“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Been told by 2 sources Braverman didn't sign off accommodation, but Shapps did when he was Home Sec. Also told new immigration min Jenrick signed off on acc & overcrowding cld be resolved in week or so if not too many crossings. Told about 4k people in Manston when space for 1.5k https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587131605545525250
NEW: Sources tell me that Suella Braverman actively sought external legal advice on Manston after (they claim) she didn't like what the internal lawyers at Home Office were telling her re need to book hotels. They say she sought independent advice from Sir James Eadie KC 1/ https://twitter.com/AnushkaAsthana/status/1587131618665369602
I'll be leaving the site again until Leon is banned. Goodbye.
Your antipathy genuinely mystifies me - tho I confess it does not distress me - because I am consistently quite pleasant to you. Apart from one occasion when I might have teased you with an AI photo of what I claimed you looked like. It was a joke
And this despite you hurling out fairly continuous abuse to disparate commenters, often for no reason at all, as far as I can see
So why not hang around, and I will continue to be consistently quite emollient to you
Maybe it was the grotesquely offensive word you posted on the site yesterday? Just a thought.
EXC Suella Braverman facing further questions about her judgement - her officials demanded a 120-year-old magazine for solicitors remove a comment piece because they did not like what it said.
Sunak 41 37 Starmer on best PM Sunsk plus 10, Starmer plus 8 approvals
Are there gross figures or just net?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak receives a net approval rating of +10%, up 8 points from our poll last Thursday. Yesterday’s poll finds 29% approving of his overall job performance (+2), against 19% disapproving (-6).
Among 2019 Conservative voters, 44% (+2) approve of Rishi Sunak’s job performance as Prime Minister. Only 10% (-5) disapprove. His net approval rating with 2019 Conservative voters stands at +34%, up seven points since Thursday’s poll.
Labour leader Keir Starmer’s net approval rating stands at +8%, down five points from Thursday last week. 35% approve of Starmer’s job performance (-3), while 27% disapprove (+2).
Starmer down 5%? Don't anybody tell Mr Owls - or we'll never hear the end of it.....
Braverman tells HoC: "I have never ignored legal advice" this has been contradicted by two sources who tell me they think Home Sec did ignore advice & what happened at Manston likely to be subject to judicial review https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587131946471243778
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
"We also have a duty to the wider public to ensure that anyone who has entered our country illegally undergoes essential security checks, and is not immediately free to wander around local communities with no fixed abode,"
To paraphrase Peggy Lee, is that all there is to an explanation?
Braverman tells HoC: "I have never ignored legal advice" this has been contradicted by two sources who tell me they think Home Sec did ignore advice & what happened at Manston likely to be subject to judicial review https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587131946471243778
Lying to the House?
That committee will be busy all next year at this rate.
Sunak and the tories heading in the right direction.
Still, a very long way to go before depriving labour of a majority.
There is a long way to go but Rishi has made a positive start and is anyone really confident Starmer has sealed the deal with the public
Can I put my hand up and say absolutely yes - more confident with each new poll.
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Sunak and the tories heading in the right direction.
Still, a very long way to go before depriving labour of a majority.
There is a long way to go but Rishi has made a positive start and is anyone really confident Starmer has sealed the deal with the public
Can I put my hand up and say absolutely yes - more confident with each new poll.
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
I do not expect you to change your view but time will tell
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Why do the mods give you a pass time after time after time? I thought after yesterday's appalling post that would be it. But no, not even a new nom de plume...
Well that’s where you’re wrong
Ah well. The pics you crib off other people's IG accounts are nice though.
Why Thankyou. On that subject I had this today for the first time
Hakarl. Rotting fermented shark meat buried underground for 3 months to purge most of the urine
It is as disgusting as it sounds. In a lifetime of professionally sampling horrible exotic foods this went straight into the top ten
Have also been told by another govt source that Braverman "put a stop to" signing off certain accommodation, such as hotels in tourist areas, amid a backlash from local MPs and councillors who said such use would be inappropriate for their local economies https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587133831336939524
I'll be leaving the site again until Leon is banned. Goodbye.
