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There are rumblings some stuff has already been flogged ahead of the announcement.
It would be surprising given they were still buying this week or maybe end of last week.
It would be surprising given they were still buying this week or maybe end of last week.
Not sure one would preclude the other!
they were still buying this week or maybe end of last week.
In fact less than 24 before the announcement.
https://inews.co.uk/news/government-bought-house-hs2-line-rishi-sunak-cancelled-2667199
Government has failed to tell HS2 manager to stop buying properties under compulsory purchase orders despite cancellation of northern leg of the line between Birmingham and Manchester
You have to assume that if they weren't told to stop buying they also weren't told to start selling.
You have to assume that if they weren’t told to stop buying they also weren’t told to start selling.
You're assuming the person doing the buying would be doing the selling too... You're also assuming that the selling is all above board!
You're assuming the left hand knows what the right hand is doing!
Complete lack of joined up thinking throughout.
You’re also assuming that the selling is all above board!
Well I haven't got into any conspiracy theories yet, so yes that is precisely what I am assuming.
And yes I also assume that those involved the HS2 project have a vague idea of what they are doing. If there was a complete lack of joined up thinking it would never get built in the first place.
If there was a complete lack of joined up thinking it would never get built in the first place.
Well it hasnt been built yet and has gone massively overbudget and been trimmed in scope. So I am not sure that specific argument adds up.
Well in that case Rishi Sunak's latest announcement is completely irrelevant, none of it will be built.
3yrs ago to the day, somebody updated Rishi Sunak's wikipedia page thus...
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"Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has been rightfully called a turd by legend Liam Gallagher."
Seems even more relevant now than ever!
yes Sunak seems to have actually tweeted a picture of himself flying back from Manchester on a private jet....
https://twitter.com/MittensOff/status/1710378242052366606?t=jMK_xRbobLhflpkPqIHX8A&s=19
yeah im posting this again
but how is he so clueless?
https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1710403169048485891?t=IBBWR8xjxBmPgg0u0THO2w&s=19
I'm always 'working for you' - ring binder open, pen at the ready, serious face.
Yeah, right.
Yes of course he is trolling why not guy became prime minster without the public voting for him, remember this is the help to eat guy!
Ok all honesty, if he was trolling it was almost be more human. You are genuinely looking at a guy that doesn't see any hypocrisy in a pic like that. He doesn't remotely live in the same world as us. To him his job is a Sunday game of Monopoly. Doesn't matter how out goes, has no impact on him. Or rather, the only impact will be positive for him once he moves permanently to the US once he's finished with us.
Also I'm a little concerned that he holds his pen upside down.
Kudos for getting a sanctioned benefits claimant to hold a Union flag out on the wind though. No doubt the owner of the guide dog he was pictured with a few days back. "You just stand here luv, hold this and brace yourself, might get a lightly gusty but knock on the window if out gets a little bracing and I'll tell the pilot to slow down a bit."
The simple answer is that he has the same psychopathic tendencies that a lot of leaders and people in senior positions have. In his head he is doing the right thing, we just don't understand him and he doesn't need to care about that as what he is doing is always right.
Its amazing though whoever runs his social media account didnt point out to him that its possibly not the best image to portray.
Do you think that might be deliberate? After all, none of them are going to want to inherit this shit show next term.
After all, none of them are going to want to inherit this shit show next term.
I am not sure thats relevant for the social media account manager. Although that said considering how fast they churned through PMs i guess they could end up with that.
Anyway more shocking news.
The country is going to have to go into crisis mode.
Failing Grayling has announced he is standing down at the next election.
How will the country cope without his leadership. All those takeways dreaming of becoming ferry lines.
Nah, this is Rishi doing all he can to cling onto power, its the act of desperation. There's more than one commentator suggesting that he using the same team of advisers that Johnson used - Lynton Crosby and Dom Cummings, and the word salad coming out of No.10 in the last couple of weeks, "Change candidate", "Getting rid of the consensus politics" "Making the hard decisions" is entirely their sort of language.
It won't make any difference of course, the Tories are ****ed and they all know it. Half of them are behaving like they're in opposition already the party is so divided, but I think Rishi likes being PM, and the power that gives hmi to make sure he and his family and friends stay wealthy. At the very least, we all know he wants to stay on and he won't, and that'll piss him off personally. Small comfort I know.
So as well as my earlier bet for a spring election, my side bet is that he'll **** off to Silicon valley where he belongs with all the other of the dysfunctional right wing ghouls, there's no way he'd stick around and be a back-bencher.
Agree, we won't be seeing him as a back bencher which tells us what we already know about why he is in politics.
In which case gives him strong similarities with Tony Blair, who on the same day resigned both as prime minister and MP to pursue other lucrative career opportunities, despite there still being another 3 years before the next general election.
