Latest from D Cummings, in a piece entitled "Hundreds of Auschwitz's [sic] in a hour":
"It’s roughly 100% irrelevant to UK/US interests whether eastern UKR is controlled by the Putin-oligarchs-KGB-mafia or the Zelensky-oligarchs-KGB-mafia.
‘International law and the rules based order’? You mean the ‘rules based order’ that applied to us invading Iraq?
‘Humanitarian concern’? You mean the ‘concern’ we showed when millions got slaughtered in the middle of Africa, and we sat on our asses watching TV?
‘His tanks will keep going across Europe’? You mean the army that has failed so badly in Ukraine is going to defeat the whole of Europe and America using conventional weapons?
(...)
Every Deep State person I ask says the same thing: there is no fucking plan, the idiots in No10 just keep saying Putin must fail, Truss wants us to recapture Crimea starting World War III, the MoD has got even shitter than ever in 2022.
(...)
But now Professors at Oxbridge and Harvard are happy to tweet gloatingly drone footage of Russian ‘orcs’ being blown to pieces, resembling the 4chan Nazi teens they’re normally so down on. Before the war, Congress defined Azov as a neo-Nazi organisation and banned funds going to it — now our 4chan Profs retweet their propaganda while we shovel zillions to them and rebrand them as … anti-Putin so … anti-Nazi!
People who suggest that threatening hundreds of Auschwitz’s in an hour is justified only by the most existential of interests are denounced as KGB agents and insufficiently full of hate for the enemy, sometimes by the same crowd who called me ‘mad’ for saying Putin may have blown up the Moscow flats himself to justify the Chechnya war.
(...)
I’ve been called mad for 20 years. My warnings, year after year, that our Idiocracy could blunder into pandemics and nuclear escalation was seen as so mad it wasn’t worth arguing with. I didn’t expect that the evidence finally convincing elite media and academia that I’m insane and/or a Putin-agent, would be my suggestion that JFK’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis (including rejecting military advice to escalate and bomb) is highly relevant to avoiding hundreds of Auschwitz’s, and that I would finally be seen as ‘beyond the pale’ for saying things like ‘welcome Russians fleeing Putin, don’t ban them from sports and arts, aren’t we supposed to oppose inflicting punishments on ethnic/national groups simply for belonging to such a group?’."
A problem is that DC seems to think the reason the current line is being taken is the idiocy of those who parrot it. It's not, though. They'll parrot whatever they're told. But 1-2 quibbles aside, all minor, he is right on the essential. And it's good to see that someone else remembers the Moscow flat bombs of 1999, which considerably assisted with Putin's ascendance to the presidency. ISTR Blair told Putin hey we know you understand our 911 pain because it's just like yours after those bombs. Funny how nobody ever called him a Putin stooge...
I find it hard to understand Cummings' word salad.
But, I think he's saying, he wants Putin to win.
"Deep State" is one of those expressions like "Judaeo-Masonic", or "Zionazi", that marks the rantings of a nutter.
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
The North Evington (Leicester) by-election tonight is an interesting one. The area is heavily Asian, a mixture of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs in that order. The Labour candidate is a supporter of Modi and RSS, with the Tory candidate a close second last time.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Tory gain here. There are some strange politics in the area at the moment. This area was one of the centres of the recent communal violence.
Anyone voicing support for a Fascist like Modi should be thrown out of the Labour Party. Certainly not standing as a candidate.
Not just Modi, but the RSS too. The Hindutva brownshirts.
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
Well, at least we'll still need them to provide some light whilst we bump round the house in the dark
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
He's just finishing a book on Truss: out xmas. Looks like it will be straight to the landfill skip.
What I most enjoy about this is that Truss and co have basically barged in with an agenda that says "hey, we are the most pro market, libertarian, pro business kinda guys you can find" and the actual markets have responded with "f*** no, do you guys not understand how markets actually work?"
What I most enjoy about this is that Truss and co have basically barged in with an agenda that says "hey, we are the most pro market, libertarian, pro business kinda guys you can find" and the actual markets have responded with "f*** no, do you guys not understand how markets actually work?"
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
He's just finishing a book on Truss: out xmas. Looks like it will be straight to the landfill skip.