Your antipathy genuinely mystifies me - tho I confess it does not distress me - because I am consistently quite pleasant to you. Apart from one occasion when I might have teased you with an AI photo of what I claimed you looked like. It was a joke
And this despite you hurling out fairly continuous abuse to disparate commenters, often for no reason at all, as far as I can see
So why not hang around, and I will continue to be consistently quite emollient to you
Maybe it was the grotesquely offensive word you posted on the site yesterday? Just a thought.
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Why do the mods give you a pass time after time after time? I thought after yesterday's appalling post that would be it. But no, not even a new nom de plume...
Well that’s where you’re wrong
Ah well. The pics you crib off other people's IG accounts are nice though.
Why Thankyou. On that subject I had this today for the first time
Hakarl. Rotting fermented shark meat buried underground for 3 months to purge most of the urine
It is as disgusting as it sounds. In a lifetime of professionally sampling horrible exotic foods this went straight into the top ten
Sunak and the tories heading in the right direction.
Still, a very long way to go before depriving labour of a majority.
There is a long way to go but Rishi has made a positive start and is anyone really confident Starmer has sealed the deal with the public
Can I put my hand up and say absolutely yes - more confident with each new poll.
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
I do not expect you to change your view but time will tell
Absolutely agree with you. Another three or four weeks of honeymoon polls herded at 25-28 and I will be proved right - that it’s long term scarring from Trussterfuck Sunak can’t turn around and get them back into 30s.
Sunak and the tories heading in the right direction.
Still, a very long way to go before depriving labour of a majority.
There is a long way to go but Rishi has made a positive start and is anyone really confident Starmer has sealed the deal with the public
Can I put my hand up and say absolutely yes - more confident with each new poll.
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
I’m less confident about that. I just don’t think we can meaningfully project the current polls forward into a likely trend, at this point in time.
Perfectly possible the tories head deep into the teens, or pull it back to become borderline-competitive with labour, going into the next election campaign.
I wouldn’t put it more likely than 50/50 that the tories will still be in the mid 20’s, this time next year.
In betting terms, I think there’s value in laying your certainty. If you get what I mean.
Is she breaking the Ministerial code live on TV right now?
Yep. We know she has ignored legal advice. We know that a stack of people can prove that she has. So she is basically daring them to try and remove her.
I'll be leaving the site again until Leon is banned. Goodbye.
Your antipathy genuinely mystifies me - tho I confess it does not distress me - because I am consistently quite pleasant to you. Apart from one occasion when I might have teased you with an AI photo of what I claimed you looked like. It was a joke
And this despite you hurling out fairly continuous abuse to disparate commenters, often for no reason at all, as far as I can see
So why not hang around, and I will continue to be consistently quite emollient to you
Maybe it was the grotesquely offensive word you posted on the site yesterday? Just a thought.
What did he say?
Think of a really really really bad word that stereotypically might be heard from the mouth of a Southern US Redneck
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Why do the mods give you a pass time after time after time? I thought after yesterday's appalling post that would be it. But no, not even a new nom de plume...
Well that’s where you’re wrong
Ah well. The pics you crib off other people's IG accounts are nice though.
Why Thankyou. On that subject I had this today for the first time
Hakarl. Rotting fermented shark meat buried underground for 3 months to purge most of the urine
It is as disgusting as it sounds. In a lifetime of professionally sampling horrible exotic foods this went straight into the top ten
Looks like a piece of fudge.
Which I suspect it is not like at all.
It’s the worst. The smell alone. Like a kind of fishy Chernobyl. You can smell it ten yards away. I am not joking
A couple of the racier guys on this press trip made outrageously offensive jokes. I shall not repeat
I'll be leaving the site again until Leon is banned. Goodbye.
