It’s a new year, so let’s start thinking positive thoughts. 2024 should be the year that one of the most corrupt and useless British governments gets its P45 from the electorate.
It’s hard to overstate just how bad the Tories have been for ordinary people in the past 13 years. The growth in food banks is just one sign, but the accounts of poverty levels in one British city last week almost beggar belief.
A head teacher of an infants and nursery school in Norwich said she’d never seen children coming to school so hungry as in recent years. “We’ve got children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs. We’ve got two-year-olds coming in, trying to eat sand because they’re so hungry.”
This is modern Britain under the Conservatives. But never mind, there’ll be tax cuts for the rich coming soon.
Jacques Delors was a giant and agent of peace
Let’s hope it’s good riddance to the Tories in 2024
Sunak seems to be already planning his next job in the corporate world, possibly with Coca-Cola, if his latest self-promotional video is to be believed.
Have you seen it? It’s truly bizarre. It features the PM in a darkened Downing Street, all alone like Norman No-Mates, because all his colleagues hate him for not being Boris.
Merry Christmas from Downing Street 🎄 pic.twitter.com/cr0ZIdQmeR
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak)
December 25, 2023 He tries to cuddle Larry the cat, who struggles away in horror. Cats know a spoofer when they smell one.
Then he dances along the corridor, like a mini Hugh Grant in Love Actually, that movie boke-fest that’s meant to make us feel all weepy and festive, before a spot of ten-pin bowling, using empty Coke cans as skittles.
It’s hard to overstate just how bad the Tories have been for ordinary people in the past 13 years
Sunak really does have a thing about Coca-Cola. Remember when he made one of his rare visits here, when he tried to sell the Windsor Framework and used the backdrop of a Coke bottling plant to give out the message that Northern Ireland would be the bestest place in the world to do business because it would have – now say it all together – THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS.
Brexit Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A session with business leaders during a visit to Coca-Cola HBC in Lisburn last February (Liam McBurney/PA)
And speaking of bottle, has the noble knight Sir Jeffrey lost his after trying to get his backwoodsmen to agree to the deal the British cooked up to woo them back to Stormont?
Of course, he says he’s not calendar-led, but may well have ringed January 18 as that’s when Heaton-Harris is legally obliged to call an election again. But then his deadlines tend to be of the elastic variety, so no need to get too excited.
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Let’s not forget that shortly after he took over as Secretary of State, hapless Heaton-Harris also announced a deadline for October 2022, then it was December, then January 2023. And here we are, January 2024, and not a chile washed, as we say in these parts.
Even HH doesn’t believe his own deadlines as he’s learned not to be calendar-led either. It’s all the rage here.
Even Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris doesn't believe his own deadlines (Liam McBurney/Liam McBurney/PA Wire)
Instead he plans to beef up the civil service so that they can run the shop themselves while the DUP sulk continues. Though it doesn’t look like he’s planning to give the mandarins the power or the dosh to head off the mass strikes of public sector workers that are due on January 18. That’s a date that is definitely calendar-led.
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Former US President Donald Trump has consistently repeated falsehoods about the 2020 election (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
It might sound positive if Trump gets barred from running for office again because of his support for the insurrection at the Capitol building, after Maine joined Colorado in disqualifying him from the 2024 primary elections.
Trump called the move a “tyrannical assault” on democracy, which is a bit rich from the guy who refused to accept the result of the 2020 election and tried to prevent his vice-president from ratifying the Biden victory.
But what would be more positive would be Trump being rejected by the ordinary American people finally coming to their senses and voting him out in huge numbers. Nothing would trump that joyous outcome. Happy New Year.
Let’s hope it’s good riddance to the Tories in 2024
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It’s a new year, so let’s start thinking positive thoughts. 2024 should be the year that one of the most corrupt and useless British governments gets its P45 from the electorate.
It’s hard to overstate just how bad the Tories have been for ordinary people in the past 13 years. The growth in food banks is just one sign, but the accounts of poverty levels in one British city last week almost beggar belief.
A head teacher of an infants and nursery school in Norwich said she’d never seen children coming to school so hungry as in recent years. “We’ve got children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs. We’ve got two-year-olds coming in, trying to eat sand because they’re so hungry.”
This is modern Britain under the Conservatives. But never mind, there’ll be tax cuts for the rich coming soon.
Jacques Delors was a giant and agent of peace
Let’s hope it’s good riddance to the Tories in 2024
Sunak seems to be already planning his next job in the corporate world, possibly with Coca-Cola, if his latest self-promotional video is to be believed.
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