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More allegations emerge about ‘Security risk’ Suella – and MI5

Suella Braverman: does she seem prone to impulsive acts that endanger UK security to you?

More concerns have been raised about Suella Braverman after it was claimed that her relationship with MI5 is not what it should be.

It arises from a Daily Telegraph report that Braverman was seeking an injunction to block a BBC story about a spy working for British intelligence.

The briefing received by the newspaper, allegedly from Braverman, damaged the government’s argument that publishing details of the court case could harm national security.

The High Court later ruled the BBC could publish the story, though an injunction still bars it from identifying the man.

An inquiry was launched to find out who had leaked confidential details of the court case to the Telegraph and the High Court permits publication of the fact there was a leak inquiry, but the government has so far refused to comment.

So it is possible that Rishi Sunak knows who leaked the information to the newspaper but is sitting on that information.

If so, one has to ask why. Is it because it was Braverman, and he doesn’t want to admit that there’s evidence that she is a security risk, or that MI5 doesn’t trust her?

That would be very foolish, because information of this nature always comes out in the end.

Of course, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is absolutely right to have said, “Ignoring warnings about security risks when appointing a home secretary is highly irresponsible and dangerous.”

That’s why we need to know.

And you can be sure Keir Starmer is adding it to his file of evidence against both Braverman and Sunak.

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Inflation: Raab gives the game away – the Tories don’t care

Clueless: Dominic Raab, doing his best Tim Nice-But-Dim impression. Oh no, wait: that’s what he’s really like (apart from the “nice” bit).

Dominic Raab was never the sharpest tool in the Tory box and now he has proved what a blunt instrument he is.

Interviewed on Channel 4, he said there was no need to do anything about the cost of living crisis, and predictions of inflation hitting 22 per cent – because it hasn’t happened yet.

What a dunce. If it happens, nothing the Tory government does will save millions of people from poverty and, in extreme cases, death.

But who cares about him? He supports Rishi Sunak to be prime minister and it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion now that he won’t be.

Instead, we’ll have Liz Truss, whose plan to sort out inflation is: tax cuts.

And all the economic experts say tax cuts won’t work.

Here’s a clip analysing the issue:

Let’s hope that, if Sunak does lose, Raab disappears into political limbo with him.

But I fear it may be a forlorn hope as he’s an old pal of Truss (they were co-authors of that nightmarish blueprint for Tory rule, Britannia Unchained).

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Sunak and Truss: Tory PM contenders squabble while critics attack them both

Squabbling: Sunak and Truss.

This Tory leadership contest is like watching children squabbling over a toy.

Neither Rishi Sunak nor Liz Truss have any decent ideas to improve the quality of life in the United Kingdom, so all we are seeing in the end is the pair of them plumbing the depths in accusing each other.

Sunak’s latest attack on Truss is a claim that, if she doesn’t choose to offer either an unfunded £50 billion of tax cuts – mostly for the rich – and cost of living support (mostly for the poor), she will plunge the UK into an “inflation spiral”.

But his own economic policies are already sending UK inflation rocketing: US bank Citi has predicted it will reach 18 per cent – nine times the Bank of England’s target – in 2023.

That’s because of soaring energy prices – but Sunak’s policies are to blame for the effect they’re having on UK households because neither he nor any of the Tory chancellors since 2010 bothered to invest in UK-based green energy generation; they left us at the mercy of foreign fossil fuel bosses.

Meanwhile, it seems both candidates are committing political suicide by ignoring the interests of the Tories’ natural constituency: pensioners.

Propertied and pensioned people aged over 65 tend to vote for the Conservatives because they want to protect the investments and savings they have earned over the decades. Most Tory Party members are over 60.

But according to Dame Esther Rantzen, older people are facing “victimisation” due to current government policies, with the needs of senior citizens “totally ignored”.

She said both candidates should commit to creating a post for a minister for older people – but that seems a forlorn hope.

Neither Sunak, 42, nor Truss, 47, seem to have anything to say about older people.

And the independent Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that Truss is planning an emergency budget, if she is elected Tory leader (and prime minister by default), without an official economic forecast, even though one is ready and may be used.

Supporters of Sunak say she is trying to avoid scrutiny.

It seems that the policies being offered up by either candidate are no better than a dog’s dinner. We should all be living in fear for the future, no matter which of them gets into 10 Downing Street.

Source: Truss poised to plunge UK economy into ‘inflation spiral’, says Sunak

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Stefanovic slaughters Sunak’s benefit-bashing falsehoods

Rishi Sunak: I like this shot because he looks nervous. If I was in his position, asking Tory backbenchers to raise taxes, I’d be nervous too.