Your antipathy genuinely mystifies me - tho I confess it does not distress me - because I am consistently quite pleasant to you. Apart from one occasion when I might have teased you with an AI photo of what I claimed you looked like. It was a joke
And this despite you hurling out fairly continuous abuse to disparate commenters, often for no reason at all, as far as I can see
So why not hang around, and I will continue to be consistently quite emollient to you
Maybe it was the grotesquely offensive word you posted on the site yesterday? Just a thought.
This directly contradicts conspiracy theories pushed by (and since deleted by) Twitter owner Elon Musk.
The weird thing is not just that people went out of their way to invent a story about Pelosi's husband having a gay lover, but why they would think it's relevant - if it had been true - to an attempted assassination of the Speaker of the House.
Because if hammer boi was an enraged boyfriend he was not a 4chan Nancy-assassin.
Sunak and the tories heading in the right direction.
Still, a very long way to go before depriving labour of a majority.
There is a long way to go but Rishi has made a positive start and is anyone really confident Starmer has sealed the deal with the public
Can I put my hand up and say absolutely yes - more confident with each new poll.
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
I suspect Mademoiselle Lapin that two factors are at play re the Tory vote The current small improvement is some that went on vote strike returning, that might get him to low 30s at best over the next few weeks. Then we have transferees. Labour picked up a lot of new voters over the flag hugging/conference and then Trusstastrophe. They arent going to leap back, minds change slowly then very slowly back if at all, they are a long term project into a GE.
Sunak and the tories heading in the right direction.
Still, a very long way to go before depriving labour of a majority.
There is a long way to go but Rishi has made a positive start and is anyone really confident Starmer has sealed the deal with the public
Can I put my hand up and say absolutely yes - more confident with each new poll.
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
I do not expect you to change your view but time will tell
Absolutely agree with you. Another three or four weeks of honeymoon polls herded at 25-28 and I will be proved right - that it’s long term scarring from Trussterfuck Sunak can’t turn around and get them back into 30s.
Well, those are the two options laid out quite clearly. Let's see what happens once Sunak actually starts to do things.
Defiant from Suella Braverman: "There are some people who would prefer to be rid of me - let them try. I know that I speak for the decent, law-abiding, patriotic majority of British people from every background that want safe and secure borders." https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
Defiant from Suella Braverman: "There are some people who would prefer to be rid of me - let them try. I know that I speak for the decent, law-abiding, patriotic majority of British people from every background that want safe and secure borders." https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Why do the mods give you a pass time after time after time? I thought after yesterday's appalling post that would be it. But no, not even a new nom de plume...
Well that’s where you’re wrong
Ah well. The pics you crib off other people's IG accounts are nice though.
Why Thankyou. On that subject I had this today for the first time
Hakarl. Rotting fermented shark meat buried underground for 3 months to purge most of the urine
It is as disgusting as it sounds. In a lifetime of professionally sampling horrible exotic foods this went straight into the top ten
Mine eyes dazzle. I've never seen so many brightly coloured anoraks.
Tory MP Sir Roger Gale tells Home Secretary she is responsible for crisis.
"That facility operated fantastically until 5 weeks ago. Until the Home Secretary took the policy decision not to commission further accommodation. And it is that that has led to the crisis at Manston." https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1587135671860449281
Big show of support from Tory MPs and cabinet members
She's just said that taxpayers are funding 35,000 migrants in hotels already - can this be right? That's the population of a decent-sized town.
I have no idea of the numbers but I know of two large hotel/events venues within a few miles of me that have been closed down as they are now being used as accommodation centres, each holding around 100 refugees. Though they are for Afghan refugees who were pulled out as the British left because of their connection with British forces. I suspect that if you start adding up all the different refugees/asylum seekers who we need to accommodate you will quickly reach that 35,000 number.
Though again it would depend on definition. I would expect that those who are clearly going to be granted asylum or have already been granted such - the Afghans being a good example - would not need secure accommodation and so would be ideal for being housed in hotels and other places around the country until permanent housing can be sorted out.
A few people who have lost wedding bookings etc have been understandably upset but the local community has stepped up to the mark well, arranging aid packages and such like to help out the refugees. There certainly doesn't seem to be any antipathy towards them.
