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It'll probably turn out to be a Tory policy that Labour carried on with....
#Policing #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Acab #HertfordshirePolice #OliverDowden
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And WE'RE the cynical ones for thinking Westminster is a corrupt shithouse of grifters, sex criminals and liars.
Who is going to clean up politics when copying the Tories' inherent grifting is the status quo now? -
The hopeless #OliverDowden is claiming in the #sundayTimes that #russia is interfering in UK democracy to boost #reformUK LLC (prop: N Farage)
Oddly, none of those controlling the #toriesOut in the last 8 years have ever complained about previous attempts by Putins mafiosa state to interfere in UK politics - rather they seemed happy to party with the #kgb
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Hilarious (and unprecedented) if this actually happens
#UKPol #GE2024 #Tories #RishiSunak #JeremyHunt #OliverDowden #PennyMordaunt #KemiBadenoch #JamesCleverly #SuellaBraverman #GrantShapps #RichardHolden
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The Deputy Prime Minister has said that the Government ran out of time to ban “no fault” evictions before the general election.
The Conservatives had promised in their 2019 election manifesto to abolish Section 21 notices, which are used by landlords to evict tenants without any reason needing to be given.
The Renters Reform Bill, intended to deliver the ban, was first introduced in the House of Commons in May last year. But its progress was delayed by opposition from several Tory MPs who feared it would cause landlords to sell up and who wanted to strengthen protections for landlords.
As recently as February, housing secretary Michael Gove had promised that a ban would be delivered by the next general election.
But it emerged, following Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement of an election on July 4, that the necessary legislation would not be passed during the “wash up” period before Parliament is dissolved.
Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service on Friday, Deputy PM Oliver Dowden said: “Well, as happens at the end of the Parliament, when you announce a general election, there are large amounts of legislation on the books. We’ve only got two days to conclude it all.”
Asked about the fact that the Government first promised to deliver a ban almost five years ago, he said: “It just hasn’t been possible to get this legislation through in the ‘wash up’ period.”
New Government data released last week, showed that 2,682 households in England were marched out of their homes by bailiffs as a result of Section 21 evictions between January and March — up 19 percent in a year, and the highest number in six years.
Section 21 evictions are a significant contribution to homelessness and rough sleeping.
The campaign group Generation Rent said The Bill had been delayed on numerous occasions by a minority of pro-landlord MPs.
Ben Twomey, chief executive of Generation Rent, said: “Abandoning the Renters Reform Bill as parliament dissolves means the government has failed in its promise to renters at the last election to deliver a fairer tenancy system.
“If it had not been for delays caused by a minority of MPs opposing the Bill, the government could enter the election campaign with a new law to end Section 21 evictions and bring in stronger protections for renters.
“It now falls to the next parliament to start afresh and get it right at the second time of asking.
“Whoever forms the next government must make rental reform a key part of their agenda. This means proper protections from evictions when we have done nothing wrong, and limits on unaffordable rent rises so we can’t be turfed on to the streets at a landlords’ whim,” said Twomey.
On the topic of housing in general, Dowden said: “We’ve built 2.5mn houses [since 2010].
“You contrast that with here in London, Sadiq Khan and the Labour party have the poorest house-building record pretty much anywhere in the country.
“So I think Labour-controlled London is an indication of my deep scepticism that Labour will deliver on building housing.”
However, Mayor Khan celebrated in May last year when he exceeded the Government’s target of 116,000 affordable homes being started in the capital between 2016 and 2023.
Outside of London, the target was not hit by the Government’s housing agency, Homes England — as only 126,800 affordable starts were recorded by the end of March 2023. The England-wide target, excluding London, was 134,000.
Homes England blamed former PM Liz Truss’s “mini-budget”, claiming it had “evaporated” its contingencies.
In more recent months however, London has seen the lowest number of homes started of any English region, amidst a nationwide downturn in house-building.
