Thread 24, Sunak and the local elections aftermath

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Aspirating sewage does not sound nice.

Definition of aspiration.
2.
MEDICINE
the action or process of drawing breath.

Makes sense, he's got his eyes firmly on the next big prize, everything he's doing now is calculated to maximize his earning potential in his next role, being prime minister has nothing to do with wanting to help the country it's just a stepping stone for his next big grift

It makes sense. He can’t win the next election. The Tories are going to break before fixing themselves so makes sense to look to next job. Hopefully without too much shit from this mess sticking to him. (Pun unintended)

best bet at this point is to stick himself and some of the less headbanger MPs into the safest seats they have and get as few of the far right re elected as possible. Offload all the mad ones onto reform or reclaim. Not sure what they can do about the Tory membership. That might be a lost cause. Change the way leaders are elected?

The Met may have lied about the night stars arrests. I know you are all going to be surprised by that. They weren’t even handing out tape alarms.

https://councilestatemedia.substack.com/p/looks-like-the-met-police-have-been

FFS rape alarms.

tape alarms will get you arrested because you can probably lock on with tape.

So they're backing Braverman for PM then

£50k in hospitality from Heathrow alone in nine months. No wonder he was unavailable when the time came to “lay in front of the bulldozers”.

Private Eye No 1598 Latest
https://twitter.com/EvaRivia/status/1659146805806788609?s=20

Omg, IMAGINE what bravaman would do as leader of the party😲😳🤣
If she had free reign to express herself, her disgusting loopy madcap nonsense ideas, it would be horrifying and hilarious and no one would ever take them seriously again

I’m not going to lie. There’s a part of me that would. Just preferably either once I’ve had time to leave the country or the Tories aren’t in power.

Seriously though, I can see a split and Braverman could well end up leading the part that’s made up of the complete loons while the saner ones rebuild a new Tory party.

Local elections in Northern Ireland today, all 11 councils are electing all of their councillors.

The last time councils were elected in NI,
DUP won 122 seats (26% of the total)
Sinn Féin 105 (23%)
UUP 75 (16%)
SDLP 59 (13%)
Alliance Party 53 (11%)
Independents & other parties won 48 seats (10%)

Rishi Sunak's election agent duped voters with fake council tax demand made in his office

Voters were sent a letter purporting to be from their local council warning that their council tax bill was going up”

The letter was headed with the name and office address of Stockton Borough Council to make it look like it was an official communication from the local authority.

Some of the wording was in red so it appeared similar to a final payment demand.”

Gibbs is not just a Sunak election agent, he is also a Tory councillor.

Only at the bottom did it say in v small print that it was not a demand for money ..and that it was from the North Allerton Tory party.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunaks-election-agent-duped-30014708.”

The working link is.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunaks-election-agent-duped-30014708

Thanks, the Mirror website is a nightmare to use and so much went wrong with my post, I didn’t think it actually got posted.

https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-confident-of-remaining-prime-minister-after-next-election-despite-losing-1000-councillors-12883526

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

On track to win the next election. Pull the other one Rishi.

I guess it's all they've got.

There's a saying isn't there? "If you believe something enough then it's true"

Either that or after their attempts at changing votes via voter ID failed they have something else up their sleeve?

It's all he has got,, as you can see here. He really is a terrible communicator

How do you feel when you lose?' - Sky's @BethRigby

The Conservatives recently lost out in local elections and Beth Rigby asks PM Rishi Sunak how it feels to be "one of life's winners" but to lose.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1659446058903019522?s=20

"The message I've got is the country want us to redouble our efforts"

No. Sorry Rishi. The message you've got is the country wants you out!

I admire his twisting of this! Well, I don't actually

What @Roussette just said.

Do you think he actually looks quite angry rather than being robotic?

This deception with canvassing leaflets is pretty widespread by the Tories now. They didn't brand some of their recent leaflets with the Tory name - they obviously know their brand is in tatters.

I think he looks floored by the question. I very much doubt he's ever been directly asked that before.
There were so many better responses than the automatic one - repeating the 5 target mantra- he reached for.

Agree with this. I don't think the Conservatives will return to the centre ground any time soon. For one thing the members don't seem to want them in the there. Also they one Nationers don't seem able to rally themselves. One of the few things I agreed with Matt Hancock on in his News Agent interview this week. (Yes I was surprised to agree with him on anything!)

"It’s a perfectly plausible – even likely – scenario that Sunak loses the next election, resigns and in the ensuing leadership election MPs allow a candidate to go forward who has an agenda very similar to the NatCons. My piece for @NewStatesman."

twitter.com/davidgauke/status/1659453091631050752?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Pmk

And they make their leaflets green, not the normal blue. And finding a Tory MP on Twitter admitting to being conservative is as rare as hen's teeth