I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Sunak seems to be approaching PMQs like a failing opposition leader. Chuck out yesterdays slogans and complain about long gone politicians. Corbyn is the new Thatch. So tired. He can’t answer a single question, because he’s not in top of the details.
It’s very weak. My hunch is that his number 10 setup isn’t functioning yet and he will improve eventually. But now it’s all noise and bluster. Perhaps it’s another case of ministerial experience not preparing you for the PM role.
The MPs behind him are happy if they get any old rubbish confidently delivered, provided it knocks Labour, and they hope those of us at home won’t notice that it’s all rubbish.
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
"Austerity in the Treasury; a hostile environment at the Home Office. After 12 years and four prime ministers, British politics has cycled back to where it started, but that much meaner and poorer. All for what? Where did the journey take us? To Brexit, to rage, to division and economic downgrade. A dozen years wasted. A crusade whipped up by nationalist zealots to a holy land that doesn’t exist to fight an enemy that was actually our friend, defeating no one but ourselves."
Hmm. Becajuse there is no inflation or energy crisis in the EU. There are no EU countries with immigration policies like the UK. The EU central bank is not raising interest rates. There are no riots in France, or protests in Spain......No EU country has far right parties snapping at the heels of power.....
First class whataboutery. Try reading the article. The point it is making isn't that the EU is better than us. It is that leaving the EU hasn't helped the UK in any way, while stoking division and distracting policymakers from our real problems - a point that voters seem to agree with.
Brexit happened. You need to move on. As does the Guardian.
The only way to move on is to accept the damage that Brexit has caused and seek to mitigate that damage. You need to realise that, accept responsibility for the division and harm you’ve caused, and work with the people to remedy it.
Felix voted Remain.
It's stunningly hypocritical for people who still haven't accepted the result of a democratic vote to demand atonement for the creation of division from the people who have.
Six years ago, longer than the lifetime of a Parliament, and you got what you wanted. But I've never seen a group of winners more bitter at the shitness of the prize they won, while also insisting it be treated as an irreversible state religion.
I also voted Remain.
It may be hard to remember now, but many people genuinely did think that by voting for Brexit, they would put an end to the interminable debate about the European question in British politics. The primary reason this has not happened is because of Remainers not accepting the outcome.
It will only be true to say that people who voted for Brexit got what they wanted when the issue is regarded as settled.
Brexit will never be settled.
The Eurosceptic shits made life hell from Macmillan to Cameron. Now the boot is on the other foot and we’re going to kick and kick and kick the shits in the goolies til the cows come home.
(I can mix some more metaphors if you like.)
From Sweden?
If I held the opposite opinion, would my location undermine that opinion?
No one needs to try to undermine your opinion. I was simply pointing out that you achieve it yourself every time you rail against the British government.
Huh? Opposing the UK government automatically undermines one’s opinion?
Welcome to Tory topsy-turvey land. Most UK citizens oppose the UK government.
It’s funny. A Scot who argues for the right to self determination doesn’t support it in the case of the UK… it’s almost as if he is just anti-English
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
You seek to claim that your prediction was actually half right, because she did indeed surprise us, just not on the upside?
If our Leon had more intellectual imagination he really should have got to that line first!
The UK was worse after the minibudget, but it's right on trend now.
And that's even with the BoE yesterday making history and engaging in active QT unlike the ECB or rest of the wold.
One indicator to watch out if the UK economic/political situation begins to stabilise:
The rhetoric shifts from "We are maxed out on our credit card, insolvent due to government debt and the sick man of Europe"
to (what is the case but currently ignored)
"Of the G7 countries (all of which are civilised, democratic and liberal apart from the USA if Trumpism gets back) our public debt as % of GDP is the second lowest after Germany".
If we are bankrupt, then so is Japan, France, Italy, Canada and the USA.
Whenever I hear about the UK's credit card, I do wonder wistfully about who gets all the Avios points
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
Pull the other one.
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
The UK was worse after the minibudget, but it's right on trend now.
And that's even with the BoE yesterday making history and engaging in active QT unlike the ECB or rest of the wold.
One indicator to watch out if the UK economic/political situation begins to stabilise:
The rhetoric shifts from "We are maxed out on our credit card, insolvent due to government debt and the sick man of Europe"
to (what is the case but currently ignored)
"Of the G7 countries (all of which are civilised, democratic and liberal apart from the USA if Trumpism gets back) our public debt as % of GDP is the second lowest after Germany".
