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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

jimbob said:
It's used by the coffee machine at work. Real coffee beans and powdered milk.

I brew my own tea. Or have espresso with my own milk heated up in the microwave. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a colleague who was doing the same, except that he had two double espressos instead of my single espresso.
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Really? Euch.
Ours are connected to large containers of milk in a chiller below. If one (there are normal, watered down and not-milk) is empty the screen displays instructions on how to move the feed pipe, though E&F are notified automatically.
 
The Don said:
I must have missed that. Perhaps nobody's talking about it because it didn't actually happen.

I am very disappointed that Labour have decided that they want to carry the Conservatives' water on immigration and that they have decided that placating racists is easier, and more electorally effective than attempting to educate the British public on the benefits of immigration.

Then again we have the BBC repeating the right wing media's lies that the crisis in the NHS, education, and local services isn't because of a decade and a half of deliberate underfunding by successive coalition and Conservative governments but is instead due to a plague of immigrants. There's only so much you can to to educate people but when the opposite message is being pushed heavily everywhere (and where it aligns with people's own prejudices) then maybe you have to admit defeat.
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Whole phrases from the speech were cogged off Enoch Powell, and the tome was identical.
 
jimbob said:
It's used by the coffee machine at work. Real coffee beans and powdered milk.

I brew my own tea. Or have espresso with my own milk heated up in the microwave. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a colleague who was doing the same, except that he had two double espressos instead of my single espresso.
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I add coffee mate to my coffee along with the milk.
I suppose that counts as milk powder.
 
Gammons seem to be conflicted today.
For a few days they have been ranting about Starmer meeting the Syrian interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa when he visits the UK. Apparently it shows he is a puppet of the ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Now Donald has just met him and given him praise they don't know what to say.
 
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff.

“We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team,” Montague told the cross-party environment select committee.

The bonuses would be paid in three tranches in addition to their annual salaries and other awards, the MPs were told.


 
Andy_Ross said:
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff.

“We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team,” Montague told the cross-party environment select committee.

The bonuses would be paid in three tranches in addition to their annual salaries and other awards, the MPs were told.


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Reward for the system functioning as intended.

If these people were judged on the ability to run the water network, then this would be inappropriate.

As their express task is to provide as much 'shareholder value' as possible, then this reward is appropriate.


Maybe, just maybe, privatisation of monopolistic essential services doesn't work? Maybe?


This ◊◊◊◊ makes me so angry.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Doubled their chances by having a reform candidate and an 'independent' in the same ward.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1922330871320707112
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Are there not rules against standing for election in bad faith? This twunt stood as an independent. It's clear now he was a Reform party candidate all along. Has he not deceived the electoral commission AND the voters in that seat?
 
Andy_Ross said:
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff.

“We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team,” Montague told the cross-party environment select committee.

The bonuses would be paid in three tranches in addition to their annual salaries and other awards, the MPs were told.


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Breach of Rule 10 removed.
The management team is the least useful and most easily replaceable resource of just about any organisation. This lot seem to be not worth the paper they wipe their arses with.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
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Breach of Rule 10 removed.
. The management team is the least useful and most easily replaceable resource of just about any organisation. This lot seem to be not worth the paper they wipe their arses with.
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I worked closely with a number of board members of a major water utility in the late 90s. Most of them could have been replaced with garden gnomes to the benefit of the company.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff.

“We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team,” Montague told the cross-party environment select committee.

The bonuses would be paid in three tranches in addition to their annual salaries and other awards, the MPs were told.


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Fair enough. You don't get competent executives of water companies by paying penuts
 
Andy_Ross said:
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff.

“We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team,” Montague told the cross-party environment select committee.

The bonuses would be paid in three tranches in addition to their annual salaries and other awards, the MPs were told.


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Those responsible for testing the quality of Thames water were just going through the motions.
 
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