Do you want to discuss boring politics? (40 Viewers)
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Otis
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Yes.
Sick Boy
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Unfortunately most probably aren’t aware of what’s been going on.
They’ll just revert to the usual Labour want uncontrolled immigration, trying to stop Brexit, North London elite and people will fall for it while thinking Sunak is a man of the people because he posed for some photos pretending to serve food in a pub once.
skybluetony176
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I used to date a girl called Leaky Sue.
Otis
Well-Known Member
Hope she had extra absorbent panty liners
Grendel
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The only chance the Tories have in the labour north seats they’ve won is to appeal to those voters in terms of tough immigration stance and to hope Starmer in the next two years makes some comment that suggests rejoining the EU
skybluetony176
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Mattress liner.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Easy to debunk lies about Labour wanting unlimited immigration probably aren’t the best tactic mind
Grendel
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Rwanda rhetoric is appealing to these people. Starmers response is what they will look at
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It's often perception that wins out, mind.
What I can't see working is any attempt to portray Labour as the elite compared to... Sunak. I mean, I know Johnson was pretty elitest, but somehow he could carry it off to an extent. Sunak though, he says and does and wears the wrong things to try that line of attack, surely, along with not having the charisma to do it!
He'd be better off going for policy arguments and competence really. That was what Truss was trying to do, with a couple of obvious flaws(!) but Sunak would surely have more traction there wrt his own public perception.
Sky Blue Pete
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Some civil servants who’ve been dismissed need an apology and reinstatement and compensation. Including personal cases I’ve been involved in. F’in disgrace
Brighton Sky Blue
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If it’s their best line of attack it’s unlikely to work.
They've got nothing.
The fact they're still using 'but Corbyn' as an attack line against Labour says it all.
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Brighton Sky Blue
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The party of law and order lets back in ministers who break the ministerial code after a week because ‘she made a mistake and said sorry’. To make this particular mistake you have to override a warning that you are sending confidential information outside the government.
It was never a mistake-it was deliberate to precipitate the end of Truss.
And now the Johnson cult are briefing against Braverman and undermining Sunak.
Government of unity my arse.
Brighton Sky Blue
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The 'send them all back to Africa' line isn't going to put food on the table or heat people's homes which is what they are going to be really concerned about this winter. It was never enough for the National Front to be elected and it won't be enough for this Government. I feel Starmer is cautious enough not to fall into traps.
'Getting Brexit done' appealed to nationalists and xenophobes at the time but now many people have much more important things to worry about. The irony is of course that their desire for Brexit is part of the reason they are now struggling.
shmmeee
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Immigration is nothing like the issue it was five-ten years ago. I think what will lose them the red wall votes is more likely to be losing the Johnsonian economics.
Cant be the Hang The Pedos and Fund The NHS Party if you don’t fund the NHS. These are people who voted Brexit for better jobs and more public spending. I think a lot of them see immigration as resolved now were out the EU.
Oh dear. Has Sunak misled the house on his first day in the job?
Suella Braverman is under pressure to answer fresh questions about her resignation last week as home secretary for breaching the ministerial code, after new details emerged that cast doubt on her and Rishi Sunak’s version of events.
Sources have told the Guardian that Braverman was challenged by the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, about the leaking of a sensitive document, rather than coming forward herself about what had happened.
A government insider said: “She only owned up to it when she was confronted with the evidence.”
It follows an intervention by the former chairman of the Conservative party Jake Berry, who said the issue was “really serious” and added: “As I understand it, the evidence was put to her and she accepted the evidence, rather than the other way round.”
The account appears to contradict what Sunak said during his first prime minister’s questions on Wednesday.
When he was justifying the reappointment of Braverman as home secretary just six days after her departure, he insisted: “She raised the matter and she accepted her mistake.”
Suella Braverman is under pressure to answer fresh questions about her resignation last week as home secretary for breaching the ministerial code, after new details emerged that cast doubt on her and Rishi Sunak’s version of events.
Sources have told the Guardian that Braverman was challenged by the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, about the leaking of a sensitive document, rather than coming forward herself about what had happened.