If we are bankrupt, then so is Japan, France, Italy, Canada and the USA.
The last decade and a half have been run on the zero-rate never-never, by governments in pretty much all developed countries. The next decade is going to be horrific, as interest rates return to normal levels and that massive debt needs to be serviced.
You are forgetting the decade before that when debt and leverage grew out of control.
I like Sandpits post a lot, but you are right this orthodoxy began decade earlier just after the millennium.
The bond markets seeing no plan for UK growth now, they will perfectly fairly demand a greater return on their investment. Simply put Gilt yields rising above 4 per cent was not high by the standard of the 20th century, nor was living with between 2-4% interest rates and periods of inflation.
government shouldn’t now continue to make everything worse by trying to keep gilts and interest rates down - it’s doom loop economics, low interest rates creates debt, coupled with political reluctance to tackle inflation because raising interest rates will make people poorer
So, at collapse of this twenty year orthodoxy, all countries will be left in their own positions - US have 30 year mortgages as a cushion to raised interest rates and can get away with debt levels we can’t. In UK, where Tories are right to blame Labour for 10 years of it, the twenty year orthodoxy has failed Britain and its people: here we are after it with an insane housing market, negative real interest rates, double digit inflation, taxes at a 70 year high, exponential spending on the worst health service in Europe, £2.4 trillion of debt and lower wages than we had in 2008.
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
Its a big win? When the PM has a cabinet full of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson picks? The same Boris Johnson he stood shoulder to shoulder with?
It was an absolute shit show of a budget, worse than the ERM, because this was clearly self inflicted as a lone move by the Truss government, whereas ERM was a mistake supported by the whole political elite.
After Brexit, we saw tremendous wage growth in lower income professions, which generated a lot of goodwill towards Johnson before he screwed it up with partygate. Then Truss undid that wage increase with the currency devaluation, in order to give a tax cut for the rich.
“Then Truss undid that wage increase with the currency devaluation”
What currency devaluation?
It somewhat misses the point on another level, too. The inflation (and BOE failure) that followed the wage growth led to the interest rate rises that are now being mooned at....
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
SKS mindset
You are weirdly, creepily obsessed with Sir Keir.
Do you ever post about anything else?
L4%K?? and my post at 12.45 and Lula and Polling and Braverman and Jezza and #enoughisenoughnotinrespectofSKSthough obvs.
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
SKS mindset
You are weirdly, creepily obsessed with Sir Keir.
Do you ever post about anything else?
When BJO was a kid, a centrist took his dinner money.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
Pull the other one.
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
Russia couldn't be more obviously bluffing, if President Putin was standing their stomping his feet and futilely screaming "I'm not bluffing!"
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
SKS mindset
You are weirdly, creepily obsessed with Sir Keir.
Do you ever post about anything else?
L4%K??
Yes, you post about her (assume Liz Kendall?) occasionally too, another of your bizarre infatuations. Odd
Greta Thunberg to boycott COP27 due to human right abuses
Rishi Sunak to attend COP27
Will anyone take in-person climate conferences seriously, while hundreds of attendees fly in to it, many on private or governmental aircraft?
If they want to actually show action, have the whole thing sponsored by Cisco Webex, as an example of the power of remote conferencing. Did nothing get learned from the pandemic?
The average man in the street might be convinced about changes in their own behaviour, once the people advocating for changed behaviour first do so themselves.
I had to use Cisco WebEx last week.
There are few better arguments for in person meetings.
iirc it was Webex and MS Teams that had the mute and unmute icons the opposite way round, leading to hours of fun for those of us who used both.
It was an absolute shit show of a budget, worse than the ERM, because this was clearly self inflicted as a lone move by the Truss government, whereas ERM was a mistake supported by the whole political elite.
After Brexit, we saw tremendous wage growth in lower income professions, which generated a lot of goodwill towards Johnson before he screwed it up with partygate. Then Truss undid that wage increase with the currency devaluation, in order to give a tax cut for the rich.
“Then Truss undid that wage increase with the currency devaluation”
What currency devaluation?
It somewhat misses the point on another level, too. The inflation (and BOE failure) that followed the wage growth led to the interest rate rises that are now being mooned at....
Inflation was caused by an external commodity price shock, not wage growth.
