Thread 35 - Sunak, the squatter

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Old thread here
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4961707-thread-34-sunak-the-circus-is-back-in-westminster?page=40&reply=131976344

Hashi Mohamed dies indeed talk a lot of sense:

“If you are not prepared to front load that support in a financially significant way, don’t bother helping these people. Don’t bother opening your borders up to them. Don’t bother letting them in. Because if you allow us in, but then leave us to fend for ourselves, without the proper infrastructure support and nurturing and understanding of the country that we’re in, the more likely it is that you will fall through the cracks. The more likely it is that you’re not going to end up like me. And the more likely it is that you’re going to end up like my half-brother, who’s been in and out of prison, had lots of issues and has struggled, like many more Somalis who are struggling.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/12/hashi-mohamed-child-refugee-barrister-people-like-us

Interesting short thread from Faisal Islam who is currently at Davos - I've just copied the 3rd post but worth reading the lot.

1. Heard an interesting theory from business leader Brits out here… the autumn election promise is a feint, and earlier (May?) will happen as a result of the “shock” of the ECHR (possibly?) quashing the Rwanda policy and fought on that basis, with an attempt to reenergise Brexit vibes… if that’s even half true… then worth noting that Ireland has just formally lodged its ECHR case against the UK on Troubles Legacy Act… oh… and coming up imminently on @BBCNews is my interview with the Taoiseach covering this topic…

x.com/faisalislam/status/1748318208770117834?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Election based on ECHR?

From the charlatans that brought us Brexit.

But at least they have chess sets -

"Schools serving disadvantaged children have seen larger funding cuts.

The most deprived fifth of secondary schools saw spending per pupil fall by 12% in real terms between 2010 and 2021, compared with 5% for the least deprived fifth.

Read the report"

x.com/theifs/status/1748284164926034117?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

It makes for depressing reading

•	Once early years providers’ costs are accounted for, the core hourly funding rate for 3- and 4-year-olds will be about 12% lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2012.
•	The purchasing power of school budgets will be about 4% lower in 2024 than in 2010 if we account for likely cost increases, such as staff salary rises.
•	Spending per student in colleges in 2024 will be about 10% below 2010 levels, and 23% below them in school sixth forms.
•	Cash-terms freezes in higher education tuition fees have reduced the real-terms value of spending per student, taking the level in 2024 back to 2011 levels.

But Labour and private school VAT..........

Yes, how on earth could that 1.6 billion pounds be used?

Devastating news for south Wales as Tata confirms that up to 2800 jobs will be lost at their Port Talbot plant in the next 18 months.

Will mean UK is the only G20 economy without the ability to make steel from scratch (virgin steel).

No surprise here

https://x.com/SangitaMyska/status/1748329404307038278?s=20
3000 jobs will be axed at Port Talbot and yet Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch and Nusrat Ghani are - it’s reported - all too busy to take a call from Welsh Government Ministers

Well that would chime with a lot of the rhetoric and the social media/right wing posting activity. Ugh. I hope people are more wary this time having seen what Brexit ended up like

Also very interesting re:Brand Rwanda, hadn't thought about that. Fascinating stuff, thanks not

There must be a point to the Rwanda farce (taking it as read that human welfare at the absolute bottom of the list) so that sounds about right. Trump will be busily re energising his lumpen worshippers, it might all come together nicely for them. Grim.

Sunak caught off guard and he doesn't like it

https://x.com/tamcohen/status/1748336239059542376?s=20

Exclusive footage of Rishi Sunak challenged this morning by a former health worker on the state of the NHS, - captured by an off duty @skynews camera operator

You probably didn't notice the Tories' latest ploy to steal the election (msn.com)

I'm sort of hoping that the clip isn't as bad as it looks in that I really hope he didn't walk away from her whilst she was speaking.

Because that's how it looks.

@Eve I'm sure it's all fine. It's not as if they're corrupt the way so many African governments are.

That footage shows the contempt he holds the British people in. He chose to be be rude, abrasive and derogatory in his manner.

Utter scum.

Did the laughter at the comment about returning to the way things used to be come from the Prime Minister? If so, how rude and arrogant. But also, what a defeatist response - he might as well have admitted to breaking everything irreparably.

Here is the full version, slightly better but only because the woman isn't letting him walk off.

https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1748359822167150919?s=20

Yes marginally better.
However he lied when he said he'd reached a deal with Consultants & SAS doctors - to my knowledge they haven't yet closed the ballot on the proposed deal!

If that is Sunak laughing it's utterly cringeworthy and also disgraceful.

It is him laughing, ITV have the same clip but shot from a different angle and you can see him laughing.

This really needs to be his bacon sandwich moment.

He's laughing at the idea the Government could take the NHS back to better days? Better days being 2010?
Or square one?

Writing the Labour slogans for them.

Does that lady not know her place?

She should have doffed her cap, bowed and thanked him for the crumbs that he has generously passed on.

I heard this on the car radio. DS asked me if Sunak had been dropped on his head as a baby. So even an autistic 10 year old has more awareness than this fool.

The EHCR is about Human Rights.
If they want to remove the EHCR, I guess they want our Supreme Court to rule on Human Right cases?
How will they know if something is against our Human Rights? Do they want to change our Human Rights?
What changes do they want to make?

These are deeper questions I would love to ask a Minister

Like Brexit - it was easy to say leave the EU. But what was the plan? The implications