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Labour to attack PM on economy after focus groups ‘irritated’ by his optimism https://t.co/PBmCN9BDwj
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...both here and on the list of people who should be giving advice on how not to look brash, arrogant and out-of-touch: move over, TSE!
https://twitter.com/TamarHallerman/status/1695165931012432121
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Sunak doesn't know how to do persuasive optimism.
Someone I worked with (who subsequently became a friend) was once asked what I did.
He replied: "I don't know exactly what he does. But when we work with him we get the outcome we want"
You are not '... the last person on this planet who should be giving people advice on how to stop looking like a brash, arrogant, out of touch elitist.' There are numerous people who are ahead of you in this respect, including many on this Site, myself included.
Step aside, young man.
Pissing down with rain here in Gloucestershire. Summer over then?
All they can do is wait, and hope they suffer a drubbing rather than an extinction event.
November 2024...can't see it happening sooner, or later.
This is a headline issue? Jeepers.
But I wonder if there’s more to this story. Maybe he has “form”.
With everything going on in the world this one of the major news stories on Sky, ITV and the BBC.
I found his speech yesterday really weird and out of touch. But not sure it helps Labour to be highlighting it, just let him, and his cabinet, quietly carry on with their regular own goals.
No, mate, you do not.
Most things are much more expensive than two years ago, their taxes higher and their mortgages much higher. So crowing about it is a silly thing to do. No-one feels better off.
Instead, he should put the focus on Labour's plan - I still haven't heard a peep from Starmer on inflation.
28m folk watched the World Cup on the BBC alone. It’s unquestionably one of the most viewed and popular sporting events of the year.
As ever, The Day, Today’s formula of ‘fact x importance = news’ applies.
I do agree though that if he’d just apologised early doors then the whole thing would’ve been a very minor footnote.
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Rishi at the grate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth."
To start blaming Labour is about as useful as a Glasgow football fan trying to justify paedophilia in his own team's organization by trying to find it in the team at the other end of Glasgow.
That isn't being pessimistic, it's simply being in the same world that the voters inhabit.
Three out of the ten top read stories in the Graun, and second on the DM after a murder-case-quashed-and-love-story, and ironically amid a sea of bikini tops.
Sunak would be quite within his rights to put the focus back on Labour and show they have no plan for the economy - which they don't- just new things they want to tax.
Starmer wants to be dealing with it in 12 months time. Let's hear how he'd handle it.
And that unnamed politician from 2008 let another cat out of another bag by saying "we all know what to do, just not how to get elected doing it".
But yes- average pay rises > average inflation doesn't mean that happy days are here again for most people. Both incomes and outgoings vary too much by individual for that.
British Museum thefts: Director Hartwig Fischer quits over stolen treasures
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66621006
Same attitude as the Chester Hospitals or the Horizon scandal or OFSTED. Fortunately the consequences have been somewhat less serious.
My main comment on the left is that they have been too harsh, too brutal, too censorious in their 'victory' on cultural issues. It is setting the ground for similar tactics in a reaction from the other side. See what has happened in Florida for example.
So there's a major power struggle between the team and the head of their association.
And then, yes, me too happened, which means stories about powerful men brushing aside the concerns of women about lack of consent are automatically more newsworthy. Apparently women are a bit concerned about that sort of thing and they watch the news. Who knew?
If the Tories had implemented, we would be in a much better position on energy costs.
One. Pay rises generally happen once a year, whilst inflation is a permanent occurrence.
(Also. If you trumpet "pay rises are ahead of inflation!" This is great!" Doesn't it weaken your case for imposing below inflation settlements on your own employees? And that higher pay stokes inflation more generally?).
Two. A bad winter could finish them off. We all lucked out last time. We are overdue a colder one.
The article makes some good points and I agree it is a major factor in our poor productivity but its a bit short in solutions.
The planners went mad in post war Britain. Some of the schemes that were planned were utterly insane - such as to turn London into a grid of motorways.
We all know and love the award winning architecture that got built.
Naturally, resistance to the inhuman type of planning and building arose.
Equally naturally, the planners, developers and architects didn’t modify their behaviour that much. They had a fight on their hands and pushed back.
So the other side gathered more resources and pushed back… round and round it went
Both sides became ever more rigid. Both sides got the politicians to create laws on their behalf.
The resulting legal and procedural conflicts then spawned a third party. The planning enquiry industry. Which is worth billions.
