Dr Strangelove (how I learned to stop worrying and love Boris)

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Pure River Slut said:
I actually meant the royals are a massive drain. They specify what they spend their money on but agreed with MP’s. Mon alcoholic drinks only at the bar, buy their own food, a reasonable maximum on all other things like accommodation.and travel.
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ahh right, with you now, i read it wrong...yeh but we are not allowed to 'call the royals' are we, pretty sure if one can live off his estates earnings the rest can but then, why not when it comes for free eh?


Smug in Boots said:
I'm 66 and still working because I refuse to claim benefits.

My brother in law is around the same age, never worked and claims everything going. His wife, who's never worked, claims everything, is paid as his carer and has a brand new car on Motability I help pay for.

We've created a mentality whereby people are proud to 'work the system' <doh>
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i know a couple, he claims he is losing his sight and she cannot walk more than a few yards one is carer for the other yet they get up to things some fit people would struggle with, they are both in their 60's as well and post it all on f/book.. i have no idea how they are still doing it and not been dragged in as frauds especially when they make their whole lives public knowledge.
 
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Prehab26 said:
Worst cabinet going this mind. Much worse than previous. Total laughing stock. Coffey as heath ffs. Kit Malhouse as Education!
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It's simply the ones left where bridges haven't been burnt. Boris Johnson got rid of a load of competent Tories by removing the whip back in the day. Then he's worked his way through dozens more in his cabinet. Then of course there's those who has stood against Truss on her way to PM. Then finally, the remaining few competent ones are staying well away from this basket case so that they can distance themselves in the aftermath of the next election.
 
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Flash Gordon said:
It's simply the ones left where bridges haven't been burnt. Boris Johnson got rid of a load of competent Tories by removing the whip back in the day. Then he's worked his way through dozens more in his cabinet. Then of course there's those who has stood against Truss on her way to PM. Then finally, the remaining few competent ones are staying well away from this basket case so that they can distance themselves in the aftermath of the next election.
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It's going to be a generation until we get anyone with any talent near either front bench.

Personally I'd have it so that you have to have some kind of qualification in an associated field to the position you're being promoted to, or you have to get a grilling by a commons select committee if you don't. Handing out jobs to cronies is getting ever more disastrous.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
I've just caught the Liz Truss speech, my heart sank.

We've just had years of Boris's pathetic impersonation of Churchill and now we have 'Tonight Matthew I'm going to be Maggie Thatcher!'... pitiful <doh>
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She makes Theresa May look like an unstoppable charisma monster.

Kwarteng and Cleverly I don't particularly mind.

People hated Thatcher, and with bloody good reason, but you could be her best mate and if you weren't doing your job properly you were out on your ear. We need to get back to that kind of management.
 
Prehab26 said:
It will be sound mate. I can see this ending badly for the Torries. Next GE will be a massacre.
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To say redistribution is bad at the this point may please the Tory members but surely is almost suicidal for voters. I’m going to buy a big bowl so I catch more of the drip down.
 
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Prehab26 said:
It will be sound mate. I can see this ending badly for the Torries. Next GE will be a massacre.
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Never has 'jobs for the boys' been more true ...

... Therese Coffey ffs, she's absolutely dreadful and hated by the people she's now responsible for.

I expect the 'levelling up' catchphrase, which is all it was, will be quietly binned now.
 
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The Exile II said:
She makes Theresa May look like an unstoppable charisma monster.

Kwarteng and Cleverly I don't particularly mind.

People hated Thatcher, and with bloody good reason, but you could be her best mate and if you weren't doing your job properly you were out on your ear. We need to get back to that kind of management.
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Kwarteng though is also from the school of wealth. Ideologically unsound.
 
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The Exile II said:
As is thinking we can drag everyone down to the lowest level and expect anyone to work again.
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Kwarteng has consistently voted against environmental measures, on reductions in benefits, Eton educated, worked in investment banking including mortgages and was linked to the financial crash and openly back Owen Paterson’s lobbying activities. Is against the redistribution of wealth. Backs the Rwanda scheme. I’d say he isn’t the best fit for the everyday person or the planet in a time of great crisis.
 
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Flash Gordon said:
It's simply the ones left where bridges haven't been burnt. Boris Johnson got rid of a load of competent Tories by removing the whip back in the day. Then he's worked his way through dozens more in his cabinet. Then of course there's those who has stood against Truss on her way to PM. Then finally, the remaining few competent ones are staying well away from this basket case so that they can distance themselves in the aftermath of the next election.
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My worry is the competent ones once on the outside and see what a mess we are in, won't want to come back...
 
Pure River Slut said:
How do many many people on low income innovate when they can’t eat or pay the bills. It’s time all liberal parties work towards this https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/...y-costed-universal-basic-income-for-everyone/ and a change in the voting system. Measure community wellbeing not wealth.
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You only want a change in the voting system because you know the **** parties you vote for will never get in. It's dangerous when people change things up just to benefit themselves.

I dread to think what else you'd change if your kind ever get into power.
 
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Plans to cap energy bills could mean that increases in the cost of living will peak earlier and be "significantly lower" than previously forecast, economists have said.

Prime minister Liz Truss is understood to want to cap energy bills at £2,500, with full details expected on Thursday.

Goldman Sachs says this could see inflation peak at 10.8% in October, rather than the 14.8% forecast before.

The Bank of England also said the plan could slow rising prices.

But speaking to MPs on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Bailey said there was nothing it could do to stop the UK falling into a recession as the war in Ukraine continued.

The cost of living is rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, at 10.1%, with food, fuel and energy prices all up.

But economists at investment bank Goldman Sachs said that a cap on bills for households would lead to prices falling more quickly, with inflation (which tracks how the cost of living changes over time) slowing to 2.4% by December 2023.

However, they cautioned that there was uncertainty around what exactly the plan will look like and what would happen once any cap is lifted.

Meanwhile, the Bank of England's chief economist, Huw Pill, told MPs that "net-net" Ms Truss's plan was likely to see inflation decline.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62817391
 
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