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Are these the reasons Rishi Sunak won’t call an immediate general election?

Even if he has, he won’t.

Torsten Bell, of the Resolution Foundation, has it right – I think.

In his latest email he states, of the possibility that Rishi Sunak might call a general election, that “If you’re running the country you don’t call an early one after those kind of by-elections results, no matter how many squillions of pounds a racist might have given you for a campaign.”

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There may also be other reasons for waiting to call an election, as described below:

It’s all about greed with the Tories, isn’t it?

Whatever happened to public service.


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The Tory government is deliberately obstructing compensation for Windrush scandal – and other – victims

This ship has sailed: it seems that hopes of the Windrush generation to be compensated for being victimised by the Home Office are disappearing over the horizon, like the ship that brought them here so many decades ago.

Here’s what’s going on:

This Writer understands that the government stole – that’s right, call it what it is:  stole – £4 billion from WASPI women who died before they could be compensated for the harm done to them by raising the state pension age.

That’s enough to plug the gap in local council funding, but – how strange! – the money isn’t going there either!

Are you angry yet? If so, you’re not nearly angry enough.

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Now, Age UK is reporting that the Windrush generation is being failed by the Home Office yet again, with 87 per cent of people who deserve compensation still waiting for it.

Still not angry?

When will you want action about this? When the government harms you instead? 


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Tories (allegedly) delay compensating sub-postmasters – for electoral gain?

Sub-postmasters: if Mr Staunton’s claim is correct, then the Tory government has been lying about wanting to do right by them.

The now-former chairman of Post Office Ltd has claimed the government asked him to “stall” payouts to sub-postmasters so they could “limp” into the next general election with “the lowest possible financial liability”.

The Sunday Times seemed to have the story first:

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Here’s a snippet from that story:

This Writer couldn’t find the Sunday Times piece online but this is from the GB News version of the same story:

The former chairman went on to allege that he was instructed by a senior civil servant to stall on compensation payments to the Horizon victims so that the government could “limp into the election” later this year with the lowest possible financial liability.

He told the Times: “Early on, I was told by a fairly senior person to stall on spending on compensation and on the replacement of Horizon, and to limp, in quotation marks — I did a file note on it — limp into the election.

“It was not an anti-postmaster thing, it was just straight financials.

“I didn’t ask, because I said, ‘I’m having no part of it – I’m not here to limp into the election, it’s not the right thing to do by postmasters.’ The word ‘limp’ gives you a snapshot of where they were.”

Badenoch’s department have denied the claims and referred to the conversation as “simply incorrect”.

That’s all very well.

But here’s a little lateral thinking on the subject:

That seems to be the size of it.

But I’m curious as to the meaning of this idea that the Tory government would be going into the next election with the “lowest possible financial liability”.

It isn’t as though the Tories would be paying from party funds, making them less able to campaign.

So what’s the fuss about?


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Are these Tory hypocrites delaying election so they can keep their limousines longer?

Snout in the trough (all right – bucket): the Conservatives.

In answer to the headline: apparently so:

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So they campaigned for election on a ticket that included stopping politicians from parading around the country in taxpayer-funded limousines, and now they want to delay the next election so they can continue parading around the country in taxpayer-funded limousines for as long as possible.

Tory hypocrites.


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Shocking delays at English A&E departments are endangering lives

Making them wait and wait: This was a corridor in an English hospital’s Accident & Emergency department in early 2017 – and now the situation is worse.

You know how Tory prime ministers from David Cameron onwards have loved to tell us their increasingly-privatised English health system is so much better than those in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland?

(But most particularly Wales?)

Well, it turns out NHS England hasn’t been that good after all – and is worsening at an alarming rate.

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Here’s The Guardian:

A record 420,000 patients had to wait more than 12 hours in A&E last year, analysis has shown.

The latest NHS England figures revealed a 20% increase on 2022 in people facing lengthy delays after a decision to admit them to hospital from the emergency department.

