Cont: General UK Politics IV - Rishi reprise

[Orphia Nay]

GBeebies has lost its third presenter in as many days. I wonder is the whole misogyny problem it has is causing a death spiral?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...in-robinson-its-third-presenter-in-three-days

 

[Andy_Ross]

Last night at the Conservative Democratic Organisation gala dinner, Priti Patel got huge applause when she said that GBNews are
"The most successful, most dynamic, no nonsense news station, and the defenders of free speech"

And also referred to “the Tory-hating, Brexit-bashing, free speech deniers at the BBC”

 

[The Don]

Last night at the Conservative Democratic Organisation gala dinner, Priti Patel got huge applause when she said that GBNews are
"The most successful, most dynamic, no nonsense news station, and the defenders of free speech"

And also referred to “the Tory-hating, Brexit-bashing, free speech deniers at the BBC”

I get a lot of GBNews content on my Facebook feed. It causes my head to spin how at odds with my perception of reality it is.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “"misuse of 15 minute cities"
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops“

 

[zooterkin]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “"misuse of 15 minute cities"
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops“

Have I missed something? Where are they getting idea that making things available in a 15 minute radius precludes leaving the area?

 

[GlennB]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “"misuse of 15 minute cities"
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops“

Bloody hell. I suppose it's what he thinks his audience wants to hear.

 

[Nessie]

Lots of tweets of photos showing how few people have gone to the Tory Party conference.

https://twitter.com/jonsopel/status/1708791921286541527

 

[Nessie]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “"misuse of 15 minute cities"
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops“

He is using the Sunak play book of making up policies no one has, and then claiming to be fighting them.

 

[Pixel42]

From a tweet from the Conservative Growth Group (Truss, Mogg, Patel et all):

It's time to Make Britain Grow Again #MGBA

They can't even get the hashtag right!

 

[Dave Rogers]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “"misuse of 15 minute cities"
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops“

Is he trying to suggest that we're being told to go shopping every 15 minutes?

Dave

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Is he trying to suggest that we're being told to go shopping every 15 minutes?

Dave

I thought 15 minutes referred to the lifespan of a Tory policy?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Lots of tweets of photos showing how few people have gone to the Tory Party conference.

https://twitter.com/jonsopel/status/1708791921286541527

It looks like a funeral for someone that nobody liked.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Last night at the Conservative Democratic Organisation gala dinner, Priti Patel got huge applause when she said that GBNews are
"The most successful, most dynamic, no nonsense news station, and the defenders of free speech"

And also referred to “the Tory-hating, Brexit-bashing, free speech deniers at the BBC”

This is the news organisation which, according to ratings figures published in the latest Private Eye, reaches 0.17% of the UK population and for which viewer engagement is rated in seconds per day. A news station (to use the name lightly) which regularly has broadcasts watched by nobody.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Have I missed something? Where are they getting idea that making things available in a 15 minute radius precludes leaving the area?

Far right anti-semitic conspiracy theories originating in the US, which are saying it's all a UN/George Soros plot to enslave white christians.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Mogg
"I want cheaper food. I want hormone injected beef from Australia. I've eaten beef in Australia, it's delicious. There's nothing wrong with it."

Let them eat beef

 

[Andy_Ross]

Even in The Thick of It, they didn't host a party conference in a disused railway station in Manchester while contemplating scrapping a major public transport connection to Manchester.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Jeremy Hunt says he wants those who feel unable to work because of physical or mental health conditions to receive medical and therapeutic help as a condition of receiving their out-of-work benefits uplift.

 

[Mashuna]

Mogg
"I want cheaper food. I want hormone injected beef from Australia. I've eaten beef in Australia, it's delicious. There's nothing wrong with it."

Let them eat beef

Is he channeling John Selwin Gummer?

 

[Lothian]

Jeremy Hunt says he wants those who feel unable to work because of physical or mental health conditions to receive medical and therapeutic help as a condition of receiving their out-of-work benefits uplift.

So under the Tories the best way to be able to a doctor is to resign from work and claim job seekers allowance

 

[The Don]

So under the Tories the best way to be able to a doctor is to resign from work and claim job seekers allowance

It wouldn't shock me to find out that benefits would be removed pending receipt of physical and/or mental help from doctors - but that therapy would never come.

 

[Lothian]

It wouldn't shock me to find out that benefits would be removed pending receipt of physical and/or mental help from doctors - but that therapy would never come.

I want to see the play "I Daniel Blake" on Saturday. Not sure how accurately it reflects the film but he was denied payments because the DWP assessment on his capacity to work differed from his doctor's.

 

[GlennB]

You couldn't make it up:

"Rishi Sunak’s Commons majority in peril as 60 Tories join Liz Truss group

Growth Group now same size as government’s majority, as it urges PM to cut taxes and resume fracking"

Guardian

Liz Truss has formed a splinter group? Liz Truss ???????

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “"misuse of 15 minute cities"
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops“

There was one of Harper's understrappers on PM being "interviewed" by Evan Davies (the quotation marks refer to the robotic responses of the understrapper), who just kept repeating that sodding nonsense, despite repeated attempts by Davies to seek clarification of these claims.

Carrot Flower Queen likened the understrapper to one of those old talking Action Man toys, which only had a couple of stock phrases...

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

You couldn't make it up:

"Rishi Sunak’s Commons majority in peril as 60 Tories join Liz Truss group

Growth Group now same size as government’s majority, as it urges PM to cut taxes and resume fracking"

Guardian

Liz Truss has formed a splinter group? Liz Truss ???????

