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another one of my least favourite people has this to say on rail rises
"Transport Secretary Chris Grayling says train fare rises are higher than they should be because the trade unions demand higher pay rises than anybody else receives"
excuse my French but what the merry **** is he talking about? Nothing to do with corporate greed & RailCo profit then. Well there goes my New years resolution already because i'm going to hound him over this. I ask again - how is this **** still in employment?
"Transport Secretary Chris Grayling says train fare rises are higher than they should be because the trade unions demand higher pay rises than anybody else receives"
excuse my French but what the merry **** is he talking about? Nothing to do with corporate greed & RailCo profit then. Well there goes my New years resolution already because i'm going to hound him over this. I ask again - how is this **** still in employment?
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He is the most inept MP in the history of this country.
If you walked into any pub in the land you'd find dozens of people more capable to do his job. How he was the audacity to show his face in public is a total mystery. You wouldn't trust him to walk your dog. |
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inept isnt even close. was he also minister for prisons at one point or am i confused ? ( highly likely )
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i am slowly coming to the conclusion that he is in the cabinet just to try & make the other dimwits look good. That ploy is failing miserably
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At least he is consistent.
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he worked for the Ministry of Justice i believe. He banning of books going into prison was one of his more delightful decisions. He obviously buggared that up & this was after he buggared up the DWP. Now he is buggaring up the Transport System; is there no end to this mans 'talents'
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another mp, without merit, promoted for loyalty rather than ability.
we all suffer. all those years of austerity never saw rail fares fall..... we are not in this together |
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one mustn't forget (as i did
) the beauty below he just arrangedChris Grayling has defended his decision to award a £13.8m contract to charter extra ferries to a “start-up” company that has no ships, as part of no-deal Brexit preparations. The transport secretary said he would “make no apologies for supporting a new British business” after widespread criticism of the award of the contract to the British firm Seaborne Freight, which has never previously operated a similar service. “It’s a new start-up business, government is supporting new British business and there is nothing wrong with that,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “We have looked very carefully at this business, we have put in place a tight contract that makes sure they can deliver for us. I don’t see any problem with supporting a new British business.” He said the firm would be ready to deliver services from April and had been “looked at very carefully by a team of civil servants who have done due diligence on the company and reached a view they can deliver” |
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i ****** despair i really do
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how do they know they can deliver ?
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Due diligence was carried out morp.
Not a big contract so I think giving it to a start up British company is no big deal. They've given guarantees that they'll be up and running (or is that sailing) by April. |
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april 1 ?
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he wouldn't be risking it with his own money.
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Chris Failing.
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they have no boats and no previous experience,
Hard to have had experience without boats morp but that's the company. Those involved in running the company do have experience. Like I said, no big deal for such a small contract. |
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they gave two bigger contracts to foreign operators
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We're still operating under EU rules Donny so why surprised?
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so you excuse giving a contract to a non existant supplier on basis its supporting britain and
excuse awarding bigger contracts to johnny foreigner on basis we havnt left yet but cant think why those two excuses are a bit contradictory? |
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its all a bit of a bluff really, still, ramsgate will get some much needed dredging done
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But a BBC investigation discovered it had never run a ferry service before.
Mr Grayling told the Today programme that the government had "looked very carefully" at the business. "We have put in place a tight contract to make sure they can deliver for us," he added. The contract award notice reveals that the tender process took place "without prior publication of a call for competition". It states that the limited process was due to "a situation of extreme urgency" in the run-up to the UK's EU departure date. The document shows that the contract received a single bid, from Seaborne Freight. The Road Haulage Association (RHA), which represents firms bringing freight to and from UK ports, said its members were worried about how their trucks will get across the Channel. Seaborne Freight will need to "source ferries, hire and train staff and link with relevant authorities", according to Rod McKenzie, a managing director at the RHA. "It looks an impossible timescale." |
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36% increase in rail fares since 2010. That, fare people, is a national disgrace
The annual rip-off price hike seems to be the only part of the privatised railway that always runs to schedule. |
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but cant think why those two excuses are a bit contradictory?
Err no. EU rules must be obeyed whilst we are in the EU. As for the smaller contract that isn't subject to the same conditions. Why are you annoyed that a UK start up company is being given a helping hand by the UK government? |
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shareholder profits up, service levels down
what more do you want , ffs if they cant make a profit they just hand it back to government too, backstop in place |
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we wont be in eu if these cowboys get to operate their service
maybe them two cutters javid has recalled can be adapted to carry freight to france? who nose eh? |
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the Fleetstretfox just called him a f***knuckle
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Hardly cowboys Donny when the company is loaded with people experienced in all freight businesses.
This story is a non story but the BBC and others are trying to ramp up the heat. Poor losers in the media responding to type. |
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loaded, aye, kerching!
