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

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?

long enough for you to like it

The pink line here signifies the complete failure of British politicians and media. pic.twitter.com/7xptfsbAfk

— Metatone (@Metatone2) October 1, 2022

Meanwhile, more money needed for that highly successful levelling up programme.

https://news.sky.com/story/british-steels-chinese-owner-seeks-huge-government-aid-package-12708894

So, we all have to tighten our belts so as to give more money to rich people.

(I know but..)

.. says everyone in the country right now. They aren't even asking for clarification, they are stating it as objective fact.

Yes but you can breathe your last, starving to death on the shores of a poisoned waterway, safe in the knowledge that you'll do so amid a first-quarter projection of sound economic growth. So there's that.

actions fine, cause laudable, explanation a bit odd to say the least.

BREAKING: End UK Private Jets supporter pours human faceas on Captain Tom memorial. Maddie, 21, former medical student said:

“Every time a private jet takes off, it pours a bucket of shit and blood on everything Captain Tom stood for”#endukprivatejetshttps://t.co/zTzVJ2gu8H pic.twitter.com/4qjpKiyO9n

— End UK Private Jets (@EndUKPrivateJet) September 30, 2022

lol, amazing.

A few years back, in guangzhou, I was managing teachers in an adult language training centre, and I recommended my assistant Colin for the same role in another centre in the city. just one week into the job they had this crazy student who hadn't been given a refund on a £5 headset, which she'd used for a whole year and broken, she turned up with bags of urine from the hospital where she worked - as a doctor! - and emptied them all over the reception area, then the next day she turned up again with bags of shit, they begged her not to start throwing it around, they gave her £10 to go away, but she tore up the money and started throwing the shit around anyway. one teacher (a big guy from newcastle) tried to restrain her, she left and came back with the police half an hour later, had him arrested for assault. Anyway, that's my emptying bags of shit over things story, sorry for sending you there, Colin!

I was thinking did she gradually steal gallons of human faeces from some hospital university when she was a medical student, well maybe "steal" is the wrong word here.

yeah I think getting hold of that sort of thing is a lot easier if you work in a hospital

"Some households will likely pay above £2,500 per year on energy bills, experts and Ofgem report"

yep, that's how averages work

Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound egged him on to commit to his plans.

The chancellor also gave guests insights about forthcoming government spending cuts during the event, which took place at the Chelsea home of Andrew Law, a financier and Conservative Party donor, on the evening of Friday, September 23.

at this point there is a lot of yeah whatever in response to this latest Pogrund "scoop" because who even gives a fuck anymore?

"The chancellor also gave guests insights about forthcoming government spending cuts during the event".

[Bond villain cackle]

Truss, a) asked Biden to bring down global energy prices.

b) She then asked Biden to enforce a total cutoff of all Russian oil exports.

Even Biden perceived that the requests were oxymoronic since Putin’s success in exporting large quantities of oil have been keeping a lid on the price of crude, which would undoubtedly soar if “Urals crude” vanished from world markets, thus further tanking the British economy, along with Truss’ political fortunes and, more importantly, Democratic prospects in the midterms.

Following the meeting he told aides that the new British leader was “really dumb” and not to be treated seriously.

acting braindead on the world stage to own the libs!

One of the few areas where Joe Biden is in agreement with Sergei Lavrov.

It's not supposed to work this way, we're supposed to laugh up our sleeves at how dumb US presidents are not the other way around.

Business model latest

Best month ever for @novaramedia on YouTube CONFIRMED.

5.4 million views in September.

You can support our work here. @michaeljswalker alone deserves 10 million (and the rest)! 😉https://t.co/quePr80otb

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) October 2, 2022

i'm sure there's no connection between that and the recent soft-soaping of Kieth and Pals

Everyone in the Novara discussion from a few days ago surely knows they have been able to pay staff for at least a couple of years now. No one disputes they are successful on those terms.

Peter Stefanovic! 40 MILLION VIEWS!!! yeah baby that's how you bring down capitalism!

I don't watch any Novara videos but if they were saying Kieth's shitty PFI green energy plan was good then they don't deserve a penny