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This conclusion from Opinium’s Curtis must be right – politicalbetting.com
This conclusion from Opinium’s Curtis must be right – politicalbetting.com
Obviously the margins around this are massive. But I think the central estimate, if Johnson remains as leader, must now be that the Tories lose their majority at the next election.
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Oh.
Eeurgh
Like they could get someone better but the rules say the maddest third of the parliamentary party can get their guy in front of the membership, and the membership are liable to pick that guy.
Cost of living
Cost of living and ...
Cost of living.
This is what the government wil be judged on now as we move to the GE.
But do LAB really have any answers?
And not even a cheeky korma or Mary Foy doing high kicks
There is no end to the squalor and the lies. AND THE DEBAUCHERY
Great VFM 🤭
There’s very little that government can do, which isn’t simply tinkering around the margins.
Serious relief - such as cutting income tax 10pp, raising all benefit payments by the same, reductions in fuel duty or VAT - each involve borrowing tens of billions of pounds which need to be repaid in the future.
These photos are so dismally pathetic there is a possibility they will backfire. They actually make me feel sorry for the Downing Street staff, and the PM. The pitiful cheap sandwiches. The nasty Lidl orange juice
Starmer is wise to go on the Cost of Living
You've got no self-respect for yourself if you tolerate that.
There’s a far better government to be cut from this Conservative parliamentary party than they are currently giving the country.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/25/im-begging-the-government-to-listen-martin-lewis-on-getting-political-mental-health-and-the-cost-of-living-crisis
What a service to the nation providing police with the evidence needed, proving PM and his chancellor are law breakers.
Because the vast majority were for similarly ridiculous transgressions of stupid rules and science-free nonsense.
Sitting on a park bench for starters.
And there may also be more than the documented 500 in the pipeline. Boris in the wig at the ABBA nite is going to be a hoot - far funnier than his swastika style toastings every night through lockdown.
I am honestly attempting - perhaps failing - to look at these latest photos with neutral eyes. And to me it looks very much like a boring workplace lunch, at a stressful time: everyone has their tablets out and the rest. They are in the middle of work
Then someone remembered it was the PM's birthday and they got a six pack of warm beer from Aldi along with the shite orange juice, and during the lunch he raised his can of beer and said Thanks and Carry on. Then went glumly back to his takeaway plastic carton of salad
It does not look illegal. It does not look unreasonable. I don't think, purely on the basis of the photos, that he broke the law in this instance.
Did Sunak actually get fined for this? Absurd
Who do you trust more is the question
Cancel ALL the fines. This is laughable
The government should be apologising for the stupid, complex, irrational, and unenforceable lockdown laws - and Labour should be apologising for wanting even more of them.
The state of those sandwiches. Pff
Sunak merely so unlucky… unless you believe in conspiracy theory
Not the bravest prediction ever.
In the short term (10-years?) that only means more impoverishment and more sacrifices until renewables actually deliver plentiful cheap energy or someone comes up with a new technology. The price of energy now tells us renewables are woefully, woefully short of that target.
The field's wide open to someone that wants to lift the hard target of 2050. For someone who wants to take their time. Wide open.
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Classic Boris. Accepts full responsibility. Then begins to explain why he wasn’t responsible…
including the No 10 Permanent Secretary for Covid and the Pandemic Response,
Simon Case, and the No 10 Private Secretaries, saying "For the PM's birthday
today we are having sandwiches and cake in the Cabinet room so do come along
and wish the PM happy birthday."
Looks like the written organisation in advance was the problem for this one. From plods point of view easy evidence outweighs the varying severity.
Despite the organisation I think fines unnecessary on this one, but should have been given for others.
No-one else in the country was allowed to do that.
It's the planning and the discussion around the planning that is most damming. They knew what they are doing beyond the regulations and they were only concerned with getting away with it.
It's better to be a pragmatic liar.
Thankfully in this nation its bollocks like FPNs over sitting at a park bench, or walking for more than an hour, or having carton sandwiches and a beer for your lunch rather than US style trigger happy with guns instead.
If this is the threshold for getting fined it reinforces the view already pre-existing both generally (Hillsborough, Sarah Everard vigil etc) and politically (Plebgate) that the Police are not fit for purpose.
We should be removing the right of the Police to issue FPNs in the first place. Not specifically for politicians but for everyone. If a crime has been committed, let that be proven in a court of law following due process, not having Police acting as judge, jury and executioner.
At a stretch of PC plod's mind one might see how they could say that the "leaving do" parties were actually part of essential work.
He never, ever does.
Up to Tory MPs now and I expect them to be all over TV news tonight saying that we should "wait for the Standards Committee"
So a confession that he *did* mislead. But its a whoops I had no idea I was misleading.
“It's the planning and the discussion around the planning that is most damming. They knew what they are doing beyond the regulations and they were only concerned with getting away with it.”
You’re right. It must have been years in the planning. The odious, devious swine. And I can just hear their evil cackles, like hyenas on crack, as they realised that, unlike the pathetic proles locked in their homes, they had almost certainly gotten away with THIS:
He should say: "I have contacted Durham police and suggested that they cease the investigation into Kier Starmer potentially breaking Covid laws. We need to move on from the pandemic now; in a positive and optimistic way and stop blaming each other and trying to score political points. No leader of a political party should feel obliged to resign from office due to the issuing of a fixed penalty notice".
The law should be amended though to remove these powers from the Police. Let the Courts act as judges, no the Police.
For The Greater Good.
Every other word at some points seems to be humble or humbled.
He really is the victim here.
Like 90% of the country, when I heard they had a "birthday party" for Boris, I was quite hacked off. Fucking wankers. And there I was walking around Richmond Park in the sleet wondering if I was allowed to sit on a bench with my single friend
But these photos do not, to put it mildly, reveal what I envisaged when I heard the phrase "birthday party". Especially one that had been "carefully planned and arranged". I expected music and party poppers and loads of booze and some champagne corks and the rest.
Instead, a glum PM munches his Tesco Value cous-cous, standing up. 2 metres away the Chancellor smiles as he LEANS ON A CHAIR. Tuna sandwiches wilt. The cheap orange juice goes undrunk. Risible
If there's an issue with the law (there is) fix the law, don't interfere in Police operations.