The Premiership of Mary Elizabeth Truss.Sept 2022 - Oct 2022
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TheDecameron
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He, Mogg and their hangers on are bent and they own the Tory Party. It’s like listening to Sergei Lavrov. Brexit was their weapon of choice and they still imagine they can reach for it when required.Grrr! Those pesky Remainers!!
mandryka
pfm Member
Yes that’s the only explanation I can give, like people say about Starmer. But then this whole business of deliberately baiting the markets for two months to justify austerity seems a bit too much like the plot in a Verdi opera to me. But maybe that’s my naivety.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
The thought occurred to me this morning that Truss's thinking might be on the following lines: she'll do the relatively popular stuff (cutting taxes) and let the BoE take the flak for doing the less popular stuff (raising interest rates). The, if/when it all goes even more pear-shaped, she can blame the BoE's 'incompetence'.
But that doesn't explain the Government's apparent willingness to piss off its traditional support base. Homeowners have already had a kick in the teeth, and I heard on R4 this morning that state pensions might not increase in line with inflation, as Sunak had pledged they would.
Yesterday's headlines were telling; almost every paper was shouting about financial armageddon, but the Daily Mail led on a non-story about one of Steven Lawrence's murderers (and leads on the same item this morning). If the Tories have lost the Mail, they might as well pack up and leave.
garyi
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There is some slimy little shit on Radio 4 this morning sidestepping the questions.
Should the various news outlets not have a moratorium to state that any politician that won't answer the question dosnt get interviewed again, cut them all off at the knees until they understand we are paying the f***ing wages?
Should the various news outlets not have a moratorium to state that any politician that won't answer the question dosnt get interviewed again, cut them all off at the knees until they understand we are paying the f***ing wages?
Seanm
pfm Member
I don’t think that’s quite what he’s saying - that’s the headline, which he didn’t write - he’s saying that cuts are inevitably in the mix. The plan as far as Truss and co are concerned is to stimulate growth and get us through the energy crisis. But when very right wing people massively increase the deficit, other right wing people understand that the next move will be cuts in public spending. It’s one of those things that the people who count just know, and don’t bother explaining to people who don’t count - the public - because, well, they don’t count. But for sure, none of this will have to have been explained to newspaper owners, other billionaire backers or bond traders.
TheDecameron
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Sink the BoE,
Gotcha!
laughingboy
pfm Member
notaclue
pfm Member
Just doing her rehearsed lines. But her tone is very monotone and dull. Probably somewhat shell-shocked. Cannot communicate naturally. 8.17 on Radio Kent https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_kent
She is frighteningly out of her depth.
"I have to do what I believe is right for the country and what is going to help move our country forward." “This is the right plan.” https://www.theguardian.com/politic...conomy-conservatives-uk-politics-live-updates
She is frighteningly out of her depth.
"I have to do what I believe is right for the country and what is going to help move our country forward." “This is the right plan.” https://www.theguardian.com/politic...conomy-conservatives-uk-politics-live-updates
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” - H.L. Mencken
laughingboy
pfm Member
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
So when, train strikes permitting, are we marching on Parliament?
matthewr
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Her fast travel skills are impressive if nothing else.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
If you join the dots of those locations on a map, you get a secret satanic symbol. FACT.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
I see Sunak is giving the party conference a body swerve. He’ll be at his Yorkshire constituency.
Ponty
pfm Member
Caught a snippet of a local radio interview. Sounded as though she was just reading (nonsense) from a speech. Why TF isn’t she on BBC1, Radio 4 etc. Get her in front of Brillo to defend herself. I can only think it’s because local radio interviewers are crap and inexperienced and she knows she’ll be toast.
Tony L
Administrator
Hopefully there will be a load of anger and protest around the Tory Conference next week, though I’ve not seen anything organised yet. I think there is some strike action scheduled then too.
One thing that occurred to me is the weapons-grade idiocy and national sabotage we saw in Friday was only a “mini-budget”. IIRC there is a ‘proper’ one on the way, I think in November. Given it appears huge swathes of Tory MPs are refusing to even attend Conference this year I wonder if there is now a very real risk of that budget not being passed in the HoC? The Sunak faction would vote against or abstain, as would the ‘red wall’ lot. That may be enough to sink it. If that is the case it is VONC and GE time. If nothing else it will hopefully force Truss and Kwateng to reverse-out from the IEA lunacy that now owns our politics a fair way as we all now know beyond doubt what it does in reality.
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
Oops - any idea what time? I’ve got a couple of things to do this afternoon but I’d like to beat the queues.