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Originally Posted by Kursk
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2. The Greater Manchester Police said that “matters involving council tax and personal tax do not fall into the jurisdiction of policing" which implies a limited "investigation" on their part which is just as well for Angela given that the same police force sent innocent Andy Malkinson to the slammer for 17 years.
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HMRC have also confirmed there is no case.
This wasn't really going to go anywhere. The Tories did it just ahead of the local election campaign as a bit of politics.
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Originally Posted by ianch99
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.
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I don't understand how he can be so stupid. This is a bit of clever politics that you need to be a Tony Blair character to spot.
Anyone with the most basic sense of politics or common sense would say that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom does not leave the 80th commemoration of D-Day early. Even outside of an election, you don't do it. David Cameron was there did he not warn Sunak how it would look? There is a photo of the President of the United States, The President of France, The Chancellor of Germany and .... the UK foreign secretary. Thankfully Cameron is an ex-PM so it still looks statesmanlike from the UK. Even politically surely Sunak wants to be in that photo?
The thing is that it's so easy. You should want to do this as PM anyway. Which PM would not want to spend their time with D-Day veterans of every country on what will be the last ever chance to do so? Starmer stayed for the whole thing and I don't think that not attending, or leaving early, was ever considered for Labour. I don't think they even thought about it until Sunak left early.
When Suank left early did he not consider "Wait a moment, Starmer is staying behind? Maybe I should as well?". Maybe he thought he was being clever because Starmer won't be campaigning and he would?
It's bad politically, and morally, and a basic failure to do his job.
The guy is a complete moron.