Over the last few days and weeks I’ve been watching the rather excellent political sitcom/drama “The Thick of It” courtesy of the pre-woke BBC.
It’s basically an updated version of the classic 70s BBC TV comedy “Yes, Minister” with incompetent ministers in charge of government departments and being constantly wrong-footed by civil servants & spin-doctors with their own political agendas involving government policy (sound familiar?)
Anyway, in one episode a minister is told by one of his media advisors to spend a week working at the coal face! In other words to spend 2 or 3 days actually working in an immigration office to oversee how the system works from within rather than just spending 30 minutes doing a photo-op, answering scripted questions, a few fake smiles and shaking hands with nonentities before retiring back to the safety of their office and forgetting it all in an instant.
I think this would be an excellent idea in reality because newly appointed ministers never really know what the problems are within public sector services other than being told via their very many advisors, experts and other talking heads.
Imagine for a moment the following:-
Suella Braverman spending an entire week at immigration offices in London and the Border Force in Dover.
Ben Wallace spending a week in Ukraine, hopefully on the Front Line
Michael Gove spending a week in some 2 up, 2 down terraced council house in a grotty hellhole in Leicester
Steve Barclay spending a week at an A&E hospital in some major city, perhaps travelling with a paramedics team in an ambulance on a Friday/Saturday night.
Will never happen of course as these ministers will bleat they don’t have the time for such things. But until these pampered cunts actually have a taste of what their departments are all about at the “coalface” they will never be in a position to fix the problems from within. And as a consequence when they subsequently fail at their jobs they will no doubt be shuffled across to another department (Michael Gove!) and the whole farce starts all over again!
Nominated by: Technocunt
Too much imagination there techno,just put them to work at a actual coalface with just a pick, hammer and bolster..
And just for fun maybe some antique dynamite..
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I would like like all the members of parliament to spend a week in Unkle Terry’s oven.
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Can we have a whip round for uncles oven’s gas bill? You know it makes sense.
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I bet that kid in the header picture is thinking “Who the fuck is this fat albino? Usually I’m sat next to a 30 year old bearded man-child who fled the Taliban.”
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I`m no stranger to the coalface.
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Hahaha! 😀
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Re: Header photo-
Norris us saying to the only white child in the class:
“So-what’s it like going to school with all these little picaninnies?”
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Grant Schnapps (new Sec of State for Energy Security and Net Zero) – one week working for National Grid to work out where the fuck the electricity’s coming from when the wind doesn’t blow and you’ve closed all the coal-fired power stations.
Richy Sunak – one week serving table at the ‘Taj Mahal’, Grimsby.
Jeremy Cunt – one week at Goldmine Sucks finding out how the elite avoid tax while Middle England gets fucked up the arse paying for his largesse.
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Rishi used to work in mummies pharmacy 😉
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MPs and work are mutually exclusive.
Most MPs are morons who couldn’t tie their own shoelaces.
If Penny M needs a hand getting out of her frillies, I am available as her personal “carer.”
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No Boris is severely displeased because he has been caught in a photo without his Hi Viz Jacket. He is scolding the little kids for not wearing them as well and is pointing out that if we all wore them we would only need one candle at night and could turn all the leccy off. You Know It Makes Sense.
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At great idea to have ministers on ‘work experience’ at their various departments. Emptying bedpans and dealing with violent piss heads at A&E or maybe spending a week with a family of free school meals benefit scrounging arse scratching chavs in the name of ‘levelling up’. The Secretary of State for International Development should be fucked off to some shithole like Pakistan or Sudan to see how our money is really spent; trousered by warlords and spunked up the wall on vanity projects.
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I’d like to experience the Cabinet being forced at bayonet point into oven.
Top notch.
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Can we hang a couple of the cunts? Just to encourage the others. If you can fix it for queer charmer it would please me no end.
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I work for a Government department and occasionally we get a visit from a minister. The more servile management cunts spend about a week before the visit telling us plebs how to address the minister and do’s and don’ts for the visit. There are quite a lot of weirdoes in the place and it is quite amusing watching these visitors have an encounter with any of them, and trying to maintain their veneer of politeness. I can’t stand kow- towing to anyone and have quite a lot of form for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, so I just go and hide in the basement if I see the cunt walking towards me…last time this happened I found about half the office was down there already.
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Boris further cogitates that he has just come up with another public services scandal to rival PPE. What a clever little Boris he is. All the infrastructure is in place – a legion of dodgy mates and other Tory gravy gobblers who have never made Hi Viz before but stand ready to trouser obscene profits out of contracts for one size garments that fit no one and are in the wrong colour and have the Viz facing the wrong way. Brilliant move and he knows of Tory spivs with storage that is too small and leaks but very expensive to rent. Oh and the Chinko middle men……….Boris is hard on – very very hard.
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Gove should be sent to Hollywoke to star in a sci-fi film as the chief alien. ( no make up required ) He could keep the money they pay him instead of putting in his usual thieving expenses claim like all the other cunts.
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Sounds better than inflicting the twat on us long suffering Leicester folk.
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In the photo Jellyfish is saying……..”your Dad couldn’t lend me 800 grand could he? I’ll make him Chairman of the BBC…..piss easy job.”
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They’d all resign by the end of the week, when they realise that the job requires a lot more than talking bollocks, shagging their secretary’s and fiddling expenses.
Then again, seeing as these fuckers have absolutely no shame, I’m probably wrong.
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They all want to show us how hard they work.
Hoo-ee, what a bunch of cunts.
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I hear that the bunch of shit weasels, sorry I meant HoC, have voted their selves a £2000+ payrise from 1st April.
But nurses, ambulance crews, etc.
There’s no spare money in the pot for you.
Admitted, 650 x £2000 = not a lot, but what a kick in the fucking teeth, eh?
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Bet the howls of protest from the opposition were deafening 😁
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@jp
And they are talking about a 6 month golden handshake payment when the public oust them.
Utter cunts, I wouldn’t give them a golden shower if they where on fire..
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Good grief, what a bunch of twats!
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“…Utter cunts, I wouldn’t give them a golden shower if they where on fire..”
My overwhelming urge is to set ’em on fire just to provide an excuse to piss on them… as if there isn’t reason enough…
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Yeah that cunt Russell Quirke thinks it’s ‘good value for money 2.9% for mps’ and these NHS and rail workers would do well to remember that’
Well Russell you informed cunt £2480 which is what this pay rise is worth, can I have the cash equivalent on my wage please seeing as it’s ‘good value for money’. That would account for 10% + pay rise on my flat rate you mealy mouthed cunt.
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Heard that Nadine Dorries has announced she won’t be standing at the next election. She gave the Tories a right slagging…….”people won’t forgive or forget what we have done.” Too right bitch…..now fuck off with your big fat pension and your medal for “public service”.
Cunt!
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“Coalface”? Do you not think that insulting, derogatory terminology carries racist connotations?
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