[Tubby Isaacs]

Where are they going to hide Sunak in the campaign?

[kreuzberger]

They come in blue too...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bozo did do debates. Can Sunak be trusted with those?

[mattomac]

Tory sources and Rentoul think Labour will pull out because Sunak has shown to be so good or something

[slilley]

Sunak’s interview with Piers Morgan has exploded on two fronts. First is the quite appalling “bet” he struck with Morgan over Rwanda. Then when asked if he thought Kier Starmer was a terrorist sympathiser he says that the facts speak for themselves. This is all part of the riling up the hard right base to head off Reform. Clearly anyone accused of a crime should not have legal representation. If this continues the basic tenets of the rule of law is at real risk of being suffocated

[Watchman]

I’m guessing he thought having a bet would make look a “man of the people”; tab behind ear, flat cap, whippet, nip into Ladbroke’s for a few bob on the 2:30 at Haydock!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Men in the Red Wall all do that.

[Abernathy]

It's yet another illustration of what an absolutely lousy politician Sunak is. Because this wager mallarkey with Morgan is going to run and run. When it's finally confirmed what a crock of shite the Rwanda "plan" is, and that there is absolutely no prospect of Sunak ever being able to oversee anybody getting carted off to central Africa, you can bet your best Doc Martens that Morgan will be very publicly calling on Sunak to stump up his thousand quid. Sunak will be obliged to do so (though he probably won't), again very publicly. Quite possibly in the middle of the general election campaign. Whichever way it goes for him, it's not going to be good.

Sunak seems to have absolutely no idea about political tactics or strategy - a really shit politician. No wonder they want shot of him.

[Spoonman]

Sunak yesterday in Belfast...

Note: Leo Varadkar ain't that tall!

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[Andy McDandy]

He's got a safe seat in solid God's own cunt territory. He came to fame running Johnson's leadership campaign, which was frankly an open goal. He got to No. 10 by not being Liz Truss. The one time he's really ever been challenged was in the original leadership vote, when the Tories plumped for Truss. No history as a councillor, or standing in no-hope seats. He personifies "risen without trace".

[Crabcakes]

It's yet another illustration of what an absolutely lousy politician Sunak is.

Overpromoted by the worst PM this country has ever had, because there was already hardly anyone left after all the talent was booted out because Boris was scared of them. Then he lost a popularity contest to the most inept PM this country has ever had. Then he only got the job when it was a 1-horse race and his was the only name that had any sort of recognition. And his ‘prize’ may be to be the last PM ever from the Conservative Party - and/or to oversee a record-breaking loss of seats.

[Crabcakes]

Sunak made an anti-trans gag at PMQs while Brianna Ghey’s mother - who he knew was there - was in the public gallery. Then refused to apologise.

Extraordinary cuntishness.

[Watchman]

Sounds like he has a total 'mare all round

[Andy McDandy]

Sunak made an anti-trans gag at PMQs while Brianna Ghey’s mother - who he knew was there - was in the public gallery. Then refused to apologise.

Extraordinary cuntishness.

You could hear the silence - not just from the opposition benches, but his own. IIRC the Tories have a trans MP among their number.

[Samanfur]

Yes. The MP in question has been very quiet since the announcement, but given the company they keep, I'm not surprised.

It was all of two minutes after Starmer - who she'll be meeting later this afternoon - had announced that Brianna Ghey's mother was in the gallery, as well.

[Crabcakes]

Judging from the interwebs, Sunak will be delighted to see his callous and tin-eared crack has brought out the previously seemingly mythical silent majority out in full throated support.

Oh no, sorry - I meant the other one. Universal condemnation of an astonishingly poor taste line made all the worse by its appalling context and timing.

It will be interesting to see the contortions pulled by the sort of bigoted shit who was at the PopCon bollocks yesterday who also has it in for Sunak but who also needs to perpetuate culture wars in lieu of any other substance to their existence as they simultaneously condemn him while also complaining about wokeness.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Apart from the incredible crassness of this, what's the political logic of pitching to this crowd? "Robust British common sense" probably doesn't make you think, "Mega rich guy born in India for PM!"

Sunak gave a thoughtful response to "Black Lives Matter" at the time. He's now having pops at Starmer for taking the knee. Not that Starmer is short of material. but he could do a lot worse than read Sunak's words back at him.

[Andy McDandy]

Probably something along the lines of "every sympathy with the genuine cases of people born in the wrong body, but it's the benders in dresses we've a problem with", along with "let's not bring gender into it, the kids were evil, end of".

[Watchman]

Nicked from elsewhere, but I do feel it captures the zeitgeist.


It's been reported that Sunak only agreed to buy the big issue from a vendor if she allowed him to tell her a joke.
When she agreed, he said 'Knock knock'. When she answered 'Who's there?, he said 'I thought you were homeless'

[slilley]

The interweb is rightly full of Sunak’s remarks about transgender people, but his other crass remarks about Kier Starmer supporting terrorism, the second time this week he has accused him of that, has gone unnoticed