Every day, something else about this government turns up which can only be described using the term ‘pathetic’. Or ‘infantile’.
Yep, you would think it is just a game/part of career progress rather than trying to protect and progress society wouldn't you.
What I find incomprehensible it that top tier ministers are allowed to conduct business via uncontrolled/private whattsapp groups
tbf if you are plotting to overthrow the current ceo then doing it on the work systems would be a tad risky.
Starmer must be wondering where to start with this upcoming PMQ's. He's spoilt for choice.
You must wonder why Rishi keeps putting himself through this, when everyone sat behind him seems to be hellbent on giving the leader of the opposition yet more ammunition and the polls just keep getting worse and worse
Maybe he'll just stand up today and say 'you know what?.... **** this, lets just have an election so I can move to California'
It looks like Rishi Sunak might have successfully put pressure on the Met Police:
A Met spokesperson said: “We must balance the rights of protesters with the rights of others. The scale and frequency of marches is causing serious disruption to many Londoners. We do not support a request to extend the march into Whitehall.
The Met never had a problem with the marches going into Whitehall before, and why would they? Whitehall is a massively wide mostly traffic free road, nothing much happens there on Saturdays when all the government departments are shut, apart from a few tourists.
It should make tomorrow's demo very interesting and is likely to give the Met a huge headache. With the marchers in Trafalgar Square having no access to Whitehall it will totally paralyze the roads radiating off Trafalgar Square bringing much of Central London to a standstill.
These demos are absolutely huge and even with the crowds using Whitehall it can be a real struggle to get through and accessing stations such Westminster.
The Met will very likely regret allowing their operational planning to be politicalized by this Tory government on its way out.
I know that none of them like the fact very much Ernesto, but Rishi, his Tory far right headbangers and the Met still don’t get to re-write the law when it suits them
It must be really, really pissing them off, but they haven’t managed to impose their protest-free police state just yet
Judge throws out case against Greta Thunberg and other London protesters
You’d think this would make them reappraise their approach, but they’re not very bright
In other news it looks like the free childcare policy that seems like it was literally announced on the hoof, is completely falling apart.
Probably because it was announced on the hoof, without even a back-of-a-fag-packet plan to implement it
How many voters is that going to seriously piss off as an election approaches. Massively over promising and under delivering once again
He’s not very good at this politics lark is he?
You’d think this would make them reappraise their approach, but they’re not very bright
You seem to be assuming they consider the current outcome as bad.
Obviously the best outcome for them is having them fined (second best would have been to have it wait even longer before going to court) but even without that it was reasonably successful.
They stopped the protest on the day and disrupted the protesters lives for several months including I suspect some strong bail conditions which would have limited ability to protest.
Alongside that there is a good chance other people would have been put off protesting since having to tell HR you have been nicked and are on bail is likely to be problematic.
In other news it looks like the free childcare policy that seems like it was literally announced on the hoof, is completely falling apart.
The office Tory Boy was boasting about how great this would be for him and his wife when her maternity leave comes to an end. I hope it comes back to bite his arrogant arse.
It's unlikely they'll get shot now, but why haven't they (men in grey suits) made him change his advisors/team. The level of politicking @ no10 is pretty abysmal :/
Holding out for an autumn general election would only make sense for the Tories if there was good news expected in autumn and/or the gap between them Labour was currently narrowing, even if it was just slightly.
I can't see what good news might be envisaged for the autumn, and with the toll on consumer prices caused by Houthis blockade of the Red Sea possibly some bad news.
And whilst support for Labour has been more or less stable for a while now Labour's lead over the Tories has increased slightly as the result of the Tories hemorrhaging support to Reform UK - in the last 4 months or so support for Reform UK has increased from about 5% to about 10%.
There is no evidence that if Sunak leaves it until autumn the Tories will regain the support that they have been steadily losing to Reform UK in recent months. In fact there isn't even any evidence that support for Reform UK has hit a ceiling.
One of the biggest worries for the Tories must be that their demoralised supporters will stay at home on general election day and not bother to vote. They are however more likely to vote in local elections less affected by national politics.
For that reason holding the general election on the same day that many of their supporters will be queuing up at the polling stations anyway makes a lot of sense. Especially if it is a few weeks after a tax giveaway Spring budget.
IMO not holding the general election on May 2 would be daft for the Tories. I can't see any advantages with waiting until autumn.
MCTD - there's a tory boy in your office..? He must be lonely, as the only one across the whole business...
There's none over here in the AAU as far as I know!
They still get away with nonsense though.
On the recent legislation to ban zombie knives,again, the Tory MP kept banging on a bout the fact labour, when in power, had never brought in legislation to deal with the issue. No one pointed out that zombie knives didn't start to appear until 2011, when the tories were in power.
who is advising him on this kind of stuff?
