Thread 43 Sunak - Seriously Scapegoating

[DuncinToffee]

Buckle up for the local elections 🍿

Previous thread here
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5059786-thread-42-sunak-ping-pong-with-the-enemies-of-the-people?page=40

He could be in mine as I’m in fecking Tory safe haven Bromley
no alcohol for me as I’m off my face on strong painkillers (had physio & dry needling on my shoulder today) my goodness it was incredibly painful.

Ouch! I hope you feel better soon dontcallmelen

Paul Scully? Sacked from the only 2 government roles he's had?
Ha.

If you like Laphroaig, then you should try Port Charlotte 10 year old or Kilchomin Machir Bay, as recommended to my cousin's partner last night by the guy in front of us in the Pot Still last night in Glasgow. He was passionate about whiskies.

Dh could only take 3 guests in with him in to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, so he took my (Australian) cousin and her dad (over from Oz) and her brother (who currently lives in Germany), while I took her partner (who is English and who has been house sitting in my dad's place) to the Pot Still, on the basis that my cousin and her partner can go to the SMWS with us at a later date.

I'm in Spain, don't see Sunak here.

Thank you all for keeping me updated, and giving me an additional reason to open the wine.

Is anyone surprised that Cruella doesn't understand the principles of holes and shovelling...

I just came on to post that.

I see the Daily Mail front page is busy just sticking its fingers in its ears, singing lalala and pretending nothing is happening - waffle about the King and obviously some twaddle about Rayner.

Where is that from?

We can stop checking our fridges now, Sunak is in a hole somewhere

Tomorrow’s DM front page is a whole lesson on media manipulation and how what is not reported being just as important as what is. It’s amazing.

She’s written an article for the Telegraph. Who appear to have decided it wasn’t worth checking for sense before publishing.

Re the London mayoral vote at my polling station we were given 3 ballots; mayor, assembly member and additional assembly member votes and told clearly one vote per ballot paper. I can't see how people were confused about it to leave some ballot papers blank. It was pretty straightforward and I had a few things distracting me while I was voting.

Anyway just my observations.

I hope she loses her seat and crawls off Rwanda. I have a bottle of something sparkling just for when this happens, and another for Badenoch.

But if he keeps shovelling then the hole will get deeper. Maybe that is her real message to Sunak.

What a day! This will be me on my walk around Wolves this morning. My walk takes me past Stuart Anderson’s office, shame he won’t be in to give a little wave to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68956828

This sounds like Laura K is trying to convince herself Tories might still win a GE.

There seems to have been a change of plan overnight.

Cruella is now appearing on Laura's show this morning.

Could be interesting.

That BBC article is quite hilarious.

the pundits' calculators suggested that if the whole country had voted on Thursday 😅, the gap between the Conservatives and Labour comes out at 9%: not, theoretically, an insurmountable gap to close when the general election campaign is miles away and could bend the curves.

One cabinet minister said that after months of "frothing at the mouth about apocalypse actually, maybe we could have a hung parliament.😅 This will encourage people to believe there is a fight worth having."

I think we might be chucking things at the telly.

Someone on a other thread is obviously believing LK and said polls are saying labour won't get a majority anyway, and it was a bad election day for labour!

Oh well, they've got to try, I suppose. Lies have served them well in the past. Dear Tories. You've been sussed. It's not working any more. Mark Harper is on Sky News just now, flogging his dead horse. Feel almost sorry for him.

It is so wrong to have something so partial on the BBC website. Does anyone know how that 9% figure was reached?

Is that the "all the Conservative voters stayed at home and all the Labour people came out" response!!

Turnout at local elections is usually low. I would assume that generally turnout is proportional - and not just mainly Conservatives staying at home. But to hear some Conservatives, some think that it is just Conservatives staying at home!

I can confirm my never gonna vote tory dd didn't vote. She had an eoy exam and full day at uni, followed by a 3 and a half hour training session.

They moved the polling station, and by the time she found the new one, it had already closed.

She will be voting in the general election though.