Thread 30 Sunak: No trains, no drains, no point

[DuncinToffee]

As suggested by the lovely Pointythings and her feisty cat army

We continue

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4873009-thread-29-sunak-borders-barges-and-bacteria?page=40&reply=129254108

Hhhhmmm so cut central government grants to local government.
Then offer up cash - over a 10 year period - to selected constituencies - who chooses the constituencies I wonder?

Haven't listened to this yet but the interview with Heseltine was very interesting. Long form interviews offer so much more than 5 minutes of hurried slogans and attempts to get a sound bite for the news.

Thanks for your support with Clav

Sorry I missed it. It was a painful read.

Painful for Clav but it was a weird one.

She’s still going. I’m beginning to think she’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I still don't get what Clav was trying to say with the Freudian slip thing. It was very odd.

Being generous as I am sure she lurks on here, I think she inadvertently claimed I am a foreign agent.

Well, one out of two ain't bad.

Oh I see!

When your hashtag is only 4 letters and you still can’t quite get it right.

Make Grow Britain Again

"Rishi Sunak has a mutiny of donors on his hands.

Shots fired by Lord Cruddas who is hosting big black tie dinner in Manchester

“Im asking all Conservative Party donors big and small to stop funding the Conservative Party until we can implement constitutional changes”

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Well, it wasn't just Patel firing blue on blue today.
The constitutional changes wanted by Cruddas/CDO provide for members to override MPs choice of leader. Given the membership preferences are generally more RW than their MPs I suspect the party would find itself in the wilderness for a long time.

Rats fighting in a sack. They know their days are numbered.

https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1708532931076006363?t=vCj4BPJupYoYq6ym0XX_Zw&s=19

Your first female Labour - no not Labour!'

Unfortunate gaffe as Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall almost tells the @Conservatives conference she will be London's first female Labour mayor

At this point we’re just being trolled by the Tories.

Wonder if anyone is bothering to turn up to the conference today.

Mark Harper hasn't managed to draw a crowd

Maybe Jeremy Hunt will later when goes after benefit claimants

Mark Harper is turning full on QAnon with his assertion that councils will ration the number of times you can go to the shops.

I was just reading about that!
What the flip is going on? They've totally lost the plot.

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “ misuse of 15 minute cities “ …
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops “. It is sinister. It’s also not remotely true… #cpc23

We are now in a brand new world where policies that were never going to happen are being “ cancelled “ or where we are being saved from “ sinister” practices that don’t actually exist. That’s called conspiracy … #CPC2023

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Truss and her master Farage had a packed room

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak faces ANOTHER by-election as suspended Tory MP Scott Benton is set to receive a 10-day suspension from the Commons

He was secretly filmed saying he could lobby ministers for gambling investors and leak confidential information to them

Does he not realise that the government already limits the number of times people can go to the shops because they have defunded public services and given unfair advantages to the big supermarkets, so many people don't have local shops and have to rely on occassional public service transport?

Peston reporting that Sunak will halt HS2.

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Is Farage a Conservative member then? Or just someone she needs to suck up to?

Fascinating that Tory members are so keen to watch Truss - I swear they'd bin off Sunak & bring back Truss before teatime if they could.