like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

Yes, also laughing in church at the queen's funeral is the one good thing he's done

even if he is ever so slightly on the autism spectrum he's still a class A cunt and deserves about as much nuance and understanding as he gave to that guy when questioned about Windrush the other day.

and I don't honestly believe he is tbh or if he is it's not to a degree where he struggles with daily living.

my adhd would be absolutely fine if I had servants or a PA, guess he has never not had these things

it's not about sympathy for Kwarteng personally, when the response to a clip of someone acting in a slightly unusual but harmless way is twitter opprobrium that's potentially an uncomfortable environment for neurodivergent people in general? Like that tory MP who has cerebral palsy, and every so often a photo or clip of him goes viral on twitter with people saying 'lol this guy looks so goofy' or whatever.

people have suggested Boris might have ADD or ADHD before. I'm not a fan of armchair diagnosis been done on horrible politicians.

you still can't rule out Kwarteng having a few lines before the service

I get where you are coming from, Soref. But in this case I don't think you can draw any conclusion from this video on Kwarteng's neurological set-up. If he spoke out about it, then I'd say fair enough and show some understanding for this guy's lifelong health condition. But until he does that I'm just going assume he's another coked up Tory making a dick out of himself.

NEWS: the CWU have announced a new wave of strikes in the BT Group, with 999 emergency call operators joining the action

Actions will take place on 6, 10, 20 and 24 October, and will include 30,000 Openreach engineers, 10,000 BT call centre workers, and 400 999 call operators

— polly smythe (@pollysmythe) September 21, 2022

Have had similar thoughts to soref and glumdalclitch tbh, fuck Kwarteng yes of course but "lol inappropriate behaviour" isn't cool imo

Being an inappropriate Tory arsehole is enough.

to me it's like that time Gove was pissed/coked up in parliament and swaying about looking 3 sheets to the wind. I couldn't gaf about parliamentary standards of behaviour in this case. It's just a "lol look at that Tory dickhead go" thing.

Some hack wrote about Kwarteng that he has an uncanny ability to always back the winner. I'd hardly call it uncanny. Johnson was miles ahead in the earliest leadership polls iirc and Truss is a lifelong friend and they are part of the same clique. And when it got down to the 2 horse race stage, the slimeball might well have switched if Sunak had been flying in the membership polling rather than Truss.

Arselickers usually back a winner, that's kind of the point surely?

"look at that Tory dickhead go" to the tune of Life on Mars in my head now

Kwarteng was appointed parliamentary private secretary to then-chancellor Philip Hammond in 2017. According to The Times’ reporter Ben Ellery, Kwarteng was afterwards overheard telling someone: “It took Stanley Baldwin eight years to become a PPS and he then became prime minister seven years later. I’ve become a PPS in seven.”

does this mean he is going to achieve his dream of a Kwarteng premiership (gasp) in ... six years!

Jobs that really wanting them should be an immediate disqualifier

Lol at this bunch of cunts

GMB says lifting the fracking ban could create "thousands of jobs" and "offers part of the solution to the energy crisis". The second claim, at least, has been previously debunked, including in this report by Carbon Brief: https://t.co/2LgJDlfWF8 pic.twitter.com/zaaLP2bVXw

— Emiliano Mellino (@Mellino) September 22, 2022

jobs jobs jobs ... environmental degradation ... earthquakes... failure

you'll be telling us next that you're against flammable water

it wouldn't be so bad if someone invented a 230v inverter generator that runs on flammable water - they could talk up fracking's eco-friendliness then, but perhaps best off not drinking it before you go for a smoke.

calz otm just so tired of the overwhelming unquestioning consensus from both Tory and Labour that jobs are good and that continuously growing the economy is good.

ime jobs are shite and I've never been a union member and frequently got treated like shit! And as much as I'm vicariously enjoying union power making a bit of comeback, some of them and especially the more right-wing ones that represent weapons of death workers or ones that take the side of the fracking lobby because the money is behind it, they are bad, and fuck them I say and fuck jobs as well.

for the last 7 months I've had to have a Work Focused Interview every 4 weeks with a job's coach, not for me but for my non-verbal autistic son who will never be able to work and will end up in residential care when I'm dead. It was just while he was having his WCA and I'm not moaning about it really because some people have a much harder time on UC and it's over now. But the whole situation just felt so preposterous.