In 2023, 419,560 people – or one in 15 A&E patients – faced “trolley waits” of 12 hours or more, according to the Liberal Democrats, who compiled the analysis. It marks by far the highest number since records began in 2011, and amounts to an average of 1,150 patients a day.

The party also pointed to a postcode lottery, with almost half of patients of some trusts, such as the North Middlesex university hospital trust, waiting more than half a day.

Significant waits in A&E have been linked to excess deaths and increased harm to patients, as their condition could deteriorate before they are admitted or given a bed on a ward.

The Department of Health and Social Care has claimed it is already cutting A&E waits and ambulance response times – but if its figures are as disappointing as its claimed increase in hospital beds, then the improvement will be nowhere near enough.

A spokesperson told the Graun that the DHSE was “on track” to deliver an extra 5,000 permanently-staffed hospital beds this winter. But since the Tories took over NHS England in 2010, they have taken out of active service 17,767 beds.

That’s the problem, right there. If there aren’t enough permanent staff to bring the full, nearly 18,000, beds back on line, that’s because the Tories have been discouraging people from training with exorbitant fees, or discouraging them from staying with contemptuous pay offers.

And what about this, from the same newspaper, a couple of months ago?

NHS bosses are using misleading figures to hide dangerously poor performance by A&E units in England against the four-hour treatment target, emergency department doctors claim.

Some A&Es treat and admit, transfer or discharge as few as one in three patients within four hours, although the NHS constitution says they should deal with 95% of arrivals within that timeframe.

How well or poorly A&Es are doing in meeting the 95% target is not in the public domain because the data that NHS England publishes is for NHS trusts overall, not individual hospitals.

That means official figures are an aggregate of performance at sometimes two A&Es run by the same trust or include data for any walk-in centres, minor injuries units or urgent treatment centres that a trust also operates. Forty-eight trusts have two A&Es and many also run at least one of the latter.

So the DHSE has been lying to us about the performance of individual A&E units in England.

And then successive prime ministers have spouted DHSE figures at us during PMQs every Wednesday.

Is it too much to ask for a breakdown of performance at every individual A&E unit in England – to ascertain the genuine facts about them? In an election year, I fear it may be.

Source: Record 420,000 patients in England had ‘more than 12 hour wait’ in A&E last year | NHS | The Guardian


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Is the Post Office holding up efforts to clear the names of wrongly-convicted staff?

One aspect of the Post Office Scandal that This Writer does not understand is why the sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted haven’t already had their names cleared by the courts and been awarded large compensation packages.

What’s the hold-up?

The BBC is suggesting that lengthy court cases have to take place:

Ministers could advise the King to grant Royal Pardons, once reserved for the condemned as they faced the gallows.

But these would be largely symbolic acts because the government can’t, at the stroke of a pen, quash a conviction. That’s because the courts are constitutionally independent – and that means a second option could be difficult too.

Parliament could pass an act declaring that all the Horizon convictions be quashed, but that would be an unprecedented meddling in the work of judges – and it would pave the way for politicians to do it again.

The third option is a mass appeal with a crystal clear submission to Court of Appeal judges that the state no longer believes the convictions should stand. There’s a precedent for this – 39 post office cases were overturned in one go in 2021.

But running such a case would not be easy – and it could still take years to resolve.

Why is any of this necessary?

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The case that sub-postmasters were wrongly-accused, en masse, has already been proved in court.

In that case, even if one or two had been fiddling the figures – and there is no ground for believing that any of them were (unless because they were trying to make them present an accurate account of the financial situation in their branches), then the charges against them should be cleared en masse.

There is a famous principle in justice, known as Blackstone’s ratio, which states that

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

And the message that government and the courts must err on the side of bringing in verdicts of innocence has remained constant throughout UK legal history since Anglo-Saxon times.

So what’s holding everything up?

To This Writer’s way of thinking, it can only be that Post Office Limited is dragging its feet. Is this firm saying it won’t allow all the wronged sub-postmasters to be exonerated in case one or two villains go free? That flies in the face of Blackstone and against natural justice; the Post Office was at fault and the Post Office should rectify it.

