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Tim Montgomerie is right about this Sunak Tweet – politicalbetting.com
Tim Montgomerie is right about this Sunak Tweet – politicalbetting.com
When you get the CONHome founder, Tim Montgomerie, raising concerns about a Tory PM’s Tweet then Number 10 should take this seriously. This is unbecoming for a PM.
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Go back to June 2017 which was the last proper General Election and it resulted in a hung parliament. Then see how those who voted Conservative in 2017 are now saying they will vote.
That's the real litmus.
In many ways, December 2019 was not a General Election, at least not a true or accurate one. Punters be warned!
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Did he post anything which clarified this issue?
Deadline to pay voluntary National Insurance (NI) Contributions to increase State Pension extended: New regulations extend the deadline for paying voluntary class 3 NI contributions for the period 2006 to 2016, and for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 tax years. The deadline had already been extended to 31 July 2023 and will now be 5 April 2025.
Sunak is becoming a nasty piece of work. I thought he was just tolerating Braverman out of weakness, but he actually seems to believe this crap.
But it doesn't take the place of achievement entirely. Tough talk and nastiness can just look pathetic if it is cover for failure.
Plus there's the spiral effect - go down this road and we're America before you know it.
For the previous eternity* it seems the immigration debate was entirely about how the Gov't was trying everything it could but running into stuff such as ... the law. Well now they've found those that should be providing a service within the system (Access to legal advice on immigration matters) are not simply providing legal advice to those who need it but ACTIVELY sabotaging the process. I have no idea how widespread this abuse is amongst immigration solicitors, but I think the penalties should probably go beyond disbarring by the SRA for it - it is effectively perverting the course of justice in immigration matters and should be dealt with as the courts would deal with any other perversion of the course of justice with the aggravating factor that solicitors are there to ensure fair process within the justice system.
If Starmer wants to make a truly effective statement to counter Sunak's below the belt gloves off tweet series on all this he would be making the point that simply barring these solicitors via the SRA does not go nearly far enough.
Blimey!!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/backlash-over-labour-ad-claiming-29651952.amp
On this issue at least he's as hard right as they come.
Even the most charitable interpretation isn't that pleasing a prospect.
It's his gimmick, but it's as overdone as Rees-Mogg's faux patrician act - a kernel of truth, overblown to absurdity.
The Tories are aiming to be The Nasty Party again, and are going to get the beating that they deserve. I think they will do well to keep 150 seats, and sub 100 is very possible.
Have the usual suspects been rending their garments the way they did over those Sunak posters from Labour?
The chief executive of NatWest was tonight facing pressure from Downing Street, the chancellor and other senior cabinet ministers to resign after admitting she leaked private information about Nigel Farage’s finances to the BBC.
Dame Alison Rose said she made a “serious error of judgment” by having a conversation about Farage’s banking arrangements with Simon Jack, the BBC’s business editor, at a charity dinner.
Rose denied revealing any “personal financial information”, instead claiming that she inadvertently left the BBC reporter with the impression that Farage did not meet Coutts’s wealth threshold.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/natwest-ceo-alison-rose-coutts-nigel-farage-row-2023-x8b66hckn
The deeper question is who is the authentic Rishi Sunak anyway? There are plenty of decent people who are politically right of centre, even now. It was the tension at the heart of TMay's "Nasty Party" speech. But one reading of Sunak's statements and actions is that he sees himself as a self made man, entitled to worship his creator, slightly puzzled that we all haven't just set up hedge funds if we want to be wealthy.
Way to make Farage sympathetic, bankers.
Back when I lived with someone doing that job, the stories were of how far people would bend the rules. And break them.
The classic of the genre was the violently homophobic guy told to pretend he was gay.
Even in 1997 Major authorised a poster with Blair with demon eyes, remember 'New Labour, New Danger' even if he vetoed a PPB of Blair making a pact with the Devil.
Major was nice enough to ordinary people but could be as ruthless with his political opponents as any successful politician!
Professor James Calder, an orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in foot and ankle injuries, says he was delighted that his fears proved unfounded, and paid tribute to Bairstow’s determination and rehabilitation in being able to return for the Ashes.
