BIS Officials Bite At Vince’s Briefing
Vince Cable has taken to the pages of the FT to brief against Thresesa May and Iain Duncan Smith:
An ally of Mr Cable said: “Vince really wants to come forward with a good package for business this autumn but we want to see other departments putting their weight behind these efforts. They need to bring something to the table.”
His line is that they do not realise how serious the growth situation is, however Vince might want to make sure his own department is in order before he whispers into hacks ears. Guido understands that some officials at Business Innovation and Skills are none too happy with the drop in stature their department has had since the old man took over from Mandy. Although he had his faults, they feel Prince of Darkness made the department’s presence felt in every nook and cranny of Whitehall. They are moaning at a lack of “kudos” these days and gently remind the Minister in charge of growth that it’s going to require more than just sniping against others for not cutting enough red tape…
Sack him – please sack him
Looks like the Liberals are now finding out first hand how much the EU controls UK trade and how little power they actually have to do anything constructive.
It’s all down to not knowing what he is shagging. As a Limp-Dumb it could be anything from a Teen Russian Spy to a local rent-boy to a strangely bandy grey squirrel.
Hes a stupi piss soaked EU supporter.
Hang The useless Whinging Bastard
Didn’t he put up Capital Gains tax from 18% to 28%
That means that you lose your profit to taxes.
Hardly an encouragement to business.
If you do have a gain, you make sure that you avoid the tax, meaning NO revenue for the country.
The only thing these F–kers can do to help.
1 Put the Vat up
2 Raise the minimum wage
3 Bit more red tape
4 Borrow more money so we can lend it out to failing states.
5 Tax the man in the Street with the Fraud energy policy and make him squeak
It will help to put us out of our misery and put us all out of business now, we have been hanging by our balls for 2 year now and cant take any more.
I am good at shagging don’t forget that, especially when I’m doing it on taxpayer’s funds.
http://www.portsmouthnews.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4827:portsmouth-conservative-flick-drummond-joins-voters-who-feel-betrayed-by-local-mp&catid=34:front-page-news
Does the BIS actually do anything useful that could not be done otherwise?
No, nothing useful that I can see. Unless you are a Korean car maker.
No.
BIS were responsible for the interpretation and implementation of European regulation in this country and did so in ways that other countries didn’t. ‘Gold plating’ the regulation, I think it is now being called.
Much of this was introduced as ‘regualtion’, not primary legislation, which means that apart from some perfunctory ‘consultation’ there was no real scrutiny in Parliament of the ball and chain that we were attaching to business in a way other countries wouldn’t.
I travel to Denmark, from time to time, and find that their interpretation of employment law for example is unrecognisable from what has been introduced here.
And having just left the Civil Service, where you see the self same type of ‘group thinking’ (at its worst actually) in the way its employment policies are implemented, I can assure you that unless something is done to bring a more pragmatic approach to regualtion, we’re all fucked.
And is Vince the person to bring about that change, energy and dynanism that we need? Not a hope.
That b”stard Cable wants a good kick up his daft wrinkly ar”e. Silly old toad.
Mandelson was at least pro-business – as long it was to his personal benefit.
Unlce Vince shows no of understanding business at all and his public outbursts seem to hide the fact he has been one of the least effective ministers in the Coalition – exceeded only by Huhne who is actively damaging to the country. In a Cabinet largely consisting of timid nonentities it is saying something.
Credit where it’s due,Vince Cable did predict the 2008 banking crisis after it happened.
Business should be run for the benefit of UK not for the benefits of tax exiles who don’t give loyalty to their country.
Sack him!….that will be the day.
Why? He was proved right on many things. E.g. financial melt down, banks, Rupert, etc.
A socialist in charge of buisness?
Oxymoron.
No need for the oxy
The Peter Principle strikes again.
Good God he only worked for Shell as a back room economist so putting him in charge of business growth is like putting an arsonist in charge of fire prevention.
Probably I am being too kind to this old man in a hurry.
There’s an ‘R ‘ missing Guido
Or -e =s
“the drop in statue ”
Is that like a drop-in needle exchange?
Idi Amin’s telephone
Can i put this plug for #Movember up please Guido?
What’s a collegue?
Billy’s made it to official typist for order-order.
Its like a colleague, but without the ‘a’.
The devil is in the detil
Is it? I’ll stop using it in the tolet then
Franglais ??
Statue? Oh, you mean stature.
Or status keep up
I’m bothrersed if I know.
Is this the caption competition come early?
I’ve dropped many statues.
If they want stature, they could be reformed as a purely Trade & Industry department, hoik Media Regulation to Culture, Universities to Education and farm Vince out to Leader of the House.
Excellent idea … change the name to Department of Trade and Industry …. it has a catchy ring to it, anyone would think it was called that before !
