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Raynergate isn’t cutting through – politicalbetting.com
Raynergate isn’t cutting through – politicalbetting.com
Only 25% of Britons say they are following the Angela Rayner stories 'very' or 'fairly' closely – one of the lowest figures for our tracker of news topicshttps://t.co/AyaHTL0DhC pic.twitter.com/eVcAjYCAH0
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68853672
We discussed this a couple of days ago when I reported the quote was missing from the Kindle edition. As surmised, the publisher had removed it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/19/fourteen-years-of-tory-rule-have-left-britain-a-lazy-mess/ (£££)
As Rishi seeks to address Britain's post-Covid sick note (now renamed fit note something something 1984) culture, his government proposes to extend state control of people's, or children's, lives with bans on smoking, smacking and smartphones. Not exactly small state, however meritorious those measures.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/19/pupils-mugged-ghost-town-streets-created-by-ltn-says-head/ (£££)
In an LTN double-whammy, buses can be delayed by more than an hour and there are no potential witnesses deterring crime on empty streets.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/policy/health/64510/is-britain-sicker-than-a-decade-ago
It's quite cold out there...
His former agent has already provided the details. And has been quoted extensively in the national media.
Or haven't you been "following closely" ?
"Russel Bentley, an American who joined russia in fighting Ukraine was beaten to death in the occupied Donetsk. Apparently, someone heard his accent & took him for a spy.
A useful idiot died idiotically."
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1781510644950335831
and:
" American war correspondent, Russell Bentley from Texas, USA has sadly passed away in Donetsk.
A man who dedicated a decade of his life to exposing the crimes of the ukraine to the world. A hero to the Donetsk's People's Republic.
Rest in peace."
https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1781469312005337528
Here's the graph:
Neat illustration of facts vs truth, there.
If people want to argue than Austerity kills babies, fair enough, but they would do well to come up with something better than that. Otherwise it looks like a premise masquerading as a conclusion.
(A quick scroll through the author's twitter accounts shows, quelle suprise, they are Corbynites.)
Now I see it and I'm really sorry. By having a heart attack I have let my country down. More importantly, I have let Rishi Sunak down
@tompeck
If you were going to do a comedy musical about the last fourteen years of Conservative government, what better ending could you hope for than the prime minister giving a big speech out of nowhere, to tell everyone that they’re not really depressed?
@Parody_PM
"Some vulnerable people will become destitute, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
Last time I looked he was 11/10. (Bet365)
Then I remembered it's the World Snooker Championship and Judd Trump is around the 5/1 mark.
Mind you, one would have thought the Fylde branch of the Conservative Party would be pretty enraged by Mr Menzies's behaviour in relation to the misuse of Party funds.
BJO fans please explain.
https://twitter.com/BarbaraSutton15/status/1781204035233517578
A good question, even if a bad source.
Admittedly, four months off by the utter Case probably improved the efficiency of the government.
"Ukraine drone strike kills two in Russia's Belgorod region"
https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2024/0420/1444643-ukraine-russia/
Also, from the write-up, you wouldn't know anything at all about Ukraine's targeting of Russian airbases, or long-range radar systems, etc. It creates the impression that Ukraine is deliberating targeting only Russian civilian targets.
And yes.
Also the context is that things are getting worse for specific communities (where large numbers of these claimants are), even when things are improving for other demographics. To quote from the article:
"In the past decade, life expectancy and infant mortality rates in the UK have alarmed observers. Both had been steadily improving, with some fluctuations, until 2012—when life expectancy improvements stalled before stopping completely. From 2014 to 2015 infant mortality rates increased. When analysed by ethnicity and deprivation, these numbers are even more concerning. Life expectancy has fallen for women living in the 10 per cent most deprived areas. Regional inequalities have also widened. Those living in the northeast of England now have an average life expectancy five years lower than people in London."
Prof Marmot has written extensively on these issues for decades, and wrote both the 2010 public health report for the Brown government and its 10 year follow up. To dismiss him as Corbynite is just lazy. If you want to tackle disability and its health effects we could do with updating and implementing his 2010 plan.
https://www.local.gov.uk/marmot-review-report-fair-society-healthy-lives
Sunak clearly doesn't understand or like poor people. I am reminded of his teenage interview where he implied he hadn't really met any "working class" people.
In the early days of his premiership Sunak came across as "decent" after the excesses of Johnson and Truss. These days he comes across as vain, entitled, petty and nasty.
