Thread 39 Sunak - Government by Gaslight

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Definitely a case of being judged by the company you keep.

No words. That article embodies everything that’s wrong with this iteration of Tories. Absolutely disgusting.

As I said elsewhere, his words will come to haunt him.

Sunak is judged by his actions, not his words. And we know when he fails to act

Looks like he could do with some equality and diversity training/

Or is that too woke?

They have repeatedly voted to defund the police, criminal justice and prison systems, and expect us to believe they are not soft on law and order?
They have repeatedly broken including the Prime Minister laws they have introduced, and expect us to believe they are not soft on law and order?

Either they are very stupid or think we are.

Presumably Gove has reported him to Prevent?

Enough evidence there

I think it would be more fun to ask Gove general questions about if someone should be prevented if they did certain stuff

And then bring up specific examples of Conservatives

"The New Conservatives grouping of MPs, led by Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates, said that while they criticised Anderson’s move for making a Labour election victory more likely, it was the responsibility of Sunak and his party to keep MPs on side.
“Our poll numbers show what the public think of our record since 2019,” they said in a statement. “We cannot pretend any longer than the plan is working. We need to change course urgently.”

But I am sure Sunak says we should stick with the plan?

Well that's a change.

Quite astute of the New Conservatives to realise that their bonkers policies aren't popular with the public and urging the Prime Minister to ignore them and go back to where the Conservative party used to be.

However urgently they change course it’s too late now.

As anyone plotted all of Sunak's changes of course?
Perhaps he is trying to spell something?

Thing is, the course they want to steer leads straight to the rocks (whereas the current lot are taking a slightly more circuitous trajectory)

They are particularly obnoxious examples of 'new conservatism'. Straight for the rocks indeed.

Really?

https://twitter.com/NatashaC/status/1767254155742114102?t=PNHqfj3sosWQIIPKhFBi6g&s=19

Conservative Spox on Frank Heather's comments about Diane Abbott:

"Mr Hester has made clear that while he was rude, his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor the colour of her skin. He has since apologised."

There was a news story doing the rounds on radio yesterday about how councils spent so much money on woke policies such as inclusion and diversity. 🙄

John Crace had a heart attack! He seems to bo OK though.

x.com/JohnJCrace/status/1767275854076284945?s=20

So not racist and absolutely fine to suggest shooting an MP?

YABU to think that just because he mentioned skin colour it had anything to do with skin colour. He’s just very misunderstood and being persecuted by woke people.

The Conservative party’s biggest donor told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot”, the Guardian can reveal.
Frank Hester, who has given £10m to the Tories in the past year, said in the meeting that he did not hate all black women. But he said that seeing Abbott, who is Britain’s longest-serving black MP, on TV meant “you just want to hate all black women because she’s there”.

How can that not be about her race or gender?

I can see Rosie Holt having a field day with this - and I feel for the Minister tomorrow - was Lee Anderson racist, is Hester racist?

That so few Tories are speaking out, shows how normalised racism is within the party. They all think it's fine. The whole lot are as bad as each other.

The only two politicians I can find calling it out are Dawn Butler and But Jeremy.

Oh no. He's made me laugh on so many occasions.

Hhhhmmm. Choice between doing the right thing. Or keeping the money.

The Tories won't speak out about Hester because they don't want to give back £10 million of donations.

They'll duck & hope the news cycle moves on. Which it will.

Will it be on BBC News ?