That’s volume 1 - how she got to be PM
Volume 2 is how it went downhill from the second she arrived…
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
He's worried his new book might not be so topical:
"Sep 20 🚨 Delighted to say ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power’ by myself and @JAHeale for @HarperCollins will be out for Christmas.. "
Another from the kool aid gang . Delusional and the next time some politician accuses someone of being in the anti-growth coalition I want to just slap them .
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
He's worried his new book might not be so topical:
"Sep 20 🚨 Delighted to say ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power’ by myself and @JAHeale for @HarperCollins will be out for Christmas.. "
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
He's worried his new book might not be so topical:
"Sep 20 🚨 Delighted to say ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power’ by myself and @JAHeale for @HarperCollins will be out for Christmas.. "
Latest from D Cummings, in a piece entitled "Hundreds of Auschwitz's [sic] in a hour":
"It’s roughly 100% irrelevant to UK/US interests whether eastern UKR is controlled by the Putin-oligarchs-KGB-mafia or the Zelensky-oligarchs-KGB-mafia.
‘International law and the rules based order’? You mean the ‘rules based order’ that applied to us invading Iraq?
‘Humanitarian concern’? You mean the ‘concern’ we showed when millions got slaughtered in the middle of Africa, and we sat on our asses watching TV?
‘His tanks will keep going across Europe’? You mean the army that has failed so badly in Ukraine is going to defeat the whole of Europe and America using conventional weapons?
(...)
Every Deep State person I ask says the same thing: there is no fucking plan, the idiots in No10 just keep saying Putin must fail, Truss wants us to recapture Crimea starting World War III, the MoD has got even shitter than ever in 2022.
(...)
But now Professors at Oxbridge and Harvard are happy to tweet gloatingly drone footage of Russian ‘orcs’ being blown to pieces, resembling the 4chan Nazi teens they’re normally so down on. Before the war, Congress defined Azov as a neo-Nazi organisation and banned funds going to it — now our 4chan Profs retweet their propaganda while we shovel zillions to them and rebrand them as … anti-Putin so … anti-Nazi!
People who suggest that threatening hundreds of Auschwitz’s in an hour is justified only by the most existential of interests are denounced as KGB agents and insufficiently full of hate for the enemy, sometimes by the same crowd who called me ‘mad’ for saying Putin may have blown up the Moscow flats himself to justify the Chechnya war.
(...)
I’ve been called mad for 20 years. My warnings, year after year, that our Idiocracy could blunder into pandemics and nuclear escalation was seen as so mad it wasn’t worth arguing with. I didn’t expect that the evidence finally convincing elite media and academia that I’m insane and/or a Putin-agent, would be my suggestion that JFK’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis (including rejecting military advice to escalate and bomb) is highly relevant to avoiding hundreds of Auschwitz’s, and that I would finally be seen as ‘beyond the pale’ for saying things like ‘welcome Russians fleeing Putin, don’t ban them from sports and arts, aren’t we supposed to oppose inflicting punishments on ethnic/national groups simply for belonging to such a group?’."
A problem is that DC seems to think the reason the current line is being taken is the idiocy of those who parrot it. It's not, though. They'll parrot whatever they're told. But 1-2 quibbles aside, all minor, he is right on the essential. And it's good to see that someone else remembers the Moscow flat bombs of 1999, which considerably assisted with Putin's ascendance to the presidency. ISTR Blair told Putin hey we know you understand our 911 pain because it's just like yours after those bombs. Funny how nobody ever called him a Putin stooge...
I find it hard to understand Cummings' word salad.
But, I think he's saying, he wants Putin to win.
I wouldn't say that. But as he points out he effectively sees the two sides as morally equivalent which is frankly repugnant. Not least since he says Putin may have deliberately murdered hundreds of his own citizens so he could have an excuse for a war in Chechnya. I must be missing the moment when Zelensky blew up residential buildings in Kiev, blamed it on the Donbass separatists and flattened the whole place. You have to feel for the Ukrainians, some people really have it in for them.
Ok, Truss is fecked, she has the full backing of Douglas Ross.
Tonight. DRoss likely to do a full reverse tomorrow. As he did with Johnson. Then perhaps back again, supporting Truss again on the day she is finally removed.
I think Liz's only option now is some kind of put-up-or-shut-up manoeuvre: say she'll resign if her critics can unite around a single chosen candidate, otherwise she will go on and on. What else is there to do?
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
It's not so much social implications as information ones. I don't have a landline anymore, so if the power goes out, and I lose the broadband and the mobile phone signal, I've only got a battery radio, or newspapers at the corner shop, to get information on how long the power will be out for.
