Thread 40: Sunak -failure to plan, or planning to fail?

[DuncinToffee]

Or will the fuckitty fuckwits please fuck off

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5025316-thread-39-sunak-government-by-gaslight?page=40&reply=133987967

credits notonthestairs and dontcallmelen

It's odd that they are so worried about people not being in work yet want to make the people who do show up have to stick it out longer. Do they think this approach is going to help people want to work? Then you have the whole women as carers now not being able to do those roles because they have to continue to work - grandparents not able to do childcare and look after their own families which increases the load on NHS and the barely there social services. Add to that the sudden announcement that even people on £100k are struggling and need extra help....are they really amazed we are all disillusioned? Our life expectancy will be going backwards on the pension age if they go much higher!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68665335

Raw sewage spills into England rivers and seas doubles in 2023

I've posted before with the links that show since Brexit the water companies have been doing this on repeat. They've got no one holding them to account any more! Again, people were warned by the experts - ignored. Unicorns are all slowly going "poof".

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/boat-race-rowers-told-avoid-water-uk-sewage-dumping-surges-2024-03-27/

Victorious rowers in Britain's University Boat Race have been warned not to jump into the River Thames this weekend due to alarming levels of E. coli bacteria, as official data showed sewage spills hit a record high in 2023.

2017 Michael Gove vows to safeguard environmental standards post-Brexit

2023 Michael Gove, ‘Brexit freedoms’ mean pollution rules can be watered down

Out of all of the people to have been involved Brexit and still have a place in Westminster, you'd guarantee it would be that bottom feeder, Gove. I really do wonder if the effect his comments and scheming have had on this country will be studied in the future, marking him as one of the most detrimental people in power (who was never PM) in our history.

Both those options are terrible. We already get one of the lowest pensions in Europe. Let’s not let them erode it further, either in monetary terms or years required before getting it.

It’s ok I really didn’t take it that way.

Good.

Aren't we also heading for taxing the new state pension as the SP overtakes the frozen income tax thresholds?

Dragging more people into Pension Credits.

THs are supposed to be frozen until 2028.

There you go, something else the Tories have increased. Aren't they doing well?

I'd have a bit more faith in the CofE if a bit of judicious smiting happened when called for. I live in hope 🙏

Article from Alan Rusbridger on the topic of Paul Marshall and his involvement with the CofE.

Marshall is part owner of GB News, Tory donor, cofounder of Ark Schools, Gove supporter and a likely bidder for the Telegraph/Spectator. He also seems quite influential in parts of the CoE.

And according to News Agents & Hope Not Hate he's a retweeter of some fairly unpleasant & inflammatory tweets.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65415/the-marshall-plan-paul-marshall-gb-news

Might be wrong but I think the article might give a bit of helpful background to Farage's comments and the position GB News will take.

I was wondering why there was a thread on voting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/99-per-cent-labour-win-election-curtice-b2519272.html

But it needs to be had.

I love the fact on here we all agree with so much and have different opinions on other things.

Debate is important.

This is entertainingly diverting

https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1773020797998641366

Its a parody like Rosie Holt MP, please tell me it is, its making my head hurt.

Oh dear.
A Brexit setback

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The new tariffs are a Brexit setback and will hit the car industry most. In 2023, the industry was worth £700 million in exports to Canada, but the move will mean costs are passed on to Canadian businesses and consumers.
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Talking of parody, this is epic!

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1772911892295537096

Doesn't he know who he is dealing with?

One doesn't say NO to the Kemister.

They've tried most of the others. They may as well scrape the barrel and hope for something to work

The lack of trade deal with Canada is enlightening. The fact that other countries make and sell cars seems to have entirely passed our negotiators by. If Canadian business could be hurt by UK tariffs, the hurt disappears completely by not buying from us. Simples, as they say.

Genius.

ITV News

https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1773077191087083642?s=20

Robert Peston, "Brexit was a proxy for, effectively a much more significant divide within the Tory party, which is between essentially what you might call the Farage wing"

"He may not be a member, but there are lots of Tories who share his values, and then the traditional one nation Tories, and they have never been so disunited"

"Quite a lot of Tories say to me, when we lose, the Tory party will break up and there will be a new party"

"It may be called the Conservative Party, or it may not be called the Conservative Party, but they say this is an enormously important moment in their history, and they have to decide who they stand for"

Even more so now it has emerged that in 2019 he refused planning permission for an Uxbridge town center fish and chip shop

https://x.com/AdamBienkov/status/1773073048813400150?s=20