Rishi Sunal admits taking money from deprived areas

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amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas

Sorry if this thread has already been done, could t see one.

Thoughts please Mumsnet

I'm even more concerned that Starmer doesn't either. THere's no hope.

The cuts were very minimal during austerity in those areas. Labour areas got battered and then punished Labour for it by voting Tory (Red wall).

Why is he boasting that he changed Labour policies that funded deprived inner city areas? He's only even been an MP since 2015, became Sec to the Treasury in 2019, Chancellor in 2020. Labour haven't been in government since 2010. Has no one else in the Conservative Party done anything about Labour policies in all that time?

I want to know who has been sitting on this footage, why they have sold it to the newspapers now and what they have vested in a win for Truss. The footage is apparently from 29 July 2022; if someone held back on it, it was only for a few days.

He’s so blatant. Also the excuse that he’s concerned about deprived rural areas isn’t plausible given he emphasises the word “deprived” when talking of urban areas but doesn’t when talking about where the money should go.

It’s dodgy politics to pay off the areas that support you or the politicians that support you. This Tory government has been full of it.

It’s absolutely chilling. It’s literally taking from the mouths of people who can’t eat or heat their homes to give as a reward to those who vote Tory. How have we sunk this low? Politics should not be this disgusting race to the bottom.
And agree with PP that Truss, Johnson, all of them just as culpable. They all support these policies. Child poverty, food bank use, all these things have rocketed under the Tories. They can’t deny it. Instead they transfer money to the leafy shires to help themselves divide and rule. Shame on them

How have we sunk so low?

Twelve years of Tory policies.

I'm not sure it's even about divide and rule. It's about saying whatever gets them the job. It's that simple. Naked careerism. That said I hope Sunak wins because even though he is a low grade Tory, at least he understands the connection between the economy and tax. And I don't like what Truss is saying about stopping all "handouts" this morning. She is saying take less tax, bugger the public sector and leave the poor to help themselves. Of the two, that's worse in my eyes.

Yep, because they're too stupid or gullible to work out that council budgets are limited by funding from central government, which has been drastically slashed since 2010.

You could see it in interviews in the media and even in posts on this forum leading up to the last election: Often mixing the economic issues in with social ones about identity politics etc - people absolutely fuming about the failures of the left; all the terrible things Labour had done or failed to do; how having voted Labour all their lives they were going to vote Tory for the first time because it was time for "a change". er - a change from the last ten years of Tory government, apparently. Or maybe they just hadn't noticed who was already in power.

You couldn't make it up, but the human capacity for stupidity never ceases to amaze. So I wouldn't be too confident of any of this changing any time soon. The government will take the money away from the areas that need it just as Sunak describes, those areas will become poorer, and the Tories will find somebody to blame. And people will believe them.

Still, they got Brexit done eh? That's gotta help.