[Bones McCoy]

Only Babymetal can save him now.

[kreuzberger]

Ricky is supposed to be dead good at sums and the detail man, right?

Pity he doesn't know the difference between a projection and a prediction. Still, that seems to be at least one thing which he has in common with most of the population.

[Bones McCoy]

Ricky is supposed to be dead good at sums and the detail man, right?

Pity he doesn't know the difference between a projection and a prediction. Still, that seems to be at least one thing which he has in common with most of the population.

People like Titch see "good at sums" as an opportunity to con the less numerate.

[slilley]

The Times this morning is reporting the work done by Professor Thrasher which would indicate a hung Parliament and which Sunak has leapt upon like a drowning man to a life raft. There are a number of caveats to his projections which when you look at them dont give Sunak the optimism he might have thought. It assumes Labour only winning one seat in Scotland still and that people will vote in a Gneral Election exactly the same way as they did in these elections. Again far from a given.

After Mrs Braverman's appearence on LK yesterday, I would start getting the dust sheets off the furniture in the California home if I were Sunak.

Just one last thought. If the Conservatives lose the election as seems likely, Sunak would resign as party leader. The question is would he go immediately as Gordon Brown did in 2010, leaving Harriett Harman to lead the party in an interim capacity, or would he stay on as Leader of the Opposition until a new leader is elected? A process which could take a number of weeks. As he has never sat on the opposition benches he could find a bit beneath him and vamoose straightaway.

Simon

[Andy McDandy]

He's not; he just knows how to project the "Asian maths nerd" image.

His skill with money comes from the principle of having a lot to start with.

[Abernathy]

It's a measure of Sunak's utter desperation that he is resorting to a re-tread of the "coalition of chaos" scaremongering that the Tories have deployed many times before. He is more or less acknowledging that the Tories will be out of office come the election.

There are of course, quite a few things wrong with this. As has been pointed out already, Rallings and Thrasher's projected hung parliament is highly unlikely to be realised.

But also, why are people supposed to dread a minority Labour government governing in coalition at all ? Particularly when you consider the absolute chaos that the Tories inflicted on the country in the course of the last 14 years. If coalition government is supposed to be such a bad and chaotic thing, how does Sunak account for the Tory/Lib Dem coalition of 2010 -2015, which, whatever else it was, was remarkably stable and unchaotic.? If it's so bad, maybe the thing to do to avoid it is to make sure of handing Keir Starmer an absolute landslide majority?

Nah. total desperation. I know I keep banging on about this, but I think electors have passed their 1997 style tipping point, whereby they have already made up their minds, and resolved that whenever the election comes, this government is getting voted out.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Salmond was a bruiser who for selfish reasons (ie he wanted the Tories to win) played up to the idea that he would force weaky young Ed to rewrite the budget. Nowadays he struggle to force a college tutor to give him a week extension on an essay. Swinney is not going to come close to the same scare factor.

And anyway, it only worked (if it even did) because the Tory economic policy was relatively popular, and the Salmond attack dovetailed with that.

Ludicrous to be going for it now, after a less than chaos-free 7 years.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is hilarious.

Jo Stuart, Pro Vice Chancellor for International and Marketing Communications at the University of Hertfordshire, said:

“We are thrilled to receive this incredible award and to have both the Prime Minister and the King himself recognise and acknowledge the sector-leading work we are doing in this area.

[Bones McCoy]

Another PMQs where Titchy demonstrates the authority of a "do not tumble dry" label.

[Youngian]

Rishi the maths man being schooled on his arithmetic by Kwasi Kwarteng

[slilley]

Another PMQs where Titchy demonstrates the authority of a "do not tumble dry" label.

I thought you should have called him Tetchy, as especially up against Starmer that’s how he was yet again. The thin skin man

[Bones McCoy]

Another PMQs where Titchy demonstrates the authority of a "do not tumble dry" label.

I thought you should have called him Tetchy, as especially up against Starmer that’s how he was yet again. The thin skin man

I'e used Titchy Tetchy Richie in the past.

A small man, who's easily bent out of shape.

[Tubby Isaacs]

At least Sunak hasn't lost John Rentoul. "Moral seriousness", which to John apparently means something completely different and irrelevant. And how was it "nearly effective" anyway?

[Bones McCoy]

Well, Ritchie's a lying cunt.

I've read a ton of works on ethics.
I have a lot of sympathy with the Achmeanid Persian "Ride a horse, shoot a bow, tell the truth".
You can keep your Aquinas, the Zoroastrians nailed it in a sentence.


Now did I mention Rishi's a lying cunt.
His feet won't each the stirrups, and tiny little T-rex arms won't accommodate a bow's draw.

[mattomac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69000303

Such a Bold vision he has to tell us about it several hours earlier in case we miss it.

[davidjay]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69000303

Such a Bold vision he has to tell us about it several hours earlier in case we miss it.

It smacks of "Who governs Britain?" To which the answer was, "Not you, mate."

[Bones McCoy]

Welcome to the project fear election.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Just call the election now. All over the place. A whole week of ex-Oxbridge outriders telling us "yeah, those universities are probably shit anyway" will only have toxfied further.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm almost pleased that David Cameron came back.

[Watchman]

And what overseas students may that be; Cameron’s “friends” in China, or Richie Rich being instructed by f-i-l to keep on the right side of his mate Modi