While Trump and Farage are hogging the airwaves and print media, our plodding PM continues to drop the building blocks needed to sort out/destroy (optional choice depending on your view) the UK economy.
Two big Bills coming soon with be the Renters' Rights Bill designed to improve the life of renters (i.e. not pensioners) and the Employment Rights Act designed to improve the life of workers (i.e. not pensioners). The more fuss and noise being made, the more likely these will slip quietly onto the statute books. SKS likely can't believe his luck.
The Employment Rights Act is already leading to ever more esoteric “subcontracting” - rather than actually employing people.
Because the government is following the path already trodden in Spain and France. Ever more employment rights for “the workers”. But, in order for things not to freeze up, ever more people employed on very casual basis.
2 years is too long for an employee to wait before getting legal protection, but 1 day is just bonkers. Maybe some protection at 3 months and full protection after a year would be about right.
I see that Yaxley-Lennon is back in Court (Westminster Magistrates) on 13-14 October. This one seems to relate to a refusal to supply the PIN number to his phone as part of a police investigation: Mr Yaxley-Lennon is facing a separate trial in October next year over an accusation that he failed to provide the Pin code for his mobile phone when stopped by Kent Police in Folkestone in July 2024. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk2pjlmp8mo
He's already has one hearing scheduled for next year - July 2026 - around his alleged harassment of journalists (same article): The 42-year-old from Luton, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence towards two reporters in August.
There's still the incident from this summer when he laid out a man in a tube station then went on holiday.
And the bizarre invitation to visit Israel by the Israeli Diaspora Minister, which has been thunderously condemned by the UK Jewish Community - and, to his credit, by James Cleverly (and maybe others whom I have not noted).
In fairness to Mr Y-L re tube station (and to OGH) - that's apparently off the menu now so best amend that.
You've clarified - thanks. I think my description is OK - Robinson did not dispute that he had laid him out, but claimed self-defence.
This is probably why it didn't proceed "The alleged victim did not want to provide a statement to the investigation, BTP said." The arrest at Luton was on suspicion of GBH, so the injuries must have been quite serious to the "alleged victim". Can't imagine why someone wouldn't give a statement against Y-L...
When I said "laid out", that was literally it. He went to hospital.
BBC report: "We sent an ambulance crew to the scene and treated a man before taking him to a major trauma centre."
While Trump and Farage are hogging the airwaves and print media, our plodding PM continues to drop the building blocks needed to sort out/destroy (optional choice depending on your view) the UK economy.
Two big Bills coming soon with be the Renters' Rights Bill designed to improve the life of renters (i.e. not pensioners) and the Employment Rights Act designed to improve the life of workers (i.e. not pensioners). The more fuss and noise being made, the more likely these will slip quietly onto the statute books. SKS likely can't believe his luck.
The Employment Rights Act is already leading to ever more esoteric “subcontracting” - rather than actually employing people.
Because the government is following the path already trodden in Spain and France. Ever more employment rights for “the workers”. But, in order for things not to freeze up, ever more people employed on very casual basis.
2 years is too long for an employee to wait before getting legal protection, but 1 day is just bonkers. Maybe some protection at 3 months and full protection after a year would be about right.
Both Bills will have the effect of being very selective (subject to discrimination laws) of who you hire and to whom you rent.
While Trump and Farage are hogging the airwaves and print media, our plodding PM continues to drop the building blocks needed to sort out/destroy (optional choice depending on your view) the UK economy.
Two big Bills coming soon with be the Renters' Rights Bill designed to improve the life of renters (i.e. not pensioners) and the Employment Rights Act designed to improve the life of workers (i.e. not pensioners). The more fuss and noise being made, the more likely these will slip quietly onto the statute books. SKS likely can't believe his luck.
The Employment Rights Act is already leading to ever more esoteric “subcontracting” - rather than actually employing people.
Because the government is following the path already trodden in Spain and France. Ever more employment rights for “the workers”. But, in order for things not to freeze up, ever more people employed on very casual basis.
