Dominic Raab has resigned as justice secretary and deputy prime minister after an inquiry into allegations of bullying.
The five-month probe, by a senior lawyer, was set up by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after complaints about Mr Raab’s behaviour as a minister.
Dominic Raab resigns over bullying report, BBC
What have the Tories fucked up now?
Sunak has failed to make a timely decision about Dominic Raab’s future
Do you think families should be able to go swimming in the local area? The Tories don’t.
Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that [The Guardian]
The statement will be remembered for the childcare pledge, but there was nothing to meet the scale of Britain’s economic malaise
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
All the Bad News Buried in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget
- UK Economy to Perform Even Worse Than Russia
- The Biggest Ever Fall in Living Standards
- A Tax Cut for Millionaires
- Brexit Is Killing the UK Economy
- High Tax Government
- The Poor Man of Europe
For all his rhetoric today about “proving the doubters wrong” Jeremy Hunt’s Budget today confirms that the UK is set for a prolonged period of slow growth and declining living standards.
All the Bad News Buried in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget, Adam Bienkov, 15 March 2023, bylinetimes.com
Why Are The Tories (still) Polling So Poorly?
Rishi Sunak facing Tory rebellion over sewage into UK rivers plans
Even Tories have a limit – for some, it is Sunak’s plans to pour poo into our water.
Rishi Sunak is facing a defeat in the House of Lords over his bid to scrap clean water regulations that protect swimmers and wildlife as part of his post-Brexit bonfire of European Union red tape.
Rishi Sunak facing Tory rebellion over sewage in UK rivers, iNews
Who are BFS GROUP LTD and why do the Tories keep giving them taxpayer money?
According to a new report, Tory MP Robert Buckland oversaw a steady transfer of government money to BFS GROUP LTD. See the spend here. It is unclear how much of Buckland’s £46,701,496 spending lined the pocket of this unknown group.
A quick Google suggests they are a catering company or a wholesale food distributor.
It is hard to say much more as their website doesn’t work:
Wikipedia has this to say about BFS Group Limited:
Bidfood (formerly known as 3663, Bidvest 3663 and Bidvest Foodservice) is a Foodservice Wholesaler and distributor based in the United Kingdom.[1]
The BFS Group Limited was a wholly owned subsidiary of Bidvest, an international services, trading and distribution company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in South Africa.[2] It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of BidCorp, also listed on the JSE. BidCorp, the Bid Corporation Limited, is the holding company of the Bidvest Group Limited.
Bidfood, Wikipedia
None of that explains why there are 100+ spends of over a thousand pounds each recorded for a single day – 01/01/2021.
UK Government spent £12m on failed deportation flights over seven years
From March 2015 to March 2022, the UK has spent £12.4m on the cancelled flights, according to publicly available Government figures. It has become one of the largest declared “fruitless spends” within government, which is how taxpayer money spent with no benefit is recorded.
UK Government spent £12m on failed deportation flights over seven years, iNews
Tory spending of tax payer money on lavish hotels, furnishings and booze
Indulgent Tory spending of public money has been publicised in a new report.
A “lavish spending” culture in Whitehall has seen taxpayers’ money wasted on luxury items, Labour claimed after an analysis of the use of government procurement cards (GPCs).
Labour raised concern about dining and alcohol purchases, including almost £345,000 by Foreign Office (FCDO) officials in 2021 under the heading “restaurants and bars”, entertainment and evidence of end-of-year spending sprees to use up budgets.
‘Scandalous’ Tory government spending on lavish hotels, furnishings and booze revealed, The Independent
The Indie goes on to say that the Tories wrongly declared thousands of pounds worth of alcohol as “computer equipment”. Not only that but under the Tories, £344,803 was spanked on alcohol in 2021