election while he’s got the incoming new broom popularity. He won’t be able to deliver any of his marvellous promises without. Plus he can’t get away from that speech he made when Gordon Brown took over about how undemocratic it all was and demanding an election.

Boris says no election until after 31 October.

But if he can’t deliver, he’ll have to call one surely? The numbers in the HoC are not in his favour.

And talking of metrification, how come distances are still measured in miles?

I suspect that the announcement of no election is a lie.

Dominic Cummings has so far taken out 554 adverts on Facebook. Apparently rerunning the mass data-harvesting exercise that shaped the 2016 referendum.

Be very critical about what you read. Remember they are after the persuadables

They seem to have persuaded the BP supporters to vote for them, but if this doesn’t seem to be happening Johnson will forge a pact with Farage. After all they have so much in common.

message growstuff Fri 26-Jul-19 23:37:31
MawBroonstack, The right wingers are increasingly playing dirty, as though values and honesty don't exist.

Makes me feel like a haystack or Worzel Gummidge !

However well-intentioned, I am not sure why I have been privileged, or indeed singled out, with this insight

Good point Pantglas1!

I use a total mixture but my first point of call is always metric. I happy with either tbh. I have lived with both in my life but my children haven’t. My children and grandchildren use only metric and are clueless about imperial. I don’t have an issue with that either.

Clearly gearing up for trade deals with Trump and co. USA has never contemplated adopting metric system.
Not just an archaic quirk of JRM!

Just working out that some of JRM's staff will be straight out of university, he will probably have a couple of interns as well. None of them if they went to a state school will ever have used imperial measures. Maybe they still teach imperial in private schools?

WW2 'Well so far spending plans have reached a rattling good £90bn plus.

Good job he isn’t a Labour Leader isn’t it?
'

indeed, if Corbyn was making those promises, the Tories would go ballistic.

90bn plus does NOT include his other promise, to pay for the cost of Care Homes for all, so people do not have to sell house to pay. Strangely enough - he has not mentionned this once again since he made the first promise... he has probably been advised to drop it and fast, as the cost would be massive.

maths and demographics not my forte- but I do wonder if there is someone out there who could attempt calculating the cost. Say about £50000 per person in care (very low estimate)

Maw that really made me laugh.
Being singled out for that ‘insight’ and called a stack.

It will be an interesting situation if Jacob Rees Mogg tries to enforce the imperial system of measurement on the Civil Service staff. Those that have never been taught that system would undoubtedly have to go through the laid out grievance procedure as the JRM ruling could affect their productivity, and in that their advancement in their careers.

The above would then in all probability result in a ruling of staff having to take time out from their official duties to learn the imperial system, no doubt at the taxpayer's expense.

What an an absolute twit this man is, and states even more in regard to the person who appointed him to such an office.

Btw.... I have never heard of a baby’s weight being given in metric, perhaps it is in hospital, but in the ‘telling’ it’s always been in pounds and ounces.
Miles is another one, we have never adopted metric for distance here.
For money, metric makes more sense though, much simpler.

lemongrove, all heavy commercial vehicles now have their Tachographs measure distance fuel etc in metric. All cars and vans can now have in the vehicle computer system settings which can be engaged to have dashboard readings in either miles or kilometres and litres or gallons for fuel.

The world is metric these days and there is no going back with the exception of the warped mind of Jacob Rees Mogg.

I expect that he will introduce the new Manchester to Leeds rail line bill into the House of Commons with all the measurements and distances in Imperial. Therefore the Gauge Distance between the tracks will be laid out as two feet eight and a half inches, as was the standard in 1948 at the time of Nationalisation.

Care home costs around here are between £800 and £1500 per week depending upon the needs. I believe the average stay is 6 months? So, between £20800 and £39,000 for how many people? Fantasy. Going back to measurements; my children born in the mid 90s, their weight was in lbs and ounces but their length in centimetres. Fusion measures I suppose!

"Fusion measures" are still common in the construction industry which was supposed to have become metric more than fifty years ago. On site it is quite common for a chippy to ask for "1.5 metres of the 2 by 4" (meaning 2 inch by 4 inch timber).

Our business deals with building companies large, small, sole traders, architects, surveyors, electricians, plumbers etc and they all use a mixture of imperial and metric.
Nothing to do with age groups.

Estate agent's particulars tend to put room size, in feet, I have occasionally seen metres being used, I have to do a mental calculation when that's the case, I'm far more familiar with feet and inches.

I know someone who was having a house built in Morocco. He gave the room sizes he wanted in feet. The builders built it in metres. The rooms were huge!