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

[DuncinToffee]

Or will the fuckitty fuckwits please fuck off

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Excellent article

Nice cats and dogs everyone, very uplifting in these grim days. I was in Haslemere a couple of years ago - Hunt's constituency or nearby - admiring the attractive, clean and tidy High Street, decorated at regular intervals with potted, mature, Bay trees. About £500 apiece I'd guess although that may be a low estimate. I thought about 'Levelling Up' while there. I though about towns such as Middlesbrough, Bradford, the NE and wondered how much cash there is in those towns for such niceties. I am way past having patience for hearing the bleating 'we have 100k a year and don't get any help'. Move somewhere less pricey then.

Is Haslemere Hunt’s constituency? That explains a lot. I spent a week there once for a training course. Never seen so many country stores, gun shops and hideously expensive kitchen shops. Even the Wetherspoons was v naice. Completely different world from the small, post-industrial South Wales town I come from with its 15 barber shops, vape stores and tattoo parlours.

It does belong to Mr Hunt. Doesn't look a bit like Bridgend, Merthyr or Tonyrefail does it? I wonder how that can be.

I think I have this.
I go this one.

The good people of Haslemere work hard to better themselves and have done for generations so it is only to be expected that they have a high standard of living and pay themselves well for all the talented things they do.
Whereas in Bridgend and Methyr people prefer to live on benefits and not do anything for themselves and that is why there is a difference.

Yours
J Cunt Hunt

I think you've got it JesS1990, in a nutshell. Speaking of S Wales, Michael Sheen is appearing in one of those NFT Live productions soon, about Aneurin Bevan. I bet few people under 50 know anything about him. He must be spinning like a top when he looks at what we've allowed the UK to become.

I read about this newname totally agree, very sad state of affairs wish Labour would be as brave as the post war Labour government.
spot on jessS1990

Maybe Hunt is keeping up with the Joneses

https://x.com/RussellScott1/status/1772241757314417108?s=20

Rishi Sunak has spent over £2million on plane hire during his first year as PM.

£1.8M on Private jets - at taxpayers expense.

He has also made use of Conservative party donor's private helicopters valued at £106,203.

(In comparison, Teresa May spent circa £3m in 3yrs as PM)

I’ve got a ticket to see a live performance of that at the cinema. He’d be appalled, wouldn’t he?

Inflation and cost more living affects us all Duncin. Some more than others it seems.

I'm still deciding whether to see it or not, there's an Everyman 5 mins away from here but I don't want to be snivelling in a cinema full of strangers. Although, on reflection, there will probably be quite a few tears. I'll book today. As you say Blossomtoes, he'd be appalled. But he wouldn't be surprised. Angela Rayne's description of Tories pales into insignificance in face of his expressed scorn. And every word a winner.

How is that allowed the slippery little gnome gadding about taxpayers expense Christ we really need a revolution.

That's just due to the cost of living crisis which is down to brexit covid truss Putin.

Pippa Crerar

Former Tory Scott Benton quits as Blackpool South MP rather than wait for recall petition - meaning another tricky by-election for Rishi Sunak

Is his partner going to stand as the Tory candidate like Bone for brains did?

Cost of Living Crisis is affecting everyone, not just the UK, one wouldn’t know it.

Some interesting bits of data here.

https://blog.bham.ac.uk/cityredi/redi-updates-how-does-the-cost-of-living-crisis-compare-internationally/

Is it really truely affecting everyone, or will it be a bit more like Osborne's austerity whereby the rich continue to get richer even though they already had more money than anyone could possibly need and everyone else gets poorer as a result of greed?

As someone said not long ago - maybe Sunak’s going for an election one seat at a time. Blackpool’s incredibly deprived, I suppose Benton was elected with the Boris effect.

Fantastic article. Well written, factual and backed up with actual statistics.

Cost of Living Crisis is affecting everyone, not just the UK, one wouldn’t know it.

I don't think anyone has said otherwise?

No-one's said otherwise, and of course it is meaningless to look at CoL in isolation - context is everything. I wonder whether this is a 🐿

But here in the UK we have certain unique factors contributing to the CoL:

The most recent inflation figures available at the time of writing show that the UK experienced an unexpected rise in the overall rate from 8.8% in January 2023 to 9.2% in February 2023. This meant that the UK had the highest inflation of the G7 advanced economies in February (as Italy fell from 10.0% to 9.1% and Germany remained at 8.7%). For the UK, the persistence of these inflationary pressures in early 2023 is attributable to the very high energy costs discussed above, but also to still rising food prices (to an annual growth rate of 18.2% in February) (OECD, 2023c). The factors behind this food cost inflation are multifaceted, including the disruption to supplies of staple commodities related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, recent analysis also points towards the trade barriers introduced by the UK leaving the European Union Single Market and Customs Union in January 2021 having contributed to increasing food prices in the UK over the past two years (Bakker et al., 2022).

I know cats have an attitude problem, but blimey, that expression!!

Now, now IClaudine, we don't talk about brexit bruno 🎶

Is that Wilson's personal Ming vase litter tray he's availing himself of there?