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

Me too, and I am also one.

YouGov survey this morning asking when I would like a GE - I wonder what the outcome of that one will be?

YouGov, co-founded by a Tory MP, always think it ironic when their polls show anti-Tory sentiment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67897560

Well this is embarrassing!

https://x.com/lizziedearden/status/1743561511593800151?s=20

Revealed: The UK has lost track of thousands of migrants by removing their asylum claims from the system

But the Home Office's reliance on posted letters is causing chaos, and it is already having to reverse decisions and put cases back into the backlog

The asylum withdrawal process was designed for people who no longer wanted to claim asylum, had left UK or were non-compliant

But the tactic has rocketed amid changes to make it faster and easier since Rishi Sunak’s backlog pledge, and is now being used against genuine refugees

Official stats aren't out but Home Office sources say most recent withdrawals were "implicit", meaning they were done without the consent of asylum seekers because of procedural rules

Reasons include not updating address, not attending interviews, not returning questionnaires

cont.

That's one way to do it.

All in the definitions.

So despite his fairly sensible objections to the Rwanda plan he was told to 'think about his popularity with his base'.

Ie put Tory activists demands ahead of good governance and sensible spending.

I think Cleverly would call that batshit.

Sorry that was to Adam.

Why is that embarassing?

Next week is an increase migration week in parliament, with a vote on the subject on Monday.

What are they voting on?

Increased North Sea Oil and Gas exploration, which is why Skidmore has resigned.

Badenoch is proudly announcing a UK Export Finance guarantee helped secure £1bn for a new railway in Turkey

Is that together with fixing potholes in Wimbledon part of the funding for Network North?

You can’t change sex. It’s as simple as that

Has anyone here followed the Post Office scandal?

There is now going to be a criminal investigation by Met Police over wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub-postmasters.

Police confirm they’re looking at “potential fraud offences” in the handling of the Horizon IT scandal

Kudus to those news outlets who have been persuing it and ITV for making it into a tv series

That includes Dawn Butler who thinks giraffes are gay and babies are born without a sex

https://x.com/Otto_English/status/1743572324832403539?s=20

Boris Johnson complaining, at length, in his Mail column about: "government action to stop the domestic burning of fresh wood".

Guess whose government passed that... in May 2021

I binge watched Alan Bate’s v The Post Office. It’s bloody heartbreaking. There’s a really good podcast about it too. I really hope those victims who are still alive are generously compensated for their losses and the trauma they’ve suffered. The entire debacle was appalling.

I read the comments (not the article) which were a hilarious list of people telling him Christmas trees aren’t the best kind of wood to burn and will fuck up his chimney because of the sap, others pointing out that there’s no way he’s seasoned the wood properly to burn indoors since Christmas, and will fuck up his chimney and then his worn out bots piping up every now and then to declare their love for him and wish to see him back as PM.

It was quite the analogy for his political career.

I read the article - click bait and all.

I suppose he had to think of something to write. He has little self awareness, does he?

@cakeorwine you’re a stronger person than me! I can’t read his writing without hearing his voice complete with odd outbursts and growls when he’s floundering for the next word to say. Makes. Me irrationally irritated!

Know your enemy and that.

I also read the Express online

Starmer apparently keeps being humiliated by Sunak and the EU is constantly being humiliated.

Lee Anderson destroyed Labour with just 4 words yesterday.

It's in the Express so it has to be true.

That explains such a lot of the nonsense people post @cakeorwine.

@derxa if her constituents don’t like her I guess they’ll vote her out. She plays no part in decision making in the LP so I doubt those views will have any weight.

People who want to see Boris Johnson hold any public office again, other than maybe his family so he is out of the house more often, presumably are joking.