[Closed] Political Incompetence Top Trumps

Boris and the English Channel bridge to fix the upcoming log jam for freight?

Boris and the new airport built on marshland?

When he passes away, there will be a eulogy of incompetence and brazen waste of public money hung around his neck.

If I had my way, I'd make him repay every single penny he's wasted of public money.

And some of you lot voted for the buffoon, nee calculated moron.

Sorry is this thread boris incompetence or politicians generally...?

I could go for days... And that's just the Conservatives.

And that's just the prominent ones.

Well Grayling is the other obvious QI answer

It does all make Gove's 370k bibles for all seem like a blip

Are there any competent ones?

Political Incompetence Top Trumps

Theyr'e all ****ing useless. Every single one of them. Every party.
About as much use as a boil on the bell end.
Politicians are basically hypocritical, lying, self obsessed turds.

The professional classes all seem to have done well out of this fiasco esp. the charity execs...

How about ol' Gordon Brown and the gold selloff?

Or his "light touch" approach to regulation of the financial sector...

Ok in the spirit of the thread I'll throw a curve ball.

My local MP
Voted against same sex marriage and equal rights.
Voted that EU nationals cannot remain in the UK.
Voted against welfare benifits rising in line with living costs.
Always votes to reduce capital gains tax.

Can you tell who he is? No prizes for guessing tory. Sorry.

Norman Lamont and black wednesday takes some beating. Wasted billions on trying to keep the value of the pound at an unsustainable level. IIRC 30% interest rates at one point.
Suez was a bit of a mess as well.

Just watching the Channel 4 documentary about Universal Credit. Ian Duncan Smith has to be right up at the top of the list

It’s an absolute shambles! totally ill-conceived from the off, and is now causing genuine suffering throughout the country to countless of the most vulnerable people! It’s costing millions (probably billions) more than it will ever save, and now having caused this chaos and inhumanity he’s just swanned off to become Mr Brexit rent-a-quote

I can’t work out how much is due to his total absence of a shred of empathy, compassion or humanity and how much is just his complete rank incompetence. Probably 50/50

Either way he’s a complete ****!!

Are there any competent ones?

I'd like to be positive so I'll start a new thread "can you name a competent UK politician"

It’ll be a really short thread

Surely am honourable mention for Iain Duncan Smith and the unfolding disaster of universal credit?

How about ol’ Gordon Brown and the gold selloff?

Why was that incompetent?

Why was that incompetent?

Well he sold it at very low price, an ounce of gold is worth a shed load more now.

The incompetence comes from not realising that international markets are quite volitile and lack of foresight. Economic genius my butt.

The incompetence comes from not realising that international markets are quite volitile and lack of foresight.

The value of gold increased sharply because of 9/11. You are right to point out that he failed to forsee this.

Volitile.. FFS.
Gold always recovers, hence you'd be a complete dumbo like Gordon brown to sell off when the price is rock bottom. He couldn't have chosen a worse time to sell.
But Labour needed a cash injection to make the books look good. To hell with the UK’s insurance.

Fairly surprised cameron is passing this thread by.

Collectively Edinburgh Council has to be up there for the sheer amount of blunders.

seosamh77

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Fairly surprised cameron is passing this thread by.

Make your case!!

Gold always recovers, hence you’d be a complete dumbo like Gordon brown to sell off when the price is rock bottom. He couldn’t have chosen a worse time to sell.

You're right. If he'd predicted 9/11 then he'd have made a much better return.

I'd also have to nominate the Australian Labour party for chosing to engage in mad in fighting when they actually had a chance to do some more real good. Ditching Rudd was a good start, ditching Gillard such a mistake

You’re right. If he’d predicted 9/11 then he’d have made a much better return.

Can you qualify that?

Chamberlain waving his written promise from Hitler must be up there, I mean, he signed the document and everything.

The failure of the FiReControl project

"The Department for Communities and Local Government acted to cut its losses by terminating the contract in December 2010, seven years after it had begun, but at least £469 million will have been wasted, with no IT system delivered and eight of the nine new regional control centres remaining empty and costly to maintain."

Can you qualify that?

Eh?

Anyway, Osborne selling off the RBS shares at a loss of 1 billion?

That wasn't incompetent, that worked out exactly how he intended it to. Never attribute to incompetence, what is better explained by George Osborne being a ****.

mikewsmith

Make your case!!

erm... switch on bbc parliament. </case> 😆

There is no exam to take before becoming an MP, just a popularity contest.

End of Thread.

Surely David Davis has got to feature here?

I know Br*xit is almost the definition of an omnishambles, but he does seem to have been particularly hopeless as our master negotiator.

But maybe it was his intention to be hopeless, and he was actually VERY successful in this endeavor? Makes you think....

I nominate the disability benefit revues . Great way to save some money and cause maximum disruption to people who need help.

"And some of you lot voted for the buffoon"
@ bikebuoy - how very dare you!
🙂

just a popularity contest.

With, in the many safe seats, that popularity contest being restricted to a few party members.

Got to be Theresa May for me for (amongst other things) triggering Article 50 without any idea of what the country or Parliament wanted for Brexit; it's the reason we're in the mess we are with Brexit.

I think it was Tony Benn who said "all political careers end in failure"

Barry Sheerman, my local MP, is a useless cretin who is only looking after one person, himself. He doesn’t care about the town he is supposed to represent, he does nothing to improve it but he knows he will keep getting in cos it’s a Labour safe seat. I’ve personally met other candidates from other parties for his seat and all of them would do the job better given the chance.
Also I know for a fact he tried to bypass the security procedures at an election counting station, thought the rules didn’t apply to him and said to the security “don’t you know how I am?”
No one in his area likes him.

Gold always recovers, hence you’d be a complete dumbo like Gordon brown to sell off when the price is rock bottom. He couldn’t have chosen a worse time to sell.

I have heard an alternative version that it was a deliberate act to stop a large American bank from collapsing and hence triggering a rout. It did pay down =national debt, so not all bad.

Surely David Davis has got to feature here?

I know Br*xit is almost the definition of an omnishambles, but he does seem to have been particularly hopeless as our master negotiator.

When people ask the wrong questions...

But maybe it was his intention to be hopeless, and he was actually VERY successful in this endeavor? Makes you think….

When people ask the right questions...

Do not confuse incompetence with corruption.

Dominic Raab, I think it was on here I saw him described as "a negotiator so skilled he could walk out of a DFS sale with a full price sofa" which pretty much sums him up.

This thread is very negative so I would like to strike a more positive note: I am very, very, very grateful to Gove and Bojo for their double backstab! Otherwise one of those two would be PM now.

Over on the other side of the pond Matt Taibi turned his sights on Chris Christie in The Rolling Stone and he's good:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/chris-christie-new-memoir-taibbi-791436/

I think the mismanagement by Margaret Thatcher and her government of the tax receipts from North Sea oil in the 70s and 80s, surely must be right up there.

The resultant social and economic impact of this provides much of the backdrop to the issues affecting the UK today.

bakey

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I think the mismanagement by Margaret Thatcher and her government of the tax receipts from North Sea oil in the 70s and 80s, surely must be right up there.

Again not incompetent, totally intentional and worked out as they planned. Bought some elections and put the money into the hands of industry instead of the people, sorted.

“all political careers end in failure”

Kind of a variant of the Peter principle.

Dominic Raab, I think it was on here I saw him described as “a negotiator so skilled he could walk out of a DFS sale with a full price sofa” which pretty much sums him up.

Apparently known as Raab C Brexit, in certain quarters.