Mmm…President of the Board of Trade – it worked for Huskisson.
One of the US presidential candidates at their forum yesterday suggested dispensing entirely with their Department of Commerce. Maybe we should just do the same and just let folks run their own businesses without all this government “help”.
What the fuck are “skills”? The ability to over a Microwank Office-whatever document?
Last night’s This Week was a hoot in case you missed it. Fatbutt was back on and the obligator celeb guest was Adam Ant. Brillo had some great one-liners about Portaloo and Fatbutt.
They’re making that sofa smaller and smaller, but I can’t fathom who is destined to end up on who’s lap.
Fatbutt appears to be wasting away.
Let’s hope she doesn’t know when to stop.
The Home Office and Work and pensions have enough of their own challenges without St Vince sticking his socialist nose in
Vince Cable?
He has very little business experience, even less innovation and no skill.
Sorry.
You’ll never get anywhere in politics by shouldering personal responsibility and making unambiguous statements of regret.
Unless it’s a good day to bury bad news.
If Cable wants colleagues to “put their weight” behind his efforts, perhaps he ought to try putting his own weight behind the Government’s efforts.
Life, dear Vince, is a two-way street.
Try telling that to the driver of this ….
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/879179-lorry-stuck-between-buildings-for-26-hours-after-somerset-satnav-screw-up
Someone told me there’s a new film that’s all about me. It’s apparently called C/untasian.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2051659/When-Paddy-met-Sally-Doherty-Bercow-together.html
makes you proud, doesn’t it
Doesn’t Bercow have a horsewhip?
Stop scraping – again, Mrs. Bigcow !
Is that a mulberry?
“They are moaning at a lack of “kudos” these days and gently remind the Minister in charge of growth that it’s going to require more than just sniping against others for not cutting enough red tape…”
Why should we give a toss about the kudos of civil servants. The government is still spending £150 bn a year more than it collects in taxes. Civil servants should make a difference considering how much they cost, and if they can’t do that they should collect their P45s and go.
The kudos they have is not queuing up for the dole with all the people who have to live with the results of their incompetence.
I wish Vince would use his nuclear option. It would be quite amusing to see the mushroom cloud coming out of his arse.
having watched Nick Robinson on BBC News at 10 talking over a sequence of video clips of Gaddafi-ordered atrocities in the UK, which culminated in a ten second clip of Blair greasing into a meeting with Gaddafi himself only 18 months or so ago, I think we should be asking Bliar for his own views of the demise of Muammar Gaddafi.
This Blair / Gaddafi angle isnt going anywhere. Much try harder neo cons.
The most likely outcome will be Cock Head thanking Blair.
So Tony did you go to the Ralph Miliband Memorial Lecture at the LSE given by the late Colonel’s son?
Nick Boles Nick Boles…where are you !!!!!!
Come on blue noses, where is Nick Boles today…I’m getting withdrawal symptoms..I haven’t had a dose of Nick for at least 24 hours.
Shhhhhhh don’t use the word MONG very often anymore Guido… We can only wonder why
Probably because some words don’t have the effects the used to, like Labour, Milliband, Bliar, Balls, Brown, EU, truth, democracy, lies, corruption , CPS, judges.
Can I suggest that we have an official “Kick a socialist day”
“Kick a socialist decade” may be more popular.
Maybe “Kick a socialist until they stop trying to weasel their way into getting control of other people’s money while accumulating spectacular personal wealth, by claiming to be concerned for carefully selected and oh-so-trendy pet causes” would be an even greater success.
Just trying to help.
A tax exile millionaire property developer bankrolling Labour?
So much for Miliband’s values, he goes weak when there’s a whiff of money.
Sally Bercow is going to move into a gypsy caravan with Paddy Doherty for a channel 5 TV show. Bad taste yes. illegal no
But what about the second half where Paddy moves into Sally’s (the taxpayer’s) pad?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2051659/When-Paddy-met-Sally-Doherty-Bercow-together.html
Paddy wants me to show him my lucky charms
There will be ten ton of shit and a pony left on speakers green.
The Guardian became known as ‘the Grauniad’ when it was typeset by union members and therefore riddled with typos. Now that Guido’s randomising his spelling, what should we call order-order?
Hari fixes mistakes quite quickly.
redo-redo
…odour-odour?
disorder disorder?
Or more simply, simply “ooops!”
re odd error
odour-odour ?
(oops sorry Mr Bee)
Oh dear-oh dear ?
rr oder oder?
Hors d’oeuvre, Hors d’oeuvre. Or as we say in Ull, orderves, orderves
Pedants renunited.
klasifuedog? or simply Guide o’ Falks
He’s spinning out of control.