Still better than Boris, I can’t imagine he was productive on Friday nights with all the COVID parties going on.
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I can't imagine he was productive at any time - other than producing children.
The election is tomorrow and the shit-slinging is getting desperate
What a confusing narrative. "Family time is good, but keep away from Friday."
It's like we're all out of things to get angry about. It makes you question if the anger is just for the attention, because what could it be trying to solve otherwise?
I love the idea that the conservatives are trying to put across the narrative that in some way he is going to refuse to do any work after Friday 6:00 p.m. no matter what.
Sor, Russia launched a nuclear attack against the UK what should we do? Put it on my desk, I'll deal with it on Monday.
Pretty low even for the Tories.
I quite like the idea of a PM who isn't going to work 24/7 as that can lead to impaired decision-making.
You're onto something. We need leaders who take more time off, not submerge themselves in bureaucracy.
I remember Thatcher boasting about only needing four hours sleep a night, which led me to wonder if getting eight hours might have made her nicer. I doubt it but it's worth a shot. Unless there's a crisis on, it feels like a sign you could be a control freak and/or poor at delegating, rather than it being a positive trait.
I've just had a discussion at work about how Biden was blaming his poor performance in a debate on a bad night's sleep, and quipped that maybe he would be better letting someone younger have a go as they're less likely to have to get up to pee so often at night so they'll be more on the ball.
That's certainly an angle I hadn't considered but he may have a catheter for "efficiency".
I would really like to have only four hours of sleep a night.
I don't see politics in terms of nice/not-nice.
I see what works and what does not. Thatcher was a mixed bag, better than Johnson :)
I see what works and what does not. Thatcher was a mixed bag, better than Johnson :)
Do you know your politics? Thatcher destroyed economies in the north of England. People really hated her, and with good reason. Once Boris Johnson was out of politics everyone stopped caring about him.
She was so universally hated that she only won... three elections.
Interesting you are called 'corrupt' and also support milk snatcher Thatcher
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With Rishi Sunak embarking on a marathon day of campaigning, beginning with a pre-dawn visit to a distribution centre and closing with a late-night rally, Tory ministers and aides sought to contrast these efforts with what they termed Starmer’s “part-time” approach.
Calling the attacks “laughably pathetic”, the Labour leader said his comments in a radio interview the day before had simply been to set out how he tried to keep Friday evenings aside for his family and would if elected prime minister, adding: “But I know very well it’s going to be really difficult to do it.”
John Mann, a former Labour MP and now peer, who is the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, called the Conservative attacks “dangerous”, noting that parliament did not sit on Sundays due to Christian traditions.
A Tory campaign video posted on social media and emailed to supporters shows an imaginary voter in July 2025 struggling with power cuts, unpayable bills and closed schools, ending with the message: “48 hours to stop a Labour supermajority.”
Sunak’s penultimate day of campaigning focused on seats that would ordinarily be safely Conservative, including an early morning visit to a supermarket in Witney, Oxfordshire, formerly David Cameron’s constituency.
Asked if it was right for Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, to claim that Starmer might clock off when pressing military decisions needed to taken, Sunak said: “I do worry about our country’s security, as there are deep concerns about it.
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