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

look starmer is adamant that parliament be recalled early, he’s absolutely fumin about it, pullin his cap off, stompin on it, jumpin up and down, lines in the air next to his head indicating that he’s barking vehemently about it. those tories better watch out

Officials in the Financial Services Group of the Treasury were at an away day – said to have been held at the Oval cricket ground in London – on Wednesday, but returned to their desks that afternoon. A source said they were not working on the response to the Bank of England’s announcement.

well that's nice.
hope they had a lovely day out.

Jaw-dropping quotes on just how close we came to catastrophe today.

Senior banker describing the leveraged unwind in Gilts as coming close to triggering a "Lehman moment". Asset manager accusing the Bank of England of ignoring calls to intervene sooner 🤯https://t.co/ZOGEzhHjVY pic.twitter.com/4VhnvbFlvL

— Robert Smith (@BondHack) September 28, 2022

They are carrying on. People are reacting appalled but if it's austerity on steroids (but it's a plan that the markets are happy with) and there are no serious protests in the streets I reckon they get away with it.

A few more nuggets to flesh out Sam’s thread, based on a series of conversations with people in and close to government over recent days.
To echo Sam, they have two overarching messages:
1. Market chaos is NOT a consequence of Friday’s statement
2. No change in plans, whatsoever. https://t.co/gJ7xJAkRy5

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) September 28, 2022

I expect when blaming the next Labour gov for present problems the hardest line to write will be something like 'of course there was never any serious prospect of Corbyn grasping the reins of HMS Blighty three years ago and so the markets remained sanguine'. Still desd easy tho.

painful.

Liz Truss crumbles under questioning from @GrahamLiver on @BBCLancashire about local consent for fracking. pic.twitter.com/nDp2t5815P

— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) September 29, 2022

Not the best Thatcher impression.

Seems she is going on a lot about Putin, Putin...and then some more about Putin. This must be weird if you believed that Putin had anything to with Hilary Clinton's defeat, or Brexit.

no wonder she's been hiding in a box for a week, she can't even finesse some bullshit answer on fracking -how bad is she going to sound talking about the economy .. lol

Lots of local BBC radio presenters out there to make a name for themselves.

Radio Kent leads off with, "Are you ashamed for what you have done?"

— Chris Brooke (@chrisbrooke) September 29, 2022

well kirsty wark certainly isn’t going to ask that! i love it.

That is excruciating, I require my Tory PM to at least be able to lie with the necessary level of bare-faced arrogance

Did Liz Truss just say on Radio Leeds the maximum anyone will pay for energy bills is £2,500? I thought that *wasn’t* how the cap worked? (That’s just the average price when the unit cost gets capped.)

— Kit / Chris (@kitlochery) September 29, 2022

correct - she doesn't know how it works

the people if Leeds can play that quote to their energy provider when they are about to get their gas cut off

what I don't know about it is: what is average consumption? Well actually I don't want to know what average consumption is or get a smartmeter. Because then I'll never turn the central heating on or make an oven baked recipe until at least half way through 2023!

it's been fun seeing the real Liz Truss reveal herself after that Queen planting week gave her a bit of an easy start.

Guess this is the guy who advised Truss to go on local radio with hungry BBC interviewers.

Liz Truss's Director of Communications, Jason Stein, used to work as Communications Adviser for Prince Andrew until the Maitlis interview https://t.co/9jHuOPYNKF

— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) September 29, 2022

lol he thought these local yokels wouldn't ask any questions

Paul Mason thought they were going to be Alan Partridge! Truss would've probably found more deference in the Today programme.

“Where’ve yer bin?” Excellent start from @BBCLeeds pic.twitter.com/Vg05mOUzD4

— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) September 29, 2022

I guess eight different radio bin-crash mini-interviews in an hour is a kind of levelling up

Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss. That graph is plummeting faster than the pound.

Dino's really doing a public service with these. Would have been nice to see the official BBC accounts doing this!

Sweet lord. The PM is literally lost for words on BBC Stoke when questioned about mortgages. pic.twitter.com/BGCv0RfMBR

— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) September 29, 2022

thankfully we have similarly acute and perspicacious journalists working at a national level for the BBC, and let's not forget the gentlemen of the press too, reporting without fear or favour on the goings on of our rulers

has anyone considered she's enjoying the humiliation?

are you suggesting she doesn't mind being tied up by aggressive adversaries?

Hmm, tricky one for a media strategist- interview on Today with a client presenter whose deference can be absolutely relied upon, or ten interviews with local radio djs trying to make a nae for themselves

name

what a day for Mason to soil himself on the bus again

Regular fountain of knowledge that guy

Johnson was bad enough, but this complete denial of reality on their part is reminiscent of ... I don't know... Vladimir Putin!

“What about the sea life deaths?”
Truss completely blanks - I'll have to look into that

— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) September 29, 2022

FFS has she even heard 'Earth Song'?

if Putin talked about making Pie's bigger then it would actually make more sense.

How it began / How it's going pic.twitter.com/N0Hoc7Pq5c

— End Times and Motion Man (@MarkedAsRed) September 29, 2022

I’m honestly beginning to think maybe you lot are right & I would do a better job 🤦🏻‍♀️

— Liz Trussell (@Liztruss) September 28, 2022

who should play up front for england? tough one, i think i'd have to say the best of the england https://t.co/2UGRSOk0Bt

— Stan Account (@tristandross) September 29, 2022

lol

Don’t want to defend the guy but he’s an Arsenal season ticket holder, ofc he’s not going to say “oh yeah Kane great!”

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fvjk47UORFs/maxresdefault.jpg

Cannot wait..

Have just checked and at the end of her programme last weekend @bbclaurak trailed the PM’s appearance on her show this Sunday morning. Assuming that’s 100%, it should be a very big moment. Today’s regional round was tough, this one should be forensic.

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 29, 2022

oooh it's one of the "big hitters" turn to forensically grill her, as Mason would have it. Or something else that rhymes with that

india eyeing up the uk and pulling out a secret folder marked "east anglia company"

— mutable joe (@mutablejoe) September 28, 2022

the only way to get those lazy English dogs working is applying the boot to the spleen - it's the only language these savages understand

Matthew Lesh, head of public policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Yes. pic.twitter.com/DNAjGiCT9q

— Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh) September 23, 2022

lol how is this guy so bad

It's OPERATION ROLLING PARTRIDGE!!! Liz Truss is going to hit BBC •local radio• stations this morning where a bunch of sleep-deprived non-expert presenters will throw her soft questions, while she dodges the heavy hitters. (h/t @politico ) pic.twitter.com/fTmlD6FPRC

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 29, 2022

💊💊💊

like i used to give the guy credit for at least knowing a little about how the sausage is made despite being a loon but he really doesn't know that, and now i wonder if he ever did

I don't think he understands sausage-making correctly from a Marxist viewpoint. Actually he's more than just a spice addled clown who is always wrong, he's also a security state collaborator/arselicker/full-time snitch.

Here is an Ex-Corbyn advisor who isn't selling themselves.

"As encouraging as it is to hear public ownership back in Labour’s lexicon, GBE falls far short of what the public and the planet need."

Lecturer in economics and former head of economic policy for Labour on Starmer's #Lab22 GBE policy announcement: https://t.co/ogr7DbTIWS

— LabourList (@LabourList) September 29, 2022

GB Energy is the most nu-Labourish load of cobblers imaginable