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

[AdamRyan]

Thanks to @cornettoninja For the epic title!

Someone needs to tell Rishi about that North London thing...

He thinks it's a simple Corbyn jibe no doubt.

Reference a 19th century PM as a 'Conservative' Jewish PM is a bit desperate. There was no Labour party then!

Def quiet today - I made an AIBU thread 45 mins ago - only 2 replies. Fascinating

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1762835679631884307?t=GDZqqHc4wmXMNj5sCec_-w&s=19

Number 10 repeatedly refuses to endorse Kemi Badenoch's claim that the former chairman of the Post Office was the subject of an investigation into bullying

Henry Staunton says that the primary subject of the investigation was Nick Read

Asked if Badenoch was correct, PM's official spokesman says: 'I'm not going to get into any further commentary on HR matters'

Correct, Sunak. Remember what that famous politician had to say about two nations? Well done you and your party for recreating it.

Farage as ‘diversity’

"In our party, we have a proud tradition of diversity and accepting everyone from every background"

Translation: We'll take anyone if we reckon it will get us some votes.

Especially if they’ll donate loads of money.

They even took that chap from Labour. If that’s not a sign of their diversity I don’t know what is

Lee Anderson? 😆

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/starmer-seen-more-touch-ordinary-people-sunak-and-more-likely-understand-problems-facing-britain

I just read the Tories Twitter feed. They are spinning it to make out Sunak got one over on Starmer today. I suspect we will see Sunak's lines trotted out on MN shortly.

I hate them so much.

Not sure if 'but Corbyn' is the gotcha when it comes to Truss, Starmer actually expelled Corbyn from the Labour Party

https://x.com/jessphillips/status/1762899326576038196?s=20

Tomorrow is the IWD debate in parliament where once again the heartbreaking task of reading the names of women killed.

Hilarious.
Labour announce change to non dom tax rules. Tory supporters on here shout that it won't raise enough money and the Non doms will leave the UK 😱 Blah blah...

"Jeremy Hunt has drawn up emergency Budget plans to scrap or scale back Britain’s “non-dom” tax rules, in the event that he needs to raise billions of pounds to fund mass-market pre-election tax cuts"

x.com/pickardje/status/1762918908330140027?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Oh, has he stolen Labour's ideas again?

Totally fine to do it to fund tax cuts elsewhere (to buy votes)

Not fine to do it to fund public services.

Oh my gosh. Some people's heads will explode 😂

I doubt the proposal will get past Sunak - he won't want to draw any more attention to non doms. But even so it's given me a chuckle.

I liked this

Labour source: “We will wait and see whether the chancellor manages to get this past Rishi Sunak given his family finances.”

That’s brilliant. And the whinging about Labour not announcing policies ahead of their manifesto - is it any wonder? They wouldn’t have any left that the Tories hadn’t nicked.

Job posed an interesting conundrum yesterday - Rishi is now stuck between dealing with it as well as Starmar dealt with the antisemitism following Corbyn or dealing with it as badly as Corbyn did with antisemitism. I think these comparisons should be made more.

Oh apparently it's not the same though because antisemitism has an ECHR definition but Islamophobia doesn't

https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1762735129842053338

😂

Tories taking the nom dom plan would be politically advantageous, esp if they put in a few technical "loop holes"
Leaves Lab open to the charge of "How would you pay for FSM etc" and having to support any tax cuts this change might be used for.

The problem is people would rather be able to get a GP appoint/ambulance/AE/less pot holes..... than a small tax cut, quickly eaten up by council tax rises & a tax cut that favours the higher earner.

Its all too late for the tories, what matters if peoples lived experiences.

Well it will certainly reinforce the argument that Labour shouldn't release any further plans before the election is called.

So. We are now in danger of descending into mob rule.

Hope everyone is safe.🙄

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68429902.amp