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Only ever caught one, nice fish put up a good fight
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this particular one would slide off the hook
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He really earns the nickname "Failing" Grayling.
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Mr Marmite - Owen Jones an hour ago:
"Whenever I see that Chris Grayling – officially secretary of state for transport, unofficially minister for blunders, incompetence and general disaster – still has a job, I wonder what Hugh Dalton would think. Dalton served as chancellor of the exchequer in Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government for its first two years, and was the initial architect of its progressive economic measures. But then, in the late autumn of 1947, Dalton inadvertently leaked some minor details of his impending budget to a lobby journalist. By today’s standards, we’d struggle to call it much of a leak: the papers hit the stands very shortly before Dalton stood at the dispatch box. Yet this was such a scandal at the time that he felt obliged to resign from the cabinet. Seventy years on, it turns out that Chris Grayling does actually serve a useful purpose, as a measure of the extent to which the resignation threshold has been raised. Maybe the transport secretary should lend his name to this political trend: the Grayling principle, perhaps. Come now, you protest, which government has offered the British public such a varied smörgåsbord of ministerial resignations? Yet many of those are Tory Brexiteers fleeing a crime scene, not honourably resigning office due to their own failures; or ministers resigning over allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct; or, in the case of Priti Patel, stepping down because of secretive meetings with a foreign government. Even former home secretary Amber Rudd – who was swiftly reinstated to the cabinet – was forced to resign over misleading MPs, rather than the substance of the Windrush scandal, which deprived British citizens of healthcare, left them homeless, or even deported them. In this context, that Grayling continues to be paid £141,000 a year is a sign not only of shambolic government, but of national and political decline too. Given the chaos we have become used to, when you hear that Grayling has awarded a £13.8m contract to charter extra ferries in a no-deal Brexit scenario to a company that doesn’t actually have any ferries, you simply exclaim: “But of course!” He isn’t entirely to blame. The government as a whole is spending vast sums of public money on a no-deal outcome, principally as an act of psychological warfare aimed at coercing MPs into voting for Theresa May’s deal. Yet committing taxpayers’ money to a no-ships company to help save Britain from a hypothetical self-inflicted meltdown would surely be a scandal in normal times. Consider Grayling’s wider record. Train punctuality has sunk to a 13-year low, while rail fares have again been raised in an era in which British workers have suffered the worst stagnation in wages since the Napoleonic wars. During the disruption last year, in which up to 200 Govia Thameslink services a day were being cancelled, Grayling defended himself as not a “specialist in rail matters”. According to an interim report from the Office of Road and Rail, “nobody took charge”. As a bare minimum, he should have stripped Govia Thameslink of its franchise, but instead the company was merely required to spend more on passenger improvements. In 2016, a leaked letter found that Grayling opposed devolving control of suburban rail to London’s elected authorities for partisan reasons: he wanted to keep it “out of the clutches” of a Labour mayor. Even a former Conservative vice-chair declared no confidence in him after that. Both Crossrail and HS2 have been beset by disastrous delays and budget overruns, but while chairman Terry Morgan bit the bullet, Grayling remains in place. Whatever the truth behind the Gatwick drone which wrecked so many people’s Christmases, we know that Grayling stopped plans to regulate the use of drones and failed to heed warnings of the disruption they might cause at airports. And while he absurdly suggested that buses could soon be replaced by Uber-style services, cuts of 45% have been made to supported bus routes since 2010 and fares raised at rates beyond inflation. To have such a dismal record and still manage to spend £300m more than his department’s annual budget is almost impressive. Grayling is therefore a source of inspiration to mediocre white men everywhere who, however much they lack ability, can still look forward to wielding power. We live in a country, after all, in which the first black female MP is pilloried for getting some figures wrong in an interview, while Grayling can preside over abject chaos in Britain’s essential national infrastructure and still remain in post. In that sense, he sums up a twofold national decline: in the standards of a morally decrepit political elite, and in the provision of essential services in a supposedly advanced economy. Of course, it’s not just about Grayling. The privatisation of the railway system is one of the most vivid examples of how market ideology has set itself on a collision course with reality. Even a thoroughly competent politician would struggle to run such a fragmented mess. That Grayling is no such thing merely compounds a terrible national error. And so, along with rain on a bank holiday, it seems there are some new certainties in decaying Tory Britain: that trains are delayed and overcrowded, that fares are unaffordable, and that Chris Grayling keeps his job." |
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a New Statesman piece form 3 years ago:
