I’d love to be an MP
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Rob from The House is a councillor. As is Simon Ashton from Halifax/Leeds way.
It’s possible
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Worst job in the world. Can never please everyone and under constant scrutiny.
Doesn’t pay enough either for the amount of shit you’d have to deal with.
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My Mrs’ best friend is/was a councillor. We were on hols a few weeks back and she said the abuse was horrible. And she - regardless of party - is a good one. I’m sure she wasn’t taking a salary, not too sure. But she’d had enough.
Not even an MP.
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I don’t really get it…
They know they’re fucked, so why would they call an election now? Can they just not be arsed any more?
And not to mention 2 MPs have been killed by constituents in the last couple of years.
I wouldn’t fancy it as a job
Paula Vennells was up at the Horizon Enquiry crying crocodile tears today and this has washed all that attention away.
She surely can’t believe her luck.
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It makes me think that things are pretty unsaveable at the moment, so they are doing a runner from their own mess, letting Labour into power and then the blame of the real hidden mess that the country is in gets passed on to Labour for the next 5 years and the Tories think they can get voted back in with the last 14 years of Tory shit getting blamed on Labour. That must be their thinking/plan?
…or they are that deluded that they think they can win?
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Yeah it is properly the best bargaining position he’ll get, I think the election is planned to be just after the first Rwanda flight takes off too?
It’s already been strong armed through the House of Lords and laws changed to make it happen. I think it probably will take off this time with them needing it to happen for the election or they are truly dead in the water but it’ll probably be the first and last one ever.
Rishi Sunak basically confirmed this morning a flight will not take off before the election, making the timing of this even weirder.
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I need to make a handy list of scumbag behaviour done by the Tories in the last 14 years when they come knocking. I really want to melt them.
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Really? Yeah that is madness!? I go back to my first point then, the country is unsavable!
Yeah just had a look:
What an absolutely catastrophic waste of time and money. Maybe over half a billion pounds?
Posting this for context:
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He’s hoping to mop up the loony racist voters who will vote Tory literally just to see a plane take off to Rwanda. Hopefully it has the reverse effect of pushing more people who don’t want the plane to take off away from the Tories.
Lets just hope that this isn’t the first stage of the old David Cameron switcheroo. I fully expected them to bring him back at some point, this could be it.
From The Guardian:
Q: When will the flights go?
Sunak In July.
Q: After the election?
Sunak does not contest that. But he says he has a plan. He is the only leader who will deliver that, he says.
Q: So you are saying you have not done it yet, you are having an early election, but you are asking people to trust you that the flights will take off later?
Sunak says he has done the preparatory work. If he is re-elected, the flights will leave. They won’t under Keir Starmer. He will just offer an amnest to illegal migrants, he claims.
(That is not Labour’s policy.)
Some twisted individual could make a decent game of top trumps out of that.
Read last night as well that the phasing out of smoking, which was the last success he claimed in his speech, now won’t end up becoming law anyway because of the GE. So his arguably one and only positive contribution won’t even happen
Off the top of my head a few things to bring up when they knock on your door…
The Brexit referendum and Cameron fucking off!
Rwanda
Three PMs since the last election
Truss crashing the economy
Partygate, lying in parliament about it
Unusable Track and Trace contract
Unusable PPE contracts
HS2
Cameron and the piggy
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