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

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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.

Labour’s policy, a windfall tax, is backed by 68% of the public. You are prepared to be unpopular, aren’t you?

Truss replies: “Yes. Yes, I am.”

Guess she underestimated just how “unpopular” (reviled) she’d be.

Article goes on to say some around Truss just think the budget needs to be explained more - ie we are to thick to understand it

I want them to do it - first off aren’t budgets meant to be scrutinised with a report made available? Second - fuck it, I want their incompetence immortalised unambiguously.

Which is exactly why Truss is keeping schtum. But she won't be able to hide for long - Conservative Conference begins this weekend.

I'm assuming she'll still be PM by the weekend.

I reckon she’s in the foetal position, weeping and rocking herself in a corner somewhere. I would be. If all this wasn’t entirely self inflicted, I might feel a little bit sorry for her.

55 Tuffton street, the Tax payers alliance organisation, Jacob Rees-Mogg the proposal to stop union officials having time off paid for union work, austerity plans discussed when Gideon Osborne was chancellor etc etc.
I have been having a good read up thanks to a previous poster's link and everything in these connectors seem to be there to shaft ordinary people in the UK.
When does it stop and how do we get a GE?

Also, I am getting on a bit so do clearly remember the 15% interest high on mortgages in the early 90's. If the interest rate does go up to 6% sooner than anyone can imagine it is not the same as back then.

IT IS SO VERY MUCH WORSE.

Mortgages represent a much higher percentage of people's income nowadays than in the past and combined with every other rise it will be dreadful all round.
For anyone who is thinking of having another go at the baby boomer generation , we have our own young people in our lives and don't want horrors like these current Tories for them you know !!

"Mortgages represent a much higher percentage of people's income nowadays than in the past and combined with every other rise it will be dreadful all round.
For anyone who is thinking of having another go at the baby boomer generation , we have our own young people in our lives and don't want horrors like these current Tories for them you know !!"

Absolutely this.

I remember back in the 80s, the max you could borrow was 2.5 x your salary. What is it now? I know at some point it was 5 x but that was years ago.

4.5 maybe? But people seem to be required to have much larger deposits than before.

Sadly, plenty of leave voters say they don't care it affects their kids or grandkids.

Brexshit is a cult.

People don't like to admit they have been conned.

Seems like Starmer's speech has been well received, begrudgingly so by Tory leaning msm.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63046067

Keir Starmer speech: Labour plans publicly owned renewable energy giant

Now we’re talking! This is great.

I mean there couldn’t be more visible clear blue water between Lab and Con at the moment, could there. Brilliant.

She does want to be Thatcher. Perhaps she has just sped it up to the Poll Tax?

Are you sure you don't just mean between Con and the country?

The biggest risk with Truss as PM imo is that she will be so dire that De Pfeffle will be welcomed back with open arms...

He is still VERY popular I know, I know..

Well yes, jgw and there has been that drift of the country away from the Tories for weeks - since partygate really, but then the domestic energy and cost of living crisis and now bonuses for bankers and the pound through the floor while mortgage interest rate.. Labour are presenting a solid alternative and Boris shows no signs of wanting to get his hands dirty again thankfully

No, he’s a busted flush in the parliamentary party. If Truss is forced out they’ll default to Sunak, they can’t afford another couple of months for a second leadership contest.

Ohh, but wouldn't it be fun seeing Jacob Rees Mogg explaining why he can work for yet another Prime Minister and that he didn't really mean he couldn't work for anyone else and that there doesn't need to be an election even though he said there did when Brown took over.

I would genuinely howl if she pops up in Ukraine

She's could be in the local fridge

Thought this was the Christmas bargain thread.....I'll see myself out 👀 🤭

It's all going SO well...

This from IMF is humiliating for Kwarteng and Truss: “Given elevated inflation pressures in many countries, including UK, we do not recommend large untargeted fiscal packages at this juncture, as it is important fiscal policy does not work at cross purposes to monetary policy”.

twitter.com/peston/status/1574839751869435923?s=46&t=z7voac-YiEYjs-0IhT3kWA

Well I for one voted to leave the EU to stop this kind of meddling in our country by foreigners, who do they think they are?

Well, we all know the IMF are part of thr lefty plot against Trussonomics.
What do they know about anything?