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Remember when Truss was booted out and we hoped that we might, after the previous 2 disastrous incumbents, possibly hope for at least a basic, rudimentary level of competence?
That feels an awful long time ago, doesn't it?
Sunak is just wasting all our time, I’m thoroughly fed up with him
He is for sure.
The writing was always on the wall - at the start. When you weld yourslef to a ideology that you can't see doesn't work - where is it going to lead?
Reboot it all.
In fact give me the damn job - I've not got much on this week.
Remember when Truss was booted out and we hoped that we might, after the previous 2 disastrous incumbents, possibly hope for at least a basic, rudimentary level of competence?That feels an awful long time ago, doesn’t it?
Honest answer - I don't know how you would even get there.
Competence won't fix the Tory machine -man, let alone the country.
Remember when Truss was booted out and we hoped that we might, after the previous 2 disastrous incumbents, possibly hope for at least a basic, rudimentary level of competence?
I think we're at the depths of incompetence where you could give the job to a candidate off The Apprentice and they'd do a better job than Sunak!
Its not just that we haven't had a functioning government for years now, the Tories aren't even a functioning' political party any more. Just look at all this NewCons, PopCons, Five Families bollocks. They're just an ever-more-extreme rabble of squabbling factions who all despise each other and despise the general public even more.
Sunak is completely paralysed as he can't do anything that won't have any number of these factions publicly soiling their petticoats in outrage. Not that he seems overly concerned about that as long as he gets to fly around the country in his helicopter for various pointless photoshoots
Just call an election and put everyone out of this apparently eternal misery
with rabble rousing about Gaza.
You mean the murder of 20,000 civilians and 11,000 children, and the wholesale destruction of homes, infrastructure, hospitals and schools?
I still see no reason for Sunak to call a GE before the autumn
I suppose a good showing for the Tories in next weeks byelections might convince him its worth rolling the dice
but with the polls not moving and Sunak's approval rating on a downward spiral ...... weve got another 9 months of this shitshow
it's a sorry state of affairs for a sitting tory pm to be called out for telling porkies by the daily fail. he really isn't very good at this politics thing.
Rishi Sunak desperately dodges on whether he will honour 'grotesque' £1,000 wager with Piers Morgan over Rwanda flights - as PM's claim he is 'not a betting person' is cast into doubt by resurfaced interview joking about 'dangerous' spread betting habit
You mean the murder of 20,000 civilians and 11,000 children, and the wholesale destruction of homes, infrastructure, hospitals and schools?
And you honestly think that this fraudulent old chancer and former Big Brother contestant really cares about any of that? Seriously? Are you really that gullible? Rather than just trying to get himself back in front of the cameras and - I know its highly unlikely - on the Westminster Gravy Train again
And you honestly think that this fraudulent old chancer and former Big Brother contestant really cares about any of that?
Nope, but if it challenges Starmer on his support for genocide then I wouldn't really care who stood. And it's not like Galloway hasn't been consistent. In any case I was referring to the possibility of the Gaza 'issue' getting in the way of Starmer's coronation. Funny though that some tories think Sunak should call a 'Gaza election' when Starmer seems to be even more pro-genocide than the tories are. 🤷♂️
Its going to be interesting to see just how much weight it carries in Rochdale and what percentage of the vote he gets in an area with a large Muslim population. I doubt the Tories stand to benefit from any of it, because Reform are standing and will split their vote to the same degree, if not more
The whole by-election is already getting very nasty, horribly divisive and in a lot of cases just plain old out-and-out racist. Thats only going to get worse though the few weeks left until polling day.
Unfortunately, amongst all this posturing, nobody seems to be much interested in the voters of Rochdale. I would imagine a very firm 'none of the above' looks like the best offer being made to them at the moment
I see Rees-Mogg and Miss Pork Markets have launched the totally misnamed Popular Conservatives. First time I've heard of the gangrene being cut away from the gangrene.
Its getting increasingly difficult to see which is the parasite and which is the host nowadays. The idea of 'popular' conservatives seems pretty laughable though
Rees Mogg and Truss are even more detached from reality than Sunak
I see Rees-Mogg and Miss Pork Markets have launched the totally misnamed Popular Conservatives
So popular some of their original lineup have already splintered from them.
Smug owes me a new irony meter after his rant about the international elites and "pompous politicians which have been running this country for too long."
Perhaps he could lead the way at reducing the number of those politicians.
And you honestly think that this fraudulent old chancer and former Big Brother contestant really cares about any of that?
Nope
Really? What makes you think that he doesn't care? I am no fan of Galloway - despite being an excellent communicator he is a dangerous loose cannonball imo and I stopped considering him a serious politician when he thought it would be a good idea to appear on TV pretending to be a cat, ffs, he clearly has a problem with his massively overinflated ego, but I have no reason to believe that he doesn't really care about the ongoing slaughter in Gaza - most people do. According to a YouGov poll only 8% are opposed to a ceasefire.
From the little information that I have if I had a vote I would vote Labour in the Rochdale by-election. The Labour candidate was apparently close to Tony Lloyd and not Starmer's preferred choice. Tony Lloyd had an excellent record on Palestine and the only reason that he didn't vote in the HoC ceasefire vote was because he was receiving chemotherapy.
The Green Party candidate has an unfortunate islamophic and racist past. I don't know anything about the LibDem candidate apart from the fact that the LibDems don't have a chance of winning the seat since that morbidly obese paedophile died.
The Tories best chance of winning the by-election is courtesy of George Galloway.
calls for the old fave
Dear lord, Rishi is well through the bottom of the barrel now. How could you follow 30p Lee as deputy chairman of the party? When you’re a banana-headed halfwit with the smallest majority in the country. He follows in Lees footsteps by recently saying that children struggling in his constituency "are the products of crap parents."
