Should we trust Sunak or the next PM to fix the Country's problems? (title revised 24/10/22)

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Member of the Question Time audience asks Richard Tice about Donald Trump.

 

 

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That's an idea on Maquarie. On being accountable, you also have to blame Ofwat and possibly the Environment Agency although they've been badly defunded.

I put the Frost article up for balance.

 

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And have they asked young people if they would be interested?

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I think it would be very sad if young people were denied the opportunity to do this.

Little England strikes again.

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Sunak wants to use a new system to issue sick notes, rather than GPs doing it. He seems to think GPs don't understand their patients.

But over the weekend there were articles about stopping the 'sick note culture'. I would have thought this would make it easier. Don't people self-certify for the first few days anyway?

Public will be able to use NHS algorithm to sign off sick

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Another one. Sunak wants more disabled people to work - and closes the scheme that has been helping them. Hardly contradictory at all.

Help for disabled people in England and Wales to get jobs is axed amid benefits crackdown | Disability | The Guardian

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Closure of Work and Health Programme comes hard on heels of Rishi Sunak’s bid to end the UK’s supposed ‘sicknote’ culture

Still, he's not likely to be around to implement it...

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Frpm David Frost and Robert Jenrick:

'Conservatives must show we respect the votes in 2016 and 2019 and not give the Opposition the chance to undo the benefits of leaving the EU'

 

Sweep away the Brexit gloom – or Labour will unravel a huge gain

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Good Law Project are trying to force HMG to release details of how Sunak's hedge fund made large profits from Moderna.

Government ordered to disclose Sunak’s hedge fund emails - Good Law Project

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Good Law Project has won a battle with the Treasury after it tried to suppress emails between Rishi Sunak and the hedge fund he founded.

 

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I see they're trying to round up asylum seekers and lock them up for about three months so they can be put on planes to Rwanda. I'm a bit surprised that this is legal.

 

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Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse | Conservatives | The Guardian

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Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories

 

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How have they found 150 judges when the legal system has so many problems?

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Are you anti-Irish now, TOR?

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The solution to this seems to be to just wave through goods at the border.

Does anyone know how it's going with the facility at Sevington, where lorries are meant to drive 22 miles inland for customs and other checks? If I had a dodgy cargo, I would head somewhere else...

Brexit border chiefs left in the dark hours before new checks kick in – POLITICO

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Ports have spent millions of their own cash on high-spec inspection facilities — but still don’t know how they’ll recoup their costs.

 

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I remember Gove banging on about 'business' not being ready for the new regulations/charges and now look who can't tell them what the situation is...

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Bernie Sanders on antisemitism.

 

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Today's cartoon in the Times. It seems Israel has seized the Rafah crossing, a main route for humanitarian aid.

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Street did his best by removing any trace of the Tories from his campaign literature, as you say it's a shame for him.

I see Sunak is clutching at the only poll that shows the Tories in not too bad a light, the hung Parliament one. The boss of Ipsos and Sir John Curtice have both said it's flawed.

'Sir John Curtice, the polling expert, also projected the Conservatives nine points behind in the national vote share but advised against using this ­data to estimate Westminster seats. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today ­programme: “It’s quite long been the case, certainly since the late 1980s, that the way that people vote in local elections doesn’t necessarily exactly mirror the way that they would vote in a general election.” '

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Vennells is at the Horizon inquiry on May 22nd, 23rd and 24th.

I haven't seen anything about Mone for a while. I wonder if Private Eye have any news?

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I thought the LibDems were going to table a motion of no confidence? I haven't heard anything about it for a couple of days.

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I wonder how many people will go with Cummings and the Upstarts?

Even funnier, Matt Goodwin has announced he's starting a new party as well.

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Rwandans claim asylum in Oz.

Rwandans arrive in Australia after perilous journey to claim asylum | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

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Hunters reportedly find five Rwandan men in mangroves on Saibai Island, a known crocodile habitat

 

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The Windsor agreement seems to have made the asylum seeker situation more complicated. Good explanation by Gary Gibbon in this video.

 

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Jolyon Maugham on Tory data sharing. They have a 1300 page dossier on hm and have shared it with dubious PR people, Palantir and some right wing papers. Very concering, who else's data are they doing this with?

 

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This is priceless. Badenoch is allowing pubs, restaurants and cafes to serve meals outside, as part of our 'Brexit freedoms'. She seems to think Europeans can't do this.

Pavement dining to become a 'permanent feature of the high street' as Business secretary Kemi Badenoch announces plans to remove red tape for pubs, restaurants and cafes to make the most of 'Brexit freedoms' | Daily Mail Online

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Plans unveiled by the Business Secretary include proposals to remove regulations that make it hard for pubs, restaurants and cafes to get...

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“Inept” ministers who fail to understand “the mess they have created” are responsible for new delays to Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda plan, Home Office insiders have told i.

Home Office Rwanda mess deepens as officials despair over ‘inept’ ministers

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'It’s actual chaos,' a Home Office source tells i. 'They don’t understand what they’ve done and they need us to explain it to them.'

 

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I hope Starmer has thought this through.