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

[AdamRyan]

Thanks to @cornettoninja For the epic title!

One for everyone hoping for a May election.

Budget red book says no spending review before the next election.

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(Still think it will be an Autumn election as they'll wait for inflation to fall and for "something" to happen - but i am a pessimistic sod)

"Also if BMI is a qualification they have some chunky skeletons in their closet"
Quite.

If he did, that would make it worse not better. There's no call for him to be discussing anyone's weight. It was a twat thing to do, though I agree not likely to have any wider significance.

I disagree. They’ll try and capitalise on the NI cut asap. It’s going to appear on April payslips and they’ll be reminding the electorate at every possible opportunity for the next 57 days, ie until 2 May.

There was a caller on LBC earlier saying he won't vote for Starmer because he is a fence sitting vegetarian and not a true vegan

Well I certainly hope you are right blossom!

Me too. And not because I’ll look foolish if I’m wrong!

Paul Johnson (IFS), "Jeremy Hunt had a couple of billion for investment in NHS IT. He said the aim is to get it to world-leading. I'd say getting it to barely adequate would be a good start, given how poor some of it is"

"One of the reasons the NHS is struggling with it's productivity at the moment is that capital spending was cut back when Jeremy Hunt was Health Secretary"

Hasn't moved any dials so far.

Awesome😂. He's actually worse than that. He's a pescatarian - he thinks fish are vegetables, when he isn't thinking women have penises. Will he still win without the hardline vegans backing him?

Thsi was all over Twitter on the evening of the airing of the show. It was nasty.

Also ridiculous as was filmed ages ago.

I did have to tell a colleague the other day that her MFL octopus display could be perceived as an anti Semitic trope...

And Mohamad Yasin, Labour MP for Bedford who spearheaded the campaign in parliament.

I feel sorry for the octopus. What did they ever do except be smart and adorable?

Got used by the Nazis, sadly.

Policy Exchange seem to be at the root of a lot of conspiracy-type reporting.

They are also the source of the "trans women breastfeeding" craziness a week or so ago. And the getting rid of the EA.

They are also not very transparent. So anything I see coming from them I treat with a large pinch of salt. Much to the extreme annoyance of some of the more right wing MN posters, strangely

Maybe Starmer should say that Sunak is short on ideas?

I’m very immature but I would genuinely really love that @Alexandra2001

74% think the Budget is not enough to help them with the rising cost of living, according to a snap poll from @Savanta_UK of 1,038 adults

Robert Buckland being asked again and again (Sky) why NI is going down by 4% but just 2 years ago the "plan" was to increase NI to pay for Adult Social Care...... which Buckland was reminded is still a mess.

He looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights.

Trott was like that on BBC politics live

Brutal

https://x.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1765413707427758082?s=20

In a UK TV first, the Sky News-YouGov Voters Panel of Tory 2019 supporters gives their verdict

Responses from our panel have been flooding in

This Budget was for them - did it work?

I maintain that no matter what Hunt said today, many people will not be impressed with it because trust in the Tories has been so utterly destroyed. Well done Johnson and Sunak!

What was it that Hunt was accidentally called when he was culture secretary?

What was it that Hunt was accidentally called when he was culture secretary?

and health secretary…. Think most of his positions have managed to slip that one in

Rwanda bill is back and HoL, 7 defeats and counting

Maybe Sunak should have a lie down in his made bed.

At this point I want them to get that sodding lecture out and Rishi just to have a full blown tantrum - ‘fine, have your bloody general election. I didn’t want to be prime minister anyway, the flat is too small and rubbish”