Thread 43 Sunak - Seriously Scapegoating

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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

Another Tory donor

HMRC has ruled that Dr Christopher Moran’s company failed to charge VAT to short term occupiers of a London apartment block, which have at times included sex workers.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-property-guru-hit-45million-32755855

He has tabled it, but it is not yet scheduled:

https://members.parliament.uk/member/188/earlydaymotions

Thanks IClaudine

Well spotted @IClaudine thanks.

Ah!

Well, he certainly knows what a woman is!

Is it ok to ask if @AdamRyan is ok? I’ve not seen her about and best wishes to her if rl has caused her to step back from MN.

A VoNC is one way the Tory party could clip Sunaks wings. He doesn't hold all the cards, and a core of Tory MPs threatening to abstain in a VoNC does return some power to the party.

Tories can be unsurprisingly brutal when they need to. Is it possible a few MPs could tell Rish! "Either you call an election now, or we will by letting a VoNC fail" ?

I think she may have left, sadly. Or at the least is taking a break.

I was wondering the same thing yesterday. I miss her. Rousette seems to have gone missing too.

Returning to the theme that Tory MPs aren't quite as powerless as they would like us to believe

https://www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-uk-elections-conservative-party-tories/

Good to know impartiality is safe;

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimerGB News' executive creative director Erron Gordon, is leaving after only four months to become...the BBC's Head of Department for London, the Mail reports (via Press Gazette)

I caught the end of a discussion on R4 yesterday with PR and Journo's. They all agreed the Tories have an unrivalled ability to spin the news, unlike any other party. The idea is always to get the press to pick up a story and push it, relying heavily on an unaware audience. Which is why they seem to be so out of touch atm - they're desperately spinning. There was a brief but interesting discussion about how the financial press have better ethics around this and it was hinted they think the political press should have similar guidelines. Obviously if a company spun it's profits it would be illegal.
Labour could do well to introduce better ethical guidelines for political press.

Yes me too, adding my best wishes for them both & hope all is ok.

I also hope that @AdamRyan is ok

I will start a new thread shortly using Pointy's title

Labour could do well to introduce better ethical guidelines for political press.

Which will either get mired down in legal challenges, or ignored by all.
Once we are out of the ECHR (thanks Rish!) summary execution of editors who fail to fact check could be a thing. I suspect the media will very very quickly become pedantically accurate.

As with most things, there are some really simple steps that are available to start to tackle the problem. The fact none are taken is a clear indication that the powers that be don't think there is a problem.

Here you go, ready for the furry animal pictures

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5070805-thread-44-sunak-hung-parliament-and-rishful-thinking

FFS.

Running for the exit! What chance a decent career in the media at GB News once Labour come in? It will be even fuller of waste of space journalism but will not even have insight into the current gov. It will be even freakier than now. I predict it will get even weirder when the next Tory leader is elected: you will know if the Conservatives have gone full fruit cake if all the hustings are there.

Shout out to adam, too. Missed!