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Does this bloke actually know what’s going on inside his own government, let alone his own party
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What's happening then? Civil servants based in London do the jobs, yeah?

Ah. And yes, Davison is Dehenna, and she's the minister.

Davison explained that the "renewed and significant senior departmental capacity, combined with the progress of the English devolution agenda, means that we believe that we are best placed to deliver levelling up by working directly with Mayoral Combined Authorities, local government, and the devolved administrations".

Nice version of the old "too much of a perfectionist" line there. "We've done so well, these jobs aren't needed any more". Was this (no doubt) fantastic progress not planned when they announced (and spent a lot of time trying to recruit) the levelling up managers.

It sounds very much like this work will be done in London, by civil servants. As I keep saying, I wouldn't be surprised if a fair bit of the Darlington Treasury work gets done by people working from home, perhaps in the vicinity of London.

- How are the polls? Some of that Suella stuff might be putting off young people in the South East, I admit, but must be shifting the northern oiks back, right?
- Er, it's getting back to how it was before the local elections, Prime Minister.
-Excellent!
- Er...

Quite rightly, the Lords appointments people have said, no, Bozo can't effectively ennoble MPs years into the future. So in theory, there would be 3 by elections if they want to take their peerages. But I think the likelihood of this is being seriously overrated here. Sunak can override the recommendation, or give the people peerages himself later anyway. Perhaps he'd not like to do that with Dorries but Sharma and Nigel Adams are probably OK.

Is this cretin actually in the same galaxy as the rest of us, let alone the same country

Rishi Sunak cites cheap beer and sanitary products as benefits of Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... SApp_Other

I think Labour will be pretty relaxed about this positioning.

BBC News: Legal migration is too high, says Rishi Sunak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65643684

Am I missing something here?
If it’s legal, it’s, well, sort of permissible, so looks like he wants another fight with ECHR
I’m guessing “legal” means donors to the party, all Rishi’s hi-tech bro’s who he’ll invite over on the pretence that it’s driving out IT businesses forward; whereas doctors and nurses, who we really need, will take one look at all the hoops they will have to jump through, and think “Nah, I’ll get better terms in Germany”

That or he's realised following the Nat C conference that his base's issues with migration are rather more fundamental than the routes migrants took into the UK.

Speculating here.

How long before somebody follows the breadcrumb trail.
What are the odds that Rishi adjacent Infosys are coining it by sponsoring work visas for these immigrants.

The Problem Solver PM in action.

I know we’ve probably talked about this before, but I sometimes wonder whether I might be the only cunt in the whole of the UK who is completely unconcerned about immigration on any level. I regard immigration as, on balance, an overwhelming and unequivocal positive for this country - in Scotland, it is urgently essential. The more, the merrier, in my book. I actually would welcome the fictitious “open door” immigration policy that Labour in government was accused of operating.

Claims by the racists that immigration, both officially sanctioned and illicit, places intolerable pressure on local infrastructure and services, represent nothing other than a shockingly abject failure by government to carry out one of its most basic functions : the appropriate provision of the correct level of infrastructure and public services for the prevailing volumes of population in any given region at any given time. Where such pressure on services and infrastructure manifests itself, this is an open door for racists and xenophobes to insert and to spread their pernicious and poisonous credo. This was of course the case with UKIP/Farage at the time of the 2016 referendum, in which Farage dishonestly portrayed EU citizens exercising their treaty rights to live and work in another part of the EU, i.e. the UK, as a key element of the alleged immigration “problem”’ and of course, a key motivator for Farage to campaign, to deadly effect, for the UK to wrench itself away from EU membership. The truth is, of course, that EU citizens living and working in the UK were not technically “immigrants” at all. Most would return to their home state, either periodically or permanently, and would pay UK taxes to boot.

I also don’t see the supposed “small boats crisis” as any sort of crisis either, other than an urgent need to stop human beings risking their lives crossing the channel perilously and in desperation. We do that by ensuring that there are safe and legal routes for such people to arrive in the UK and lodge their claims for asylum. We do that by ensuring we have a system of processing asylum claims properly and in a timely fashion, without accumulating enormous backlogs of claims.In short, we deploy the correct resources in the correct way. In other words, everything that this government has deliberately chosen not to do.

In summary, the fault for all of the supposed problems around immigration can be laid squarely at the feet of this, Tory, government, and to an almost equal extent, the Farage/Ukip/Widdecombe/Tice axis of hatred.

Shame, shame, and shame again on all of them.

This may not boost the government's popularity very much.

Man arrested after car crashes into Downing Street gates

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65714508

I hope Larry is okay.

What do you mean, that this isn’t Barnard Castle?

Johnson has called Sunak’s bluff. This action makes me think whatever is in there is damaging to Sunak and/or possibly his allies, and that the ever-selfless Boris is going for a scorched earth policy of taking everyone down with him, probably on the assumption his relentless talent for bullshitting suckers will see him rebound faster. Here’s hoping what actually happens is they’re all finally destroyed by it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -whatsapps

That’s very plausible. If both of them are in it, I’d be much more confident in Bozo’s ability to laugh it off. Serious Problem Solver Sunak isn’t going to relish it.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:20 pm Johnson has called Sunak’s bluff. This action makes me think whatever is in there is damaging to Sunak and/or possibly his allies, and that the ever-selfless Boris is going for a scorched earth policy of taking everyone down with him, probably on the assumption his relentless talent for bullshitting suckers will see him rebound faster. Here’s hoping what actually happens is they’re all finally destroyed by it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -whatsapps

I'm looking forward to Dishonest Alexander going full Cody Jarrett*

* Villain played by James Cagney in White Heat who goes out in a blaze of glory.

Bozo didn't hand everything over at all, according to the Cabinet Office. Still, he looks better than Sunak in all this, and I'm not unhappy with that.