Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219]

It is beyond satire.

It is as if they have done it all on purpose, like, they COULD have bought out a tax cutting budget with all the provisos for paying the shit tons of money they would be borrowing back but..nah.

I've not seen a Government in my life time so intent on committing political and economic suicide to the point where you are imploring the cabinet to be sectioned for their and our protection.

As an aside, I am curious to know how all of those Corbyn devotees are reacting to all of this.

He did, at the last election, promise the fucking earth, had no plan on how to pay the borrowed money back but was feted as some sort of messiah.

Well, now we know what would have happened had he got in!

Who would have thought it, Sir Keith, out to rescue us all.

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

I concur with my esteemed colleague LFN and would mention also that my wife just told me about overhearing someone from the NHS on the lunchtime news who basically said that she didn't subscribe to conspiracy theories but given the behaviour of the current government she found it easy to believe they were setting up the NHS to fail so's they could bring in privatisation of health care to rescue the situation. 

 

F'king amazing times to be British, eh?

[Toast 16,155]

23 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

I concur with my esteemed colleague LFN and would mention also that my wife just told me about overhearing someone from the NHS on the lunchtime news who basically said that she didn't subscribe to conspiracy theories but given the behaviour of the current government she found it easy to believe they were setting up the NHS to fail so's they could bring in privatisation of health care to rescue the situation. 

 

F'king amazing times to be British, eh?

 

Surely that's been obvious for ages.

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

6 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Surely that's been obvious for ages.

 

 

Well, yeah but...every time you think it can't get any more crazy...

 

Seriously, you'd have to go back to the Suez invasion to find an act of national self-sabotage to rival what Kwazi Kwartang did on Friday, arguably worse in the short term than anything Brexit did to damage us internationally. 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

 

[Toast 16,155]

I had a newsletter from my MP on Friday last week.  It hasn't aged well.

Here's an extract:

 

We have a new Prime Minister and I warmly congratulate Liz Truss on her success. She is someone for whom I have great respect and with eight years Cabinet experience including roles at the highest level of Government she is manifestly qualified for the role. The death of the Queen is a huge event for any Prime Minister let alone one who is only 48 hours into the role, and I am grateful to her for her dignified leadership over the last fortnight.

 

I would also add that I am proud the Conservative Party has elected its third female Prime Minister and, for the first time in British history, to see each of the Great Offices of State held by a woman or a person of colour.  The Conservative Party has always championed merit rather than identity politics, and it is a symbol of how far our country and Party have come, to see this naturally reflected in our top team.

[msc 18,480]

25 minutes ago, Toast said:

I had a newsletter from my MP on Friday last week.  It hasn't aged well.

Here's an extract:

 

We have a new Prime Minister and I warmly congratulate Liz Truss on her success. She is someone for whom I have great respect and with eight years Cabinet experience including roles at the highest level of Government she is manifestly qualified for the role. The death of the Queen is a huge event for any Prime Minister let alone one who is only 48 hours into the role, and I am grateful to her for her dignified leadership over the last fortnight.

 

I would also add that I am proud the Conservative Party has elected its third female Prime Minister and, for the first time in British history, to see each of the Great Offices of State held by a woman or a person of colour.  The Conservative Party has always championed merit rather than identity politics, and it is a symbol of how far our country and Party have come, to see this naturally reflected in our top team.

 

I can't mind which MP yours is again, but I see they can communicate in fluent shite. 

[Toast 16,155]

40 minutes ago, msc said:

 

I can't mind which MP yours is again, but I see they can communicate in fluent shite. 

 

Well, she backed Sunak for the leadership

("in my judgement Rishi has the outstanding intellect, ability and leadership skills to give us the best chance of winning next time" - as if WE want them to "win next time"!)

so she's had to make something up quick.

[Charlotte's Controller 195]

Boris will surely lose his title of worst prime minister in history. Where is Liz Truss? On holiday? Rishi’s comments on her financial plans have aged well. I remain of the opinion that the general public are inherently stupid and can only cope with a few concepts. Do you want more cash, yes, do you care about the consequences, no I’ve got more cash.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219]

Was it Wilson who said  'A week is a long time in Politics' or summat?

Sir Keith has gone from that gormless looking twat who you hope doesn't come and sit next you on the bus you are on to a man running around like an amorous dog with two dicks.

He actually believes that this his his moment, he is the Political porn star with a full nut sack, ready to unload.

Now if he could keep Abbott, Rayner etc and the like away from the action, well... ..