The inflation problem would be worse for working people if they weren't getting pay rises. Which is why we have some people here still bemoaning they can't get the staff they want for minimum wage anymore.
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
SKS mindset
You are weirdly, creepily obsessed with Sir Keir.
Do you ever post about anything else?
When BJO was a kid, a centrist took his dinner money.
There are no centrists. There are fine upstanding socialist intellects like Richard Burgon, or there are Tories.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
Its a big win? When the PM has a cabinet full of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson picks? The same Boris Johnson he stood shoulder to shoulder with?
Do you dispute the spectre of Corbyn remains a massive problem for Labour? Sunak wouldn't use the attack every week if he didn't believe it hits the target.
In fact TBF substitute any policy area you wish for migration
Or perhaps its awaiting focus group results (does the guy have any principles??)
Whilst it is good for Labour to have policies, I absolutely hate that PMQs has become about "what are the LOTOs views" because that is not what PMQs is for! The purpose of PMQs is (in an ideal world) the loyal opposition keeping the government on its toes through socratic dialogue, an opportunity for the government to face scrutiny for its actions. The LOTO has no ability to make policy, but the PM does - so always turning back to "what is LOTOs position" is silly. Literally everywhere else it makes sense - in political debate in parliament, in media, in campaigns; but PMQs serves one purpose alone - to question the decisions of the government of the day that impact the nation. The opposition benches do not have that power, so asking them questions is moot.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
I don't really think this is correct.
No doubt it was a good hustings line in the leadership contest Sunak lost to a Lettuce.
But that's preaching to political, Johnsonite Tories. For the electorate at large, Corbyn is a man who was never PM and now isn't even a Labour MP - an historical oddity and nothing more.
The UK was worse after the minibudget, but it's right on trend now.
And that's even with the BoE yesterday making history and engaging in active QT unlike the ECB or rest of the wold.
One indicator to watch out if the UK economic/political situation begins to stabilise:
The rhetoric shifts from "We are maxed out on our credit card, insolvent due to government debt and the sick man of Europe"
to (what is the case but currently ignored)
"Of the G7 countries (all of which are civilised, democratic and liberal apart from the USA if Trumpism gets back) our public debt as % of GDP is the second lowest after Germany".
If we are bankrupt, then so is Japan, France, Italy, Canada and the USA.
I think everyone already knows that Japan and Italy are bankrupt
Also: Canada's government debt-to-GDP is lower than the UK's, unless you are including local and provincial governments. But if you're going to include them, then you also need to include local government in the UK.
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
References to Corbyn aren't references to Jeremy Corbyn as such. They are short hand for the muscle memory of Labour to tax and spend - something which does still resonate with those over 50.
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
Its a big win? When the PM has a cabinet full of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson picks? The same Boris Johnson he stood shoulder to shoulder with?
Do you dispute the spectre of Corbyn remains a massive problem for Labour? Sunak wouldn't use the attack every week if he didn't believe it hits the target.
If Sunak had more positive answers based on successes, he would fill up the Corbyn time with that instead. Sunak has been right in there for five years so can’t blame others for the baggage he inherited, that leaves him on the defensive unable to break out of his own half other than with over the top Corbyn long balls
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
Pull the other one.
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
Just a shame that a guided tour with your hand held the whole way isn't real travel, eh?
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
I'm tinged a shade of emerald.
Have you been to the Earthquake Machine yet at the geothermal power plant?
References to Corbyn aren't references to Jeremy Corbyn as such. They are short hand for the muscle memory of Labour to tax and spend - something which does still resonate with those over 50.
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
*cough*Truss*cough*
People may imagine the damage Corbyn could have done.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
Its a big win? When the PM has a cabinet full of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson picks? The same Boris Johnson he stood shoulder to shoulder with?
Do you dispute the spectre of Corbyn remains a massive problem for Labour? Sunak wouldn't use the attack every week if he didn't believe it hits the target.
Tottenham keep using Lucas Moura and he hasn't hit the target all season.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
Its a big win? When the PM has a cabinet full of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson picks? The same Boris Johnson he stood shoulder to shoulder with?
Do you dispute the spectre of Corbyn remains a massive problem for Labour? Sunak wouldn't use the attack every week if he didn't believe it hits the target.
He *believes* it hits the target. The polls demonstrates this belief to be misplaced. Everyone has moved on a long way from fear of Corbyn. Now it is fear of cold, of hunger, of bills. All of which are on Sunak and Truss and Johnson...
