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Thing is its literally nothing to do with him anyway. The British museum deals with this sort of stuff and are very well versed in the subtle nuances of this type of negotiation. Love him or far more likely hate him, George Osborne is in the middle of sorting this out and it was pretty much done and dusted with a deal where we 'lent' the marbles back to Greece (bearing in mind the UK aquired them legally) on a semi permanent loan basis and they lent us a bunch or priceless artwork which had never been displayed in the UK before. Everyone is happy (or probably more likely doesn't care) and there we are.
Then this idiot jumps in with his size 12's (kids size 12's obvs) because he is such a useless primeminister and makes it a huge issue, undermining all the hard work others have done and causing yet more international tension for absolutely no reason other than his ego,
What an absolute non-entity he is.
what on earth does that make Oliver Dowden?
An irrelevant far right version of Tintin.
Then this idiot jumps in with his size 12’s (kids size 12’s obvs) because he is such a useless primeminister and makes it a huge issue, undermining all the hard work others have done and causing yet more international tension for absolutely no reason other than his ego,
Or, as mentioned above , it's just a smokescreen distraction from more important matters. Do you really think Lil Richtea gives a flying truck about some marbles ?
Do you really think Lil Richtea gives a flying truck about some marbles ?
Someone needs to have a little chat with Rishi about priorities, maybe in the form of a multiple choice.
The country is facing a set of challenges, please rank them in order:
The NHS
Small boats
Local bus services
Where the Parthenon Marbles are kept
Potholes
Education and the crumbling concrete in schools
You have 2 minutes.
If you were being cynical you might think that Lil Rishi manufactured this whole thing as a Culture War dead cat to distract from the right wing loons now coming for him
Robert Jenrick expresses frustration with slow pace of UK immigration cuts
Immigration minister says he would have brought in plans to curb net migration ‘before last Christmas if I could have done
Sunak ‘agreed with Braverman to £40k income threshold for UK migrants’
Purported agreement included raising minimum salary and ending extended visas for graduates
Kemi Badenoch backs Braverman's stance on migrant salaries
Business and Trade Secretary calls for ‘strongest possible measures’ to reduce record migration figures
Looks like a coordinated campaign by the headbangers. Has Cruella offered Honest Bob and Kemi a top job in the shadow cabinet when she becomes leader? Certainly looks that way. Two ministers undermining him by coming out in support of the wingnut he just sacked? Maybe they’re trying to get sacked too?
For anyone interested, the "senior government minister" speaking at the Cambridge Union tomorrow evening is Jeremy Hunt - identity was being kept secret while the security was put in place.
Hopefully it will be live streamed on their YouTube channel. Not sure what kind of car crash it will be.
£40K minimum for skilled migrant workers would pull the rug out from under much of the early career labour underpinning many of the research programs in the Gov's scientific priorities
It’s almost as if some unhinged nationalist dogma was trumping the actual needs of the country…
Taking back control is great, innit?
A good and slightly amusing writeup about today's PMQ's. Suffice to say, a lot of his own MP's think his focus on the marbles etc is dumb as hell. Their comments are pretty damning, his authority over his party is slipping away and fast.
"He is lousy at foreign affairs and would not have known the impact of such a snub," a former cabinet minister tells me.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67566248
£40K minimum for skilled migrant workers would pull the rug out from under much of the early career labour underpinning many of the research programs in the Gov’s scientific priorities
It also means no social or healthcare staffs bar senior doctors
kimbers
Full Member
I guarantee the 40k cut-off will never happenWho is coming up with the drivel? They’re all batshit
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the batshitiest of them all?
I think they all qualify but depending upon criteria it's hard to judge the winner.
... But we are all losers that's for sure.
It’s almost as if some unhinged nationalist dogma was trumping the actual needs of the country…
Yep, it has always been easy to explain why we need immigration to do a lot of the jobs that we either don't want to do or don't have the qualified people to do. Immigration is not a problem if the people are working in the country and their contributions just add to everyone else's as long as governments keep up with it with increased health and social commitments and so on. Presumably why they were given visas to work here?
But to admit that is then opening up questions they don't want to answer so better just to portray it as some sort of evil but then as we can see they have made it worse for themselves so some positives.
bearing in mind the UK aquired them legally
How many beads did we pay them?
This £40k 'starting rate' for foreigners - so now we're keeping all the lowly paid jobs just for Brits.
Not only does it mean that only the better jobs are available for immigrants, but that business & the Public Sector will be able to drive the cost of these down too as they bring in folk from lower cost countries.
Screw the working AND middle class Brits even more - lost our FOM and now getting pushed back 'in our place'. The gullible fools who voted Leave & Tory in 2019 really have put the 'Elite' back in control.
I guarantee the 40k cut-off will never happen
Who is coming up with the drivel? They’re all batshit
Absolutely this. All this serves one purpose only… it’s purely political posturing by the hard right, batshit wing of the Tory party to complete its UKIPisation (in opposition)
The people who bankroll the Tory party aren’t going to stand for having their supply of cheap imported labour choked off and they’ll have made that abundantly clear to lil Rishi
Therefore Cruella and her little minion, Honest Bob, see this as a wedge issue to appeal to the backbench headbangers and the unhinged, racist membership. It’s working too. Rishi was openly receiving hostile questioning on immigration from his own backbenchers at PMQ’s yesterday
Yep some top trolling by Charlie boy. A little less subtle than his mother though
parthenon marbles bounce
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1730547388941516906?t=sfndhR3s_gjxbP0ORlTyHA&s=19
^^ Well, I mean, it's a a workable majority I suppose? 😉
highlandman
Free Member
Meanwhile…Charlie’s choice of tie. Brilliant.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the monarchy but yeah, trolling your own PM whilst having plausible deniability is pretty wonderful.
