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

More debt great

Interest-free loans to be rolled out in UK to help with food bills https://t.co/Cz7lDboPBt

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) August 15, 2022

ok as a one-off solution to people in desperate circumstances, but like with UC advances, the debt is carried on to the next month - then back to square one but even more skint.

North Sea Oil ran out and we are back where we started because we mistook what happened as being the result of the Thatcherite policy mix instead of the arrival of said oil.

— Metatone (@Metatone2) August 17, 2022

i see they're preparing us for winter pic.twitter.com/B7NcEJh93E

— Nate (nice mode) (@inthesedeserts) August 17, 2022

the accompanying photo sums up the Torygraph poverty cosplaying at work here as well, let's see if you can make the same albeit small, but nutritious and healthy looking salad portion from a food bank visit.

i see they're preparing us for winter pic.twitter.com/B7NcEJh93E

— Nate (nice mode) (@inthesedeserts) August 17, 2022

the only downside to this is that some Tory donors will bail them out so normal service can be resumed when their main party becomes unelectable.

Labour loses nearly 100,000 members and makes £5 million loss in 2021

this I meant, won't link it because it's the Independent

That Torygraph thing is also the usual insanity.

reading live blog of the latest tory hustings is wild. neither of them seem even to be conscious of the magnitude of the trouble we’re in, much less have any answers. sunak responded to a question about the nhs having to put mattresses on the floor by saying he’d get tough on people who miss appointments! maybe i’m naive but i’m shocked by how little of a grip they have on the crisis staring them in the face. it ain’t 1997 any more guys! it ain’t even 2010!

starmer’s an idiot obviously but the nature of opposition at least means that his job is to point out problems and problems is what we’ve got

I think the below is optimistic given that we don't know the direction of the War and that we don't know whether a climate event might happen to further strangle supply of food, and push prices.

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"Despite the grim outlook for the economy, there is still a possibility that the Conservatives could win a fifth term. Inflation will start to fall rapidly in the second half of next year. Growth and living standards might be rising by 2024. Voters might not be convinced that Labour would be significantly different. The election might be fought on the basis of culture wars rather than the economy."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/14/like-thatcher-truss-wants-radical-change-but-could-she-avoid-a-crisis-rishi-sunak

The next election might be fought on culture wars if inflation goes down and standards pick up, otherwise I doubt that's going anywhere.

even when inflation falls and “growth” rises again the backdrop of all this is decades of productivity gains going to the 1% and everybody else staying flat (in the face of historically high housing inflation). this current bout of inflation is the “finish him” moment, but the damage has been inflicted for years

how’s this for a culture war: fuck the bosses

BREAKING: Arriva buses will be back on the streets of Merseyside tomorrow after 30 days of strikes after workers secured an historic 11.1% pay increase from the company https://t.co/gDkwtxX3Dc

— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) August 17, 2022

I wonder if these victories might not be enough by the end of the year. People were saying 13% inflation but it might be more than that if we are at 10% now.

I'm a UCU member and we'll likely be going out on strike after receiving a 3% pay "award" this year

reading live blog of the latest tory hustings is wild. neither of them seem even to be conscious of the magnitude of the trouble we’re in, much less have any answers. sunak responded to a question about the nhs having to put mattresses on the floor by saying he’d get tough on people who miss appointments! maybe i’m naive but i’m shocked by how little of a grip they have on the crisis staring them in the face. it ain’t 1997 any more guys! it ain’t even 2010!

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 1:07 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this thread addresses this issue in an interesting way, with the usual caveats about the Pol Profs

Narrator: no cyclist ended up needing number plates https://t.co/yeprzjhZEG

— Jonathan Hopkin (@jrhopkin) August 17, 2022

Everybody knew that Truss was a dimwit but people, sorry, journalists and commentators, actually rated Sunak, the guy who is on his way to getting trounced, deservedly, by a dimwit.

Neil S: a worry for UCU and HE is that different HEIs are so differently placed financially. There are places (KCL, UCL, say) that can weather whatever happens in the next year or two (indeed probably thrive), others that can't. UCU, I think, is not good at articulating these inequalities within the sector -- well, it wouldn't be politic for them to do so.

It seems accurate to say that government policy is to drive many HEIs out of business.

I fear that strike action cannot save the more vulnerable places and staff. I hope I'm wrong.

yes, those are certainly worrying issues Pinefox. I work at another large-ish London uni which is very financially secure but is happy to see pay and conditions eroded while hiding behind excuses about collective bargaining. What is happening at places like Roehampton and Goldsmith's is terrible, and seems to be part of a concerted government policy to run down the humanities. The idiot Tory candidates have both made rhetorical moves threatening "low paying" courses. Presumably everyone will have to do business studies in future.

Presumably everyone will have to do business studies in future.

Starting with Truss. Oh, and Sunak too....

Sir Topham Hatt, folks, he’s good! Strong man. Controls the trains! They respect him. But the Troublesome Trucks, they are always causing confusion and delay. Not good! And the British press is very unfair to him, they call him the Fat Controller. Very nasty!

