>Rishi Sunak has boasted of having taken money from “deprived urban areas” in order to give it to other parts of the country.
>He made the admission while speaking to Tory members in Tunbridge Wells while on the leadership campaign trail in July.
>In a video obtained by the New Statesman, Sunak said: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserved.
>“We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”
>Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, has a Conservative majority of 14,645 and has been held by the party since its creation in 1974.
>Lisa Nandy, Labour’s shadow levelling up secretary, said: “This is scandalous. Rishi Sunak is openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers’ money to rich Tory shires.
>“This is our money. It should be spent fairly and where it’s most needed – not used as a bribe to Tory members. Talk about showing your true colours.”
>Sunak is believed to be trailing Liz Truss in the race to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, as party members begin voting.
>But there is still a month of the campaign to go, with the result set to be announced on September 5.
>Both candidates will appear at another hustings event on Friday evening, this time in Eastbourne, where they will take questions from Tory members.
Yeah I really like this guy. He’s just so relatable.
Really saying the quiet part loud recently, huh Rishi?
Its crazy how since the 2019 win they aren’t even bothering to pretend otherwise anymore.
And the scary thing is that people are still voting for them en masse even with the mask off. At this rate they could decree that everyone who isn’t on more than 30k a year has to have a P for Poor branded on their forehead and be made to wear some sort of humiliating hat and fucking Charles in his 800k bungalow in Devon will still nod into his daily mail and say “oh yes, great idea!”
I thought it was from his non dom waifey… the billionaire one lmao
I’m desperately trying to pick my jaw up off of the ground. If labour don’t run with this – if the press don’t shout this shit from the rooftops, we’ll be fucked.
They must know it’s over for them. *Surely* even the thickest briton will be able to comprehend what’s being said here?
At least he’s honest about it, demonstrating the true colours what ‘being Tory’ actually means and benefits.
TRUSS will just robotically move her arms and speak in a monotone till her audience collectively forget what the fuck she was talking about and wonder, how the fuck is this idiot allowed out in public without adult supervision.
I’m surprised he doesn’t just pull out.
It would fuck Mad Liz over – no personal mandate from the members, only demonstrated minority support in the party. She would be in a very weak position and he could do the same as Johnson did with May and position himself as king in waiting.
My guess is that he doesn’t want to enrage the members ahead of any future contest. But they’re never ever going to vote for him (or anyone not white) – and he could end up leader without their votes, just as May and Howard did.
Honestly whoever continues to vote for these lemons deserves everything they get
The worst thing about all of this is just how apathetic I am now. I don’t even have energy to be mad any more. Both Sunak and Truss are absolutely vile people, but we the people have 0 say in which of them makes it to PM, and they’re just rubbing this in our faces.
What can we even do beyond waiting for the next general election?
this fucking shit just keeps getting worse and worse…
“I started work on undoing… Labour formulas that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas”
Yeah, that’s what government funding of for! It give deprived areas equal footing with wealthier areas!!! Rishi Sunak, you are a silly goose who has no idea what government funding into deprived areas is meant to do.
I could run the country better than this moron, and I can’t even be arsed cook my own food most days!
When the leadership challenge first started I thought he was the least awful of them all. But between his ‘anti-woke’ agenda and now boasting about taking from the poor to give to the rich he might just be the biggest piece of shit of them all.
What is clear is he will say and do anything to get into power, which means he lacks principle and can’t be trusted.
I was never bothered by the fact that he was so mega rich and therefore not very relatable. You can be mega rich and still make good decisions on behalf of the many. But he’s made it clear only only wants to pander to the elite.
Astounds me how many people are missing this with the whole “they’re so insanely out of touch now, not even pretending anymore, they’re just being blatant about it now!” stuff.
**THEY’RE APPEALING TO TORY MEMBERS ONLY**
They don’t need to appease the general public, they’re each trying to appeal to the kind of people who are paid up members of the Tory party. So you can imagine the rhetoric that appeals to those types….
Let’s just all remember this when it comes to a general election.
When someone shows you who they are, always believe them the first time.
