Labour calls for investigation into Rishi Sunak’s boast he took funding from deprived urban areas

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  1. Lol

    The Tories illegally shut down parliament and nothing came of it, I don’t think anyone is going to give 2 f**ks that they took money from the poor to give to the rich.

  2. That voice in his head got confused for a brief moment.
    Not that we didn’t already know they were doing this

    Whats really fucked is this sort of talk will make him look good in the eyes of their own supporters

  3. don’t see what’s to investigate. Is it not Labour’s job to explain why they are better? No they aren’t doing that particularly well are they?Get someone else to fight their battles now.

  4. Why do they need a investigation? He admits he had done it lol

    Also what will a investigation actually do?

    I think Labour needs to use that clip to promote to the areas where people are poorer but for some stupid reason they still vote Tory.

  5. Investigate what? Governments are allowed to fund regions as they like. Actually tell us what you’d do different, Labour.

    Starmer grow a backbone challenge. Difficulty: impossible

  6. Everyone bothered to google knows exactly what he did.

    https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/local-government-funding-england

    TLDR: local governments are not allowed to borrow and must balance their budgets. Rishi encouraged raising local property taxes and reduced central government’s grants – therefore channeling less money from areas collecting more local taxes per person to densely populated areas collecting less taxes per person.

    Metropolitan districts – primarily local authorities in cities – and London local authorities have borne the biggest reductions in spending power since 2010. This is because central government grants were cut and these grants made up a larger share of income for local authorities in areas of higher deprivation (many of which are metropolitan districts or London authorities).

  7. Nice job Sunak, openly admitting to sabotaging ‘levelling up’. I thought Truss was the stupid one, but by god Sunak is giving her a run for her money.

  8. Investigation? What’s the point? When High Court can several times conclude that this gang acted unlawfully and there were zero consequences, in a Balkanised in-your-face anything-goes corrupt country like this there is no point – even if we like the investigation’s conclusions.

  9. He gave to the rich what he stole from the poor

    Stood next to the man as he partied some more

    Our rage t’ward him now ain’t so hard to see

    The Hero of Canterbury, the man called Rishi

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    [[context]](https://youtu.be/pI-fiGUjAPY)

  10. And surely that is all she wrote for Rishi’s leadership campaign? Surely the Tory members aren’t stupid enough to vote in a man who’s conduct during the pandemic, ethically questionable finances and knuckleheaded boasts have done him no favours with the general voting public… that’d be political suicide to have him heading the next general election campaign.

  11. It will be a repeat of the Sue Gray report and the Tories will get to alter it to their desire to prevent Sunak looking too bad. Sunak will never be punished for this, the rich never are.

  12. I wonder if Labour are also going to call for further investigations into Starmer’s dodgy failures to register his interests on time, on quite a few multiple occasions?

    …Ah, probably not. I just remembered, Labour only ever applies their morals to the other political parties – not themselves!

  13. Love the gaslighting from Kevin Hollinrake on newsnight last night. Apparently Rishi did not say this at all. We’re all tòo stupid and misinterpreted it.

  14. Call for an investigation on him owning stock with BP and other energy companies while allowing them to overcharge people

  15. Between this, his desire for re-education camps and lack of transparency over his wife’s taxes…

    …I’m starting to think that Rishi might not be a very good person…

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