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

Oh it totally is, you might appreciate this
https://i.postimg.cc/sDfD285N/51207145-0-F37-4-D25-B8-D2-5-FD1-D436-EFCA.jpg

Good morning Miriam Margolyes. pic.twitter.com/dbjl57QvVf

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) October 15, 2022

"Who was the shortest serving post-war chancellor, not to die in office"
BZZZZTTT
"Kwarteng, Cambridge"
"Correct" pic.twitter.com/b8C0cpvizu

— Jon de Plume (@MrJonDePlume) October 14, 2022

"Trussterfuck"

Belgium's De Morgen going with 'Trussterfuck' https://t.co/AVJMrbwyJd

— Karl Mathiesen (@KarlMathiesen) October 15, 2022

"Trussterfuck"

Belgium's De Morgen going with 'Trussterfuck' https://t.co/AVJMrbwyJd

— Karl Mathiesen (@KarlMathiesen) October 15, 2022

This is truly the most powerful how it started/how it's going meme in history pic.twitter.com/bvbVFaiYsN

— Chris Terry (@CJTerry) October 14, 2022

gnnnnnngggghhhhhhhhh

Thérèse Coffey, friend of pathogenic multiresistant bacteria, trying to accelerate the end of the antibiotic era here. pic.twitter.com/whEtziRBJW

— Dr Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) October 15, 2022

wtffff

degenerates

My partner’s entire job is working on ways to combat antibiotic resistance. She literally doesn’t have a fucking clue.

Never mind, experts what do they know anyway?

Becoming a stuck record on this: inflation is going to remain higher than it was because the ecological crisis is starting to bite in the developed world. It is becoming harder and more costly to produce essentials. This will not get better. 1/2https://t.co/Me1GgtIx6M

— James Meadway (@meadwaj) October 16, 2022

they were cheerfully reporting that the dry heatwave summer has delivered a bumper apple crop for UK growers on the bbc the other day, lol can't wait for the cheap cider.

Lol yes.

It's impressive how bad government's comms are. They've taken a sensible policy suggestion (allow trained pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics for simple conditions, as is the case in Scotland) and tacked it onto a mad anecdote that suggests they're gonna put tazocin in the water

— Globe Emoji Žižek (@cesigno) October 16, 2022

Somewhat amusing that serial loser Hunt, who no-one in the Tory Party would have given the time of day a week ago, is now being spoken off like he's the messiah come to save their seats and expense accounts.

The honeymoon (Huntymoon?) is predicted to last until, ooh, the 31st?

Jenny Eclair, a story in 3 parts pic.twitter.com/08RXboLXDD

— Mr Holland ⭐⭐ (@nmber48) October 16, 2022

Account now deleted!

If only her entire career could be deleted.

BREAKING: Two @JustStop_Oil supporters have climbed up the Dartford crossing, shutting down the entire bridge and blocking oil tankers from oil terminals in Essex traveling south .#JustStopOil #DartfordCrossing #climatecrisis pic.twitter.com/JuzYt0HvSu

— Rich Felgate (@richfelgate) October 17, 2022

This thread is going round Twitter today, not sure I can be quite so optimistic.

I have been thinking.

Maybe the collapse of Truss's voodoo budget is even more important than people realise?

"But it is huge!", you cry, "biggest story since the fall of Boris!"

Yup - I think it may be bigger than that. Way bigger.

Here is what I am thinking...

1/

— Jim Grace (@mac_puck) October 17, 2022

tbh i've little time for any argument that relies on things being peachy pre-2016

yeah to be fair though his thesis does cover the last 50 years, not just six

i don't take issue with the history there but it's a very FBPE Whig history, at least within those Tweets. Friedmanite/Austrian/monetarist economics was making inroads into most major right wing parties across the west from the 1950s onward. Thatcherism was their baby, and the IEA if anything is a cadre of ultras who simply want to push beyond the gains that have already been made and assimilated. the Cameron government's austerity programme didn't happen on their watch, the Labour Party wholesale adopting neolib economics from Blair onwards didn't happen because of them, and the political opposition scapegoating them doesn't have any interest in undoing the underlying tenets of free market orthodoxy.

obviously what has happened to the UK economy under Truss's premiership is terrible/hilarious, but the reason it's getting traction as a disaster is because the steady destruction of working class people over the last 40 years doesn't matter to anybody with a media profile or a career in thinking about the mechanics of the UK state. this reads like a call for the status quo ante - frankly they can stick that up their collective arses, and the Brexit filter is a pitiful sideshow joke. it'd almost be funny to suddenly be back in the EU and get the full Greece 2012 kicking just to illustrate this point to the middle managers with EU flag tattoos

Yes, none of this was a problem until the first middle-class person went, ‘oh shit! My mortgage!’