References to Corbyn aren't references to Jeremy Corbyn as such. They are short hand for the muscle memory of Labour to tax and spend - something which does still resonate with those over 50.
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
*cough*Truss*cough*
People may imagine the damage Corbyn could have done.
People are living the damage Truss has done.
For years to come...
Truss was so fleeting and replaced so totally that she is but a questioning "Did that really happen?"
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
SKS mindset
You are weirdly, creepily obsessed with Sir Keir.
Do you ever post about anything else?
When BJO was a kid, a centrist took his dinner money.
No mate since 1979 the Liberal elite (Centrists) have taken poor peoples money and given it to the richest in Society.
The first time that was challenged the Liberal Elites in both Parties and the Centrists at Lab HQ literally stole money from marginal winnable seats and used it to protect the Liberal Elite enablers in safe PLP Centrist seats.
Determined to defeat the alternative real change that Jezza offered
The centrist took the dinner money but was stolen back by Marcus Rashford and Ian Byrne who Centrists now want rid of
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
Its a big win? When the PM has a cabinet full of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson picks? The same Boris Johnson he stood shoulder to shoulder with?
Do you dispute the spectre of Corbyn remains a massive problem for Labour? Sunak wouldn't use the attack every week if he didn't believe it hits the target.
I don't think Corbyn is a problem for Labour at all - as someone who is not in the Labour party but liked Corbyn's policy proposals, Starmer has clearly staked out his position as not Corbyn by a) kicking Corbyn out of the Labour party and b) diluting the language of transformative change proposed by Corbyn's front bench in favour of a more moderate and (arguably) small c conservative premise of, essentially, "we would do most of what the Tories would do but more efficiently and slightly more heart".
I think it is also clear that voters are at least willing to entertain a Starmer government in a way they (unfortunately from my view) wouldn't consider a Corbyn one. That Labour was polling in the low 50s% shows that clearly to me.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
Pull the other one.
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
SKS's only problem with the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda is that not enough have been deported yet and it might be a bit pricey FFS
You've just made that up.
Actually, I think @bigjohnowls is right there. That's what Starmer pointed out in PMQs. Obviously one can object to a policy on a number of grounds, but those are the reasons that Starmer mentioned today.
Just caught up with PMQ. If I were a Tory I'd be concerned.
Sunak is just replicating the tired old Johnson formula. Don't answer the specific question. Say that Labour wants completely open borders. Not acknowledge any errors at all. And then, remind everybody that Starmer used to sleep with Corbyn, or whatever. It's not far off the "any your mother's a whore" stuff I used to hear in the playground.
I thought Sunak may reinvigorate the Tories. I don't think he will.
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
Just a shame that a guided tour with your hand held the whole way isn't real travel, eh?
Not sure they allow peculiar and solitary men with dogs down here. But you could give it a go
Very difficult to find a way back. Fiscal responsibility is part of it and Rishi/Hunt will have a good stab at that but ultimately they need to get the economy growing in a very tough environment where everyone around us will have a much worse recessions and bigger falls in discretionary spending. If ever there was a time to attach ourselves to the SE Asian tiger economies it's now, hopefully Kemi can make this happen because the European economy is going to be in the shit for the next decade at least.
In 1992, the ERM fiasco did for the Conservatives. They actually managed to turn around the economy by 1997 but it counted for naught because certain people like Mellor, Aitkin and Hamilton mired the party in sleaze. The opponent faced was Blair.
Now Sunak faces a similar problem but: 1. He has two years (not four and a half) to turn the economy around. 2. He's already facing problems that aren't economical - Braverman was completely his choice. Hancock clearly isn't but there will be some impact. 3. He faces Starmer not Blair.
1 is a problem. There really isn't much time left to turn the ship around. 2 is a problem that he may or may not be able to do much about. 3 is a positive as Starmer is a dull technocrat with a limited vision for Britain but will this be enough?
It's a difficult task, not impossible, but difficult.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
References to Corbyn aren't references to Jeremy Corbyn as such. They are short hand for the muscle memory of Labour to tax and spend - something which does still resonate with those over 50.
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
As opposed to the Hunt/Sunak business model of tax and not spend?
