Toast 16,140 Posted June 11 Personalised email from The Movement Forward! Actually 'Toast' is the title of the email, and refers to the Tories. Made me go though. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 11 Just now, Toast said: Personalised email from The Movement Forward! Actually 'Toast' is the title of the email, and refers to the Tories. Made me go though. Deep State are coming for you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,398 Posted June 11 Just now, Toast said: Personalised email from The Movement Forward! Actually 'Toast' is the title of the email, and refers to the Tories. Made me go though. Nah it's definitely personal, I got one that started with TQR (they're quite ruined) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,398 Posted June 11 Sunak at Silverstone: "We have turned a corner" 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 11 I mean there's a lot to unpack through the tissue of lies (tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies) Sunak came up with today. Basically, it was a Tory greatest hits - world is dangerous, we will cut your taxes, protect the pensioners, etc etc. All things they have fucked up in the last 5 years. One thing that struck me though was his attack line on Labour's intention to take more of your money. Well, it wasn't Sunak who introduced furlough, that was our money being spent on it. Money which, as I predicted at the time, would have to be paid back and which Sunak admitted last night on Panorama was the case. What he conveniently forgot to mention was the billions of our money lost to fraud, to Mone, to Hancock's pub landlord, to waste, to Track and Trace which Sunak has written off. But which he is asking us to pay back. With our money. I'd like to have seen him pressed on at least that. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 11 Reports coming in from journos at the Tory manifesto launch that the Tories having invited the press to be there (most coming from London) over lunchtime, that there was no tea, coffee, sandwiches or even a biscuit to keep them going. Just three coolers of flavoured water. At Silverstone. In a hospitality suite. I'll bet Brad Pitt who is filming there has a van full of catering. Typical though, they promise you a grand day out at Silverstone and all you get is flavoured water. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 11 9 pledges in Sunak's manifesto were originally proposed by...Labour: https://inews.co.uk/news/tory-manifesto-pledges-previously-labour-3103627 A liar AND a thief? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted June 11 1 minute ago, YoungWillz said: 9 pledges in Sunak's manifesto were originally proposed by...Labour: https://inews.co.uk/news/tory-manifesto-pledges-previously-labour-3103627 A liar AND a thief? But that's not true Willz, because Labour have no policies. And no plan. I know because Rishi told me. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 11 2 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said: But that's not true Willz, because Labour have no policies. And no plan. I know because Rishi told me. Another thing I don't understand. (Well, I do, but it's so blindingly obvious, I just can't believe what I heard today). Sunak has been banging on for months about how the public sector shouldn't get pay increases because it would pump so much money into the economy that inflation and interest rates would rise. Yet he is standing on a provisional platform which seems to be a super giveaway - admittedly to rich pensioners, the self-employed, landlords, and the wealthier families with their extra child benefit. So all this money which he won't spend on infrastructure, schools, hospitals etc etc he has found it somehow, with no promise of growth, which means according to him, inflation and interest rates are simply going to go up. Expect to pay 3 quid for your loaf of bread? 4 quid for your 2 pints of milk? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted June 11 5 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Another thing I don't understand. (Well, I do, but it's so blindingly obvious, I just can't believe what I heard today). Sunak has been banging on for months about how the public sector shouldn't get pay increases because it would pump so much money into the economy that inflation and interest rates would rise. Yet he is standing on a provisional platform which seems to be a super giveaway - admittedly to rich pensioners, the self-employed, landlords, and the wealthier families with their extra child benefit. So all this money which he won't spend on infrastructure, schools, hospitals etc etc he has found it somehow, with no promise of growth, which means according to him, inflation and interest rates are simply going to go up. Expect to pay 3 quid for your loaf of bread? 4 quid for your 2 pints of milk? Yes but it's a bold plan for the future of our country. And it's better than Labour putting £2,094 on household finances. I noticed today he announced a £1,500 cut in tax for households but didn't spell out whether that's per year or across 4 years like his fictitious Labour figure. Anyway, we both know that he can promise the earth because he's not going to have to follow through on any of it. He's trying to suck Labour into saying they're against things that would be popular with the public. Instead, all he's done is give Rachel Reeves ammunition to explain why the Tories are reckless with the public purse and shouldn't be given 5 more years. Nice one, Rishi. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 11 Sunak on going without: Not food, not heat, not a stable home, not education, not healthcare. Sky TV. Jesus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted June 11 10 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Sunak on going without: Not food, not heat, not a stable home, not education, not healthcare. Sky TV. Jesus. The Thick of it strkes again. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Philheybrookbay1 247 Posted June 12 D Day overran.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 3,887 Posted June 12 9 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Sunak on going without: Not food, not heat, not a stable home, not education, not healthcare. Sky TV. Jesus. Hodges wasn't wrong when he said the interview would be much worse for Rishi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 3,887 Posted June 12 "It Wasn't even in Lidl" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,606 Posted June 12 Tories publicly admiting things are dire. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Father Brown 209 Posted June 12 Sounds like he’s trying to lose now! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,398 Posted June 12 "I feel your pain, I didn't have Sky TV either" 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted June 12 This really is his "Running through Fields of Wheat" moment. The question was what didn't he have as a child. He should have prefixed the answer with an acknowledgement that it was very much something that would not really be considered a hardship for most people. He was not trying to suggest that he has experienced poverty but is just so shit at the whole being normal thing everything just emphasises his privaliged background 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
