Rishi Sunak's Time is Up

[Pickman's model]

Looks like Survation dug a little deeper into the basic ecumenic illiteracy of respondents and found that simply working out what a 5% rate of inflation on a £1 loaf was beyond most people:

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That's what happens when lots of people you ask believe in the feeding of the five thousand

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[flypanam]

Fucking disgusting:

Rishi Sunak gives $3million to rich US college as UK schools can't afford basics

Rishi Sunak and his wife donated a huge sum for a computing lab at Claremont McKenna in California, where Akshata Murty studied. The college fees are $86,500 a year for tuition and board

www.mirror.co.uk

Probably meant it to go to the Claremont Institute but was rushing between helicopters

 

[brogdale]

Always love the faces in these photo ops...poor bastards.

 

[teqniq]

This is rather good:

 

[two sheds]

Just as well this maniac was stopped from gaining power

 

[Artaxerxes]

Always love the faces in these photo ops...poor bastards.

Patrick Sunak monologues to the crowd in British Psycho

 

[teqniq]

Rat Boy (sorry brogdale but that is a great appellation) gets petulant wrt to students:

Rishi Sunak vowed to get tough on unis as they're full of non-Tory voters

Rishi Sunak and his Government have changed student loan funding to cut the state’s contribution from 44p in the pound to 19p from September, leaving students to pay off their loans from when they earn £25,000 a year

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Busted:

 

[teqniq]

It would be rather nice if this prediction is true:

Sunak 'leading Tories to catastrophe', bombshell poll shows

New forecasts suggest the Tories could be left with just 89 seats at the next general election. That would signal a historic defeat.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

 

[Pickman's model]

It would be rather nice if this prediction is true:

Sunak 'leading Tories to catastrophe', bombshell poll shows

New forecasts suggest the Tories could be left with just 89 seats at the next general election. That would signal a historic defeat.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

No it wouldn't. For one thing there'd still be 89 tories in parliament and for another I suspect an efficient and tightly controlled shammer administration would be at least as bad and quite possibly worse than the shower currently in power, certainly with the majority that suggests. The election result will imo be rather closer than that as sadly for the Labour Party the campaign will see them shed supporters every time shammer opens his mouth

 

[teqniq]

There is that. A hung parliament would be better with labour having to do a deal. We really need some version of proportional representation.

 

[Pickman's model]

There is that. A hung parliament would be better with labour having to do a deal. We really need some version of proportional representation.

Or mps dangling from lampposts from Westminster to arkley

 

[agricola]

There is that. A hung parliament would be better with labour having to do a deal. We really need some version of proportional representation.

we don't - we need better MPs, and it is really hard to see any Westminster party coming up with a voting system that would deliver that

 

[PR1Berske]

I'll put this Twitter thread here for now. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, warning against the consequences of the Online Safety Bill, and how British internet access could be irreversibly changed for the worse.

 

[two sheds]

Is Sunak's time up?



"Rumours" 44 letters in to 1922 committee, depressing suggested replacements unsurprisingly.

 

[Karl Masks]

Get in Braverman! Your time has come!

 

[PR1Berske]

Suella as Prime Minister would wipe the memory Thatcher into ancient history. She'd boil puppies to death on live television and lock benefits claimants onto oil rigs. Thatcher was idealistic, Suella is just plain cruel.

 

[Karl Masks]

Suella as Prime Minister would wipe the memory Thatcher into ancient history. She'd boil puppies to death on live television and lock benefits claimants onto oil rigs. Thatcher was idealistic, Suella is just plain cruel.

Yeah but small boats innit

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I can't see them having the appetite to roll the dice with another loony zealot after Truss tbh, not at this point. Post election I think all bets are off.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I can't see them having the appetite to roll the dice with another loony zealot after Truss tbh, not at this point. Post election I think all bets are off.

If they did bin off Sunak then they'd have to call an election as its simply not credible to change PM 4 times in the space of 18 months.

The calculation is simple for them: would they retain the most seats by going early in 2024 or by handing on until early 2025.

The latter option is clearly the most sensible one, as the hope is that by then price gouging, greed led inflation caused by the rich and the 'necessary recession' to quell the demands of the market will have dampened down and they can offer up some tax giveways.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

The latter option is clearly the most sensible one, as the hope is that by then price gouging, greed led inflation caused by the rich and the 'necessary recession' to quell the demands of the market will have dampened down and they can offer up some tax giveways.

Yeah I think this is essentially the whole point of having Sunak isn't it - he's there to look sensible, or Prime Ministerial or whatever, look at home in a sharp suit and not rock the boat, and to hope things settle a bit more than he is to actually do anything, and then maybe pre-election they can float some tax cuts or whatever.

Post-electoral kicking then I think that calculation disappears, at that point I could definitely see them going for a Braverman type.

 

[Karl Masks]

I can't see them having the appetite to roll the dice with another loony zealot after Truss tbh, not at this point. Post election I think all bets are off.

given the proximity of the mortgage timebomb they might as well let Sunak carry the can into election defeat

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Post-electoral kicking then I think that calculation disappears, at that point I could definitely see them going for a Braverman type.

Depends who is left after the GE in their parliamentary group to an extent, given that the shortlist is whittled down by MPs before it goes to their members. As their members proved with Truss they’ll vote for the biggest nutter on that shortlist.

What would make things interesting would be a new Farage type party to the Tories right. If and when that happens a more fundamental realignment could be on the cards.

 

[teqniq]

Nicked from Twitter, Sunak had tweeted earlier today rhat he took his family to see the Barbie film:



Source

 

[pbsmooth]

the Beeb nicely pointing out the ridiculousness of Tories new war on green policies.

 

[teqniq]

With each passing utterance I find this man increasingly detestable. (Thread)

 

[Chilli.s]

Same as his cash for questions/influence MPs

 

[pbsmooth]

depressing that this bullshit has become an acceptable way for 'elected officials' to communicate and generally conduct themselves.

 

[Ming]