ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Oh come on. Don't tell me there's another one https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/members/super-bigote.44341/
Do you have anything to say other that personal attacks on posters?
Oh come on. Don't tell me there's another one https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/members/super-bigote.44341/
Echoes of Boris- you were warned but you still elected. This way the country gets to experience what real Truss fails mean rather than just the rhetorical variety- cheese, Russia, Margaret Hilda pussy bows. The problem is it’s going to be very very expensive.With my responsible hat firmly on my head, this has been the week when the Truss façade has cracked https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-rows-previous-calls-send-WEAPONS-Taiwan.html
But is too late. They are too invested in her.
There will be lots of this in future. Clearing up her incompetence. Cummings has warned she will be worse than Johnson.
Truss leads by almost 40 points in the latest poll:
https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1554551470900527107
No idea how this squares with the other recent poll that showed only a single digit lead.
Pathetic
Gibberish
I don't agree with every word of this but the overall message is correct: the idea that Truss will be easy for Starmer to beat is sheer complacency:
https://unherd.com/2022/08/why-labour-should-fear-liz-truss/
McTernan is a former advisor to Tony Blair (and a bit of a right wing anti-union scumbag, to be honest) but I think he's right about this.
To be balanced though you'd have to quote from a dozen others doing the same thing.
I would give him 5/10 for his "Only New Labour can not be afraid of Truss" piece.I don't agree with every word of this but the overall message is correct: the idea that Truss will be easy for Starmer to beat is sheer complacency:
https://unherd.com/2022/08/why-labour-should-fear-liz-truss/
McTernan is a former advisor to Tony Blair (and a bit of a right wing anti-union scumbag, to be honest) but I think he's right about this.
'm saying you should know about the others which Ks.234 is usually responding to by mentioning the AUP. Otherwise it is a partial quotation and leads to misunderstanding.
That is contrary to evidence, but as a mod has indicated that he has already made up his mind about any response, I will have to leave it thereI think PFM is welcoming of experts if they appear to make reasonable efforts to explain things in a manner that the rest of us might reasonably be expected to understand, rather than trying to appear intellectually superior.
I second Decameron's suggesting to contain MMT to one or two MMT/economics threads. The endless promotion of MMT in tangentially related threads is getting very tiring - verging on thread crapping. I've resorted to putting several posters on ignore, but I'd rather not do that to you because I like your non-MMT posts and I think we share common goals politically, but perhaps differ (but not by much) in how we might get there.
Or the winner can just do what Boris does- make a lot of promises then do nothing once in office. Just trot around hospitals, laboratories and building sites in a variety of outfits and have your picture taken and hold drinks parties at ChequersSunak seems to be pursuing a ‘be more Brexity’ strategy, in his desperate need for Conservative member votes. Today saw him saying, ‘we need to move away from the ECHR definition of asylum. It is far too broad…’ (Twitter) He proposes using the 1951 UN Refugee Convention instead. By implication, he is proposing to leave the ECHR and Council of Europe, which means abandoning citizens’ recourse to a non-national court in all areas of Human Rights law.
I don’t know what it says about the Conservative membership, but the longer the leadership race goes on, the worse the policies of both candidates get.
the idea that Truss will be easy for Starmer to beat is sheer complacency
I don’t know what it says about the Conservative membership, but the longer the leadership race goes on, the worse the policies of both candidates get.
The whole way it’s been framed by the media is a rancid distortion. It’s been presented as “Britain Chooses Its Next Prime Minister”, like a bad episode of Royal It’s a Knockout compèred by a pair of prolific sex offenders.Campaigning for the Tory leadership is something that should be done over the dark web. Making out that this filth is part of some kind of national debate pollutes the public sphere and drags politics even further to the right. The Conservatives have already built a whole polity around the worst instincts of the worst people in the country but this is grotesque.
Christ. They'll have to sign me up. I detest lots about Britain: its narrow-minded Brexit Island mentality; its nonagenarian benefits scrounger and her family of in-breds; its absurd political system, rigged in its lower house and stuffed with political nominees and frigging bishops in its upper.National pride will be enforced by state mandate. Nothing fascist about that at all, obviously.
Christ. They'll have to sign me up. I detest lots about Britain: it's narrow-minded Brexit Island mentality; its nonagenarian benefits scrounger and her family of in-breds; it's absurd political system, rigged in its lower house and stuffed with political nominees and frigging bishops in its upper.