It certainly banished any doubts I might of had concerning what motivated Tony Blair, when he decided that providing advice to murderous despots was more important than providing advice to his constituents. And that he was too special to sit on the backbenches.
Blair was certainly mainly motivated by wealth and power
If they ban cigarettes, what will they use to work their policies out on once fag packets are no more?
The funeral shrouds of the poor they've sent to early graves
Hey, at least little Rishi's successor as Tory leader won't surely be as bad? It's not as if someone like Farridge is suddenly in the running for it?
Oh... Hang on...
Its amazing though whoever runs his social media account didnt point out to him that its possibly not the best image to portray.
He hasn't got any other image to portray. Same with all of them - Liz "instagram" Truss was the same, any/all of them once they don a hard hat and a hi-viz on some construction site somewhere. Farage has some mate/lacky who does regular pics of him too - yes they get ripped to shreds on some aspects of social media but they also get likes and shares from the mouth-breathing morons that looks up to these shysters.
The social media people are in the same bubble - job description is to fly around in Rishi's helicopters and private jets and take photos of him "hard at work". Bring it on. Better than following SKS around on a train or coach! 😉
*s****s*
The little fella was interviewed by Jeremy Vine today and it's been reported that, when asked about 'Network North', he said the list of schemes he announced were 'illustrative'.
So, not real then; same as Network North.
If only it could be described as a shambles but it's a thousand times worse.
Source: Paul Waugh.
That is a great line. I'm gonna use that!
"But you said you could fly a plane!!!!!!!!"
"ahhhh, but you see that CV of mine was illustrative....you know, just showing what a CV could look like 'if' you had actually hired a pilot"
What a ****
Think I might try booking the local tory club for a party.
"ahhhh, but you see the amount I agreed to pay was illustrative. Have a tenner instead".
So without anything to show we've spent £1.25billion on the cancelled project - that's somewhere between £10-14million per mile of not built track.
Staggering.
In both how much money this thing was costing (and I struggle with that) but also what he has how walked away from.
No great surprise to see the Conservative Party Chairman Greg Hands exploit the current situation to whip up some choice islamophobia:
on Monday, Tory party chair Greg Hands wrote to his Labour counterpart Anneliese Dodds demanding that Apsana Begum, the MP for Poplar and Limehouse, have the whip withdrawn on the grounds that she had “tweeted her ‘solidarity’ with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)”. Begum had not in fact tweeted anything; instead, the PSC had thanked Begum via its own X account for her pre-arranged visit to the stall on Saturday.
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Hands’ letter unleashed a torrent of misogynistic and Islamophobic abuse at Begum both online and offline, some of it describing Begum as a “bitch”, “female slave” and “part of the caliphate”. The attacks, which are currently being investigated by the police, led Begum’s staff to fear for her safety. Begum decided to leave the conference on Monday.
The Tories are so morally bankrupt, and so desperate in face of the inevitable electoral catastrophe which awaits them, that they feel obliged to trawl the gutter.
This did put a smile on my face though:
Labour lord Alf Dubs, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and refugee rights advocate, also visited the PSC stall.
And there is a lovely photo of holocaust survivor Alf Dubbs holding a "Free Palestine" placard.
Ladies and Gentlemen… the party of law’n’order…
You couldn’t make it up. Maybe our alleged Home Secretary could spend the odd hour or two doing her ****ing day job instead of purely concentrating on her leadership campaign and giving speeches to right-wing nutjob US thinktanks
Our distribution grid is way behind where it needs to be and needs massive and rapid investment. The government know as well and have no intention of addressing the issues.
We can’t expect anything useful from Sunak, but is any of this moving in the right direction do you think…?
Some good news for the little fella.
Latest post-conference polling shows a 23 point Labour lead and his personal poll ratings went down 5 points in a week after his conference speech to their lowest ever.
https://twitter.com/politlcsuk/status/1712738732309184513?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
https://twitter.com/politlcsuk/status/1712748242801242319?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
@Kelvin, yep a lot of what Starmer is saying on the enrgy front ticks big boxes for, just needs to get into power and do it. The UK needs infrastructure projects, tax take is higher than its ever been and weve nothing to show for it. The Tories sure as hell wont invest in anything, party of low taxes and fiscal prudence my backside.
unlocking £200bn of private investment
So more privitisation of the power generation and network despite its privatization being a total disaster. thats really going to help
sector deal for the automotive industry as part of their modern industrial strategy which will give British industry its future back.
Errmmm - private cars are the past not the future
Just popping in to remind everyone that with war raging in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Sunak's annointed Secretary of State for Defence is Grant Shapps.
A man who is out of his depth on a wet pavement.
so labours promises on green issues worth nothing? The end of the private car is in sight. Labour should be looking to the future