Thread 41 How many more MPs will Sunak lose?

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New thread. I took the liberty - the old one was at 999!

It cracked my dad up. I held it at arm’s length too. Definitely worth it if he’d see the funny side.

Have we discussed the fact the Rwanda is probably on the brink of a war with DRC

Again ?

One of the more vivid memories I have was when Air France went on strike in 93, and I had to get a substitute flight to Nairobi on Sabena. No one mentioned (and it was absent the manifest) that the plane would - very briefly - touch down in Kigali. When it did one person embarked while it was surrounded by jeeps with soldiers who my friend assured me was carrying loaded machine guns.

I think we know what happened in 1994

There is a presidential election in Rwanda soon as well

I love the DF tong teasing. My DF and I didn't see eye to eye about everything (though he went from Tory to Labour in his older years) and we used to enjoy winding each other up. I do miss him.

Aren't they already looking for alternative third countries? Is that because they know Rwanda could become unstable very fast?

Hoping to find a country airlines will agree to fly people to. I don’t think it’s occurred to them that it’s the whole ethos of dumping asylum seekers on other countries for money that the airlines object to.

Or that airlines are commercial businesses whose success depends on their reputation.

So would I, the scale of corruption & fraud etc from this lot is mind blowing.
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also Yy the benefit threads heartening quite a bit of pushback.

I hadn't read anything about what was happening in Rwanda - so I had to google.
Decent explainer (I think) from Bloomberg

www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-19/rwandan-meddling-is-deepening-congo-s-deadly-conflict

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was my Dad’s twentieth anniversary last week I still miss our conversations he had such a strong sense of social justice & fairness would be horrified at the shenanigans over the last fourteens years from these appalling specimens of incompetent brainless spivs.

💐 Mine too. He’d be horrified to see what’s happened to the country he fought for.

Rwanda is taking in a huge influx of refugees for many months now, always surprised me the Tories didn't know this.... it looks like the Rwanda has really played the UK Govt for 100s of millions.

You give Sunak and Co much more credit than they deserve on this one.

They say it's safe so we must ignore the evidence of bombs dropping because they passed a law saying it's safe. A plane full of of people could be shot down and they'd still say it was safe.

Orwellian.

Comedy is alive and well.

I am looking forward to someone asking Sunak if he still believes that Rwanda is a safe country if they are at war.

I wonder if he's read Orwell?

Perhaps safe means something different in Toryworld.

Exciting line-up

Channel 4 becomes the first broadcaster to announce its plans for coverage of the General Election night with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Emily Maitlis, Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Cathy Newman and Clare Balding ensuring C4 will be the home of the best analysis and coverage

There is an obvious issue with the actual legality of flights to Rwanda even if you use military pilots. It seems very unlikely to happen.

Ooh. That sounds good!

It does. I wonder if C4 knows something we don’t.

Well, that's my decision made right there. In 1997 I had to make do with BBC because we couldn't receive C4 in the Netherlands.

Was Boris Johnson going to do this for GB News? I mean that sounds like an absolute car crash of an idea, but sort of grimly fascinating as the old hack makes up appalling lies about all his old colleagues as they lose their seats....

That looks like a good line up.

https://twitter.com/JAHeale/status/1782000915358126114

Apologies to those not on Twitter, not sure if this video exists elsewhere. We might need to find these Question time audience members from the mid 2000s and see if they think the Tories have improved their experience of getting a GP appointment.

If he does, shall we have a competition to see who amoung us can last the longest without breaking the TV?

I almost think I would watch that. Just for the car crash.