Liz Truss

[TheDeeDon]

Well she has set her stall out in her first budget. Clearly whoever was behind her campaign for the leadership is pulling the strings here as this is going to be career suicide.

Trickledown economics my @rse.

I hate tories and all the people who vote for them.

[donsdaft]

C'mon Lizzie, you can do it.

This is going to be fun.

[TheDeeDon]

C'mon Lizzie, you can do it.

This is going to be fun.

DD. I hope you don't take offence at this question, but are you a Tory at heart? Albeit one that wants independence or at least part of the EU.

[57vintage]

That’s among the worst governmental financial statements I’ve heard in 52 years of following them. I’ll depart from the norm and forget any detailed examination - just the top lines are horrendous enough.

It’s up there with Thatcher’s 1979 statement where VAT (introduced by the Tories, and only ever increased by them) near-doubled from 8% to 15%), and Lawson’s bribery of the knuckle-headed in late 80s budgets that saw the UK swing from credit-underpinned bonanza to economic catastrophe in less than two years. It’s up there too with Gideon’s and Trish’s nonsense in making the innocent pay for the bonuses-propelled 2008 meltdown (the biggest chance in my lifetime to take organised capital, jam its knackers in a vice and sack/jail the ****ing lot before running them as public companies). Bailing out the energy larcenists to give consumers discounts, and then expecting the same consumers to pay for the loans to cover this is theft in plain sight.

“Something something something…Corbyn though”.

[TheDeeDon]

That’s among the worst governmental financial statements I’ve heard in 52 years of following them. I’ll depart from the norm and forget any detailed examination - just the top lines are horrendous enough.

It’s up there with Thatcher’s 1979 statement where VAT (introduced by the Tories, and only ever increased by them) near-doubled from 8% to 15%), and Lawson’s bribery of the knuckle-headed in late 80s budgets that saw the UK swing from credit-underpinned bonanza to economic catastrophe in less than two years. It’s up there too with Gideon’s and Trish’s nonsense in making the innocent pay for the bonuses-propelled 2008 meltdown (the biggest chance in my lifetime to take organised capital, jam its knackers in a vice and sack/jail the ****ing lot before running them as public companies). Bailing out the energy larcenists to give consumers discounts, and then expecting the same consumers to pay for the loans to cover this is theft in plain sight.

“Something something something…Corbyn though”.

Well said.
A banker on one million a year get an additional £55k per year.
Unions ask for a pay rise for their members and are told to f uck off.
Welcome to UK plc 2022.
For the Tories on the forum, unless you are very, very wealthy, you might not be so quick to denounce the minkers with their hands out looking for everything on a plate very soon.

[Red Zone]

That’s among the worst governmental financial statements I’ve heard in 52 years of following them. I’ll depart from the norm and forget any detailed examination - just the top lines are horrendous enough.

It’s up there with Thatcher’s 1979 statement where VAT (introduced by the Tories, and only ever increased by them) near-doubled from 8% to 15%), and Lawson’s bribery of the knuckle-headed in late 80s budgets that saw the UK swing from credit-underpinned bonanza to economic catastrophe in less than two years. It’s up there too with Gideon’s and Trish’s nonsense in making the innocent pay for the bonuses-propelled 2008 meltdown (the biggest chance in my lifetime to take organised capital, jam its knackers in a vice and sack/jail the ****ing lot before running them as public companies). Bailing out the energy larcenists to give consumers discounts, and then expecting the same consumers to pay for the loans to cover this is theft in plain sight.

“Something something something…Corbyn though”.

I think it was a fantastic statement, everything I hoped for.

Labour has a ten point lead in the polls, which could have started to disappear if Truss had done the decent thing and focussed the money tree at those that need it. She basically said f'uck you to all those Labour voters that voted for Boris last time with that statement today thereby locking in the Labour poll lead and unless Starmer really screws up (he's boring and uninspiring but he's not stupid) put your money on him being in Number 10 in a couple of years time

[donsdaft]

Well, of course, they're not getting an additional £55k per year.
They're getting £55k less taken away from them, there is a difference.

No, I'm not a Tory, how could I ever vote for the Conservative and Unionist Party?

But as a socialist I would see a country that was hard working and rich.
A country that was rich enough to pay the disabled through a system of benefits that gave them dignity.
The same goes for the retired, look to Germany for the equivalent.

This means we simply have to stop handing out cash to wasters.

[donsdaft]

DD. I hope you don't take offence at this question, but are you a Tory at heart? Albeit one that wants independence or at least part of the EU.

Nah min nah

But you have to see that this stage was inevitable.
They’re Brexit is f’ucked, the only way out for them is to gamble massively on a singapore style economy.
The removal of the cap on banker’s bonuses was so inevitable that I’m surprised that they didn’t do it the day after they got their freedom from the oppresive EU.

That’s the non democratic EU we’re speaking about.
Good coming from a country with this Prime Minister and one who has just went a fortnight bowing and scraping to a dead wifie, who’s son has just become yet another unelected head of state.

Personally I am going to enjoy watching them self destruct.

[Jupiter]

Everybody has missed the point and not for the first time

The economy is screwed because of the hysterical over reaction to covid, which was zealously supported by all the political parties. They should have ignored it, like they do with every other virus. The government pissed away about £400billion on covid and they've got nothing to show for it except a ruined economy.

Today's budget is like rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic.

[Mason89]

No, I'm not a Tory, how could I ever vote for the Conservative and Unionist Party?

You're a bit of a weirdo, probably something to do with being a west coaster.

The whole idea is that folk have to earn what they have, not sit in your "I canna manage" Scotland, waiting for someone else to pay for everything.

When you think of Mason's Scotland just think of a minker with his hand permanently out.

But as a socialist