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

I’ve been reading up on the guy who created Godwin’s law. It was inspired by American politics but he basically said that current events are excepted, we should all go ahead and compare to the Nazi’s when we see it if the alternative is ignoring it. So I’ll go ahead and say she sounds she’s auditioning for the third reich.

I'm starting to wonder if the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are stopping people thinking straight...

even with the absence of any sort of evidence I have immediately bought into this.

I thought Just Stop Oil generally sat down and stuck themselves, rather than standing up and fighting.

Is that why Tories don't like them?

So that's what they are doing wrong. Maybe they prefer Milwall fans

Make Britain grow again? Clunky. Also, with what? More bullshit? Has not proved good fertiliser thus far.

They're emphatically anti-James as he encouraged sitting down.

Liz Truss wanted to grow the pie, maybe whatever was growing on the pie would also grow on Britain?

😂

Same here. Irish immigrants from potato famine aka economic migrants to Manchester. Kind, thoughtful people who became transport engineers, nurses, musicians, photographers, physios, communication tech workers, library assistants, school business managers....not to forget the granddad I never met who was in the RAF during WW2, fighting for the sunlit uplands (Boris can F* off pinching that) and against Nazi rule across Europe/beyond.

Easy for people to forget I'm a great great grandchild of immigrants (treated harshly at the time 'no Blacks, no Irish, no Dogs'), as I'm white so I do blend in.

If my ancestors hadn't fled their homelands then I wouldn't be sat here typing this.

And can the Tories (or any party) not see that environmental disaster is going to be the biggest driver of migration in years to come. Fire, floods, drought, food insecurity is going to cause the 'hurricane' as Braverman puts it. Never mind though, here comes Rishsi in his helicopter. Not a care in the world.

Louise Haigh is busy checking on twitter, a few of her tweets

https://x.com/LouHaigh/status/1709937815256248787?s=20

Yesterday the government pledged to deliver... "A259 from Bognor Regis to Southampton"

Today @MarkJHarper tweets graphic showing they actually meant Littlehampton...45 miles away.

It continues...

The entire page where the government pledge to 'revolutionise mass transit in Bristol' has now been deleted.

This is an absolute farce.

They're extending the Manchester Metrolink to Manchester Airport, even though the trams have been going there for years already.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/government-pledges-extend-metrolink-line-27842632?intsource=ampcontinuereading&intmedium=amp&intcampaign=continuereading_button#amp-readmore-target

The one about Nottingham is hilarious.
It looks to me like they've just gone through a list of old proposals rejected to fund HS2 and revived them, rather than put any thought into it.

Wow! I don't even know what to say.

Apart from stand up and fight, of course.

And if we stand up and fight our country stands up and fights.
And if our country stands up and fights the world will stand up and fight.
And if the world stands up and fights the solar system will stand up and fight.
And if the solar system stands up and fights the universe will stand up and fight...

This conference has made the one where the background fell down and Theresa May had a coughing fit look normal. I don’t think there’s a normal MP left.

I’m beginning to suspect that while decision to scrap HS2 wasn’t made yesterday morning, the Northen plan but was. With a bit shoved in to keep the SW happy.

I reckon they've set up an amdram society and this is their auditions.

So much hamming it up.

Parody Rishi:
Penny Mordaunt: "Stand up and fight!"
The entire UK: "Sit down and shut up"
https://twitter.com/wsebag/status/1709833299659817183

Yes first year was 2020.

Ds was on news with Braverman and Williamson hailing them as a great thing.

3 years on ....... 🙄

Nick was brilliant challenging Sunak on this in BBC R4 this morning.

He basically said why are they villainising people for having the same dreams his parents had. Also why does he say it's great that it's no big thing him being the first Asian PM but yet his HS says multicuralism isn't working.

All Sunak could say was "but illegal immigrants".

I was begging Nock to point out asylum seekers aren't illegal immigrants.

I was channeling my inner jwg!

Thanks for explanation. O couldn't figure than A259 one out.

You leave that for A27 and M27 to Southampton so I couldn't work out why an A road would be beneficial 🤣🤣

And it already goes a good way up to Littlehampton anyway!

Has she been sharing some of Goves treats

This one linked in the comments is even better.

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After all that no change.

"Exclusive:

Rishi Sunak has not seen a “conference bounce” in polls despite unveiling a string of high-profile policies

Yougov poll for Times finds Labour retains a 21 point lead

Ban on cigarette sales very popular; opinion mixed on HS2 & A-levels"

x.com/steven_swinford/status/1710034791662272754?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

But they made clear they know what a woman is?

Apparently the new MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton doesn't know what a woman is but it doesn't seem to have held back.the votes

Back to the old Scottish Labour rotten boroughs then...