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https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1857404665786232843

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, worked as a ‘complaints support manager’ and not as an economist in a bank according to a former colleague.

She resigned after being exposed ‘doing Labour council business’ under the guise of frequent doctor’s and dental appointments.

Guido had the first part of that a while ago, but not the Labour council business. Also from that tweet:

"Nearly got sacked due to an expenses scandal where the 3 senior managers were all signing off each others expenses. Narrow escape."

If it's fabricated it's oddly specific.

Rookie mistake, I sign off my expenses.

(The reality is my boss trusts me and doesn't have the time to go through all my expenses, plus they know my three reasons for not doing anything dodgy)

1) I would not do well in prison

2) I like earning money and fiddling expenses would be a career ender

3) The scandal would kill my mother

I am always shocked by how often well remunerated people will do bad things with their expenses.

When I was just starting out in work, I was at an oil company, notorious for its Civil Service style politics and vendettas.

I wrote a simulation model of some operations that embarrassed a senior manager. Who retaliated by getting my expenses audited.

My manager was an old hand, who thought that was interesting and arranged an expenses audit of my attacker.

Who turned out to have fiddled well into five figures. Stuff like piles of hand written taxi receipts. All in the same handwriting.

I was found to be owed a small amount for having under claimed on per diems.

Can we award the US electorate the group Darwin Award 2024?

In a year in which we elected Free Gear Keir, Rachel Thieves, Lammy, Rayner, etc., I think we're definitely in the glasshouse.

The alternatives were little better though.

I've little time for the current government, but the previous one did not deserve to be get re-elected.

That's the bottom line. If the Cons had won again after 14 years which culminated in the Johnson/Truss debacles, it would have been the public saying to the party, "Ok, doesn't matter what you do, you're the government, everyone else can go whistle." It would have been damaging to our democracy. This, more than anything to do with manifestos and policies and personalities, is why they had to lose - and why they did lose.

That’s definitely my bottom line as well. Labour also gave the impression of being a government in waiting rather than just an opposition.

The Conservatives didn’t deserve to be re-elected and Labour deserved an opportunity after ditching the Corbyn tendency.

This sounds like an American version of Cummings.

https://x.com/doge/status/1857076831104434289

We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.

This is going to be an absolute disaster.

‪Aaron Rupar‬ ‪@atrupar.bsky.social‬
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House Republicans are now saying that Trump will cut *more* than $2 trillion in federal spending (check out the look on Maria Bartiromo's face when Ralph Normal says this)

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3layjpmmnic2q

House Republicans are going to struggle to get re-elected after Medicare is slashed.

Oh God, PB’s going to get spammed senseless again about Starmer having booze again isn’t it?

BigG. has finally found his "gotcha"!

At times you are so childish

Mistakes are made apology given

Only "At times" ?

Meat and alcohol served in Downing Street in the celebration of Diwali event

Downing Street has issued an apology

So? As long as there was vegetarian and non-alcoholic drinks available who gives a stuff?

The perpetually offended by anything brigade on Social media ?

Thank you for correcting BigG. Taz.

I am sorry you and others want to pile in on me for posting a report from Sky about an apology by Downing Street

I post stories as they come along and if they make labour supporters uncomfortable then maybe they should reflect on how they would have reported the story if it had been Johnson

Sky broke the story and the apology but it seems it has upset some

For goodness sake BigG. give me a flag if you are upset.

You defended Johnson when his Partygate defence was indefensible and piled in on Currygate, Diwaligate and several other gates.

You'll fell him in the end!

I think the flag is for 'this person shouldn't be allowed to say this' rather than 'I disagree with this' or 'I am offended by this'.
And there's not a lot that falls into the former category, and if there were the mods would be run off their feet.
So best to use it very sparingly.

https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1857404665786232843

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, worked as a ‘complaints support manager’ and not as an economist in a bank according to a former colleague.

She resigned after being exposed ‘doing Labour council business’ under the guise of frequent doctor’s and dental appointments.

Guido had the first part of that a while ago, but not the Labour council business. Also from that tweet:

"Nearly got sacked due to an expenses scandal where the 3 senior managers were all signing off each others expenses. Narrow escape."

If it's fabricated it's oddly specific.

Rookie mistake, I sign off my expenses.

(The reality is my boss trusts me and doesn't have the time to go through all my expenses, plus they know my three reasons for not doing anything dodgy)

1) I would not do well in prison

2) I like earning money and fiddling expenses would be a career ender

3) The scandal would kill my mother

I am always shocked by how often well remunerated people will do bad things with their expenses.

Oh God, PB’s going to get spammed senseless again about Starmer having booze again isn’t it?

BigG. has finally found his "gotcha"!

Will you stop picking on Big G. He is entitled to post what he likes, just as you are 😠

I’ve got a genuine question for you Big G, as you seem to be slipping back into the Conservative fold.
The next General Election is definitely being held on May 3rd 2029 - which seems a whole universe away.
According to every forecast for world and UK growth, there will be no significant growth anywhere for at least 6 or 7 years. And according to head of Bank of England yesterday, UK will be additionally poorer thanks to Brexit.
So nothing for Labour to work with to say voters are better off in five years, compared to July 2024, so a huge gift to the Tories, a great background for Badenoch and Stride to be campaigning in, in 2029 looks very likely - very similar to what helped Trump to power this year, the Conservatives will ask, are you better off than 5 years ago? And the voters answer will be: no!

However, the question is this, does your vote in such a situation depend on what the Conservative economic policies actually are? if the Conservative position is it’s nowt but Labour that has made voters poorer in the five years since 2024, because Labour has not embraced the wonderful freedoms of Brexit - the Conservative Manifesto in 2029 is to fully embrace those opportunities of Brexit, go full Singapore on Thames to make Britons rich again, would you vote Conservative? Would you vote for that economic policy agenda?

Thank you for your support and would concur the pile on from the usual suspects is nothing more than an attempt to close down anything that may be critical of Starmer and is consistent with the left attitude

I think it is becoming apparent every day that Labour were elected on a false manifesto and promises, and they have reverted to type being pro public sector and unions at the expense of the private sector that actually provides the tax receipts for this largesse

I will vote conservative at the next GE to return to pro business, small state politics but 5 years us a long time away for me and as has been seen before I have voted for a Blair government but that is not what Starmer and Reeves represent

Oh God, PB’s going to get spammed senseless again about Starmer having booze again isn’t it?

BigG. has finally found his "gotcha"!

At times you are so childish

Mistakes are made apology given

Only "At times" ?

Meat and alcohol served in Downing Street in the celebration of Diwali event

Downing Street has issued an apology

So? As long as there was vegetarian and non-alcoholic drinks available who gives a stuff?

The perpetually offended by anything brigade on Social media ?

Thank you for correcting BigG. Taz.

I am sorry you and others want to pile in on me for posting a report from Sky about an apology by Downing Street

I post stories as they come along and if they make labour supporters uncomfortable then maybe they should reflect on how they would have reported the story if it had been Johnson

Sky broke the story and the apology but it seems it has upset some