I don't see attacks on Corbyn as a metaphor for Labour's current business programme. If it were Sunak wouldn't have referenced Hezbollah. They are attacks on Starmer's association with a reprehensible and evil former leader of the Labour Party.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
Pull the other one.
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
Russia couldn't be more obviously bluffing, if President Putin was standing their stomping his feet and futilely screaming "I'm not bluffing!"
Oh wait, he's already done that.
Nothing quite says "I'm bluffing" like saying "I'm not bluffing".
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
References to Corbyn aren't references to Jeremy Corbyn as such. They are short hand for the muscle memory of Labour to tax and spend - something which does still resonate with those over 50.
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
Andrew Neil introduced the American tax-and-spend meme to Britain. It ignores the reality that in this country, whatever one's views on taxation, government spending remains popular with all sections of the electorate. It's not like the United States where half the country suspects Washington is engaged in a huge, criminal conspiracy against the populace.
It was an absolute shit show of a budget, worse than the ERM, because this was clearly self inflicted as a lone move by the Truss government, whereas ERM was a mistake supported by the whole political elite.
After Brexit, we saw tremendous wage growth in lower income professions, which generated a lot of goodwill towards Johnson before he screwed it up with partygate. Then Truss undid that wage increase with the currency devaluation, in order to give a tax cut for the rich.
“Then Truss undid that wage increase with the currency devaluation”
What currency devaluation?
It somewhat misses the point on another level, too. The inflation (and BOE failure) that followed the wage growth led to the interest rate rises that are now being mooned at....
Inflation was caused by an external commodity price shock, not wage growth.
The inflation problem would be worse for working people if they weren't getting pay rises. Which is why we have some people here still bemoaning they can't get the staff they want for minimum wage anymore.
Generally the same people who go on about a living wage and how people in full time work shouldnt need to rely on welfare/food banks.
I must confess I got Liz Truss completely wrong. I shared @Big_G_NorthWales view (correct me if I am wrong Big G). I thought there was a 90% chance she was going to be a big fat damp squib, poleaxed by her inability to present and coming up with nothing new. I also thought there was a 10% chance she was going to surprise us on the upside coming out with new popular ideas starting with the energy crisis.
I never thought she would come out with lots of radical stuff that would sink her immediately.
Well she spent two months of campaign clearly promising exactly what she did, and still believes in.
Our own Big G gave PM Liz support all the way up to the Monday following the budget, largely on the basis thank goodness shes not Boris, no one could be worse than Boris…
I know what she said, but I didn't expect her to do it (with knobs on).
SKS mindset
You are weirdly, creepily obsessed with Sir Keir.
Do you ever post about anything else?
When BJO was a kid, a centrist took his dinner money.
No mate since 1979 the Liberal elite (Centrists) have taken poor peoples money and given it to the richest in Society.
The first time that was challenged the Liberal Elites in both Parties and the Centrists at Lab HQ literally stole money from marginal winnable seats and used it to protect the Liberal Elite enablers in safe PLP Centrist seats.
Determined to defeat the alternative real change that Jezza offered
The centrist took the dinner money but was stolen back by Marcus Rashford and Ian Byrne who Centrists now want rid of
Callaghan: We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.
Don't you think you should put him with the liberal centrists too?
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
Just a shame that a guided tour with your hand held the whole way isn't real travel, eh?
English numpties who think they know all about more about ice than Icelanders tend to get the very real travel experience of coming home in a coffin.
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
Just a shame that a guided tour with your hand held the whole way isn't real travel, eh?
Not sure they allow peculiar and solitary men with dogs down here. But you could give it a go
You’re just being led down there and baby fed, so you can write it up to encourage the rest of us to make the trip properly. So I suggest that you do your job and find out.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
Yeah right, we're meant to believe a nation that can barely agree to mobilise some peasants and is unable to stop the Turks from breaking their grain embargo is willing to commit nuclear suicide?
Pull the other one.
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
What happened to the invasion from Belarus?
The Belarus army didn't fancy the idea.
The other news which Leon (and the NYT) seems to have missed, as he trecks the barren wastes, was about the conversations the US and Russia held about nukes over the last week. Which led to something of a reduction in tensions.
Just caught up with PMQ. If I were a Tory I'd be concerned.
Sunak is just replicating the tired old Johnson formula. Don't answer the specific question. Say that Labour wants completely open borders. Not acknowledge any errors at all. And then, remind everybody that Starmer used to sleep with Corbyn, or whatever. It's not far off the "any your mother's a whore" stuff I used to hear in the playground.