The counter example is interesting. Offshore wind farms. Since fish don’t vote, and the requirement for quick, affordable Green power, the politicians granted an end run round the enquiry industry. There are planing issues and process, but it is streamlined to a considerable extent.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/the-guardian-view-on-the-british-museum-losses-a-diplomatic-own-goal
'Well, he wood say that, wooden he?'
At the end of the day, the current economic mess, while sharing many aspects with a global malaise*, has several distinctly British characteristics.
He is not primarily to blame, but he is hardly blameless.
His best bet was a reforming government, probably appointing Gove as DPM and Minister Plenipotentiary, and leaving the culture wars to GBTV.
He has, after all, a decent majority.
But parliamentary business has basically ground to a halt. He’s just managing for failure and stasis.
It comes amid a cocktail of problems for the industry, including a falling demand for wine as more people drink craft beer."
Our European neighbours waking up to the fact that beer is better than wine.
All they need to do now is graduate from this "craft" nonsense to proper real ale and they'll be sorted.
Cheers!
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
Jeez,
You are correct about the planning Inquiry industry. There was a case recently where there was a 2 day Inquiry in the north of england where the Council had conceded before the event. So everyone sat there for 2 days and there was nothing really to discuss, except to hear the objectors. The Inspector then concluded that the Council had been unreasonable in not granting planning permission and awarded costs against it. The costs claimed by applicant cover just the appeal proceedings (presumably comprising the hiring of a barrister and consultant team to go along to the 2 day non event) were just short of half a million pounds, paid by Council tax payers.
(By contrast, the Inspector who actually sits in these NSIP or planning Inquiries and listens to the KC's argue out every point in tedious detail, and then makes the decision is paid about £60k per year. )
Barristers make a great play of the situation being described above being the result of political incompetence in Councils and have even suggested that Councillors should be personally liable to pay for the costs in the situation described above. In response I made the suggestion that perhaps the government should cap legal costs claimed back after planning Inquiries at something like legal aid rates; however that was obviously met with silence.
If Wishi Washi thinks that going to a miserable British population as we descend into a miserable British winter in the particularly miserable month of November is going to benefit them, then bring it on….
There's always more natural variability than people think, but the potential link to the cold winter spell in December 2010 is interesting. Probably best not to ask what scientists would do for 100 years of this quality of observation.
Merely to note that the severe winters of 1978-9 and 2009-10 finished off already less than popular governments.
And that we are well past due another.
It would be a seminal moment if the men's team, out of solidarity, followed their lead. Although it's not a huge issue in the big scheme of things, if the men's team declared that it was unacceptable for men to bestow unwanted lip-kisses on women that would send a message.
Which is why one has to be hopeful about the outcome of the 2024 election. Even if lefties are lefties, Starmer is meh and MPs are short termist cowards, it's likely that the next government won't be in hock to the generation waiting for God in the same way. That might/should/must unlock some progress.
And the point is he did the exact opposite of apologising.
It’s not as though football itself belongs on the front pages, but it’s there all the time.
Supply side reform is really, really hard.
This government has simply done nothing, preferring to chase (or manufacture) headlines in the various Tory House journals.
She’s actually a pretty good journalist, but her voice is definitely a matter of taste.
I've had a handful of beauties but they are far fewer in number, rare, expensive and invariably I only have a glass or two before chucking the bottle.
So, yes, beer is better. Except champagne.
Supply side reform is really, really hard.
This government has simply done nothing, preferring to chase headlines in the c True, but there is a constituency for making difficult but necessary reforms, especially in the wake of Covid and the electricity price rises.
Rishi’s one flimsy calling card is that he’s “the grown up in the room”, but the truth is that he junked that card quite quickly with “Stop the Boats” crap.
(There was a premonition of this during the leadership campaign, with increasingly nonsensical remarks in a desperate attempt to out-flank Truss, though these have been largely memory-holed).
Apologies for the remnants of old posts coming through.
Spain has to decide if it is going to treat its World Cup winners with respect.
If he was sixty plus one might consider it generational, but he is 46, how on earth is he expecting this approach to pan out well for him?
Quite, quite bizarre.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/france-fund-destroying-excess-wine-demand-falls
It would have been a good export success for a neaby country with a strong craft brewing sector, if only...
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/19/craft-beer-boom-uk-firms-bust-brexit
Also- I'm reminded of a line from one of John Major's biographies. When Lambeth Conservatives won in 1968, their leader's response was "This was a fluke- we've got three years and then we're out again. So let's go down in history for being brilliant and doing the right thing."
Team Rishi don't seem to have accepted their mortality, so they can't yet become immortal.