What he is really saying is, i don't give a shit.

It’s hard to put into words how much I hate this guy. Spiv

Anyone else hate the smug smile?

Torys deserve ZERO SEATS!

Usual verbal garbage from slimy sunak

£29 million in Michele Mone's account would help a council out.

He really doesn’t give a shit

The guys out of his depth and we need to get rid ASAP

I can't listen to him speak anymore.

Sunak is struggling with basic questions. He is looking flustered here. Sunak is still very much a junior minister. It is extraordinary that he is the Prime Minister of this country.

Smiling as pisses of everyone mr Sunak just piss off!

We need to get the Tories out as soon as possible.

Rishi doesn't get it because he's never had to depend on council services

The oozing smugness is starting to grate just a tad now

Bla bla bla… I dont think I’ve ever heard Tory give a direct and honest answer to a question.

Underfund Councils and then use them as a scapegoat. it's the Tory way

Where is all of our cash? Record levels of tax should have stopped this from happening. We're paying more for everything, yet everything is utterly underfunded and nothing works. What have they done with all of our money?

Where is our money going? It is needed in councils for our communities, why are these tories getting away with all this fraud? What will be done about it, when will we see our tax money put back where we want it to be? How do we stop the next government behaving in the same way?

The idiots who voted the tories in are to blame. Don't repeat the same mistake this time for gods sake. Anything is better than this

Not my prime minister,not voted for by the public,not my government.

The bloke should’ve said it’s not a laughing matter and we aren’t laughing

His usual answer is "We're giving record amounts of money too..."

Backbone of their communities or not the Tories have brought LAs to their knees through austerity.

I think what he said was "I don't care... stop asking me questions".

The money is in the Sunak bank account...

I hope one day he has to face a judge and jury

Everything that is needed by working people and the vulnerable is of no interest to this corrupt party and government. This country is fxcked under this lot.

He is so complacent, almost deluded.

It’s the smirk of I don’t give a sh’t my mates are ok that boils my blood

Beyond a crisis and totally unsustainable.

He just spews word salad

How can you sanction a pay rise for MPs

What a liar

He’s put his glasses on to look intelligent. 😂🥴🇬🇧

What am I paying taxes for?

To think he was once the Chancellor...

the social care cuts have resulted in many council run homes being closed down and private homes replacing them ,at much higher cost .

The problem with modern government is that the Prime Minister is not interested in this 'fundamental crisis' , because it won't play out any differently for him or his party during the election. You could replace local government with NHS, or social care, or anything that's difficult to solve, and it would be the same answers. The machine of government has failed. We are kicking the can down the road every month, and everyone is fine with it.

He's correct to challenge him. It used to be the old chestnut that it was just Labour councils that couldn't manage because they were fiscally irresponsible , and thats why they were struggling. Cant really pull that one out of the bag anymore when Tory councils are struggling too.

An estimated 126 billion on waste from this government in the last 4 years alone. Is it any wonder our local councils are skint

Why are we sending boat loads of money abroad while not supporting local govts? This is madness.

Why is he smiling the situation certainly does not warrant grinning from ear to ear !!

He is such a Richard head.

Why don't local councils vote to stop all government aid to conservative councils? See what happens.

Why did they cut national insurance when there is clearly a need for money to be spent in areas such as local councils.

What a waffling windbag! A veritable word salad, sound bites and dodged questions. The average Joe learned nothing from this, but thanks for posting. I’m undecided whether these committee hearings are worthwhile, or merely a side hustle for the elites.

Every council has had to make cuts to their budget since the Tories came to power in 2010.

Rishi just doesn’t care if the country he’s been charged to run is poor and crumbling. As long as he’s getting paid.

Tories have destroyed council's. I'm still working for mine..... 44 years later. I've experienced it all. I'd love to sit down and talk to people like Sunak

Ramble, ramble, ramble. I hope the public will ignore this awful stupefaction and understand that this is actually very simple. Because of their fiscal policies, they starved councils (I suspect mainly Labour, because they're so stupidly blatant) of funds to the point where they were impossible to manage. And now they blame the councils for not managing. Pretty much all there is to it.

S114 have been issued for both Tory and Labour Authorities. Local authorities have been underfunded for years

15 years ago we had more police per person, you could get a drs appointment, dentist appointment, nhs was working, my bins were collected once a week, foodbanks were not heard of, zero hours contracts were not heard of, warm banks were not heard of, sure start was doing great work and the list goes on

Why is he even doing this job, unless to help achieve another plan.

Even the speed humps in our village have potholes it's something too see quite incredible...I'm assuming the council simply can't afford to repair them .

When Labour left power in 2008 the National Debt was £8 billion. Today the National Debt is £254 Trillion. Where was the £246 Trillion spent…….?

more funding has gone into local govt..so why r so many bankrupt ffs!!!!

And he knows full well where the money can come from - back from where it went when he gave it out en masse, knowing it would end up with asset holders.

