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

I hate how everyone is using the word gamble. Including this piece, which is otherwise ok.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/23/kwasi-kwarteng-tax-giveaway-huge-gamble

The fucking pundit class, the fucking economist class, it is very important they pretend to take Kwarteng at his word that this stuff is intended to benefit "the economy" and not a bunch of plutocrat rentier clients

This is...

Golly.
Markets are now pricing in 5.5% interest rates from the @bankofengland next year.
Up from 4.75% yesterday.
Deutsche Bank saying BoE may need to table an emergency rate hike as soon as next week.
Extraordinary.
And, as I said yday, higher rates are a big, big deal.
Ugh. https://t.co/zaIhLY5xHI

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) September 23, 2022

This is why big brained voters don't trust the other parties on the economy

looking forward to this story being widely reported in the british press

Al Jazeera’s @AJIUnit has obtained the largest leak in British political history, exposing how unelected Labour Party officials smear and intimidate rivals.

Members supportive of Jeremy Corbyn were undermined by party bureaucrats. #LabourFiles

👉 https://t.co/vtr3hzHzfu pic.twitter.com/SGqbejDz83

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 23, 2022

already tired of them going on and on about it

Looking forward to Reeves not reversing any of this

Sources in Labour's Treasury team say they want to look at the OBR forecasts before deciding whether to promise to reverse the additional 45p rate.

In other words, under current plans, this ain't happening any time soon

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) September 23, 2022

Everyone slags off entryism, but the Revolutionary Communist Party have managed to engineer the collapse of British capitalism so who's laughing now

— Read Patriarchy and Accumulation (@DecolAutonomism) September 23, 2022

Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer

Tory casino economics is gambling the mortgages and finances of every family in the country.

oh do fuck off. This move further towards neo-feudalism is nothing to do with gambling. This post (like Kieth) was sponsored by bet 365. Anyway I'd much rather go to a "funhouse" and lose loads of dosh on roulette whilst eating free sandwiches than attend a fucking Labour conference.

Betfred, Sir LOTO’s y/n

he almost makes it sound noble, like the Tories are risking it all in a desperate bid to 'save' the country

there is no gamble going on here whatsoever - these policies are locking in the certainty of the rich getting richer. that's all.

god i hate him so much

Looking forward to Mick Lynch returning to our TV screens to excoriate these evil morons.

I briefly put HIGNFY on last night and saw Mick on there, they were making loads of jokes about him "bringing the country to a standstill", must remember never to put that on again.

if the Tories are gambling, Kier, what are you doing?

Gordon fucking Brown's got more interesting ideas than you've got
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/22/labour-considering-abolishing-house-of-lords-if-it-wins-next-election-leaked-report-reveals

I've just not seen a better summary of yesterday than this tweet.

perhaps it's the British genius for compromise that means we can progress to Pinochet's economics without all that herding people into football stadiums

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) September 23, 2022

Imagine the scenes if Labour demonised this budget, called it fascist economics etc.

I miss John McDonnell, just sayin’.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fdb_6LnWQAAGFBM?format=jpg&name=large

I already knew I'd never vote for them again in my lifetime, but they are very effective at ironing out all the very slight ambiguities involved in making this decision.

lol yeah it's like every time you think for half a second "but the Tories..." Starmer announces a new policy to torture baby ducks or something

Let's all sing
God Save The King
And after we do
The voters will swing

pic.twitter.com/QSj9UpDLpM

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 25, 2022

(I feel regret for Sunak in terms of how he might feel regarding what he would have done differently and the difference it could have made.)

I don't think the grasping little toerag could have done anything to win over the membership, he was too much of a continuity candidate. Not that he didn't try.

(I get the impression that Truss's economic policies do not make sense for the UK or for global economics.)

(1/10) The broadcast version of episode 2 of #LabourFiles on Labour's 'antisemitism crisis' has some good stuff but lacks a coherent narrative and leaves out the Panorama documentary and EHRC report. This thread details what's in the longer online version. https://t.co/B87vvGYp2S

— Heather Mendick (@helensclegel) September 25, 2022

xp

the government's policies make absolute sense, the aim is to transfer as much money, public and otherwise, to themselves and the wealthy people who support them

talk about a gamble or a risk is a figleaf that dishonest politicians and dishonest journalists are using to pretend this isn't the case

and that's just before we consider whether shorting the pound is a deliberate strategy to further enrich these people (hint: it is)

i do sort of feel that it's more about implementing an ideology rather than a pure cash grab but same difference i guess

they are one and the same

The ideology is imprecarious nihilism - smash and grab, but also trust that whatever happens you'll stay afloat.

imprecarious is a terrific multivalent word

we finally got our party back 🥹 pic.twitter.com/jRgm71M1vi

— yamo porrits 2.0 (@2yamo2porrits) September 25, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdhZf00XoAguLld?format=jpg&name=large

the notion that draping yourselves in the flag and tugging the forelock to the monarchy = a grown up party ready for govt is such obviously facile nonsense that I can only conclude they actively do not want my vote nor the vote of anyone with any shred of self respect.

(xp) lol

it's not remotely serious stuff

I think it will probably come across as quite cynical and opportunistic to lots of the flag-shaggers, especially the ones who think they are in some mysterious way a centre-left party.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdhaJvqXkAYQZzh?format=png&name=small

"Please don't contact me again"

her husband get's cold caught out chatting racist shit on camera and she proposes more censorship is what is needed.

Who is he and what does he say?

Dan Fox, ex director of Labour Friends of Israel, shown in footage discussing Sadiq Khan with actual fash, one of whom he describes as an old friend

tbf he's trying to persuade his goose-stepping chums that Khan is "the right kind of muslim"

obviously it's outrageous to suggest that any Labour member is a racist simply because of who they've spoken to

Perish the thought.

also he was doing that Sadiq is one of the "good ones" line iirc

oh sorry nv already said that!

Not a promising start to the week for sterling in Asian trading: a new low versus the dollar below $1.0770, down about 0.8% from Friday pic.twitter.com/WjvElpLipN

— David Milliken (@david_milliken) September 25, 2022

Oh that’s old news, it’s now down to historically low $1.03. Markets talking down Britain, refusing to “let the benefits sink in” as the IEA put it

This will mean higher inflation and interest rates. The press will only turn if it hits the housing market.