AIBU?
to tell you about the new Tory strategy for growth?
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 12:58
I just received the following email from the Conservative Party.
Subject: Last Chance, Aboutanidiot
Title: Party Shop
Email:
Aboutanidiot
Ties. Aprons. Cufflinks. Water Bottles.
It can only be the Conservative Party Shop!
From Winston Churchill water bottles and tote bags to ‘In Liz We Truss’ t-shirts and travel mugs, there’s nowhere quite like the Party Shop.
It’s the only place where you can buy official Conservative merchandise and help fund our campaigns at the same time.
So don’t miss your chance to get your hands on our latest items!
Shop Today
Don’t miss out on our new arrivals. Visit the Conservative Party Shop today.
Yours sincerely,
The Conservative Party Shop
Oh man! It's all ok folks. In Liz we Truss. Her strategy for growth is full steam ahead! 😁
This is a genuine email from them.
Am I being unreasonable?
AIBUYou have one vote. All votes are anonymous.
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 13:05
Meanwhile, back in the real world, I've received the following email:
Beware – the anti-growth coalition is out in force this morning. Its members could be selling you coffee, driving your train, teaching your children or even caring after your nan.
Daily briefing
Anti-growth coalition latest
Both Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng will this week attempt to regain control of the narrative on the economy and further flesh out their “plan for growth”. There are, however, two stories to report this morning that spell bad news for No 10 and 11 Downing Street, ministers in charge of government departments and by extension just about every other person in the country.
The first comes in the form of new analysis by the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies think thank, which tells the chancellor that he will need to U-turn on his tax giveaways or have to implement “big and painful” spending cuts if he is to put the country’s finances back on a sustainable path.
The IFS predicts that the UK will be in recession until 2024 (the prime minister and Kwarteng have set themselves a target of 2.5 per cent growth by then). Due to a weaker economy and less money in the Treasury coffers because of said tax cuts, the IFS calculates the government would have to spend £60bn a year less by 2026-27. It also warned that government departments would have to find cuts of around 15 per cent if funding for the NHS and defence was ring-fenced.
The Treasury, which is, along with No 10, apparently in “listening mode”, said its tax cuts and reforms would deliver “sustainable funding for public services”. The problem is that we still do not have a clear idea of what these reforms look like, although the chancellor did try to partly address this issue by bringing forward the date on which he said he would publish his media-term fiscal – his third U-turn on the matter.
The second story, which makes the front of the Financial Times, is that the cost of government borrowing soared again yesterday after a sell-off in UK gilts, as the Bank of England prepares to wrap up its intervention in the market on Friday. The BoE has been spooked enough by the development to issue another statement within the past hour saying it will further bolster its emergency bond-buying plan as it warned an ongoing rout in the gilts market poses a “material risk to UK financial stability”.
“These additional operations will act as a further backstop to restore orderly market conditions by temporarily absorbing selling of index-linked gilts in excess of market intermediation capacity, the BoE. “As with the conventional gilt purchase operations, these additional index-linked gilt purchases will be time-limited and fully indemnified by HM Treasury.”
I did warn you the anti-growth coalition is out in force today.
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 13:07
Sorry, I should have added the source second email is from The Independent.
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 15:12
Why is nobody buying the In Liz we Truss t-shirts?
Very disappointing.
I think she is working really hard to get the economy moving. 😂
Dotjones · 11/10/2022 15:21
People have spent all their money on "Nicola Says Yes" t-shirts.
Would be funny if they have another referendum but the question is "Should Scotland remain part of the UK".
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 15:27
I'd like to see Liz and Nicola in a ring. People would pay good money to see that. No gloves. Just two red-heads.
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 15:31
Wigs on the green.
A lot of hair-pulling.
Who'd play dirty?
I can see the Mixed Martial Arts signing them both.
Conor McGregor wouldn't stand a chance in the ring with Liz. One dirty kick to the nuts with a pointed high heel and he'd be toast.
Nicola would mesmerise him with her droning and then launch a killer strike.
Lizzie and Nicola? Who would you back? My money's on Lizzie.
DowningStreetParty · 11/10/2022 15:37
I’d like to make a joke of it but Liz Truss’ absolute ineptitude and stupid stubbornness is driving us all off an economic cliff, completely needlessly. It’s terrifying. We need a general election as a matter of urgency. She’s got no mandate for this whatsoever. It’s outrageous what she and Kwarteng are costing us and doing to us.
Orangesandlemons77 · 11/10/2022 16:14
Surely this BoE bail out is unsistainable, it is meant to be finishing on Friday?
Where does that leaves things if nothing has changed
mathanxiety · 11/10/2022 16:45
All that merch is proudly made in the good ole UK, right?
Fladdermus · 11/10/2022 16:50
YABU because now I want to buy DH some Conservative Party cufflinks for Christmas because he wouldn't recognise them for what they were and I could snigger about them behind his back.
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 22:42
Fladdermus · 11/10/2022 16:50
YABU because now I want to buy DH some Conservative Party cufflinks for Christmas because he wouldn't recognise them for what they were and I could snigger about them behind his back.
😁
Excellent idea and if he ever decides to run in an election for Labour, just tell him to wear his lovely new cufflinks as they give him an air of sophistication 😄
aboutanidiot · 11/10/2022 22:50
I was most amused by this bit - It’s the only place where you can buy official Conservative merchandise. Obviously, Tesco, Lidl, Waitrose and Aldi are desperately trying to get a licence to sell this official merchandise?
Even more hilarious is that they're the "party did not happen* party. 💃
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