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Starmer on collateral formlines: “Trounced by a former prime minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce:” https://youtu.be/nw0_s4BHOxQ
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I don’t buy papers Ian, although I get an Independant feed to my
email each day, but that has to be a headline legend. Top marks
to the wag that came up with the idea.To be fair, those lads at The Daily Star came up with the original idea: the shelf life of Truss v a lettuce.
I used to work with one or two of them – their humour is often very dated, lots of 70s and 80s references (but then who under the age of 50 buys a newspaper nowadays?) but they frequently make me laugh.
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Tories 5.8Latest opinion poll has Sunak ahead of Starmer on best PM and a reduced lead overall for Labour but still over 20pts clear.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Sunak still very much in the honeymoon period but he had a very, very low bar to clear so any sort of arrest of the Truss catastrophe was always going to give him a polling bounce. The electorate will be prepared to give him a chance so time will tell.
As you have said Ian, ‘events, dear boy, events’. Wilts has also said that the economy is where it will be won and lost and it’s hard to disagree. The Conservative ‘brand’ has taken a lot of damage too so it’s still an uphill struggle for Sunak.
Let’s wait and see what the polls say in a few months’ time, after a winter of the NHS being inundated and potential power blackouts. And then Austerity 2.0 will come in.
As stated, I thought Sunak made a sound start, he seemed to be making a clear distinction on competence and integrity between himself and his two predecessors and I liked the serious image.
But within hours he’d reappointed the right wing security risk Braverman and he’s not attending the climate conference, citing domestic priorities at home.
I’d say he already has problems, which are only get to get worse when the events Gladders alludes to make themselves manifest.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Braverman is going to end up being a dead weight …it might be brutal but if I was him I’d be getting rid of her pronto. Starmer can knock him both ways ref the climate conference , he goes then he,s taking he eye off the ball domestically , he doesn’t go he doesn’t care about the bigger world picture , if it was a boxing match Starmer is hitting relentless damaging jabs at the Tories ….Sunak is dodging where he can but heading towards the corner
Apparently Sunak, as Chancellor, had built up a £30bn surplus in the government coffers, due to higher-than-expected tax receipts earlier this year.
But it has been wiped out by the recent political chaos. Now he and Hunt are having to find £50bn in tax rises and spending cuts to steady the economy.Higher tax receipts due to companies/businesses making their best ever profits due to the taxable governments grants claimed such as furlough & SEISS 😉
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63440024
Is this what you meant about The Blob taking over Wilts?
Richard – i read about de Boton’s appointment the other day. Apparently, she was ‘the lead’ in getting the Johnson partygate allegations reported on ITV thru the journo ‘faces’ i.e. Peston, Brand, Dinnen, Wiener etc on ITV news.
Peston looked absolutely gutted the other day when he heard she was going to Team Rishi. As you know Peston is a die-hard Socialist (i actually have a couple of his books) – i think it shocked him.Maybe Rishi thinks it is better to have ‘your enemies inside the tent’ rather than ‘outside’ creating narratives😉
Socialism books should be in the fiction section of the book shop , I reckon Sunak next prob is going to be stopping the potential nurses strike …if that goes ahead then they,ll have plenty support , he needs to stick his hand deep down the back of the sofa
Braverman tried to come out fighting but failed badly , no doubt they,ll be more to come out , I’ll be amazed if she’s not gone by the end of the week , more Tory talk of fixing a broken system ….you’ve had 12 years
As you say, HDLG, it’s laughable. Braverman actually said that the system is broken.
Remind me: who has been in power for the last twelve years?
“….the system is broken…”
Sure is.
The UK’s new Bill of Rights will likely only ‘solve’ parts of the problem, unfortunately.
If the measures now proposed do not succeed and it becomes clear that the only way of protecting UK families and enforcing our own borders is to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, then that is what the Government should do.Secondly, when will the EU countries finally act to ensure asylum seekers are processed in the country they first set foot in?
Thirdly, ‘we’ are now up to 65% of this year’s ‘boat people’ being Albanian – a country where these peeps are not persecuted or seeking genuine asylum. In fact, 000s of Albanians are ‘imported’ into the UK straight into criminal gangs; even The Guardian says so!
So what has the government been doing about these problems for the last twelve years?
Of course it’s all the EU and ECHR’s fault 🙄 Twelve years of the Tories and we’ve also had Brexit where we were told that we’d be ‘taking back control’ (from whom I don’t know) yet the system is broken? I get the feeling we’ve been lied to.
A reminder of the ECHR. Personally I’m glad all of those rights apply to me:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-convention/our-rights
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