A government insider said: “She only owned up to it when she was confronted with the evidence.”
It follows an intervention by the former chairman of the Conservative party Jake Berry, who said the issue was “really serious” and added: “As I understand it, the evidence was put to her and she accepted the evidence, rather than the other way round.”
The account appears to contradict what Sunak said during his first prime minister’s questions on Wednesday.
When he was justifying the reappointment of Braverman as home secretary just six days after her departure, he insisted: “She raised the matter and she accepted her mistake.”
Agree Pete, circulating porn around HMRC should be encouraged
Think that’s a bit tenuous PVA. What’s more concerning for me is we once again have a PM who’s judgement is immediately questionable
How have the ERG (or whatever they’re called these days) right got such power over the party and it’s leadership ?! She should never have got the job back and it’s put Sunak on the back foot from day one. Bizarre choice although obviously part of some dodgy leadership dealings which just about sums up the party over the past 12 months. Let’s not worry about just getting the best, most capable people into the top jobs…god forbid
skybluetony176
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It’s not just the ERG. She’s also a member of another Tory group who are ironically called “The Common Sense” group. There’s little doubt that she secured Sunak the PM position but old leaky Sue has such sway within the furthest right of the party she’s almost unsackable. He’ll have to at some point but that is probably the point he’ll lose his party. The Tories aren’t even fractured in two because the Boris loyalists clearly aren’t behind Sunak and leaky Sue is public enemy No.2 now, the ERG is even split hence they had to agree to disagree and back no one in the leadership contest, there’s still a number of pro Europeans in the party too amongst I’m sure many other knitting circles. I recon Suella is the only glue holding it together,once she’s gone I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect to see it implode. Early 2023 election would be my guess.Agree Pete, circulating porn around HMRC should be encouraged
Think that’s a bit tenuous PVA. What’s more concerning for me is we once again have a PM who’s judgement is immediately questionable
How have the ERG (or whatever they’re called these days) right got such power over the party and it’s leadership ?! She should never have got the job back and it’s put Sunak on the back foot from day one. Bizarre choice although obviously part of some dodgy leadership dealings which just about sums up the party over the past 12 months. Let’s not worry about just getting the best, most capable people into the top jobs…god forbid
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
Agree Pete, circulating porn around HMRC should be encouraged
Think that’s a bit tenuous PVA. What’s more concerning for me is we once again have a PM who’s judgement is immediately questionable
How have the ERG (or whatever they’re called these days) right got such power over the party and it’s leadership ?! She should never have got the job back and it’s put Sunak on the back foot from day one. Bizarre choice although obviously part of some dodgy leadership dealings which just about sums up the party over the past 12 months. Let’s not worry about just getting the best, most capable people into the top jobs…god forbid
His number one concern was there being no member vote, so getting the likes of Braverman and Badenoch onboard by offering them ministerial roles was probably what was needed.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Think that’s a bit tenuous PVA. What’s more concerning for me is we once again have a PM who’s judgement is immediately questionable
How have the ERG (or whatever they’re called these days) right got such power over the party and it’s leadership ?! She should never have got the job back and it’s put Sunak on the back foot from day one. Bizarre choice although obviously part of some dodgy leadership dealings which just about sums up the party over the past 12 months. Let’s not worry about just getting the best, most capable people into the top jobs…god forbid
They do because of their support for Boris who in turn would still have won in a membership vote. Don't get their support and you'll end up putting it to people who would still give anything to sniff Johnson's farts
Sky Blue Pete
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Not just that but the Home Secretary too
Sky Blue Pete
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We’ve had people sacked for looking up a postcode to send a birthday card. Xxxts
Agreed. Hence the dodgy deals comment. The fact is there’s deals that could’ve been done without causing immediate pressure on Sunak/government, for example offering to bring back Bravermann in a future reshuffle in a different role or if he had to give her an immediate cabinet role, shove her elsewhere for a bit
As I’ve said before, it’s like they’ve got Death wish
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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A lot of who ?
shmmeee
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2019 Tory voters
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Of all their failings this is the worst but it won't get much attention. They just pretended to care when we hosted COP. Since then they have shown complete contempt for the environment.
