Jeremy Hunt is emerging now as favourite with bookies to succeed Boris, with Sunak now out of favour.

 

Rumours that the expected big reshuffle soon will see Truss as the first female Chancellor,

Genuinely would be shocked if Hunt does get it with the way the Conservatives have lurched to the right - unless he does a chameleon act and acts all populist too. Heard Penny Mordaunt's name mentioned a bit recently- staunch Brexiter but more professional than Johnson. Not keen on her but then again could get far far worse.

I’m not a Tory fan at all but I always thought Jeremy Hunt was a far better candidate to lead the Tory party than Boris Johnson. I watched both candidates during a live debate prior to Johnson being elected as leader and Hunt was far stronger, more credible and convincing than Johnston has ever been. Since being elected, Johnson has shown he is full of empty promises and it’s clear the party have no clear solutions to the cost of living crisis. Suggesting that people buy cheaper brands and the Tories were the party who introduced free bus passes is insulting, out of touch and completely insensitive to the many people who will be forced into fuel poverty and/or have to make a choice between eating and heating. Both eating and having adequate heat within your home are basic commodities that everyone should be able to afford and not forced to choose. The problem is the Tories have no real conception of this as many of them are millionaires or from affluent backgrounds who have no proper empathy of what it’s like to live in poverty.

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Genuinely would be shocked if Hunt does get it with the way the Conservatives have lurched to the right - unless he does a chameleon act and acts all populist too. Heard Penny Mordaunt's name mentioned a bit recently- staunch Brexiter but more professional than Johnson. Not keen on her but then again could get far far worse.

 

Can’t see Hunt being like that. He’s way more to the Centre than UKIP style. The member base probably see him as someone way more Liberal and not associated with this current Tory Government. Think he would be a sensible choice for them. Can’t see them going for a massive Brexiteer, they need someone credible imo to get voter confidence back. Would love to be a fly on the wall in Tory HQ tomorrow morning!

There is nobody who is an obvious contender for leadership of the Tory party right now. That says a lot about a party who have been in power for 12 years.

Unions are forecasting a national strike after Boris today announced that one in 5 public sector jobs will be axed to save money.

"technical problems" I think the words ur looking for Rishi are 'because we're ideologically committed to making poor people pay for this crisis and protecting the incomes of the wealthy'.

 

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"technical problems" I think the words ur looking for Rishi are 'because we're ideologically committed to making poor people pay for this crisis and protecting the incomes of the wealthy'.

 

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I know Johnson's regime likes to assume we are all idiots, but this really does take the biscuit. Until they come up with something even more ludicrous next week.

Can’t see Hunt being like that. He’s way more to the Centre than UKIP style. The member base probably see him as someone way more Liberal and not associated with this current Tory Government. Think he would be a sensible choice for them. Can’t see them going for a massive Brexiteer, they need someone credible imo to get voter confidence back. Would love to be a fly on the wall in Tory HQ tomorrow morning!

 

From everything I know about the Tory party and the infiltration by the hard right/UKIP members plus the wishes of the Tory party donors and the Media (such as the Mail, Express, Telegraph, Sun) they do not want Jeremy Hunt. Instead they want a hard right Trumpian , anti EU , anti regulation, anti human rights person. And Hunt isn't it. He may get a credible second in a leadership contest but he would not win. Wish that was not the truth but that is where we are. And Johnson is obviously better to them for the moment.

Unions are forecasting a national strike after Boris today announced that one in 5 public sector jobs will be axed to save money.

 

The amount of money saved will be a pittance to the money spent on Brexit and not investigating furlough fraud. It's all ideaological for Daily Mail Headlines. Probably won't happen as Departments have to function.

The alleged cuts will only cause further problems within our society. Look at Grenville. That was a situation that shouldn’t have happened and was due to the impact of austerity.

