"The government is always saying it wants to talk about things that matter to people, yet it simply will not talk, in public and apologetically, about the grotesque profiteering that happened during Covid." Marina Hyde

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/19/ppe-lady-michelle-mone-covid-equipment-doug-barrowman

#Mone #Barrowman #PPEProfiteers #Covid #GOve #13YearsToryMisrule

A PPE farrago, a car crash interview and a fight with the PM: Lady Mone has her foot on the gas, hasn’t she?

For everyone enraged by the Covid equipment scandal who can’t quite find the words, try these – Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian

"“Everything is now crystal clear. When Magic Mich had threatened journalists with legal action if they tried to connect her with her and Dougie’s own bullshit Medpro company, what she had really meant was she would be furious if people thought she wasn’t the type of person to try to profit from VIP access to a Tory government during a national crisis." John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/18/rome-afterglow-wears-off-as-rish-tries-to-avoid-being-mone-down

#Sunak #Mone #Gove #PPE #13YearsToryMisrule

Rome afterglow wears off as Rish! tries to avoid being Mone down

PM seemed outraged to be asked questions about a peer and PPE after visit to Italy and Giorgia Meloni

The Guardian

“So I’ve decided that having a disabilities minister sends out the wrong message. It suggests we think disabled people have special needs. Are different in some way. When what we should be doing is letting them know we think they are skiving in some way. Just scrounging. What we want is for them to make more effort to be like us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/14/disabled-people-dont-need-a-minister-thinks-sunak-they-just-need-to-try-harder
#Sunak #13YearsToryMisrule

Disabled people don’t need a minister, thinks Sunak – they just need to try harder

In the afterglow of his Christmas drinks at No 10, the PM looks back on a successful year and decides to make one more world-beating decision

The Guardian

"Flash forward to this week and a clown called Mark Francois is once again beckoning to us from a storm drain, while the phrase “ERG star chamber” has been deployed like it presages anything other than the apparently unstoppable rise of the idiots." Marina Hyde

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/12/rishi-sunak-twilight-zone-brexit-battle-reenactment-rwanda

#RwandaBill #13YearsToryMisrule

It’s the Rishi Sunak twilight zone: a Brexit battle reenactment that never ends

Over Europe, over Rwanda, the roundheads and blockheads fight their fights – we’re just collateral damage, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian

"Time was we just had the People’s Front of Judaea and the Judaean People’s Front. That was so last Brexit. With Rwanda we now have the grandiose Five Families, each certain that a lunatic, unworkable plan could only be improved by making it even more lunatic and unworkable." John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/12/rwanda-bill-has-tories-outcompeting-each-other-to-new-levels-of-insanity

#RwandaBill #13YearsToryMisrule

Rwanda bill has Tories outcompeting each other to new levels of insanity

Not even the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm can rein in MPs’ fervour to trample over the international law

The Guardian

"As with every other Brexiter demand, whatever they are given they always say it hasn’t been done in the right way and they always, always want more." Chris Grey

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/immigration-and-asylum-rows-are-another.html

#Brexit #13YearsToryMisrule #Migration

Immigration and asylum rows are another sign of Brexit’s total failure

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"There’s a polite word for this: clusterfuck. An incompetent Tory party falling apart. But it’s worse than that. Everywhere you turn there is the stench of corruption. Of a government whose sole purpose is to live another day."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/07/sulky-sunak-solves-everything-with-a-panicky-press-conference

#Sunak #Johnson #13YearsToryMisrule #NastyParty

Sulky Sunak solves everything with a panicky press conference

Rishi Sunak had a full-blown toddler tantrum speaking to the media as he railed against an unfair world

The Guardian

“This is not a treaty that has been signed because we are a government in search of easy answers or quick publicity,” Jimmy D said. Breathtaking. It’s literally the only reason they are doing it." John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/05/jimmy-dimly-pretends-hes-serious-about-fantasy-rwanda-treaty

#Cleverley #Rwanda #13YearsToryMisrule

Jimmy Dimly pretends he’s serious about fantasy Rwanda treaty

Home secretary manages to keep straight face as he claims government is not ‘in search of easy answers or quick publicity’

The Guardian

"What they did yesterday is unforgivable. Very few people will care about it. Hardly any news sites will cover it. There won't be interviews with the couples it separates or the children it leaves without a parent. No-one will give a damn."
https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/the-price-they-put-on-love?r=63yls&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#13YearsToryMisrule #NastyParty #VisaRequirements

The price they put on love

Call it what it is: a war on British multinational families

Striking 13

"Kyriakos the Greek deserved to be deported to Rwanda. He had tried to talk about the Parthenon marbles, which were 100% British because we had stolen them. What a total shit! Beware Greeks bearing gifts … Scrub that. Beware Greeks. They were all as bad as each other." John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/29/marbles-roll-badly-for-sunak-as-starmer-outplays-him-in-pmqs

#ElginMarbles #13YearsToryMisrule #PMQs #Sunak #Starmer

Marbles roll badly for Sunak as Starmer outplays him in PMQs

An unprepared PM, fresh from snubbing his Greek counterpart, cut a sorry figure against Labour’s on-form leader

The Guardian