• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
  • Contact us
  • Guest Content
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Opinion
    • Elevenses
  • Business
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Property
  • JOBS
  • All
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Sport
    • Tech/Auto
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Politics

PMQs – Lone shark PM makes nation indebted to Sunak the slender payday lender 

We are now in debt to the government for money we have paid them in taxes. Get your head around that!

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-02-09 14:28
in Politics
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

I’ll be honest I don’t have much sympathy for Conservative MPs, but today I felt something for them. It wasn’t strong enough to call it a feeling, more of a pang, I’d say.

A new Brexit report has shown the project has been a complete failure, with Parliament’s spending watchdog concluding that the “only detectable” impact of the UK’s divorce from the EU so far is “increased costs, paperwork and border delays”.

Add to that a National Insurance rise which has come under constant fire, levelling up promises that have led Rishi Sunak’s top aide to conclude that Northerners should ‘accept lower wages’ and spiralling energy costs many Tory MPs must be thinking, what can go wrong next? 

Well, their fears were answered halfway through today’s Prime Minister’s Questions when Labour MP Fabian Hamilton raised the release of a photo showing the PM at a Christmas party surrounded by Champagne.

He contrasted the merriment to a constituent who was unable to have visits from her family while having cancer treatment.

Bear in mind this is a party that, after seeing the picture, the police didn’t think was worth investigating. It does make you wonder what is the point of the Met. A video of the PM booting Larry the Cat on the steps of Downing Street wouldn’t get him charged.

Sunak the fraud apologist

Today Starmer went after the chancellor as well, calling him a loan shark who doesn’t think fraud is a crime. There was much laughter when the PM said he despises fraudsters. Self-loathing is not something the PM suffers from.

Johnson also refused to say whether Guto Harri, who lobbied the government on behalf of Huawei, has received full security checks before his rushed appointment to Downing Street. Surely this lot can’t still call themselves the party of law and order. It’s one big party constantly breaking the law and creating disorder.

So what was the PM going to do about the energy crisis, he was asked numerous times. BP and Shell have posted billions of pounds in profit (doubt they would refer to this period as a crisis) and the PM told the house a windfall tax would only serve to ‘clobber’ them. Well, good! They have the deepest pockets of all.

RelatedPosts

Tories ‘acting in interests’ of wealthiest as living costs soar – Corbyn

Poll finds just 1% of 18-24 year-olds support Tories

Rutherglen by-election of ‘monumental significance’, says Starmer

Nandy rips Braverman’s multiculturalism claims to shreds on Question Time

Instead, Sunak decided to pick the nation’s pockets by lending them £200 to cover energy bills then demanding it back. 

We are now in debt to the government for money we have paid them in taxes. Get your head around that!

Drink more to get sober

So what is the PM, who lectured other world leaders for their lack of green credentials, going to do about the energy crisis? Well, extract more gas to go green. He actually said that. Drink more to get sober is not a phrase used very often in AA meetings.

To top it all off Natalie Elphicke, an MP in Kent, told the house that the Dover traffic jams are simply not good enough. However, she said it wasn’t due to Brexit, but due to Brussel’s bureaucracy and ‘red tape.’ That issue couldn’t be any more to do with Brexit if it tried!

Ahh now I know what that sympathy pang was, I’m starving. It was hunger, not sympathy I was feeling. That’s a relief.

It’s Johnson’s hunger for power and lack of sympathy for working people that show no signs of wearing off.

Related: PMQs – PM facing his Waterloo as he begs his MPs to ‘take a chance on me’ again

Tags: headlinePMQs
Previous Post

‘Uncaring and often punitive:’ Women’s prison inmates made ‘1,000 calls a month’ to Samaritans

Next Post

Johnson announces early end to all England’s remaining Covid laws

Since you are here

Since you are here, we wanted to ask for your help.

Journalism in Britain is under threat. The government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and our media is run by a handful of billionaires, most of whom reside overseas and all of them have strong political allegiances and financial motivations.

Our mission is to hold the powerful to account. It is vital that free media is allowed to exist to expose hypocrisy, corruption, wrongdoing and abuse of power. But we can't do it without you.

If you can afford to contribute a small donation to the site it will help us to continue our work in the best interests of the public. We only ask you to donate what you can afford, with an option to cancel your subscription at any point.

To donate or subscribe to The London Economic, click here.

You can also SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER .

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

More from TLE

This is the moment GB News told viewers of Dan Wootton’s suspension

Lib Dems receive £1m legacy donation boost to election war chest

Man telling his girlfriend she should take his surname after they marry divides opinion

West faces existential threat if global asylum rules not tightened – Braverman

‘British democracy can reverse Brexit’ – March For Rejoin issues rallying cry

Nandy rips Braverman’s multiculturalism claims to shreds on Question Time

Inheritance tax cut could lead to spending cuts and tax rises, think tank warns

Sunak ‘removing the alternatives’ to driving, say walkers and cyclists

Rosebank oil field given the go-ahead

One in ten prisons should close down, says watchdog

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

SUPPORT

We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. If you can, please show your appreciation for our free content by donating whatever you think is fair to help keep TLE growing and support real, independent, investigative journalism.

DONATE & SUPPORT

Contact

Editorial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Commercial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Address

The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE
Company number 09221879
International House,
24 Holborn Viaduct,
London EC1A 2BN,
United Kingdom

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




← ‘Uncaring and often punitive:’ Women’s prison inmates made ‘1,000 calls a month’ to Samaritans ← Johnson announces early end to all England’s remaining Covid laws
-->