Thread 15. Big Dog has been rehomed but we still need a poop scooper.

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Hopefully I've done this so it works.

@Cornettoninja You have a way with words , thank you for making me smile!
Seriously, how do we, the long suffering UK public force a GE? How is the GE petition doing?

I knew about Johnson's lack of truth, integrity and morals but this is
unbelievable , except it would seem to be 100% the truth.

LibDem's have proposed that we need an inquiry in to Kwarteng's attendance at the cocktail party.

Go Lib Dems !
He needs to go ( if it's all true of course )
Which seems likely.

You'd have thought they would have learned by now that parties are a seriously bad idea. It seems the conservatives are incapable of learning from mistakes so are doomed to repeat them.

I forgot, the rest of the country figured that out years ago.

At least the new chancellor had a legal cocktail party this time around. It's a shame nobody taped it all because it'll always be speculation as to what was said or hinted at for the hedge managers to make a fast buck.
They will deny it all.

Liz: I'm keeping the triple lock on pensions.
So keeping my older conservative voters happy.

Blimey, Michael Gove is putting the boot in.
Liz came across badly but Laura K isn't the best interviewer either. She isn't one of the heavy weights.

I've always had a hatred for Gove since he fucked up education.

But something about him always confuses me. Despite being one of those and despite being off with the nasal fairies and despite having dodgy morals - every now and again he says or does something that surprises me (in a good way!)

Michael Gove is an enigma.
He backed Rishi Sunak too.
Laura K is annoying me , much harder on Reeves than Truss.

Gove at least pays attention to his brief and knows what he is talking about.

Yes jwg I think that's it.

Or Jgw even!

I didn't have Michael Gove down as someone interested in much apart from himself.
Unless his just reading the room a lot more than his colleagues are ?
Plus his man lost too.

Enigma sums him up perfectly.

I don't have to agree with him, but at least he gives the impression of wanting to do a good job for what he says as everyone's benefit.

Yes that's the impression I get too. But what we know of him from past decisions makes me wonder (as 80's said) if he's just better at reading a room.

Which is why enigma is a great word to describe him.

You really don't need to be an especially talented politician to see that proposing unfunded tax's cuts for the wealthy whilst cutting public services is not a good look.

That said he'd be a far better proposition than Truss.

Laura K is an unreconstructed Tory fan girl, even now her crush Johnson isn’t in power. She’s biased, lightweight and despicable.

"Laura K is an unreconstructed Tory fan girl, even now her crush Johnson isn’t in power. She’s biased, lightweight and despicable."

I don't necessarily disagree. But I don't know how much is Laura K and how much is the BBC trying to keep the Government onside.

We've seen already how unpopular Governments focus on BBC & Ch 4 when they are in crisis and the Tories are definitely in crisis right now.

"Conservative chair Jake Berry: People know when they get their bills, they can either cut their consumption or get higher salaries or higher wages and go out there and get that new job"

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It's not true (people can be limited by childcare, caring responsibility, transport, ill health etc) but will find favour with certain MNers!

Jake Berry is very vague on the after party on Sophy Ridge

He is very 'understanding'

He says that any Tory MPs who vote against the budget would lose the whip

Most people in the public services can't earn more though , if your a teacher your already doing a long week.
They really do not live in the real world do they ?

'Just cut your usage and find a better paid job'

Well if only people were as clever as Jake Berry he wouldn't even need to be giving out this common sense advice.

An irrelevant blast from the recent past. But i doubt it's an accident that Dorries interview - trumpeting Johnson - is published this weekend. She remains enthralled by "one of the worlds great leaders" and cross with Emily Maitlis!

“If you sat in Boris Johnsonn_’s cabinet, it felt like you had his protective wings around you,” she says. “To say I am disappointed . . . isn’t a strong enough word for what happened to him, and I didn’t feel I had it in me to give what I had just given over the past year.
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