The 33-year-old suffered a freak injury after slipping on a golf course last September. He missed out on a lucrative Indian Premier League deal as a result but confounded many expectations by making England’s squad for the Test series against Australia, scoring a notable 99 not out at Old Trafford last week.
“I had severe reservations that he was going to play in the Ashes and even whether the injury was compatible with playing professional cricket,” Calder said. “He was adamant I was wrong and was destined to prove me wrong.
“He had a severe lower-leg fracture dislocation. Multiple bones were broken in his leg and his ankle as well as ligaments, and it was like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. He had to have plates, pins, keyhole surgery and ligament stabilisation.
“I was worried about whether he was actually going to get back to playing, and then we needed every single stage of the recovery to be on the time mark to make it back for the Ashes.
“I thought it would be a nine-month or 12-month recovery but my concern was whether he was going to get the strength back, the range back, the coordination back, and whether you keep everything else in his body up to speed so he could actually play cricket.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jonny-bairstows-surgeon-feared-england-star-would-never-play-again-8rh20wsp0
He has just forgotten all those people when he sold his soul.
When Michael Howard was Home Sec, he caused a fuss by stopping one wizard wheeze. The lawyer would claim to the court that, say, West Germany was a death sentence for immigrants. This would require a report to be written that West Germany was in fact, a liberal democracy. Each time the claim was made, a new report had to be written. Time…. It took months to create the reports.
Howard pissed on the chips by changing the rules to say that reports on countries could be used for multiple cases.
The moral justification used for the fiddles was that *all* immigration restrictions are immoral, therefore any action is fair game.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-lawmakers-approve-effective-2035-ban-new-fossil-fuel-cars-2023-02-14/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/267c16ca-2008-11ee-8078-28a1c749945a?shareToken=a2fe4f9095d7f14100e6c43574acd106
Is today's Tweet/X a dry run?
Everyone who knew anything was predicting a hung Parliament.
Those aren't much different figures to the final opinion polls.
PP/Vox on the cusp of a majority.
And a serious miss on the PSOE vote strength, just like the rest.
I did suggest 2019was the Brexit election but it seems 2024 may well be the climate change one
https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1683945762902749186?t=PW5NNZqzqr7lpqb1OMAhKQ&s=19
I do think the Tories need to decide though, as they didn't in 1997.
Either Starmer is an existential threat to your way of life. Or he's a boring Centrist who won't change anything at all, so no point voting for him.
He can't be both, as they attempted to paint Blair as.
Seems like they're going for the former.
But, being marginally less wrong than the others is only a relative success.
Sensible folk will tune out.
Maybe we need to accept that Uxbridge could well be a seminal point in the battle for votes, and certainly it has opened a new front on the costs and practicality of net zero, not so much for 2050 but definitely for 2030
Just booked a ticket to see Oppenheimer tomorrow night. Cinema already half-booked despite it being a Wednesday.
It’s hard to work out why, tho. As a comedy it’s not that funny. It has moments. As a drama it isn’t that dramatic
But it has highly likeable characters, a simple yet compelling story, truly great acting, and a weirdly good soundtrack (the Durutti Column? Really??)
8.7/10
It’s going to be interesting, if the next government wants to be more EU aligned.
Is rowing back on the green agenda whilst the Greek Islands burn perfect timing?
It's desperation.
Nowt surprises me anymore about this instinctively Trotskyite regime.
Dull vs Dull.
That said after Uxbridge I am expecting much, much closer polls for the next couple of months. You are right Rishi played a blinder on Thursday and the hapless Starmer lost big, but does this issue have legs?
If David Cameron hadn't "cut the green crap" from 2013 onwards, then over the past year…
💷UK energy bills would have been £9.8bn lower
🚢UK net gas imports would have been 23% lower
❤️🔥UK gas demand overall would have been 9% lower
https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1683766407618600961
The Tories are doomed, and rightly so.
I might go and watch it again at a normal cinema.
A big enough swing to put Starmer in number 10 even under optimum anti-green circumstances.