Thread 27 - Sunak : the Ship is Sinking, Hold Your Nerve!

[DuncinToffee]

In the voice of Cpl Jones.

"Don't panic Capt Sunak"

"Hold your nerve"

"They don't like it up em".

Previous https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4823678-thread-25-sunak-peerages-privileges-the-covid-inquiry?page=1

We have a choice between extremely bad alternative outcomes

Government has been quiet on this

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/18/uk-visa-rules-foreign-brexit-shortages-construction

I thought Cates specifically didn't want women going to university because the more educated they are the less likely they are to stay at home and make children?

Did... did Cates just say, "Keep the proles uneducated, then they'll vote Tory"?

Sorry, I'm just still sitting here ->

I actually had to go and check that Cates quote is real. And it is:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/17/university-elite-overproduction-has-shifted-uk-to-left/

Indeed, so-called “elite overproduction” has created a generation whose understandable disappointment with society has pushed them down a rabbit hole of destructive ideological causes. It is even argued that some adopt “high status” political views to compensate for the reduced economic status they are able to achieve.
From critical race theory (which says white people are all racist) to radical gender ideology (which threatens the safety of women and children) to extreme climate catastrophism (which seeks to impoverish our nation): the views of those under 30 are markedly different from older people. In fact, almost half of young people believe that Britain was founded on racism.
These causes, championed in universities and the public sector, have no basis in reality, are deeply de-stabilising to society and have nothing concrete to offer our young people.

I notice she left off her list "radical feminism (which says women should be permitted to hold public office like Member of Parliament)".

I can't see the long article, but does her screed cover why young people are disappointed?

Could it be anything to do with their job opportunities and economic welfare in the UK in the 2020s?

Heavens no!

Yeah. Going to university makes them feel like they deserve good jobs, then when they end up as baristas they turn to social justice activism to make themselves feel important. Essentially.

It is an extremely conservative article based on the idea that humans should no their place in society

Worth reminding everyone at this point that Cates' previous career was - checks notes- in the public sector as a -wait for it- teacher.

She'll be the sort of teacher who has said to me, and I shit you not, "I tell my students not to apply for unis like Oxbridge, because it's not really for people like them."

I can believe she thinks it but I can't believe she said it out loud.

Given what she has come out with previously, I can believe she said it out loud.

She said similar in her Nat C speech.

I have said previously in jest that such and such a Con knows what a woman is and what they are for. It seems that Cates may have taken me seriously.

Shaun Bailey, whose campaign's "jingle and mingle" party at Conservative Party headquarters during the pandemic is currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police, is formally introduced to the House of Lords.

A failed Mayoral candidate under investigation by the police seems like an ideal person to help shape legislation.

(If we get lucky maybe he won't bother turning up to vote, he'll just jingle & mingle in the dining rooms)

Yeah but she was quite careful in saying she was just talking about females.

I can’t wait until we don’t have to hear from any of these people again and they wander off into oblivion.

I’ll join your revolution @Cornettoninja

Transparency latest

Jeremy Hunt is only inviting 'select journalists' to his summer media drinks tonight apparently...

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1681339423953149952?t=Y59PEl0tBcht2VYk6g_acg&s=19

How much money did they waste on this

https://twitter.com/AliFortescue/status/1681307596811292674?t=Y59PEl0tBcht2VYk6g_acg&s=19

EXCL: Two giant cruise ships set to house 1,000 asylum seekers have not found anywhere to dock and been returned to the company that owns them, a senior source has told Sky news.

Transparent in their corruption?

I’m thinking we could start with a catering company specialising in their soirées and spiking them will (un)healthy amounts of lactulose and/or tape worms…

I remember saying recently that your very dry satire responses sadly end up being a very unfunny truth. In a comic genius kinda way that we don't want to take it seriously - but actually have ro