Concerned that Truss and KK are prepared to hurt their own people…

[WakeUpAndBe]

’Their own people’ means the British public, not their privileged circle of people who are disproportionately benefiting from their policies.

Truss talks a lot about how awful Putin is. Just because Putin is bad doesn’t mean Truss is good. Truss has lost the moral high ground to claim to be a paragon of virtue.

How is it justifiable to help the richest during a cost of living crisis for the rest of the public? How are tax cuts for the most well-off justifiable when it means sacrifices to public services?

When Truss said she was prepared to be unpopular I didn’t think she meant she was prepared to hurt her own people… I’m now concerned that’s exactly what she meant. It’s evil (and I don’t use that description lightly).

Sunak would have taken a different approach

I have no idea who tried to damage his chances so comprehensively but I wonder if the media / people behind the story used that and partygate to shift us to the right

Spending (and public control) was through the roof during Covid - there’s always a reaction. Every action and all that..

I do feel that a trained therapist would have a field day with Ms Truss. Brought up with left leaning parents , taken on CND marches aged 7 and fed beetroot quiche , she was once a Lib dem and remain supporter.
Seemingly she woke up one day and decided all that was for wimps , being rich made your life complete and screwing over anyone who couldn't go to Uni or make shed loads of money was the way to go. Plus changing her name too. Throwing off the old Mary who had some kind of moral compass to embrace the new Liz. Even having an affair for 18 months too. Shows a depth of deception that many couldn't handle along with her old Job at Shell.
She's either a Jekyll and Hyde or is going through a huge mid life crisis , but taking the country with her :(
I've no doubt that many will embrace 'austerity 2 '
Some People want a smaller state and will back her up. It's just sad that it's the majority that will suffer here and they don't seem to care. She doesn't mind being unpopular either.
Cold and unfeeling.
I wonder how she would have handled covid ? Maybe we wouldn't have had lockdown.
They won't hurt their own because a lot of her friends are probably the same too.

Plus the ones who voted for her will be happy too. She'll have some allies.

It only needs 31 Tories to vote against the tax cuts for them to not be passed, given that there are more MP's who supported Rishi then it could be a possibility.

Just the poor people, their rich friends will be just fine....

Anyone seen the FT letter from Phillip Oppenheim, Conservative Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (1996-97)?

It’s doing the rounds today on Twitter. Pretty damning assessment from a follow Tory.

domedigita.com/letter-truss-has-little-grasp-of-uks-structural-problems/

Letter: Truss has little grasp of UK’s structural problems (1st October 2022)

If financial services produced wealth for the whole economy, the UK would be a stunning success, not a country which has sunk from sixth in per capita gross domestic product in 1960 to just 20th now (excluding tax havens and oil rich nations, but including Norway).
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This puts the UK well below the western European average.
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While the dollar/sterling exchange rate grabs the headlines, the pound now lies 15 per cent below its 20-year average against the euro, the currency derided by many Conservative politicians. We are even hurtling towards parity with the Swiss franc — in 2000 the rate was 2.5 to the pound.
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Over-financialisation of our economy and misallocation of resources is one cause of low UK investment and poor productivity.
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Rather than reducing regulation and tax, we should be ending the carried interest tax break for private equity; better regulating pensions and fund managers who top-slice their percentage from our pensions, regardless of performance; preventing, rather than encouraging pension funds from investing in risky and opaque PE; and stopping PE from treating utilities like milch cows and offshoring profits to tax havens.
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Nothing in last week’s mini-Budget (Report, September 24) indicates that our new leaders have the slightest grasp of the scale of our long-term, structural problems — or the solutions, above a half-digested, two-dimensional version of Thatcherism.
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Rather than blustering about Britain being the “fifth richest economy”, we need honest leaders who accept that we are no longer a world power, stop pretending there is a special place for us in the anglosphere or Commonwealth and concentrate instead on internal development.
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We need to rein back the worst abuses of financial services; reform education; encourage savings over consumption; reduce incentives to invest in property rather than productive assets; smarter, not higher defence spending — no more aircraft carriers; and, of course, rejoin the EU single market.
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For that, I guess, we will have to wait for the departure of what will quite probably be the last ever Tory prime minister and the reform of our “unique” electoral system which now no longer delivers stability, only division and decline.

Interesting letter, thank you for posting it @WakeUpAndBe .