I thought Sunak may reinvigorate the Tories. I don't think he will.
Sorry - 'any your....' should read 'and your....' of course.
Wow, Channel 4 really has made a lot of great TV. I'm surprised how many of these I've watched. Number 1 is controversial but fair, probably.
They certainly have had some great shows in the past. Not sure I agree with all that list, especially not number 1 (it wasn't even original, the Dutch came up with it), but there were some good ones there, but what's interesting skimming that list is how their halcyon days seem to have been the 90s to early 2000s.
The BBC's fans love to play on its past, with shows like Monty Python etc, but its best days were the 60s-80s it seems, but even Channel 4 is very dated now.
One of the most modern creations on the list is 2013's Gogglebox. Only 3 of the 40 shows began after 2013.
Broadcast TV channels aren't coping/competing with modern streaming services and that goes for C4 just as much as the Beeb.
Greta Thunberg to boycott COP27 due to human right abuses
Rishi Sunak to attend COP27
Will anyone take in-person climate conferences seriously, while hundreds of attendees fly in to it, many on private or governmental aircraft?
If they want to actually show action, have the whole thing sponsored by Cisco Webex, as an example of the power of remote conferencing. Did nothing get learned from the pandemic?
The average man in the street might be convinced about changes in their own behaviour, once the people advocating for changed behaviour first do so themselves.
I had to use Cisco WebEx last week.
There are few better arguments for in person meetings.
I have used for years and apart from odd glitch it works a treat
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
I'm tinged a shade of emerald.
Have you been to the Earthquake Machine yet at the geothermal power plant?
I think we’re going to something like that tomorrow. Dunno. Don’t care. I’m blissed out. Exhausted. But happy
That ice cave is a keeper. Stunning. I recommend it to all PB Travellers
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
Just a shame that a guided tour with your hand held the whole way isn't real travel, eh?
Not sure they allow peculiar and solitary men with dogs down here. But you could give it a go
You’re just being led down there and baby fed, so you can write it up to encourage the rest of us to make the trip properly. So I suggest that you do your job and find out.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
SKS's only problem with the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda is that not enough have been deported yet and it might be a bit pricey FFS
You've just made that up.
I am against deportation
Is SKS?
I don't know about Starmer, but if an asylum seeker is found to be an economic migrant who has no business being here, and his application fails, hell yes. He goes back on an aircraft to his place of origin. Not Rwanda, to his place of origin.
SKS made a perfect little weapon against himself by smearing Corbyn and courteously handed it to Sunak, who is now using it, because why wouldn't he?
It is nonetheless quite remarkable that Sunak associating Starmer with Corbyn "I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister" (Starmer) is a big win every week for Sunak. Corbyn remains a massive drag on Labour.
References to Corbyn aren't references to Jeremy Corbyn as such. They are short hand for the muscle memory of Labour to tax and spend - something which does still resonate with those over 50.
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
As opposed to the Hunt/Sunak business model of tax and not spend?
I don't see attacks on Corbyn as a metaphor for Labour's current business programme. If it were Sunak wouldn't have referenced Hezbollah. They are attacks on Starmer's association with a reprehensible and evil former leader of the Labour Party.
Johnson did sks and Savile, sunak does sks and Corbyn, is how it is beginning to look.
WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
No. Russia might escalate further, but it'll be a chemical weapons attack first (which will probably be largely ineffective).
Russia, and Putin, are still hoping the 300,000 mobilised troops will see them to victory. It won't, though it MIGHT head towards a long stalemate.... or at least stop the rot over the winter.
Putin is still looking for a way out, but I think the only way out for him now is a bullet to the back of the head.
This is a peak travel moment. Even for a jaded Gazetteer like me
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
Just a shame that a guided tour with your hand held the whole way isn't real travel, eh?
Not sure they allow peculiar and solitary men with dogs down here. But you could give it a go
You’re just being led down there and baby fed, so you can write it up to encourage the rest of us to make the trip properly. So I suggest that you do your job and find out.
"Properly" = no guide.
Darwinism.
I’d expect that most of us know that much of the challenge, and joy, of travel is finding yourself in an unfamiliar environment and working out how to cope with all the challenges that throws at you, and enjoy where you are. Looking for someone at the airport holding up a piece of paper with your name on it, and then following them about for a week, is a pale imitation.