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Genuinely would be shocked if Hunt does get it with the way the Conservatives have lurched to the right - unless he does a chameleon act and acts all populist too. Heard Penny Mordaunt's name mentioned a bit recently- staunch Brexiter but more professional than Johnson. Not keen on her but then again could get far far worse.

 

What like Liz Truss? :lol:

From everything I know about the Tory party and the infiltration by the hard right/UKIP members plus the wishes of the Tory party donors and the Media (such as the Mail, Express, Telegraph, Sun) they do not want Jeremy Hunt. Instead they want a hard right Trumpian , anti EU , anti regulation, anti human rights person. And Hunt isn't it. He may get a credible second in a leadership contest but he would not win. Wish that was not the truth but that is where we are. And Johnson is obviously better to them for the moment.

 

Yeh I can see both sides about wanting a more Cameroonian candidate like Hunt who to be fair did a decent job as Health Secretary and seems a decent man even if I disagree with his ideology. But how do you keep the red wall seats or do they follow blindly now they have left Labour? Hard to know!

Another day in Johnson's Britain....

 

Johnson announces that the government's priority should be "crime, crime, crime".

 

A few hours later, the Met arrest a Tory MP on suspicion of rape and sexual assault.

What about his own crimes?

Nadine Dorries (yes, her again) had another meeting with the DCMS committee today. She was asked how many of the responses to the consultation on the privatisation of Channel 4 supported it. She proudly announced that the figure was 96%. The actual figure was 4%.

Thats an even higher % than the number of people who think she’s 1) a moron 2) only doing this because she doesn’t like that they actually hold the government to account 3) think she’s a weapons grade moron 4) is petty and vindictive 5) is the worst culture Secretary in human history 6) is a complete and total raging moron 7) should resign 8) should leave C4 the f*** alone

Don't hold back there Phil, tell us what ya really think pal..

 

Yeah she also admitted sharing her Netflix password with four other households which is against the consumer terms of agreement and obviously nobody else does this..

 

I mean, it's pretty obvious at this point that the only reason she is in post is to be an unashamed cheerleader for the PM, and the Tories think that 'Culture' is relatively unimportant enough to be able to get away with putting someone useless there in post. Of course, in reality Culture is arguably one of THE most important ministerial roles, looking after the area where the UK punches above its weight and exercises immense soft power but yeah don't worry about putting in some political lightweight who shouldn't be anywhere near government let alone Culture and Media Secretary and can't even begin to understand her brief.

 

When you think about the absolutely fantastic output that Channel 4 has brought about over the last 30 odd years (It's A Sin, Skins, Michaela Coel's break with Chewing Gum as a very small set of examples- yes there's been a lot of rubbish too obvs), it can afford to take risks because it is publicly owned (but not funded) something that it'll be less able to do when it is privatised and taking on the billion dollar budgets of say Netflix and Amazon Prime. The weekday hour that Channel 4 News broadcasts is pretty much the only news programme that I watched because it is the last bastian of decent, gritty and honest journalism and not the kind of nothing client journalism that we see from the BBC too often these days.

 

It's frustrating to see, but at least Nadine is providing some of the most surreal and 'entertaining' content available with her constant fuck-ups, though I'm not sure even Channel 4 would commission Nadine Dorries: A Day In The Life. Maybe Channel 5 might be interested? or GBeebies.

The entire government have proven themselves to be lying, mutually-supporting law-breaking, lying, hypocritical, callous, lying, Megarich supporting, incompetent, lying, tax-dodging, blame-shifting, lying, self-serving, racist, partying-in-a-crisis, lying, nepotismic, elitist, European-hating, lying, Oligarch-supporting, serial-holidaying-in-a-crisis, lying bunch of liars that makes Thatcher look like a warm and cuddly semi-competent good-old-days figure (and I loathed Thatcherism bitterly).

 

Oh, and I forgot to mention liars.

Boris found pictured drinking in November 2020 which hints he just MAY have been lying about not knowing he was at all those parties?

 

 

And the same day as a former MP is convicted of sexual assault of a minor, not the best PR day x