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What has young Miriam been up to? Westminster gossip hinting at financial irregularities involving foreign governments…
was my first thought when i saw the story, she's been very chummy with summer dodgy far right loons across the pond
What has young Miriam been up to?
1) Penistone...s****
2) only foreign travel mentioned on register of interests is Belgium and Croatia - so no deep-pocketed Middle Eastern or Caspian usual suspects
3) she is on the board of "Conservatives Against Racism for Equality". I think we can all agree that you shouldn't be racist in the name of equality. No word on her position on being racist in the name of inequality, tho...
see 30p lee is unhappy with somebody pranking him.... he's so thin skinned and a snowflake to boot 😀
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Lil' Rishi just can't catch a break.
I'm genuinely thinking they are mad enough to get rid of him next year in one last, desperate roll of the dice.
They are all utterly mad!😄
If I was a betting man, I'd say a May 4 election.
If I was a betting man, I’d say a May 4 election.
Saturday on a bank holiday weekend?
Maybe the Thursday after. Build up starts in the New Year.
^ 😂🙄 dunno why I said 4th. I meant May...
I don't even like ****ing star wars!
i still think they'll hold out until in the autumn hoping inflation & interest rates will be lower, just after an emergency tax cutting budget
Labour winning another byelection will put the willies up Sunak, and send the erg loons into a frenzy, expect a super rwanda on steroids plan of action if that's the case.
Yeah, it's going to be in October I think.
Still a lot of damage to be done and money to be milked out of the system as yet.
No way will the election be in Spring – they will hold on as long as possible
Unless Labour does something incredibly self-destructive, it'll be the last possible date.
So I think it's 50/50 for May 2024...
Unless Labour does something incredibly self-destructive, it’ll be the last possible date.
Read the Keir Starmer thread and you'd think that they do nothing but self destruct 😂
Can't see May 2024, it'll be Oct/Nov next year, gives them enough time to give more sweeteners and try to destabilise the opposition, no matter what the polls are saying now, i don't see a landslide, you get grumbles via by-elections, or council elections, but come the general election the true blues tend to stay pretty loyal, especially if the media feed them enough fear about labour being soft on everything.
Unless Labour does something incredibly self-destructive, it’ll be the last possible date.
Read the Keir Starmer thread and you’d think that they do nothing but self destruct 😂
Which Keir Starmer thread is that? The only Starmer thread I am aware of there appears to be unanimous agreement that Labour is certain to win the coming general election. The only uncertainty is by how much. Personally I think a 200 seat majority is feasible although probably unlikely.
A bit like for the Tories "honesty" is not a virtue much associated with centrists, eh argee?
A bit like for the Tories “honesty” is not a virtue much associated with centrists, eh argee?
Watch out. Any negative comment about our once and future king will have binners descending to thread police and demand it is kept on topic.
I am sure his failure to do so when it is praise is surely accidental.
Given the economy should, unless the tories try really hard, start recovering somewhat next year I would go for a autumn election. As much as it would be beneficial for some to keep getting paid till January going for a December/January election would likely be problematic both in terms of their voter demographic turnout in winter and also the risk about lots of mortgages becoming due even with likely improving rates overall. That said holiday season would have the benefit of students being at home but being that cynical would likely provoke a backlash and dedicated voting turnout.
Channel 4 news we’re saying earlier that the general consensus in Westminster is that Rishi knows the Tories are going to be absolutely decimated in Mays local elections anyway, so he’s favouring getting it all out of the way at once in one crushing humiliation
Then he’s off to California and leave Badanoch and Cruella to scrap it out over the smouldering wreckage of the party and Starmer to sort out the total car crash he and his mates have left the country in
Other than being able to say he was one of the least popular PMs in Britain why has he done this?
He sure doesn't need the money (from lifelong payment or any lucrative future deals) but then greedy people don't seem to be able to say when do they.
I suppose looking at it through the eyes of a psychopath he has done brilliantly and it is all the other people who simply don't see how brilliant he is and why you should be thankful he was there.
