OT: Old Mrs. May's fudge shoppe

[Mapperleypie]

His best plan is to stand back and watch the Tories destroy themselves, and they are doing a fine job of that without any outside help.

In normal times I would completely agree. However, these are not normal times. If the governments own forecasts are even close to being correct then a no deal Brexit would be a complete disaster for the UK economy and as such would seriously compromise government spending for a generation. In this scenario Corbyn may become PM but would be completely hamstrung.

He and the wider political class need to be honest with the public, Brexit is either soft and whilst not being as harmful in the short-term is worse than what we have now. Or we can go full no-deal Brexit and significantly harm the UK economy. Both scenarios are unpalatable.

[Airborn Pie]

In normal times I would completely agree. However, these are not normal times. If the governments own forecasts are even close to being correct then a no deal Brexit would be a complete disaster for the UK economy and as such would seriously compromise government spending for a generation. In this scenario Corbyn may become PM but would be completely hamstrung.

He and the wider political class need to be honest with the public, Brexit is either soft and whilst not being as harmful in the short-term is worse than what we have now. Or we can go full no-deal Brexit and significantly harm the UK economy. Both scenarios are unpalatable.

I am traditionally a Labour voter but cannot help but smile that you think JC's spending would be 'hamstrung', after the last Labour government left a jokey note for the chancellor to the effect that they'd almost bankrupted the country through over spending!