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

The Queen is alive btw

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 54% (+9)
CON: 21% (-7)
LDEM: 7% (-2)
GRN: 6% (-1)

via @YouGov, 28 - 29 Sep
Chgs. w/ 25 Sephttps://t.co/QFziTkP77K

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2022

Twenty points ahead Twitter maintaining a respectful silence in awe of how badly the tories have to fuck it

truss reckons the freefall on friday is due to a "global crisis".

Putin's war in Ukraine, to be precise.

although when you actually hear what she says she doesn't join the two, that was a bit of editorialising. 'there is a global crisis caused by war in ukraine' and the pound bit is a later question.

My bus was 10 minutes late this evening because of Putin's war in Ukraine.

I heard it was Stalin'

Never surrender!

Any other leader would be 40 points ahead, against this Tory government as they destroy people's mortgages and pensions by the day. WIth a heavy heart, Sir Keir Starmer must resign. It is every citizen's final duty to go into the recycling tanks and become one with all the people https://t.co/ulaVSrkNJj

— the uk press cover for serial groper nick cohen (@wariotifo) September 29, 2022

Lool I was waiting for 40 p-ts ahead being the new 20. Kieth is knocking it out the park! but tbf the park has shrunk a lot this week. It's just a little square plot of grass now and the ball has sadly trundled to the edge of it.

NEW: YouGov poll for The Times puts Labour *33-points* ahead – the highest the party has ever recorded in ANY published poll since the late 1990s.https://t.co/VX8UZbFs1G pic.twitter.com/xjSJJl67BY

— Lara Spirit (@lara_spirit) September 29, 2022

will 33 do?

I know it's the same thing but I feel like "Tories 33 points behind" is closer to what is really happening

the painful thing is this is fuck all to do with Kieth, if a recycling bin was currently LOTO it would be this far ahead

And there is no sense that anything will change for the better.

he will thank the Conservative membership for saving his career by keeping the UK on hard austerity for another 4 years.

it might provide some minor entertainment watching the FBPE crew lose their shit

still think there's a bunch of juicy public spending cuts coming, and as the economic situation settles back down the polling gap will fall

I want to apportion some of the blame of this onto Mark Carney. Not because it's in anyway his fault - just because he's revoltingly smug and I genuinely want him to die.

fair

thinking of all those who watched food bank usage, child poverty and homelessness soar for twelve years and were still willing to consistently inflict tory govt after tory govt on the rest of us until exactly one week ago, when their own pensions and mortgages became affected 👍 https://t.co/xtCE8Mz54Q

— Stan Account (@tristandross) September 29, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd40WPvXEAEyIjQ?format=jpg&name=medium

how much is there left to cut from what is already arguably the most ungenerous and punitive benefits system amongst G7 nations. I wasn't asking obv and neither is this braindead moron it seems.

having said that truss' words about the budget were slightly misreported yesterday the guy on the radio this morning started by saying that it was a global crisis caused by russia.

There's always something to cut from a benefits budget! The only time there isn't is when it's all gone, which is the Tory endgame anyway. It also gives Starmer a lower bar for giving some of it back if he becomes PM, which must be making him happy.

🚨 BREAKING: Operations are being cancelled as the whole of Nottinghamshire health and care system declares a critical incident. Both @nottmhospitals and @SFHFT are facing "extreme pressures" pic.twitter.com/oyUfLU8Ftc

— Shaun Lintern (@ShaunLintern) September 29, 2022

I'm sure there's still room for some "efficiency savings" nonetheless.

also today, hundreds of jobs gone in the World Service. no more radio output in Chinese or Arabic or Hindi. a new focus on cheaper rolling news and sport.

more war war, less jaw jaw

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/30/nhs-nurses-not-eating-at-work-in-order-to-feed-their-children-survey-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Meanwhile the real problem is that the Tories are afraid to cut the size of the state, says demented imp, Kate Andrews.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/30/tories-real-problem-afraid-cut-size-state/

I'd vote for any party that promised to deport her back to the States tbh.

I'd rather they dumped her somewhere mid Atlantic, preferably without a parachute

I'd almost forgotten about her, but around the time she became a Spectator hack I stopped watching all the bbc programs that she was on every week.

She is probably still mainly working for IEA, and has a £200/month retainer from the Spec. An old friend of mine was their food editor (this was years ago) and that was the deal.

yeah it's handy when the bbc can credit her as journalist rather than someone working for a shady right-wing thinktank.

^^^^^

Britain has lived in a “fool’s paradise” for too long and must reduce public spending to help to fund the government’s £45bn worth of tax cuts, a senior cabinet minister has warned https://t.co/s0XvBdLLTD

— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) October 1, 2022

lol .. we're all really going to die this time

look on the bright side, there might be a nuclear war before the cuts have time to kill

I think even in a post nuclear annihilation UK there will still be messaging from the Downing St bunker about getting all these idlers with third degree burns and advanced radiation sickness off PIP and back into the workplace

Simon Clarke is the levelling up secretary and he's saying after 13-14 years of austerity we've all had it way too good and people having a home and enough food to stay alive and healthy is a false economy

Not sure I've ever seen a more punchable face than Truss ally Simon Clarke

How long is this trickle-down effect supposed to take anyway?