2 years is too long for an employee to wait before getting legal protection, but 1 day is just bonkers. Maybe some protection at 3 months and full protection after a year would be about right.
It makes hiring problematic to say the least.
I’d just about got management to agree to my proposal on hiring. One technical interview, in person. One HR interview (min for compliance). The hire on probation. Get rid of the AI shit, 15 rounds, all that garbage.
While Trump and Farage are hogging the airwaves and print media, our plodding PM continues to drop the building blocks needed to sort out/destroy (optional choice depending on your view) the UK economy.
Two big Bills coming soon with be the Renters' Rights Bill designed to improve the life of renters (i.e. not pensioners) and the Employment Rights Act designed to improve the life of workers (i.e. not pensioners). The more fuss and noise being made, the more likely these will slip quietly onto the statute books. SKS likely can't believe his luck.
The Employment Rights Act is already leading to ever more esoteric “subcontracting” - rather than actually employing people.
Because the government is following the path already trodden in Spain and France. Ever more employment rights for “the workers”. But, in order for things not to freeze up, ever more people employed on very casual basis.
Yes if you make it impossible to fire people, then people simply don’t get ‘hired’ and you end up with a two-tier workforce, the bottom tier having no rights at all because they’re illegal workers.
While Trump and Farage are hogging the airwaves and print media, our plodding PM continues to drop the building blocks needed to sort out/destroy (optional choice depending on your view) the UK economy.
Two big Bills coming soon with be the Renters' Rights Bill designed to improve the life of renters (i.e. not pensioners) and the Employment Rights Act designed to improve the life of workers (i.e. not pensioners). The more fuss and noise being made, the more likely these will slip quietly onto the statute books. SKS likely can't believe his luck.
The Employment Rights Act is already leading to ever more esoteric “subcontracting” - rather than actually employing people.
Because the government is following the path already trodden in Spain and France. Ever more employment rights for “the workers”. But, in order for things not to freeze up, ever more people employed on very casual basis.
Yes if you make it impossible to fire people, then people simply don’t get ‘hired’ and you end up with a two-tier workforce, the bottom tier having no rights at all because they’re illegal workers.
It is not going to be impossible to fire people but it will be costly in both time and possible pay offs. Will definitely change recruiting behaviour at least at the margins.
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
While Trump and Farage are hogging the airwaves and print media, our plodding PM continues to drop the building blocks needed to sort out/destroy (optional choice depending on your view) the UK economy.
Two big Bills coming soon with be the Renters' Rights Bill designed to improve the life of renters (i.e. not pensioners) and the Employment Rights Act designed to improve the life of workers (i.e. not pensioners). The more fuss and noise being made, the more likely these will slip quietly onto the statute books. SKS likely can't believe his luck.
The Employment Rights Act is already leading to ever more esoteric “subcontracting” - rather than actually employing people.
Because the government is following the path already trodden in Spain and France. Ever more employment rights for “the workers”. But, in order for things not to freeze up, ever more people employed on very casual basis.
Yes if you make it impossible to fire people, then people simply don’t get ‘hired’ and you end up with a two-tier workforce, the bottom tier having no rights at all because they’re illegal workers.
It’s actually a three-tier system. See Spain & France
Premier - fully employed workers. Nearly impossible to fire. Secondary - legally employed, but using zero hour contracts etc to have little or no employment rights (worse than U.K.!!) Tertiary - full on illegal employment.
We are not quite there yet. The big difference between the U.K. and them is the ratio of Primary to Secondary. We have a much higher proportion of Primary.
If we head down the route we are on, there will be golden rights for a few but *much less* for most.
It's long been in use. But it smells of "conversated" for conversed. We reach for them both, especially when speaking extemporaneously, because our brain expects this form of the word to be a longer form the root word, and gets confused.
I listened to the Jeremy Hunt interviews on The Rest Is Politics Leading. Very intelligent guy - both real world and political intelligence. He can't be the only Tory left who is a decent human being and has a political brain.
Someone needs to rescue what is left of the party before it is too late. Jenrick thinks Enoch was Right. Cleverly shouts "cos its a shithole" abuses about towns *which have a Tory MP*.
