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Jun 24, 2023Liked by Adam Bienkov

Not being able to use a cash card, only going to COP because Johnson decided to, not declaring his wife’s shares in a childcare company Gov subsidised, helicopters, cringey, unelected, taking Chancellor after Sajid Javid resigned for not letting Cummings choose his own staff, acting as dodgy as any other post-Brexit Tory but making it worse by actually being patronising enough to believe it’s not obvious and going on about how much integrity he has, backing Suella Braverman, dragging his heels on sacking any corrupt Tory who’s been found out, taking my protest rights away, wanting to take human rights away. MADDENING to watch him. This is was supposed to be an improvement on Johnson! He’s hopeless at politics, even when you take into account he had to follow Johnson and completely out of his depth IMHO. The problem is that the wrong people are being catapulted now into government and ministerial positions who have little ability or experience and are profiteering shamelessly and are also corrupt. Seasoned Tories like Heseltine and Grieve themselves are clearly horrified by what is happening in that party.

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Jun 24, 2023Liked by Adam Bienkov

People who actually work for a living do not ask "incredibly eloquent" questions. (Guessing that expression was directed to those who 'questions' were completely pre-scripted.) Incomprehensibly out-ot-touch with regular people.

Workers ask pertinent questions and expect (sadly with little expectation) real answers. Sunak replied to the valid question about the current state of the NHS with the mindless slogan of his predictably generic "five priorities".

Worker: "What time is it?"

Sunak: "The UK has watches, clocks, sundials, timepieces, and Big Ben."

Covid remains the favorite fall-guy for everything (in this case, the NHS); everything else is the fault of the "Ukraine", another wide-sweeping, unscrutinized excuse. If those fail, thankfully the Tories can always blame the French. Throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks is not be public policy.

Thinking the brilliant John le Carre summed it all up perfectly: "If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing." It's politically safe until voters revolt, and it's easily propagandized as evidenced by Sunak's reply “I’m here to tell you that I am totally 100% on it, and it's going to be okay," as if no one can see right through him and his do-nothing Cabinet.

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