He and Liz Truss desperately trying to out-cunt each other.
The absolute balls to just admit that in public.
What a piece of shit
I need to unsub from this place. It’s depressing the fuck out of me. 🙁
Lmao, Where they his working class mates?
I wanted to get the exact quote to make sure the article wasn’t clickbait, and for those who cba to read the article, here it is paraphrased.
“Labour put funds into deprived areas. Sunak didn’t like that, so he worked to undo that”
He’s literally saying Labour were trying to help disadvantaged people, and he swooped in and took from the poor and gave to the rich. Pure fucking villain.
This leadership race is a fucking shite storm. Honestly, I think I prefer Truss, not because she’s a better candidate, but because her failure will be softer. Her rise to power is reminiscent of the storyline for Forrest Gump. A mentally challenged, naïve ~~Alabama boy~~ Oxford girl, constantly finds herself haphazardly progressing upwards, and now she’s at the tippy top, surely whatever hack fraud writer in charge of this timeline will make something amazing happen, right!?
The alternative to literal divine intervention is this cunt, Sunak. Considering Sunak’s trajectory from a standard issue scummy tory, to a full on villain occurred in just a few weeks, that data suggests he is just going to go full emperor Palpatine by the time he’s elected PM.
I mean he didn’t need to tell us, but I guess it’s nice that he did.
At this point this is a country with a class based hierarchy of suffering.
People don’t care if they suffer so long as they can see others suffering more beneath them and delight in their suffering.
The “we’re all in this together” Austerity measures.
We all knew this, they told towns to say something nice about the Tories on the run up to the election to get £1 million extra in funding, then after they won the election, those towns that changed from Labour to Tories had their funding cut and sent down south.
3 years we have known this for.
So right wing it’s not even funny. We took formulas and fucked up a few million lives.
Remember remember
Tbf, that’s a massive vote winner amongst Tory party members.
To quote an AFTV classic:
“I’m just tired, *gestures at everything*”
Part of me wants to believe that Sunak’s just saying this to get the vote from Tory Members as he’s so far behind Truss. But I’ve given up believing any of this shower actually care about people (and living in a Tory constituency that attitude is not limited to their MPs).
Both of these candidates will destroy the country, one due to ideology, the other because they’re dumb and will be easily led by more clinical minds.
Hundred of thousands will die this winter – and millions more will be destitute, but neither of these morons would lift a finger to help stop the car flying off the cliff.
At this point it’s just choosing which brand of car you want to get run over by
T-O-R-Y S-C-U-M
What. The. Fuck.
Fuck these obnoxious upper class wankers.
I feel so hopelessly depressed by all of this. The more that comes out from these awful people, the more hopeless the situation feels. How can we even begin to pick up the pieces here? They’re not even *trying* to pretend they care about anybody other than the rich elite.
I get their whole motive right now is to appeal to the tories, but *we can all still see what they’re saying*. I can’t fathom a party just outright saying, publicly, “We took money from deprived areas so the rich could have it.”
I know people who vote for these people, and I just can’t understand it. The conservatives shouldn’t have a chance. If you are not incredibly rich, these people don’t care about you.
Man you know that bit in that South Park episode where they’re explaining Scientology and at the bottom of the screen they had to put “This is what Scientologists actually believe”?
This is like that but with the Conservative party.
He said the quiet part loud.
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‘I don’t get it, why are they confessing?’
‘They aren’t confessing, they are bragging.’
How did the Tories even manage to convince people from deprived areas to vote for them…? It’s madness
This moment is going to be what cost him the chance of being Prime Minster, really shown his true colours here.
​
Completely moronic thing to say, even if he means it… you don’t bloody say it just shows what a terrible PM he would have been.
….Now we are stuck with Liz Truss, fuck sake.
This was a few days ago apparently. The guy knew he was running for PM and yet still came out with this.
Then you have Lizz Truss who stated cutting public sector wages for all those outside of the South East, and then gaslit the entire nation when they called her out on it.
We’re fucked.
So he deprived a deprived area and then called it a deprived area, Tory 101.