Back when I had the landline there would be a phone number to call to get updates.
@MrHarryCole · 57m LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
He's worried his new book might not be so topical:
"Sep 20 🚨 Delighted to say ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power’ by myself and @JAHeale for @HarperCollins will be out for Christmas.. "
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Ok, Truss is fecked, she has the full backing of Douglas Ross.
Depends if this is the first, second or third time she's had the full backing. I lost count of the pivots on Johnson.
Ross was rightly applauded on here for being early to call out Johnson. Threw away a strong position, which was a bit weird given he had to utilise Davidson at the SP election to retain Tory voters. Did he forget that Scons are quite distinct from English Tories now?
Latest from D Cummings, in a piece entitled "Hundreds of Auschwitz's [sic] in a hour":
"It’s roughly 100% irrelevant to UK/US interests whether eastern UKR is controlled by the Putin-oligarchs-KGB-mafia or the Zelensky-oligarchs-KGB-mafia.
‘International law and the rules based order’? You mean the ‘rules based order’ that applied to us invading Iraq?
‘Humanitarian concern’? You mean the ‘concern’ we showed when millions got slaughtered in the middle of Africa, and we sat on our asses watching TV?
‘His tanks will keep going across Europe’? You mean the army that has failed so badly in Ukraine is going to defeat the whole of Europe and America using conventional weapons?
(...)
Every Deep State person I ask says the same thing: there is no fucking plan, the idiots in No10 just keep saying Putin must fail, Truss wants us to recapture Crimea starting World War III, the MoD has got even shitter than ever in 2022.
(...)
But now Professors at Oxbridge and Harvard are happy to tweet gloatingly drone footage of Russian ‘orcs’ being blown to pieces, resembling the 4chan Nazi teens they’re normally so down on. Before the war, Congress defined Azov as a neo-Nazi organisation and banned funds going to it — now our 4chan Profs retweet their propaganda while we shovel zillions to them and rebrand them as … anti-Putin so … anti-Nazi!
People who suggest that threatening hundreds of Auschwitz’s in an hour is justified only by the most existential of interests are denounced as KGB agents and insufficiently full of hate for the enemy, sometimes by the same crowd who called me ‘mad’ for saying Putin may have blown up the Moscow flats himself to justify the Chechnya war.
(...)
I’ve been called mad for 20 years. My warnings, year after year, that our Idiocracy could blunder into pandemics and nuclear escalation was seen as so mad it wasn’t worth arguing with. I didn’t expect that the evidence finally convincing elite media and academia that I’m insane and/or a Putin-agent, would be my suggestion that JFK’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis (including rejecting military advice to escalate and bomb) is highly relevant to avoiding hundreds of Auschwitz’s, and that I would finally be seen as ‘beyond the pale’ for saying things like ‘welcome Russians fleeing Putin, don’t ban them from sports and arts, aren’t we supposed to oppose inflicting punishments on ethnic/national groups simply for belonging to such a group?’."
A problem is that DC seems to think the reason the current line is being taken is the idiocy of those who parrot it. It's not, though. They'll parrot whatever they're told. But 1-2 quibbles aside, all minor, he is right on the essential. And it's good to see that someone else remembers the Moscow flat bombs of 1999, which considerably assisted with Putin's ascendance to the presidency. ISTR Blair told Putin hey we know you understand our 911 pain because it's just like yours after those bombs. Funny how nobody ever called him a Putin stooge...
I find it hard to understand Cummings' word salad.
But, I think he's saying, he wants Putin to win.
"Deep State" is one of those expressions like "Judaeo-Masonic", or "Zionazi", that marks the rantings of a nutter.
Please look again at the very first sentence of what I quote and consider whether it supports your interpretation of his overall attitude as being a desire that Putin (or even Russia) should win.
Elsewhere in the same piece he suggests that if Putin gets assassinated as many supporters of the US and British line seem to want, his successor may not exactly be an "AOC lookalike", but rather more of a "Kadyrov lookalike".
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Absolutely agree.
We've been doomporn obsessed.
Meanwhile I've just had my best ever quarter by a mile....
The problem with Cummings (and I admit I'm guessing here) is he has a massive ego and is determined to be the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately the British establishment aren't convinced and instead deem him to be a t***. Hence the resentment.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
It's not so much social implications as information ones. I don't have a landline anymore, so if the power goes out, and I lose the broadband and the mobile phone signal, I've only got a battery radio, or newspapers at the corner shop, to get information on how long the power will be out for.
