"PA news agency understands that some Tory MPs are considering writing letters of no confidence if he goes ahead with the changes." Some don't
Mainly because he’s not Johnson or Truss or ReesMogg or any of the other fascists. He’s making the best of a bad hand. I do think he has a chance of winning the next election if he continues on the road he’s on. I have never voted tory but I dread a Starmer government. The biggest danger to Sunak are the idiots named above.
Thanks. His greatest asset, as you say, is not being as deranged as the three maniacs you mentioned ... ... the thought of Johnson as our Prime Minister still seems impossible to have been true.
It's the Friday 4.59 email equivalent. Which as I've learned, is a perfectly acceptable tactic if you're looking to get a less hysterical reaction about something. Stops every man and his dog knee-jerk screeching about it in parliament.
Unfortunately the state of politics now dictates that we pick the best of a bad bunch, Really don't like Sunak and like him even less when I heard him telling the entitled at a garden party a few years ago that he will be diverting funds from needy areas to ensure that the standards in their tory voting zone do not drop. That was enough for me !
Conference season is upon us. Chance to get more sense of where GE campaigning will go. In amongst all of the hoo ha and grandstanding speeches there will be soke useful insight to be had. I will watch with interest. Lib Dems up first, bouyed by some impressive by election results. Interested to see a number of their policy motions, in particular around the industrial strategy. £30 gets you an online ticket to watch the fun and games, and access to the docs. I am in and expect to hear more sense than in the tory and labour conference combined!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cxa6U1oIKX1/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Here’s a bit of Green common sense ‘where’s the money coming from’ Some on here will moan about the concerns t if losing wealth. I wonder why
Handing more powers to the OBR sounds great, until you realise that nothing can ever be non partisan again, so you've just created a situation like the civil service where they can effectively block a government they don't like. I'd be more inclined to have a chancellor justify their decisions and policies to the OBR in a hearing broadcast live so we can all see it.
Technically speaking we've already got six up here in Scotland although three are on a single trolley - Paper and cardboard Glass Plastic and cans Food waste General waste Garden waste It's not particularly difficult getting stuff in the right places.
The levelling up bill finally passes through the house of lords. Taken them bloody months and they have made amendments, probably kept falling asleep when working.
For a clever bloke he struggles to articulate his point and others often have to provide clarity. Not much wrong with his point, but easy to misconstrue if you are that way motivated.
I have just read Robert Hardman's report about the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean. On one day last week 7000 migrants arrived in 100 boats from Libya. Libya is 70 mile away and is closer than the Italian mainland. Lampedusa has a population of 6000 thousand inhabitants. The Red Cross are dealing with the migrants, but EU countries are now starting to refuse to take more in, which is being blamed for the rise across Europe of right wing activist groups.
Right wing groups are on the rise in Europe because they're the only ones offering a solution to a problem Europeans really want to be solved. The left are pushing normal people towards them by refusing to even have a conversation, sticking to the old failed tactic of crying racism in the hope it will silence genuine concerns. You can't make them see it though. We've forgotten the lessons of the past and so will have to learn them all over again.
