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

[Thunder Bolt]

Another old lady having a go at a Tory MP (see Steve Barclay last week) Let's hear it for the old ladies!!

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EnoughisEnough is gaining groundswell.

 

[Motogull]

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[The Clamp]

“The more Tory voters see of Liz Truss, the less they like her, polls show
Leadership frontrunner is now seen by many party supporters as
out of touch and not like a ‘PM in waiting’ “


https://www.theguardian.com/politic...f-liz-truss-the-less-they-like-her-polls-show


They are only realising now?!

She’s madder than Mad Mick McMad from Mad town. And has been for years. Looks like the Tory party are developing a habit for electing leaders they already know are mad and incompetent.


God help us all.

 

[Dick Head]

Oh, my giddy aunt!

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https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1566166456164810752

 

[Randy McNob]

Oh, my giddy aunt!

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https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1566166456164810752

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Is it fair to say Uncle Jacob leaving the post of Brexit opportunities minister, could not find a single opportunity in the 7 months in the role despite being one of it's boggest cheerleaders?

 

[beorhthelm]

Oh, my giddy aunt!

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https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1566166456164810752

what a lot of nonsence heresay. "cabinet revealed" then a thread of he/she wants that, wont take this, maybe they go there, half of it is undecided. and no place for Sunak, who could run this close and look like a rival on the backbenches.

 

[TomandJerry]

Revealed: levelling up fund allocated south-east twice as much as north-east

The south-east of England, the most affluent region in Britain outside London, last year received almost twice as much money as the north-east from the government’s levelling up fund aimed at boosting deprived areas.

Projects in the south-east benefited from £9.2m from the fund in the year to 31 March 2022. By comparison, the north-east only received £4.9m, despite being the poorest region in Britain by disposable household income.

The £4.8bn fund is under scrutiny over its failure to date to deliver to some of the poorest areas of the country. There are also questions over the criteria for allocating money after the former chancellor, Rishi Sunak, told an audience that he changed funding formulas to divert money from “deprived urban areas”.

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[TomandJerry]

In the longer term on energy supply, Truss said, the UK needed to “take the difficult decisions to ensure we are not in this position every autumn and winter”, adding: “Sticking plasters and kicking the can down the road will not do.”

Truss has, again, not set out what this would involve, but she has expressed support for an increase in nuclear power, new efforts to drill in the North Sea, and the approval of fracking for shale gas. In contrast she is more sceptical about renewable energy, opposing onshore windfarms and solar power schemes on former agricultural land.

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[Bakero]

Revealed: levelling up fund allocated south-east twice as much as north-east

The south-east of England, the most affluent region in Britain outside London, last year received almost twice as much money as the north-east from the government’s levelling up fund aimed at boosting deprived areas.

Projects in the south-east benefited from £9.2m from the fund in the year to 31 March 2022. By comparison, the north-east only received £4.9m, despite being the poorest region in Britain by disposable household income.

The £4.8bn fund is under scrutiny over its failure to date to deliver to some of the poorest areas of the country. There are also questions over the criteria for allocating money after the former chancellor, Rishi Sunak, told an audience that he changed funding formulas to divert money from “deprived urban areas”.

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The population of South East England is 9.1 million whereas the North East region has just 2.6 million people, which suggests the per capita spending in the NE is far higher.

That's not to say I imagine they're spending the money wisely or fairly in either case but just comparing overall figures without looking at population size doesn't make much sense.

Edit: Reading the full article, I see this fact was mentioned.
While the north-east received less funds than the south-east in 2021/22, it did receive more per head of population: £1.83 per capita, compared to the £1 per head of population received in the south-east

 

[beorhthelm]

The population of South East England is 9.1 million whereas the North East region has just 2.6 million people, which suggests the per capita spending in the NE is far higher.

That's not to say I imagine they're spending the money wisely or fairly in either case but just comparing overall figures without looking at population size doesn't make much sense.

Edit: Reading the full article, I see this fact was mentioned.
While the north-east received less funds than the south-east in 2021/22, it did receive more per head of population: £1.83 per capita, compared to the £1 per head of population received in the south-east

yes, typical tabloid trash, headline says one thing then corrects itself later. headline done its job. the real story there is why on earth was so little distributed, ~2% of the fund, if the numbers are correct.