Back when I had the landline there would be a phone number to call to get updates.
There are safeguarding issues. Almost everything is done by mobile. How would a missing child be reported? By email. If you are off site?
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
It's not so much social implications as information ones. I don't have a landline anymore, so if the power goes out, and I lose the broadband and the mobile phone signal, I've only got a battery radio, or newspapers at the corner shop, to get information on how long the power will be out for.
Back when I had the landline there would be a phone number to call to get updates.
Most people don't even have a battery radio. If people lose access to the internet for a few hours, and their TV won't switch on, they are literally - and figuratively - in the dark.
The closest thing for a lot of people is going out to their cars and switching the car radio on.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
It's not so much social implications as information ones. I don't have a landline anymore, so if the power goes out, and I lose the broadband and the mobile phone signal, I've only got a battery radio, or newspapers at the corner shop, to get information on how long the power will be out for.
Back when I had the landline there would be a phone number to call to get updates.
And you'll be wondering whether it's an ordinary power-cut or WWIII.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
The problem with Cummings (and I admit I'm guessing here) is he has a massive ego and is determined to be the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately the British establishment aren't convinced and instead deem him to be a t***. Hence the resentment.
Ukraine is one crisis that our establishment (and the US establishment) have actually handled very effectively.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
Truss's energy policy is Rishi's fault?
And presumably Kwasi's unfunded borrowing is... G Brown's fault.
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Presumably the social repercussions of the mobile phone network going down have been wargamed, but I wonder how confident strategists or what pass for strategists are in their conclusions. Operative phrase being cold turkey.
It's not so much social implications as information ones. I don't have a landline anymore, so if the power goes out, and I lose the broadband and the mobile phone signal, I've only got a battery radio, or newspapers at the corner shop, to get information on how long the power will be out for.
Back when I had the landline there would be a phone number to call to get updates.
This is why I have
* two radio sets * three battery chargers * an inverter with which I can run a battery charger from my car (I had two inverters; one broke; I need to buy another) * a stock of car fuel * a stock of batteries * a larger battery that I can charge either from the car or a solar panel * a portable solar panel
Don't underestimate the social implications. I walked up the local high street today. Many were picking their mobile phones as they were walking along. Typically those coming out of shops would start attending to their phones as soon as they came out onto the street. Many doorways and benches had youngsters sitting in or on, sniffing glue and shaking like leaves picking their phones. (And this is in quite a well-to-do town in southern England.) Many "need" these wretched devices. There will be major stuff happening in their heads if their access all of a sudden stops.
Also you assume that reliable info on how long the power will be out for will actually exist.
The problem with Cummings (and I admit I'm guessing here) is he has a massive ego and is determined to be the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately the British establishment aren't convinced and instead deem him to be a t***. Hence the resentment.
Ukraine is one crisis that our establishment (and the US establishment) have actually handled very effectively.
It's the one thing I would give David Cameron credit for.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
Truss's energy policy is Rishi's fault?
And presumably Kwasi's unfunded borrowing is... G Brown's fault.
The bung that has just kicked in is the Rishi one. Keep up at the back....
It's curious. 365 Conservative MPs were elected at the last election....and every one of them is mad.
A nutter for each day of the year. With luck it'll soon be for the days of the week.
If the Conservatives disappear, their replacements won't be less nutty. The trend across the West is for the more mainstream right to be replaced by the more ...unorthodox right.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Two nations, sometimes on the same street. If your housing costs are low (longstanding mortgage), all sorts of things are still pretty peachy. If your housing costs are high (recent mortgage, or renting) the pips are already squeaking.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
It's curious. 365 Conservative MPs were elected at the last election....and every one of them is mad.
There really are some sane ones, but what are they supposed to do? Regardless of one's view on Brexit too many sane conservatives with a small 'c' were culled in the Brexit debacle leaving too few to make a difference.
The problem with Cummings (and I admit I'm guessing here) is he has a massive ego and is determined to be the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately the British establishment aren't convinced and instead deem him to be a t***. Hence the resentment.
Ukraine is one crisis that our establishment (and the US establishment) have actually handled very effectively.
It's the one thing I would give David Cameron credit for.
It actually suggests that the state of Western militaries is much better than I had thought. All this high tech equipment actually works, rather than being another Nimrod.
