[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

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Was just about to post that Sunak clip. What a total pr!ck the man is.

 

[The Clamp]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF80cacj9A

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Car crash at it’s best. If you didn’t know better you’re think it was some 3rd rate reality show, so dreadful that you could only find on satellite tV, sandwiched between Evangelical Christian country music and a channel whose sole purpose was to sell pile medication. FFS


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[mikeyjh]

Was just about to post that Sunak clip. What a total pr!ck the man is.

Or, just a Tory.

 

[TomandJerry]

We are on our own..

"The UK business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has admitted it will be more than a month before ministers can introduce any measures to tackle the rising cost of living.

Kwarteng, who is backing the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, to become the next leader of the Conservative party, said he was expecting a new prime minister to introduce a “support package” in an emergency budget but it could not happen until after they start work next month."

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[Randy McNob]

Still the case even today.....

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[TomandJerry]

A majority of Britons believe Rishi Sunak would be the best candidate to end a recession, according to the latest YouGov poll.
When asked which of the leadership candidates would be best able to end a recession, 19% of respondents chose Sunak compared to 12% who said Liz Truss. However, almost half, 46%, said “neither”.

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[Thunder Bolt]

A majority of Britons believe Rishi Sunak would be the best candidate to end a recession, according to the latest YouGov poll.
When asked which of the leadership candidates would be best able to end a recession, 19% of respondents chose Sunak compared to 12% who said Liz Truss. However, almost half, 46%, said “neither”.

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Somebody is worried enough to use their mobile phone to record his hypocrisy at the hustings. The BBC online is reporting it now.

 

[TomandJerry]

The interruption prompts Truss to give her view on what she says are “the militant people who try and disrupt our country and try and disrupt our democratic processes and our essential services”.

“I would legislate immediately to make sure that we stand up to Extinction Rebellion... and I will never, ever, ever allow our democracy to be disrupted by militant activists.”

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[TomandJerry]

On the issue of migrants crossing the Channel, Truss says she spoke to her French counterpart last week “to make it very clear that we expect French border guards to be working all hours in Dover to make sure that our border is protected”

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[nicko31]

The interruption prompts Truss to give her view on what she says are “the militant people who try and disrupt our country and try and disrupt our democratic processes and our essential services”.

“I would legislate immediately to make sure that we stand up to Extinction Rebellion... and I will never, ever, ever allow our democracy to be disrupted by militant activists.”

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Extinction Rebellion is huge threat to our way of life, pfffff...

 

[Machiavelli]

Oh, Linton Crosby

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

“The more the Conservative leadership election heats up, the more the remaining candidates have resorted to claiming the moral high ground. Raising debt is ‘immoral’, Rishi Sunak is saying. ‘High taxes are immoral,’ retorts Liz Truss. But there is nothing moral about indifferent leaders condemning millions of vulnerable and blameless children and pensioners to a winter of dire poverty.”

Gordon Brown spot on in the guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...gency-budget-or-risk-a-winter-of-dire-poverty

 

[TomandJerry]

The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.

Truss said she would press ahead with proposed tax cuts despite claims they would fuel inflation and “kiss goodbye” to the Conservatives’ chances of winning the next election.

With mounting pressure as households face a financial squeeze, the foreign secretary rejected handouts and insisted on tax cuts costing more than £30bn as the country spirals towards a recession.

“Of course I will look at what more can be done,” Truss told the Financial Times. “But the way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.”

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[Herr Tubthumper]

The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.

Truss said she would press ahead with proposed tax cuts despite claims they would fuel inflation and “kiss goodbye” to the Conservatives’ chances of winning the next election.

With mounting pressure as households face a financial squeeze, the foreign secretary rejected handouts and insisted on tax cuts costing more than £30bn as the country spirals towards a recession.

“Of course I will look at what more can be done,” Truss told the Financial Times. “But the way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.”

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I just got my 300 euro “hand out” from the German government. It all helps.

 

[astralavi]

Alan Bstard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqQvrqunp8

 

[TomandJerry]

It is not just the Labour party complaining about Tory inaction on the economy. In his column in the Sun today, Trevor Kavanagh:

While the Stupid Party is busy rearranging the deckchairs, SS Great Britain is steaming headlong towards the biggest crash since the Great Depression of 1929.

This is not just a cost-of-living crisis. It is a national economic emergency.

We are on the brink of a full-blown calamity of wartime proportions, with soaring bankruptcies and unemployment, poverty and homelessness.

Belt-tightening won’t cut it.

This country cannot wait four more weeks for the Tories to decide who might lead us through it.

Without what Churchill called “Action This Day”, millions of hardworking families – including Sun readers – face hunger and destitution for the first time in living memory.

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[Lyndhurst 14]

 

[Guinness Boy]

This is not just a cost-of-living crisis. It is a national economic emergency.

We are on the brink of a full-blown calamity of wartime proportions, with soaring bankruptcies and unemployment, poverty and homelessness.

Well, we're not really, are we? One of the inflationary factors is that the jobs market is still pretty decent. Indeed there are whole sectors (air travel for example) who are absolutely desperate for people and plenty of people in private sector white collar jobs who are moving job for higher pay if their boss won't stump up.

The poverty bit I get completely and there are far more JAMs and people using food banks but if there was mass unemployment then you would think inflation at least would come down as people stopped spending or being employed.

I want to know what Kavanagh means by "Action This Day" in practical terms because further ramping up of the jobs market risks further inflation unless they are so badly paid as to be unfillable.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I just heard on the radio that 'No 10' has said it won't intervene with the cost of living crisis (or similar), because it's a matter for 'the next government'. Funny, because I'm pretty sure that blond bellend wanted to remain in charge until the 'next government' was in place.

I mean it's not surprising that he's downed tools and working down his notice period (if he ever picked them up in the first place), but it once again shows the measure of the man and how far out of touch he is with the country – or how much he just doesn't give a shite!