Good on Kemi!

[MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack]

I'm no fan of Kemi Badenoch, but I'm even less of a fan of Robert Jenrick, and I'm rather delighted to see that she has sacked him and withdrawn the whip before he could jump to Reform.

She has definitely had the last laugh here. He must be spitting bullets!!

Almost all of the power cuts occurred in 1972 - Miners strike and power rationing & then in 1974.... with the 3 day week, let me google who was in Govt during that period...

Oh Edward Heath - with his Conservative Govt.

It’s hilarious how short and selective people’s memories are regarding the previous Tory shower we had in government, the damage they did and the legacy they left for someone else to fix. I see former Tories like Johnson and Truss preaching about all the failings they now see in government and telling people what to do, and continue to be amazed at that level of delusion and arrogance. It’s like they and their supporters are living in a parallel universe.

And as for Farage - his connections with the US far right, the pro-Kremlin European far right and Russian influence itself should be very alarming to all. I’m very keen to see the conclusions on the investigation into Russian influence and think, like many, that this needs to be investigated on a much wider scale and include Brexit.

I see that the Daily ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ Mail is promoting the idea of unity between the Tories and Reform, so let’s see how that works out. A match made in hate.

The power cuts were when Heath was PM.

Yep

Plenty of power cuts through the Labour years.

Winter of discontent- Labour
IMF bailout - Labour

More strike days lost under the Cons 1970 to 1974 than in the Lab govt of 1975 to 79...
Yes i was surprised to see that (ONS)

IMF vs ERM fiasco.. interest rates of 15%.... wow! £ collapsed too....

#ToryCompetence

Good game of Top Trumps but might better to look at more recent history, after all, everyone who was in Government back then is almost certainly dead.

So, we have Liz Truss - Conservative, backed by Kemi Badenoch

who at the time of the mini-Budget tweeted that Truss and Kwarteng were 100% right and was happy to serve in Truss's Government.

There were no power cuts in the Labour years. Please stop gaslighting.

We're concerned here with facts rather than opinions. People's memories are very unreliable. The reality is that Labour took over a total shitshow, and no government could conceivably have turned that around in less than two years - but they get blamed for it.

Tories like nothing better than lying and making things up...

Hope you're minted enough to afford astronomical health insurance/private health care.

Turkeys voting for Christmas.

I don’t think that’s fair. There are quite a few Tory voters on MN who can debate coherently without resorting to untruths and who back their assertions up with evidence.

Hilarious! I did live through the 70s. There may not have been power cuts where you were. There were plenty of frequent regular power cuts where I was.

Please stop gaslighting.

They'll have people with a track record of betrayal and making 180 degree U turns in terms of their professed belief.

Do you really want to be in a country where you have to pay for health care?

Whereabouts were you living?

Hang on....someone has just said there were no power cuts in the Labour years and I'm the one making thing up?

You lefties don't help yourselves.

Why? Were some areas round London more prone to power cuts than other areas of the UK in the 70s?

Interesting that you don't want to say.

You only have to look at the sheer hypocrisy of the way Farage lives. MP for Clacton but hardly ever goes there, complains he can't ask PM questions but never tables them, claimed maximum allowances from the EU Parliament as an MEP but rarely attended, gets most of his earnings outside Parliament, claims to be a proud patriot but has children with dual citizenship, claims to be anti EU but his family claim all the benefits of EU membership, including freedom of movement, wants to sell off the NHS because he has no problem paying for healthcare, etc etc etc.

And while it’s satisfying to see Badenoch get one over on Jenrick and Farage, it’s also worth noting that she didn’t sack him for his racist tropes, or his lies, or his corruption - they tolerated all of that. It’s less about strong leadership and more about damage limitation.

Not really. I dont want to give too much information away online. Suffice to say it was the Home counties.

Again. Why do you want to know? Were some home counties more prone to power cuts in the 1970s than others?

Surely people don’t need to be specific online just because someone wants to know.

The Winter of discontent under James Callaghan's Labour party involved widespread strikes, especially by public sector workers - which brought services to a standstill with rubbish piling up and limited heating/electricity for homes and businesses.

There were significant power cuts and blackouts. Under Labour.

James Callaghan was trying - and failing - to control inflation - RPI was 16.5% year-on-year. It led to Thatcher getting in.

Like reform, all tories are scumbags.

I am interested because I grew up in Wales ( South, semi-rural) and although we had power cuts during storms etc, there weren't "regular" power cuts in the 70s apart from the three day week etc. I can only assume the infrastructure where you were was much poorer, or you were very rural or both.

Neither.