In the three months from October to December 2023, a record low of just 580 new homes, of all types, was started in London, according to “provisional” Government data.
A record low was also in the South East region of England (2,720 homes), with relatively low figures in other parts of the country too, but nowhere building less than in London.
Khan said this was partly due to lingering uncertainty at the time over how the Government would be applying incoming fire safety rules, which would require all tall buildings to have second staircases.
With London having more tall buildings than other regions, he argued that the capital had been particularly hard hit by the lack of certainty over the technical requirements of the new rules — for example, whether the two staircases would need to be entirely separate or whether they can be contained within the same building core.
By March this year, Khan said that at least 38,000 homes in the capital were being “stalled” by this lack of certainty, though the relevant guidance has now been published.
Additional reporting by Linus Rees.
#ConservativeParty #homelessness #housing #LabourParty #mayorOfLondon #OliverDowden #politcs #renting #SadiqKhan
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Chinese hackers targeted Electoral Commission and politicians, say security services https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/chinese-hackers-targeted-electoral-commission-and-politicians-say-security-services #ElectoralCommission #OliverDowden #Technology #Espionage #Cyberwar #Politics #Hacking #UKnews #China #GCHQ
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Even though #OliverDowden would have seen the images and reports from Northern Italy he blithely states on #BBCLaurak that at the time he and the Government, thought"the most likely scenario was a flu style."
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*Four times* #OliverDowden is asked on #BBCLaurak to provide a yes or no response to: "Did you read all of the plans that were prepared to deal with the pandemic?"
#LauraK accuses him of bamboozling her audience with a lengthy technical explanation as he refuses to answer this simple question
Dowden was at the time The Minster for the Cabinet Office. He had a primary responsibility to ensure the effective running of the government.
He failed..
1000s died b/c of incompetence.
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#OliverDowden takes near-empty RAF plane to UN talks in New York
Labour criticises deputy PM’s decision to use 158-seat Voyager instead of a scheduled service as ‘wrong on every level
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/20/oliver-dowden-raf-voyager-plane-flight-un-new-york
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Yesterday #OliverDowden stepped (gingerly?) onto rather thin ice...
He accused the #FireBrigade's union of making #political mileage out of their 'claim' that the #BibbyStockholm is dangerous & a fire hazzard, and explicitly suggested this was linked to their financial support of the #labourparty.
If the Deputy PM want to discuss how parties are funded... I'll be waiting for his declarations on how particular #Tory party polices are linked to the donations that receive!
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Dear Mr Dowden, I too am sick of stupid cunts. Haven't you got a country to run, albeit pro tem in the absence of the little chap?
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https://bit.ly/3qkFO1W #OliverDowden is the only person politicising the use of what is rightly identified as a deathtrap to hold immigrants.
Finally, something I have expertise of 🙄 Fighting fires on anything afloat can be a tragedy just waiting to happen. The temperatures that are reached in compartments that are essentially small metal boxes are phenomenal, & deadly.
Of course, #Dowden doesn't give a shit if some 'poors', or better yet some 'costly' bloody immigrant, dies in a fire.
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The same bunch of ghouls who couldn't stop themselves smirking while the pandemic was killing thousands of us want to make 'empathy' political.
Where do we think that will end up Brits? -
Deputy #PrimeMinister #OliverDowden, who is standing in for Mr Sunak during his holiday, told the protesters to “stop the stupid stunts”.
A protester replied "That's what we're trying to do! Oh, sorry, did you say stunts? I misheard."
Partly from "#Greenpeace activists scale #Sunak’s house in protest at #oil #drilling ‘frenzy’" | North Wales Pioneer – https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/national/23698044.greenpeace-activists-scale-sunaks-house-protest-oil-drilling-frenzy/
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Covid Inquiry: Jeremy Hunt Said Government Planned To Let A Pandemic Spread Like "Wildfire"
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/covid-inquiry-jeremy-hunt-government-planned-pandemic-spread-like-wildfire
#CovidInquiry
#JeremyHunt
#DavidCameron
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No deal #brexit was prioritised over pandemic preparations, the deputy prime minister has said.