"Never let it be said that nothing ever changes in politics. In fact, with the announcement on court charges yesterday it seems we are uncovering a new law of politics – whatever policy Chris Grayling enacted as Secretary of State will, inevitably, be repealed by a colleague clearing up his mess at a later date. In October the Government were quite exceptionally defeated in the Lords on a motion condemning the mandatory court charges that were introduced by Chris Grayling, who is now Leader of the House, when he was the Justice Secretary. After only 8 months in post, the new Justice Secretary Michael Gove has yesterday announced he’ll be scrapping the charges. This U-turn is warmly welcomed by everyone who actually wants to see justice. One magistrate wrote to me to say that because of these mandatory charges, many innocent people in his courts were pleading guilty. He says that he recently had to impose—he had to, because it is mandatory on the magistrates—the court charge of £150 on a homeless man who had stolen a £1.90 sandwich from Sainsbury’s. That is not the rule of law; it is cruel injustice. And our papers and comment pages have been overflowing with similar stories for months: the reversal by Michael Gove is not just welcome, it’s overdue. But it adds to a long list of changes the new Justice Secretary has had to overturn because of the failures of the Leader of the House in his old job. There was the petty and vindictive ban on friends and relatives sending books to prisoners which even the most ardent believers in punishment rather than rehabilitation thought went too far. You might also remember the plan to build jails and execution centres for the regime in Saudi Arabia, a country whose justice system routinely crucifies, beheads, and lashes – a regime that execute journalists. Last but not least we had the U-turn over the botched plans for an ill-conceived vanity project for a modern day borstal, a Secure College that cost taxpayers £6 million before it was scrapped. Since taking over the Ministry of Justice from his spectacularly incompetent predecessor, Gove has spent much of his time trying to fix the omnishambles that is Chris Grayling’s legacy at the MoJ. The Leader of the House is to be completely airbrushed from history it seems, and there’s few in even his own party who seek to stop this process or defend his legacy. One has to wonder how long the complex and incomprehensible veto known as “English votes for English laws” will survive once the Leader of the House is gone. But all this does actually matter. It’s not just knockabout politics for critics of Grayling to rejoice in his incompetence, it marks a second failure of judgement from the Prime Minster to again reward the complete incompetence of a Cabinet Minister by moving them to Leader of the House. For let us not forget that newly ennobled Lord Lansley was Andrew Lansley the Health Secretary whose top-down changes to the NHS were so ill-conceived and disliked by the medical community they had to be subject to an unprecedented ‘pause’ in the legislation. Yet after seeing such incompetence the Prime Minister moved him to Leader of the House; with Grayling following it seems that the PM likes to use the position to gently put cabinet failures out to pasture. After the junior doctors’ fiasco, perhaps the bookies would like to start reducing odds on Jeremy Hunt to be the next Leader of the House. Lansley lasted one year, ten months and ten days in the job. Assuming that Grayling staggers on for the same amount of time, he’ll be gone on the 18th of March 2017. I’ve already set a reminder in my diary to send a letter of congratulation to Mr Hunt. ` Gove occupation with u-turning has a direct impact on our services and on our politics. On the Tories’ watch the prison system is in crisis. The latest annual report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons reported overcrowding, staff shortages and rising levels of violence, warning that the situation was unsustainable. As he said in his report: “The outcomes we reported on in 2014/15 were the worst for 10 years. Too many of the prisons were places of violence, squalor and idleness. That is bad for prisoners, bad for staff and bad for the communities into which these prisoners are going to be returned.” The new Justice Secretary should be giving this his full focus, but instead he’s having to clean up after the incompetence and wrong-headedness of his predecessor. It’s often said that all political careers end in failure, it just seems that Grayling’s seems to failing before it has ended". |
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Registered Office of Seaborne Freight is 59 Mansell Street which is the law firm CJC
http://www.cjclaw.com/site/our-people/london/ Mark Bamford is a director. The Bamford family are large Tory donors |
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the internet is littered with articles just like the two above, from both sides of the political divide. His own colleagues asked for him to resign 3 years ago over his 'ideas', yet he still sits in cabinet.
Bojo gets deserved stick for his stupid & uninformed opinion; and would probably be a danger to all of us if he ever got power (not going to happen i know) but the muttonhead above still sits as Transport Secretary. The people of this country are sick & tired of not being listened to; of politicians & politics in general, and yet Grayling still sits in the cabinet. Most should know my feelings of this governments cabinet & it's members by now, & i can promise you this forum is not the only outlet for my disdain. I now declare political war on Grayling; gloves off & let the battle commence |
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funny you should mention that, Mr Combustible as i received an email not long ago giving me the same information. I will not go unheeded
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Grayling is a first class Pri@k and people who know me know i very rarely
swear or make this kind of remark It also does not help that the people in charge these days on the whole have no experiance of how to run a train service nearly all our bosses these days come from M&S H Samuel etc and a lot of the staff that get better jobs are through family or sponsered by others from darkest Peru. The one i work for is pleading poverty and close to handing back the keys we hear through the grapevine which is not surprising |
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Grayling 'comes from' Television, wit-ham
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no real surprise
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What an idiot.... I opened this thread thinking it was going to be something informative about a fish.
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