So (finally) we may find out quite how damaging #Brexit is going to be for #supplychains bringing in good (especially #food) from #Europe.... but not until October 2024.

What this tells us is either #RishiSunakPM is planning an election in summer 2024 (around 6months before he needs to), so th required border checks will not be a live issues for #voters....

or this is expected to be a poisoned chalice for the next Govt. when trying to formulate post-#Brexit policy

When UK political parties do well in #local elections, it is taken as a vote of confidence in national policies, when they do badly its treated as 'merely' a protest vote with little national significance...

ahead of next months #localelections I think we can be pretty sure that #RishiSunakPM will be taking the latter position, as some polls already suggesting the #Tories may lose upwards of a thousand councillors....

Rishi will likely spend this month talking down the election's significance

Yesterday afternoon #RishiSunakPM said that as part of the 'additional funding' for the #NHS pay settlement there will be some 'reprioritisation, as there always is'; so that' not fully funded then - at least some of the cash will be redirected from the current budget.... so the row back didn't take long did it now (hours rather than days)

h/t @fkamiah17 for the heads up on that!

#SupportOurNurses
#SupportTheStrikes

A statement from Evelyn Partners (#RishiSunakPM's accountants):

“As experts in these areas, we will of course express our professional views on whether policy measures are positive or negative for our clients’ finances, irrespective of whoever is in government. We are strictly apolitical.”

'apolitical???'

Representing the interests of the global rich (EP's core clients), isn't apolitical;

it may be non-party-political, but it certainly is taking a political position on taxation & regulation

However you crunch the numbers to compute #RishiSunakPM's effective tax rate... the real thing that his tax information (not his tax return which was not published today) confirms is that Rishi is not one of us; he's a member of the rich elite, disconnected from real life by a vast cushion of cash...

He's as good an illustration as you need of the oligarchy at the top of UK politics!

After some time it seems #RishiSunakPM & his cabinet have been unable to convince the majority of the UK public (#voters) that the #strikers are the enemy... rather support for most strikes remains strong.

Of course, the moves to now settle (or at least appear to be interested in settling) the disputes are informed by these figures, but, as I keep noting:

Importantly, without budget support any 'settlement' is just #austerity, with an intent of later blaming strikers for #publicservice cuts!

More on the friends of #RishiSunakPM:

'a senior banker recently told [William Kegan] that, when the prime minister was suggesting there was a clamour in the City for the relaxation of financial regulation, he (the banker) asked his counterparts in other financial institutions whether they were lobbying for it; nearly all of them said no. He said #GoldmanSachs was the exception. This called to mind the wonderful, ironic chapter in JK Galbraith’s The Great Crash...:
In Goldman Sachs We Trust.'