No idea how you undertake opinion polling in Russia. Still less, how do you do anything to take action on it. But interesting slide away from Putin nonetheless.
"Latest Levada opinion poll on public mood in Russia:
October 36% want to “continue military operations” in Ukraine 57% want to “begin peace talks”
September 44% for continuing the offensive 48% for starting peace talks"
I don't think or pretend they are all refugees in distress. But I think acting as if none of them are is disproportionate and cruel on those which are.
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Why do the mods give you a pass time after time after time? I thought after yesterday's appalling post that would be it. But no, not even a new nom de plume...
Well that’s where you’re wrong
You just take the piss out the site but if that's OK with the owners I guess you can do what you like. I'm off. Bye all.
Defiant from Suella Braverman: "There are some people who would prefer to be rid of me - let them try. I know that I speak for the decent, law-abiding, patriotic majority of British people from every background that want safe and secure borders." https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
Did I miss the explanation of how that aim is furthered by cramming about three times as many people into the facility as it was designed for? Or keeping them there for a month rather than 24 hours?
Mind you, to be fair, those were Afghans, so I must admit she has a point in that case. Why don't they just go home, stop whingeing and get on with it? Bloody immigrants. But oh - wait ...
Defiant from Suella Braverman: "There are some people who would prefer to be rid of me - let them try. I know that I speak for the decent, law-abiding, patriotic majority of British people from every background that want safe and secure borders." https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
Quickly edited from "secure messaging services" after the local yoga teacher spotted a typo.
Braverman's culture war trilogy is complete 1. "The Labour Party will try to stop us. The Lib Dems will go bananas. The Guardian will have a meltdown. As for the lawyers, don’t get me started." 2. "The Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati." 3. https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
Big show of support from Tory MPs and cabinet members
She's just said that taxpayers are funding 35,000 migrants in hotels already - can this be right? That's the population of a decent-sized town.
We are apparently paying £7m a DAY to house these people in Premier Inns, so that seems perfectly possible
£7m divided by 35,000 = £200 a day
That’s room plus food and essentials and security etc. Makes total sense
Thats what happens if you stop funding the courts......all entirely predictable and a failure of the Home Secretary and her equally authoritarian predecessors. All chasing press headlines with no care about if the system works or not. Indeed fixing the problem, would give the Home Secretaries less visibility with the press.
“EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained, leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved - as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases”
Why do the mods give you a pass time after time after time? I thought after yesterday's appalling post that would be it. But no, not even a new nom de plume...
Well that’s where you’re wrong
Ah well. The pics you crib off other people's IG accounts are nice though.
Why Thankyou. On that subject I had this today for the first time
Hakarl. Rotting fermented shark meat buried underground for 3 months to purge most of the urine
It is as disgusting as it sounds. In a lifetime of professionally sampling horrible exotic foods this went straight into the top ten
Mine eyes dazzle. I've never seen so many brightly coloured anoraks.
You must be a birder. As far as we are concerned, they only come in one colour. Green.
Big show of support from Tory MPs and cabinet members
She's just said that taxpayers are funding 35,000 migrants in hotels already - can this be right? That's the population of a decent-sized town.
We are apparently paying £7m a DAY to house these people in Premier Inns, so that seems perfectly possible
£7m divided by 35,000 = £200 a day
That’s room plus food and essentials and security etc. Makes total sense
Thats what happens if you stop funding the courts......all entirely predictable and a failure of the Home Secretary and her equally authoritarian predecessors. All chasing press headlines with no care about if the system works or not. Indeed fixing the problem, would give the Home Secretaries less visibility with the press.
Very counter productive cuts, and in fairness some of it goes righ tback to the coalition days.
You know your political position is weak when you are trying to excuse your incompetence by arguing you are at least trying, and it upsets your enemies that you are incompetent.
