Thread 38 Sunak: Soooo, square one is an option then?

[AdamRyan]

Thanks to @cornettoninja For the epic title!

"the tolerance of our established, Christian church".

Hilariously ambiguous if you ask me. It could be read as the 'people' tolerate the established Christian church.

They couldn’t fit the stereotype of ‘old angry white man’ more if they tried. I’d say we need younger blood but Rishi fits that brief and he’s all too happy to be their lap dog begging for treats. God knows why, he’s rich enough to be having a ball as an ‘entrepreneur’, even without any talent for literally anything.

👋 to @Piggywaspushed. I didn't know you're in Glasgow. I'm in one of its naice suburbs.

Afraid I watched the Sunak presentation and then checked out. IMO it didn't require any analysis - it happened solely to grab the 6pm headlines and a few front pages. Not so much light on substance as weightless.

Whilst the Conservative are happy to give standing ovations and hugs to Anderson (or Jenrick, Truss & Braverman) they are in no position to lecture anyone on division in our society.

Oh not any more! Sadly, I now live in the wilds of England.

You can take the girl out of Glasgow...

Mr Anderson eh? Do you think Rishi knows about these dangerous extremists in his own ranks? Any plans for them Rishi? House of Lords is the usual expected route.

My twitter/x feed is full of Tory MPs praising Sunak and stressing how important the speech was.

It's beginning to feel like desperation.

There's a thread in aibu about the choice of another Tory government or the NHS. Some people still want the Tories. Reminds me of Stalin when got rid of all the doctors.

The amazing thing about Rishi as Prime Minister is that he has certainly succeeded in demonstrating (as if we didn't know it already) that being rich is an indication of having any talent for anything.

I feel I may have missed a not out of my sentence.

...being rich is not an indication....

Yep they are all over Twitter praising that speech. I have a little game I play whenever I see a tweet spouting the Gov line... I have to guess 10 people who have retweeted it. Usually very easy. I did however get blocked by the CON GE candidate in the next town to me for pointing out that is was a crap speech and there was no need for it but if there was, why didn't they use the media suite Allegra made famous? Oh and I also pointed out that Andrea Jenkyns didn't appear to have got the memo given her tweet after the speech

Yes @ThatbloodyRoblox Jenkyns certainly missed the point spectacularly.

Better public services "sometimes means spending less money", says Jeremy Hunt.

https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1764210733447774208?s=20

I'm sure councils across the UK will be delighted to hear of this bomb proof idea for improving their services.

Spending less money doesn't apply to the actual commuters, however https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64827711

Behind paywall

There will be no major help for younger voters struggling to get on the housing ladder in Wednesday's Budget

"Hunt had privately talked up plans to make a major move to make housing more affordable, but Sunak vetoed changes to stamp duty"

"Now, the budget contains no major measures to appeal to younger voters"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/will-rishi-sunak-fly-flag-for-tory-right-and-cut-2p-off-income-tax-qjln9x3wz

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/03/jeremy-hunts-seat-under-threat-as-voters-put-nhs-ahead-of-tax-perks

Hunt needs to be careful here.

https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1764243904059019567?s=20

Left: Jeremy Hunt, "Labour govs spend more and tax more, Conservative govs spend more wisely and bring tax burden down"

Right: Sky News, "In the last four years, five chancellors says they want to cut taxes. In reality the opposite has happened. Taxes have been rising to near historic highs.. Tax burden is the highest since WWII"

Thanks to the boundary changes, we no longer live in Hunt's constituency so can't help voting him out.

(and to the silent tories, I know I can't vote but the majority in our household can )

Have you cut the bit where the sentence continues with "less money on consultants, and private companies run fraudently by our mates"?

Yet this bizarre situation still plays out. A single mum can loose child benefit because she doesn't have a partner also earning £50k so that the family can keep it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/64836315

Good thread from Liam Thorpe (Liverpool Echo)

There was a day this past week when it felt like many of Britain's many problems were brought out into the open for all to see.

A 🧵 on a day in the life of a failing state

x.com/liamthorpecho/status/1764222629181898984?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

She still only pays 2% NI on earnings over £50k.

The Government are basically buying votes by cutting budgets from unprotected areas of spending - eg local government, further education, courts, prisons etc - and setting us up for further austerity.

For an election they know they will lose and so will leave the mess for the next Government to deal with.

Coincides with this 2 days ago on the councils having to sell assets. Clearly the selling of council house assets had such a great long term effect they want to re-create it. Not their problem if they know they won't be re-elected. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68439624

https://x.com/redhistorian/status/1764211048964403270?s=20

What a way to think about the public finances: "We believe this tax change would be harmful, but it would set a trap for Labour by wrecking its plans for school meals and NHS spending".

And we wonder why both the tax system and public services are broken.