Thread 19 From Trussterfuck to Sunakered

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And so it continues

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I just want it announced and over and done with.

Listening to JOB’s mild hysteria this morning and am just utterly fed up of the constant drama. Nobody has the stamina for this kind of constant insecurity. The entire Tory party is a mess and mass of contradiction about which direction they’re going in or what they stand for.

Andrew Bailey had to finally admit to it under pressure from opposition MPs.

His initial statement - listing all factors that impacted the UK since 2019 - did NOT include Brexit.

www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/16/brexit-and-drop-in-workforce-harming-britain-economic-recovery-says-bank-governor

UPDATE: @hzeffman has got hold of MoJ letter of complaint we revealed y’day - and it claims some officials were under such pressure from Dominic Raab’s alleged behaviour they were signed off sick.

twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1593171642771210240?t=QEtCfK697Q5RAeXgTmEFpQ&s=19

Prediction

Raab's going to be proven to be a nasty bully, either by an inquiry, or because he'll see which way the wind is blowing and because of Sunak's promise of integrity etc he'll have to go. Anther one bites the dust!

Also one Pippa Crerar is onto you, you're pretty much fckd.

Pick me, Pick me, miss I know the answer to that one.

1. The UK dealt with covid much better than anywhere else, vacinnes bla bla bla, look Jeremy Corbyn, which is why we are recovering much worse than everyone else 2). We have done much more to support Ukraine than anyone else, which is why the per capita aid we have given is less than a number of other countries and the number of refugees we have taken is small. (but they are foreign anyway, so we don't really like them).

I don't agree that Angela Rayner wasn't that good yesterday ( it was an article in the daily Mail saying she wasn't forceful enough ) I thought that Mr Raab looked rattled.
I know people will bring up labour and bullying claims and Gordon Brown etc , but again it's just pivoting ( as Matt Hancock calls it ) to try and minimize what is happening now ( or very recently at least )

Ds1 and I are watching the bbc coverage of the statement

I wonder if truss and kwasi will have the brass neck to turn up?

Ukraine kicking us off .. as predicted
Compassionate conservatives ..
that's the first joke

Probably .. no shame there

Hunt: "The OBR confirms that global factors are the primary cause of current inflation."

What about the secondary cause?

Jeremy Hunt confirms the OBR's view that the UK economy is in recession now and will remain in recession *throughout 2023

Lewis Goodall

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng were going to abolish the 45p rate of tax, arguing it damaged the economy and competitiveness.

Less than 2 months later Jeremy Hunt just announced that not only is it staying but the threshold at which it’s paid is reduced to just over £125,000

This is going to cause a meltdown for those posters who were celebrating the mini budget

And there is the U-turn!

Faisal Islam

Thumping great windfall tax:

£14bn raised extra hitting energy generators too with 45% levy from Jan 1st until 2028

But the EU says we can't have a windfall tax.
wasn't that the arguement a month ago I forget

Well that isn't stealing Labour's policies at all, is it?

This is horrible

Dept for Work & Pensions has a "critical role in supporting people back into work... I'm concerned we've seen a sharp increase in economically inactive adults since the start of the pandemic"

600,000 more people on universal credit will meet with work coach to increase hours

twitter.com/SophyRidgeSky/status/1593209804813586433?t=xHY1P-I0jn_ZWpZMRn12hQ&s=19

Hunt seems to want Labour to deal with it all as he is delaying so much until 2024/25

Mañana budget

Richard Murphy

NHS budget increased by Hunt by £3.3bn for the next two years - little more than 2%

Hunt says he will invest £2.3 billion a year extra in education - which is nothing like enough to deal with the funding crisis it is already in. A hopeless deal for our children.

Thank fuck for the labour party and their policies.

Benefits to go up by inflation. Pension triple lock stays. Expect lots of MN threads incoming furious at this. It's the sort of thing you'd expect from Corbyn!

Yes from April, universal credit and benefits rising by 10.1%,

Loads more economically inactive people. Let’s see. Lucky we’re not nationally in a massive post-pandemic mental health crisis, long covid, ageing population , unaffordable childcare, unaffordable petrol and public transport prices, businesses cutting their hours, public transport routes being cut by private providers, massive NHS waiting lists for treatment and now in a recession economy, isn’t it..?

Am I to assume that all of this is going to remove the need for any further interest rate rises and therefore mortgages should come down?

Otherwise, there's nothing for people like me who is facing a £400 increase in my mortgage, a £500 increase in my energy bill and likely a council tax increase as well. Not entitled to any help at all. Marvellous.