Thread 46 Sunak - don't rain on our parade

[DuncinToffee]

He called it, countdown to 4th July

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Mark Logan, "red wall", Brexit and Sunak backer former MP

I’m really enjoying getting to perfect my “ha!ha!” laugh with these defections.

Confirming what we already knew.

NEW: Conservative minister Anthony Browne confirms there will be a 13% cut in public spending if the tories win the election

[@LBC]

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1796218729153335387?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

13% cut to all unprotected areas - prisons, courts, local government, Home Office, transport.

This collectively amounts to a £19bn cut, comparable to the round of austerity heralded by David Cameron and George Osborne in 2010.

Torsten Bell, the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation thinktank, said: “The £19bn of cuts to unprotected public services after the next election are three-quarters the size of those delivered in the early 2010s. The idea that such cuts can be delivered in the face of already faltering public services is a fiscal fiction.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/07/where-jeremy-hunt-budget-cuts-fall-departments

Words fail me. They really, really want to lose.

Been teaching 25 years. On MN since 2011. Never seen anyone care so much about education since Covid when (apparently) I did fuck all.

That's been "known" for ages - but hidden.

Some departments are getting to get increased spending. But many will see cuts.

Never seen anyone care so much about education since Covid when (apparently) I did fuck all.

Yes, WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE STATE SCHOOLS?

Sitting in bright sunlight when my phone screen is obviously hard to read, but I read your post as 'another defacation'.

My sincere apologies for lowering the tone of this thread.

That too!

Agreed cake - but the state of the justice system as it is - I can't imagine what would be left after a further 13% cut.
Ditto local government.

Of course he did.

STORY

Rishi Sunak caught taking private helicopter flight home hours after gushing about train travel

x.com/mikeysmith/status/1796227395650744553?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

I hope the cost of that comes out of the election spending limit.

The only way to cut 13% out of the MH service I work in would be to introduce medically assisted dying for mental illness. Too dark?

Is it education they care about or their and their sprogs social advancement?

So he spent the whole day trying to one up the Labour racism story, then got into a helicopter likely donated by the biggest racist he knows?

Brief catch up before off out again - thanks for the link to the slur @MrTiddlesTheCat

Perhaps they could increase the waiting list for autism and ADHD diagnoses, I just got a letter saying I only need to wait 7 years, I'm sure with their dedication to finding economic wriggle room they could push that nearer 10🤔. ADHD is a condition famously linked with patience after all...

Let’s see how Canada fares. If they have a boom economy after killing, sorry, euthanising from their trauma, all the poor mentally ill people, then we can see it work for us.

Ooh going dark but I do in all honesty think euthanasia would save the economy millions for TERMINAL cases. I would be all over it if I knew I could control my death. Needs to be iron clad into just terminal cases though - like France with abortion rights.

I've never been bothered about talking about death and have a will etc set, but I can see a lot of people who don't want to think about it and just the idea scares them. Having nursed my mum through cancer I am a thousand percent sure I do not want that ending and I strongly feel no one else should have to either.

No comments beyond general love for all the sarcastic posters on this thread.

I'm not sure if I'm watching QT tonight. Piers Morgan FFS 🙄

God the state of public debate - used car salesman Farage and the cretin that gave the go ahead to hack a murdered child's voicemail.
Neither belong on a news programme.

Didn’t Farage say he was buggering off to somewhere not Britain after Brexit failed to meet the all things to all people impossible dream he envisioned?

Can we crowdfund a flight ticket for him? Construct a catapult even?

I gave up on QT a LONG time ago

Farage being on again is just further confirmation that I made the right decision.

It's a further nail in the credibility of the BBC

Does Warwick Castle still have trebuchet?