#oliverdowden #nodealbrexit #brexit #covid19 #UKCovidInquiry
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Crace then turns to #OliverDowden...
"Dowden is best understood as an absence. A vacuum in human form. Someone who has had all charm and any possible intelligence sucked out of him. Imagine this. Dowden has spent his whole life preparing for a walk-on role. He is a natural extra. Someone’s plus one who is never going to steal the limelight."
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Given that the #Tories have seldom been backwards at leaking reports in advance or making early (but faulty) accusations, one cannot help but think the reason that #OliverDowden is refusing to say whether he thinks that #SueGray broke #civilservice guidelines in taking a job with #KierStarmer is because they've actually found no evidence at all & are preparing to back-track on earlier accusations...
Of course, there may be other explanations, but reticence is not a standard #Tory trait.
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Non dom status, offshore accounts, US green card, lockdown party fine, Nadhim Zahawi, tax avoidance, Rwanda, Williamson bullying, Reappointing Braverman, seatbelt fine but yeah his is the point we question his judgement #brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #Corruption #ToryCorruption #inflation #bbc #nhs #news #braverman #costofliving #rishisunak #SunakOut #boats #EU #COVID19 #rwanda #Sunak #toryracists #strike #strikes #raab #dominicraab #OliverDowden
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The Tory party replace an obnoxious bully with an obnoxious wanker, Dowden is the tories chief absolute tw*t, who battles the woke agenda every day, obviously he doesn’t know what that is, but he will grab any headline going #brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #Corruption #ToryCorruption #inflation #bbc #nhs #news #braverman #costofliving #rishisunak #SunakOut #boats #EU #COVID19 #rwanda #Sunak #toryracists #strike #strikes #raab #dominicraab #OliverDowden
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UK dials up the spin on data reform, claiming ‘simplified’ rules will drive ‘responsible’ data sharing - The UK government has announced a consultation on plans to shake up the national d... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/dWb9LtR16i8/ #informationcommissionersoffice #artificialintelligence #moorfieldseyehospital #dataprocessing #google-health #unitedkingdom #deeplearning #oliverdowden #ukgovernment #johnedwards #healthcare #deepmind #privacy #europe #policy #google #ukgdpr
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UK names John Edwards as its choice for next data protection chief as gov’t eyes watering down privacy standards - The UK government has named the person it wants to take over as its chief data pro... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Kw6O-Qw374M/ #generaldataprotectionregulation #artificialintelligence #elizabethdenham #dataprotection #digitalrights #europeanunion #unitedkingdom #datasecurity #oliverdowden #socialissues #ukgovernment #unitedstates #humanrights #johnedwards
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UK gets data flows deal from EU — for now - The UK’s digital businesses can breathe a sign of relief today as the European Com... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jIBUs4AQ0A8/ #generaldataprotectionregulation #europeandataprotectionboard #europeancourtofhumanrights #europeancommission #surveillancelaw #datacontroller #dataprotection #europeanunion #unitedkingdom #datasecurity #oliverdowden #personaldata #ukgovernment #unitedstates #encryption #privacy #europe #policy
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UK publishes draft Online Safety Bill - The UK government has published its long-trailed (child) ‘safety-focused’ plan to ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/So3qoqllQXE/ #onlinesafetybill #oversightboard #onlinecontent #unitedkingdom #oliverdowden #ukgovernment #onlineharms #socialmedia #europe #policy #social #tc
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📬Lesetipps: Anonymous knackt die Basis, nationale Sicherheit, Oma hacken📬 https://tarnkappe.info/lesetipps-anonymous-knackt-die-basis-nationale-sicherheit-oma-hacken/ #AnonymousGermany #OliverDowden #Datenschutz #RaspberryPi #Lesetipps #dieBasis #Spionage #Xinjiang #Nvidia