But I wonder whether there is another reason for the Post Office’s reluctance.

Is it because exonerating hundreds of former sub-postmasters would mean the money they were wrongly forced to pay to the firm to “balance” their accounts would have to be paid back – and that they would all have to be compensated?

Tough. The Post Office’s executives and owner – that’s the UK government, by the way – should have thought of that before.

One sticking-point is that this would mean the public purse would foot the bill, and it is not right that the people of the UK – including the wronged sub-postmasters – should pay this compensation.

It seems to me that, if anybody should pay, it should be the individuals within the Post Office’s hierarchy at the time who made the decision to prosecute people they knew at the time were innocent – and it should be Fujitsu, the corporation that produced software that was faulty and insecure, and whose employees (allegedly) used the system’s insecure nature to break into sub-postmaster’s accounts and fraudulently make it appear that they had stolen money.

If that allegation is true, then it is Fujitsu that caused the problem. It has plenty of cash to splash because, years after the facts became clear, the UK’s Tory government is still giving that firm billions of pounds for its worthless products.

To me, the way forward is clear: establish with the Post Office the principle that all sub-postmasters who were prosecuted because of Horizon should be exonerated and that “fast-track” cases should be put before the courts for that purpose, uncontested by the firm.

Then, establish with the Post Office and Fujitsu the principle that they must pay back the money that was wrongly taken from sub-postmasters, and provide appropriate compensation. Fujitsu will almost certainly protest in the courts, so a counter-measure against delaying actions may need to be established also.

Perhaps that’s a naive reading of the situation, but it seems a clearer course of action than anything being put forward by those in a position to act.

What do you think should be done?


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Who’s paying Rishi Sunak to delay Net Zero policies?

This is fine: Rishi Sunak will burn down not only your house but your country and planet if he thinks he can get something out of it.

Rishi Sunak has hastily announced delays to headline Tory ‘Net Zero’ policies in what’s being called an attempt to create dividing lines between his government and opposition parties.

That indicates two things to This Writer, immediately:

Firstly, he has realised that Keir Starmer’s Labour really is a Substitute Tory Party now – and is afraid that, untarnished by 13 years of disastrous policies that have failed the people of the UK, that STP will seize power and start taking money from the donors who have been paying him.

Secondly, creating dividing lines between his govenrment and other parties is a pathetically weak excuse for scrapping policies designed to save us from climate meltdown. Is there an ulterior motive – connected with cash from fossil fuel or automotive firms?

The rationalisations simply don’t ring true. According to the BBC:

The government could not impose “unacceptable costs” linked to reducing emissions on British families, he said.

But what is the direct cost to the public of banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030? Why are electric vehicles assumed to be more expensive?

It’s not as if the national grid won’t be able to take the strain; we already have an assurance that it will:

Why is fossil fuel heating for off-gas-grid homes being extended by nine years, to 2035? Who complained – families who will have been planning to change their systems, or fossil fuel firms?

Why do poorer households require an exemption from the ban on the sale of new gas boilers in 2035? Won’t they just get something else and stretch out the payments to make them affordable as necessary? Isn’t that how such changes have always been managed in the past?

And why are landlords being let off a requirement to ensure all rental properties have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of grade C or higher, from 2025? That’s not helping poor people but rich landlords!

Raising the Boiler Upgrade Grant by 50 per cent to £7,500 to help households who want to replace their gas boilers appears to be the only sensible idea in the package.

Put it all together and the winners are the car companies, the fossil fuel firms and landlords – not the poor. Even if these corporate and business concerns aren’t actually handing over money to the Tories, one has to question what pressure they have exerted here.

Sunak himself went on the record to say democratic debate is required. But who did he ask to contribute to that debate before coming up with these decisions that will profit the polluters?

