[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[Bodian]

Probably not quite the right thread for this - but he just doesn't stop does he

Boris and Carrie Johnson expecting third child in ‘just a few weeks’

Former PM’s wife announces pregnancy on Instagram, saying they ‘can’t wait to meet this little one’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Probably not quite the right thread for this - but he just doesn't stop does he

Boris and Carrie Johnson expecting third child in ‘just a few weeks’

Former PM’s wife announces pregnancy on Instagram, saying they ‘can’t wait to meet this little one’

www.theguardian.com

Yet his father advocates reducing Britains population to 30,000.

 

[chickens]

Yet his father advocates reducing Britains population to 30,000.

Not all fathered by Boris, surely?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Not all fathered by Boris, surely?

He and Stanley have contributed their share.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Accountability?

 

[The Clamp]

Today Sunak announced that “people have moved past caring about rich people”

After it was announced he and his wife’s fortunes dropped from 700m to a paltry 500m.

I don’t know how they manage.

 

[TomandJerry]

Schools in England are preparing to move to class sizes of as many as 60 children from September to deal with a funding crisis that headteachers say will force them to cut staff.

The government insists that there is still room in school budgets to cover the 4.5% pay offer that teachers overwhelmingly rejected last month, as well as rising costs. But angry headteachers have warned that next year they will reach the brink, with no option but to cut staff and increase class sizes.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Schools in England are preparing to move to class sizes of as many as 60 children from September to deal with a funding crisis that headteachers say will force them to cut staff.

The government insists that there is still room in school budgets to cover the 4.5% pay offer that teachers overwhelmingly rejected last month, as well as rising costs. But angry headteachers have warned that next year they will reach the brink, with no option but to cut staff and increase class sizes.

 

[Frutos]

 

[vegster]

Rules are for other people

 

[clapham_gull]

Bizarre one, if reported correctly.

Gets done for speeding. Millions have done it, even the Archbishop.

Is worried about her insurance premiums, so opts for a course.

Doesn't appear to want to anyone to know she has been caught, so tries to get the Civil Service (sorry?) to organise a 1 to 1 course.

They tell her where to go, so her personal staff try to get the course provider to do a one off course for her.

The course provider tell her where to go.

Takes the points and nobody cares, until this story breaks.

Not sure if he she has broken any ministerial rules, but speaks volumes (if true) about her personality.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Could be the opportunity for Sunak to ditch her. Blame the poor behaviour rather than his weakness as not previously firing the nasty piece of work for being a, er, nasty piece of work!

 

[clapham_gull]

Clearly leaked as payback for her National Conservative speech.

 

[BenGarfield]

100% agree, people want Scandinavian levels of public service at US-levels of taxation, which is simply illogical. The only way to even try and make it work is to borrow a shit-ton of money, which is what Governments in the UK have done for the last 50 years.

Not true. Tax does not fund government expenditure as it performs other roles within the economy. The government does not have to "borrow" any money in the way a household does. The government issues bonds as part of its monetary policy not because it needs to finance its expenditure. As the eminent economist and Berwick, Sussex, resident famously said, in the depths of the second world war: “Anything we can actually do we can afford.”

 

[Baldseagull]

Not true. Tax does not fund government expenditure as it performs other roles within the economy. The government does not have to "borrow" any money in the way a household does. The government issues bonds as part of its monetary policy not because it needs to finance its expenditure. As the eminent economist and Berwick, Sussex, resident famously said, in the depths of the second world war: “Anything we can actually do we can afford.”

Not this bollocks again.

 

[TomandJerry]

Rishi Sunak has defended new laws requiring voters to bring ID as “entirely reasonable” after Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested the move was designed to gerrymander election results in favour of the Tories.

Sunak said he was “very comfortable” with controversial rules following Rees-Mogg’s critical comments and reports that thousands of people were turned away from polling stations at the local elections in May.

 

[thejackal]

"Have you got any questions about the summit?" Smarmy twat.

 

[Machiavelli]

Could be the opportunity for Sunak to ditch her. Blame the poor behaviour rather than his weakness as not previously firing the nasty piece of work for being a, er, nasty piece of work!

Doubt he'll get rid of her. If he does, he'll be made to pay for it during his last year on power by the rampant Tory right that just won't let go (until we make them).

 

[Stat Brother]

The party of law and order.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Senior Tories say Trump-style takeover could precipitate party meltdown

Prominent members fear a tilt to the right could spell the end in the ‘blue wall’ heartlands

www.theguardian.com