Neither of these cretins can turn things around. But Hunt could. A pity the Tories won't vote for him cos he's practically a communist or something.
The Tories were mad to pick Johnson over Hunt. Brexit Derangement Syndrome in action.
Hunt would never have won the redwall seats in 2019 that Boris did. So it would have been another hung parliament and maybe even Corbyn PM and no Brexit.
Now Hunt has more chance of succeeding Ed Davey as LD leader than Kemi as Conservative leader
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
Why does receiving a message require an immediate response? The whole point of a message is that it sits there until you're ready to read it. Anyone who knows me well is aware that if they want an immediate response they have to phone me, otherwise I'll have a look later and that might be tomorrow.
Another Wednesday local by-election today - a LD defence in Hart. Then tomorrow we have Con defences in Redcar and Cleveland, Teignbridge, and Wychavon; a LD defence in BANES; and a Ref defence in North Northamptonshire.
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
Why does receiving a message require an immediate response? The whole point of a message is that it sits there until you're ready to read it. Anyone who knows me well is aware that if they want an immediate response they have to phone me, otherwise I'll have a look later and that might be tomorrow.
That's why I gave up answering my phone. Folk soon stop.
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
There's no obligation to reply! Deleting the app is divaish!
Another Wednesday local by-election today - a LD defence in Hart. Then tomorrow we have Con defences in Redcar and Cleveland, Teignbridge, and Wychavon; a LD defence in BANES; and a Ref defence in North Northamptonshire.
ps, I missed one - Ind elected as Lab in West Lancashire.
Kemi is surely safe until the locals; no-one is else is going to want to carry responsibility for the losses that are coming. Although the losses are being reduced by the steady stream of councillor defections currently. Meanwhile I am hard at work having lunch in the sun:
I listened to the Jeremy Hunt interviews on The Rest Is Politics Leading. Very intelligent guy - both real world and political intelligence. He can't be the only Tory left who is a decent human being and has a political brain.
Someone needs to rescue what is left of the party before it is too late. Jenrick thinks Enoch was Right. Cleverly shouts "cos its a shithole" abuses about towns *which have a Tory MP*.
Neither of these cretins can turn things around. But Hunt could. A pity the Tories won't vote for him cos he's practically a communist or something.
The Tories were mad to pick Johnson over Hunt. Brexit Derangement Syndrome in action.
Hunt would never have won the redwall seats in 2019 that Boris did. So it would have been another hung parliament and maybe even Corbyn PM and no Brexit.
Now Hunt has more chance of succeeding Ed Davey as LD leader than Kemi as Conservative leader
You're saying no Brexit like that would be a bad thing!
I listened to the Jeremy Hunt interviews on The Rest Is Politics Leading. Very intelligent guy - both real world and political intelligence. He can't be the only Tory left who is a decent human being and has a political brain.
Someone needs to rescue what is left of the party before it is too late. Jenrick thinks Enoch was Right. Cleverly shouts "cos its a shithole" abuses about towns *which have a Tory MP*.
Neither of these cretins can turn things around. But Hunt could. A pity the Tories won't vote for him cos he's practically a communist or something.
The Tories were mad to pick Johnson over Hunt. Brexit Derangement Syndrome in action.
Hunt would never have won the redwall seats in 2019 that Boris did. So it would have been another hung parliament and maybe even Corbyn PM and no Brexit.
Now Hunt has more chance of succeeding Ed Davey as LD leader than Kemi as Conservative leader
You're saying no Brexit like that would be a bad thing!
He used to make references to PR like that, too; strangely not so much recently.
I listened to the Jeremy Hunt interviews on The Rest Is Politics Leading. Very intelligent guy - both real world and political intelligence. He can't be the only Tory left who is a decent human being and has a political brain.
Someone needs to rescue what is left of the party before it is too late. Jenrick thinks Enoch was Right. Cleverly shouts "cos its a shithole" abuses about towns *which have a Tory MP*.
