Thursday 19 July 2012

'Pussy-Toes' May trips up @ No 10

"Seen our lady in the leopard-skin boots recently?" Arturo asked.

"Only on the tele! And I couldn't see her feet!" I replied.

But we both knew the lady in question, 'Pussy-Toes' Theresa May had tripped up badly twice this week! She had also tripped up earlier in the year, as well. One trip-up is an accident! Two trip-ups are a misfortune. But three ....! Now that's what we call a policy!

**Trip up Number One: In February, The Mirror had the headline:
Border Agency to be broken up as Theresa May tries to dodge the blame for immigration checks fiasco
The article written by James Lyons went on:
Bungling Theresa May tried to wriggle out of a security fiasco today by breaking up the UK Border Agency.

In an attempt to dodge blame for letting hundreds of thousands of people into Britain without proper checks, the Home Secretary said the UK Border Force would become a separate law enforcement body.

Her desperate move came after UKBA chief Brodie Clarke was forced to resign last year over the shambles.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/border-agency-to-be-broken-up-as-theresa-692113

Pussy-Toes May rode out the storm and survived! A feat of no small means considering the furore about border control.

**Trip up Number Two: The cock-up over Olympic security and G4S. It seems, according to the Daily Mail, that 'Pussy-Toes' May, otherwise known as the Home Secretary knew some time before she announced the matter to the Commons that 'Some thing was up!'. Matt Blake and Chris Parsons wrote
Theresa May warned G4S wouldn't have enough security guards for Games two weeks before she initially claimed

As a result of the shortfall, thousands of UK troops have been dragooned into doing the job in place of G4S. Of course, if 'Pussy-Toes' May had been nicer to our police, there might have been enough of them to do the job without G4S. Blake and Parsons quoted Ed Miliband
'People want bobbies on the beat, not G4S,' said Mr Miliband. 'We need to be much clearer about what private companies should and should not do.'

The comments came as Mr Miliband launched Labour’s campaign for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections in central London.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176100/Theresa-May-warned-G4S-wouldnt-security-guards-Games-weeks-initially-claimed.html#ixzz216Gxyph3

As a banner at the Police Federation meeting in May stated
Cutting Police by 20% is criminal

**Trip up Number Three: Today Sky News reported that the Public and Commercial Services union(PCS) were to take action against 'Pussy-Toes' May's proposed cuts to the jobs of many of their members
Airport immigration staff have decided to stage a 24-hour strike the day before the opening of the Olympic Games.

UK Border Agency workers are among thousands of Home Office employees who will walk out on July 26 in a row over jobs, pay and privatisation.

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) is also warning that its members will take other forms of industrial action, such as a ban on overtime, from July 27 to August 20.
Sky News quoted the General Secretary of the union, Mark Serwotka, as saying:
"The lives of staff have been made intolerable by these cuts and they're at breaking point.

"Ministers have known about these issues for a very long time and need to act now to sort out the chaos they have caused.

"They're acting recklessly in cutting so many jobs and privatising services, and are provocatively refusing to talk to us with a genuine desire to reach an agreement."
http://news.sky.com/story/962468/olympics-home-office-staff-strike-on-july-26

'Pussy-Toes' May called the whole thing shameful, as did that other clown of the Coalition Cabinet, the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt! But then, he would, wouldn't he? As an infamous lady once said.

Now, Arturo and I have done some research and we discovered that for quite a while, the PCS had been warning of their anxieties. In the Independent, under the headline:Thousands of Home Office staff including airport immigration workers to strike on eve of Olympics, journalist,Alan Jones, quoted Labour MP John McDonnell, who chairs the PCS Parliamentary Group, as saying
"The Government has brought this dispute on its own head. The UKBA and passport staff have been raising their concerns over job cuts and the impact on services for over 12 months now.

"The PCS Parliamentary Group only met the minister three weeks ago to warn him of the low morale caused by the Government's actions and the urgent need to stop compulsory redundancies."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/thousands-of-home-office-staff-including-airport-immigration-workers-to-strike-on-eve-of-olympics-7959604.html

Watch this space! There are still several days to go before the Olympics opening ceremony! Arturo and I hope that maybe there's time enough - in this season of rapprochement à la Clegg-Cameron, n'est pas?

To steady our nerves, we're off for a bit of caterwauling!

'Bye'



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