More and more referrals about this. Some services but not enough and maybe a sticking plaster for deeper social and economic issues.
You know that I’m not really exercising too much hyperbole when I say that I’m not really from the working class. I’m from the underclass, and the thing about the underclass that politicians will never get is that cuts don’t work on them, in the sense that they don’t compel them to say “fair enough, I’ll get a job then”.
When cuts happen, the underclass just do more of what they’re already doing to get by.
There have been a LOT of cuts in the past decade.
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I think this thread has run its course.
After four years, I think we’ve discovered that it is Labour, not the Tories, that are in trouble.
Cherts was right.
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I think this could be a busy thread in the next few years.
There will be countless stories of Conservative malfeasance, I am sure.
What there won’t be is too much trouble.
We perhaps have not noticed yet, but we have set some extraordinary precedents over the past few years, not least ministers, Prime or otherwise, not resigning when they should.
I am sure that will still happen in the cases where the minister is caught bang to rights. Perhaps it’s worth keeping the thread going to record those incidents.
However, I am also of the mind that the Tories are collectively not in trouble. We might also get more engagement in shorter threads on specific incidents than we do on a very long, very old thread.
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There will be a whole slew of stuff they will fuck up, but as you say they will get through it and if they sort Brexit they will be able to claim that they can be trusted to do what they promised
If I were an up and coming Labour MP with designs on the leadership, I would be giving this one a swerve. Reckon it’s going to be a hiding to nothing
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Or change the thread title to something like “yet another arsehole move by the Tories”?
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Personally, I’d like to see a return to the glory days of British politics. There was a time when we lead the world, and we desperately need characters like Profumo, Thorpe, etc, to stand up and really get down to the nitty gritty. Get on with shagging prossies and lying through your teeth to parliament, take a gay lover and try to keep him quiet by killing him, whatever happened to those halcyon times? 
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Sounds like a normal weekend to me.
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“I shot the mastiff…”
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They don’t care so they won’t fund any help.
Who?
No idea, reads like he is a Cummings yes man…
Or someone who can be browbeaten
Given the chaos between No10 and No11 under May, I am not completely surprised that they want to make sure the message is the same
Can you imagine a company where the CEO says one thing and is then contradicted by the CFO
Scratch all that, our new chancellor is a man who knows his onions, has excellent judgement and should be worthy of our respect.
One of his childhood heroes was Southampton football player Matt Le Tissier.
“One of my prized possessions is an 18th birthday card signed by the entire Saints team, but Matt in the middle there, which I’ve still got,” Mr Sunak told the BBC in an October 2019 interview.
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Very impressive individual whenever I’ve seen him perform.
Still a complete and utter cunt. Just very good at it.
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