Thread 46 Sunak - don't rain on our parade

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He called it, countdown to 4th July

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Will be amazed if we get to polling day with inheritance tax left untouched. Suspect promise to abolish will be centrepiece of Conservative manifesto,

x.com/lewis_goodall/status/1795215191933637028?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Sounds about right.
Will cost the Government £7 billion - but never mind the public services.
Largely benefit London and SE.
And only paid by 4% of deaths.

Do we believe him?

Nope. But he won't be here to be held to account for lying so he doesn't care.

The question I keep asking to every response of "well pay for it by clamping down on tax avoidance" is

"Why haven't you don't that the past 14 years?"

Clamping down on tax avoidance by whom? Obviously won't be tory donors or Prime Minister's wives, or ministers who accidentally forget to declare stuff.

Clamping down on tax avoidance by Rayner maybe? Even though that is just their overactive imaginations.

I had wondered if that's what they were getting at.

All £1500 if she's found guilty.

That'll fill a pothole for a week!

Morning all. Just dropping in to shout at Sunak. You've already got the pensioners vote, you silly man. £100 a year is not enough to persuade anyone to love you more. Thankfully.

I think he’s spooked because he can’t take the grey vote for granted any more. Belatedly it’s dawning on him that pensioners are turning against him. If he really wanted to get them back he’d do something about the NHS.

They can use their £100 a year to pay for prescription delivery rather than forcing 18 year olds to do it for free.

Does that mean that Sunak is offering to pay a proper rate of tax on his income?

Any pensioner who is already planning not to vote Tory isn't going to be swayed by this. Not even the ones who are planning to vote Reform.

The poorest pensioners won't benefit as Pension Credit isn't taxable anyway.

Quite.

It is a slower flip flop than they did on National Service. Which policies have Tories not flipped flop on.

Is it any wonder Tory MPs and ministers are on holiday and not campaigning, the policy they try and campaign on could change without warning.

Smoke and mirrors, as per.

I hope Mogg loses his seat just for doing this to his son, trying to turn him into a mini Mogg. Despicable. Look at the poor boy's face. Who other than the Royals dresses their kids like this?

I'd have more faith in Sunak staying if he categorically promised he was going to California.

The Tories have basically slashed'n'burned their own core vote. This is what happens when you take them for granted. And a mass awakening isn't something you can wave away with some cheesy soundbite.

Given there's a cycle in politics, maybe it turns when the "core vote" suddenly realised that they are bottom of the queue for everything from their party of choice. After all, if someone is happy to announce to the world they "always vote Tory" then why in Gods name would you do anything to buy that vote ? I know I wouldn't. I'd take that free vote (cheers dear) and actually spend my money on people who weren't going to vote for me. Which is basically the last 14 years.

Feel like lots of things would be much better if the government had had an extra 84 billion to spend over the last 14 years.

The only thing being up £6billion a year does when they mention it is raise the issue of why they didn’t do something before given money was allegedly so tight.

💯% makes it even worse that they chose not to, the cruelty & pain inflicted the wanton destruction of all services & resources making peoples lives so much more difficult than they ever needed to be, I truly hope they combust & become an irrelevance as a political party.

One of the many things I can't resist shouting at the telly whenever Mogg's on it is, 'Get a jacket that fits you n the shoulders - you can afford it.' I see his son is also being made to wear a coat that's too big on the shoulders

Ahh you gotta laugh at the little things.

Looks like a scene from The Adam's Family

Maybe Jacob Rees Mogg's son's nanny or whoever bought him a coat he could ' grow into '. Even the mega rich like a bargain.

I notice there are a lot of threads about private school VAT

https://x.com/Samfr/status/1795376680334495932

The "major report" on parents quitting private schools that the Daily Mail splash on today is a survey by Baines Cutler, a for-profit consultancy whose entire business is providing financial advice for private schools. Conflicted much?

Laughable.

Tory rag in paid for “story” shocker.

Tale as old as time.

Well, they generate a lot of threads on MN