Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister

You mean you wouldn't trust him. No surprises people queue up round here to denounce Starmer but the heroic effort in ignoring everything going on around you is commendable. Quite a lot of you boys really are living in a fantasy world where it's somehow only a matter of time before the public develop the kind of galaxy brain insight hitherto only you possess.

You just sound hysterical. Some people are trying to have a calm, adult discussion about what's going on. Are you this worked up in real life?

I agree, and alluded to this in the Keir thread. If encouraging signs continue to emerge on the economic front the sands may well shift. That combined with one or two big fk ups from Labour (some more anti semtisim and/or something about Angie) and we may find that things tighten considerably. A week is a long time in politics but 6 months is an absolute aeon.

...it will be fascinating to watch. I wouldn't vote for either but I'm sure there are many sitting on the fence who might end up sticking with what they have always done once a few 'events, dear boy' unfurl.

You have, with respect, suffered a glaring comprehension failure there.

Anyway. moving on in the hope someone in here can process simple ideas, I fully expect something will be ignored that should not be. Johnny Mercer inadvertently let the cat out of the bag in an email revealing that his attempts to allow veterans to use their military ID cards had been blocked by No.10 on the grounds that doing so would 'open the floodgates' to allow students to do the same. And there you have it, an admission that voter ID is about voter suppression, sanctioned by the government & our brave veterans are merely collateral damage in state sponsored gerrymandering.

You cannot now claim to be a supporter of democracy & the Conservative party. The two are mutually exclusive.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-10-neglectin...

Inflation is supposedly back to 'normal' levels at around 2.3%

I see that Johnny Mercer has had a go at Rishi saying he is hogging the limelight and is not as popular as when he was more popular.
That's a bit of a funny thing for me because I can't really remember when he has been popular.
Apologies for the Independent link. I couldn't find a daily Mail one that told us the value of Johnny Mercers House

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/johnny-merce...

But Johnny Mercer misses the point. This isn't Rishi hogging the limelight for personal gain. Not at all.
Rishi is actually being self-sacrificing. It's something that many other MP's are not. It's something that you don't see much in political life. What Rishi is doing is that by being centre stage he is shielding colleagues from criticism of the upcoming election campaign.
He is protecting the likes of Kemi Badenoch- Powell and Penny Mordaunt. Rishi knows that in modern politics if you are the Prime Minister and you lose an election campaign you are obliged to resign. What he is doing is effectively clearing the road ahead for Kemi and Penny if he loses and then resigns. They can then go for the leadership and they won't be tainted by people saying stuff like "yeah but in the election campaign you said this and you said that"

Obviously the idea of a Conservative loss at the next election is a very distant possibility and I actually think the conservative party can well win with a reduced majority. In many cases the reasons to vote Labour are null and void. In the past people voted Labour because Labour dangled the magic money tree in front of them and offered to pretty much to interfere with large areas of your life.
Well the Tories have got heir own magic money tree and they have proved it by doing lot's of truly fantastic uncosted things over the last few years. In the past if you voted Labour you were voting for union unrest and strikes. Well there have been some pretty great strikes under the Conservatives that have been just as good as the Labour ones. There is the excellent Train strike that is ongoing and is helping people to make informed choices about their methods of transport. There was the postal strike that not only knackered Royal Mail but also took out a few businesses that actually used Royal Mail services

It's not often I say this but today I do: I say jolly well done Rishi for protecting your colleagues and being prepared to take all the blame.

On a separate side note the person that took photo's of Johnny Mercers laptop screen should be arrested under the treason act and sentenced to at least a couple of years of prison. They are clearly a threat to national security and most likely a communist trotskyite leftie

Interest rates are important but it takes time for them to have an impact because people are mostly on fixed term mortgages. The increase hasn't hit me yet because I locked in for five years in 2020 and any decrease might not hit someone else for another five years.

Roughly a million a year remortgaging, so significant numbers suffering and that is only one of the burning boats.

Are we back at the denial phase, or is this bargaining?

I think things might not be going labour way. I still can't see me voting at all (having voted tory all my lifr). But I like everyone will take a tax cut happily over a tax rise etc and that's a head ache if rates come down rishi cuts tax again what can Kier do say we are going to make you worse off is not a winner