The thing with Truss is she doesn't have any kind of base. But it also points to the weakness of Corbyn's programme, which is tied to capitalism and the city.

hate liz truss and hate tories but also don’t much like the idea that the markets can override the political and economic programme of elected representatives, even barely elected representatives, AITA?

— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) October 17, 2022

Which is why McDonnell et al. were careful to fully cost stuff. So I think it might have been fine, though we'll never know.

Quiet quitting: how Liz Truss is staying as prime minister

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) October 17, 2022

i agree that the market reaction to the original mini-budget does raise big questions for any hypothetical future government that might want to shift the UK even gently left. whether that speaks to the limits of parliamentary democracy or whether a would-be socialist government would be able to somehow limit the damage the markets can inflict idk. not like any popular journalists are discussing this

Or the likes of Novara, from what I can tell. I'd love to know how we can move away from market interference, beyond some talk of revolution.

Looks like Truss will resign.

NEW: Labour have been told Penny Mordaunt will take Liz Truss’s place in the Commons for Keir Starmer’s urgent question.

First she reverted to Rishi Sunak’s economic policies, now she’s asking her other leadership rival Penny Mordaunt to speak on her behalf. Humiliating.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) October 17, 2022

gonna need to make a sign that says "what if she likes being humiliated?"

Pretty sure the City of London and the market stuck the knife in the Wilson/Callaghan governments in the 60s and 70s too fwiw.

This is from Peru but its totally how I feel. Nuke every single one of the cunts.

This is a crisis of democracy if I have ever seen one pic.twitter.com/yXHt2lsA9T

— David Adler (@davidrkadler) October 17, 2022

Pretty sure the City of London and the market stuck the knife in the Wilson/Callaghan governments in the 60s and 70s too fwiw.

Been watching some interviews that came extras on my The Bed Sitting Room blu ray and apparently Spike Milligan agrees with you!

can a social democratic government avoid or survive economic sabotage without being forced into austerity and without somehow gaining a monopoly over an important commodity or industry?

Mordaunt appears to be calmly disembowelling Starmer today judging by the liveblog coverage

Starmer jokes that every Tory gets to be PM for 15 minutes and she replies: “I don’t think the right honourable gentleman’s going to get his 15”

Laughter in the House of commons as Penny Mordaunt says that "The PM is detained on urgent business," and won't be able to answer Labour's Urgent Question on the economic crisis today.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 17, 2022

Starmer harps about u-turns and the oldest sitting MP reminds him how many of his own promises he’s changed position on

Quote of the year from Penny Mordaunt. 'The Prime Minister is not under a desk.'

— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) October 17, 2022

she knows exactly what she's doing

"don't think of an elephant"

as for "what will confront a timid social democratic government in its first week", i don't know if these are objectively revolutionary times™️, but let's face it they are pretty fkn volatile lol -- maybe it's time to get out in front of that

*buys ticket for sealed train to plymouth*

Sounds like utopia, to me.

it's going to be impossibly hard for any UK party to campaign on an anti-austerity platform now. Not that it was going to happen in my lifetime or probably before the collapse of human civilisation. I agree with Huw Lemmey, it's been an entertaining clown show - but essentially fuck the markets and all the unchecked power they yield.

The National Grid CEO has warned British households to prepare for blackouts between 4pm and 7pm on “really, really cold” weekdays in January and February https://t.co/TjD9QYj1x8

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) October 17, 2022

xp: I think the problem is that the misery has to be spread around a bit more now. Not sure it will be so easy to make cuts.

They will do their best.

pic.twitter.com/rSnsTLng4W

— Jo Michell (@JoMicheII) October 17, 2022

All this power for Labour to do sensible policies like er, introducing insurance in the NHS and overseeing the decline of social care because of market forces.

if starmer and labour get such a historic mandate as the polls suggest, i hope regardless of labour faction we are agreed that no excuses for timidity should be allowed to fly! if your majority is in the hundreds and the country desperately needs change, what are you afraid of?

— a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore (@steamedhamms) October 17, 2022

Fucking clowns

I am devastated to announce that the Labour Party has blocked me from restanding as our community's Member of Parliament.

20 years of local campaigning matters less than factional intrigue in our Party today.

I will never stop fighting for the people of Kensington. Statement 🔽 pic.twitter.com/XW12xe189C

— Emma Dent Coad (@emmadentcoad) October 17, 2022