Rishi Sunak's Time is Up

[teqniq]

It's worse than than that. They know perfectly well that Rwanda have played them like a fiddle, as they hoped would happen.

I am not understanding your reasoning here at all. Would you care to elaborate?

 

[Raheem]

I am not understanding your reasoning here at all. Would you care to elaborate?

It's not remotely plausible that the prime minister, the government, the home office, the cabinet office and 10 Downing Street all thought the Rwanda plan was likely to succeed.

So, they have not really been fleeced by Rwanda. They needed a foreign government to collaborate in a scheme they knew was nonsense, and they paid what they needed to.

 

[Artaxerxes]

'Eat out to spread it all about' was his baby, other than that can't see him being too badly in the frame for it all. Hopefully I'm very much mistaken though.

So far we have had messages stating he vetoed measures to stop the spread of mitigate its impacts on several occasions.


He’s just got away with it so far because we have a supine press more interested in whose going to the women’s bathroom

 

[Elpenor]

It’s amazing that this governments biggest priority is pretending they want to export refugees to Rwanda, as opposed to the economy, housing, climate change, the NHS, education and countless other things

 

[teqniq]

It's not remotely plausible that the prime minister, the government, the home office, the cabinet office and 10 Downing Street all thought the Rwanda plan was likely to succeed.

So, they have not really been fleeced by Rwanda. They needed a foreign government to collaborate in a scheme they knew was nonsense, and they paid what they needed to.

I am not buying this at all. Why? It is fairly obvious, to me at least that the vermin right now are riven by divisions and the far-right headbangers want this very much. Sunak has to keep them onside in an effort to keep the party in one piece otherwise there is, imo a very real risk that the party will implode. It is an absolute shambles driven purely by self-interest.

 

[Raheem]

I am not buying this at all. Why?

Because it's barking mad, so it appeals to the Tory grassroots, and Labour can't compete with it. It's ended up in a bigger mess than they would have liked, is all.

 

[Karl Masks]

It’s amazing that this governments biggest priority is pretending they want to export refugees to Rwanda, as opposed to the economy, housing, climate change, the NHS, education and countless other things

It isn't to me. The Tories are ruled by the cranks that clapped Liz Truss promising complete neoliberalisation. They cheered fracking despite her chancellor, then business secretary, kicking it into the very long grass right ebfore the pandemic. These people are delusional small minded headbangers

 

[Gerry1time]

It’s amazing that this governments biggest priority is pretending they want to export refugees to Rwanda, as opposed to the economy, housing, climate change, the NHS, education and countless other things

It’s not their biggest priority. They’re still getting on with merrily dismantling and privatising those things. They just want the public to focus on the Rwanda nonsense so they don’t notice all the other things.

 

[MickiQ]

It’s amazing that this governments biggest priority is pretending they want to export refugees to Rwanda, as opposed to the economy, housing, climate change, the NHS, education and countless other things

It's not but they know they've fucked up all those, know the plebs know they've fucked up and that they don't have a scoobies how to fix any of it. Rwanda is a classic dead cat strategy to distract the Great Unwashed from all the fucking up of fucked up stuff going on around them.
I think it will gain them more votes than it will lose them but everything else is just such a fucking dumpster fire that this is just a trivial sideshow.

 

[teqniq]

CWS:

 

[PR1Berske]

From the Daily Mail

Over dishes of ravioli and sliced calves liver, washed down by bottles of southern Italian red, Rishi Sunak's political enemies plotted their next moves against the Government.


The venue was Giovanni's, a long-established family Italian restaurant in London's Covent Garden run by Sicilian aristocrat Count Pino Ragona and whose walls are bedecked with pictures of celebrity customers such as Frank Sinatra – and Liz Truss.

The conspirators, a determined cabal of MPs and political strategists, were busy turning a torrent of headlines damaging to the Prime Minister, previously described as a 'grid of s*', into 'an advent calendar of s*'.

The intention was to leave No 10 reeling from a series of blows in the wake of last month's sacking of Suella Braverman as Home Secretary.

Her brutally personal parting-shot letter was followed last week by the resignation of Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick over Sunak's plans to use emergency legislation to rescue his scheme to send Channel migrants to Rwanda, which he felt did not go far enough.

Downing Street will nervously open the latest advent calendar window on Tuesday, when MPs are given the first chance to vote on the legislation. Party whips are spending this weekend frantically trying to quell a wider revolt.

The Prime Minister is also facing opposition from One Nation Tory moderates on the other flank, led by former Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green. They object to using legislation to override the Human Rights Act and overrule the Supreme Court's verdict that Rwanda is not a safe place to send asylum-seekers.

Supporters of Mr Sunak are scathing about Mr Jenrick's resignation, with one Home Office source saying: 'He thinks he is the new darling of the Right, but it's a Damascene conversion given that prior to joining the Home Office he thought the whole premise of the Rwanda scheme was wrong.'

And a Tory source says Braverman and Jenrick 'fought like rats in a sack in the Home Office, constantly wrangling for the limelight and blaming each other when something went wrong'.

One of the Giovanni's plotters is open about wanting to 'crash' Mr Sunak's administration in order to install a new leader before the Election – but admits to having no idea how it will happen or who should take over.