I make no apology for returning to this issue. Why shouldn’t I? Rishi Sunak did!

Top take from this clip is the fact that so many people claiming Universal Credit actually have jobs – indicating that the UK’s government has engineered the shameful situation in which working people have to claim state aid in order to survive. This is an employer subsidy, funded with public money. Businesses should be able to pay every employee a living wage.

As for the rest – see for yourself:

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Tax cuts proposed by both Truss and Sunak are unfunded. How are they affordable?

Grinning idiots: the tax cuts both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have promised will worsen the cost of living crisis and make it impossible for them to fund relief measures for struggling families, a leading think tank has said.

Oh dear, oh dear, it looks like neither Liz Truss nor Rishi Sunak have bothered to think how they will make their tax cuts work.

The politically-independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has said large, permanent tax cuts could make some spending unaffordable as the UK slips into the recession that Tory policies have triggered.

The claim seems to be based on a discredited economic model that says our taxes pay for public spending, meaning if taxes are cut, equivalent cuts must be made in spending.

That’s not true; governments spend according to their priorities and then borrow from the private sector and/or tax appropriately in order to prevent inflation from exceeding targets they have set.

In this case, the end result is the same: if Sunak or Truss is to cut taxes, spending will have to come down or inflation will rise above even the current high level.

And Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the IFS, warned that spending will probably have to increase if the government intends to support families that will not be able to cope with the increasing cost of living and sky-high energy bills.

Truss has pledged to scrap April’s National Insurance rise to help households and cancel a planned rise in corporation tax, while Sunak as promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from five per cent to nothing, and to cut 3p off income tax by late 2029.

Neither has explained how they will deliver this cuts without adding to inflation, although Sunak has said he will not implement his plan until the current inflation crisis has been brought under control.

So it seems they have been building castles in the air, rather than taking the grounded outlook on the economy that the UK needs. It is impossible to bankrupt an economy like ours, that can create its own money – but it seems both Tory candidates are going to try.

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How will Rishi Sunak be ‘much tougher’ on benefits’? Doesn’t he know they’re MURDEROUS already?

Rishi Sunak: attacking benefit claimants is a classic Tory ploy – and another ‘divide-and-rule’ tactic.

I sense desperation – an attempt to play to the Tory benefit-bashing gallery.

Rishi Sunak has said he will be “much tougher” on how the UK’s benefits system operates if he becomes prime minister as he suggested he would force claimants to take jobs when they become available.

How does he plan to do that? By forcing people with long-term illnesses and disabilities into jobs that will kill them faster than the current fashion to simply knock them off the books for no good reason?

Remember, in 2015 I forced the then-Coalition government to admit that, between 2011 and 2014, 2,400 people had lost their lives within two weeks after being told they were too fit to be on sickness benefits. It seems clear that such claims were false.

The government of the day said it was impossible to say how many (thousands?) of people had died after that two-week period because it does not keep such statistics. We know that many have died, though, because we have seen many news stories of such cases.

Alternatively, is he planning to force able-bodied claimants into work – people who, evidence shows, generally try to get out of the system as soon as possible in any case?

Most people, who are able to work, in fact do their level best to get it.

In any case, the matter may be taken out of his hands: firstly, the UK has just recorded its highest intake of foreign workers since Brexit – mostly from beyond the European Union.

The rise has been welcomed by the Bank of England, whose economists had feared that a shortage of people available to work would push up wages and aggravate the recent jump in inflation.

This suggests that everybody from the UK, who is available to work, is already doing so.

However:

Secondly, the dire economic situation the Tories have created means economists are also predicting a recession lasting at least a year, that will trigger many job losses.

The employment opportunities Sunak envisages simply won’t be available.

Still, one can hardly accuse Sunak of making sense on the subject.

At a leadership hustings in Belfast, he said: “Right now, there are more people claiming unemployment benefit than there are job vacancies in the economy. Just think about that for a second. And that is happening under a Conservative government. That is clearly not right, something has gone wrong.

“If there are hours to do, if there is a job going, people should have to take the job as opposed to just being able to stay on benefits.”

But if there are more people unemployed than there are job vacancies, then there aren’t hours to do; there isn’t a job going!

I wonder how many of the Conservative Party’s paltry 130,000-160,000 membership have the critical faculties to realise that he’s talking absolute pish?

Too few, I fear.

