@RishiSunak What a fucking nerve sticking your head above that parapet! Do you think anyone apart from you self-serving Tories is better off after the last 14 catastrophic years? We’ve already been hammered…your lot saw to that. Pack your bags.
Here is Ian Acheson’s devastating letter resigning from the Tory Party in fury at the PM’s failure to attend the international section of the D Day commemoration. Mr Acheson is a former prison governor and advisor to the government on countering extremism
Dear sir,
I am writing to resign my membership of the Conservative Party with immediate effect.
If you are at all interested in knowing why, you might want to watch yesterday's news coverage again to understand the depth of feeling around this country's Prime Minister shunning his duty to our few remaining veterans in Normandy to scuttle back to London to do a news piece defending an indefensible tax claim. Electioneering ahead of a solemn commemoration of those who gave so much for the freedoms we enjoy today is simply unforgivable. And, I might add, alien to the core values of the party I joined.
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.
Yours sincerely
Ian Acheson
He's like a doll with a pull string and one simple phrase. Show some humanity, show you are not just parroting a line written by a special advisor over and over again.
Rishi Sunak thinks he's the cleverest most important man in any room. His decision yesterday was made on that basis. He thought what he had to do was more important, he always thinks he is more important. Dripping not just in rain but also in privilege
That’s fantastic. I’ve never seen anyone eating outside in France, Spain, Greece or Italy. All hail the great Brexit benefits in the not so great Badenoch mind
Brexit is a form of national madness … it was bad enough to do it. But to pretend it was still worth it, or can be adapted for success, amid all we already know, suggests politics has broadly taken leave of its senses.
This from @resfoundation: “Looking at GDP per capita – which is what matters most for household incomes – the Foundation notes that it has fallen by 0.7 per cent across 2023, and hasn’t grown since Q1 2022, the longest run of falls or stagnation since 1955.
GDP per capita was 4.2 per cent off its pre-cost-of-living-crisis path by the end of 2023, a loss equivalent to nearly £1,500 per person in annual GDP terms”. Another reason why harnessing AI to generate a rise in living standards for the majority is so important. Hear my discussion with @StephLunch on @therestismoney
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