They said: 'Our polling is down to 20 per cent, which is wipeout territory. Even a five per cent bounce from a new leader would save a decent number of seats. [Sunak] can't win on the legislation, because every wing of the party is p***** off for one reason or another.'

Appropriately, one despairing Tory source likens the party's predicament to the seminal closing scene of The Italian Job film, in which Michael Caine's getaway bus is balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff with his gang at one end and their stolen gold at the other.

'Hang on a minute, lads,' says Caine as the credits are about to roll. 'I've got a great idea'. Downing Street diehards – who prefer to plot their defence in fashionable private members' clubs such as Soho House – insist that the PM had no alternative but to pursue the current course.

The intention was to leave No 10 reeling from a series of blows in the wake of last month's sacking of Suella Braverman (pictured following her sacking) as Home Secretary.

One official said: 'If we water it down, the policy won't work as a deterrent; if we make it any harder, the policy will collapse. The plan on the table is the only way to get flights off, it's the only way to deliver on our commitment to stop the boats.'

In an attempt to defuse the mounting, multi-pronged pressure on Mr Sunak's premiership, MPs will only vote on Tuesday on the principle of whether to tighten the law.

They will not have the chance to debate and vote on potentially divisive amendments until the New Year. Ms Braverman denies scheming to bring down Mr Sunak, claiming that she hopes he will lead the party into the next Election.

But there is undoubtedly an ominous coalition of the Right massing against the PM, comprised of the New Conservatives surrounding Ms Braverman, co-chaired by Danny Kruger; the ultra-Brexiteers of the European Research Group (ERG) headed by Mark Francois; the Northern Research Group of 'red wall' MPs; and the No Turning Back group of neo-Thatcherites who were influential in Ms Truss's short-lived administration.

Before the vote is held, the ERG's Sir Bill Cash will chair a 'star chamber' which will give its verdict on the proposed Rwandan legislation.

 

[brogdale]

Guardian reporting some surprise as rat-boy's willingness to defend blustercunt and then offering the obvious reason...

 

[brogdale]

If these sort of (rumour) figures are anywhere being correct, it looks like the headbangers have not yet got their leadership ducks in a row; holding off for now but going in for the kill early in the new year?

 

[Bingoman]

If these sort of (rumour) figures are anywhere being correct, it looks like the headbangers have not yet got their leadership ducks in a row; holding off for now but going in for the kill early in the new year?

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Just need 21 Tories to vote against because the DUP are voting against squeaky bum time for the PM

 

[Karl Masks]

Just need 21 Tories to vote against because the DUP are voting against squeaky bum time for the PM

THey aren't the sharpest tools in the box though, are they?

Come on let's have an early Xmas present for the rest of us and have this rat faced tyrant bought down a peg or three

 

[andysays]

Just need 21 Tories to vote against because the DUP are voting against squeaky bum time for the PM

What constitutional implications are the DUP concerned about?

 

[brogdale]

What constitutional implications are the DUP concerned about?

Rwandan marching routes

 

[PR1Berske]

Ahem

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Calamity1971]

Fuck me! This needs a spoiler. Sorry!

 

[philosophical]

How dare he touch Larry.
Creep, with his product placement bollocks and all.
Tell you what Sunak.
Get a functioning administration in Northern Ireland you utter wanker.

 

[GarveyLives]

With support for him and his political party sinking in the opinion polls, yesterday Rishi Sunak tried to capitalise on his home town football team's 17-match unbeaten run by turning up for photo-opportunities ...

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... what a shame that more people do not have the nerve to refuse to participate in these stunts:

Southampton manager Russell Martin snubs Rishi Sunak: 'I have no interest in saying hello'

 

[brogdale]

With support for him and his political party sinking in the opinion polls, yesterday Rishi Sunak tried to capitalise on his home town football team's 17-match unbeaten run by turning up for photo-opportunities ...

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... what a shame that more people do not have the nerve to refuse to participate in these stunts:

Southampton manager Russell Martin snubs Rishi Sunak: 'I have no interest in saying hello'

Uncanny.

 

[_Russ_]

There's a fair few

With support for him and his political party sinking in the opinion polls, yesterday Rishi Sunak tried to capitalise on his home town football team's 17-match unbeaten run by turning up for photo-opportunities ...

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... what a shame that more people do not have the nerve to refuse to participate in these stunts:

Southampton manager Russell Martin snubs Rishi Sunak: 'I have no interest in saying hello'

Yea Glock 17s hide well but they still might as well tattoo MI5 Grunt on their foreheads (it would just fit between the fucker's beady little eyes)

 

[brogdale]

Guardian reporting rat-boy's desperation reaching new depths...



Gotta admit; the lad's not lost it, has he?

 

[andysays]

Guardian reporting rat-boy's desperation reaching new depths...

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Gotta admit; the lad's not lost it, has he?

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I'm not sure which of those two elements is the more ridiculous, TBH

 

[brogdale]

Reckon this calls for a post-advent calendar of shit for rat-boy!

 

[teqniq]

His lack of judgement was evident long before this.

 

[Mezzer]

Guardian reporting rat-boy's desperation reaching new depths...

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Gotta admit; the lad's not lost it, has he?

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Given that it's certain that he'd leak any interaction, why would it be thought a good idea to contact Cummings?

 

[Calamity1971]

Given that it's certain that he'd leak any interaction, why would it be thought a good idea to contact Cummings?

Sheer desperation.