[Windsor 2,233]

39 minutes ago, Charlotte's Controller said:

Boris will surely lose his title of worst prime minister in history.

Twitter beat you to it…

[RoverAndOut 4,746]

""Draw up plans for cuts" Government departments told" according to BBC website.

 

So we've come full circle. 12 years of the Tories.

 

Austerity, Brexit, Covid, Austerity, this time without the 10 years of unprecedented growth which preceded it. We've never had it so good...

[Charlotte's Controller 195]

Those are mere twitter speech bubbles, I am stating proper full blown f**k up, no issue with being pissed or telling the difference between cider or beer but being absent for a week with no correspondence is surely a HR matter for gross misconduct. Boris was a liar, Truss a liability, has anyone checked the light fittings at Downing Street in case anything is hanging there that shouldn’t be.

[RoverAndOut 4,746]

Interesting-looking front pages today, particularly among the right wing press.

 

Telegraph obviously mostly focused on the impact on pension funds. But the Sun are quite scathing, describing the mini-budget as "disaster-hit" and the Express focuses on the banks intervention and the pensions crisis in its main headline but its smaller headline still quotes the Treasury Minister who says it is the "right plan".

 

Never fear, though, The Daily Fail don't think this is a crisis yet, it only features in a banner headline at the top of their front page, with the main story - clearly the biggest of the day - being that David Norris, one of the Stephen Lawrence murderers has had a mobile phone discovered up his bum. 

[TQR 14,404]

It’s possible that Truss, a woman whose density is enough to stop light dead in its tracks, and her pork market manager Khazi Kwarteng are really onto something here, and that the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of England, the European Union, the United States and pretty much all economists other than the one who predicted Brexit would boost the UK enormously are ALL wrong. But I’m not sure that’s awfully likely, to be honest.

[msc 18,480]

13 minutes ago, TQR said:

It’s possible that Truss, a woman whose density is enough to stop light dead in its tracks, and her pork market manager Khazi Kwarteng are really onto something here, and that the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of England, the European Union, the United States and pretty much all economists other than the one who predicted Brexit would boost the UK enormously are ALL wrong. But I’m not sure that’s awfully likely, to be honest.

 

I was delighted to hear that, despite the decades of evidence to the contrary, the IMF are in fact a lefty cabal!

 

Mind you, Andrew Lillico was probably confused "the IMF, the KLF, it's a 50/50 choice, one of them is left-wing!"

 

Not to claim Liz Truss is a walking fucking disaster zone, but she's done an interview this morning and not understood her own energy cap.

[TQR 14,404]

28 minutes ago, msc said:

Not to claim Liz Truss is a walking fucking disaster zone, but she's done an interview this morning and not understood her own energy cap.

Speaking of those radio interviews, a BBC presenter has AT LAST called Truss’ bullshit out for exactly what it is:

EDIT: Oop, and another one:

 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

29 minutes ago, msc said:

 

I was delighted to hear that, despite the decades of evidence to the contrary, the IMF are in fact a lefty cabal!

 

Mind you, Andrew Lillico was probably confused "the IMF, the KLF, it's a 50/50 choice, one of them is left-wing!"

 

Not to claim Liz Truss is a walking fucking disaster zone, but she's done an interview this morning and not understood her own energy cap.

 

 

Liz this morning:

 

 

 

 

[gcreptile 10,979]

So apparently, Kwasi Kwarteng has to go or else....

 

He's like the black character in horror movies who always dies first.

[TQR 14,404]

This morning has been an absolute catastrofuck. Truss has essentially re-done all of hers and Khazi’s damage the Bank of England has been desperately trying to undo over the past 24 hours.

 

I just find myself laughing hysterically. If this were a The Thick Of It episode, it’d be one of the finest. But it’s fucking reality. It’s unbelievable. 

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

As we've discussed recently, you know you're in the shit when the Daily Star is the paper most consistently nailing the situation on its front page

 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

 

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Andrew Marr talking to Ken Clark on LBC

 

Marr: "One of your colleagues described the mini-budget as inept, would you agree?"

Ken: "I think he's quite restrained..."

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219]

So, let's look at where we are, apart from fucked.

The Prime Minister and Chancellor are finished. The two remaining options are another change of Tory leader & cabinet reshuffle or a general election.

Two issues spring to mind, here. The '... moving of the deck chairs on the Titanic' will be attributed to another Tory leadership election and, with an election, the money markets, generally distrusting of anything Labour and socialism, are not going to be having celebratory wanks over a red landslide.

So, it looks like we are royally fucked on all fronts.

We are doomed!

 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]