Get the deprived areas who’ve had their local council budgets decimated over 12 years to beg for scraps. Then toss a few crumbs to a couple of them and pat yourself on the back for a job well done
The ‘Hunger Games’ quote as a description of the process does seem quite apt.
If only there was a way we could see clearly why the NHS is struggling compared with over a decade ago
Fake news, the BBC would never put out anything to question their Tory overlords.
Sod the seatbelt, where’s the booster seat?
TBH I’d be looking for the ejector seat switch.
Another turd that needs flushing ,Boris had comedic value,Truss had the full on loony tunes vibe but this one’s just got zero.
Get the red tops frothing about not being buckled up, and there’s no sign of any mention of Nadhim Zahawi’s extremely dodgy tax and legal antics.
Oh look, an Otter.
Oldest play in the books again. BoJo used it all the time.
I don't think this is a deliberate ploy. He is not that good a political operator and also it works for the attack line that he lacks competence. Its an easy attack line for labour
Neither do I believe he only took his belt off for the video clip
To me it just reeks of arrogance
Oh look, an Otter.
Overestimating him. Long since got used to being chauffeur driven everywhere with blacked out windows. It's just a glimpse into his life and attitude to little people laws. Forgot that his lounging about in the back with seat belt off reading documents doesn't look right out in the normal world. Thought it would make him look "busy".
Nah,I’m old and it makes a lot more sense
Yep makes sense to me (55) and my wife (58). Who cares about someones gender or sexuality, that is up to them and just let everyone get on with it without having to make a big deal about any of it.
It’s perfect timing.
And in the long established Tory leader tradition of selflessly taking one for the team.
However despite Lancashire police saying they are investigating the incident it doesn't seem to have made any front pages and has received surprisingly little prominence by news providers.
The good news for Rishi Sunak though is neither has Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs.
"Police looking into Sunak’s failure to wear a seatbelt"
Long since got used to being chauffeur driven everywhere with blacked out windows.
^^^^
100% this!
The zahawi tax farce is way worse
https://twitter.com/DanNeidle/status/1616030741225246720?t=ymxD8RqgybS1mtoZ0HimlA&s=19
The seatbelt thing is just so incompetent. It isn't that he was caught on camera, it was deliberate. How was he allowed to do this? It looks like there are no sensible people around him, or he ignores them. Which is not a good look for a PM.
It looks like there are no sensible people around him
Well as Prime Minister he should be followed everywhere by several coppers, they are generally expected to know the seatbelt law.
He's trying to do the "off the cuff, aren't we direct and transparent" video thing... the problem with that lack of filtering is that the public might just get to see how out of touch with the real world he is. Seatbelts, contactless payments... little people things.
Mrs Sandwich has lapped that up (Twitter link). Has been circulated amongst her team who all have a professional interest.
@MoreCashThanDash your team may appreciate a 5 minute break on CPD!
Apparently he's just been fined for the seatbelt stun...
What a tool sunak is
https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1616502418409152513?t=F5jy1sSBV8rglaTsNJhVtw&s=19
https://twitter.com/PGMcNamara/status/1616513955945451531?t=4EblicotiaTOLni-nXD3YQ&s=19
Zahawi thing still has more to come out, I think sunak will have to find a new party chairman soon
4mths to the locals
Well be interesting to see what happens if these numbers hold out for that
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1616473287160172545?t=MRMsMBeSL69QNC4NnK5YVg&s=19
Try & ride it out with sunak & hope economy picks up?
2nd coming of Johnson?
Hunt to the rescue?
Badendochism?
Well at least he should know how to pay the Fixed Penalty Notice - it won't be his first one.
for what is Toryism, except organized spivery?
Sunak will be under huge pressure assuming the local elections go as badly as it looks. The tories problems tho are many fold on this. I don't think he will resign easily. He will need to be defenestrated like Johnson was
Its going to look even more chaotic to change PMs again
I very much doubt we will get another "coronation" like when Sunak was appointed. I cannot see a candidate that could command the support of the paliamentary party to do this. I'm sure Johnson will chuck his hat in the ring again
The infighting and backbiting will be spectacular and highly entertaining
The only candidates that have the ability are hated by the membership and some of the MPs
The membership will not elect a brown person unless given no choice they want a hard right white person. The country will not support any hard right person and Johnson is electorally toxic as well as hated by a large part of the party
Oh its going to be fun They really look like a terminal downward spiral now like the conservative party in Canada. This could be the end of them
So the Beeb now have the Zahawi tax story, but it's Sunaks seatbelt as main story.
Which makes you think...
The infighting and backbiting will be spectacular and highly entertaining
It would be utterly hillarious if it wasn't for the fact they are knowingly destroying our country, and millions of peoples lives, some of whom haven't even been born yet, in the process.
Tally ho!
I don't nessesarily have an issue with MPs getting rich(er) and lining thier pockets, as long as they are doing a good job.. these seem to be hell bent on death and destruction.
