Thread 47 Sunak : The Ship of Fools sails on

[DuncinToffee]

The countdown to the General Election continues

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Probably not the best expression to describe how Mr Johnson behaved. And not the worst of his behaviour.

Excellent.

'Elbow-deep in the Number 10 Policy Toilet'
Russell Jones, author of 'The Decade in Tory' and 'Four Chancellors and a Funeral', surveys a chaotic first week of campaigning for the 2024 General Election
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/elbow-deep-in-the-number-10-policy?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

Mr Sunak's downfall may have been his comment last year about ' not knowing any working class people '
He now wants their vote.
For all Boris Johnson's many many faults, he did appeal to a wide variety of people.
( Whatever your view of him as a person or as a politician / mayor.)

Ah, that nice Jonathan Gullis took a £10000 donation from JCB, and then stayed completely silent when they axed hundreds of jobs in his constituency 2 weeks later. Such an honourable politician, we may never see his like again please...

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/31/jonathan-gullis-conservative-takes-10000-from-jcb/

JCB backed Brexit, as I recall. Even if they don't.

Amen to that, total gobshite

Gullis was also campaigning alongside a drugsdealer

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jonathan-gullis-pictured-campaigning-with-convicted-heroin-dealer-375839/

If you don't vote for us, you are stupid, Badenoch's vote winner

Edited to say that the picture shows Rayner and Starmer taking the knee

I think that is somehow a mistranslation of the sentiment that you would have to be gaga to vote tory.

Very late with my cat tax sorry. I’ve been away in Corfu and got a. Bit out of touch so I’ll catch up. This is the hotel breakfast cat shouting at me, and then the taverna lunch cat being unimpressed with my offering of feta (I didn’t have fish despite it being the taverna speciality).

My cat has had enough of the election already

If you vote Tory, it is saying you are OK with hardly any rapists facing justice.

I don't think Lady Gaga actually would vote Tory if she were British...

Interesting. Torsten Bell of the Resolution foundation has been selected as Labour candidate for Swansea West. Bit of a row about him being parachuted in but I think it could be good for Swansea to have someone of his calibre (I’m in the next door constituency).

Another Brexshiteer jumps the sinking ship;

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-tory-mp-rishi-sunak-b2554665.html

'Faking the knee' while Badenoch takes the piss. These people. Please may they soon be gone.

Will we recognise any of the Tory front bench at the end of this? They’re like lemmings.

NEW: Rishi Sunak is confronted by a student who asks him why he "hates young people so much"

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1796557327002402864

She had a 11 tweet thread rant, I couldn't be bothered to read it

His response is terrible. He really is a liability.

Any idea what's the idea behind this tweet 😂 She looks so cool!

Sunak said KS is doing what AR tells him to do , so it’s a dig along those lines.
But yes, they have chosen a photo of her looking well cool

AR is living rent free in the Conservative Party's head!

I'm sure Rishi said on the radio last week when asked that he wouldn't campaign on personality and personal attacks.

I guess he has flip flopped on that as well.

Do we think that But Jeremy Corbyn is growing jealous that his position has been so usurped.