{"id":11267,"date":"2022-06-09T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2022-06-10T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T08:52:14","slug":"unemployable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=11267","title":{"rendered":"Unemployable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party-time alleged prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-61709441\">survived a vote of confidence<\/a> on Monday and is clinging to office despite 40% of his party colleagues voting against him, a higher proportion than previous no-confidence votes against former Tory premiers <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Thatcher\">Margaret Thatcher<\/a> (<em>of sainted memory. Ed.<\/em>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theresa_May\">Theresa May<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Since then Johnson and his supine cabinet have tried to appear competent with a flurry of policy announcements of the expired feline variety, including a ludicrous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2022-06-08\/johnson-to-announce-extension-of-right-to-buy-to-housing-association-renters\">extension of the disastrous right to buy scheme<\/a> to housing association tenants, including those on benefits.<\/p>\r\n<p>Among those also spinning pointlessly &#8211; unlike a child&#8217;s top &#8211; is Penny Mordaunt, MP for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minister_of_State_for_Trade_Policy\">Minister of State for Trade Policy<\/a>, who tweeted a link to a piece (<em>complete with a photograph of Rabid Dog [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10761\">posts passim<\/a>]. Ed.<\/em>) she&#8217;d written for the Telegraph, house magazine of the Cult of the Adoration of the Boris and favoured reading matter of the Blue Team.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/mordaunt_torygraph.png\" alt=\"Tweet reads We are at an inflection point for our country. People have put their trust in us to deliver on their vision. If we fight one other, we'll fail. If we unite and work as a team, we will succeed. That is our job, and we'd better remember it.\" width=\"600\" height=\"670\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/mordaunt_torygraph.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/mordaunt_torygraph-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<p>However, Mordaunt&#8217;s use of social media did not develop necessarily to her advantage, that of fellow members of the government of none of the talents or that of the party-time alleged prime minister, as the following exchange shows.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/dominos_politics-e1654787355217.jpeg\" alt=\"Text of 2 tweets reads 1) I wouldn\u2019t trust you lot to deliver a pizza for @Dominos_UK AND 2) To confirm. Neither would we.\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/dominos_politics-e1654787355217.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/dominos_politics-e1654787355217-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/06\/dominos_politics-e1654787355217-576x1024.jpeg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<p>Yes, you read that correctly. One of the country&#8217;s leading fast food suppliers would not trust any current government minister to deliver their products, not exactly either a highly skilled or highly paid job.<\/p>\r\n<p>Now that&#8217;s what your &#8216;umble scribe would call a proper vote of no confidence.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party-time alleged prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson survived a vote of confidence on Monday and is clinging to office despite 40% of his party colleagues voting against him, a higher proportion than previous no-confidence votes against former Tory premiers Margaret Thatcher (of sainted memory. Ed.) and Theresa May. Since then Johnson and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15,34],"tags":[16,22,33,20,35],"class_list":["post-11267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11267"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11303,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions\/11303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}