THE RISHI SUNAK MUPPET SHOW
ZDENKO KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA • 22 June 2023
LIVE FROM WESTMINSTER
From the “mortgage catastrophe” to Jeremy Hunt’s revelations from the government’s pandemic preparedness, there’s been plenty going on in Westminster. Here are the key points:
- Polling suggested that most people wrongly think Rishi Sunak’s pledge to halve inflation would either mean prices going down (32%) or staying the same (31%). Only 23% said that this still meant prices would go up. Later in the day, Downing Street claimed the government is still on course to meet its target of halving inflation by the end of the year.
- At the Ukraine recovery conference this morning Sunak gave a speech saying “Russia must pay for the destruction that they’ve inflicted”.
- Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP leader, wrote to Sunak urging him to scrap controversial legislation to address the legacy of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Later in the day, Ireland said it would consider taking legal action against the UK if parliament passes the Northern Ireland Troubles (legacy and reconciliation) bill.
- In PMQs, Keir Starmer said the cost of the Tory mortgage penalty is an extra £2,900 a year. Sunak replied that interest rates are at similar levels in Canada and the US and Australia and New Zealand, adding that the government has a plan to reduce inflation. The Guardian’s political correspondent, Andrew Sparrow, opined that Starmer won in the exchange, noting that he was “on very strong ground today because he devoted all his questions to what he called the Tory ‘mortgage catastrophe’”.
- Jeremy Hunt appeared before the Covid-19 inquiry, where he dropped several bombshells, including that quarantining people sooner “might have avoided” the first coronavirus lockdown, the UK did not sufficiently learn from the experiences of Asian nations which had dealt with virus outbreaks, and that pandemic preparation exercises had “too narrow a focus”, only considered mitigation rather than prevention, and did not “ask the right questions”.
- Mark Walport, David Cameron’s chief scientific adviser who also appeared before the Covid-19 inquiry, warned him in 2013 that the UK’s assessment of risks, including from pandemics, was not being used properly to prevent and mitigate dangers and was being kept too secret.
- Labour insisted it still wants to abolish the House of Lords despite planning to swell its size with new peers in order to push through policy if it forms a government.
- Suella Braverman rejected calls to move responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme from the Home Office, with the home secretary saying it would cause “delay and needless bureaucracy”.
- More than 1m households across Britain are expected to lose at least 20% of their disposable incomes thanks to the surge in mortgage costs expected before the next election.
- Downing Street declined to say whether Shaun Bailey, the former London mayoral candidate for the Conservatives, should take up the peerage given to him in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours after a video emerged of him taking part in a mid-lockdown Christmas party.
In Kyiv, the two leaders visited a memorial where they laid wreaths in the national colours of the UK and Ukraine
Now we all come together for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
The bottom line here is that patients and their families need to be the winners and not the losers!
Loser always has an excuse like Kemi "to be honest". Well, the winner always has a plan and program what this new Labour government has which was not the case with previous 14 years of Conservative government.
The first Labour’s Budget since 2010 after the party’s return to power in July’s 2024 General Election, delivered by the first female Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
I would like to help Sir Chris Hoy and his family; I would also like to help the many thousands and thousands of individuals in the UK suffering with cancer.
Moscow has a legitimate right to announce that the West attacked Russia. The risk of retaliation against the EU and US using nuclear missiles becomes ever closer.
My grandma would win on the last 3 occasions if she would not be dead and be a manager of such a squads.
I was 100% sure that I will never ever in my life say "thank you" to the person who destroyed Britain before Liz Truss.
For now, the only problem Sir Keir Starmer faces is where to put all his MPs, as the House of Commons only has seating space for 427 people.
There are 12 of the 26 members of the cabinet who are running for re-election I personally would like to see losing their seats
UK parties have 'conspiracy of silence' over post-election budget challenges, think tank says
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It was more of a meeting of politically and morally failed leaders who are fighting to stay in power, except for the host, the Italian Prime Minister.
These are tough and serious times, where serious people are needed to solve them on legal and democratic way as much as possible.
Please forgive me, but I have to ask you as well: "Laura Trott, do you believe in all the crap which comes out from your mouth?"
Time for you Rishi to pack your coffers (your wife's and kids are already packed) and see you in California.
"The world is full of violence and weapons. People seem to be going crazy," he said in a video eight years ago posted online.
Some 30,000 Georgians took to the streets Wednesday in the latest round of a weeks-long mass protest against a "foreign influence" law whose adoption by parliament has prompted a blizzard of international condemnation.
So far the mayor’s position in 3 the biggest cities in UK, Labour retain London where Sadiq Khan was elected for the 3rd time consecutive (impressive, despite congesting charge, Ulez,…) with 43.8% votes.
