Thread 33 Sunak : Sense and Sunakability

[DuncinToffee]

After 10 dyas on the rollercoaster, we now look forward to 5 more pledges and a mini budget

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4939564-thread-32-sunak-sunak-v-suella-the-final-countdown?page=40&reply=130888910

itsgettingweird

Classic. And they reckon Starmer’s boring.

Yeah and if Starmers anything it's not boring. He's actually just serious and I have no issue with that after the string of clowns in charge

He’s finally found someone to write jokes for him. That’s a start.

The jokes write themselves really, he delivers them well.

That Starmer is quite serious, makes the delivery of them so much better.

Rishi. Rishi is writing them 🤷‍♀️

To be fair, it must be hard to come up with jokes as big as the one Starmer is questioning.

Another Home Office clusterfuck…
https://twitter.com/lizziedearden/status/1729893706524656091

They’ve been withdrawing asylum claims without consent to clear the backlog. They’ve had to admit today that they don’t actually know where most of those people are after they kicked them out of Home Office accommodation.

Indeed. The hapless Sir Humphrey was very clear he had no idea where the 17,000 people who they had decided weren't really wanting to make asylum claims after all had gone the Select Committee this morning.
Interesting to note that is likely to be a larger people than will have their asylum claims turned down this year.

"The @BBC has announced huge cuts to @BBCNewsnight as part of just released savings & digital reinvestment plans. The show will be shortened to 30 mins and become an “interview, debate and discussion show”. Reporter and other roles are being axed."

x.com/katierazz/status/1729871038912315833?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

"Discussion" show - more opportunities for think tanks to get their people on.
Less facts. More opinions.

Wonder if this came up when Tim Davie (ex deputy chairman of Hammersmith Conservative Association) spoke to the 1922 Committee behind closed doors last month.

That Starmer is quite serious, makes the delivery of them so much better.

Agree 100%

He's actually quite dry and that's my type of humour

Missing children from hotels

https://x.com/Haggis_UK/status/1729920148402745795?s=20

Alison Thewliss(SNP MP): How many young people are still missing from home office hotels?

Simon Ridley(2nd Perm Sec, Home Office): 154 still missing

AT: Have you found any of those?

SR A lot aren't identified

AT: How many have you found?

SR: I don't know

Does anyone in the Home Office know what’s going on with anything at all?

So Matt Hancock up at the Covid inquiry at 10a.m.....

Ooh very clever of Starmer!

I have to go out at 12, so I'm hoping he gets his arse handed to him on a plate, before then!

Its Johnson next week at the Covid Inquiry. I hope he gets his arse handed to him as well.

https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/public-hearings/module-2-public-hearings-timetable/

Hancock's affirming now. He is facing the Polite Assassin, Hugo Keith KC the lead counsel to the inquiry.

Rightly or wrongly, it's not really supposed to be about 'handing arses' at this stage. It's an inquiry to find out what could have been done better, and what and how the UK can do better next time there's a pandemic. We're still only in Module 2. The inquiry will be still be taking evidence in 2025, in future modules - around procurement, for example. Many politicians and senior civil servants will be returning repeating for different modules.

That's not to say that the KCs testing the evidence from written statements aren't being robust, and yes they are exposing contradictions and areas of dysfunction. (A lot of which we already knew and have been discussed at length on places like MN.)

The Judge (the Chair) in charge is Baroness Hallett who is an experienced Appeal Court Judge.

Johnson giving evidence will be a tricky one for the Conservatives to manage. They won't want him soaking up too much attention away from Sunak even if the attention is negative.

Given the presence of the Greek PM in London managed to unsettle Sunak and take attention away from him, I fear for Sunak that probably even my pet slug would manage to.

I believe Johnson is 'on' next Wednesday.

As for this morning, I am now reminded why little Matty Hancock annoys me so much

After the Johnson-Brexit Clown Show I thought I was past being embarassed by our Prime Minister. At least 30pLee and Gullis restrict their oafishness to home ground more or less. Suella and Patel are nasty but useless. But. Two-fingering a European PM is beyond; how contemptuous is that? At come point this country will have to go cap in hand to the EU just to keep everything ticking over. We're going to be very welcome.

Wednesday and Thursday I think. We get two days of lying from him. Might consider taking annual leave.

@newnamethanks

I heartily agree. It's embarrassing and annoying. Firstly, who sets condition on a PM's visit? And then goes off in a childish huff.

@newnamethanks thankfully KS has at least had a bash at actual diplomacy which possibly puts some distance between the public and the current government. if the country rejects that at the next GE then we will definitely look like we condone the behaviour of this cabinet.

I’d be all for every opposing party going over the heads of government and holding their own meetings for the sake of diplomacy as this current lot don’t seem to have a drop of talent in that area (or any other truth be told).