adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,014
Likes: 4,825
|
Post by adrianc on Sept 26, 2022 14:06:39 GMT
As did every intelligent human. Absolutely this. Hideously incompetent and out of step with the greater good of the country, utterly toxic to the larger electorate, but the faithful are so smitten they can't see it. Rejoicing in the departure of one incompetent does not mean you automatically welcome a greater one. Unfortunately, having got rid of a barefaced liar, we've now got someone who tells the truth. So when she promised to take measures that will result in trashing the economy, she bloody well only goes and does it! At least she's prepared to be unpopular.
|
|
ilmoro
Member of DD Central
'Wondering which of the bu***rs to blame, and watching for pigs on the wing.' - Pink Floyd
Posts: 10,881
Likes: 11,105
|
Post by ilmoro on Sept 26, 2022 14:18:08 GMT
excuse my moment of memory loss. Does this "mini-budget" have to be voted on in parliament ? EDIT: I mean as opposed to the main budget, which at the very least requires voting on every year as technically certain taxes have to be reaffirmed by law annually. AFAICS not as a whole like a Finance Bill ... there will have to be legislation of some form to repeal the various bits not being implemented ie the NI change. bills.parliament.uk/bills/3338 but which bits need full legislation and which bits can just be done by SI no idea
|
|
ilmoro
Member of DD Central
'Wondering which of the bu***rs to blame, and watching for pigs on the wing.' - Pink Floyd
Posts: 10,881
Likes: 11,105
|
Post by ilmoro on Sept 26, 2022 14:19:00 GMT
First NC letters apparently in ... must be a record
|
|
|
Post by bracknellboy on Sept 26, 2022 14:26:53 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bracknellboy on Sept 26, 2022 14:28:11 GMT
First NC letters apparently in ... must be a record jeez........bloody hell. Still, it might be signed Yours Truyly, Rishi Sunak.
|
|
jonno
Member of DD Central
nil satis nisi optimum
Posts: 2,745
Likes: 3,138
|
Post by jonno on Sept 26, 2022 14:31:35 GMT
First NC letters apparently in ... must be a record Wow. I was going to say that she could be out quicker than a Watford FC manager, but NO! they've already gone and done it.
|
|
adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,014
Likes: 4,825
|
Post by adrianc on Sept 26, 2022 14:35:41 GMT
The NC letters aren't a great surprise - remember, only a third of the parliamentary party voted for her... It was the membership who wanted her...
|
|
Greenwood2
Member of DD Central
Posts: 4,251
Likes: 2,694
|
Post by Greenwood2 on Sept 26, 2022 17:20:04 GMT
We all knew it was daft to get rid of Boris with no plan apart from getting rid of Boris. Reaping what they sowed.
|
|
james100
Member of DD Central
Posts: 992
Likes: 1,197
|
Post by james100 on Sept 26, 2022 17:38:18 GMT
We all knew it was daft to get rid of Boris with no plan apart from getting rid of Boris. Reaping what they sowed. I had a plan! The plan was Rishi...who would have never done this in a million years....unfortunately my success record in political betting at that point was a solid 0% (where it remains) so should have known it would all go horribly wrong
|
|
adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,014
Likes: 4,825
|
Post by adrianc on Sept 26, 2022 18:03:25 GMT
We all knew it was daft to get rid of Boris with no plan apart from getting rid of Boris. Reaping what they sowed. Conservative MPs got rid of Johnson. Conservative MPs then said hands-down they wanted Sunak, not Truss, 2:1. Conservative party members then said they wanted Truss, not Sunak. This is down to the party membership, who would ALWAYS have the final say in a leadership contest, no matter how well planned in advance within Westminster. The right answer to getting rid of one incompetent is not to replace them with another incompetent.
|
|
|
Post by Badly Drawn Stickman on Sept 26, 2022 18:14:06 GMT
Strange World.
A thread where people are gaslighting themselves. Can't see it catching on.
|
|
Greenwood2
Member of DD Central
Posts: 4,251
Likes: 2,694
|
Post by Greenwood2 on Sept 26, 2022 19:04:42 GMT
We all knew it was daft to get rid of Boris with no plan apart from getting rid of Boris. Reaping what they sowed. Conservative MPs got rid of Johnson. Conservative MPs then said hands-down they wanted Sunak, not Truss, 2:1. Conservative party members then said they wanted Truss, not Sunak. This is down to the party membership, who would ALWAYS have the final say in a leadership contest, no matter how well planned in advance within Westminster. The right answer to getting rid of one incompetent is not to replace them with another incompetent. But we could see this was going to go bad. The people with knives in Boris's back should have foreseen the potential consequences.
|
|
adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,014
Likes: 4,825
|
Post by adrianc on Sept 26, 2022 19:08:24 GMT
Conservative MPs got rid of Johnson. Conservative MPs then said hands-down they wanted Sunak, not Truss, 2:1. Conservative party members then said they wanted Truss, not Sunak. This is down to the party membership, who would ALWAYS have the final say in a leadership contest, no matter how well planned in advance within Westminster. The right answer to getting rid of one incompetent is not to replace them with another incompetent. But we could see this was going to go bad. The people with knives in Boris's back should have foreseen the potential consequences. Continue with a known corrupt incompetent, on the basis that the replacement might be worse?
|
|
mrk
Posts: 807
Likes: 753
|
Post by mrk on Sept 26, 2022 20:35:44 GMT
I'm not sure they even read their own book? Debt is never just about debt. It is a symptom of the irresponsibility that runs underneath, an attempt to enjoy more than one is prepared to pay for. Through history, governments and investors have found themselves in trouble when they have let their optimism run ahead of their caution. States have lost the faith of the markets when they have lost the ability to ability to tell their populations that they can't have everything now. Debt crises are dangerous precisely because they arrive when their victims have become too complacent to prepare for them. It is not a coincidence that British growth now seems stagnant, debt is spiralling and the public sector has grown out of control. Governments that lose control of their spending lose control of their economy.Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity, p. 33by Kwasi Kwarteng, P. Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore, Elizabeth Truss
|
|
adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,014
Likes: 4,825
|
Post by adrianc on Sept 26, 2022 21:08:14 GMT
|
|