Westminstenders: Run Forrest Run

[RedToothBrush]

Need i say more?

Abbott knows the square root of fuck all about trade.

The culture war stuff is what they want you to talk about.

Rishi Sunak could soon be a problem for Johnson as well as for Labour

Yes, Labour might want to hang on to BJ, who is unravelling, rather than a smart successor
but maybe the Tories would replace BJ with JRM or Gove

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/rishi-sunak-labour-johnson-coronavirus-star-chancellor

[Sunak] he speaks fluently in public, rarely makes gaffes, and looks good in a suit.
Next to Johnson, these useful but not outstanding qualities seem more alluring than they ought to.

I did at this quote

"Whichever Australian traded Tony Abbott to Britain", remarked local cartoonist Jon Kudelka, "is the person Britain actually needs to help them with trade."

@Mistigri

Abbott knows the square root of fuck all about trade.

The culture war stuff is what they want you to talk about.

... Yes and without COVID, the Brexit fuckups would be more obvious

but the chumocracy of contracts and appointments - with perks if not salary, I bet Abbott's expected a peerage
the removal of permanent secretaries
the appointment of racist weirdos

A blatant misuse of power

@prettybird

I did at this quote

"Whichever Australian traded Tony Abbott to Britain", remarked local cartoonist Jon Kudelka, "is the person Britain actually needs to help them with trade."

... Yes, let him fight over Stilton !

Abbott will make his money by being an advisor to taking bungs from businesses that think that they will benefit from any FTA he "negotiates" even if the public won't benefit at all

Listen to Hancock let the cat out of the bag:

Kay Burley@KayBurley

“Tony Abbott is a homophobe and a misogynist”

Health Sec ‪*@MattHancock*‬
“He’s also an expert on trade”
😂😂
(Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1301406437458038784

I can't help liking Hancock sometimes
he doesn't skive off or duck tough questions like his colleagues do

I like Rishi too and I wish Hunt were PM instead of BJ
< awaits banishment from thread >

I try to console myself that when he fails to make a trade deal, it won't be any use blaming Remainers, or having a what about Corbyn moment. It will be squarely on Johnson. Johnson is safe enough at the moment because there is no GE due for another 4 years, but next year there are a swathe of Local Elections. Now the results there don't translated directly to GEs but they give an indication of the way the wind is blowing.

As for the potential of Sunak replacing him - no, the Tories won't wear someone of an Asian background.

Cummings ally's PR firm given Covid-19 contracts without tenders

Interesting company;

2017 -
"Barclays has joined a small club of City firms that have hired a little-known consultancy with ties to the highest echelons of British politics."

"The UK lender has become the latest financial institution to sign up for the advisory services offered by Hanbury Strategy, an unlikely partnership between Ameet Gill, the influential pro-Remain former director of strategy for Number 10 and a special adviser to then Prime Minister David Cameron, and Paul Stephenson, the pro-Brexit former communications director for campaign group Vote Leave."

"Hanbury Strategy also advises Magic Circle law firms Linklaters and Herbert Smith Freehills, as well as pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline and food delivery startup Deliveroo" ...

"The firm provided polling and advisory services to the campaign for the then French president-elect Emmanuel Macron. Emails leaked ahead of the last round of the French presidential elections showed that Macron's team paid €18,600 for Hanbury Strategy's services" ...

www.fnlondon.com/articles/barclays-joins-clients-of-elite-secretive-political-strategy-firm-20170613

2019 "Insider insight into what it's like to work at Hanbury Strategy."

"Hanbury has always been cross-party; a place where all ideas are valued and we aren’t afraid to challenge each other. I was the first Lib Dem to join the team, and now two-thirds of the 2017 Labour Policy Unit is now at Hanbury. I’ve found that clients really value this diversity of thought."

www.prweek.com/article/1661691/public-affairs-consultancy-spotlight-hanbury-strategy

As for the potential of Sunak replacing him - no, the Tories won't wear someone of an Asian background.

Yes we will.

BigChocFrenzy
Just sit back and wait for Abbott to embarass BJ

That is categorically not possible.

Wishing Hunt were PM instead of Johnson - well I suppose it's like the choice of "would you like to shoot me in the head or the leg? " Neither really but obviously being disabled is better than being dead.

Hancock I suspect is just overpromoted and that once a decent enough person lurked underneath. I gather he was quite well regarded as a constituency MP.

So Clavinova is now the voice of the whole Tory party! Do they pay you enough?

Rishi's a hedgie and he doesn't have your interests at heart (he made his millions taking the taxpayer for a ride over RBS). But he pays attention to detail and he can talk in sentences.

Interested to see that even the fangirls have had enough of the fat fraud. Boris is not quite toast, but he's in the toaster and the dial has been set to "very toasty".

Oh Clavvy...you are funny 😄

I still like Boris don't worry.

Do they pay you enough?

Nothing at all - I should send them an invoice!

@Mistigri

Rishi's a hedgie and he doesn't have your interests at heart (he made his millions taking the taxpayer for a ride over RBS). But he pays attention to detail and he can talk in sentences.

Interested to see that even the fangirls have had enough of the fat fraud. Boris is not quite toast, but he's in the toaster and the dial has been set to "very toasty".

Rishi made his real money the old-fashioned way: he married it (and nothing wrong with that)

I could easily imagine the Tories selecting RIshi

MrsT was a much more surprising choice at the time

• she got in more by accident, as the others were too gentlemanly to put the knife in Heath, the first mc Tory PM but once she got the initiative, she kept it

I would like someone to reclaim the Tory party to conservatism, kick out the crooks and loonies
It's bad for the country in its current state and could even follow the GOP into fascism

As for the potential of Sunak replacing him - no, the Tories won't wear someone of an Asian background.

Interesting Peregrina. I have some doubts on this so I couldn't say I completely disagree with you, but I rather suspect they might back Rishi. The problem, if there was to be one would be at the "membership" vote runoff stage.

And BigChoc I'll happily be banished with you, would much have preferred Hunt to Johnson.

"What if men are by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command."

Yet another quote from 1998.

@Clavinova
What does it say about a man when he fails to learn a single thing from his past mistakes?

What does it say about a politician when he appears to go out of his way to court knuckle draggers for his entire political career?

Calling him 'Rishi' is as bad as the 'Boris' thing. Saw so many "Thanks Rishi!" on the Eat Out To Take Out threads. He didn't pay for your cheap lunch.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-chancellor-rishi-sunak-cashed-in-on-fund-that-helped-break-banks-rb7zgfqkz