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Liz ‘I claim Amazon Prime on expenses’ Truss wants to return to mainstream politics

Liz Truss: she should stick to her (publicly-funded) telly.

Read this story, from July last year:

People at the time were incensed:

And now it seems she wants to get back into mainstream politics.

It seems she thinks she still has a lot to say.

Perhaps someone should tell her to sit quietly and watch her telly.

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Quick review of PMQs: Sunak has to break out the ‘Jeremy Corbyn’ excuse AGAIN

I was going to do my own piece on Prime Minister’s Questions but Phil Moorhouse of A Different Bias got there first and did it better than I would have.

See/hear for yourself:

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Zara Aleena probation failings not political says Tory boy Bowie – but they are

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was under pressure over the murder of Zara Aleena in Ilford – so one of his mouthpieces rushed in to claim there was no political element to the case.

Ms Aleena was murdered by Jordan McSweeney, who had been wrongly assessed as a “medium risk” offender, when in fact the violent, woman-hating racist should have been classed “high risk” and recalled to prison after missing probation appointments.

A Ministry of Justice review has found that probation officers were under mounting pressure at the time of McSweeney’s assessment, with staffing shortages and an increasingly-heavy workload.

These are both symptoms of government funding cuts – and, indeed, during PMQs, Keir Starmer raised a “botched, then reversed” attempt to privatise the service, and a decade of underinvestment.

And Ms Aleena’s family’s spokeswoman, her aunt Faraz Naz, made it perfectly clear that “Government bears responsibility too, it is not just the probation service. They have blood on their hands.”

But Tory MP Andrew Bowie, discussing the case on the BBC’s Politics Live, falsely claimed this had not been said – after trying to say that the failings of the Probation Service were not political:

Of course they were.

They were the result of political decisions to starve the service of staff and resources.

A Conservative MP was responsible. But once again, it seems, we are not likely to see anybody take responsibility.

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Rishi Sunak fails to answer why he helped a sanctioned Russian warlord

Rishi Sunak at PMQs: This is a stock pic – he’s not usually this animated.

Rishi Sunak is coming under pressure to explain why he apparently helped Russian oligarch and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin dodge sanctions against him in order to sue a UK journalist for libel (the case later collapsed but left the journalist owing £70,000 in legal fees).

Prigozhin is the founder of Wagner, a private army that is currently understood to be committing atrocities in Ukraine.

Challenged on it in Prime Minister’s Questions, Sunak had the nerve to say he was proud of the UK’s sanction system – a system over which he appears to have run roughshod.

And he copped out of answering the question by saying there’s a government organisation that deals with such matters.

This Writer was watching the exchange via the BBC’s Politics Live programme, and was hoping the panel would discuss this matter afterwards, as my tweets showed.

No such luck. I wonder why?

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200 asylum-seeking children go missing – Tory MP says they should not have come to UK illegally

A new low: Jonathan Gullis (the unmasked bearded man in the background) [this is a stock image].

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq drew attention to the fact that, despite the UK being considered a safe haven for vulnerable children, there are 200 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children missing from UK hotels.

Rishi Sunak’s comment that the government needs to end the use of hotels for unaccompanied children, “and that’s what government plans will do,” was sinister enough – he meant the plan to stop asylum-seekers from getting into the UK would ensure that fewer will be here in need of housing.

But from the backbenches, Tory MP Jonathan Gullis apparently shouted, “Well, they shouldn’t have come here illegally!”

That’s Compassionate Conservatism for you: let children go missing – kidnapped? Made into slaves for criminal gangs, for purposes that one flinches from considering? – because they should have stayed at home, possibly to be exploited in similar ways by their own countryfolk?

One can only agree with Peter Kyle: The Conservatives have found a new low.

Here’s the video clip:

And here’s Mr Kyle’s tweet:

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Could Boris Johnson get back to Downing Street in 2023? (The answer is NO)

This is a bit of fun filler from YouTube. I don’t think even Phil Moorhouse of A Different Bias takes the threat of Boris Johnson returning to Downing Street seriously:

The takeouts from this are that:

Rishi Sunak is prime minister because he is boring – and the Tories want people to be bored by politics right now because the news is dire and they want to hide it from us.

The UK is going into (who are we kidding? We’re already in it!) a major recession and the Tories are the cause.

The Tories are likely to lose a huge number of council seats in the local elections in May.

Boris Johnson is just too damned noisy; if he’s brought back, he’ll draw attention to all the horrible things that are happening, and that’s the last thing the Tories want.

The headline for political writers like Yr Obdt Srvt is that we must draw as much attention as possible to all the political news that the Tories and their clients in the mainstream media want to bury.

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Prime Ministers Questions November 23 2022

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was grilled on Scottish Independence and the forthcoming recession – and as usual provided few answers.

I was live-tweeting during the session, and my comments look like this:

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Prime Minister’s Questions – November 9 2022 [VIDEO]

Questions over the resignation of Gavin Williamson and the future of other Cabinet members he appointed dogged Rishi Sunak in his third Prime Minister’s Questions.

The new PM was struggling from the outset and this performance will only further undermine any belief that he has what it takes to lead the UK through the cost of living crisis and the coming recession.

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Rishi Sunak nailed over peerages for lockdown partygoers

Rishi Sunak’s third Prime Minister’s Questions started badly for the struggling new prime minister, when he was asked to deny peerages to any Tory who received a fine for partying during Covid-19 lockdown.

This Writer doesn’t like the questioner – Neil Coyle is a far-right Labour MP who was once suspended from the party for alleged racism against a British-Chinese journalist, and who has been accused of anti-Semitism.

None of what he did today (November 9, 2022) should excuse him of those transgressions if he committed them.

But the point he raised was good and deserves to be amplified at a time when there are concerns that former prime minister Boris Johnson is trying to use the honours system to give perks to political friends who don’t deserve them.

Shaun Bailey, the former London mayoral candidate who faced a backlash for attending a mid-lockdown Christmas party (and who also happens to belong to an ethnic minority – I mention this with reference to the allegations against Coyle but would merely observe that it was probably unwise for him to raise this question, considering his history), was also said to be on the former prime minister’s list.

And his line that Tories who jeered at him could “all go to Australia and eat kangaroo testicles for all I care”, in recognition of Matt Hancock’s imminent appearance on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, is a good one.

Sunak proved once again that he is a weak prime minister; he didn’t answer the question and instead fell back on a list of what he says the Tory government did – a list that many may find objectionable:

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Jeremy Corbyn lives rent-free in Rishi Sunak’s head – and he’s decided to enjoy it

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has decided that, if Rishi Sunak is determined to lie about him in Prime Minister’s Questions every week, he’ll have his own fun at the Tory’s expense.

He raised a point of order in the House of Commons on November 3, demonstrating that Sunak’s claims that he wanted to dismantle the armed forces and quit NATO, and was a friend of terrorists were not true.

And for an encore, he passed a comment about the prime minister’s state of mind.

Here’s Maximilien Robespierre will all the salient points:

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