Rishi can’t be expecting him to be in position for long with his majority of 105 votes
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His forehead is massive!
Helium. He needs lead weighted shoes to stay put.
^^ lol, not thought of that advert in eons!
Promise to increase funds to adapt disabled people's homes shelved
No idea why these happened to drop this pledge at the current time...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68214736
binners – huge congratulations!
Your (current) MP is now deputy chief polyp in sunak’s rectal canal!
It’s even more surprising, given his previous loyalties . His views tend to align with the ‘PopCon’ drivel the lettuce - and his predecessor 30p Lee - were spouting yesterday about pretty much everyone being ‘left wing extremists’
Mind you, he was a staunch Boris supporter prior to that too. He really is the brown-nosers brown-nose.
“I have principles, but if you don’t like them, I have others”
I doubt any of it will save him on polling day, so he best enjoy it while he can
Aliens.
There has to be an alien in there, pulling levers and speaking into a talk box. Everything would make more sense with Daly if that were true. Doesn’t explain how he came to me an MP though. His voters need to have a good hard look at themselves. [ yes, yes, Corbyn, Brexit, I know the area well enough to get the idea… but still… any contact with this guy would blow all those “legitimate concerns” out of the water… surely ]
Snipers dream.
😂
The Guardian are reporting this morning that Lil Rishi has blocked all negotiations with the doctors as he wants to keep them out on strike to blame them for NHS waiting lists during an election campaign. So if people have to die for the sake of his campaigning, then so be it!
Rishi Sunak accused of personally holding up deal to end doctors’ strikes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68214736Tory bastards - continuing their victimisation of the disabled.
You may think this doesn't affect me but if your relative has a stroke and need home adaptation then they're royally screwed.
The Guardian are reporting this morning that Lil Rishi has blocked all negotiations with the doctors as he wants to keep them out on strike to blame them for NHS waiting lists during an election campaign.
Sounds about right. Haven't they already paid the train companies money to cover lost strike income well in excess of what it would have cost to just settle?
They actually want strikes, and the suffering they cause. It's utterly disgusting.
Also, on the subject of the new Deputy Polyp.
@kelvin - Its always been a marginal seat (not Red Wall) that regularly changes hands, but if Reform/Brexit/whatever Farage is calling it this week, hadn't stood down their candidates there is no way Daly would have got in
I look at his tiny majority he has (105 votes) then at the few hundred votes each that the Greens and Lib Dems got and right there is your argument for tactical voting
Tory bastards – continuing their victimisation of the disabled.
They always target the weakest and most vulnerable to carry the cost of their greed and incompetence
Again, from this mornings Guardian, which will come as a shock to absolutely nobody...
UK’s poorest have borne brunt of cost of living crisis, says thinktank
Rishi is on the record, openly bragging that he actively redirects money from the poorest areas to those Tory constituencies not really in need of it
They're all psychopaths!
And yet millions of people vote for them, many of those people are affected by their policies.
It's madness
That is because Labour will take all their money away and give it to other people. What they don't realise is that they are the other people.
I see Rees-Mogg and Miss Pork Markets have launched the totally misnamed Popular Conservatives.
It's just culture war noise and fireworks, the Lettuce' backers over the pond need to think they're getting their money's worth.
The Tufton Street Crew are really just crashing Rishi's GE for him and "renegade" Tory's are just a handy tool, but I think it's really what The majority of the party now wants. The Conservatives just don't want to be in power come 2025, but they do want to leave office with a narrative in place that some shadowy, lefty cabal did for them, not their own ineptitude and infighting, sow the seeds for the 2030s to be dominated by conspiracy driven Left/Right nonsense and a new, populist Donald to rise in the UK.
Laughably some journo reporting on "Pop-Con" said "The Battle for the soul of the Tory party has just started" when I was listening to 'PM' on the way home last night. That battle started well over a Decade ago, and it's last shred of 'Soul' was finally lost some time about 2019 I reckon.
In other news they were announcing "New Money" for NHS dentistry this morning, £200m was quoted to bolster a £3.1B budget, which is apparently underspent (by how much wasn't said). So the equivalent of pissing in the pacific to top it up.
The problem being that Dentists can't cover the costs of delivering dentistry under the terms of the NHS contract.
This should be used as a big stick to beat Rishi with at PMQs today.
The problem being that Dentists can’t cover the costs of delivering dentistry under the terms of the NHS contract.
So exactly the same deal as these newly promised nursery places then? The government want private nurseries to provide childcare, free at the point of delivery, but won't actually provide enough money for them to cover their costs.
Same deal with expecting pharmacists to take up the work from GPs, but don't want to pay them to do it
Maybe a bold idea would be to fully cover the costs the dentists charge for those who are eligible for NHS dentistry (assuming we want to keep dentistry pretty much private). The dentists would then do the work as their costs covered as normal and people who cannot afford dentistry at private prices can get free dentistry, which they should be entitled too as teeth are part of body, body = NHS.
Yep it really should be that simple but that involves a spend that successive governments have been unwilling to commit too.
We are just at the end of a sequence of events that the profession has been telling government will happen since before 2006.
Worth noting that Labour actually brought in the current disastrous contract...
If you fancy a laugh, then seeing the Tufton Street Muppet, who was one of Liz Trusses advisers, get shredded by Victoria Derbyshire on last nights Newsnight is quite something
https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1755018518347554836?s=20
And there's still a big chunk of the Tory party that are in thrall to these clowns
He's thrashing around like a hostage attempting to convince his captors, "If you let me go I promise I won't go to the police"
Same deal with expecting pharmacists to take up the work from GPs, but don’t want to pay them to do it
Same as the new GP contract; Govt says "Here's a 1.9% increase, can you give everyone a 10% increase in pay with that please?"