[Youngian]

By-election results for Reform have been slightly lower than polling but it’s no surprising they’re gaining traction among racist dipsticks like Helen. There’s even one them in No 10

[Youngian]

Get another job

And you

[Watchman]

Somehow I don’t think you get to be KC and lead on public inquiries by being tetchy and asking ridiculous questions

[Crabcakes]

They must be hoping no one bothers to watch, because that is objectively not what’s happening. And ironically they’re probably making it more likely people do watch by making it sound like Sunak is kicking arse.

[Andy McDandy]

Leslie Thomas KC, counsel for the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations (FEMHO), asked Sunak if he accepted that he exacerbated health inequalities by putting ethnic minority workers in a position where they had to work in environments where they are at risk of infection.

Sunak did not accept that. He said the “eat out to help out scheme” protected people’s jobs.

Hey, not his fault they were flipping burgers. Bought it on themselves. Should have got a job in cyber.

Cunt.

[Watchman]

I never heard anyone speak in predictive text before

[kreuzberger]

Quite remarkable. His answer to almost every pointed question is that he can't remember that occasion.

He seems to think that he is playing a ripe hand of get-out-of-jail-free cards. The likelihood of Dame Heather Hallett, the closest we have to an Indian mother-in-law, agreeing with that is, at best, improbable.

This polite South-Asian-kid shtick is not going to wash. Ouch!

[Bones McCoy]

You judge a man by the company he keeps.

[Youngian]

So Sunak’s making the headbangers feel very important while showing how weak he is.

[Crabcakes]

Sunak is right that eat out to help out protected jobs. Unfortunately the jobs in question were those of chain restaurant execs, and city landlords.

The poor sods out serving probably had no option whether to come in to work or not.

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... id-inquiry

John Crace's take. The snark is strong in this one.

The Tories were now so certifiable, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail were campaigning for the dream team of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage. Arise Lord Boris. Arise Lord Nige. Because the answer to batshit crazy is to get batshit crazier.

Just imagine the coincidence. That the prime minister and the chancellor had been in possession of the only two phones in the UK whose messages could neither be retrieved nor had automatically transferred themselves to a new phone. How unlucky can you get.

Had he noticed anything unusual about No 10? Not at all. Everything looked fine. So the chaos and parties just felt normal. And what about the Spectator interview in 2022? The one in which he had boasted to the editor of not leaving a paper trail and having been anti-lockdowns. Sunak shrugged. He was baffled. He had no idea how Fraser Nelson might have got the idea from an interview with him that he had thought such things.

[davidjay]

Sunak is right that eat out to help out protected jobs. Unfortunately the jobs in question were those of chain restaurant execs, and city landlords.

The poor sods out serving probably had no option whether to come in to work or not.

It probably created a bit of work for undertakers as well.

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ent-rwanda

Marina Hyde joins in the fun.

You are cordially invited to recall that when Sunak was appointed party leader in October last year, all manner of Tory grandees and commentators assured the nation that the sensibles were back in town. It was a “new dawn”, the “system” had proved robust, and all those wonderful people out there in the dark would be relieved at the era of calm about to be ushered in.

Mark Francois is once again beckoning to us from a storm drain, while the phrase “ERG star chamber” has been deployed like it presages anything other than the apparently unstoppable rise of the idiots.

Rwanda rebels would prefer a call from the Metropolitan police’s serious sex crimes unit than from David Cameron.

Giggle!

Sunak was at pains to stress that the Rwanda bill wouldn’t amount to a confidence vote in him. Ironically, even that doesn’t feel like a statement we can have confidence in

Ouch!

I wonder if Rishi enjoyed his Monday at the Covid inquiry, answering lawyers’ questions about Treasury death squads and his own Dr Death nickname? It might well have been his last fun and carefree day in politics.

Double ouch!

Or take the Conservative Growth Group, or the European Research Group, or the Northern Research Group, or the Common Sense Group. All of them should be fitted with sarcastic airquotes as standard.

More Burns than a book of Scottish poetry.

Hate to call an untimely end to Rishi Sunak’s inspirational new dawn, but it’s starting to look just possible that Theresa May was right all along. Nothing – NOTHING – has changed.

Amen to that.

[Bones McCoy]

Sunak is right that eat out to help out protected jobs. Unfortunately the jobs in question were those of chain restaurant execs, and city landlords.

The poor sods out serving probably had no option whether to come in to work or not.

And undertakers.
Let's not forget the undertakers.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This doesn't seem likely to improve the fortunes of the government. Whatever the government do here is a free hit for the Opposition. When Railtrack was in this position, Blair nationalised it cheap, and got credit for it. Sunak would get a bucket of shit, not least from his own side.

[Spoonman]

This doesn't seem likely to improve the fortunes of the government. Whatever the government do here is a free hit for the Opposition. When Railtrack was in this position, Blair nationalised it cheap, and got credit for it. Sunak would get a bucket of shit, not least from his own side.

Surely all Sunak needs to do is pass a bill declaring Thames Water solvent and that such a declaration can't be legally challenged?

(sarcasm, just in case)

[mattomac]

Another poor PMQs and another very good one from Starmer.

[Bones McCoy]

Another poor PMQs and another very good one from Starmer.

He doesn't like it up him, does he?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Youngian]

Can’t remember much at all let alone how to be a PM