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

House prices are forecast to go down by 5%, before further interest rate rises. lol.

i've only skimmed the autumn statement but it doesn't look any worse than Labour are currently offering? bit awkward

lol i mean you’re not wrong

and Reeves attacking it from the right, god help us all

hah hah! I daren't even say I find some of it quite reassuring. Oh dear.

i am literally a little shocked at some of the spending rises - benefits especially

OF COURSE THIS IS NOTHING but Reeves's response basically tells you she wouldn't have offered more

literally the only policy difference i can think of between the two parties is that Labour has promised to ensure the funding of the BBC in perpetuity and eliminate the charter review process.

and the exciting new green energy quango

Tories have gone 'easy' before the election. They'll go hard if they win.

Guess what Lab will do?

Capitalism might be destroyed by people who don't understand how it works.

THIS IS LITERALLY HOW INVESTMENT IN A CAPITALIST ECONOMY WORKS https://t.co/petqimk9mc

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) November 17, 2022

"literally the only policy difference i can think of between the two parties is that Labour has promised to ensure the funding of the BBC in perpetuity and eliminate the charter review process.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, November 17, 2022"

That's interesting Tracer!

Would you believe them? The leader has lied about everything else.

The #Deliveroo strike has long been coming and it has finally arrived. I spoke to individuals from Brazil, Palestine, Morocco, Algeria and Iraq about the poor pay conditions and Deliveroo’s unwillingness to raise pay. They are currently being paid LESS than £4 for two orders. pic.twitter.com/OTFGSUPNJI

— hajar (@beetrootblast) November 17, 2022

i totally don’t believe them, unfortunately.

reeves on newscast last night just underscored how little there is to separate the two parties. all the differences of opinion are about execution of the details. there is no alternative vision to vote for, no inspiring message about change, or solidarity, or common purpose, just quibbles about timing and management.

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Keir Starmer will abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a new elected chamber as part of plans to “restore trust in politics”, the Observer understands.

In a sweeping constitutional overhaul, the Labour leader has told the party’s peers that he wants to strip politicians of the power to make appointments to the Lords as part of the first-term programme of a Labour government. Starmer said that the public’s faith in the political system had been undermined by successive Tory leaders handing peerages to “lackeys and donors”.

It is understood that Labour will hold a consultation on the composition and size of a new chamber as well as immediate reforms to the current appointments process. Final proposals will be included in the party’s next election manifesto.

psyched to see how warmly this proposal is embraced by the entirely level-headed commentariat of these united kingdoms

i suspect we may be learning more about sir keith starmer's heretofore unreported hard-left leanings and failure to properly tackle antisemitism very soon

My god what bullshit

so if labour win they'll nobble their own ability to appoint people?

The inevitable has happened and a person detained at Manston camp in Kent has died. This while deadly diptheria and MRSA infections have been allowed to spread. The Home Office has blood on their hands. https://t.co/E38azjjxlh

— Benny Hunter (@BennnyH) November 19, 2022

two elected houses with candidates controlled by the Labour leader's office, democracy's coming home

i take it back, i don’t want them to announce policies

you know keir starmer is categorically not going to abolish the Lords because it would be good and incredibly funny to do so just after Tom Watson, the one person worse at getting paedophiles prosecuted than him, got in

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) November 20, 2022

so far Kieth's absolute disdain for any democratic processes which might come up with a result he doesn't like really bodes well for a slimmed down Labour-centric version of the Lords. God I really hate the cunt.

lol

Beautiful. Martin Daubney physically unable to form the words required to break it to the viewers of GB News that their own poll shows that 55% would now vote against Brexit 👌😂

pic.twitter.com/wZ4IvLExkD

— Jemma Forte (@jemmaforte) November 20, 2022

Keir Starmer, left, explaining to the Observer, right, how he will “abolish the House of Lords and restore trust in politics” pic.twitter.com/fgr2pDrWwk

— Michael Scanlan (@ScanlanWithAnA) November 20, 2022

The HoL is a bit of a blind spot for me, why would abolishing it be a bad thing/bad policy?

not a bad thing to abolish it, but a bad thing for Kieth to come up with his own version, assuming he doesn't just renege on yet another soft promise to the libs

like a second house of elected party appartchiks is less than pointless

Ah, fair enough

Angela Rippon is on GB News??

yeah these childhood icons from the 70's were evil all along, we just didn't notice at the time

I prefer the current system where outgoing PM's chuck life peerages about like confetti, at least it's amusing and boils the piss of people who think it was somehow more respectable when Blair was doing the same.

HoL hasn't been the same since Nigel Tufnel and David "Jeans On" Dundas were given the boot, still at least the son of a KGB operative is there now to give the place some gravitas.

BREAKING: @RMTunion announces 4 weeks of industrial action. The rail union will put on a series of 48 hour strikes in December and January after industry bosses failed to offer any new deals to reach a settlement.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) November 22, 2022

Hope they strike on Xmas really put the knife in

They called off strikes when The Queen died so unfortunately that's not going to happen :-(

Also I'm going up to Scotland at Christmas so fuck that.

They should only take trains into but not out of Scotland

i’ve said it for years

Let's import this!

The ongoing correction in Sweden's house prices is one for the history books, down by almost 15% in half a year - already below the bottom of the financial crisis.

And the @riksbanken is far from done with the hiking cycle. Fasten seatbelts. pic.twitter.com/evx3iVnao0

— Daniel Kral (@DanielKral1) November 21, 2022

Also I'm going up to Scotland at Christmas so fuck that.

― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Have you already bought your ticket? Strikes are in mid-December.

Yes but I gathered silby was enjoining them to strike over the Xmas holidays.

even for the always terrible hignfy twitter account this is particularly shit

Mick Lynch demonstrates true festive spirit by driving hundreds of pubs and restaurants out of business just in time for Christmas.

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) November 23, 2022

Not funny or true.

This account is run by Hat Trick, who make HIGNFY. The BBC have asked us to point out it's nothing to do with them; the twitter feed that is, not the TV show.

Painful

a verified account for a show paid for and broadcast by the BBC but it’s “nothing to do with them” okay i guess it’s just a coincidence they have to point that out

if greg james, a freelancer, isn’t allowed to state his political views on twitter i’m not sure how a verified account dedicated to a BBC show is

A Daily Mail journalist asks Mick Lynch from the @RMTunion whether he's proud of being known as 'Mick Grinch'.

Micks answer,🎯 pic.twitter.com/LbKumH2WXe

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 22, 2022

He's still got it.

👍👍

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