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>Rishi Sunak has boasted of having taken money from “deprived urban areas” in order to give it to other parts of the country.
>He made the admission while speaking to Tory members in Tunbridge Wells while on the leadership campaign trail in July.
>In a video obtained by the New Statesman, Sunak said: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserved.
>“We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”
>Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, has a Conservative majority of 14,645 and has been held by the party since its creation in 1974.
>Lisa Nandy, Labour’s shadow levelling up secretary, said: “This is scandalous. Rishi Sunak is openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers’ money to rich Tory shires.
>“This is our money. It should be spent fairly and where it’s most needed – not used as a bribe to Tory members. Talk about showing your true colours.”
>Sunak is believed to be trailing Liz Truss in the race to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, as party members begin voting.
>But there is still a month of the campaign to go, with the result set to be announced on September 5.
>Both candidates will appear at another hustings event on Friday evening, this time in Eastbourne, where they will take questions from Tory members.
Yeah I really like this guy. He’s just so relatable.
Really saying the quiet part loud recently, huh Rishi?
Its crazy how since the 2019 win they aren’t even bothering to pretend otherwise anymore.
And the scary thing is that people are still voting for them en masse even with the mask off. At this rate they could decree that everyone who isn’t on more than 30k a year has to have a P for Poor branded on their forehead and be made to wear some sort of humiliating hat and fucking Charles in his 800k bungalow in Devon will still nod into his daily mail and say “oh yes, great idea!”
I thought it was from his non dom waifey… the billionaire one lmao
I’m desperately trying to pick my jaw up off of the ground. If labour don’t run with this – if the press don’t shout this shit from the rooftops, we’ll be fucked.
They must know it’s over for them. *Surely* even the thickest briton will be able to comprehend what’s being said here?
At least he’s honest about it, demonstrating the true colours what ‘being Tory’ actually means and benefits.
TRUSS will just robotically move her arms and speak in a monotone till her audience collectively forget what the fuck she was talking about and wonder, how the fuck is this idiot allowed out in public without adult supervision.
I’m surprised he doesn’t just pull out.
It would fuck Mad Liz over – no personal mandate from the members, only demonstrated minority support in the party. She would be in a very weak position and he could do the same as Johnson did with May and position himself as king in waiting.
My guess is that he doesn’t want to enrage the members ahead of any future contest. But they’re never ever going to vote for him (or anyone not white) – and he could end up leader without their votes, just as May and Howard did.
Honestly whoever continues to vote for these lemons deserves everything they get
The worst thing about all of this is just how apathetic I am now. I don’t even have energy to be mad any more. Both Sunak and Truss are absolutely vile people, but we the people have 0 say in which of them makes it to PM, and they’re just rubbing this in our faces.
What can we even do beyond waiting for the next general election?
this fucking shit just keeps getting worse and worse…
“I started work on undoing… Labour formulas that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas”
Yeah, that’s what government funding of for! It give deprived areas equal footing with wealthier areas!!! Rishi Sunak, you are a silly goose who has no idea what government funding into deprived areas is meant to do.
I could run the country better than this moron, and I can’t even be arsed cook my own food most days!
When the leadership challenge first started I thought he was the least awful of them all. But between his ‘anti-woke’ agenda and now boasting about taking from the poor to give to the rich he might just be the biggest piece of shit of them all.
What is clear is he will say and do anything to get into power, which means he lacks principle and can’t be trusted.
I was never bothered by the fact that he was so mega rich and therefore not very relatable. You can be mega rich and still make good decisions on behalf of the many. But he’s made it clear only only wants to pander to the elite.
Astounds me how many people are missing this with the whole “they’re so insanely out of touch now, not even pretending anymore, they’re just being blatant about it now!” stuff.
**THEY’RE APPEALING TO TORY MEMBERS ONLY**
They don’t need to appease the general public, they’re each trying to appeal to the kind of people who are paid up members of the Tory party. So you can imagine the rhetoric that appeals to those types….
Let’s just all remember this when it comes to a general election.
When someone shows you who they are, always believe them the first time.