Puts the flag shaggers into a bind too. Which is even better! 😆
Well he’s half Greek anyway
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the monarchy but yeah, trolling your own PM whilst having plausible deniability is pretty wonderful.Puts the flag shaggers into a bind too. Which is even better! 😆
They do have form for this - the Queen famously wore a brooch given to her by Barack Obama when Trump visited and she wore a hat very representative of the EU flag during a state opening of Parliament.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-40356113
My guess is that Sunak is too stupid or self-centred to have noticed.
£38k migrant cap plan is going to fall apart in days
A random number plucked out of the air to keep the headbangers happy despite that being a totally impossible task.
That’s the headline but there will be so many exemptions and exceptions that the whole thing is rendered utterly pointless before it’s even been brought in
It’s just gesture politics to appease the hard-of-thinking racists that are their core vote. Like everything else these idiots (don't actually) do. Its literally all they've got left
The Tories are floating out so many 'end of days' policies at the moment, without considering even for a microsecond the consequences, that you sense that the final implosion is near. They are looking no further forward than the next hour's headlines, let alone the next day's.
Latest polling out today has Sunak's approval rating as worse than the lettuce after her disastrous mini-budget
Imagine being less popular than Liz Truss for a second time? He's totally ****ed!
Just put yourself out of your misery, call an election and get the inevitable over with
F**** the Tories.
I have a sticker on my letterbox and rear window on the car that expresses that exact sentiment
Rwanda must be absolutely laughing their tits off at this lot!
Jimmy Dimly is off there tomorrow to give them another couple of hundred million quid for doing nowt
Thanks very much. Give us a shout if you ever get a flight to leave. See you in 6 months with another couple of hundred mil
In the meantime, back home, they’ve decided to make the current labour shortages ten times worse, with their usual back-of-a-fag-packet bollocks that they dreamt up yesterday afternoon after a long lunch
Absolute ****ing clowns!
They’re clearly just shitting themselves about Farage/Tyce/Reform/Brexit Party/Whatever They’re Called This Week, and are blurting out any old crap to appeal to the knuckle-draggers
In the meantime, back home, they’ve decided to make the current labour shortages ten times worse, with their usual back-of-a-fag-packet bollocks that they dreamt up yesterday afternoon after a long lunch
Yep, that's what provoked my comment.
The vulnerable, young and old, will suffer over this. It's incredibly f****** nasty even for these Tory scumbags.
Sunak is just retrenching back into a tinny little far right bubble. Sat in his bunker,he’s now so completely detached from reality that he believes the view of the world dictated to him by the absolute fruitloops like Braverman and the rest of the ERG headbangers on the backbenches
And they wonder why they’re 20 points behind in the polls and set for an electoral wipeout?
We just need these idiots gone ASAP
Cleverley isn’t exactly a huge fan of the Rwanda scheme is he? Didn’t he call the policy “batshit”?
He did indeed. Yet there he is, stood up in Parliament promoting it. He’ll be there tomorrow smiling and waving while handing over another big cheque. A real man of principle, eh?
As long as he’s flying around on private jets, he’s happy
Rwanda policy is nuts, cost is insane, at present it will take a few 100 out of a backlog of many 1000s, still wont act as a deterrent even if they could get it through the courts......and yet the Tories have made it a totemic issue for themselves
cleverly knows that he also said recently that the kind of migration controls he announced today wouldn't work
John Crace is on the Money in the Guardian, as ever…
Sunak and his useful idiots pile reset upon reset in race to oblivion
There we had it. Jimmy Dimly sat down with a huge smirk. Revelling in his own smugness. His intellectual inferiority. Because what he had just done was effectively torch the economy. There would be no one left to fill the vacancies in the NHS and social care sector. Public services that were already on a knife-edge would now implode. Hospitality and agriculture would be dead.
But what the hell? Who cared about the economy so long as halfwits like Lee Anderson were happy.
Here's what MP's think of the energy crisis:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-expenses-energy-bills-tories-labour-b2408030.html
It's free, what's the problem?
Rwanda policy is nuts
Has 'hotel california' actually been built yet, or will it require more brown envelopes?
I've got an idea...
Let's scrap the second home allowance for MP's, how many MP's are there? 600?
Let's build a flotila on the Thames, with 600 rooms, or even commandeer a couple of travelodges? so they can stay there ('breakfast included') for £150 or less per night.
No need for a second home allowance....
What's the connection with Rishi Sunak? He doesn't appear to be mentioned in the article but some Labour politicians are :
"Labour frontbenchers Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband, Liz Kendall, Louise Haigh, Hilary Benn, Nick Thomas-Symonds and Pat McFadden are among the senior party figures who put in similar claims."
If the existing arrangements are not acceptable then let's hear alternative proposals from opposition parties. The next UK prime minister will not be a Tory.
Well not a member of the Conservative Party anyhow.
Well not a member of the Conservative Party anyhow.
😂