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Thread 16 Trussterfuck, big dog the aftermath

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DuncinToffee · 07/10/2022 09:30

Welcome to the growing Anti Growth Coalition

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Piggywaspushed · 10/10/2022 18:39

DuncinToffee · 10/10/2022 10:21

Kwarteng announces the Medium-Term Fiscal Plan will be published on 31 October & an @OBR_UK forecast has been commissioned for that date.

Halloween!

Spooky...

GreenLunchBox · 10/10/2022 18:40

Watching Nicola Sturgeon's speech today, is anyone else jealous of the Scots? 😭

HonorHiding · 10/10/2022 18:56

Looks like the Deputy Editor of ConservativeHome has joined the Anti-Growth Coalition: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/10/liz-truss-loyalty-conservative-leader-endgame

SilverGlitterBaubles · 10/10/2022 19:11

@Thymeout It is certainly head in the sand time. I also think that her market crashing, interest rate rising, opinion poll crashing budget means that there is a strong emphasis on positive news only. Again it's not about what is best for the country it's about what is best for the Tory party.

GreenLunchBox · 10/10/2022 19:24

Bloody hell! 🤭

GreenLunchBox · 10/10/2022 19:27

What a shitshow. I honestly can't believe all this. We are finished as a country.

Wilkolampshade · 10/10/2022 19:30

F.

DuncinToffee · 10/10/2022 23:43

Exclusive:

Liz Truss is shelving Michael Gove's plans to end no-fault evictions, which were due to be introduced in this Parliamentary session

The Times has been told that they are not considered a priority & could be killed off entirely, despite being a manifesto commitment

twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1579586149999181824?t=M8K2f9pS_FgvAjDKkIwX5A&s=19

Liz Truss is “on the side of helping the most vulnerable”, her ministers say....

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GreenLunchBox · 11/10/2022 00:27

DuncinToffee · 10/10/2022 23:43

Exclusive:

Liz Truss is shelving Michael Gove's plans to end no-fault evictions, which were due to be introduced in this Parliamentary session

The Times has been told that they are not considered a priority & could be killed off entirely, despite being a manifesto commitment

twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1579586149999181824?t=M8K2f9pS_FgvAjDKkIwX5A&s=19

Liz Truss is “on the side of helping the most vulnerable”, her ministers say....

Good

BeserkGiraffe · 11/10/2022 02:08

DuncinToffee · 07/10/2022 18:37

Yay for everyone liking Trussterfuck, it just was too good to not use it Grin

I am a bit annoyed that the press started copying KamiKwasi (or variations of it) that I coined immediately upon it becoming clear he would be the latest Chancellor.

Lonelycrab · 11/10/2022 08:03

More help just announced from BofE to prop up the markets. £ hovering around $1.10 and on a downward trajectory.

Such winningHmm

L1ttledrummergirl · 11/10/2022 08:18

@GreenLunchBox why is this good? Please could you expand on your thinking about this issue?

Personally I think no fault evictions should be banned. In order for people and communities to thrive they need to feel secure. If you don't know how long you will be living in your house, how can you make long term plans? When dc are having to move houses, areas, at the whim of a landlord through no fault of their parents, giving them a disrupted education, how are they going to thrive and build themselves a future? How do you break the cycle and give the most vulnerable in society the ability to create a future?
This would have been a step in that direction I think.

People voted for the conservatives on the manifesto they put forward. Clearly, the manifesto must have been liked. The fact that the leader of the party was a fuckwit and was subsequently removed from his position shouldn't be a reason for them to break the trust (which is already at rock bottom) with the electorate by ignoring their own pledges to the electorate.

Why do you think that it's a good thing that the plans have been shelved?

DuncinToffee · 11/10/2022 08:51

Try as hard as we can, given plausible forecasts, we can’t see how to get public finances on a sustainable path without big, painful spending cuts or a reversal of £43bn tax cuts just announced. Chancellor has a big job to reassure markets his mini budget spooked so badly

twitter.com/PJTheEconomist/status/1579719560491847680?t=t88sEXudkyarSoA30uce3A&s=19

IFS tweet in link (couldn't copy, too many @)

Independent is reporting £60bn in cuts

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the80sweregreat · 11/10/2022 09:09

More cuts it is then :(
I just hope that someone calls them out on this
Let people know it's austerity Mark 2
Yet people who claim got heated stables think that Letting the Labour Party in power would be chaos..

DuncinToffee · 11/10/2022 09:48

EXCL: Kwasi Kwarteng, held undisclosed meetings with senior executives of Saudi Arabian firms when he was business secretary

twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1579737268398436353?t=euCrYAuDIDINtrE2ExRfrA&s=19

Kwasi Kwarteng's failure to declare multiple secret meetings with Saudi oil executives was an "administrative oversight," a spokesman said.

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the80sweregreat · 11/10/2022 09:51

It's always an 'oversight ' when it's dodgy dealings !

Cornettoninja · 11/10/2022 09:51

Ffs. Let’s just presume that all top level tories have been having clandestine meetings with dodgy international contacts.

I wish MI6 leaked.

Blossomtoes · 11/10/2022 09:52

DuncinToffee · 11/10/2022 09:48

EXCL: Kwasi Kwarteng, held undisclosed meetings with senior executives of Saudi Arabian firms when he was business secretary

twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1579737268398436353?t=euCrYAuDIDINtrE2ExRfrA&s=19

Kwasi Kwarteng's failure to declare multiple secret meetings with Saudi oil executives was an "administrative oversight," a spokesman said.

Didn’t May fire Patel for this?

jgw1 · 11/10/2022 10:00

Blossomtoes · 11/10/2022 09:52

Didn’t May fire Patel for this?

Yes, but May if nothing else had some principles.

DuncinToffee · 11/10/2022 10:12

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/public-spending-watchdog-to-investigate-so-called-festival-of-brexit-336698/

The public spending watchdog will investigate the Government’s so-called “festival of Brexit” amid concerns that visitor numbers were less than 1% of early targets.

A cross-party parliamentary committee has asked the National Audit Office (NAO) to look into how the £120 million project was managed to “help get to the bottom of how so much taxpayer money could be frittered away for so little return”.

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newnamethanks · 11/10/2022 10:34

£120 million for a complete non-event? Words fail me.

Blossomtoes · 11/10/2022 10:37

I’m not even surprised. Nothing that happens since 2019 shocks me any more. The lunatics really have taken over the asylum.

ClaudineClare · 11/10/2022 11:16

I want to find something witty to say, but I can't.

We are absolutely fucked with these numbskulls in charge. But at least this will be the end of the Tories for a while. I hope.

jgw1 · 11/10/2022 11:39

Electoral calculus normally only do their thing once a month, but last week updated their October forecast.

www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

Even the low end of their modelling has a significant Labour majority.

Ouch!

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