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Only recently there was a piece on the BBC about a record number of dashcam submissions of bad driving. Round here even buses run red lights on roundabouts and never mind how many near-misses my car had when it broke down in what was supposed to be a 30 limit.

Over the last couple of years the number of people speeding has gone skywards, people passing on the left on dual carriageways and even people driving on the hard shoulder at speed because they don't want to queue...

Pathetic. Just went on there to say "blanket 20 miles an hour" as many times as he could.

This was supposed to be the detail guy.

He says what he is told to say by his 'special sdvisers'.
Uxbridge has given his strategists what they believe is a wedge issue, and he will now refer to it every chance he gets.
From his point of view that interview was a success.

His two go to lines these day seem to be 'That's not quite right' or 'I don't recognise those figures'.

satnav wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:17 pm His two go to lines these day seem to be 'That's not quite right' or 'I don't recognise those figures'.

'I don't recognise those figures' predates Sunak though - I'm sure I've heard Gove and others use it.

It is quite an old line but I wish a few journalists would press him to reveal what the true figures are if he doesn't recognise the figures quoted.

Truss used it a few times.

You have to factor in that these wedge issue policies are usually announced but then quietly dropped, having had the desired effect.

Boiler wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:48 pm

satnav wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:17 pm His two go to lines these day seem to be 'That's not quite right' or 'I don't recognise those figures'.

'I don't recognise those figures' predates Sunak though - I'm sure I've heard Gove and others use it.

The first use of that phrase that I heard was about 10 years ago when the two stooges on the BBC "news" channel were interviewing IDS, then SofS for Work and Pensions, about the recently released figures for the number of people who died as a result of DWP policy. He sat there with a blank expression, repeating "I don't accept those figures". Instead of pointing out that those figures had been obtained from his own Department and pressing him on them, they just changed the subject. This was the point when I gave up on the BBC vacuous dribble channel and put the HQ TV on Sky News instead.

These 'real' conservatives are easily bought, it seems. Just let them drive around a bit faster and they'll be grinnig like Cheshire cats.

Boiler wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:48 pm

satnav wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:17 pm His two go to lines these day seem to be 'That's not quite right' or 'I don't recognise those figures'.

'I don't recognise those figures' predates Sunak though - I'm sure I've heard Gove and others use it.

It's a classic of the "know nothing" school.

I thought it was just classic gaslighting.

One of his proposals is a “universal” car parking app; wonder how many father-in-laws out there own global IT companies?

Watchman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:40 am One of his proposals is a “universal” car parking app; wonder how many father-in-laws out there own global IT companies?

I know it's vaguely racist to point this out.

Thatcher was lionised and criticised for bringing Grocery Shop economics to national politics.
Sunak is running the economy like the family corner shop.

So, once again the government plan to go to the tech giants and tell them what to do. Or dabble their own toes in it. Worked really well with test and trace, didn't it?

This lot really are good at pissing public money up the wall.

I'm still waiting for all of this marvellous "tech" that is supposed to be guarding the NI border. I wonder how that's coming along?

There is an app called RingGo that seems pretty widespread.

Does low tax Rishi really want the state to duplicate that functionality?
Or is this a payday for another Uncle / Donor / Potential employer of unseated MPs?

At least Bozo had been out of Westminster for a while. How does Sunak make this argument work? Not to mention the obvious contradictions between putting local people in charge and running local roads policy from Whitehall.

Further down he promises a "Towns Taskforce".