Did anyone see Rishi and his flip chart?!

[Mrspatmoresspoon]

I mean WTF?!
Who uses flip charts these days?! I was so stunned by the method of delivery I couldn’t rake in anything he was saying. (This is the conservative political broadcast on BBC1 at about 7 tonight)

He gets more and more like a third rate maths teacher everyday!

@2dogsandabudgie you’re right - such a shame. Maybe part of the £30 billion that Truss had when trashing the economy could have gone towards it.

I like Rishi Sunak. I think it’s a shame that he became PM immediately after Johnson / Truss.

Because 4% still means prices are rising. Also because he's being incredibly selective about failing to mention that inflation was at 1.5% when Labour was last in power.

A bit of an open goal, really - https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/1755281477074387305

That Twitter feed has made me howl this morning 😂

I use flip charts at work all the time.

Anyhow I imagine there was a tech fail if this was on the TV. And if this is what you base your voting decisions on you need a rethink. There are plenty of reasons not to vote Tory. Flipchart usage isn't one of them (tbf regardless of the party!)

It was not live. A potential tech failure is not an issue. But inability to spell is.

@Flamme that twitter feed is funny. I also like the tweet pointing out that Rishi Sunak is a man who could not win an election against Liz Truss.

At some point someone is going to ask exactly what spending cuts they're going to make after the election - all of Hunt's forecasts are based on huge "efficiency savings" from 2025 from departments already cut to the bone.

They haven’t. They’ve said the money’s not there - because Sunak and his bunch of incompetents are operating a scorched earth policy.

I'm pretty sure that the Rishi can't spell mortgage is that he has never had to have one. He can't use a petrol pump either.

I hadn't realised until Rishi that there are people who can drive but do not know how to use a petrol pump. That level of privilege is pretty mind blowing.

I’d give him the benefit of the doubt here. I think he was talking about the COLA metric (i.e. the adjustment that has to be applied) rather that what most of us plebs would think of by “cost of living” (i.e. how expensive everything is to buy).

So COLA = inflation, which is going down
“cost of living” = how expensive stuff is, which is still going up

He is a clever guy, he knew very well what he was doing and just in case he didn't, someone would have told him.

Like his PMQs stuff, its all heavily scripted.

However, i was more worried about Chief Sec to the treasury, Laura Trott, she had no idea that Debt to GDP was, by her own dept s predictions, going UP over the next 5 years.

However clever he might be he has absolutely no political judgement. None. Whoever’s writing his scripts either hasn’t got any either or is deliberately sabotaging him. And, yes, Trott is hugely problematic but just a symptom of a government that’s run out of talent.

Isn't his real function something to do with channeling British taxpayer money into infosys coffers?