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- Go and find me some other polls.

- Are you sure, Prime Minister?

- Well, at least I've still got the eeconomy. Our revised figures closed the gap with the foreigners, right?

- Indeed they did, Prime Minister. Indeed they did.

This'll show that Sir Flip Flop.

You flip-flop. I make considered decisions as new evidence comes to light.

Like polling numbers.

And threats from newspaper editors.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 3:56 pm - Well, at least I've still got the eeconomy. Our revised figures closed the gap with the foreigners, right?

- Indeed they did, Prime Minister. Indeed they did.

You may recall one of the two sectors delivering the UK growth figures was health care

Record rise in people using private healthcare amid NHS frustration

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... rustration

Stealing Liz Truss policies now.

I think Sunak’s wheeze to water down net zero has backfired like one of the cars he has now decided he wants not to scrap. A lot of his own party are dead against it, a lot of the country are dead against it, and those who’d be all for it are very likely already die hard Tory voters. He’s read a very specific result (Uxbridge by-election ULEZ protest) and assumed it will both apply nationally and can be extrapolated to anything vaguely describable as a green policy. Which shows you how desperate they are for *anything* to put forward as an offering, and how clueless they are in that that offering isn’t something aspirational or groundbreaking but literally ‘inaction for longer’.

Labour should use that as an attack line, in fact - all Sunak has to ‘offer’ is taking more time to do less.

Once again illustrating how utterly talentless and bereft of imagination the Brexiters are.

He’s read a very specific result (Uxbridge by-election ULEZ protest) and assumed it will both apply nationally and can be extrapolated to anything vaguely describable as a green policy.

See also government whining at the 20mph speed limit proposals in Wales, they’re already common in English urban areas without opposition. Sunak’s wants to get in with the lads over a pint and just looks a dweeby dickhead.

And this is damning when you consider the long history of Ford sticking by their commitments in this country. Even in the worst of times Ford hasn’t stuck their oar into government’s under pressure.

Time to open a state subsidised Brexit Trabant factory to churn a new generation of diesel cars. Perhaps Lord John Mann and Larry Elliot could sit on the board.

Sounds like Rishi didn’t tell the Cabinet yesterday.

Party of business, latest.

Jackie Doyle-Price inadvertently coughing to what a freeport is. If freeports were about levelling up, there'd not be a freeport here- the area has enough advantages already, even if it's historically been a poorer part of the South East.

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High than ever subsidy shakedowns needed to persuade car manufacturers to stay and the Tories still manage to find a new policy to fuck up.

Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:13 pm High than ever subsidy shakedowns needed to persuade car manufacturers to stay and the Tories still manage to find a new policy to fuck up.

Did you mention fucking up?

Here's the actual Secretary of State for Industry, "Car manufacturers are bullshitters", says straight talking Kemi. Whose heavyweight IT career apparently didn't take in "Don't write anything in a message that you wouldn't like to see on the front of FT", Or the left Sun on Sunday in this case.

Hadn't seen this. Spectacularly shit. Rishi, standing up bravely against short termism, and, er, leaks?!

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:35 pm

Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:13 pm High than ever subsidy shakedowns needed to persuade car manufacturers to stay and the Tories still manage to find a new policy to fuck up.

Did you mention fucking up?

Here's the actual Secretary of State for Industry, "Car manufacturers are bullshitters", says straight talking Kemi. Whose heavyweight IT career apparently didn't take in "Don't write anything in a message that you wouldn't like to see on the front of FT", Or the left Sun on Sunday in this case.

Does Kemi think Ford are angling for a multi billion Pound subsidy to open a new petrol car manufacturing plant? She gets confused.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:58 pm Hadn't seen this. Spectacularly shit. Rishi, standing up bravely against short termism, and, er, leaks?!

Tinned eared Rishi thought he was getting in with the lads but Tory MPs detect their voters are thinking more about the world they’re leaving the grandchildren than chuckling at Jeremy Clarkson churning up the Peak District in his 4X4.