He and Liz Truss desperately trying to out-cunt each other.
The absolute balls to just admit that in public.
What a piece of shit
I need to unsub from this place. It’s depressing the fuck out of me. 🙁
Lmao, Where they his working class mates?
I wanted to get the exact quote to make sure the article wasn’t clickbait, and for those who cba to read the article, here it is paraphrased.
“Labour put funds into deprived areas. Sunak didn’t like that, so he worked to undo that”
He’s literally saying Labour were trying to help disadvantaged people, and he swooped in and took from the poor and gave to the rich. Pure fucking villain.
This leadership race is a fucking shite storm. Honestly, I think I prefer Truss, not because she’s a better candidate, but because her failure will be softer. Her rise to power is reminiscent of the storyline for Forrest Gump. A mentally challenged, naïve ~~Alabama boy~~ Oxford girl, constantly finds herself haphazardly progressing upwards, and now she’s at the tippy top, surely whatever hack fraud writer in charge of this timeline will make something amazing happen, right!?
The alternative to literal divine intervention is this cunt, Sunak. Considering Sunak’s trajectory from a standard issue scummy tory, to a full on villain occurred in just a few weeks, that data suggests he is just going to go full emperor Palpatine by the time he’s elected PM.
I mean he didn’t need to tell us, but I guess it’s nice that he did.
At this point this is a country with a class based hierarchy of suffering.
People don’t care if they suffer so long as they can see others suffering more beneath them and delight in their suffering.
The “we’re all in this together” Austerity measures.
We all knew this, they told towns to say something nice about the Tories on the run up to the election to get £1 million extra in funding, then after they won the election, those towns that changed from Labour to Tories had their funding cut and sent down south.
3 years we have known this for.
So right wing it’s not even funny. We took formulas and fucked up a few million lives.
Remember remember
Tbf, that’s a massive vote winner amongst Tory party members.
To quote an AFTV classic:
“I’m just tired, *gestures at everything*”
Part of me wants to believe that Sunak’s just saying this to get the vote from Tory Members as he’s so far behind Truss. But I’ve given up believing any of this shower actually care about people (and living in a Tory constituency that attitude is not limited to their MPs).
Both of these candidates will destroy the country, one due to ideology, the other because they’re dumb and will be easily led by more clinical minds.
Hundred of thousands will die this winter – and millions more will be destitute, but neither of these morons would lift a finger to help stop the car flying off the cliff.
At this point it’s just choosing which brand of car you want to get run over by
T-O-R-Y S-C-U-M
What. The. Fuck.
Fuck these obnoxious upper class wankers.
I feel so hopelessly depressed by all of this. The more that comes out from these awful people, the more hopeless the situation feels. How can we even begin to pick up the pieces here? They’re not even *trying* to pretend they care about anybody other than the rich elite.
I get their whole motive right now is to appeal to the tories, but *we can all still see what they’re saying*. I can’t fathom a party just outright saying, publicly, “We took money from deprived areas so the rich could have it.”
I know people who vote for these people, and I just can’t understand it. The conservatives shouldn’t have a chance. If you are not incredibly rich, these people don’t care about you.
Man you know that bit in that South Park episode where they’re explaining Scientology and at the bottom of the screen they had to put “This is what Scientologists actually believe”?
This is like that but with the Conservative party.
He said the quiet part loud.
[deleted]
‘I don’t get it, why are they confessing?’
‘They aren’t confessing, they are bragging.’
How did the Tories even manage to convince people from deprived areas to vote for them…? It’s madness
This moment is going to be what cost him the chance of being Prime Minster, really shown his true colours here.
​
Completely moronic thing to say, even if he means it… you don’t bloody say it just shows what a terrible PM he would have been.
….Now we are stuck with Liz Truss, fuck sake.
This was a few days ago apparently. The guy knew he was running for PM and yet still came out with this.
Then you have Lizz Truss who stated cutting public sector wages for all those outside of the South East, and then gaslit the entire nation when they called her out on it.
We’re fucked.
So he deprived a deprived area and then called it a deprived area, Tory 101.