[RedSparrows]

Yeah pathetic. If I got him one with “End Rough Sleeping”, would they do that?

Imagine actually Looking After Our Own, ey readers.

[mattomac]

The whole thing looked really pathetic.

Lectern was about 2 sizes too big, the slogan on the front was awful both in font and just looked tacky.

Whole thing looked like a washed up idea delivered by a washed up government.

[Yug]

Plus they're so bereft of original ideas they have to parrot Tony Abbott from about 10 years ago.

Stop the boats!

[Yug]

Stopping the arrival of small boats is a "priority" for the British people, Rishi Sunak has said as he defended the government's new asylum plan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64884435

I'm assuming he's thinking of people like Lee Anderson, Nargle Fargle and little Tommy ten names, because the priority of most people I know is putting food on the table and paying the bills.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Stopping the arrival of small boats is a "priority" for the British people, Rishi Sunak has said as he defended the government's new asylum plan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64884435

I'm assuming he's thinking of people like Lee Anderson, Nargle Fargle and little Tommy ten names, because the priority of most people I know is putting food on the table and paying the bills.

Exactly the point Mrs A made on hearing this bullshit.

[RedSparrows]

Stopping the arrival of small boats is a "priority" for the British people, Rishi Sunak has said as he defended the government's new asylum plan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64884435

I'm assuming he's thinking of people like Lee Anderson, Nargle Fargle and little Tommy ten names, because the priority of most people I know is putting food on the table and paying the bills.

The hollowness of populism. It's all so fucking obvious and the fact people still fall for it makes me nigh-on misanthropic in my own way.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sunak supposedly going to bung France £200m for 3 years to stop boats. Why should France agree to that? They aren’t Rwanda.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Maybe France can pay Germany and everyone pays everyone and they all stay in Turkey or something.

[mattomac]

He bunged them 500m instead, for a job they apparently already do.

Evidently it’s not a completely flawed policy that we have to bung France another 500m and cross our fingers that more staff might do the job.

[soulboy]

He bunged them 500m instead, for a job they apparently already do.

Evidently it’s not a completely flawed policy that we have to bung France another 500m and cross our fingers that more staff might do the job.

That's one and a half Brexit buses worth. I guess the NHS won't be getting their £350mill this week

[Bones McCoy]

We're all going to have to tighten our belts #357.

Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ivate-pool

Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.

While many Britons are facing increased electricity bills – and are trying to limit their energy usage – extra equipment was recently installed in a remote part of North Yorkshire to provide extra capacity from the National Grid to the prime minister’s constituency home.

This followed Sunak’s construction of a new heated swimming pool, gym and tennis court in the grounds of the manor house he occupies at weekends. Engineers had to install a substantial amount of equipment and a new connection to the National Grid that runs across open fields.

[Watchman]

It’s claimed he paying for it himself, so what, it’s just so crass

[Tubby Isaacs]

Spectacularly shit comment on the Lineker affair too, where he simultaneously kept out of it but banged on about himself.

[Bones McCoy]

It’s claimed he paying for it himself, so what, it’s just so crass

That's what Dishonest Alexander used to say.
Until we found out where the money really came from.

[mattomac]

I saw some of the hard of thinking and others claimed this was a none story which it probably is until you remember that the national grid were trialling energy rationing over the winter.

[Bones McCoy]

Can't wait for the next oversized lectern, bearing slogan

Heat my pool.

[Tubby Isaacs]

How are the polls?
Er. reverting to the mean, Prime Minister.

[Youngian]

How are the polls?
Er. reverting to the mean, Prime Minister.

Its strategy to consolidate the core Tory nativist vote is going to plan.

[Tubby Isaacs]

They'll pick some votes up if the plan works (ie makes asylum impossible). That'll go beyond the core vote. And public finances being less bad than expected will help them too.

[Crabcakes]

They'll pick some votes up if the plan works (ie makes asylum impossible). That'll go beyond the core vote. And public finances being less bad than expected will help them too.

Thing is, it literally can’t work. If they get it past, they’ll just be locking thousands of people up indefinitely at huge expense. They won’t even be able to send back the same number of people they could before passing it.