She's coming back to finish the job she started! Be afraid UK, be very afraid.

 

[Darat]

You couldn't make it up:

"Rishi Sunak’s Commons majority in peril as 60 Tories join Liz Truss group

Growth Group now same size as government’s majority, as it urges PM to cut taxes and resume fracking"

Guardian

Liz Truss has formed a splinter group? Liz Truss ???????

Never forget that she was the choice of the Conservative party.

 

[Filippo Lippi]

Farage given a seat in Truss' press conference

 

[zooterkin]

There was one of Harper's understrappers on PM being "interviewed" by Evan Davies (the quotation marks refer to the robotic responses of the understrapper), who just kept repeating that sodding nonsense, despite repeated attempts by Davies to seek clarification of these claims.

Carrot Flower Queen likened the understrapper to one of those old talking Action Man toys, which only had a couple of stock phrases...

Yes, I heard that in the car; the cause of much swearing at the radio.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Rishi says that apparently, one of the biggest issues children and teachers grapple every day with is the impact of smartphones in schools.

He's changing the guidance to schools to ban all use of mobile phones in schools even at breaks and lunchtimes.

Here's me thinking that collapsing buildings, staffing and funding cuts were the big issues.

 

[Garrison]

Rishi says that apparently, one of the biggest issues children and teachers grapple every day with is the impact of smartphones in schools.

He's changing the guidance to schools to ban all use of mobile phones in schools even at breaks and lunchtimes.

Here's me thinking that collapsing buildings, staffing and funding cuts were the big issues.

It seems to be part of the pattern of announcing initiatives to deal with non-existent issues.

 

[The Don]

Rishi says that apparently, one of the biggest issues children and teachers grapple every day with is the impact of smartphones in schools.

He's changing the guidance to schools to ban all use of mobile phones in schools even at breaks and lunchtimes.

Here's me thinking that collapsing buildings, staffing and funding cuts were the big issues.

Yes it was also a main topic of conversation on the Jeremy "Whine" show on BBC2.

All of the problems of modern Britain are down to children having too much access to smartphones.

This "policy" appeals directly to old gammons who don't deal with children on a daily basis, just the caricature of children created by the Mail and Express - IOW the Tory core demographic.

 

[Pixel42]

It's also yet another measure which has been raised and promised before, only for nothing to come of it.

 

[jimbob]

Never forget that she was the choice of the Conservative party.

And that Sunak is so politically inept that she outmanoeuvred him

Yes, I heard that in the car; the cause of much swearing at the radio.

Likewise

Rishi says that apparently, one of the biggest issues children and teachers grapple every day with is the impact of smartphones in schools.

He's changing the guidance to schools to ban all use of mobile phones in schools even at breaks and lunchtimes.

Here's me thinking that collapsing buildings, staffing and funding cuts were the big issues.

To echo what the others have said, it's also impractical for many families.

My kids are not that far from school age and they sometimes needed to contact us if the bus was failing, or an after school activity.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sunak is playing silly buggers with the HS2 announcement and that he will confirm it is going beyond Manchester, somehow thinking that would be positive news instead of clearly stating it when the question is raised. My reasoning? Because it is far too inept to actually let it dominate the conference otherwise... even for Sunak.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Rishi says that apparently, one of the biggest issues children and teachers grapple every day with is the impact of smartphones in schools.

He's changing the guidance to schools to ban all use of mobile phones in schools even at breaks and lunchtimes.

Here's me thinking that collapsing buildings, staffing and funding cuts were the big issues.

It seems to be part of the pattern of announcing initiatives to deal with non-existent issues.

I think mobiles are one of the pet peeves of Katharine Birbalsingh, the traditional education zealot who seems to be the tories' go to person for education policy.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Rishi says the government takes no responsibility for the problems in the NHS, he says strikes are 'the number one reason' to blame for long waiting lists.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Going to Manchester, telling telling themthey can't have a modern railway connection, then flying back home to London.

Standing in a former railway station that ran some of the fastest scheduled express services from Manchester to London over 140 years ago and saying, with a straight face, We can't do that.

Levelling up didn't really exist did it?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Rishi says the government takes no responsibility for the problems in the NHS, he says strikes are 'the number one reason' to blame for long waiting lists.

FTFY

 

[Andy_Ross]

Phone footage of Priti Patel and Nigel Farage dancing and singing along to ‘Can't Take My Eyes Off You’

Well judged. For strong stomachs only

Video in link

https://twitter.com/NicholasPegg/status/1709101246882132069?t=3c4x5R3uNH8i5T-d08FaUg&s=19

 

[Mojo]

Never forget that she was the choice of the Conservative party.

And that Sunak is so politically inept that she outmanoeuvred him

With the Tory party membership voting, she didn't need to outmanoeuvre him.

 

[The Don]

Going to Manchester, telling telling themthey can't have a modern railway connection, then flying back home to London.

Standing in a former railway station that ran some of the fastest scheduled express services from Manchester to London over 140 years ago and saying, with a straight face, We can't do that.

Levelling up didn't really exist did it?

There were never any plans to actually level up - merely to generate headlines.

 

[zooterkin]

Going to Manchester, telling telling themthey can't have a modern railway connection, then flying back home to London.

Standing in a former railway station that ran some of the fastest scheduled express services from Manchester to London over 140 years ago and saying, with a straight face, We can't do that.

Levelling up didn't really exist did it?

I don't know how anyone could take seriously initiatives called "levelling up" and "Northern powerhouse", especially from the Tories.