It's curious. 365 Conservative MPs were elected at the last election....and every one of them is mad.
There really are some sane ones, but what are they supposed to do? Regardless of one's view on Brexit too many sane conservatives with a small 'c' were culled in the Brexit debacle leaving too few to make a difference.
I thought people like Ken Clarke, Philip Hammond, and David Gauke were treated dreadfully.
I was entirely happy to see the backs of Dominic Grieve and Anna Soubry.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
The problem with Cummings (and I admit I'm guessing here) is he has a massive ego and is determined to be the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately the British establishment aren't convinced and instead deem him to be a t***. Hence the resentment.
Big Dom's problem with the unelected unaccountable elite is that it isn't him.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Simple example -I earn £10,000 a month (post tax) my energy bill going up £200 and food £100 isn’t really noticed it’s 3% of my income.
A friend earns £2000 a month - his price increases are the same but are 15% of his income - he’s going to have to cut back in ways I don’t.
Now think about how it goes for someone on less than £2000 a month - what do you cut when your descretionary spending was already little to nothing.
Power cuts this winter could cause mobile phone networks to fail. The UK’s telecoms infrastructure depends on the National Grid & not all of it has back up power. Here’s our piece for @TimesBusiness
Why has the government not asked us to reduce our power consumption? Simply ask. Turn off the lights in the rooms you aren't in. Don't have the heating on when you're not at home, or try and just and put a jumper on for a few more weeks. Tell my boneheaded office manager that they don't need the Aircon set to 25C, AND LEAVE IT ON ALL WEEKEND when no one came in. That sort of stuff.......
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Ok, lets look at the lower end. Costa is full. The sports bars are full. Primark is full.
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Simple example -I earn £10,000 a month (post tax) my energy bill going up £200 and food £100 isn’t really noticed it’s 3% of my income.
A friend earns £2000 a month - his price increases are the same but are 15% of his income - he’s going to have to cut back in ways I don’t.
Now think about how it goes for someone on less than £2000 a month - what do you cut when your descretionary spending was already little to nothing.
AND YET there is no evidence that people are cutting back on discretionary spending. So what gives?
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Ok, lets look at the lower end. Costa is full. The sports bars are full. Primark is full.
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
So you can fill a few bars and coffee houses with 100 people with credit cards. That doesn’t mean there are not 1000s more at home suffering hard times.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Ok, lets look at the lower end. Costa is full. The sports bars are full. Primark is full.
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
Frankly, a lot of people don't think ahead financially. If they have money, they spend it. Worry about the bills when they come in, as may win the lottery.
Who can blame the poor for thinking like that when the CoE and PM do?
The problem with Cummings (and I admit I'm guessing here) is he has a massive ego and is determined to be the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately the British establishment aren't convinced and instead deem him to be a t***. Hence the resentment.
Ukraine is one crisis that our establishment (and the US establishment) have actually handled very effectively.
It's the one thing I would give David Cameron credit for.
It actually suggests that the state of Western militaries is much better than I had thought. All this high tech equipment actually works, rather than being another Nimrod.
We may have been cutting defence spending but the disparity between Nato (combined) and Russia is absolutely vast. The main problem for Nato would seem to be that it's smallest members are right on the Russian border and it's main power is an ocean away. The US shouldn't really be in the position of having to secure the peace in Europe again.
It's curious. 365 Conservative MPs were elected at the last election....and every one of them is mad.
They can act in a herd, whether it's writing to Graham Brady or resigning from government positions, but what they don't seem to be able to do is see very far beyond the ends of their noses. They more than anyone know what a bunch of racist thicko c***s most of the members are. They knew Truss would win. They didn't want her to. They knew she was a crock. Why didn't they act as a herd to change the 1922 committee's leader-election rules? They could have done it if they had the will, foresight, organisation, common sense.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Ok, lets look at the lower end. Costa is full. The sports bars are full. Primark is full.
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
People aren't rational. None of this has arrived in bank accounts yet (unless you recently re-mortgaged)
There was a new hyper-inequality introduced during the pandemic too. The PB demographic saved like mad and has cash to burn. Those on lower incomes did not, and have no buffer available now.