Wow, Channel 4 really has made a lot of great TV. I'm surprised how many of these I've watched. Number 1 is controversial but fair, probably.
They certainly have had some great shows in the past. Not sure I agree with all that list, especially not number 1 (it wasn't even original, the Dutch came up with it), but there were some good ones there, but what's interesting skimming that list is how their halcyon days seem to have been the 90s to early 2000s.
The BBC's fans love to play on its past, with shows like Monty Python etc, but its best days were the 60s-80s it seems, but even Channel 4 is very dated now.
One of the most modern creations on the list is 2013's Gogglebox. Only 3 of the 40 shows began after 2013.
Broadcast TV channels aren't coping/competing with modern streaming services and that goes for C4 just as much as the Beeb.
When I first heard of Gogglebox (before it was transmitted) I thought 'What, who the hell is going to watch that? Talk about dumb downed TV' How wrong could I be. It is a great concept..
Fuck the Victoria Line. TFL need to figure out how to cool it down, the trains are still carrying the heat of the summer and it's November for fucks sake. I think it's actually approaching dangerous levels of heat, they need to figure out ASAP.
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In fact TBF substitute any policy area you wish for migration
Or perhaps its awaiting focus group results (does the guy have any principles??)
(That one poll was right at the end of 1992.)
Had Liz Truss continued as PM until the next general election I reckon that polling record would have been broken.
https://twitter.com/scotgov/status/1587791766899523585?t=bGXQKmQxKNyhmKLP46oaUQ&s=19
Vatnajokulls Ice Cave. Phenom
Pull the other one.
If our Leon had more intellectual imagination he really should have got to that line first!
Not sure “pull the other one” is the optimum retort at this juncture
Reeves pro austerity fiscal Conservative who says she will be tougher on those on benefits and offer worse Public Sector Pay rises than the Tories
Basically all over the place.
Why would anyone believe a SKS pledge anyway he has already disowned the 10 he made to steal the Leaders job?
The bond markets seeing no plan for UK growth now, they will perfectly fairly demand a greater return on their investment. Simply put Gilt yields rising above 4 per cent was not high by the standard of the 20th century, nor was living with between 2-4% interest rates and periods of inflation.
government shouldn’t now continue to make everything worse by trying to keep gilts and interest rates down - it’s doom loop economics, low interest rates creates debt, coupled with political reluctance to tackle inflation because raising interest rates will make people poorer
So, at collapse of this twenty year orthodoxy, all countries will be left in their own positions - US have 30 year mortgages as a cushion to raised interest rates and can get away with debt levels we can’t. In UK, where Tories are right to blame Labour for 10 years of it, the twenty year orthodoxy has failed Britain and its people: here we are after it with an insane housing market, negative real interest rates, double digit inflation, taxes at a 70 year high, exponential spending on the worst health service in Europe, £2.4 trillion of debt and lower wages than we had in 2008.
Do you ever post about anything else?
Oh wait, he's already done that.
The inflation problem would be worse for working people if they weren't getting pay rises. Which is why we have some people here still bemoaning they can't get the staff they want for minimum wage anymore.
No doubt it was a good hustings line in the leadership contest Sunak lost to a Lettuce.
But that's preaching to political, Johnsonite Tories. For the electorate at large, Corbyn is a man who was never PM and now isn't even a Labour MP - an historical oddity and nothing more.
Also: Canada's government debt-to-GDP is lower than the UK's, unless you are including local and provincial governments. But if you're going to include them, then you also need to include local government in the UK.
You hike for three hours over Vatnajokull - one of the biggest glaciers in the world. You descend intense Mordor slopes of black volcanic scree. You are plunged into the emerald and crystal chasm of the ice cave. Where you gaze at clearly frozen time.
Then you hike back to the Glacier Lagoon where you have hot chocolate laced with Brennivin and superb lobster soup as you gaze with utterly contented exhaustion at the toppling icebergs
Bliss
You will keep hearing "Corbyn" for years to come. Basically, until Labour changes its broken business model.
Have you been to the Earthquake Machine yet at the geothermal power plant?
People may imagine the damage Corbyn could have done.
People are living the damage Truss has done.
For years to come...
The first time that was challenged the Liberal Elites in both Parties and the Centrists at Lab HQ literally stole money from marginal winnable seats and used it to protect the Liberal Elite enablers in safe PLP Centrist seats.
