Is he for real?
Lie often and lie big. Its the new tory way.
Lasted about ten seconds before shouting one of the asterixed words from that Savanta word cloud and giving up.
Is he for real?! All those issues are what his party has been doing for the whole time!
They’ve all been briefed to get ready to start clapping when his tone and emphasis changes, no matter if they think what he’s actually saying at the time is worthy of applause or not 🙄
That he has refused, point blank, to meet any politicians or business leaders.
To be fair, he's probably chatted to his wife about it. And his father in law.
There is no way I could watch him. I would put a brick through my brand new TV.
Absolutely despise the useless smug cretin.
He's solved the net zero problem apparently
So he wants to halve the inflation figure that his party increased by 5x? Oh and there's the Maggie name drop.
Can't be arsed watching after the 20p Enoch Powell tribute act yesterday. They're out at the next election anyhow, it's guaranteed. Only the diehard BLUEKIPPers / Mail / Express readers that I know still think they're doing ok. They've lost the moderate Tory vote and Red Wall. All they have left is throwing feces and breaking everything in sight (not like there's much left to break) so that the incoming Labour government have a hell of a job on their hands.
When's he going to say something of any substance?
Damn... we're going to have to mention Brexit again if we want to discuss this speech... it's all he's got, isn't it. I don't think I can be bothered, personally.
The only thing I’m taking from this speech/conference is that it’s a missed opportunity, Inglorious Bastards - specifically the cinema scene, lock the doors and set fire to the bastards.
All he's got is attacking the opposition. No substance whatsoever.
Brexit has been a massive success, apparently?
Who knew?
I'm glad someone is watching this for us so I don't have to.
Here it comes...
The opposition is the "status quo", don't you know. Just ignore the government and who runs it... blame "all this shit" on the opposition. Cheeky $$$$, isn't he.
All he’s got is attacking the opposition. No substance whatsoever.
See also; SKS.
And there we have it...
The worst kept secret in conference history
Now let the lying really get going...
Network North, my arse!
I'll file it with those 40 new hospitals 🙄
"Ambitious scheme for northern transport"... [ that's how you announce YET ANOTHER cut to rail plans in the North ]
Roads, roads, roads.
Hundreds of Northern transport projects. When these can't be realised under the next government will the Tories be able to blame Labour for not realising them?
Building the northern section of HS2 first doesn't make sense. You don't extend infrastructure like that by building the quieter bit first. You build the busier bit first.
Binners is letting his chippy Northern prejudice show by blaming southeastern pensioners for the Tories. London has had a Labour majority for 30 years. Sunak is a reet proud Yorkshire MP. 30p Lee is Notts through and through. And so on...
What’s “bullshit”
That he donated $1m to keep his green card "warm". Once you've got PR, you have got it. Once he gave it up - someone like wasn't going to have visa problems in the future anyway. And a university donation doesn't affect that anyway.
Will any of these projects have started before the next election?
I didn't think he'd actually do it, that is an unbelievable own goal.
So his commitment to change is cancel everything and make the next government do it all.
Bravo you entitled rich c***
Will any of these projects have started before the next election?
Define "start"? Money thrown out to some favoured consultants yes. Anything useful rather unlikely.
This is pathetic.
It's the tory party conference and he's blathering on about Corbyn, Starmer and Labour.
Why? Because he has little to say about tory achievements and policies.
Here comes the knife to kill HS2 north of Birmingham - it's done; ****.
Network North?
How little of this will ever happen?
Empty promises designed only to persuade voters to support him and his party.
Euston development zone?
That will happen while Network North withers and dies.
He's setting things up so that when labour gets in they can berate them for not delivering these things that he has promised but can't deliver.
Complete and utter ****.
From the Grauniad
Sunak is now talking about the NHS. He says the fact that hospital doctors timed a strike for this week shows their motivation was political.
- it's because it is a political issue - politicians set wages and t's&c's
Not as much enthusiasm for his 'nanny state' measure.
Smart policy on smoking.
- costs the state nothing (saves money arguably)
- doesn't effect anyone who votes Conservative (no votes lost for his party)
I think Penny is self-sabotaging. She don't want the job right now..
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1709517094767755573
Long Covid? Get back to work…
Now the trans bashing…
“You know who’s had it good for far too long… Trans people!”
Do 16 year old kids still smoke in the same numbers or do they mostly vape? Is he just announcing a measure that matches reality. Or did I miss him say that the age of buying vapes would also increase each year as well?
£300m of Ground Investigation contracts to quickly cancel a week after award.
They're going to stop Universities enrolling students on courses that 'don't add value'
Who's going to be the judge of that then?
Rishi, I presume?
And we're back to everyone doing maths until 18 again, are we? What a surprise!
****!
There's going to be a LOT of contractors wanting a LOT of compensation.
Be cheaper just to build it cos now the country is literally paying them not to build it.
God the man is an utter arse.
There’s going to be a LOT of contractors wanting a LOT of compensation.
Be cheaper just to build it cos now the country is literally paying them not to build it.
I made that point a few pages back but was told it doesn't work like that.
God the man is an utter arse.
God the man entire Conservative Party is an utter arse.
I've never known a conference like it. It's like a bunch of rats fighting in a bag to see who can be the biggest & nastiest right wing
How dare he say all this about love and family and opportunity. How ****ing dare he?
Time for a change? Correct.
And no, you are not it.
