Antlion Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, 101 said: Hope you're all having a great time. He’s not wrong with the Gatsby comparison - the super rich will be loving it. The rest of us will be living in this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I heard a good one on the radio this morning... maybe 5Live... Something like... Liz Truss has had the worst honeymoon period since the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 No chance it would happen but it would be hilarious if it did 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Sounds like her new chancellor is about to bin the energy price guarantee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: Sounds like her new chancellor PM is about to bin the energy price guarantee. She not in charge anymore, that's for sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Last week, Truss was slating Labour saying that their six month policy on energy support was dreadful and showed they were not serious about being in power. Jeremy Hunt has just brutally murdered her in broad daylight. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I think he said that this winter's support stands, but its application beyond that is to be reviewed (i.e. Removed for all but the most vulnerable). The Truss/Kwartang budget is mostly in the bin. The Truss leadership campaign promises have disappeared. I await the response of the "leader" of the Conservative Party in Scotland. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Wow. Now we get months of people shitting themselves about their energy bills in April. This will kill the Tories even more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 3 hours ago, O'Kelly Isley III said: Apparently the markets were calmed when it emerged that Kwarteng flew 1st class as BA banned him from 'business' and 'economy'. I think there was a bit of confusion here. They were going to send him a letter to say he was sacked. "In that case, make sure you send it first class." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 6 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said: I think he said that this winter's support stands, but its application beyond that is to be reviewed (i.e. Removed for all but the most vulnerable). The Truss/Kwartang budget is mostly in the bin. The Truss leadership campaign promises have disappeared. I await the response of the "leader" of the Conservative Party in Scotland. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said: I await the response of the "leader" of the Conservative Party in Scotland I think his time as leader is limited, just not as limited as Truss. His performance in QT last week was risible, he has nothing to say except "SNP bad". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funky_nomad Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I fully expect Lie-Low Liz to spin this as yet more evidence that she is "listening" over the next few days... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 14/10/2022 at 12:05, steelmen said: you just now that the one thing they will reverse is the Energy price cap... make the poor folk pay. On 14/10/2022 at 12:11, resk said: I don't think that's likely. It's the one thing that she falls back on in every speech and will continue to do. Similar to Boris Johnson's "fastest vaccine rollout" standard (bullshit) response to any question or criticism. Nailed it. FFS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Why has this balloon not deleted this Tweet yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Leith Green said: I think his time as leader is limited, just not as limited as Truss. His performance in QT last week was risible, he has nothing to say except "SNP bad". His job is to take whatever bullets are coming his way due to decisions made down south - if he's prepared to do that for the new leader his job's safe. "SNP bad" is all his target audience want to hear. It's not much of a job but then he's not much of a politician. Edited October 17, 2022 by btb 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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O'Kelly Isley III Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I really hope Starmer is paying close attention to two critical aspects here. Firstly, the fear of the energy support being scaled back to a presumed minimum in April of next year will absolutely terrify millions of people this winter, and rightly so. Whilst continuing to demand a GE, Labour should also go on the attack by promising measures like temporary windfall taxation on energy company profits and the long-overdue rooting out of entrenched tax evasion to ameliorate energy bills. Secondly, the last fortnight has comprehensively torpedoed Brexit by demonstrating that in the modern world no nation can realistically take a doctrinaire standalone position based on parroting shite like 'freedom' and 'taking back control'. Starmer will never have a better opportunity to put a stake in the ground around renegotiating some sort of trade concordat with the EU. Over to you Keith. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said: I really hope Starmer is paying close attention to two critical aspects here. Firstly, the fear of the energy support being scaled back to a presumed minimum in April of next year will absolutely terrify millions of people this winter, and rightly so. Whilst continuing to demand a GE, Labour should also go on the attack by promising measures like temporary windfall taxation on energy company profits and the long-overdue rooting out of entrenched tax evasion to ameliorate energy bills. Secondly, the last fortnight has comprehensively torpedoed Brexit by demonstrating that in the modern world no nation can realistically take a doctrinaire standalone position based on parroting shite like 'freedom' and 'taking back control'. Starmer will never have a better opportunity to put a stake in the ground around renegotiating some sort of trade concordat with the EU. Over to you Keith. I love your optimism, but I'm afraid it could be very misplaced Edited October 17, 2022 by Soapy FFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 They are now basically holding the country to ransom. Clearly Truss will be binned in the next few days or week...they put in the next nonentity but then hold out for another 2 years before having to call a GE..its like a banana Republic, in any functioning democracy there would have to be a GE this year after changing leader again.It looks to me that they'll put in Hunt as PM as in relative terms he is untouched by the rest of the cretinous scum in charge. I also genuinely can't see them uniting around one of the others - Sunak may be the obvious one but too many dislike him. Mordaunt as well is tainted as being part of the cabinet that supported these horrendous mini-budget decisions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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