There must be a point where appointing a stream of Home Secretaries who constantly bang on about channel migrants becomes an electoral liability for the Tories because all their bluster is achieving is to highlight that it's still happening on their watch. I don't know what the solution is, but I suspect it involves bunging France a vast wad of cash to make the problem go away, and that's best done quietly, behind the scenes.
Big show of support from Tory MPs and cabinet members
She's just said that taxpayers are funding 35,000 migrants in hotels already - can this be right? That's the population of a decent-sized town.
We are apparently paying £7m a DAY to house these people in Premier Inns, so that seems perfectly possible
£7m divided by 35,000 = £200 a day
That’s room plus food and essentials and security etc. Makes total sense
Thats what happens if you stop funding the courts......all entirely predictable and a failure of the Home Secretary and her equally authoritarian predecessors. All chasing press headlines with no care about if the system works or not. Indeed fixing the problem, would give the Home Secretaries less visibility with the press.
Not sure that is the case. How many of those are already accepted as successful asylum claimants - like the Afghans I mentioned earlier - but we just don't yet have any permanent homes for them. According to the British Government, as of August, we had accepted 21,000 Afghans as legitimate refugees in the aftermath of our withdrawal almost all because of their association with British forces.
I've never seen a new govt swallow the civil service line so quickly.
As I suspected, Rishi is the blob's dream come true. No obvious willingness to do anything vaguely novel or controversial.
In case you didn’t notice, the disrupters just had a go at the whole disrupty thingy and it all went to shit quicker than anyone could have imagined.
No alarms and no surprises, please.
Because some very nasty vested interests that have metastasised within the system didn't like being disrupted, yes. Didn't mean such a process was not worthwhile - perhaps even vital.
I think the major economic challenges, invasion of Ukraine, energy crisis, illegal immigration issue and others are big issues that make predicting next election extremely difficult. It is far too simplistic to assume that the Tories will inevitably get it in the neck at the next election. Take illegal immigration. I think this is brewing up. All over the country hotels are being filled. Some are landmark buildings. You couldn't invent a better way of causing public disquiet. Problem for Labour is they will be seen as worse than the Tories on this issue and can only gain if Reform or similar pick up Tory votes. On the economy if people are worried that will take precedence over any motivation to punish the Tories in my opinion. If Sunak and Hunt can look more competent or less risky than Labour then a lot of votes will swing back. As a minimum LP would have to have a very pared back programme on expenditure, but will they? A lot of votes are soft I think outside the hardcore 20% for each party.
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So at least we know he lurks, from time to time
Anyway on the more substantive topic. ALIENS. That is an intriguing leak from the Daily Mail
"The IRIS-T air defense system provided by #Germany earlier this month worked with 100% success today.
This was announced by the speaker of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine Yuriy Ignat."
Let that be a lesson to you all.
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587131605545525250
NEW: Sources tell me that Suella Braverman actively sought external legal advice on Manston after (they claim) she didn't like what the internal lawyers at Home Office were telling her re need to book hotels. They say she sought independent advice from Sir James Eadie KC 1/
https://twitter.com/AnushkaAsthana/status/1587131618665369602
https://twitter.com/hoffman_noa/status/1587131706988953604
Is she breaking the Ministerial code live on TV right now?
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587131946471243778
To paraphrase Peggy Lee, is that all there is to an explanation?
She adds: "I've never ignored legal advice. As a former AG I know the importance of taking legal advice into account."
Multiple govt sources claim otherwise.
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1587132435204014083
goodbye...
goodbye...
That committee will be busy all next year at this rate.
Happy days
Can you not see how under Sunak the Tory share is firming up around 26 or 27%?
And if you can see it, do you think they improve from there once honeymoon is over?
Before the Starmergasm Truss had a new leader bounce, well uptick about same as Rishi’s. she had consistent 35’s with Techne and 34 from Opinium with Labour just 5 ahead. Getting rid of Truss it’s not bounced back to Boris polling in this honeymoon period.
These Sunak honeymoon polls are more remarkable than the Starmergasm drop, in how so many voters just arn’t coming back despite removal of Truss, her budget and economic philosophy.