"Time for a change"
Who is this new guy? Why don't we make him PM? Got to be better than the current one. Anyone would be.
Its time for a change... and we are it?
WTF?!! Thats the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard!!
Advanced British Standard?
Didn't he know the acronym ABS is fairly well established already
Look, I've just released £37 billion pounds for me and my mates to try to pilfer before we get kicked out
The BBC are ripping it all apart.
Not really following this too much, but surely labour will just reinstate HS2 as soon as they are voted in? Obviously that’ll cause huge delays and additional costs, but ultimately it’s still going to be built?
if I was a northerner I wouldn’t be too worried just yet, the tories are finished for a good few years to come (hopefully decades)
if I was a northerner I wouldn’t be too worried just yet, the tories are finished for a good few years to come (hopefully decades)
The damage they've caused to the North, mostly through austerity cuts, won't be fixed easily, if at all.
I'm not worried, I'm just sick of seeing the place I live being degraded by these lying shitbags
Saying "the previous government were crap, I'm the man to fix it" when you have been part of that government since 2015, and the government is actually still in power, is Orwellian doublespeak overdriven to 11.
Dangerous times.
This is from a Manchester Tory MP
https://twitter.com/william_wragg/status/1709479700618186831?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
And we’re back to everyone doing maths until 18 again, are we?
Nah, just you lot in England. There are four different education systems and governments in the UK (thankfully).
They’re going to stop Universities enrolling students on courses that ‘don’t add value’
Who’s going to be the judge of that then?
Maths of course is what we should all study at uni - are you listening Geography and Art students?
The look of a supporting wife - ooft
It’s all a bit mad in it.
One minute they’re all moaning about ‘the nanny state’, then they’re cheering him for telling everyone what subjects they’re going to study
Not so much policies as just incoherent ramblings
Ah don't be nasty, she has just seen the likelihood of her way access to power in the uk go up in smoke after next year. How else will she continue to make millions
Not really following this too much, but surely labour will just reinstate HS2 as soon as they are voted in? Obviously that’ll cause huge delays and additional costs, but ultimately it’s still going to be built?
Not when SKS is promising to stick to tory financial targets.
They’re going to stop Universities enrolling students on courses that ‘don’t add value’
Who’s going to be the judge of that then?
No doubt studying "the classics" or PPE at oxbridge won't be affected.
One minute they’re all moaning about ‘the nanny state’, then they’re cheering him for telling everyone what subjects they’re going to study
Its perfectly coherent.
Nanny state is anyone telling me what to do vs leadership which is me telling you what you can or cant do.
I wasn't watching any of that because I wouldn't have been able to cope. I have however caught the BBC text coverage of it.
The swear filter on here would break if I said what I want to say.
I'll just sum up with ****ing Tory SCUM
* him and * all of them who just whooped and cheered. My family has someone in it who he just said didn’t * exist. The *.
**** them. I hate them more than I can possibly say.
+1.
I wrote a few weeks ago that the sports issue was the tip of the iceberg; this is now clear and present danger. ****s
^ crushingly accurate. 🙁
So the sitting PM is the candidate for change? Holy crap, that's some mental gymnastics there.😂
The tank is empty, they have nothing left.
The tank is empty, they have nothing left.<br /><br />
The tank is full, unfortunately it is a slurry tank and they’re driving up and down the country with the agitator on full bore spreading foul smelling shit over everything they touch
"He’s solved the net zero problem apparently"
I was in the car, and at that point swore and switched off the radio - I'd already sworn, but couldn't listen any more.
I've only just seen his throwaway remark about Nicola Sturgeon 'going down for other reasons'. Unless he knows differently, she has not currently been charged with any offence, which makes this potentially a massively defamatory statement delivered with the eyes of the nation on him. The innuendo that she has been involved in criminal activity is very obvious.
Unlike the House of Commons, where he is free to defame Keir Starmer on a weekly basis, there is no parliamentary privilege here.
If the criminal investigation into Sturgeon peters out, I hope she takes him to the cleaners.
Rishi Sunak's commitment to "change" doesn't sit comfortably with his claim that he doesn't need a fresh mandate from voters as according to him Boris Johnson's 2019 mandate is still valid.
Opposition parties should be demanding that he calls an early general election to put these allegedly new ideas to the British people.
If he hasn't got any new ideas then he obviously isn't offering change.
I think this is a first, but I’ve found myself in agreement with ‘Dave’
https://twitter.com/david_cameron/status/1709579002220867922?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
Labour Party conference next week so surely all they need to do is promise to reinstate HS2 and not be quite as batshit mental as the Tories and it should be a pushover...?
Surely?
Please, for the love of God, let there be at least a chink of light...
David Cameron approved HS2 two years into his premiership, it shouldn't come as any surprise that he doesn't support the latest development which obviously undermines what he must see as his legacy.
Btw what is David Cameron's legacy? I can't think of much apart from brexit and giving austerity a bad name.
We can but hope. This will be the big test for Starmer, he's got an open goal and a few days to plan his move. If he doesn't convincingly smack it squarely in the back of the net then he's put himself on the back foot for the election.
so surely all they need to do is promise to reinstate HS2
You would have thought so, unfortunately recent history suggests that Labour under Keir Starmer strongly criticises decisions made but the current Tory government before eventually announcing that a Labour government would very reluctantly do exactly the same as the Tories as they would not, apparently, have any other choice.
So I wouldn't count on it.