It needs to be understood that the 1922 Committee cannot unilaterally amend the Party's Leadership rules. Its role is defined in the Party Constitution which binds all members, including each and every MP. If the 1922 Committee wishes to change its twelve-month rule or any other part of its leadership procedures it must first consult the Party Board. The Party Board includes representatives of the voluntary party (the 180,000+ members who are entitled under the Constitution to elect the Leader). The journalists who are pushing this story certainly do not understand this and I wonder how many MPs have actually read and understood the Party Constitution? And if the 1922 Committee only present a single candidate (or one of the final two withdraws), the Party Board have power to refer the single nomination for approval by the full Party membership before it becomes effective.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Simple example -I earn £10,000 a month (post tax) my energy bill going up £200 and food £100 isn’t really noticed it’s 3% of my income.
A friend earns £2000 a month - his price increases are the same but are 15% of his income - he’s going to have to cut back in ways I don’t.
Now think about how it goes for someone on less than £2000 a month - what do you cut when your descretionary spending was already little to nothing.
AND YET there is no evidence that people are cutting back on discretionary spending. So what gives?
And yet Eek has answered, and so beautifully described the apartheid of the pocket gathering pace around us today, and you don’t appear to be listening. 😕
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Ok, lets look at the lower end. Costa is full. The sports bars are full. Primark is full.
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
I'm talking about folk for whom Costa, Primark is a treat. Who don't frequent sports bars. That really isn't the lower end. And. They aren't full round here. They are closing by the week.
It needs to be understood that the 1922 Committee cannot unilaterally amend the Party's Leadership rules. Its role is defined in the Party Constitution which binds all members, including each and every MP. If the 1922 Committee wishes to change its twelve-month rule or any other part of its leadership procedures it must first consult the Party Board. The Party Board includes representatives of the voluntary party (the 180,000+ members who are entitled under the Constitution to elect the Leader). The journalists who are pushing this story certainly do not understand this and I wonder how many MPs have actually read and understood the Party Constitution? And if the 1922 Committee only present a single candidate (or one of the final two withdraws), the Party Board have power to refer the single nomination for approval by the full Party membership before it becomes effective.
That’s fine.
But the PM needs the support of the House. If Truss has no support, she’s gone. If the PCP can find someone who does, they become PM.
The Con leadership rules are ultimately neither here nor there.
The focus will now, gradually shift to Labour and Starmer.
I think they’re up to it. And I think there’s enough buy-in to Starmers competent centrist managerialism that even the Speccie, the Mail and the express will fall into line, or at least be ambivalent.
Perhaps not? They might take on their readers. They may go super-low and double down on the saville smears and whatever other dirt they can use.
I don’t think so, though. I think Labour have this in the bag. We’ll see.
What I still find utterly bizarre is that the consumer economy seems absolutely booming. I'm struggling to get hotel, restaurant bookings, concert tix etc.
The media-bond-market complex are trying to stop economic change of tack. I'm not sure the country is in as parlous a state as some like to paint it as.
That's why all the hyperbolic reporting about Truss "crashing the economy" feels misconceived. Gilt prices are not the economy.
Nor are hotels, restaurants or concerts. They are nice extras to have. It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Yes, but if people have money for the former, they've paid for the latter.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
That's a totally different issue to implying that because luxuries are in demand the economy is just peachy. You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
The economy as a whole seems pretty peachy. Otherwise the luxuries wouldn't be in demand.... I'm not sure what part of that is controversial?
Because the well off are still well off. That isn't the economy as a whole. Is that controversial? A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
Ok, lets look at the lower end. Costa is full. The sports bars are full. Primark is full.
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
I'm talking about folk for whom Costa, Primark is a treat. Who don't frequent sports bars. That really isn't the lower end. And. They aren't full round here. They are closing by the week.
The London economy (and it’s Southeastern overflow) are somewhat disconnected from the rest of the country.
Personally I suspect it’s a Wile E Coyote moment. But I hope I’m wrong.
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But, I think he's saying, he wants Putin to win.
"Deep State" is one of those expressions like "Judaeo-Masonic", or "Zionazi", that marks the rantings of a nutter.
A counter-offensive is underway. Loyal Tory MPs saw Truss face-to-face in No10 today urging her to stick with her tax cuts and not backtrack. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/13/kwasi-kwarteng-insists-not-going-anywhere-liz-truss-set-reverse/
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LOL. It was mad enough when it was on conhome two days ago. Some Tory clowns really do appear to have a death wish.
You would have thought that with exclusive access to no 10 Harry Cole would be happy with being the lead journalist on the shortest, most disastrous PM of all time..
