At least Truss won't be able to follow Boris and spend tens of thousands on wallpaper ... ... she'll be lucky to have time to get the bluetack out and put up her 'Trusted to Deliver' poster.
Jeremy Hunt now looking for 'spending efficiencies' and tax rises. Welcome to austerity 2.0. For the people only of course, he still wants to cut tax for corporations. Told you.
I'm past caring now, he will only be there a couple of weeks anyway. The government are rapidly turning into Watford
While I'm not shocked, I am a tad surprised that the level of 'political nous' at the top level is so low. The most amateur of GCSE level economics first year Students, would have spotted the flaws, and consequences, in that ridiculous mini-'Budget'. Then just to compound the stupidity, most of the Tory MP's, out of 'loyalty to the party', refrained from criticising the plan. The 'loyalty' is so misplaced that they have thrown away the biggest Parliamentary majority in years and ensured that many of them will be job searching after the next election. Still, it's not all bad for the blues, they will get rid of a fair bit of deadwood, and some, at least, of the survivors will have learned that if you stray from the Middle Ground, The Voters will take their revenge. Lets hope that The Labour Left learn that same lesson
Me too, it's like watching 'behind the scenes at Sunderland' with Simon Grayson. "This, ladies, is a football ... I want you to kick it into the big stringy thing." The good thing is that it blows all the conspiracy theories apart ... ... none of these people are capable of organising them effectively, lying about them convincingly or covering them up cleverly.
All it takes is a little bit of unrest and things can swing massively from one way to the other. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...election-leicester-area-unrest-north-evington
In a normal political climate the Tories would have been gone in 17 or 19. Instead we had Labour's version of Boaty McBoatface for both of them. Where normally they'd have been sorting themselves out as opposition parties tend to do eventually they're not much further on - all the factions are still bubbling just under the surface. We're now faced with both major parties needing to spend a few years in the wilderness, but one of them's got to be in government.
They're infinitely further on!! I know when the Tories are doing really bad because the 'both sides are as bad as eachother' starts instead of an actual defence. The Labour front bench is light years ahead of the current government in terms of talent, there's no equivalence.
Argh you've spoiled it now man! I've been sitting back laughing and wondering how many times that would be trotted out It's like when Mags & Mackems would console their shyteness with the 'two bald men fighting over a comb' bollox. The fact is there's never been a long term government that's been anywhere near as bad ... ... and there's two more years for it to implode/explode further, that'll be fourteen bloody years and zero progress in any aspect. India, China, the USA, etc, must be looking at us and laughing up their sleeves. And the only defence is 'well Italy have to pay more for anchovies, than we do, so that's proof it's a global problem'.
They have moved on from that defence and are now blaming Labour supporters instead. Not many straws left for them to clutch at now mind
I’ve got some bad news and good news for you. The bad news, this is a Jeremy Hunt Quote, the good news is, he says there’s only 18 months to go
Seriously mate, I hate the bloke ... ... but I honestly think he'll be more stable than Johnson and less distructive than Truss. If it wasn't a match day I'd be looking for odds on Hunt being PM before the end of the season.
Gordon, both of those posts are really clever ... ... which proves there is intelligence and wit out there. People thought Gordon Brown, Major, Duncan, Teresa May had been humiliated and kicked into the ditch ... ... Truss will be the one doing community service, in her favourite high-vis jacket, clearing out the ditches into black plastic pags. Boris will have a career doing his blustery ex-Eton routine on the after dinner speech circuit while she'll never be gainfully emplyed ever again. She's the Ian Holloway of politics ... ... one crack in the PL, messed up and ended up at Grimsby. Holloway's kids are supposed to all be deaf but I think they're just pretending and don't want to hear what shyte he's spouting. Thankfully Truss's press bulletins are so brief I don't even have time to hit the mute button please log in to view this image
