[Tubby Isaacs]

Beth Rigby calling on Starmer to apologize to people on the base in Cyprus who were left unprotected. Watch their media mates shuffle quietly away from any responsibility for the state of the defenses. This wouldn't even be brought up if they were still in Government. It would all be "Labour fail to look like a government in waiting" if they did what the Tories are doing.

They're not going to give out till they've forced out Labour, are they? Did Mrs Thatcher get asked to apologize to Falkland Islanders (they actually got invaded, not just fired at)

[Boiler]

Another reason we need stricter rules on media ownership in the UK. Who owns Comcast?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Can't win, can they?

On this stuff? Not really, but no need to make it worse with speeches that upset your base. Get it done, if you have to, then give a speech about how (just within Shabana's own brief) you're going to make the Police more efficient.

[Tubby Isaacs]

By the by, this article popped up on the home page of our favourite paper.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... regulators

June 2025

Starmer’s promised ethics commission may repackage existing regulators

Government sources say ‘umbrella’ structure now more likely after plans for independent body found to be too complex

This followed earlier in June

Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog
This article is more than 8 months old
Commons inquiry to examine lack of progress in fulfilling manifesto pledge to set up ethics and integrity body

You get the message right? There he goes again, shifty old Starmer!

What's this?

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... commission

September 2025. Note the source isn't The Guardian.

Ethics and Integrity Commission
The government has established its new ethics regulator, the Ethics and Integrity Commission.

With more powers than the bodies it replaced too.

Like the CSPL, the EIC does not investigate specific cases. The EIC has taken on new responsibilities, including:
A formal leadership role to convene ethics and standards bodies in central government and in parliament;
Delivering an annual report to the prime minister on the overall health of the standards system;
Engaging with public sector bodies to help them develop “clear codes of conduct with effective oversight arrangements”.2
The government has also committed to responding to all EIC reports “in a reasonable timeframe”;3 governments have responded to CSPL reports in the past, though in some cases this has taken several years.

So, manifesto promise kept, independent oversight strengthened.

How long before anybody has a word with the journos who keep predicting stuff that doesn't come true, and whose errors always seems to show the Government in bad light? Or perhaps that's what the high ups actually want, you think?

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Another one here. I posted this article before where George Monbiot managed to create a Jacob Rees-Mogg policy on dangerous chemicals from a consultation and some rhetoric about saving costs for business.

Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead


Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... egulations

Well, the consultation is done, and the Health and Safety Executive responded last month. As far as I can see, there's been nothing at all on this. It's purely about generating the outrage, not informing. Doesn't matter how many footnotes Monbiot puts in his articles on his website. This is what his game is, increasingly.