UK officially in recession...

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Latest stats released show the UK is now officially in recession (Office for national statistic data).

Gaslighting has started in the media by ministers to try to minimise that fact.

Isn't it time to face the facts instead and call a general election?

I know the picture is bleak and any new party in power will need years to try to sort out this mess but something needs to be done...

The UK's decline in the past few decade or so has really been dramatic.

Tough. Because we’ve got to have one at some point in the next eight months and it’s not going to get any better by December. How any party could make things worse is beyond me.

Impact of Brexit can’t be overestimated.

Not mentioned once in the BBC analysis of the situation. So clearly it can.

Labour vote for me.

However, you’ve just literally plucked the below beauty from nowhere🤣 i clearly not RTWT

You really think Boris & Liz Truss were a success? that whilst they all pissed it up, they also managed LD correctly????

According to Google 1 in 7 labour MPs went to private school, that's not including those that attended grammar school.

Oh they can quite easily make it worse. Both parties can very easily make life worse.

Obviously it’s not including those who went to grammar school. Meanwhile, how many Tory MPs went to public schools? Two thirds of the current cabinet and two of the last five PMs went to Eton.

It’s 2/3 of the cabinet…

Which considering they are a Conservative party should be unsurprising

Going to private school is neither here nor there. The current PM and his mates + Pfeffel are mega fucking massive super rich with globally positioned wealth, assets and investments and they have made loads of money from the economic mismanagement of the UK.

Such is the nature of that party and the people who vote for them. I'm really not understanding the problem.

Yes, your schooling shouldn't matter but the super rich governing us clearly isn't working.

You think all their voters are privately educated? How does that work when only 7% of the population attends private schools?

What's the alternative?

Reminds me of a joke in the 80s ...

50% of the Tory party went to public school/oxbridge
60% of the government went went to public school/oxbridge
70% of the BBC went to public school/oxbridge
90% of the KGB went to public school/oxbridge ....

So you’re admitting Tories are the party of the rich?

@PartyLikeIts2024 in case you haven't noticed we've had multiple changes of leadership.

14% of labour MPs went to one. Many labour voters are not from the demographic they claim labour should represent.

And so say all of (the normal people amongst) us

Of course they are. Do please look up the difference between what the two parties stand for and their core principles

A government comprised of people who understand life in the world most of us inhabit. Of people who have done real jobs.

@StarDolphins but why would it? What are your exact reasons for stating that?

People with some level of competence? Some care for the rest of the population?

Apparently it's our fault for not spending enough.

What demographic is that? People who work for a living?

So if Tories are out for themselves and their mates, and you recognise that, why do you think they should govern us all?