"skip fire" springs to mind. Maybe he will call it early, but I've a sneaky suspicion he's to desperate to hold on...
is that Rishi knows the Tories are going to be absolutely decimated in Mays local elections anyway, so he’s favouring getting it all out of the way at once in one crushing humiliation
Personally I would keep them separate. Lose the locals and then resign as penance for that and let someone else take the "credit" for the GE loss.
Other than being able to say he was one of the least popular PMs in Britain why has he done this?
I dont think he went in expecting that. I suspect a place in the history books attracted him initially and given his background I suspect its going to be one of the first times he has utterly failed without being able to rationalise it away as something he didnt really care about anyway.
Other than being able to say he was one of the least popular PMs in Britain why has he done this?
There was a comment a few pages back that it was to impress his wife's family.
It's just become all about the contacts you can make, the (far-right) parties and schmoozing you can go to and I'm sure he's loving the unlimited free private jet and helicopter perks.
Much like Johnson, the details of running the country come a very distant second to all of that.
Well luckily he knows all about preparing to fail as he was happy to tell everyone to be happy to a few months back. Although his failure won't leave him penniless (well not this one anyway)
South Asian father innit........"when are you going to be Prime Minister?"
What will be interesting to see in May's local elections is how well the Green and Liberal Democrat parties do.
I expect both parties to do well at the expense of Labour, due to Starmer's unswerving support for Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza.
Especially in London and areas with a high percentage of Muslim voters.
If this does indeed occur it will put pressure on Starmer and perhaps provide a useful distraction for Sunak.
Sunak getting the bed he wanted on inflation just before end of the year we'll please him
Will it shift the dial on the polls? (itll take a while for this to filter through to be people's bank balances)
id say on today's inflation news chances of a May election are a tiny bit higher!
Have we covered the latest "damn lies and statistics" issue? It was quite high ip on BBC site last night, needs flagging by the opposition
BBC News - Statistics watchdog rebukes Rishi Sunak over claim debt falling
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67759768
Other than being able to say he was one of the least popular PMs in Britain why has he done this?
Regardless of the fact that there are more of them knocking about than ever before, being able to say that you're an Ex-UK PM still opens doors. It's pretty much a life long pay-check. And in 5 years time, no-one will remember that you were totally shit at the job.
Will it shift the dial on the polls?
Well he could have benefitted much more by falsely taking all the credit for it, if he had focused more on making empty promises about the economy as Tories always do, instead of his ridiculous and pointless obsession with entering Nigel Farage territory and the bound-to-fail Rwanda scheme.
Will it shift the dial on the polls? (itll take a while for this to filter through to be people’s bank balances)
Will it though? Inflation has halved to 3.9% but that still means prices are rising by twice the target level. Things are still more expensive than they were, and continuing to increase. Whereas payrises are mainly done now, 8%ish on average in the private sector - that won't be repeated so pay is still lagging prices.
Add in the effect of energy not being subsidised any longer and (comparative terms, not talking about being an impoverished first time buyer 30 years ago) I've not had less for probably 10 years
Much like Johnson, the details of running the country come a very distant second to all of that.
Oddly, that's not true for Sunak. Even his critics say that he is very diligent when it comes to work and always reads the briefing papers etc. Not like Johnson at all.
It's clear that he has no vision for being PM and actually no great insight. From the outside, we can see that by historical accident he has stumbled upwards into the top job and is butchering it. That is not how he sees it: he doesn't think it's odd at all because cream rises, he is the cream, and so it was inevitable that he would be PM - or possibly CEO of Goldman Sachs or UN Sec Gen, but in any case one of the important jobs that important people like him are born to do. It is so obvious to him that it doesn't need explaining. And now he is in the top job, he is totally baffled that instead of everyone doing what he tells them to, these underlings keep asking him questions.
This inflation was always a transitory phenomenon. Tories knew this which is why they seized on the idea of it going back down - like they were at the controls. FFS.
