Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister
Discussion
hidetheelephants said:
So the plan is to alienate the people who can elect you in the vain hope some other people who can't might remember your name in a few years and vote for you then? Apart from being a crap plan I'm struggling with how it can be extrapolated across the nation.
No, it would be to market the Conservatives as a party and say London under Khan/Labour is a mess to try to pitch to the potential Reform voters (essentially saying "if you vote Labour you get this"). If you look at the video of crime in "London" that was actually New York, it isn't something that most Londoners actually recognised but matches the outside perception of it.The downside is they lose London faster, but it's happening anyway so at worst it speeds it up by a couple of elections while gaining elsewhere.
MiniMan64 said:
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: Gove not standing.
That's 77 now.
They all see which way the winds blowing and don’t fancy being embarrassed in six weeks. That's 77 now.
Will the be enough highly paid board places to go around?
Or are we going to have a special I’m an Ex-Tory MP Get Me Out Of Here series this year?
abzmike said:
MiniMan64 said:
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Gove not standing.
That's 77 now.
They all see which way the winds blowing and don’t fancy being embarrassed in six weeks. That's 77 now.
Will the be enough highly paid board places to go around?
Or are we going to have a special I’m an Ex-Tory MP Get Me Out Of Here series this year?
k? He'll be writing st columns for the torygraph and maybe some speaking engagements like Boris.dxg said:
President Merkin said:
I regret to inform you looking comfortable in factories is not a prerequisite of a statesman...but IKWYM. 
Wider point I suppose is what do you expect them to do in an election? They have to be seen to be out & about, the problem for Sunak's advisors is he is so visibly dislocated when prised from his private jets & plonked into the midst of the plebs. They really should be thinking hard about this stuff & it's not as if it's a surprise to anyone.
I continue to be amazed that more is not made of that particular PR stunt. It is his bacon sandwich. Wider point I suppose is what do you expect them to do in an election? They have to be seen to be out & about, the problem for Sunak's advisors is he is so visibly dislocated when prised from his private jets & plonked into the midst of the plebs. They really should be thinking hard about this stuff & it's not as if it's a surprise to anyone.
I mean, just how disconnected from everyday life do you have to be to not understand how a chip and pin card works?
It flags up that, like the Queen (King?), he just doesn't have to deal with money. It is of such little concern to him that he doesn't know how to tender it in the physical real word.
abzmike said:
MiniMan64 said:
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Gove not standing.
That's 77 now.
They all see which way the winds blowing and don’t fancy being embarrassed in six weeks. That's 77 now.
Will the be enough highly paid board places to go around?
Or are we going to have a special I’m an Ex-Tory MP Get Me Out Of Here series this year?
eharding said:
Sunak's Resignation Honours list
Justification on its own for wholesale constitutional reform; after the farce of honours lists of fatcats they panhandled and no-mark SPADs who literally achieved nothing with their lives beyond being recruited by Boris Johnson or Cheese Truss the whole lot needs replaced with something that isn't an utter laughing stock and a source of graft and corruption.
S600BSB said:
Wonder if he might just chuck it altogether…hidetheelephants said:
Justification on its own for wholesale constitutional reform; after the farce of honours lists of fatcats they panhandled and no-mark SPADs who literally achieved nothing with their lives beyond being recruited by Boris Johnson or Cheese Truss the whole lot needs replaced with something that isn't an utter laughing stock and a source of graft and corruption.
The resignation honours should be limited by how long you were in office so you get x Lords per year as PM.Being able to offer knighthoods and seats in the Lords is a key part of how government keeps functioning so no PM will want to make big changes.
Mr Penguin said:
The resignation honours should be limited by how long you were in office so you get x Lords per year as PM.
Being able to offer knighthoods and seats in the Lords is a key part of how government keeps functioning so no PM will want to make big changes.
Loading the upper chamber with donors and politically reliable seatwarmers is the problem. They can name who they like as Sir Fat Bloater of Loamshire and Dame Marjorie of Paperclips Galore, Streatham and give them a photo opportunity, but they should not be within a million miles of the legislative process.Being able to offer knighthoods and seats in the Lords is a key part of how government keeps functioning so no PM will want to make big changes.
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