Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36176558)

Sunak has messed up big time. Leaving the D-Day commemorations early to do a campaign interview shows how out of touch he and his team are.

BBC are now reporting that he is making a grovelling apology for leaving early.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36176571)

I'm just baffled by such a decision and hope the veterans don't feel too let down by their country's leader.

It clearly shows Sunak's disconnect to the British public because until now I couldn't think of anyone who would a) want to skip such a ceremony b) think doing so wouldn't reflect badly on them with their friends, family and in this instance, the electorate.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36176577)

Slightly off topic (sorry) but a contrast on how a different national Leader behaves:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36176578)

One of the best clips I saw on the news yesterday. Those who had to shed their blood to push totalitarianism back because it was allowed to spread too far across Europe before anyone seriously woke up to the threat … they see Ukraine, its leader and its people, and they know, and they understand.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36176578)

One of the best clips I saw on the news yesterday. Those who had to shed their blood to push totalitarianism back because it was allowed to spread too far across Europe before anyone seriously woke up to the threat … they see Ukraine, its leader and its people, and they know, and they understand.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36176580)

See how tiny is my violin.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36176576)

Just walking past Downing Street as you do and I came across Sunak's Friday night karaoke lyrics blowing down the road. I may have tweaked them slightly ;)

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36176511)

1. Yes, I’m concerned for the apparent Parkinsonian symptoms Diane Abbot is exhibiting. I have no doubt she is also aware, and is likely taking medical advice. However, if she is happy to continue to pursue a political career while those symptoms are not debilitating, that’s up to her. Her hard left politics concern me, but TBH she is on the lunatic fringe of the Labour Party, whereas hard right politics is very much mainstream in the current Tory party and that is of far greater concern to me.

2. Angela Rayner has been investigated by the police and other authorities and is facing no further action. Not sure what your problem is?

3. The Senedd is a glorified county council and attracts politicians of that calibre. Its Labour membership, in particular, pretty much opted out of the New Labour project of the late 90s and early 2000s and as a result are prone to making lumbering, centralising, unreconstructed lefty errors with now very obvious consequences for the likes of the NHS in Wales. However, until voters in Wales lose their widespread compulsion to vote for anything in a red rosette regardless of their competence, they will continue to get the government they deserve.

4. Starmer is, I think, capable of quick thinking, but his instincts are to stop and chew things over rather than respond quickly. Watch back the infamous £2,000 claim in the ITV debate and you can visibly see Starmer thinking to himself, “Hang on, that’s not right, it’s so obviously not right there must be some reason I’ve not spotted for him to be even saying that … there could be a trap here, let me think it through.” As the debate unfolded over the subsequent 24 hours of course it became clear it was just a brazen lie designed to be so epic in scale that we all stop and assume it can’t be a lie, there must be some truth to it. If that’s how the Tories are going to conduct the next 4 weeks of campaigning, then Starmer is going to have to start trusting that he knows what he’s offering the electorate and act quickly to counteract misinformation about it.

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 36176590)

3 )and yet sir kier has confidence in them , is he stupid, lying or a plain con artist :cool:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36176591)

He’s exercising a form of collective responsibility. His private thoughts on Welsh Labour would probably be quite illuminating. Also, vis a vis Tory claims that what Welsh Labour is doing to the NHS in Wales now is an indication of what UK Labour would do to the NHS in England after the election, it’s worth pointing out that Welsh Labour was running the Cardiff clown car last time there was a UK Labour government, and there was a notable disparity in outcomes between England and Wales then, too. Of course Labour can’t draw attention to that without implicitly slagging off the Welsh branch of the party, so they’re a bit stuck.