Always worth remembering inflation itself is not CPI - CPI is just one type of measure. Although it does all get grouped together.
I personally think it could have a small bump upwards (oil) again at some point in the next few months. If that happens the Tories will look like total fools because of the way they have played the narrative.
Things are very rarely linear.
There is no absolute reason it should go back to 2% or whether this is even an ideal metric. But higher inflation is definitely not good for the polls.
...to be fair, Starmer has a slightly similar thing to Sunak's petulence, but it's more of a sighing, slightly condescending tone of "okay, children, thank you for that, but now the adults are here, we are going to do things this way..."
Regardless of the fact that there are more of them knocking about than ever before, being able to say that you’re an Ex-UK PM still opens doors. It’s pretty much a life long pay-check. And in 5 years time, no-one will remember that you were totally shit at the job.
So you think it is simply greed then. Someone who has half a billion (not including potential future inheritance) shouldn't be overly concerned with a lifelong pay check so not convinced it is the money.
It’s clear that he has no vision for being PM and actually no great insight.
Given the 'vision' of the last idiot in the job, I suppose we should be thankful we've at least been spared that.
Sunak is the same as Johnson and Cameron before him in that he simply regards the top job as his entitlement. His birthright. Not a clue what to do once he got there, but another tick on the CV and a ticket on the gravy train for life
Like them he also seems to struggle with the concept that this doesn't make you 'World King' and theres actually a degree of accountability that goes with the position as his petulant performance in front of the liaison committee yesterday showed
So you think it is simply greed then.
Yes. That's how these folks operate, It's another way of earning more money in the future, just one more thing to leverage. In that respect at least, he's no different than Johnson.
Sunak getting the bed he wanted on inflation just before end of the year we’ll please him
He'll shout about it, no doubt, even though it has virtually nothing to do with him. I think we get the quarterly GDP figures on the 22nd though, and I doubt there will be much to shout about there. Could it go negative? If it does, there is the possibility of having to fight an election in an actual recession (two successive quarters with negative GDP.)
You can't spend every waking moment saying 'war in Ukraine, covid, blah, blah, blah... inflation is entirely due to factors beyond our control', then do a quick switcharoo to 'we've managed to reduce inflation' and expect people to take you seriously.
The bottom line is that pretty much everyone, apart from the super-rich such as himself, is feeling a lot worse off than they were when he arrived at number 10 and thats all that matters
will also continue to vote tory no matter what they do
That is because to many selfish, greedy ****ers the tory party are always the best option as they will always do things closer to what they believe in than any other party (other than maybe Reform and the like but nobody seriously votes for them do they)
What will be interesting to see in May’s local elections is how well the Green and Liberal Democrat parties do.
I expect both parties to do well at the expense of Labour, due to Starmer’s unswerving support for Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza.
Especially in London and areas with a high percentage of Muslim voters.
If this does indeed occur it will put pressure on Starmer and perhaps provide a useful distraction for Sunak.
I think the tories will actually benefit a lot more than either of those two parties, as they're pretty much irrelevant politically. I do feel that Starmer's staunch pro-Israel stance will lose Labour votes from said Muslim voters (myself included; I'm not voting for a party led by someone who chooses to pander to racists and has abandoned Labour's anti-traditional racism values), but I doubt many of those votes will go to either Lib Dems or the Greens, as those are seen very much as parties for middle class white people by many PoC. So I fear there will instead by a lot of voter apathy, as many Muslims don't feel represented at all by any mainstream parties. Most Muslims wouldn't vote for the tories under Sunak, as he's a Hindu. Muslim-Hindu tension is pretty high these days, thanks to Modi's increasingly fascist Islamophobic regime. There may well even be the odd protest party like Respect, popping up in certain areas. So Labour could win the GE, but lose seats in London. Which could then see a swing to the tories for the mayorship, which would be pretty damaging to Labour. If Labour lose London, then they won't last more than one term in government, and they won't be able to get much if anything done. Condemning us to even more misery under the tories.