The PM has delivered...

Did qualify for a payment during lockdown? Perhaps not if you weren’t on furlough or running a business, Neither did I. But we’ve had help with the cost of living haven’t we?

Looking forward to proposals by Sunak and Amanda Pritchard to bring in Nhs apprenticeships for doctors and nurses. Also 4 year medical degrees. A real commitment to tackling this problem at last. Sunak is not asleep at the wheel.

ronib

Looking forward to proposals by Sunak and Amanda Pritchard to bring in Nhs apprenticeships for doctors and nurses. Also 4 year medical degrees. A real commitment to tackling this problem at last. Sunak is not asleep at the wheel.

😄😄😄 haven’t you noticed that there is an election coming up!

Expect masses of this sort of announcement over the next few months where absolutely nothing will come if it.

What on earth makes you think it will? they’ve had 13 long tedious unpleasant years to look after the NHS and look at the state it is in!

One thing about the dreaded Boris - he wasn’t boring. Sunak has only been in office since the end of 2022 so it’s a bit of a stretch to blame all that just on him. Still, I guess a week is a long time in politics,as they say.

He was chancellor

HousePlantQueen
Anyone who truly thinks that the state of the NHS is down to a few thousand desperate people on boats

A few thousand! If you like facts you need to check your source. Far, far, far more than that. Many thousands year upon year. Stop pretending it has no impact on our infrastructure.

Ww2 the election is months away. Nothing will come of it as you say if Lib/Labs in power including free childcare which Starmer has vetoed.
Amanda Pritchard as head of Nhs has been working really hard on this so why decry her efforts?

Germanshepherdsmum

Did qualify for a payment during lockdown? Perhaps not if you weren’t on furlough or running a business, Neither did I. But we’ve had help with the cost of living haven’t we?

I was running a business, but my income from other sources in the previous tax year had been greater, so I didn't qualify and had to use savings to pay my bills.

He came home with nothing,

That's not actually true, cc.

nanna8

One thing about the dreaded Boris - he wasn’t boring. Sunak has only been in office since the end of 2022 so it’s a bit of a stretch to blame all that just on him. Still, I guess a week is a long time in politics,as they say.

No, he was just overwhemingly likely to be in the pay of Russia and is a compulsive, irresponsible liar without a single ounce of integrity.
But 'not boring' is clearly a far better qualification for a PM than competence...

Not that Sunak is particularly competent, unlike Johnson, he just doesn't have any personality to cover his incompetence.

The PM has delivered...I thought it may have been the new Johnson baby🤣

Perhaps you would clarify Sunak’s incompetence Maizie. Some explanatory examples would help.

Grantanow

I suppose he has delivered us from Truss!

Who, along with Kwarteng, caused many of the problems

Or exacerbated them so that they accelerated

Very true.

Germanshepherdsmum

Did qualify for a payment during lockdown? Perhaps not if you weren’t on furlough or running a business, Neither did I. But we’ve had help with the cost of living haven’t we?

In order to qualify for the self employed handouts during covid you had to have traded during 2018/19 and have submitted a tax return for that year before 23 April 2020; to have traded during 2019/20 and intended to continue trading in 2020/21.

The first covid cases in the UK were recorded in January 2020.

As happens every year, some people decide to give up employment in order to become self employed. There are thousands of people who decided to start a new business on or after 6 April 2019. These people did not qualify for any of the SEISS grants. They were not Mystic Megs and could not know that several months down the line there would be a pandemic; they should not have left their employments and they should not have started a new business.

There is at least one person on here who did not qualify for this help. No doubt she will also be commenting.

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Zak Goldsmith resigning because he has been found guilty of contempt, but at the same time tearing into Sunak’s record as PM.

Germanshepherdsmum

Perhaps you would clarify Sunak’s incompetence Maizie. Some explanatory examples would help.

You're having a laugh, aren't you? You repeatedly refused to explain a statement for me on another thread. I am reciprocating.

Zak Goldsmith has ideas about Sunak’s incompetence 😄😄

I did my best to provide you with an explanation of a simple concept but you didn’t want to understand as it undermined your argument (though I’m sure you did understand precisely what I was saying).
You have said that Sunak is incompetent - I am merely asking for examples of his alleged incompetence. As I am unaware of instances of incompetence I shall assume you are unable, rather than unwilling, to provide examples.

I didn’t notice that ZG mentioned incompetence - rather a change in priorities.

Here's an easier to read full transcript of Goldmith's resignation letter

www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/30/zac-goldsmith-resignation-letter-in-full?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

What a diva!

I read with interest and frankly no surprise, that Sunak uses erasable ink when writing notes.

Thank you for explaining fully Dinahmo. I won't be commenting further.

Whitewavemark2

I read with interest and frankly no surprise, that Sunak uses erasable ink when writing notes.

Shouldn’t believe everything you read Whitewavemark2