What Sunak’s honeymoon polls so far tell us is Tory drop into the mid 20s now looks long term thing.
And she speaks quickly.
Why Thankyou. On that subject I had this today for the first time
Hakarl. Rotting fermented shark meat buried underground for 3 months to purge most of the urine
It is as disgusting as it sounds. In a lifetime of professionally sampling horrible exotic foods this went straight into the top ten
https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/1587133811606917122
Have also been told by another govt source that Braverman "put a stop to" signing off certain accommodation, such as hotels in tourist areas, amid a backlash from local MPs and councillors who said such use would be inappropriate for their local economies
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1587133831336939524
Which I suspect it is not like at all.
£7m divided by 35,000 = £200 a day
That’s room plus food and essentials and security etc. Makes total sense
Perfectly possible the tories head deep into the teens, or pull it back to become borderline-competitive with labour, going into the next election campaign.
I wouldn’t put it more likely than 50/50 that the tories will still be in the mid 20’s, this time next year.
In betting terms, I think there’s value in laying your certainty. If you get what I mean.
A couple of the racier guys on this press trip made outrageously offensive jokes. I shall not repeat
The current small improvement is some that went on vote strike returning, that might get him to low 30s at best over the next few weeks.
Then we have transferees. Labour picked up a lot of new voters over the flag hugging/conference and then Trusstastrophe. They arent going to leap back, minds change slowly then very slowly back if at all, they are a long term project into a GE.
https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
https://twitter.com/AnushkaAsthana/status/1587134826406182912
Just ignore him if you don’t like him or his posts.
It’s easy enough to do.
'The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast and which party is not
'Let's stop pretending they are all refugees in distress'
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1587135433774796800
Her ambition is to cling on, dragging the Sunak project under the waves.
"That facility operated fantastically until 5 weeks ago. Until the Home Secretary took the policy decision not to commission further accommodation. And it is that that has led to the crisis at Manston."
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1587135671860449281
She uses the opportunity to warn that Britain faces an "invasion of our southern coast" by asylum seekers
Unbelievable.
https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1587135370151477248
These are unconvincing figures for Starmer, VI is unlikely imo to stall where it is if these figures continue
At least these vulnerable people are not being stuck in Travelodges..
And he won't
Just mention, “Butwhataboutthecurry”.
Starmer hasn't had a chance to get anything done, whereas Sunak clearly has "done" somethings.
As I suspected, Rishi is the blob's dream come true. No obvious willingness to do anything vaguely novel or controversial.
Though again it would depend on definition. I would expect that those who are clearly going to be granted asylum or have already been granted such - the Afghans being a good example - would not need secure accommodation and so would be ideal for being housed in hotels and other places around the country until permanent housing can be sorted out.
A few people who have lost wedding bookings etc have been understandably upset but the local community has stepped up to the mark well, arranging aid packages and such like to help out the refugees. There certainly doesn't seem to be any antipathy towards them.
"Latest Levada opinion poll on public mood in Russia:
October
36% want to “continue military operations” in Ukraine
57% want to “begin peace talks”
September
44% for continuing the offensive
48% for starting peace talks"
https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1586333785259671553
I guess it was just another lie.
Mind you, to be fair, those were Afghans, so I must admit she has a point in that case. Why don't they just go home, stop whingeing and get on with it? Bloody immigrants. But oh - wait ...
1. "The Labour Party will try to stop us. The Lib Dems will go bananas. The Guardian will have a meltdown. As for the lawyers, don’t get me started."
2. "The Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati."
3. https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1587134986913718274
No alarms and no surprises, please.
Sunderland have banned away fans from bringing coins and vapes into the Stadium of Light.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63456664
All it needs to say is
"Dear Graham, I have no confidence in Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative party. Kind regards, [Forename] [Surname], MP for [Constituency]".
Can confirm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58245684
Probably a good thing, as what we did hear was total shite.
Mortimer’s point is not to be dismissed out of hand.