The fall of the Tory party

Only 10% of funding promised to reduce inequality as part of the levelling up agenda has been spent, MPs have said. The Public Accounts Committee found ministers were "unable to provide any compelling examples of what levelling up funding has delivered so far".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68574010

I'd imagine some consultants wrote reports

Fucking hell could added a sensitive content warning! That face 😱

https://twitter.com/Gainward4/status/1768624818625093712

Is that reforms new ad campaign?

I assumed it was some very niche leather+fascists gay porn.

It looks like the Conservatives are planning to dump Rishi Sunak for
yet another unelected PM, most likely Penny Mordaunt.

This will happen on May 3rd so they aren't stained with the Local
Election's disaster.

https://twitter.com/BladeoftheS/status/1768780192116261116

Too right grumpy! Nine out of ten of the poorest areas in northern Europe are in the UK. This is the fare our neo liberal politicians have fed us over the past 40 years. Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, reckons that the gap between north and south is greater than between the two Germanies upon reunification. 'Levelling Up', smoke and mirrors as usual.

So sunak says fuck to'em and calls an election on May 2nd? Claiming when he said we wouldn't be having a General Election on May 2nd it was a D Day style bluff.

Or not?

That's pretty much what we'd all like, but it's doubtful, Ace.

Given we all know rishi is only in this for personal gain we need to look at where benefits for him come.

In or out as PM doesn't matter, he will stay till some personal goal (such as the India trade deal) is achieved or can definitely no longer happen in this parliament.

At this point he will call a GE and walk away.

Given we all know rishi is only in this for personal gain

Not that it's for me to stick up for Sunak, but if he was really only interested in personal gain, he'd have stayed running a hedge fund. He'd make a lot more money doing that than he ever will as a politician, active or otherwise.

It's vanity isn't it

I'm with Eskay.

Also, it depends if you consider changing law to allow companies you essentially own (through family) abroad to enter a market they have limited exposure to to be a small gain Vs running a hedge fund. The family wealth is Infosys not his hedge fund "winnings".
(though these weren't small in the scheme of average UK salaries)

What law did he change?

Not that it's for me to stick up for Sunak, but if he was really only interested in personal gain, he'd have stayed running a hedge fund. He'd make a lot more money doing that than he ever will as a politician, active or otherwise.

He'll get his rewards later. These people are just placeholders put there to push through private interests. Whatever corruption happens, if it happens, won't be openly traceable, but Sunak will be very, very wealthy when he's done. See how much money Johnson's had shovelled down his gullet since. Sunak's 'freeport' project will be worth far more to, to pick a completely random example, Indian business tycoons than what Johnson's done (or not done).

Soz meant trade deals.

but Sunak will be very, very wealthy when he's done.

He already is.

I think it's 50/50 if we'll agree a new trade deal with India before this government are ejected by the elecorate.

My opinion it's 30:70 against it happening with the India elections too.

If that's the case and it IS sunaks reason for hanging around. He will call the election once it becomes clear he can't push it through by January 2025 as he can just go back to being a #hedgefundtechbro

I get that it’s become accepted that Sunak is a techbro in the same way that Johnson was a great orator but neither withstand any sort of exposure to reality (Johnson is barely um, ah, forgive me, articulate).

Leaving aside that Sunak worked in finance then politics rather than any sort of tech, he doesn’t exactly meet the techbro hyper masculine stereotype (in fact he presents as the sort of chap that would get his head flushed down the toilet by a techbro or, indeed, by Biff from Back to the Future).

Not that this has any relevance to election/no election but I’m not buying the narrative about Sunak’s tech expertise

his future biography will need a low moment, some pathos before he returns in blaze of glory in some other field, a true rags to riches story, the underdog overcoming all odds
his sacking will boost sales of said book when it's eventually released, it's a win win lose

It’s going to be the American Dream. Via being head boy at Winchester and marrying the daughter of a billionaire.

Only the hardest of hearts wouldn’t be moved by that plucky underdog tale.

Sunak's understanding of technology is beyond basic. I know someone who attending a meeting with him at Number 10 and he was shocked at how poor his understanding was.

How is that even possible, if he’s not a techbro then we all know that he’s a technocrat

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