Source: Tory leadership hustings: Rishi Sunak vows to be ‘much tougher’ with welfare system to ‘get people off benefits’

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Tory divide-and-rule: leader candidates attack SNP’s record

Sunak and Truss: they’ll be attacking the Scottish government at a hustings event in Perth.

It’s all a bit predictable, isn’t it? Still, if it works, there’s no reason they wouldn’t carry on with it.

I refer, of course, to the Tory tactic of “divide and rule” – currently on full display in that party’s leadership election campaign.

Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have ventured into Scotland, where they said the ruling SNP should be challenged on its record, and affirmed their opposition to another independence referendum.

The SNP has retaliated by pointing out (correctly) that neither candidate is offering a solution to the current cost-of-living crisis – and suggesting that both will boost support for Scottish independence.

Sunak has announced a plan to roll back devolution to ensure “every single” government department operated UK-wide, despite key policy areas such as education and health having been in the control of Holyrood since 1999.

That’s unconstitutional, of course.

He also called for regular reports from Scotland on the delivery of key services, so these can be compared across the UK. That seems to be another attempt to establish lines of criticism that could be used to accuse the Scottish administration of failure (probably on false bases).

Truss just went straight for the jugular, saying she would make changes to the Scotland Act to give MSPs the same full parliamentary privilege as MPs at Westminster, so they would have legal immunity from prosecution over statements made in Holyrood, instead of the narrower set of protections against defamation claims and some court actions they have now.

If that seems like a bonus for MSPs, think again: Truss wants it in order to “allow for more robust questioning for ministers” and “increase the powers of the Scottish parliament to hold the Scottish government to account”. It’s all about attacking the SNP administration.

She amplified on this by saying (according to the BBC),

The SNP’s Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, reminded voters that throughout the cost of living crisis, while other nations’ governments have acted to support the most vulnerable people, the UK’s Tory government has “sat on its hands”. He said:

That’s true – but it’s not the argument for independence that he insists it is, because it applies across the United Kingdom. We all lose as long as any Tories remain in office at all. That’s something we should all remember as this leader election draws to its close.

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Neither Sunak nor Truss have anything to offer the working class | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss: they may be grinning like idiots in this image, but the UK electorate will be the fools if we allow either of them to govern beyond a future generation – that cannot come soon enough (and 2024 is far too far away).

This is an opinion piece but it is well worth reading.

In it, my brother the Beast analyses the Tory leadership contest, its participants, its commentators, and the significance for the rest of us – and finds in it a terrifying prospect for the future of the UK.

You need to read it:

Source: Neither Sunak or Truss Have Anything to Offer the Working Class | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

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Sunak & Truss damned over cost of living crisis: ‘They are not willing to do anything, they are not willing to work together’ [VIDEO]

This is the man who’s working for you: Martin Lewis has exposed the Tory government’s delay in dealing with the cost of living crisis as a nonsense. Why won’t they work out a plan now – or are they happy to manufacture an emergency to create huge stress and possible mental ill-health for millions of people?

Say what you like about Martin Lewis – he’s doing his level best to drag the Tory government – unwilling and surly – into dealing with the cost of living tsunami that is about to hit millions of us.

The Tories are saying they can’t do anything to help the poorest in society who are going to be overwhelmed by a debt disaster that will destroy their finances and attack their mental health – because convention dictates that an outgoing administration won’t impose on its successor.

But Mr Lewis points out that conventions are not rules and there is a precedent for acting immediately, set only three months ago, in May. There is nothing to stop Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss from putting all our minds at rest – apart from their own reluctance:

Will the politicians do anything? Probably not.

But at least now you know it is because they want to cause you huge amounts of unnecessary stress. This is a manufactured emergency.

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Here’s how much your energy bills are set to rise – and how little your leaders are doing about it [VIDEO]

Non-leaders: Neither Rishi Sunak nor Liz Truss have shown any leadership over the huge cost-of-living crisis facing most people in the UK; it won’t affect them or the people they are trying to persuade to vote them into 10 Downing Street, who are all well-off members of the Conservative Party.

You see, sites like Vox Political aren’t just blowing smoke about this.

Your bill is likely to rise to a minimum of £4,266 per year by January (and although it’s not mentioned in the video, any lowering of the cost is likely to be very slow – so you probably will end up being asked to pay most of that amount). Do you have it?

The financial help offered by Rishi Sunak earlier this year has already been swallowed up by price rises and inflation, meaning you will still be out-of-pocket after receiving it.

And Boris Johnson has left any further relief action to his successor – either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak – neither of whom have shown any inclination to help the people at the sharp end of this: you and me.

The video is only a little more than a minute long. Here it is:

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