Which makes you think…
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
15 January 2023. Everything changes. An absolute scoop from Ashley Armstrong in The Sun on Sunday. Zahawi paid millions in tax to settle a dispute. There’s a hilarious non-denial denial from Zahawi that he “never had to instruct any lawyers to deal with HMRC on his behalf”. Later that day, that line is dropped – he doesn’t deny the story, he just refuses to comment.
yes but the more time they spend on internal turmoil the less time they have to eff things up. and it will be fun to watch especially as now looks possible they could be heading for a complete wipe out Canada style.
the more time they spend on internal turmoil the less time they have to eff things up.
True, but look at what we have become... there's no accountability and we are hoping they are too busy fighting each other in order to minimise the damage they would otherwise wholeheartedly and proactivley reign upon us all.
I don’t nessesarily have an issue with MPs getting rich(er) and lining thier pockets, as long as they are doing a good job..
I do. its corruption pure and simple and robs the rest of us of money as they act in the interests of their paymasters. this lot have trousered many billions of public money
Yes, thinking about it, I agree 100%.. I just phrased it poorly. I guess what I was saying is that if you are excellent at your job then you should probably enjoy a reletivley good pay package. But that certainly does not apply to anyone on the front bench at the moment, far, far, far from it.
MPs get rich by being MPs. The whole cesspit needs cleaning up from subsidised booze to generous expenses to second jobs to the bribes they take
Yeah, Mp's should be banned from having any outside interests, if you can't get by on 80K a year or whatever the pay is these days, well it speaks for itself.
Labour seem to have set Raynor after Zahawi. Looks like they are going after him big time. My bet he will have to resign in the end as he has been proved to have lied over his tax, been caught out and paid a penalty. There will b plenty of folk looking for dirt on him now. A nice attack line as well - the party that protects tax cheats
BBC had some further info on a crowdfunder company he'd set up offshore as well
And we still have the Raaaaaab bullying inquiry and the Johnson lying inquiry to come
This makes the end of the Major government look like nothing happened
Yet another scandal (re)surfaces
Not only Russians buying influence in the tory party but MI5 refusing to investigate
"Conservative Friends of Russia"
Can you imagine if there was a Labour Friends of Russia what the Tory press reaction would be? I find it surprisingly easy.
Still, according to the current Tory Foreign Secretary the reason the Russian oligarchy pumped so much money into his party is because they hated Jeremy Corbyn so much:
"Russian oligarchs who bankrolled Tories wanted to stop Jeremy Corbyn getting to power, minister claims"
Which is strange as according to the Tories and their press stooges they said the complete opposite when Corbyn was leader.
Yup, some Russian interests wanted the “get Brexit done”, “break up the EU”, “deregulate and ask no questions” Conservatives to win. Suited them for sure.
see he's going with "it was just a few coppers I carelessly overlooked m'lud"
I don’t nessesarily have an issue with MPs getting rich(er) and lining thier pockets, as long as they are doing a good job.. these seem to be hell bent on death and destruction.
You know where this leads to don't you?
Based on places I've worked, Coppers stopping you on the way to work and taking your cash as a 'fine'. If it's good enough for those at the top, it's good enough for the rest of the 'establishment'. And taxes become 'optional', oh...
#BananaRepublic
"Conservative Friends of Russia” predates any referendum, it's based on a shared idealogy.
But it clearly was a device to pump money to the conservatives illegally by the Russian intelligence services and there are plenty of indications that this was used to bolser support for brexit.
Oh FFS we're back to blaming everything on brexit! 🤣
Looks like HMRC has also made a 'careless mistake' in fining poor Nadim so heavily for his error.
https://twitter.com/doedma/status/1616833709415481351
Honestly, every time the Tories drag out the sacking and claim that 'the matter is closed', it just gets worse for them with fresh revelations. You'd think they might be learning by now.
And he then says
“So that I could focus on my life as a public servant, I chose to settle the matter and pay what they said was due, which was the right thing to do,”
How self sacrificing of him. Choosing to settle in order to serve the country.
You’d think they might be learning by now.
There were questions being raised last year but he had gone for the minimal misleading responses (plus a few legal threats) changing each time some new facts came out and the story had petered out. So I assume he was hoping the same would happen again.
Its happened several other times as well. So its not a bad tactic as such (if you lack any semblance of honour and integrity). I think once its in the headlines, across multiple papers, for several days then its normally game over though.
(plus a few legal threats
I find these most telling. Legal threats towards journalists always make me assume the worst. And I have respect for those who ignore them and post anyway, when it comes to probity in politics and and government (less so when it’s the kiss and tell stuff).
Oh FFS we’re back to blaming everything on brexit! 🤣
Its the other way around. One of the significant factors in Brexit was the amount of dirty money pumped into brexiteers by russia
The statement from Zahawi.still containes provable lies
he has admitted some of it but there are still lies in it most notably he is proven to have benefited from the offshore trust
As someone who in the past had a limited company/ self employed I can honestly say a "careless error" in tax affairs is utter bull. It's code for got caught on the fiddle.
But then it's standard practice for the rich
Sunak should be paying the maximum amount of any fine, by the time has has paid it on his phone he will be made way more in interest for those 2 mins it would take.
Looks like HMRC has also made a ‘careless mistake’ in fining poor Nadim so heavily for his error.
Penalties go on a scale. 30% is the high end of careless, which suggests little cooperation from the customer.
His alternative would have been to run it to tribunal, which he decided not to.
