Thread 45 Sunak; Remove one letter and tell his future"

[DuncinToffee]

The discussion continues, just call a GE

I don't think that's accurate re Reform. The Red Wall didn't fall because of ex Tory voters.

I'll join you in the tutting and maybe ads a few quiet mutters.

Now an election is underway, a lot of the free airtime Reform have been getting will be taken away and share amongst real political parties. Which won't help their already falling polling.

And they simply don't have a party machine capable of knocking on every door in a ward which the main parties have.

Reform were created to try and scare the Tories into becoming Reform. Remember Nigel Farage has never won a Westminster seat.

Dd is the least political of my dc, she didn't vote in the local elections but is determined to vote in the GE. Everytime she hears Sunak speak she rolls her eyes, but hasn't quite got to muttering yet.

I asked her what her friends thought and she said unsure, but they'll probably all vote the same way, they just need to have a conversation. The young people I know are more political than my generation were and it's brilliant.

Simon Case is giving evidence today in the Covid Inquiry

And Paula Vennells is back being questioned today as well

And I believe today is the first day prisoners start being released 70 days early.

https://x.com/AdamBienkov/status/1793538313850376383

Rishi has told LBC there will be no Rwanda flights before the election. Rwanda plan is dead. 🎉

Sunak on Rwanda: ‘The plan has worked, but hasn’t happened yet.’

What a lot of time and taxpayers money has been spent on Rwanda. Time and money that could have been spent more effectively.

Sunak knew it wasn't going to work. I guess now they will cling to it like the Brexit that never was.

I think/hope Brexit taught a lot of people a message about social media and campaign lies. I also think far fewer people are on FB and so susceptible to targeted marketing.

Also Brexit was a strategic, world changing decision not just for the UK so ripe for foreign interference. I don't think that picking our next PM will be as interesting to people.

So hopefully it won't be as bad?

🤣🤣

From an article in the Economist

Mine:

1. My MP, Werrity sniffer Liam
2. Braverman
3. Grease-Smug
4. Shetland pony of the apocalypse Patel
5. Lee Anderthal
6. Sunak Himself
7. Govey Govey Govey
8. Jenrick
9. Badenoch
10. Cates

Bonus points if Kellie Jay Keen loses her deposit, and if Reform take a huge vote share off the Tories but manage not to get any MPs.

Plus, lest we should forget:
https://tonyblews.co.uk/the-vault/the-week-in-tory-archive/#13.03.2024

If Lozza runs that has to be another bonus point deposit lost.

It’s going to be quite hard to limit the choice to 10.

No he isn't. Don't go making stuff up.

Anyway manifestos will be out soon and then we will be able to see for definite what all the parties plans are. Interested to see the Tories plans. Sounds like they were caught somewhat unawares on their own campaign 😂

Nobody’s mentioned Bridgen yet.

Wtaf. Gaslighty little gerbil
😂

Or Bradley.

AdamRyan, leave the gerbils out of it!

Or Jezza Hunt

Sadly, we won't be able to vote him out anymore, boundary changes grrrrrr

There is a rumour doing the rounds in California that all the big tech companies are desperate for their rivals to hire Sunak. Although the reality will be he'll be tucked away well out of sight (like a certain Clegg, N) and merely reanimated when Google or Apple or Microsoft or Amazon or Facebook need to the the UK government what to do

Has anyone read of the latest wheeze from Microsoft ? Windows 11 will silently take screenshots every few seconds and store them "locally" to help you somehow. Already red US states are looking to seize them in case real women are thinking of researching birth control

It was. Jenrick/Kruger/Gullis/Fabricant/McVey all in contention.

I am really curious what triggered this. Last night I was wondering if Wes Streeting was right at the weekend and Sunak got wind of a load of defectors. E.g. Hunt. Imagine.

The Conservatives really don't seem prepared.

Contrast Sunak's appearance at his press conference yesterday with Starmer.

https://images.app.goo.gl/wDJ99mkpwGw91v4L9

I agree - I've come off social media in the last 6 months (for me I kept getting very misogynistic posts - red flag to a bull for me to comment on so they kept churning them to me). I know a lot of people who voted Leave initially couldn't get on board with the fact they had been targeted on FB but when the specific advertisements were highlighted they did realise that they had signed up to things (football/animal rights) that seemed unconnected. Interestingly I've seen much less of them on social media since their "win" so I do wonder if FB have shot themselves in the foot by accepting blood money for those advertisements from Russia.

It will be dirty for sure, but have they blown their chances by using the same dirty tactics as Brexit (FB and outright lies) that we've wisened up to (🙏) or is there worse in the wings?

No suprise, the Telegraph is supporting the Tories

I saw that.
People are so naive about this stuff. Like thinking Amazon made Alexa to help them. Yeah of course they did. Nothing to do with harvesting data for advertising at all.

I had a pitch from a company the other day at work who said they could send cold marketing email to companies with people browsing for a topic of interest to my company. The email would go to the person most likely to be the buyer, not the browser.

I just thought, great, more advertising spam 🙄. Not subjecting my customers to that

Personally I think AI might completely finish off the Internet as a place for actual humans. Sorry, derail.

Preaching to the choir though.

The trick is to get non-Tory voters to vote Tory.

The current Tory strategy appears to be designed to get Tory voters to avoid voting Tory.