Thread 28 Sunak : Lords, Ladies and Lame Ducks

[DuncinToffee]

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4835909-thread-27-sunak-the-ship-is-sinking-hold-your-nerve?page=1

FBU wants to prevent fires. What a bunch of bastards, eh?

Up there with the RNLI insisting on saving drowning people.

Latest preditions

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

Reduced Labour majority by 24 seats compared to end of June prediction.

That is worrying @jgw. Still on course to win, but any slippage needs to be taken seriously. Starmer needs to up his game and be braver and less Tory lite.

Mel Stride will be proud of you

I hope I read that the right way

You did read it right, duncinToffee🙂

When the cat's away

Greenpeace releases footage of activists covering Rishi Sunak's £2m mansion in oil-black fabric after climbing on to the roof of the property in Yorkshire.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/29/one-in-10-tory-peers-have-given-more-than-100000-to-party

This is a truly great photo.

https://twitter.com/notDcfcBoss/status/1686451454075125760

Hold that beer. Think it's photoshopped. Darn.

I think that photo was faked - her expression and the terrible state of the pint were altered.

Yes, see next post, Dammit. Still a great photo!

https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1687009630331830272?s=20

New panel of Conservative Party members:

40% oppose the NetZero target; another 40% oppose writing it into law.

33% think global warming is not driven by human activity; a further 12% think it isn't real.

66% think there is not a climate emergency.

Dear God.

More xenophobia:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/police-investigate-traveller-sites-leaflet-distributed-welsh-secretary

He’s a vile piece of work. He was on Any Questions a few weeks ago - arrogant and thick as pigshit.

Rates up -

Bank of England raises interest rates again, for14th consecutive time to a new 15 year high of 5.25%…

🚨 In new language, suggests rates will stay at these levels “for sufficiently long” to bring inflation down - an indication not to expect rates to fall with inflation

• implication is bank rates are close to the peak but will stay above 5% across next year into 2025

• Bank downgrades growth forecast for 2024 and 2025 to 0.5% and 0.25%… recession avoided this year, and not predicted in next couple years, but shadow remains with v low growth

twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1687055800320102400?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

The language in that leaflet is unbelievable.

Stay safe on the roads now we’ve declared war on LTNs. Wouldn’t want you to become economically inactive again because you’ve been mowed down by a fast moving vehicle.

🤣

This rings a bell. I think that leaflet was used before in Eastern region.

Since when did operating normal British values of basic humanity constitute betrayal of the British people?

Honestly, it that is the sort of thinking that is going on within government sources, these people are just not right in the head.

I think whats interesting about the report is that the anonymous government source wasn't prepared to put their name to the quote - just wanted to put out the message that the FBU were betraying the country.
Cowardly shyster whoever they are.

Maybe it is a good thing that the Tories continue to be utterly vile and turn off all but the most hardened posters?

Voters, not posters|! Although that could apply too, I suppose.