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From today's Mirror.

Social workers were warned during training sessions to refrain from asking dementia patients who the current Prime Minister is due to the high turnaround of leaders amid Tory turmoil

They are rumbling with disquiet again.

I'm not sure the budget is going to help these dismal ratings.

The same except with fewer Lib Dems.

Another pop, in absentia, at being deemed lightweight today. I don't suppose that is was ever in doubt but Sunak is focus-grouping amongst the soft-target Deplorables as a bit of a weed.

There are all flavours of potential racism bundled up in that. I guess that we take our wins, even if they are rather unpalatable.

According to Harry Cole when Rishi appeared on GB News he claimed his top priority was tackling the immigration crisis but then went on the BBC and said his top priority was tackling inflation. If it is true I suppose it shows that Rishi knows his audience.

House building targets have been removed by the backbench house prices brigade. Bozo was actually fairly good on this stuff, and had probably unique (within the Tory Party) clout to make it happen.

My MP, presumably, was a "rebel". Here's one of his distinguished contributions in the past.

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/1867 ... n-village/

"You can't have 9 homes in my village, maybe 1 would be OK."

Is it nimbyism, or is there some deep Thatcherite ideological objection that I've missed?

Nimbyism, or as it's otherwise known in some areas, the Lib Dems.

Sensible Rishi's government today talking about banning strikes by NHS workers. That's a winning recruitment and retention strategy. Or perhaps they're banned from getting other jobs.

I’m surprised he hasn’t come out with some tough shit like “who governs” but we know what happened last time.

He’s just as lightweight as every other, bored of this.

Sunak showing a decisive break with Johnsonian lying today, fresh from his earlier pulling fake figures out of his arse on public sector pay earlier in the week.

The asylum backlog has ballooned, with 143,377 people awaiting an initial decision on their application and unable to work. Downing Street insisted that the pledge related to 92,601 claims made before the nationality and borders bill came into force in June.

Insisted after the event after making it sound like the whole backlog would be cleared.

There was also a great bit where a Labour MP pointed out that the backlog had shot up under his government. His answer to this was that it was higher under Labour. As indeed it was, for a period before it was massively reduced. Bozo standard dishonesty.

Did I read behind the lines right.

It looks as though Rishi's looking to abolish modern slavery legislation.
I wonder what party he expects the modern slavers to support.

Rishi has said that he is going to set a quota for the number of asylum seekers who can enter the country each year. This seems wrong for two reasons firstly there is no way of predicting what might kick off internationally each year which could impact on people claiming asylum. In the last two years alone we have had the Afghanistan withdrawal and the conflict in Ukraine which has impacted on asylum cases and secondly if you do fix a quota for the year won't this encourage more people to try and come to the country earlier in the year in order to improve their chances of getting asylum. People trying to cross the channel in January and February would be taking an enormous risk.

satnav wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:48 pm People trying to cross the channel in January and February would be taking an enormous risk.

Exactly. Dead people can't claim asylum.

Plus, dead bodies means evil gangmasters and smugglers, if only they hadn't taken the risk, just goes to show, tough but fair in the long term, and all the rest of the favoured narrative.

Quota sounds very illegal to me. Wouldn't somebody else have done it? Why would we have given Rwanda £120m?

A tragedy waiting to happen

BBC News: People feared dead after migrant boat incident

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63968941

EDIT: please, please, do not even think about reading the BTL’s in the Mail

People have assumed for too long the Tories are political geniuses but the Nurse strike shows they are not. They are sticking to ideology when there is a get out with Covid.

The Express has even come out in support of the nurses.

A weak government can not win this battle not with so many if they stick to their red lines.

Fuck off Rishi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64006121

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has asked for an assessment of the progress of the war in Ukraine, BBC Newsnight has learnt.

Senior figures fear the PM may be taking an overly cautious approach as the war enters a key phase.

One Whitehall source likened the exercise to a "Goldman Sachs dashboard" examination of the war and how UK military supplies are used.

Downing Street insists that Mr Sunak is strongly supportive of Ukraine.

In a tweet, Mr Sunak said the UK was with Ukraine "all the way" during a visit to the country last month, his first overseas trip as prime minister.

A Downing Street source added that it was not true that Sunak was being overly cautious and that "the UK government's support for Ukraine is unwavering".

But the request has raised alarm bells in some corners of Whitehall as military chiefs say weapons supplies to Ukraine may prove decisive in the winter months ahead.

The Whitehall source said: "Wars aren't won [by dashboards]. Wars are won on instinct. At the start of this it was Boris (Johnson) sitting down and saying: 'Let's just go for this.' So Rishi needs to channel his inner Boris on foreign policy though not of course on anything else."

The source said the audit, known as a data-driven assessment, is designed to assess the progress of the war and the significance of the UK's military contributions to Ukraine. The source said: "This is about looking at what we have put in, what we have got out."