NurembergVillan Posted February 3, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 hours ago, Chindie said: The BBC will need a bit of time of create a new graphic showing him as a superhero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted February 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) We've gone from "There were no parties, all guidance was followed" To a sitting MP publicly stating that a penalty notice isn't really that bad Edited February 3, 2022 by StefanAVFC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 hours ago, choffer said: Let's see how the poverty index looks at the end of the year? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy7211 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 27 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: We've gone from "There were no parties, all guidance was followed" To a sitting MP publicly stating that a penalty notice isn't really that bad This is just an idiot Tory trying to change the narrative. The question is if the PM should resign for misleading parliament. Which he has, and a fixed penalty fine would be proof of that. Nobody is asking if the PM should resign because of a fixed penalty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Super Sunak to the rescue. Now Teflon coated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Super Sunak to the rescue. Now Teflon coated. He has done f all in the grand scheme of things. Energy bills rise by £700 in April. He is giving a £200 rebate in October which we will have to pay back at £40 a year over 5 years. Energy cap is expected to rise by at least another £200 in October completely wiping out that £200 they are loaning people. The one off £150 council tax rebate will probably just about cover for most the council tax increase in April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 3, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 3, 2022 Just now, markavfc40 said: He is giving a £200 rebate in October which we will have to pay back at £40 a year over 5 years. This is a loan not a rebate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2022 Think how much better off we'd be in this increasingly expensive world if our tax burden was lessened, perhaps by passing the costs of healthcare to those who truly need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 8 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: He has done f all in the grand scheme of things. Energy bills rise by £700 in April. He is giving a £200 rebate in October which we will have to pay back at £40 a year over 5 years. Energy cap is expected to rise by at least another £200 in October completely wiping out that £200 they are loaning people. The one off £150 council tax rebate will probably just about cover for most the council tax increase in April. Indeed. It's quite likely that 2022 is going to be an annus horribilis of falling share prices, increasing inflation (for most of the year at least) outpacing wage growth, with gas and fuel bills leading the way (talking to one colleague yesterday who is having a 150% increase in her energy bills). What that's likely to mean politically is that Johnson is probably safe for the time being. The logical thing for the Tories to do would be to leave him in place as a receptacle for everyone's fury, and then replace him later (either before party conference or in early next year) in time for the outlook for personal finances to (hopefully) be improving a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Why do people need to eat and drink so much, why can't wrap up warm instead on putting the heating on. Why can't the lazy ******* walk to work. Don't get us started on disabled and vulnerable people, can't we just have them put down. It beggars what some of the conversations must be like behind closed Tory doors. We could not have a worse time in history to have these incompetent evil corrupts ******* running this country. Its inconceivable that any other party could run the government as bad as this. Apologies are no good, some of these Tories need locking up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Rishi gets off the pot and picks a side Quote Rishi Sunak has said controversy over Downing Street parties has damaged public trust in the government, but Boris Johnson has his "full support". The chancellor told the BBC he believed the prime minister had always told the truth about parties in No 10. Also has a poor memory and doesn’t look through windows Quote But, in an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, he said he had been in that room "100, 200, God knows how many times" for Covid meetings during he pandemic, adding: "You're asking me about something that happened almost two years ago." Asked whether he had been aware of multiple gatherings during lockdown, Mr Sunak, speaking in his office overlooking the Downing Street garden, replied: "People seem to think that I'm spending all my time there staring out of this window behind me... [But] I spent half my time in the Treasury, as well as working here." Full BBC Story He’s outed himself as another one of “them” (if there was any doubt). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, Genie said: Rishi gets off the pot and picks a side Also has a poor memory and doesn’t look through windows Full BBC Story He’s outed himself as another one of “them” (if there was any doubt). Interestingly again the BBC are allowing commenting and they are 100% negative against him, Boris and the Government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2022 Quote Boris Johnson’s longstanding policy chief Munira Mirza has dramatically quit over the prime minister’s attempt to associate Keir Starmer with the failure to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile. In a strongly-worded resignation letter obtained by the Spectator, Mirza told Johnson: “This was not the usual cut and thrust of politics; it was an inappropriate and partisan reference to a horrendous case” of child sexual abuse. Grauniad 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 16 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Grauniad Matter of time now. The saville jibe was his big gambit it's backfired band now looks like a spectacular error of judgement. Boris is now the one associated with Jimmy Saville not Starmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2022 24 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Grauniad War on woke policy architect. She'll be a miss. To someone. Somewhere. Sometime. Maybe. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Feels like Boris has gone Rogue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, Chindie said: War on woke policy architect. She'll be a miss. To someone. Somewhere. Sometime. Maybe. Going too Culture War for even the Queen of Culture War. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted February 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 3, 2022 I saw a tweet earlier from LBC and someone had phoned in to say their children are bed bound in onesies just trying to keep warm as they can't afford heating costs. Both the caller and her husband worked. I saw a number comments along the lines of my mom/nan/great nan grew up with just one fire in the whole house and had to sleep in coats suggesting well they had it just as bad 60/70/80 years ago. FFS what chance have you got when people can justify one of the richest countries in the world having people, both in and out of work, having to choose between heating or eating. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2022 'Our elderly relatives in war and immediately post war times lived through it' is one helluva great stance to sell. You know when life sucked in many ways? We're going back to that, except we're charging you for the bits that were good back then as well. Sign me up...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Anyone fancy coming to London and smashing some shit up at the weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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