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

Presumably functioning hospitals and schools are also luxuries. Along with adequate carers.

They love soft sentences. The criminals who benefit from such ostentatious compassion won’t be terrorising their streets or grooming their children

Is really particularly hateful.

Anybody would think a different party was in power lol. Their grasp of reality is so bloody tenuous to be non existent and yet you’ll still have posters like lachiacca what’s her name gleefully listing all the utterly amazing things they are planning to do.

(Although of course I am typing this from my second home in the Dordogne).

Given Braverman etc relied on ECHR to resist providing requested evidence to the Covid Inquiry it's all a bit of a joke.

It is infuriating. They are saying the UK is in a mess but it is nothing to do with them, guv.

People will still be absolutely dumb enough to lap this up. It is depressing.

It’s a mystery why HS2 is going so over budget.

Meanwhile Bamford has no comment other than to crow about how much BJ has enjoyed his hospitality.

I hope it your nanny or gardener doing the typing for you, you dictator

Lee Anderson says too many people are wrongly given benefits for children's attention deficit disorder.
"This ADHD…I don't believe a lot of that, some of that is just bad parenting."

x.com/paulwaugh/status/1709199479478313112?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Um, what now?

Just caught some of Bravermans speech.

So she's now attacking people in ivory towers without saying who these people are - other than those with money who can buy there way out if problems.

It's made no sense.

Which I don't know why I'm surprised!

Anyone seen this by 30p lee
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23830984.lee-anderson-i-always-think-dictator-good-idea/

He sounded very irritable, annoyed and like he really really did not want to be there.

Didn't he just?! I had GMB on in the lounge whilst getting dressed in my bedroom and could hear the frustration in his voice at Susanna Reid's incredulous behaviour - the incredulous behaviour being simply interviewing him!

He was furious at her asking questions.

Agree. There’s a lovely but near the start where he just sits back in his chair and you can see him thinking ‘this is going to be good’

The first question is amazing. ‘Rishi says he’s slamming the brakes on declaring war on motorists. Why have you been declaring war on motorists for 13 years.’ Need more questions like that from journalists rather than tamely letting them get away with bullshit.

Where do I get one of these second homes in Tuscany? Didn’t realise I was supposed to have one because I don’t want the planet to burn down and would rather criminals were effectively rehabilitated to reduce recidivism.

ADHD is caused by low levels of dopamine. ADHD medication raises dopamine levels. What role does this fuckwit think parents play in that, beyond ensuring their kids get the right diagnosis and medication?

So the people in ivory towers will sit back and not care about net zero.

Was she talking about the Tory's. As they are the ones cancelling climate change policies.

Can you tell her speech made me

Even worse she represents my town. I really hope people NEVER think I share her values.

For transparency, both my kids have ADHD. One is all grown up and a SEN teacher. The other is the best behaved boy in class. His ADHD means he races through his work then falls asleep at his desk.

https://twitter.com/janemerrick23/status/1709232125604495383

Boris Johnson write the word ‘bollocks’ across a department of health memo on long covid. No 10 was at war with itself, and Whitty and Vallance weren’t consulted about eat out to help out (which will surprise nobody).

Also I would pay good money to read Patrick Vallance’s diary.

On 11 November 2020, Vallance wrote No10 is “at war with itself, the Carrie faction with Gove and another with spads downstairs, the PM is caught in the middle … and no one has seen anything like it.”

"ADHD is caused by low levels of dopamine. ADHD medication raises dopamine levels. What role does this fuckwit think parents play in that, beyond ensuring their kids get the right diagnosis and medication?"

Anderson isn't paid to think. He's paid to spit out whatever ignorant nonsense best reflects some of the voting public. Thats why he doesn't have any actual responsibilities - they don't trust him with an actual job.
It's perfectly deliberate and probably scripted.

If parenting is responsible for ADHD, what’s the excuse for Lee Anderson?

I can't read the ipaper article but this is from Long Covid SOS

https://x.com/LongCovidSOS/status/1709227783174447293?s=20

Today we found out that @BorisJohnson scrawled 'BOLLOCKS’ across a @DHSCgovuk document about #LongCovid
He admitted in his witness statement that he didn’t believe #LongCovid ‘truly existed’
We now know that he thought it should be dismissed as "Gulf War Syndrome stuff"

But Gulf War Syndrome has been proven to be real, caused by exposure to sarin. So he was dismissing long covid as bollocks by equating it to a real illness.

from that Jane Merrick’s twitter

The inquiry has also heard more from chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance's diaries including: Vallance criticised Johnson's "flip-flopping" and "panic" over pandemic measures

I think we may have just learned where BJ & Co picked up the flip flopping phrase. I believe they’re selling ‘hilarious’ flip flops at conference as a jibe at Kier.

Why was there even a Carrie faction? She’s the wife of the PM. Her opinion counts for fuck all.

Do you know what? I’m bloody loving this conference. They’re exposing their venality in all its technicolour glory. The material they’re handing the opposition parties on a plate for the next election campaign is endless. Tory comms people must be tearing their hair out.