Question for PM: Do you really believe in all the crap coming out from your mouth and how do you sleep at night?
The blame here has to be shared with all the Palestinian people living there. They have known for years that Hamas made an entire labyrinth under their houses in Gaza.
"Too late, my time has come
Send shivers down my spine, body aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth ..."
You tried hard to give to whoever was watching you today impression infront of election on 2nd May 2024, but i believe this with all other antics and minx conservatives are doing lately will be a bit to less to late.
You want me to go further with you Kay Burley? Sky News are saying to be "Independent" News Channel. I very much doubt about this! I can disclose instantly minimum of 9 (nine) very questionable and dodge issues about your "independence".
Stability is underpriced in politics… And the only way to liberate the country from the pattern of recent years and put an end to the cost of Tory chaos is to end their period in power.
The incumbent thus emerges as the clear winner of the presidential election. There was no significant opponent.
Tories have left us and were said trying to set out credible plans to make sure that we can invest as quickly as possible in those priority public services, get the economy growing so, that we can recoup money into the public sector and deliver it into the public services.
I wonder whether I will live enough long to see closure of any recent and previous enquiries, or I will die before, as quite a few victims of Post Office scandal already passed away.
That was a marvellous cup tie, and Chelsea celebrate more with relief than joy. A last-minute winner is a fine way to clear the pipes after the misery of Wembley
"The way you lose is so painful but now we need to keep going keep moving. They scored and we didn't score" was one of childish comments of CFC manager Pochettino.
There are no doubt Speaker Hoyle takes MPs' safety seriously but by no means he should apologise as he did.
Kemi Badenoch cannot jump out of her skin: She claims that the government had cared about Horizon victims all the way however, if this would be the case she would not be in a row about delayed compensation.
Oops! ... I did it again!
Rishi Sunak two by-election defeat, make no mistake, these are extraordinary results for Labour!
Truss insisted: “Britain is full of secret Conservatives – people who agree with us but don’t want to admit it because they think it’s not acceptable in their place of work, it’s not acceptable at their school.”
More than 30 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were involved in the Hamas massacre on October 7.
Clarke, a former cabinet minister, said in an op-ed for the Daily Telegraph that Sunak was “leading the Conservatives into an election where we will be massacred”.
Merry Christmas and Happy & Prosperous New Year 2024 from Mercator and Montana & Montana
Downing Street announced on Monday that Cameron would join the government, accepting a peerage in order to do so, as part of a wider reshuffle in which Suella Braverman was sacked as home secretary and replaced by the foreign secretary, James Cleverly.
Suella: "I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion. Britain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years."
Rishi don’t worry about the catastrophic flooding in England after storm Ciaran.
We just won our case!
There were no small boats with immigrants over the channel!
Can you imagine Rishi, no new immigrants in the last few days since Ciaran visited us!
One of your pledges are coming realistic!
The defence rests!
He owns satellites, he owns internet services along with social media sites. He is increasingly one of the most powerful figures in the world.
Finally, US, Germany, France and many other leaders did not call for ceasefire. It would be ludicrous that one leader of a not even governing party has to call for a ceasefire just to make some people in the UK happy.
How stupid would this be?
It is tragic that Hamas killed over 1200 Israeli’s which is yet another holocaust for Israel. The entire Israel has a similar population as London therefore by killing 1200 Israelis compared with the UK population that would be several hundred thousand British killed. And all this has happened without any provocation from Israel.
The decision to disallow Liverpool Diaz’s goal for offside during Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Tottenham was wrong even according to the PGMOL. PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool.
Well Mr Holden, 7.5 million followers of our blogs are more than happy that you are not mayor of London despite that 6.9 million followers are not from London. In their commentaries to your speech today concerning stabbing in Croydon they comment that only you – conservatives are flip-flopping on all issues and that the damage you done in the last 13 years will be with us for the next 2-3 generations.
It is not a popular theme by conservative party, and it is one of regular problem and issue with this government – yet another failure. Since 2010 since it was first proposed by Gordon Brown’s Labour government everything gone – complete disaster with costs spiralling, delivery dates slipping and routes changing.
Do not forget that Rishi hold the office and number 10 being prime minister unelected, prime minister without a single vote, prime minister even from his own MP's, prime minister without mandate from people. All what he touch is not or will not benefit the British people!
Tata has been running large losses at its British operations and looking at solutions including mergers and, potentially, plant closings for years. In a recent filing, the company said the British steel unit lost £279 million in the latest financial year.
Next week will see junior doctors and consultants in England walk out at the same time for the first time in the history of the NHS. Consultants will take strike action on Tuesday and Wednesday, while junior doctors start their three-day walkout on Wednesday.