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

[L1ttledrummergirl]

New thread.
Link to old:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4624784-big-dog-going-going-not-quite-gone-thread-14?page=10&reply=120289662

Hopefully I've done this so it works.

She's beaten Boris!

Liz Truss' approval rating as PM is now lower than Boris Johnson's lowest ever approval rating (-31%).

Liz Truss Approval Rating (2 October):

Disapprove: 51% (+9)
Approve: 18% (-10)
Net: -33% (-19)

Changes +/- 28-29 September

twitter.com/redfieldwilton/status/1576975428123824131?s=46&t=ovedB7DbBuitbH2amA946Q

What's the betting they plummet further after today?

When is our PM speaking ? Is it in Wednesday?

I cannot abide Nadine Dorries’ politics for lots of reasons but I am bloody delighted that she’s said what the rest of the country has been thinking for months. OF COURSE we need an election for the country to decide if they want the Truss and Kwarteng experimental politics or if they would rather go for something more.. evidence based.

The Tories must be so furious with Boris johnson that his vanity in wanting to hang in longer than May did as PM (and the party’s indulgence of him) meant they didn’t have a GE back when Johnson was pushed out back in the summer. They might have won it then.

<shrug>

Chris Philp having a BAD day. @Jo_Coburn is right: you can't tour studios saying the 45p tax rate is key to growth, then dump it, and claim it wasn't important at all. Because this means you spooked markets and added billions to gov't borrowing and mortgages for NOTHING. ~AA

twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1576989007707267072?t=1YxJURn-rXq9U0JZ72c-cQ&s=19

She’s not my PM.

Thanks for looking into it @Notonthestairs

Looking at the approval ratings I can't believe Truss's are as high as they are. 18%!!! Who are these people?

Johnson kept saying this afterwards though.

The reason we could come out of lockdown as we did was because of what they'd done to the economy beforehand.

No one believed him and his lies about being in best position.

Why kwarteng thinks well believe him instead?!

And we saw that coming weeks ago.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sadly accurate

NEW: Earlier today at Derriford Hospital A&E in Plymouth, the longest wait for a bed in the hospital was over 72 hours. It dropped to 67 hours later in the morning but at one stage there were 23 patients in the A&E who had been waiting over 40 hours for a bed:

twitter.com/shaunlintern/status/1577000794603167745?s=46&t=FBJ1UpmLGbN6WzHmyQ3UnQ

So obviously what we need is more austerity, less doctors and nurses, less hospital funding.

We definitely don't need 40 new hospitals.

Puts my siblings 41 hours into perspective I think. This seems to be becoming normal. It was a different hospital to the one in the article.

Actually it's fewer doctors and nurses; before the pedants get me 😉

Wanted to add sorry about your sibling's recent hospital situation @L1ttledrummergirl. A personal story in amongst many it saddens me to say.

72 hours? Good job we're not heading into winter with the extra pressures that brings then ...

It's taken me 5 hours tonight of going back and forth to GP and 111 as advised by both to get antibiotics for ds who has had an ear infection for 11 days! He has yellow gunk coming out of it and a swollen red ear.

We treated OTC first as advised and tried the gp Friday and Monday for phone call back.

Eventually got oral AB at 8.45pm this evening.

We do not need more cuts if something so simple to treat takes so long!

So the Bruges group are threatening the BBC for something they 'may' do at some point in the future?

I certainly think the BBC are impartial, but the other way round, they constantly give Labour a harder time than they do the Tories.

Personally I much prefer to watch Channel 4 News.

Another U-turn, Kwarteng will bring forward his fiscal statement and OBR forecast from Nov 23 to early Nov.

Government also had to delete their false claims re moetgages

Check out the attachment. The Treasury is having to REMOVE its ludicrous claims about the savings fictional buyers could make, buying fictional properties, with fictional mortgages they would never get near. Several tweets have gone missing
twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1576998049544835073?t=8sLJeya84HnBVwE3-7sHrg&s=19

It's almost like they don't live in the real world.

Very interesting to read the dividing lines opening up. Mordaunt was quite clear she supports benefits should rise with inflation. She's far from a lone voice. Gove, McVey, Halfon & Green has voiced similar views.

Yes, benefits will be the next battleground.

Shame they all voted against keeping the £20 uplift and extending free school meals.

#Trussterfuck

Great initiative from Sir Michael Take, it might help some of the strugglers on the u-turn thread

twitter.com/MichaelTakeMP/status/1577201178189778944?t=jEuP2eQFCMIkhuNIiwftzw&s=19

Gav a banking friend of mine is worried sick about a #UTurn on bankers’ bonuses.
His kids have been bullied at prep school & his wife is being laughed at,at the golf club.
So today,just go up & give a banker or hedge fund manager a hug🫂
They are suffering.
Please Pray for them🙏

Esther mc vie ( wrong spelling I think ? ) has asked for them to review the benefits bill too! It comes to something when the ones you thought of as not that moderate actually can be.

It's McVey

What a difference polls can make......