‘Dismissive approach’ from No 10 over Mandelson vetting process, Robbins says
The former top official at the Foreign Office said there was a “dismissive approach” to Peter Mandelson’s security vetting from Sir Keir Starmer’s No 10.
Sir Olly Robbins, who was sacked by the Prime Minister last week over the failure to disclose Lord Mandelson’s failed security checks – but he was granted developed vetting (DV) clearance anyway, said there was pressure from Downing Street to clear the appointment.
Ed Miliband to give major energy speech as fury erupts over 'lunacy'
Ed Miliband's "anti-oil and gas stance" will fuel fresh price hikes for families already struggling with the cost of living crisis, critics warned.
Energy Secretary Mr Miliband will "double down, not back down" on the shift to clean energy, including speeding up the rollout of renewables and electrifying heating and transport to get homes and businesses off fossil fuels.
Reeves’s cash Isa reforms in chaos
Rachel Reeves’s plans to penalise savers who hold cash in investment accounts have stalled despite months of Treasury meetings, The Telegraph understands.
In last year’s Budget, the Chancellor announced the controversial cut to the cash Isa limit from £20,000 to £12,000 for under-65s from April next year.
HMRC said later that it would penalise savers trying to use loopholes to circumvent the limit, including putting cash into stocks and shares Isas.
But industry sources told The Telegraph that after months of talks, the Treasury has not made crucial decisions about how the rules on investment accounts would work in practice.
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I think you should update your label from 'incompetence' to 'gross incompetence'.
It might not be so overwhelming if it was just one Minister, but all the Ministers, the party, and the Civil Service? Plus of course, the Opposition.
The best way to solve this competency crisis is to hang 50 of the buggers, to encourage the others.
Then have a monthly top up into the gibbets for liars, incompetents and ner-do-wells.
Could be Sunday entertainment. With jugglers, blacked up morris dancers and general drunkenness.
Who in their right mind would invest in the UK these days?
The issues of total incompetence are insurmountable now, and it will all crash very soon, especially if idiots like Ange or Lammy take over as 'pm'.
DJ - yes, it's disturbingly widespread. It doesn't feel new either, as if government has been unwilling to recognise and correct incompetence for many decades. Managed decline always seems to be the easy option, nobody wants their performance to be assessed against a genuine need to reform.
Mike - just getting rid of the worst performers should improve things, but even that doesn't happen.
Scrobs - I wouldn't invest but as you say - who would?
Much like Germany - from Eugyppius:
Friedrich Merz’s coalition government of centre-right Christian Democrats and hard-left Social Democrats faces an increasingly insolvent pension system, a dysfunctional and increasingly unaffordable public health insurance system, a bloated social welfare system subsidising an ever-growing population of layabouts and bums, a continued stream of illegal migrants, decaying infrastructure, a cancerous bureaucratic apparatus, an insane tax system that appropriates half of everyone’s earnings with ever less to show for it and a vampiric public media behemoth supported by a warren of malicious taxpayer-funded NGOs that run around branding everybody who has a problem with any of the foregoing as an Evil Nazi Hitler Fascist.
dearieme - yes, after decades as the European example of how things should be done, I still don't find it easy to grasp how far Germany has fallen. The other day I read about the future collapse of BMW if it doesn't get its act together and VW doesn't seem to be what it was.
German venal political stupidity seems to be as bad as ours, which must have taken some doing. A major contributor to that seems to be remarkably stupid voters.
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