Remember: converting to renewable energy will be cheaper for the consumer. As Ash Sarkar points out in the clip immediately below (in spite of Andrea Jenkyns and her ignorance), fossil fuel supplies from abroad are subject to price shocks; home-produced energy won’t be:

The changes announced now – with more said to be on the way later in the autumn – mean uncertainty, not only for the public but for industry as well. Jamie Driscoll makes an excellent point about that:

Among the future announcements is said to be a refusal to tax air fares in order to discourage flying. Here’s why that is bad:

Still, what can you expect from an “ivory tower” Tory like Sunak who flies to the vast majority of his foreign engagement in a private jet that is 14 times more polluting than normal flights?

What’s really interesting is the implication that Sunak was pushed into delaying the ban on the sale of fossil fuel vehicles by Liz Truss – and the possibility that his fellow Tories are upset about it and may try to oust him because of it:

The headline on this article suggests that Sunak might be taking money somehow, in order to induce him to make these changes. The suggestion that his own MPs may try to push him out of Downing Street because of it makes this seem more likely.

I would sincerely like to be mistaken, for an obvious reason:

A bit of extra cash for one avaricious toad of a man is no justification for condemning a population to climate change hell.


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Heartbreak for Jacob Rees-Mogg as ‘retained EU law’ bill is delayed indefinitely

Jacob Rees-Mogg: he’s probably furious about this.

A proposed law to ditch thousands of regulations because they were imposed when the UK was part of the European Union has been delayed indefinitely.

The Retained EU Law Bill had already had its progress through the House of Lords paused indefinitely.

But there was an expectation that most of the laws that were copied into the UK statute book after Brexit would vanish at the end of the year.

Then, after it was revealed that the number of regulations affected runs into the thousands – 4,800 so far, allegedly – concerns were voiced that important legislation might be thrown away by accident.

And now it seems the cut-off point will be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to ditch by the end of the year.

Some of us see it as the end of the plan to drop the axe on these laws – and are heaving collective sighs of relief:

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the Retained EU Law Bill to Parliament, may well be heartbroken.

When the Bill was paused in the Lords, people said they hoped it would spell the end of his hope to set the UK’s economy on fire (meaning, ruin it).

You see, if nobody knows the implications of cancelling these laws, it would make trade with EU countries impossible.

Rees-Mogg should have known that when he introduced the Bill, so it is logical to suggest that it’s what he wanted. Well, it seems increasingly unlikely that he will get his wish.


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EXCLUSIVE: Partygate inquiry report delayed due to new evidence

Partygate: here’s a shot of Boris Johnson at a Downing Street party that took place during Covid-19 lockdown. Did he mislead Parliament about them?

A report by MPs on whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over the so-called ‘Partygate’ scandal has been delayed, not because it might interfere with the local elections, but because the inquiry received new evidence.

That is what the House of Commons’ Privileges Committee told This Writer today (May 2).

In response to a query prompted by a press report claiming that there were concerns that the committee’s final report might unduly influence voting in the local elections, a spokesperson stated:

Since taking oral evidence from Mr Johnson on 22 March the Committee has sought and received further written evidence.

The timing of publication of the Committee’s final report will be announced on its website in due course.

Is there time for media speculation on what the “further written evidence” was and how it might affect the outcome?


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Is the report on the Boris Johnson Partygate inquiry being withheld for political reasons?

Silenced: Boris Johnson may have said the wrong things about the so-called ‘Partygate’ affair but has the committee investigating it been silenced in a way that may affect the result of the local elections on May 4, 2023?

It’s being suggested that the House of Commons’ Privileges Committee is sitting on its verdict in the Boris Johnson ‘Partygate’ inquiry – for fear that it may affect the result of the local elections:

This seems unreasonable.

If the report is ready, should it not be published immediately? If it is being deliberately delayed, to prevent it from affecting the way people vote in the election, how would it reasonably be expected to do so? Thursday’s poll is a local election and the fate of Boris Johnson has no discernible impact on it.

In short, if the report is being delayed, is it not for political reasons that should not play a part in any decision-making?

Furthermore, people in Scotland and Wales have just as much of an interest in the verdict as those in England and Northern Ireland, and don’t have any elections that could be affected. Why should they have to wait?

This Site has contacted the Privileges Committee to request clarification and will bring you the response as soon as possible.


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