PMQs: Starmer hammers Sunak again

Little tvvat is really grating on me now..all he chomps on about is labour at the behest of the Union Barons...so childish,so old hat...and even if they were it would be much mor preferable to the corruption that goes on in his own party...
He really does sound like a not very clever schoolboy in a debate he hasnt any clue about
 
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Starmer chewed him up and spat him out with his last question. He eschewed sunak taking from the poor and handing cash to the rich, had a pop at him for being bullied by his back benches and offered to lend him labour votes to get his housing bill through. Country before party. Sunak had to refuse that offer.

The election debates are going to be brutal for sunak. He doesn't seem to be reading the room at all where the electorate are concerned.
 
Sunak, in typical politician fashion, doesn't answer the question and is allowed to get away with it. However, he does say least answer a question, speaks fairly well and makes an irrelevant point to get a load of cheers from behind him. Because of that, despite his content being dire, he doesn't look like he's being hammered and is a big improvement (from the government's POV) over Truss, Johnson and May.

PMQs isn't about answering questions, it's about avoiding them and unfortunately I think he does quite well. I don't think there's much that will be meme-worthy like the previous PMs. He's not going to win any votes at PMQs but he might make them pointless.
 
Sunak, in typical politician fashion, doesn't answer the question and is allowed to get away with it. However, he does say least answer a question, speaks fairly well and makes an irrelevant point to get a load of cheers from behind him. Because of that, despite his content being dire, he doesn't look like he's being hammered and is a big improvement (from the government's POV) over Truss, Johnson and May.

PMQs isn't about answering questions, it's about avoiding them and unfortunately I think he does quite well. I don't think there's much that will be meme-worthy like the previous PMs. He's not going to win any votes at PMQs but he might make them pointless.
I thought PMQ's was about taking whatever question you get asked and turning it around into a puff piece statement about what you've delivered (even if you haven't) and how labour are anti growth, anti England and support the nasty unions? Bonus points for repeating whatever the 3 word mantra is of the current Tory party line 5-6 times
 
Sunak, in typical politician fashion, doesn't answer the question and is allowed to get away with it. However, he does say least answer a question, speaks fairly well and makes an irrelevant point to get a load of cheers from behind him. Because of that, despite his content being dire, he doesn't look like he's being hammered and is a big improvement (from the government's POV) over Truss, Johnson and May.

PMQs isn't about answering questions, it's about avoiding them and unfortunately I think he does quite well. I don't think there's much that will be meme-worthy like the previous PMs. He's not going to win any votes at PMQs but he might make them pointless.
The real test for Sunak is whether he can get any bill through Parliament. He's got a fractured back bench who are all over the place on things such as offshore wind and house building targets.
 
The real test for Sunak is whether he can get any bill through Parliament. He's got a fractured back bench who are all over the place on things such as offshore wind and house building targets.
Sunak hasn't introduced much of anything since becoming PM. He is largely just picking up his wages for being made a fool of at PMQ's every week. I did read somewhere that for the same 4 weeks last year there were 50% more votes in parliament than this year. At a time when you would expect an increase in legislation going through parliament. It is, as you say, because he can't lead the party and to be fair, it's not leadable at the moment. It's pulling in diametrically opposed directions. I think it was Phil Moorhouse that made the point a couple of weeks ago that the red wall tory mp's who are now extremely likely to loose their jobs, should have just refused to support early tory legislation unless they got something back from the manifesto. The obvious one being levelling up. It is a party in turmoil.
 
The problem is the rich and powerful that own and run the media will once again convince the sheep that removing charitable status from public schools is anti aspirational (because they send their kids there) and those who could only dream of paying those fees will oblige at the ballot box.
We should aspire for a level playing field for all our kids
 
The problem is the rich and powerful that own and run the media will once again convince the sheep that removing charitable status from public schools is anti aspirational (because they send their kids there) and those who could only dream of paying those fees will oblige at the ballot box.
We should aspire for a level playing field for all our kids
Final sentence...spot on.

As for the 1st bit...I'm not so sure. The current crisis is hitting almost everyone. For instance, whilst not universal, public support for strikes is greater than I can ever remember.

The Tories are playing their standard cards, attempting to create dischord...but I'm pretty sure they have seriously misjudged the mood of the room
 
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