After leaving Rishi Sunak dodging D-Day commemorations in order to do a TV interview, out of their earlier bulletins, while leading instead on the PM defending his £2,000 tax lie, the Today programme now leads on Sunak's apology for having done so.
Scrabbling around for justifications *always* make it worse. Sunak sanctimoniously lecturing us about what we should be thinking or how we mustn’t ‘politicise’ something is just intolerable bullshit.
Get back to us when you know how to behave yourselves. Actually, don’t bother.
@MsPocketRocket@JohnnyMercerUK As soon as people started asking about why Mrs Mercer was getting paid £40k pa to do admin, Johnny banned her from social media.
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Government extremism adviser Ian Acheson quits as Conservative member over Rishi Sunak D-Day row @Telegraph
Acheson said in his resignation letter (revealed by @charleshymas): "It was an act of either colossal stupidity or cynical calculation.
"Either way, it revealed to me that while I still embrace a conservative philosophy, I am no longer willing to have it outsourced to a bunch of mendacious, incompetent and disreputable clowns. Country before party. Always."
https://t.co/LtZpoh2MKt
Was Sunak invited to posh cunt's wedding?
Is that why he left the D Day ceremony early?
BBC News - William among guests at Duke of Westminster's wedding
https://t.co/iRv9z2q76Y
#DDay80th#SunakIsToast
Newsnight analyse why Rishi Sunak left the D-Day commemorations early, and it's not pretty
Nicholas Watt, "D-Day 1984 Margaret Thatcher was there. 1994 John Major was there. 2004 Tony Blair was there. This afternoon Rishi Sunak was there but then he wasn't there"
"We have the world leaders at D-Day with Macron, Scholz and Biden - we don't have Rishi Sunak"
"And who is meeting Zelenskyy? That would be Keir Starmer"
"Why was Rishi Sunak not there? Paul Brand confirmed that Rishi Sunak came back to do an interview with him to say that he wasn't a liar"
Kirsty Wark, "The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came back from the D-Day commemeration to do an interview to try and clear his name"
Tim Montgomerie, "I don't understand it.. If he came back for a political interview, from the D Day commemorations, that is indefensible"
"I rang all of the contacts I could in Downing Street and I got no response. I don't think they know how to defend what happened"
"It's extraordinary that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, it's political malpractice of the highest order"
Kirsty Wark, "It's not Prime Ministerial, is it?"
Tim Montgomerie, "It's not dignified"
So Rishi Sunak ducked out of the D-Day commemorations to do this ITV interview and lie about lying on ITV on Tuesday. There are no words.
Actually, there probably are a few… suggestions please?