Ha ha ha....

@fkamiah17 just used the phrase 'Prime Miniature' for #RishiSunak.... just brilliant!

Its now clear that #VoterID requirements in local election caused impediments to #voting along #racial lines & also impeded voting by the #disabled.

The review suggests Voter ID is a 'poisoned cure' to a minor problem; but of course, this was not a bug, but a feature of the policy.

As I said, #RishiSunak is criticising #China for interfering with #democracy in the UK, mainly because that's the #Tories job!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

meanwhile at the #G20:

#RishiSunak voiced to #China premier Li Qiang - his 'very strong concerns about any interference in our parliamentary democracy, which is obviously unacceptable'...

Because as we all know interfering in the UK's parliamentary #democracy is the #Tories job & they'll not have johnny foreigner doing it for them!

英國爆出兩名男子因為替中國滲透英國國會而在3月被捕後，英國首相府表示，首相辛偉誠 #RishiSunak 在 #G20 峰會期間向李強表達十分關注

http://europechinese.blogspot.com/2023/09/3-g20.html

The slow but sure decline of the UK as a globally significant country continues...

#RishiSunak had wait a day to meet #G20 host #NarendraModi (in private/no photo op) - so much for the notion of being 'India's favourite son' then.

Given that pretty much the only thing about the G20 is its performative function, this tells us a lot about how the UK now fares in international #politics.

Not so much 'punching above our weight' as our weight now being obvious for everyone to see!

RAAC impact on schools and curriculum

#news #politics #RAAC #RishiSunak #satire #schools

Following the collapses in some schools, and the discovery of numerous schools impacted by the presence of RAAC, some in a dangerous condition, there have been changes. Areas of school life affected include school uniform and curriculum.

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Many schools across the UK are starting the new teaching yea

https://daily-twerk.com/politics/raac-impact-on-schools-and-curriculum/

#RishiSunak's strategy in talking down the possibility of an #India - UK #trade deal is pretty clear.

Given a key demand from the Indian side is enhanced access by Indian workers to the UK, at a time when he's trying to claim he can 'protect' the UK borders from #migrants, a claim of hypocrisy would look pretty likely from the #media...

but, equally, if he does manage to concoct an acceptable deal from his (the UK's) weakened position, he's laid the ground for a claim of supreme deal-maker!

On air soon w Rosie Wright on Talk TV to analyze #G20Summit, #India, and #RishiSunak

Can a trade deal divert from #BrexitShambles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzjRwQ-fG0

#RishiSunak's long delay on rejoining #Horizon looks to have gained little:

EU initially offered 2 years non-payment as UK had been out of the programme for its first 2yrs ... now extended to 3yrs, but as we are only joining near the end of year 3 of Horizon 2020, at the most this accounts for 4 month's payments;

there's also a slightly more generous 'clawback' mechanism if we get less than 16% of all grants (i,e. less than we're putting in).

Not much for UK's disabling collaborative science!

Analysis finds the rise of “muscular unionism” is out of step with public opinion and there is a “striking ambivalence” to retaining the union in its current form

#UKPol #Wales #England #Scotland #NorthernIreland #RishiSunak #KeirStarmer #BorisJohnson #Labour #Tories #GreenParty #PlaidCymru #SNP #SinnFein #MuscularUnionism #Independence

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ippr-government-wales-brexit-scottish-b2406800.html

Hmmm... still no detail (here in the longer BBC news coverage) of #RishiSunak's 'deal' to re-enter #Horizon... if its not being publicised, he's agreed to the very EU terms he said he wouldn't, I suspect!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66737714

ICYMI: Looks like #RishiSunak has agreed with EU that we will (re)join the #Horizon research programme, ending months of delay & likely to be celebrated in UK #universities, even if delay to rejoining has already caused difficulties including EU researchers jumping ship to new in-border projects.

But what will be interesting will be the detail of the deal that Sunak has now agreed to & most importantly, who has given ground on the fees due: the UK or the EU?

My bet's on a climb down by Rishi!

So this year's shaping up to be not just the hottest on record (records that started in 1940, that is), but August looks to to have been about 1.5C warmer than the preindustrial average for 1850-1900!

Global air temperature anomalies are only moving in one direction & look to be accelerating - the #climatecrisis is here but politicians seem to be hoping it will all just go away (or a new technical fix will appear).

the world is burning & #RishiSunak & other 'leaders' have their fiddles ready!

Looks like #RishiSunak has agreed with the EU that we will (re)join the #Horizon research programme, ending months of delay & likely to be celebrated in UK #universities, even if the delay to rejoining has already caused difficulties including EU researchers jumping ship to new in-border projects.

But what will be interesting will be the detail of the deal that Sunak has now agreed to & most importantly, who has given ground on the fees due: the UK or the EU?

My bet's on a climb down by Rishi!

'Britain is losing its way in cutting carbon'

https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/09/05/britain-is-losing-its-way-in-cutting-carbon

'One problem is a studied lack of leadership on the environment from Rishi Sunak, the prime minister.'
'...Mr Sunak touted policies, such as the need for more oil extraction from the North Sea, viewed as provocative by environmentalists. He also hinted to ministers that net-zero policies could be watered down.'

#GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #UK #oil #FossilFuels #NetZeo #RishiSunak #Sunak

It looks increasingly like #RishiSunak is not going to be able to outrun the #schools #RAAC #building crisis ... oh dear!

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/05/more-than-half-of-dilapidated-english-schools-were-refused-rebuilding-money

Emily Maitlis returns from summer vacation to find there's hardly anything worth talking about on #TheNewsAgents with Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall
https://youtu.be/fHtILGkYIMg

#RAAC #SchoolBuildings #RishiSunak #GillianKeegan #Bullying #LabourReshuffle #NewsAgents

🇬🇧 #RishiSunak has moved to prevent a #Tory rebellion over new onshore #WindFarms by making it easier for them to be approved

New rules will change #Council planning requirements from unanimous agreement to simply demonstrating local support

It follows an intervention by former ministers, including ex-Prime Minister #LizTruss, who felt progress was too slow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66715141

Rishi Sunak having a fit of pique is a pathetic sight to behold. No one is saying Sunak personally built the condemned schools, but he's the current CEO of UK plc, and the burden is therefore his to carry. That's the way things work, innit.

#CrumblyConcrete #RishiSunak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66701626

President Harry S Truman: "The Buck Stops Here"

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: "A big boy did it and ran away"

#Sunak #RishiSunak