Determined to defeat the alternative real change that Jezza offered
The centrist took the dinner money but was stolen back by Marcus Rashford and Ian Byrne who Centrists now want rid of
Wow, Channel 4 really has made a lot of great TV. I'm surprised how many of these I've watched. Number 1 is controversial but fair, probably.
I think it is also clear that voters are at least willing to entertain a Starmer government in a way they (unfortunately from my view) wouldn't consider a Corbyn one. That Labour was polling in the low 50s% shows that clearly to me.
Is SKS?
Sunak is just replicating the tired old Johnson formula. Don't answer the specific question. Say that Labour wants completely open borders. Not acknowledge any errors at all. And then, remind everybody that Starmer used to sleep with Corbyn, or whatever. It's not far off the "any your mother's a whore" stuff I used to hear in the playground.
I thought Sunak may reinvigorate the Tories. I don't think he will.
https://twitter.com/Agitate4Change/status/1587620947816861696/photo/1
Not sure they allow peculiar and solitary men with dogs down here. But you could give it a go
They actually managed to turn around the economy by 1997 but it counted for naught because certain people like Mellor, Aitkin and Hamilton mired the party in sleaze.
The opponent faced was Blair.
Now Sunak faces a similar problem but:
1. He has two years (not four and a half) to turn the economy around.
2. He's already facing problems that aren't economical - Braverman was completely his choice. Hancock clearly isn't but there will be some impact.
3. He faces Starmer not Blair.
1 is a problem. There really isn't much time left to turn the ship around.
2 is a problem that he may or may not be able to do much about.
3 is a positive as Starmer is a dull technocrat with a limited vision for Britain but will this be enough?
It's a difficult task, not impossible, but difficult.
I don't see attacks on Corbyn as a metaphor for Labour's current business programme. If it were Sunak wouldn't have referenced Hezbollah. They are attacks on Starmer's association with a reprehensible and evil former leader of the Labour Party.
HE IS SUCH A BEAST!!!
Don't you think you should put him with the liberal centrists too?
Welcome to Israel 2022!
Labour wants you to forget it, but Keir Starmer spent years trying to make Jeremy Corbyn the Prime Minister. Corbyn's worldview:
❌ NATO
❌ Nuclear Deterrent
❌ Anti-Terror Laws
✅ Hamas & Hezbollah
We can't trust Labour with our national security 🥀
#PMQs https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1587800379362017281/video/1
The people who actually made actual Liz Fucking Truss actual Prime Minister.
The other news which Leon (and the NYT) seems to have missed, as he trecks the barren wastes, was about the conversations the US and Russia held about nukes over the last week. Which led to something of a reduction in tensions.
Kari Lake: “The truth is Joe Biden did not win with 81 million votes, and if you believe he did then you are the conspiracy theorist.”
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1587616112979677184
At least they still have Owen Jones:
https://twitter.com/bindelj/status/1587788554947665921
Not all sub-samples are created equally.
The BBC's fans love to play on its past, with shows like Monty Python etc, but its best days were the 60s-80s it seems, but even Channel 4 is very dated now.
One of the most modern creations on the list is 2013's Gogglebox. Only 3 of the 40 shows began after 2013.
Broadcast TV channels aren't coping/competing with modern streaming services and that goes for C4 just as much as the Beeb.
Absolute total humiliation. Erdogan completely lords it over Putin making him look like a small weak insignificant chump.
Total capitulation.
I think we’re going to something like that tomorrow. Dunno. Don’t care. I’m blissed out. Exhausted. But happy
That ice cave is a keeper. Stunning. I recommend it to all PB Travellers
https://www.viator.com/en-GB/tours/Skaftafell/Private-2-hour-tour-in-Natural-Ice-Cave-of-Vatnajokull-Glacier/d25390-47191P1
Darwinism.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps
Sunakism is tax and spend, ever since covid.
Russia, and Putin, are still hoping the 300,000 mobilised troops will see them to victory.
It won't, though it MIGHT head towards a long stalemate.... or at least stop the rot over the winter.
Putin is still looking for a way out, but I think the only way out for him now is a bullet to the back of the head.
GBH was one of my favourites.
He was saying that all deprived areas need support - including deprived rural areas in Kent - not just deprived urban areas
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-liz-truss-iea-institute-economic-affairs-think-tank-b2216066.html