The thing is, they didn't drop plans for fracking last time because they were woke leftists - nearly all of the places to frack are in Tory constituencies. It doesn't make any sense except as imported culture war bullshit.

this "I'm not scared of making unpopular decisions" hubris is not going to go down well in this case, even the fckin Mail is fracking sceptic.

lol at this ‘mini’ budget

Kwarteng says the government will introduce VAT-free shopping for tourists.

Joke announcements like the one aside this is the stuff to watch out for.

Kwarteng says government will legislate to remove planning restrictions 'that constrain growth'
Kwarteng is now talking about supply side reforms.

There will be announcements in the coming weeks covering the planning system, business regulations, childcare, immigration, agricultural productivity and digital infrastructure.

Addressing planning, Kwarteng says the system is too slow.

The government will bring forward a bill “to unpick the complex patchwork of planning restrictions and EU derived laws that constrain our growth”.

Since the Queen passed away there has been a lack of scrutiny on the energy announcements too...

This adds up to a £10,000 tax cut on average for over 600,000 of the richest folk in country. Govt points out this higher rate didn’t exist in Labour years pre 2010 https://t.co/868RMEVJqX

— Anushka Asthana (@AnushkaAsthana) September 23, 2022

Govt pointing out they're going to borrow more than Labour ever did - the difference being they'll also increase austerity.

Kwarteng says the government will introduce VAT-free shopping for tourists.

It sounds like it would be throughout your stay? No details.

How would that even work?

Would it apply to me though hmmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Ask Kwarteng

The Brexit dividend (tourists only)

Just a little big run on the pound lets be cool

The pound is falling. Fast. pic.twitter.com/fc8RPGXN6R

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) September 23, 2022

right now for example you go to bicester village, buy a load of designer label clothes/shoes/handbags, get a form from the shop, then when you get to the airport you go to the tax office and get the tax money refunded. so I guess this new scheme would be like you show you have a tourist visa to the UK and a plane ticket and you don't need to pay VAT?

Sounds like a lot of extra work for shops.

I wonder if it's just for the outlet malls and tourist shops, in which case I guess they are doing the forms anyway

I belive there's a stall in South London that does no income tax no VAT

A massive moment for @iealondon. They’ve been advocating these policies for years. They incubated Truss and Kwarteng during their early years as MPs. Britain is now their laboratory.

— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) September 23, 2022

Even if they lose the next election the regulation burning won't be reversed.

In a post-Grenfell world too.

Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown, warns that confidence in the UK economy has faded away further following this morning’s announcements.

’Kwasi Kwarteng has set off fireworks with this budget, which collides with the Bank of England’s efforts to dampen down inflation, while sparking a firestorm of criticism about benefiting the wealthy much more than the poorer sections of society.

Scrapping the top rate of tax will return many thousands of pounds to high earners, while lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses is likely to be hard to swallow for low paid workers on the picket lines, calling for pay rises to help them survive the cost of living crisis.

Streeter warns that Liz Truss’s policies could crash and burn, particularly if government borrowing costs soar further (they’ve already surged alarmingly today).

There are signs that buyers of UK government bonds are becoming even more nervous about the government’s ‘splash the cash’ policies, given the mounting debt pile.

She's going to try to build a giant Amazon fulfillment center on Dartmoor, isn't she? https://t.co/h91I0MPnER

— James B (@piercepenniless) September 23, 2022

GMB: Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Always another perspective

Great to see sterling strengthening on the back of the new UK Growth Plan https://t.co/Ec8tgXkgKd

— Chris Philp (@CPhilpOfficial) September 23, 2022

One of the clowns who got comprehensively and embarrassingly pwned by Mick Lynch iirc.