Thread 44 Sunak: Hung parliament and Rishful thinking.

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Catching up with Kuenssberg- she has Zahawi on. I'm looking forward to her taking the opportunity to ask him about his tax affairs and lying to his lawyers.

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Did it happen @L1ttledrummergirl ? I can't bring myself to watch her.

Why haste your time watching ? That's a few thousand woman-hours of effort wasted. You will emerge knowing less than you went in with.

It’s always useful to see what the enemy’s up to. I love your previous passionate post, by the way.

Spot on

Yep. Braverman is doing the same.

Nowhere does she mention (conveniently) that currently we've had pupils wait up to 3 years for specialist independent education to meet their needs under their watch.

Same here. Worked in special Ed since 2007.

First 3 years were an entirely different ballgame.

Know the enemy.

She let him off very lightly, it was treated as a non event- just as expected.
It's beyond ridiculous.

Funding gap between State and Private under 14 years of Tory.

I am going to assume that Kuenssberg didn't ask about the threats Zahawi's lawyers sent?

Thank you for taking one for the team and reporting back on Laura's unsurprising avoidance of asking any Tory anything challenging. I seriously can't abide that woman.

He seemed to have been on LK to plug his book which would explain his creative writing resignation letter.

On a totally different note, I've just responded to the government's PIP consultation. Took me an hour and a half. I don't think they're going to like my responses much, but it had to be done.

Do you have a link? They won't like my answers either 😂

Here you go: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=6fbxllcQF0GsKIDN_ob4wy4AdhV04YtOnxNXoi82ciFUN00yS0lJSTgzOVNaUzI1TVpYRkZGN1RUQSQlQCN0PWcu

Let's not forget that Baroness Warsi (Consevative peer) described the current tory government as 'toxic, mad, fascists'.

One of the local Tory MPs has posted on Facebook stating a petition to keep bi collections weekly.

The first 86 responses I read were quite unambiguous in noting that it was 14 years or Tory rule that have got us here, with a few posters noting how provision for everything has evaporated. There was also a very strong realisation that the MP in question had fuck all intention of doing anything (what start now after 14 years) and the whole charade was a thinly veiled data grab for Tory towers.

My faith in my fellow person has been slightly boosted.

That domain is owned by Microsoft - a private US company - not the UK government.

And ..

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I'd like an answer to that question before I commit my thoughts to paper.

Every appearance by the Tory MP for my neighbouring constituency is greeted on FB by polite cynicism and an unrelenting barrage of questions about her voting record, her unwillingness to live in the constituency and her motivations for rocking up at the school/group/envelope opening in question when she has been invisible previously.
This is a dead cert Tory area that has had brief flirtations with Lib Dem in the past. I will be thrilled if Labour get it.

@SerendipityJane the form is where you end up after following links from this page and then the next, both .gov: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/modernising-support-for-independent-living-the-health-and-disability-green-paper/modernising-support-for-independent-living-the-health-and-disability-green-paper

I know how links work.

My point is your responses are still being captured by a private company outside of the UK, with no clear upfront statement about how it will be stored, used or processed.

I'm not saying that there are scams that work the same way, but there are scams that work the same way.

That form (which is harder to complete that the PIP form it discusses) seems to be an excellent way to get your opponent to waste a lot of time and effort for nothing,

At this stage of the game, the best consultation we can give this government is it's marching orders. And everything should be focussed on that.

@SerendipityJane I've completed previous consultations and the use of MS forms isn't new. I agree that voting this government out is the priority, but life iksn't a zero sum game. I was asked for a link to the form, I provided it. Not to you, to the person who asked. No skin off my nose if you don't want to complete it.

I think it is worth completing if you can bear to.

If the Tories get enough of a negative response they might drop the ideas as it could cost them a lot of votes. If they drop the ideas publically before the election, that will also give Labour an indication of how things will go for them if they also attack disability benefits.

Also, as incoming government, Labour will have access to the consultation responses which again may give them food for thought about their approach to disability benefits.

My Tory MP's facebook page says "Alan Mak MP limited who can comment on this post."
I've scrolled back weeks and weeks (as much as I can be bothered anyway ) and every self promoting post he has made carries this message.

If the Tories get enough of a negative response they might drop the ideas as it could cost them a lot of votes.

If you take it that there is no earthly way the Tories are going to win, then why even grub for those votes ?

I will repeat my observation that right now, the behaviour of Rishi Sunak does not suggest someone who thinks they are going to lose an election. Either because he really is high on his own supply, or because he has no intention of calling one.