Thread by @PandaScottish

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I would like to thank @10DowningStreet @RishiSunak

And @Conservatives @CCHQPress

For the clip below from #PMQs on 25/1/2023

This was the *best* clip they could get from #PMQs

They think this shows Rishi Sunak in a positive light.

It doesn't

Let me explain why.

https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1618256677383323650

First of all you have to go back to PMQs to realise

That Sunak was flummoxed by several of the questions being about failings in the criminal justice system that his party have overseen for the past 13 years

Here's question 1

Here's question 2

Here's question 3

Now you will note in those 3 questions

Rishi Sunak's responses do not answer the questions from Keir Starmer

Does the Prime Minister accept those findings?

(he does not answer yes)

Does he also accept what Zara’s family say?

(he does not answer yes)

Rishi has a knack for not answering questions

e.g.

https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1614190496775012352

I wrote a thread on his response style

I won't call it an answer style

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1615674195207196672

Anyway sorry back to the 25th January 2023

Questions 4 - 6 of course touched on the issue of Nadhim Zahawi

Here is Q 4

Here is Q5

Here is Q6

The one that Rishi prepares most for because he knows it is the one where he gets to respond without any comeback from Keir Starmer

I want to focus on

"The difference between the right hon. and learned Gentleman and me is that I stand by my values and my principles, even when it is difficult. When I disagreed fundamentally with the previous Prime Minister ... I resigned from the Government"

You have to remember of course the sheer number of ministerial resignations Boris Johnson faced at the end

Eventually at the last

Many of his ministers found some spine and some some courage

And finally admitted (to a degree) they could take no more

Rishi's letter here

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Now I could compare Rishi's resignation letter with so many other ministers to inspect the choice of language used as to the WHY they chose to resign

It is fascinating

Imagine you are the Finance Director of a massive company

The Chief Executive has once more tried to get away with a shameless lack of ethics and done something else

not lying to nation
not lying to Elizabeth
not racism
not xenophobia
not pissing on democracy
not unlawfully proroguing Parliament
not interfering into the investigation into a bully
not being AWOL whilst letting rip
not joking of Operation Last Gasp

not locking down late repeatedly
not a PPE lane for party donors
not begging for wallpaper decorating money
not begging for childcare
not begging for holiday villa's
not lying to Josephine

not fostering a work culture so bad you illegally party the evening before the funeral of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
not protecting Owen Patterson
not passing a treaty no unionist could support
not trying to break a treaty you signed up to

there is so fucking much

so so fucking much

now as finance director

scores of other directors are resigning stating massive ethical issues with the behaviour of the CEO

what do you do?

do you do a Truss and avoid resigning as you don't want to be tarred as a "back stabber" and hope that will carry some weight in the leadership contest to come?

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1567108635687272448

or do you do a Rishi

you resign but you cite policy differences as the reason so you can try and claim you didn't resign because of ethical principles

I find Rishi's resignation reason shameless

He knew he had to resign

But he could not bring himself to do so and provide genuine reasons for fear of how they might impact

so he EXPLOITED the massive number of his colleagues resigning to come out with his own resignation with the absolutely pathetic I disagreed with the PM on policy grounds

Fuck off Rishi

and when you get there

Fuck off some more

then having watched a lettuce fuck over a nation for her brief tenure at No10

Rishi was desperate to avoid a leadership contest going back to the party membership because he KNEW he would lose to Penny or Kemi or others

So he stitched it up

With the aid of Suella

All it cost him to buy her off

Was the position of Home Secretary

So to Rishi Sunak

Take your words on principles

And fuck right off

But thank you for being SO UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID

You think that clip from PMQs shows you in a good light

It is WORSE

and to any Tory who says asking questions about the ethical behaviour of ministers and their conduct

Here is Margaret

here is my thread on Rishi and Nadhim Zahawi that I had written prior to PMQs

My questions were not on the ethics of the behaviour of Nadhim Zahawi in this matter

But on the behaviour of Rishi

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1617851296140386308

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