Global bankers are well known for their Marxist policies in fairness.
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Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-63055024
Home Secretary criticises Sussex force for 'policing pronouns'
Braverman continues to focus on the important issues facing our policing.
Home Secretary criticises Sussex force for 'policing pronouns'
Braverman continues to focus on the important issues facing our policing.
The police finally get something right and the Tories have to attack it
She is going to be horrific and I’d argue this looks worse on the police force.
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She's somehow multiple levels worse than Patel, which I thought to be essentially impossible. Its almost impressive in a way.
Yeah, as that will be less embarrassing or obvious than reversing or delaying the tax cuts
What Labour Town do you live in? I live in one too, and it's not great, but part of it is due to an aging population. Part of it is due to the change in how people shop these days and the rise of Amazon and budget supermarkets being a disaster for the high street.
The rest can be directly attributed to the Tory austerity policies and how they have systematically defunded Labour constituencies (many of which are traditionally lower income) and redirected the money to affluent Tory areas. Almost like it was a plan to get people living in the red wall to switch their votes or something.
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Can you guess which rather important political story the Mail and Express are ignoring today?
Can they cut enough?
De-linking pensions from inflation perhaps but that won't make a dent
Defence they have committed to increase spending
Hs2 probably axed but that will be dwarfed by the increase in servicing debts
Education probably too unpopular to touch that
Nhs... political suicide to defund or sell
Welfare will be cut but hard to see how it's cut too much with rising inflation
Genuinley not sure how they would cut to the extent needed... probably 15%?
IMF sounding the alarm about the proposed tax cuts means what exactly? Gov will u turn on last weeks annoucememt?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63056188
The IMF warning to the government is as clear and stark as anything in recent history.
In other words...reverse your stupid decision.
Sick of experts
Out of interest, what happened to Frost? I was surprised to read recently that he was actually a remainer in 2016. In fact, he seemed to be eminently sensible. He also seems to be the kind of person the Tories tend to look down upon (ie someone who's spent almost all of their career in some kind of public service/government/foreign office role, without a 'real job'.
Yet everything he has said in the past few years is adversarial, aggressive and shite. He seems to be consistently wrong on all aspects now.
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World beating.
Just me or do I recall a time where ministers didn't micromanage departments? It's not their job.
The police should have the balls to push back on this shit.
Is Liz Truss the Ed Woodward of politics?
This is why I think it looks worse for the police. They've just shown they'll bow down to her having a pop at them which is absolutely not the way policing should be working.
Yeah I was thinking that.
It took 7 or 8 weeks for them to choose Truss as leader, Government basically shut down all summer as they went on an X Factor style search for a new PM and now she's finally leader she's basically gone into hiding.
Only emerging momentarily to crash the economy before hiding again.
Don't forget she also managed to push the Queen over the edge too.
They should have entombed her with the queen like a Roman Vestal.
How is that the police engaging in identity politics and not the home sec?
Probably cruising somewhere warm enjoying the fruits of his labours.
Well this is the thing, I don't see where tens of billions of cuts come from. To put it in context, at Osborne's first emergency budget in 2010, ushering in the austerity era, he essentially announced £75 billion of expenditure cuts. So we're talking about a significant fraction of austerity all over again. There just isn't any budget left that they can cut that won't be deeply unpopular with the electorate. Cut the recovery funding for pupils left behind by covid? Cut money to hospitals? Reduce pensions? And all in order to fund a tax cut for the rich (even though this isn't actually where all the money has gone, this is now the narrative)? At least Osborne could claim the money was going to shrink the deficit.
Bear in mind too they haven't even announced their supply side reforms. Cutting red tape isn't going to stimulate growth to the absurd levels needed to make the figures in the next OBR report look good to markets. They're going to have to make investments themselves to get things going, either by virtue of yet more tax cuts for businesses, as in their low tax
So are we saying Rishi Sunak was correct and the dumbasses in the conservative party should have voted him in, instead of liz truss?
Daniel Hannan, one of the key Conservative voices behind the push to leave the EU, wrote an article for the ConservativeHome website playing down market concerns about the £45bn package of (unfunded) tax cuts announced by chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.
In the piece, which was published on Wednesday and immediately widely mocked online, Lord Hannan wrote:
In the piece, which was published on Wednesday and immediately widely mocked online, Lord Hannan wrote:
Absolutely insane levels of cognitive dissonance.
Both the last Labour government and the next one are to blame for the current shitshow that has been 12 years in the making.
How do you blame the opposition (that from what I understand are not in power) for failure of current policy?
I'd laugh if the electorate didn't contain people who bought into this 'rationale'.
I always wonder with these pieces - do they actually believe it? Or are they knowingly trying to pull a fast one?
The quickest and most impactful thing they could do for growth forecasts is agree to a trade deal with the EU that involved a customs union, free movement and all the other things that will make the erg loose their mind so she can't even do that
Not sure they have the political capital to backtrack on the existing proposals without undermining themselves to the point of collapse
Not sure they have the ability to find the cuts which would be of a scale that would be politically suicide (though don't put itv past kamikwasi)
Not sure how much longer Liz truss can hide away but even coming out and scapegoating kwasi and sacking probably won't be enough to escape the fallout dragging her down with him
Basically in the words of a conservative mp... Liz truss is f*****
Yeah. I said as much Monday.
So a future Labour government is responsible for the pound tanking and the massive rise in the 10 year yield. Right nothing to see here then.
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Thing is rags like the DM are reporting it as if it's a legitimate take.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...arteng-pleads-MPs-cool-heads-Pound-slump.html
What I really want to know is, how are the new pork markets going?
They.Are.A.Dis-Grace.
They were always lying before but since Brexit the lies have gathered pace because they always need another lie to cover the previous one, it's snowballed and the government is now completely out of control. They can't think of enough lies fast enough. Problem is a large section of the electorate still believe them or want to believe them.
This is going to be a mighty short term for truss isn't it?