Esther McVey appointed 'Minister For Common Sense'...... George Osborne appointed Minister For Using Your Actual First Name. One of these is true.
Do not go on the Strangelove thread Do not go on the Strangelove thread Do not go on the Strangelove thread Do not go on the Strangelove thread. The tory party is like the gift that keeps on giving. They are totally inept and shambolic from top to bottom ! really David Cameron back that spineless twat who called a referendum and then ran away because he did not get the result he wanted and had no plan to deliver what the country asked for (weather it was right or wrong the people spoke). I have said it before and will say it again the only problem in this country are that there are no real people involved in politics and when they do come forward there words will be twisted into something it is not either for headlines or political gain the whole system is in a corrupt mess.
New Conservatives Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates backbenchers issued a statement wanting a new type of politics not the shift we are seeing back to the old style (but not aimed at Cameron. Eh?).
BOOM BOOM Braverman delivers both barrels BBC News - Your plan is not working, Suella Braverman tells Rishi Sunak https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67420331
And how is her plan to send people to Rwanda working ... ... the only person who ever got on a plane to Rwanda was her
No one was expecting Suella Braverman to go quietly. But a little more than 30 hours after Rishi Sunak finally broke up with his dysfunctional home secretary, Ms Braverman delivered a resignation letter that reads like the political equivalent of smashing up the crockery. It accuses Mr Sunak of deliberately making false promises to secure her “pivotal” backing to become Prime Minister last year, of “betraying” his commitment to “stop the boats” crossing the Channel by refusing her demands to toughen up the law, and of a “weak” response to what she has branded pro-Palestinian “hate marches”. Elsewhere, Mr Sunak is told that his plan is “not working”, his “resets have failed”, of “putting off tough decisions” to “minimise political risk” and of “having no personal mandate to be Prime Minister”.
Potentially interesting day tomorrow in parliament. SNP likely to table amendment on ceasefire in Gaza. Labour probably propose an alternative vote that stops short of ceasefire. Will one, both, or neither be selected? A lot of speculation about what will happen if the SNP one is selected, which I would hazard a guess will be.
It does make you wonder why they're trying to score a point against Labour when they could need them for what they want next year. Although I feel like there's going to be a big change up here.
Inflation drops to 4.6% For all you politics pedants out there, is that pledge fulfilled, promise kept, target hit or ambition achieved?
There are some decent ones tbf, they must wonder what's going on with the likes of Braverman, totally delusional. Like Hunt who's crowing about inflation which had little. to do with him, more to do with the Bank of England and the highest mortgage rates in a decade. Governments don't bring inflation down and Sunak merely repeated what the Bank of England forecast.
I am going to try for a modeat defence of govts generally, not so much the tories. Labour have faced the same anomolies in the past. When inflation was soaring Labour and large parts of the media were screaming Tory imcompetence. In part they were right, in terms of the ridiculous Truss budget. But when some suggested global factors were at play too it was shouted down because the narrative didnt fit the agenda of tory incompetence. Now the target has been met the tories get no credit as it was never in their control in the first place. Again this horribly skewed to the narrative of tory incompetence. Tory incompetence is as clear as the nose on my face, day in day out. In this instance though there should have been a more moderate reporting of inflation causing factors and how much influence the govt had. They had some, much like they have had some influence over the fall back. I always look at core inflation as a more relevant measure of control. That too is on the right trajectory. Economists I respect have been saying for a while the trajectory overall is right, if a bit slow. I am pleased to take this as good news, we need a bit of light at the end of this tunnel. The Autumn Statement next to see if the chancellor has any levers to pull on growth, because that is slow. He has to balance our debt position of course. I only hope they dont play vote winning politics with the economy now, and I doubt Hunt will tbh, it is still fragile and crucial Reeves (who I admire) has a steady ship to sail when she arrives.
After what seems to be a lifetime in Power, the Tory Party seems to have had its day. No shock there, it happens to all Governments. In time, and opposition, sanity will break out and The Party will start to claim 'The Middle Ground', where the majority of the electorate reside. How long they stay in opposition will of course depend on Labour. IF, and it's a huge IF, they can curtail their unruly left-wing members and have a broadly 'centrists' PM much like Wilson, Callaghan or (said reluctantly,) Blair they should get a decent run at it. Then complacency and disunity creeps back in and it's a case of 'off we go again. ( )