Pants on fire....

again its the banks that set the interest rates, how many times does this go unquestioned

The Indians are paying Britain back in kind for all the years of the British Raj.😅

Finally he is confronted this is a huge issue with baked in decade long cuts to come. Big fix needed to make council tax reformed and made more progress

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the class of How to Answer Questions like a Politician. 1 - acknowledge the question has been asked 2 - deliver a platitude about how good the subject of the question is, or condemn how bad it is (depending on what the subject is) 3 - pretend that you have personal experience/knowledge of the subject and care deeply about it 4 - quote the party line and deny that the problem is as bad as made out, and that the government is actually doing a great job of improving said thing. Select whatever data you feel will support your argument and ignore anything that might challenge it 5 - continue to repeat point 4, rephrasing the same non-argument until your interlocutor(s) give up, or you can claim you have a lot to do and leave the room 6 - if in doubt, hide in a fridge

Six hundred million quid between every local government in the country. Well that'll go a long way i don't think.

Looking at some of the responses from people trying to defend what’s happened over the last 14 years to what they feel either has happened when Labour were last in or may happen next time is astonishing. In my 71 years, all I know is that I’ve never seen corruption and lying of the scale I’ve seen in the last 14 years. So I’ll take m my chances with anyone other than the last lot thanks very much. And pray they’ve got a plan to get the taxpayers money back from those thieves who stole it from us over the last 14 years!!!’

The only true thing said here is that Local Councils/Authorities are central to our communities, however, with 75% ish of budget going on education and social care, it leaves very little for everyone else. Councils are pared back to almost the bare minimum as education and social care are protected services - recruitment and retention of its staff out with those services is negligible. As for his quote of real terms of increase in budgets, it's ring-fenced for education and social care..... rest have to shrink until really any other service type is no longer deliverable.

Where has all the money gone? They’ve extracted all they can over 14 years and look at the country now

In the commons Tories often lay into Labour for their councils having higher council tax, but this is to fill the gap which the tories have left the councils with. Make no mistake this is an extension of Neo-liberalism and attempts to make Councils act in competition with one another and run them as businesses. The issue here is that public services do not bring direct profit as a consultancy might, they benefit the population in myriad ways and may actually provide value for money, the issue the tories have is they do not value such things. SEND and social care are two areas which highlight this, placing individual responsibility above that of societal responsibility is a suicide mission. It is a race to the bottom. And it kills.

Pointless asking him anything. Austerity by the Tories has caused the damage, cuts to every social, health and public spending since 2010. Councils cant cope, NHS on its knees and the cost of living is all due to their policies.

It must be so satisfying knowing that being a politician, You can blatantly lie, Do f-all work and use your position to fill your pockets and the worst you'll have to deal with is a select committee with zero power to punish you...

When he lies he goes Boz-eyed and looks away from the person asking the question....He's a liar.

It's the same old story "We've got a plan, but we're not going to tell you what it is" Absolute bollocks.

I thought he gave all the money to Tunbridge Wells. But anyway, make him sweat.

I can't stand the sight of Sunak anymore

I wonder what Sunak's face would like if he were to given a slap for every time he lied or was insincere?

“Significantly more has gone into councils” - between 2015 and 2020 they cut spending from central by 77%.

He’s vile🤮everything’s a joke to sunak, that constant smirk 🤮

He hardly 'rinses' him, did he?

Why is there no governing bodies to look into all these “scandals” and have the power to punish/fine if irresponsible or corrupt procedures are found with governments, councils spendings etc

I enjoy seeing an actual process of government where there are some substantive questions. What I can't stand is the same PMQs style dodging of the questions. The endless use of figures out of context really gets my blood boiling.

Our council tax has gone exponentially. Does this manifest itself in the inflation figure? Lower taxes my arse.

Not a lot of "rinsing" going on here - again! Stop being as disingenuous as them or lose viewers with little time to be p'd around.

Rishi in his own words said he has removed local councils funding from deprived area and allocated to in rich towns in south and he was proud

Got caught out by his own BS, keeps saying he has a plan but cant say when asked what the plan is on spending.

He owes 100% more tax than what he paid

It is impossible to give taxpayers money to local councils AND to contracts for the mates of Tory MPs at the same time.

There are lies and there are damn lies !! Get them out !! Labour Government ASAP !!

He's sitting there with a straight face saying council's have record funding blah blah blah,, while choosing to ignore the elephant 🐘 in the room of councils up and down the country being de funded and that money disappearing back to the government never to be seen again , so where's that money gone?..🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Fire??? What fire???? No, no!!! That’s our new heating system!!!

All the money they've flushed down the toilet ...

If Councils are the backbone, why not give them the support they need, instead of leaving the electorate to the mercy of the Councils?!!

A real reflection or indication of spending power going up or down is surely shoplifting, which has notably increased over the last year or two

We know how horrendous the Tories are but sadly Labour are not offering us any respite!

It's just adorable that he is conctantly reading off his script sheet to answer questions - and making it sound as if he is answering off the cuff. If ever anyone deserved an Oscar for acting - it's this guy

Council cuts only result in increases in council tax , and guess who pays ?

I will be voting reform UK. I have no faith in tories or Labour 👍

Due to tory policy to engage with a market economy for public services, councils have to pay more. Shareholders demand their profits. Also, as stated, social care was offloaded onto councils with little or no increase in budget.

He’s saying, if the different departments don’t get out on the streets and shout loud they may not get a whole lot 😮

he says "1%" like you should be happy your getting anything lol

Look who is the chairman of this committee.

The select committee might as well hold a meeting, with a block of wood. The entire taxation system needs a complete rewrite and we also need an elected prime minister that actually gives a single solitary F about the general population.