His scorn isn't merely for scroungers. Each week one can tell in his voice the utter contempt he has for working class social-climber made good, Starmer. Same goes for Rayner, a peasant in Rishi's world who clearly doesn't know her place.
Sunak clearly despises the jeering mob opposite, then again he must detest a good bunch of the oiks behind him.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/simon-cases-covid-inquiry-appearance-date-confirmed#:~:text=Simon Case will give evidence,May, it has been confirmed.
Do have to laugh. "The police must investigate" was bad enough when all they were doing was laying themselves open to everyone reopening all heir financial shenanigans. And now we find out about the latest serious scandal - the party knew about it whilst whipping up Raynergate and did nothing, And of course think there should be no police investigation.
Immoral. Hypocritical. Openly Corrupt. Vote Conservative.
First is that he's our first truly meritocratic Prime Minister (in the bad sense). Even Maggie had a bit of understanding of the duty of the rich to do reasonably by the poor. Methodism will do that to a gal.
Second is the unimaginability of the size of Sunak's pile of dosh. Even people who are very well off (normal bankers, say) are poor compared to the Sunaks. Goodness only knows what he makes of people making a living on a normal public sector professional salary. Probably thinks it serves them right for not doing maths and going to work for a hedge fund.
It would have been interesting to get his continuing commentary on AI.
"Bloody scroungers. If only the vast majority of people in this country weren't woke lefties and accepted that every disabled person is a liar then the Tories would be on for a majority of 704."
Omnisis/WeThink10-11.4.24Rejoin/Stay Out62/38
Brexiteerism is a dying movement married to the declining boomer segment. Rejoin enjoud huge majorities in the under 60 year olds. Labour is making a huge error if it remains so rigid on the eu. Everybody i talk to is betting that this brexit kabuki theater from labour is just electoral strategy and will fall away.... it better or labour support will drop like a rock in government.
Has anyone tried claiming that and actually had it paid to them?
Given the people who are disabled and have their applications refused I would be extremely surprised if anyone ever received a penny for sleep apnea - not least because it can be treated with CPAP.
But, of course, a tiktoker said it, so it must be true.
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-blames-shoplifters-charter-for-surge-in-retail-crime-13118957
Labour chases the law & order vote!
The video is fraudulent.
People need to be a bit more critical of the bollocks they read and watch online.
After all is that any more or less facile than the terminally unfunny John Crace wilfully misrepresenting, ‘ Now I see it and I'm really sorry. By having a heart attack I have let my country down. More importantly, I have let Rishi Sunak down’.
Nothing will happen. Nothing will change. It’s just froth for the election.
Does anyone have some actual data on the breakdown of the conditions for which people are off sick?
I think someone's taking the piss.
Have you no self-respect?
It's this sort of crap that helps politicians like get away with rubbish like pretending the state finances can be fixed by cutting down on welfare fraud.
Character isn't always destiny, but it can be a decent pointer. And Liz Truss was just too flaky, too impatient, too incapable of getting consent first, to be an effective PM.
Sunak is also bad, but in slow motion. And not humble enough to realise that his allocated role was to stem the worst of the bleeding and then get the hell out in May 2023.
“Now I see it and I'm really sorry. By having a heart attack I have let my country down. More importantly, I have let Rishi Sunak down”
What would the continuation of her government achieved? The big problem with Sunak is that he stands for nothing and achieves less. Would the neutered Truss have been any better?
Given another term in government, I think it might have been a pretty radical change.
Young's 2001 article provides a summary here, but he certainly did not mean Meritocracy as an unqualified good. Indeed his concept was meant as a warning, and a warning of Sunakism even.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Sunak appears to stand for nothing except managing the decline, and he’s as popular as he deserves to be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68851004
..The BBC did not initially name Ms Fieldhouse but she has now agreed to be named and speak publicly for the first time.
Ms Fieldhouse told the BBC she raised her concerns with the Conservative Chief Whip Simon Hart after discussing money with Mr Menzies again.
Although the Conservative Party started an investigation, Ms Fieldhouse said she was left "appalled" by the inaction.
The Times reported that the scandal was reported to the Mr Hart back in January. Since her report "nothing happened" Ms Fieldhouse said.
"I put my faith completely in the party," but the "party has let me down," she told the BBC.
She said: "I am not having this brushed under the carpet...
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2023
I'm sure they have some numbers on what people are claiming the benefits for. UK government data releases are quite good overall.
He has also said this will be brought in if they win the election. It’s just desperation.