Sunak speech in summary:

• WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME?

• It's unfair to look at our record, which is amazeballs

• I can bring people together; anyone who disagrees is a terrorist

• Labour is so negative about the future; I can get Britain through WWIII

• DO YOU LOVE ME NOW?

Performative anti-woke cruelty has failed. Screeching u-turns on net zero have failed. His absurd claim to be the change candidate failed. Bleating ‘Stop the boats’ and ‘The plan is working’ have both failed. Now he’s trying to frighten us into voting for him. What a failure.

I maintain that Hodges is the persona of a performance artist not unlike Borat.

The biggest story today is that the then-Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice was a direct witness to a criminal attempt to pervert the course of justice, and covered it up for four years because it involved one of his political allies.

Just listened to The Rest Is Politics interview with Angela Rayner 🌹
What an absolutely amazing woman. If you’re not familiar with the details of her backstory, give it a listen, she’s inspirational.

On Elphicke, I love the brazen chutzpah of Conservatives suggesting Labour should hold an inquiry into what a Conservative might have said to another Conservative about a third Conservative. Magnificent stuff.

Obviously the country is now so unsafe, Rishi can’t take a question from the Guardian

Regard this as a 'FOR THE RECORD' Post. In his new book, Magic Pill, about so-called fat drugs like Ozempic, Johann Hari says I was prescribed the drug but gave it up because it robbed me of pleasure in food. (See screenshot). This is complete and utter bollocks. 1/

BREAKING: A judge has ruled that parts of the Rwanda Act should be disapplied in Northern Ireland, as they undermine human rights protections guaranteed in the region under post-Brexit arrangements. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

He is so so bad at this

This line from Rishi Sunak helps Labour: “Keir Starmer has gone from embracing Jeremy Corbyn to Natalie Elphicke”

Keir Starmer’s most important sell to voters is that he has changed his party. And hearing his opponent spell it out like this does the work for him.

BREAKING
Tory Party property director Christopher Moran hit with £4.5m tax bill over his own property!

Tories dodged £600k stamp duty buying properties through offshore

Moran donated c £500,000 to Tories ⁦Good Law Project⁩

BUT Angela Rayner 🙄 goodlawproject.org/tory-property-…

Which is your preferred unit of length?

New imperial measures just dropped.

#SunakSpeech

The BBC wants to run ads on its podcasts if they go out on third-party platforms. This would make them peanuts but devastate indie podcast companies like Podmasters.
We support the BBC but we can’t support this. Lucy Frazer & Ofcom should block it

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Daily Mail asked Sunak whether Boris Johnson will be part of the election campaign and Sunak's answer was SO COMICALLY OFF TOPIC it included: 'We led the world in the Industrial Revolution. That's what we did in this country. I see no reason why we can't again in the future.'

'Labour are not a government in waiting. They are a pressure group,' Sunak tells opaquely funded think tank that co-authors his policies. 😬

FUCK ME WHY IS HE STILL TALKING

Apparently, Sunak's dream is 'a country where people can disagree respectfully'.

He said this seven minutes after basically calling anyone who disagrees with him, on any issue, an extremist.

Just stop soiling yourself and call an election, you pathetic husk of a human.

I watched, slack-jawed, as Sunak complained about others 'seeking to divide' and 'cancel culture', then proceeded to suggest that anyone who disagrees with him on any issue is basically terrorist-adjascent. Which, presumably, includes all his MPs, since they agree on nothing.