You joke, but I saw someone tweet recently that the disaster that is Truss shows us how bad it would have been under Corbyn. These people are obsessed.Originally Posted by randomlegend
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
You joke, but I saw someone tweet recently that the disaster that is Truss shows us how bad it would have been under Corbyn. These people are obsessed.
Lol. They were all her policies though.
Corporation tax going up to 25% from 19% supposedly.
Seems she's joined the anti-growth coalition.
Jimmy was saying that here the other day.
What a tweet Boyd. Fuck me. Uber shambles ahoy.
Oh my God.
Tom Newton Dunn (quite well connected) reckons Jeremy Hunt for Chancellor. He's arguably the most stable person they've got currently, which is fucking saying something.
Will this mean my Amazon shopping spree will have to end?
It's official, Kwarteng gone. What a legacy
A lot of people will have gotten very rich over the past few weeks because of this pissing around. Total fraud
Kwarteng becomes the shortest serving chancellor who didn't die from a heart attack.
Come on Kwasi.
Given the utterly transparent nature of why she did it, she has yet again done something completely inexplicable.
Prince Charles needs to step in, this woman is clearly very dangerous through her sheer incompetence.
What a cuck.
Indeed. I'm hoping these things need to be that way and he'll set about her in interviews over the next few days.
Faisal lied to us.
BBC reporting a group of senior tories are to call publicly for her to go. But apparently won't speak out until next week. Do it now, you fannies.
These fucks need to go to jail.
He's back.
Outstanding work from all concerned. Do we get another mini-budget now? I'll need to get the popcorn in.
Listen to her attempt to talk. Pure death
Someone count how many times she said 'growth' in amongst that shit.
Even if you accept the contents of her speech do make sense (rofl), it makes no sense that she's sacked Kwarteng.
Even the Tory rags are piling on her here.
EDIT: Did she just run away?
This is all very pathetic, and shoots her credibility to bits, but the other reforms were and are more important than the tax changes. If she can get them through, which this doesn't help, and then the Conservative Party will deserve to die (as it did over Brexit) if she can't.
"aren't you going to say sorry"
It's quite staggering that this is all somehow worse than Boris.
Lol
Just superb stuff, Liz
They need to fucking grow up and oust her, then.
Betfair markets reckon she's a goner.
A general election can’t come soon enough. God fucking help us.
We're so close to my long term vision of Prime Minister Jeremy Hunt. This has to be his absolute last chance [they're gone for 10 years after this] so 'mon Jezza. Get it done!
Interesting post on the conservative subreddit on why anyone would still vote Tory.
https://old.reddit.com/r/tories/comm..._tory/isaiach/
The reasons for voting Conservative were:
2010: Why not?
2015: I wasn't going to for ages because they were rubbish on all fronts, but then Cameron offered us a referendum.
2017: Theresa May was talking a good game on Brexit, although, again, the rest of her programme was terrible (except ironically for the 'Dementia Tax').
2019: Get Brexit Done.
In other words, the alternative has always been even more shit. That will more than likely continue be the case in the next election, but I will just write something racist on the ballot paper rather than vote for them again if they're going to lose anyway.
Nothing is more shit than Brexit.
Oven ready.
I don't think we've actually experienced what Brexit is like. Covid and Ukraine have fucked everything up.
Boydy couldn't order his filthy vape liquid from Britain once. That's about the extent of it for now.
I have a mate who's rabidly anti-brexit and he works for a medical supplies company. His contention was that since Brexit his company have to pay a shit load more on imports. I asked whether they actually had to or was that just profiteering from the suppliers and he couldn't answer. So there's possibly that too, but the shitstorm we're in now is not of Brexit's doing.
Most countries are fucked and while we're a bit more fucked than most it's because the Tories a) spent billions following the SCIENCE/trying to deal with COVID in the way an Asian country would/feathering the nests of their mates and b) put a lunatic in charge at the arse end of it all who doesn't understand what impact the decisions she makes will have on the markets.
Hunt's now talking about some taxes not going down by as much as he thought and some having to go up. He's clearly not just talking about Truss' corporation tax announcement yesterday so that's more u-turns ahoy.
He also talks with the look of a man who is gunning to be PM, this isn't his first rodeo and Truss is going to have a nightmare controlling him and she surely can't sack another chancellor.
I'll give you the other two but Boris was very reluctant to put us into lockdown. China still pursues a zero-covid approach, Vietnam were quick to lockdown neighbourhoods. Japan didn't even bother with a lockdown. Which Asian country are we trying to follow?
I was referring to the test and trace aspect, which cost a fortune, would have been impossible to implement even if the tech worked, which was irrelevant anyway as the tech turned out to be dogshit.
Somehow about the #SCIENCE 🤩
It was, very few of the decisions we took, if any, were in the interests of anything else.
Am I'm not after eventing here as I definitely wasn't saying that enough at the time, when I should have been. Battling nonsensical scientific policies left me blindsided on that front.
The 'direct' costs of the virus like test and trace (99% of which was on testing) are the smaller side of things compared to paying people to stay at home and lost tax revenues. I just tell myself my bills are going up to pay for the months off work I had, which softens the blow a bit.
But you can afford for your bills to go up (given the tone of your post) whereas other people can't.
A dramatic tax-cutting budget might do the trick.
It could do. The country finds itself in an extremely difficult especially with the mortgage crisis still to come. I don't envy anyone who is put in charge of decision making or (especially) anyone who struggles during this time.
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