Discuss .....
Latest from the death cult: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20102425/tory-mps-war-replace-liz-truss-replace/
The difference between ideology and practice.
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1580675825782861824
Head says back Grant Shapps
Heart says back Michael Green
Some idiots support Sebastian Fox
Volume 2 is how it went downhill from the second she arrived…
"Sep 20
🚨 Delighted to say ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power’ by myself and @JAHeale for @HarperCollins will be out for Christmas.. "
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1572150471590301696?s=20&t=XZiaqW-lz_Rl9c0MTOO9wQ
You couldn't make it up
But, the horror porn is overblown.
Imagine him in 40 years on the vidphone
"Do you have a copy of Out of the Blue:The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power?"
"Oh, you do!"
No! What matters is governing responsibly.
Who wants that fortnight on their CV?
Back when I had the landline there would be a phone number to call to get updates.
Ross was rightly applauded on here for being early to call out Johnson. Threw away a strong position, which was a bit weird given he had to utilise Davidson at the SP election to retain Tory voters. Did he forget that Scons are quite distinct from English Tories now?
Elsewhere in the same piece he suggests that if Putin gets assassinated as many supporters of the US and British line seem to want, his successor may not exactly be an "AOC lookalike", but rather more of a "Kadyrov lookalike".
We've been doomporn obsessed.
Meanwhile I've just had my best ever quarter by a mile....
Death spiral. Tories are approaching the event horizon.
How would a missing child be reported? By email.
If you are off site?
The closest thing for a lot of people is going out to their cars and switching the car radio on.
They'll go for Fabricant.
It's rent, food and energy for a great many.
Edit: actually, east/mid Lothian has a fairly decent Tory vote. Dunno about the town itself.
The Rishi conceived energy bung is currently paying 70% of my monthly leccie bill. That. Is. A. Disgrace.
With luck it'll soon be for the days of the week.
You are free to donate your energy subsidy to HMRC. Or anywhere else.
And presumably Kwasi's unfunded borrowing is... G Brown's fault.
* two radio sets
* three battery chargers
* an inverter with which I can run a battery charger from my car (I had two inverters; one broke; I need to buy another)
* a stock of car fuel
* a stock of batteries
* a larger battery that I can charge either from the car or a solar panel
* a portable solar panel
Don't underestimate the social implications. I walked up the local high street today. Many were picking their mobile phones as they were walking along. Typically those coming out of shops would start attending to their phones as soon as they came out onto the street. Many doorways and benches had youngsters sitting in or on, sniffing glue and shaking like leaves picking their phones. (And this is in quite a well-to-do town in southern England.) Many "need" these wretched devices. There will be major stuff happening in their heads if their access all of a sudden stops.
Also you assume that reliable info on how long the power will be out for will actually exist.
1) luck going it’s way (events and economy)
2) being seen to have governed responsibly.
Without 2 the luck disappears very rapidly…
I was entirely happy to see the backs of Dominic Grieve and Anna Soubry.
That isn't the economy as a whole.
Is that controversial?
A huge amount of discretionary spend at the lower end is being removed entirely.
I gather the outgoing councillor had issues.
A friend earns £2000 a month - his price increases are the same but are 15% of his income - he’s going to have to cut back in ways I don’t.
Now think about how it goes for someone on less than £2000 a month - what do you cut when your descretionary spending was already little to nothing.
Simply ask.
Turn off the lights in the rooms you aren't in.
Don't have the heating on when you're not at home, or try and just and put a jumper on for a few more weeks.
Tell my boneheaded office manager that they don't need the Aircon set to 25C, AND LEAVE IT ON ALL WEEKEND when no one came in.
That sort of stuff.......
I don't see the doom that others are predicting.
I wouldn't want to have bought a house in the last 2 years, or have a renewal in the next few months, but otherwise, I think it'll be pretty ride-out able for most people....
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619781
Who can blame the poor for thinking like that when the CoE and PM do?
There was a new hyper-inequality introduced during the pandemic too. The PB demographic saved like mad and has cash to burn. Those on lower incomes did not, and have no buffer available now.
And. They aren't full round here. They are closing by the week.
But the PM needs the support of the House.
If Truss has no support, she’s gone.
If the PCP can find someone who does, they become PM.
The Con leadership rules are ultimately neither here nor there.
Personally I suspect it’s a Wile E Coyote moment. But I hope I’m wrong.