Thread 34 Sunak - the Circus is back in Westminster

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I know I know I shouldn't be buying into the gossip but it really would not surprise me if she was his daughter. Put it like this, I wouldn't be shocked!

Me neither. In fact I think it’s the most likely scenario.

Same. If he had just shagged her I don't think he would be so worried about keeping it hidden.

loving the reader added context

London is not in the North of the UK - so disingenuous to label it a Network North project

HS2 is funded by government borrowing. Government borrowing to fix roads has always been possible with or without the HS2 project.

@Eve

What are you saying @Eve? Everyone knows that London is in the North if Rishi's bunch say it is. Like Rwanda being a safe country. And it being perfectly normal and everyday to give an honour to a PA. Nothing to see here at all.

It's all relative. London is north of Hampshire and Kent ergo it's North.

I wonder where Sunak thinks he is when he’s at home in his constituency? Maybe he’s got his Richmonds confused.

Sunak thinks

oh he doesn’t do any of that business

Of course, silly me!

It all looks the same from the air, Bury, Burnley, just don't send them levelling up money.

Well now we know that the senior DfT civil servants don't all live in Surrey.

😂

Or his sister

like father, like son

https://x.com/breeallegretti/status/1737527583921578389?s=20

Exc: The “Network North” announcement of £235m to improve roads in London has gone down badly among some Tory MPs

Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group show Derbyshire Dales MP Sarah Dines saying money for potholes in her patch is “peanuts compared to London”.

Ben Bradley suggests the messaging is not “helpful”.

Today’s exchange is recreated below

Deary deary me.... that bastion of Justice, the Gullis has been tweeting support for Donald Trump. You couldn't make it up.

Won't repeat it, too nauseating to be honest.

I read it

😂

You just need to create a law saying London is in the North.

Currently amused by Twitter's new name for 30 p Lee : 31.17p Lee, after he claimed inflation was putting more money in our pockets.

😂

NEW: No 10 has now quietly scrapped Rishi Sunak's "end-of-year" speech on stopping the boats

Tory source: “The backlog hasn’t been cleared, the Bibby is half full, our small boats plan is in turmoil...this is supposed to be our wedge issue with Labour"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/no-10-drops-planned-end-of-year-sunak-speech-on-immigration

And when they say ‘half full’ they do mean over its original capacity.

On the way out of Portcullis House, Sunak was waylaid by the seven-year-old son of the Tory MP Tracey Crouch. What was his favourite Star Wars film? Rish! thought for a while. “The Empire Strikes Back,” he said. Spoken like a true nerd. The first genuine answer of the day.
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