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1754497606611316795
The full interview is due to be shown on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm and TalkTV at 8pm on Monday (5 February).
Well at least he'll have at least 3 witnesses to the bet. Possibly even 5 or 6?
Sunak & Morgan are just so incredibly awful
https://twitter.com/PGMcNamara/status/1754540657807417622
For a very wealthy man, he is shit with money.
Sunak is perfect for this batch of tories, an unrepentant poor politician and an unrepentantly bad person.
edit - didn't think it would embed the tweet from the URL.
In other news it looks like the free childcare policy that seems like it was literally announced on the hoof, is completely falling apart.
All his attempts at policies are falling to bits. There goes the heat pump one, guess we all need to rely on expensive gas for a bit...
https://www.ft.com/content/25176b46-d875-4ac4-a819-f4db1db567f0
Still, it's nice he can ponce around placing bets on flights, guessing that £1000 for him is loose change from down the back of a sofa.
I didn't think they could find a new low, but betting a grand on the lives of the most desperate in society probably does it. Ugh.
That Cold War Steve pic is unrealistic. He only reaches to where it says 6/1.
There goes the heat pump one
Can you summarise for us non-subscribers?
news about Charles will probably keep sunaks latest blunder of the front pages, but PMQs could be brutal for him
Can you summarise for us non-subscribers?
There was a 'boiler tax' coming in to inventivise boiler manufacturers to diversify into making heat pumps.
The manufacturers claimed it was a bit hard for them and the Tories capitulated.
I'm guessing we'll see some donations into the Tory coffers from the boiler manufacturers soon
He gambled with money in his previous employment and was rewarded when it went tits up so it’s entirely reasonable that he continues with the theme
He’s a five-year-old trying to play chess.
That's a bit unfair to five-year-olds...
He's more like playing drafts in a chess game.
He gambled with money in his previous employment
apparently he's "not a betting person". Spineless clueless dreadful little ****! though.
The Guardian has summarised the interview with Piers Morgan... 😉
Surely we must be due a May election? He can' t possibly be wanting to drag this shambles out for any longer than he needs to?
'Excruciating' is the word for all of it. He clearly doesn't have a clue. With his so-called policies it feels like Alan Partridge blurting out programme ideas. None of them survive the first hour of contact with reality
The upcoming Rochdale by-election is going to 'interesting'. Actually its going to be an absolute shitshow.
Its a safe labour seat but George Galloway, never one to miss a bandwagon he couldn't jump on, is wooing the large muslim population, with rabble rousing about Gaza.
In the opposite corner we have Reform who have fielded the former labour MP Simon Danczuk who was kicked out of labour then lost the seat for sending inappropriate images to a 17 year old (he said he left the party as it had 'gone too woke'). Given the sensitivity of that kind of thing in this particular constituency that seem like an erm... 'bold' move.
Its all getting very racist and divisive and properly nasty, with Britain First wanting to run but not getting their papers submitted in time (what a shame). They're in the mix causing trouble though - presently circulating a video on social media of the labour candidate Azhar Ali speaking Urdu and claiming he doesn't speak English. Preposterous nonsense, but I'm sure plenty of the hard of thinking will buy it
There are also a number of independents.
God only knows what will happen, but its unpleasant enough to probably be an accurate precursor of our upcoming general election
I'll just have to say it again, I hate him more than all of the others.
He's an odious little prick, he hasn't got a clue what he is doing.
Morgan played him like a fiddle, he didn't seem to realise that by shaking hands he was taking a bet.
GE now please.
Not a betting man but quite likes betting?
https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1754801609366806648
Unfortunately he learnt well off his old boss. Like him he lies as easily as he breathes
Like him he lies as easily as he breathes
Yup, time to call a general election and replace these lying torags with someone who can be trusted to always say what they mean and never lie.
Who would you, ernie, take as PM - sunak or Starmer?
He’s an odious little prick, he hasn’t got a clue what he is doing.
I'll agree on the first part but I think he knows what he's doing. Playing the Big Man to his wife's parents and directing as much money and influence to InfoSys as possible.
In all other respects he's clueless, it's obvious that he has zero time for, understanding of and in common with "the people". He's certainly not in this job to run the country, he's here for his own (and his family's) influence and gain.
Who would you, ernie, take as PM – sunak or Starmer?
Well Starmer of course! I am fed up with lying Tory politicians.
I think binners is right to point out that one liar follows the previous liar.
Who would you, ernie, take as PM – sunak or Starmer?
Starmer in a heartbeat. They're not the same man despite what some want to portray.
Is he perfect? No
Is he a decent human? Yes, I think so
Is he better than the utter emotional cretin in number 10? Abso-****-lutely
Sunak is just wasting all our time, I'm thoroughly fed up with him
Sunak is just wasting all our time, I’m thoroughly fed up with him
And he's a liar - that's very important. I think.
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