Neither of these cretins can turn things around. But Hunt could. A pity the Tories won't vote for him cos he's practically a communist or something.
Which Tory leader would you compare Hunt to?
Is it fair to say a Michael Howard to lay the foundations of a hoped-for recovery?
The Tories should get rid of Kemi asap, replace her with Jenrick in time for the May elections and dump him when he loses massively to Lib Dems and Reform. Then they will have been through their right wing, Reform Lite stage and can get someone towards the centre who can possibly win. Competing with Reform by offering the same policies as them won't work.
Kemi's okay if a bit schoolmarmish Her new "golden rule" is that for every pound saved, half or more will be allocated to reducing government debt. From the standpoint of fiscal sanity this improves on Rishi Sunak's pledge that every pound of reduced spending would be spent on tax cuts
Not debt. Deficit.
What this means is that she's saying it's fine to cut taxes when there's still a large deficit. Surely the deficit should be cut first, and taxes cut later?
Does not pass my spending cuts tests - you're only serious if you go for health and/or pensioner benefits.
Potentially committing to even more health spending as she is saying they will be telling peeps on benefits for anxiety and depression that they need help and not a life on benefits not working.
Many of them currently are sat on waiting lists for mental health services. Indeed, many have ended up worse and not working because they didn't get timely care in first place.
Not entirely sure how she can claim to bring cheap energy "back". Only about 15% of the cost is determined by UK Government policy (tax, levies) - the rest is wholesale prices, network costs etc.
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
I refuse because of the data collected by Facebook/Meta as well as the inanity. They might not read the messages, but they read your contact list, they know who you speak to, and they know how often.
On the other hand, I have no problem running my own private chat server for this (soon to be banned by the government, no doubt).
Not entirely sure how she can claim to bring cheap energy "back". Only about 15% of the cost is determined by UK Government policy (tax, levies) - the rest is wholesale prices, network costs etc.
I'm at work and can't listen to the speech but the preview on Today this morning said she was going to say that there would be significant cuts in government expenditure and half of this would go to deficit reduction whilst the other half went on tax cuts.
Which is pathetic. How can anyone even pretending to be grown up and responsible about our finances even mention tax cuts when we are borrowing £150bn a year except as a long term, blue sky aspiration?
Our finances are under massive structural pressure. As the ultra cheap loans taken out after the GFC are rolled over at current gilt rates the cost of our existing borrowing is going to sharply increase. For as long as those lunatics occupy both the Kremlin and the White House the pressure to increase our defence spending is immense. No party of any stripe are brave enough to tell our pensioners that the Triple lock has gone far enough. Care costs are not even close to being adequately funded at the moment and they are heading in 1 direction: up. No government is going to be able to stop a steady rise in public spending, no government. The real issues are what steps are we willing to take to moderate these increases and how are we going to pay for them?
It is utterly dishonest not to acknowledge that increased taxes and fewer tax breaks are going to be in that mix. Once again, the real issue is what proportion of that upward pressure is covered by taxes and what by offsetting cuts elsewhere. Tax cuts? Jeez.
At the end of the day does it matter? The next election is decided.
14 Dec 1981. Alliance polls over 50% of the vote. With less than 2 years until the next election, an SDP / Liberal government is a certainty.
How long were they ahead in the polls for?
Between August 1981 and the start of the Falklands War roughly 7 months later. Before that Labour had been leading since a few months post the 1979 GE.
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
There's no obligation to reply! Deleting the app is divaish!
Well indeed, I just ignore or just do a thumbs up. It is great for setting up an ad hoc group, for example if a few of you are on a pub crawl and joining at different times and places. My running club has a few groups, we use it for the parkrun core team and beer festival setup (although that one got a bit too high traffic at times) also there are friends I use it to keep in touch with, we send each other interesting pix every week or two
Abolishing stamp duty on housing is a big announcement
Except Reeves may very well do the same thing in a month or so.
That will make it even better - provided it is part of the package properly to reform Council tax.