— DougExeter (@Doug_Exeter) August 17, 2022

Given the pressures as detailed in this article the supply chain squeeze first experienced during covid is bound to continue.

https://m.dw.com/en/low-water-again-threatens-to-sink-industries-along-the-rhine/a-62550672

Government to make it easier for landlords to evict people who fall behind on renthttps://t.co/yyo2r11BC7

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) August 19, 2022

They have by subtile wit and power, pretended to preserve a people in safety by the power of the Sword; and what by large Pay, much Free-quarter, and other Booties, which they call their own, they get much Monies, and with this they buy Land, and become landlords; and if once Landlords, then they rise to be Justices, Rulers, and State Governours, as experience shewes: But all this is but a bloudy and subtile Theevery, countenanced by a Law that Covetousness made; and is a breach of the Seventh Commandement, Thou shalt not kill

New drone photos show how beavers in East Devon are defying the current South West drought. A network of dams they’ve built on Estate farmland is helping to maintain an area of wetland, despite the UK experiencing one of its driest summers on record. More: https://t.co/mb1QCFjhw3 pic.twitter.com/77flLYqEJS

— ClintonDevonEstates (@ClintonDevon) August 19, 2022

now I apologise for sneering at Gove's 2018 "release the beavers" policy, although I doubt he gets any credit here.

hopefully the beavers will run candidates at the next general election so i've got somebody to vote for

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanvmGfXgAA1jVP?format=jpg&name=medium

fuck it - time for a bit of ugly-shaming, 37 yr old Craig Williams, Tory MP for Montgomeryshire.

speaking of rotund, toothy, oily mammals

I would hereby like to apologise to the Beaver community for comparing them to a Tory MP

he's a bad beaver, he voted for more raw sewage!

Tbf he does fit the casting requirement for an appearance of bulky, successful business person, well-scrubbed, clean and tidy, ‘sensible’ side-parting and can likely be relied upon to have full gammon complexion in later years.

It was only the other day that I found out that beavers are rodents.

I've got more respect for rodents than any of our parliamentary representatives, especially the ones who are pro sewage dumping/pro private water.

House of Commons probably contains about 200 rodents for every MP, hopefully they'll gnaw the foundations out and finish what The Gunpowder Plotters started

need some super rats unleashing on parliament, ones that eat through the insulation of 40 yr old SWA cables for breakfast

(beavers are supposed to have delightfully fragrant butts)

Lol

The government will be much diminished by the exit of @michaelgove and the loss of his formidable intellect. My @tortoise column https://t.co/ychsYpeTLu

— Matthew d'Ancona (@MatthewdAncona) August 22, 2022

it's been really moving to watch journalists rallying round one of their own over the last few days

Useless cunts.

The Met Police issued the wrong pictures of missing student nurse Owami Davies, it has emerged.

CCTV images from a shop in Croydon of a woman they said was Ms Davies - they were of another woman.
https://t.co/oyBanLwsjb

— Megha Mohan (@meghamohan) August 22, 2022

Good.

BREAKING: 1,295 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday in 27 boats, the highest daily figure ever recorded.

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) August 23, 2022

Brits fleeing to Europe?

it would be nice to live in a country where your energy bill suddenly going up by 160% with the looming threat of it quadrupling by April, is the kind of thing that sparks off riots and brings governments down. Or at least one with a democratic option to change a rotten corrupt system that is rewarding speculators at the expense of poor people dying this winter and everyone getting poorer. I go into a rage every time one of these mealy mouthed cunts is blaming it ALL on Putin.

Jack Monroe please note.

Richard Walker, the boss of Iceland, has just told @LBC you can save £600 in energy every year if you buy low energy appliances like microwaves and batch cook for the week.

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) August 23, 2022

what next, foraging tips. you can save £4k a year buy switching to a highly nutritious insect meal diet

Save £100 a week by not eating! Will be a necessity when the food banks run out of food, as I believe is already happening.

If was a multi-millionaire boss of a frozen food chain I'd just simply shut the fuck up and try not to draw too much attention to myself. This is like a social conditioning campaign, if it's getting to the stage where low income people are being told cookers and heating are a luxury beyond their means - then it's time for some serious riots.

Together, Iceland, The Food Warehouse and @UtilitaEnergy are here to help households save up to £604 a year by switching to more energy efficient cooking methods. #ShopSmartCookSavvy

#BuyOurFrozenShitLiveLikeAPauper

This is the other -- more serious -- thing being talked about. Debt.

Got a bad feeling Truss will quickly go for the Energy firm's own plan, the "Tarrif Deficit Fund" which freezes bills for 2 years -but makes us all pay them back over 10 years. It stops the immediate emergency, but forces us all to take a 10yr mortgage out to pay for 2 yrs bills

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) August 23, 2022

a considerable number of Iceland products are oven cook only iirc