 

[TomandJerry]

The winner of the leadership contest – and as a result, our next prime minister - will be announced just after 12.30 BST at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, near the Houses of Parliament, by Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs.

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[Herr Tubthumper]

The winner of the leadership contest – and as a result, our next prime minister - will be announced just after 12.30 BST at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, near the Houses of Parliament, by Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs.

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The winner will be Mad Lizzy, and the losers will be the rest of country.

 

[vegster]

The winner will be Mad Lizzy, and the losers will be the rest of country.

Never has anyone so underqualified for leadership arrived at such a time of heightened crisis with desperate need for leadership.


Can she shake off her previous CV and transform herself in to someone who can turn around the decline of 12 years of Tory austerity and mismanagement ? Can she unite a parliamentary party that is already divided on her appointment ?

Can she actually prevent the wave of bankruptcy, unemployment and business closures thanks to the energy crisis ?

Can giving more tax breaks to the rich actually produce " Trickle Down " benefits for the poorest ? ...despite it never working every time its tried ?

Tough job ahead.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Never has anyone so underqualified for leadership arrived at such a time of heightened crisis with desperate need for leadership.


Can she shake off her previous CV and transform herself in to someone who can turn around the decline of 12 years of Tory austerity and mismanagement ? Can she unite a parliamentary party that is already divided on her appointment ?

Can she actually prevent the wave of bankruptcy, unemployment and business closures thanks to the energy crisis ?

Can giving more tax breaks to the rich actually produce " Trickle Down " benefits for the poorest ? ...despite it never working every time its tried ?

Tough job ahead.

I think you know the answers to the questions you just asked.

 

[JBizzle]

Never has anyone so underqualified for leadership arrived at such a time of heightened crisis with desperate need for leadership.


Can she shake off her previous CV and transform herself in to someone who can turn around the decline of 12 years of Tory austerity and mismanagement ? Can she unite a parliamentary party that is already divided on her appointment ?

Can she actually prevent the wave of bankruptcy, unemployment and business closures thanks to the energy crisis ?

Can giving more tax breaks to the rich actually produce " Trickle Down " benefits for the poorest ? ...despite it never working every time its tried ?

Tough job ahead.

I think there's an element of "this was always going to happen" after 12 years of the most tumultuous government we've had in a long while. This will be our 4th Tory PM since 2014, and the quality of the candidate pool has been in significant decline because:

a) the cabinet never stays the same for more than 5 minutes,
b) Johnson binned off any non-Brexity MPs and replaced them with talentless loyalists and
c) those that were left who were semi-decent politicians have already been in cabinet 8 times in various roles and gave up the ghost to move to the back benches when the sh!t started to hit the fan.

The fact is, we are scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard that we've scratched through the bottom into the weeds underneath

 

[Dr. No]

Can she shake off her previous CV and transform herself in to someone who can turn around the decline of 12 years of Tory austerity and mismanagement?

No.

Can she unite a parliamentary party that is already divided on her appointment?

No.

Can she actually prevent the wave of bankruptcy, unemployment and business closures thanks to the energy crisis?

No.

Can giving more tax breaks to the rich actually produce "Trickle Down" benefits for the poorest?

No.

 

[rogersix]

No.



No.



No.



No.

and there you have it. the good doctor has solved all the riddles and shown us the path to righteousness

 

[Eric the meek]

No.



No.



No.



No.

[MENTION=34942]Dr. No[/MENTION], is there a question in existence, to which you would answer 'Yes'?

 

[vegster]

I think there's an element of "this was always going to happen" after 12 years of the most tumultuous government we've had in a long while. This will be our 4th Tory PM since 2014, and the quality of the candidate pool has been in significant decline because:

a) the cabinet never stays the same for more than 5 minutes,
b) Johnson binned off any non-Brexity MPs and replaced them with talentless loyalists and
c) those that were left who were semi-decent politicians have already been in cabinet 8 times in various roles and gave up the ghost to move to the back benches when the sh!t started to hit the fan.

The fact is, we are scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard that we've scratched through the bottom into the weeds underneath

Good points that I forgot to add.

Yes, nothing left at the " top " level of government with any credibility or ability. They have all disgraced themselves personally in one way or another and in their open or tacit support of the liar Johnson.

 

[The Clamp]

The undertaker is selecting the final nail as we speak.