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A few reports (Harry Cole and Beth Rigby) that initially Sunak wanted to scrap the Rwanda scheme, but was persuaded to keep it by advisers. Perhaps he should have taken his own advice.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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That sounds suspiciously like trying to separate Sunak from the madhouse, when he is in fact, part of the madhouse.
Wouldn't believe a word of it.
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I suspect he's so unpopular now that those who support the Rwanda scheme will see this round of stories as proof that Rishi is a softie.
Meanwhile those against the Rwanda scheme will probably take your view.
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It's like my 5 year old. "it wasn't my idea"
Even she understands the difference between intention and action.
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He denied the story FWIW.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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MPs shake fists at sky.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
So, wait, the right of the party wants more pessimistic forecasts so that the left of the party doesn't reduce taxes too much?
Wtf?
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I'm confused. Isn't the same part of the party that criticised the OBR for being too pessimistic about the impact of Brexit? Are we into wave/particle duality or Schrödinger's Cat? Can we have a diagram drawn using crayons, please?
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'Stop over-estimating growth because it makes us look sh*t'
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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It's populism. Just throw shit at the machinery of the state so you can ignore what you really should do later.
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Ugh. I've just spotted my MP's name on the list. I had mistakenly credited him with being one of the more sensible members of the party, but he seems to have been sucked into the make-believe world of Frost and Hannan.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
It seems to be like the Republicans: once you've offered your soul to 'the cause', nothing else matters, and once-held principles are so passé.
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You see, the OBR does regularly over-estimate performance.
Wouldn't it be great if they had actually spotted some devil in the forecasting detail, ideally highly technical, which they then highlighted and that then had actually improved the forecasting.
But no, it's "we want you to forecast lower growth so the tax take looks lower so Labour's manifesto looks harder to be enacted, now that we're in an election year" I mean, FFS. Sort your lives out lads.
What the f*ck are this lot in it for, because the betterment of the country seems extremely far down their list of priorities.
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Also loving the bitchy you-were-never-really-one-of-us articles being rushed out in the Telegraph to cover Chris Skidmore stepping down. Stay classy guys.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Yeah, just noticed the Tim Stanley piece pooh-poohing the idea of having principles strong enough that you're ready to resign from your livelihood over. "These are my principles, but if you don't like those, well, I have others."
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Oh absolutely. Completely full of sh*t but very obviously deeply embedded in the party.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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9 month year old - quality journalism!
Why do some people find it hard to understand that everyone has a right to a legal defence, no matter how horrendous the crime they are accused of, and that the defendants representative has to do everything they can for their client? If that doesn't happen they can get off due to an inadequate defence.
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From a brief read of the Sun article, he only 'saved' them from the madatory death penalty in their respective countries.
Since we don't have the death penalty here, presumably the whole government and judiciary are equally complicit in 'saving' murderers in the UK?
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I think in one on the instances mentioned above a case against a murderer was originally dismissed as he hadn't had proper legal representation.
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I assume because most people's legal education is through things like the OJ Simpson drama and legally blonde, rather than anything as highbrow as civics classes.
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Have you ever seen anything more wet?
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Fortunately a community notice has been posted pointing out that community notes are, from the community, not the labour party...
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Are we sure @ConsPost isn't satire? Not only is that post Community Noted, but...
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While we're on Twixxer... Arron Banks (amongst others) not realising that this *is* satire:
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If they lied less, would it help?
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Is that what you call a silk shade?
IGMC
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Credit where it’s due, it was good to hear about something worthwhile getting done yesterday https://news.sky.com/story/amp/domestic-abuse-victims-to-receive-flee-funds-to-escape-abusive-partners-13044455
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