And I need to know how Kemi is paying for it. She'd better not just be throwing more money at the demand side of the housing market with the overwhelming benefit for wealthy people - in that case it could reverse the long-term trend of house prices relatively moderating, and really screw things up.
They need £15-20bn a year from somewhere.
If it is Farage style flim-flam, then she has a long-term problem.
Also implications for Scotland. It's devolved but they will need to react.
I listened to the Jeremy Hunt interviews on The Rest Is Politics Leading. Very intelligent guy - both real world and political intelligence. He can't be the only Tory left who is a decent human being and has a political brain.
Someone needs to rescue what is left of the party before it is too late. Jenrick thinks Enoch was Right. Cleverly shouts "cos its a shithole" abuses about towns *which have a Tory MP*.
Neither of these cretins can turn things around. But Hunt could. A pity the Tories won't vote for him cos he's practically a communist or something.
The Tories were mad to pick Johnson over Hunt. Brexit Derangement Syndrome in action.
Hunt would never have won the redwall seats in 2019 that Boris did. So it would have been another hung parliament and maybe even Corbyn PM and no Brexit.
Now Hunt has more chance of succeeding Ed Davey as LD leader than Kemi as Conservative leader
You're saying no Brexit like that would be a bad thing!
I'm not, and I refuse to be so despite family pressure.
Why. It is brilliant
I don't like the concept that people can send me messages/images at any time and require a response. I love my family but they can be inane ("Look at this picture of my meal") and I think there has to be a certain gap between people. So I deleted the app.
Why does receiving a message require an immediate response? The whole point of a message is that it sits there until you're ready to read it. Anyone who knows me well is aware that if they want an immediate response they have to phone me, otherwise I'll have a look later and that might be tomorrow.
It doesn't. I get around to checking WhatsApp about every couple of days.
Luke Tryl @LukeTryl · 6m Good speech from Kemi - not because everything in it popular or risk free, but because (arguably for the first time since July 24) it tries to provide an answer to the fundamental question ‘What is the point of the Tories in a world where battle feels like Reform vs Labour?’
I listened to the Jeremy Hunt interviews on The Rest Is Politics Leading. Very intelligent guy - both real world and political intelligence. He can't be the only Tory left who is a decent human being and has a political brain.
Someone needs to rescue what is left of the party before it is too late. Jenrick thinks Enoch was Right. Cleverly shouts "cos its a shithole" abuses about towns *which have a Tory MP*.
Neither of these cretins can turn things around. But Hunt could. A pity the Tories won't vote for him cos he's practically a communist or something.
The Tories were mad to pick Johnson over Hunt. Brexit Derangement Syndrome in action.
Hunt would never have won the redwall seats in 2019 that Boris did. So it would have been another hung parliament and maybe even Corbyn PM and no Brexit.
Now Hunt has more chance of succeeding Ed Davey as LD leader than Kemi as Conservative leader
You're saying no Brexit like that would be a bad thing!
PM Corbyn possibly too propped up by the SNP
As a Labour supporter and Scotsman I probably wouldn't have looked on this prospect with the same feelings as you. Especially given the alternative on offer.
One point Fraser Nelson (probably) made was the Conservatives need to move on from Mrs Thatcher. It is not like she spent all her time banging on about Stanley Baldwin or even Winston Churchill.
I'm in Bosnia. The war finished 30 years ago (actually it was just frozen, just when the Bosnian army was starting to make military progress. They reckon that if the war had run on another 3 months they would have lifted the siege of Sarajevo by military means and made inroads into the Serb occupied territories. An example that stopping a war is not all that is necessary, the aggressor needs to be defeated. There is anger that Republika Srpska is effectively the land they ethnically cleansed. Including Srebrenica. A reward for genocide). War wounds are still raw, I have spoken to people who served in ARBiH and another who was in a concentration camp at the age of 3. It is a nation (or 3 nations) with PTSD
But I digress. My point was going to be... was Europe this fucked up in 1975? When I was 10 and 30 years after WW2
I think the stamp duty thing was a roll of the dice that could just get noticed and cut through - a bit like Osborne’s IHT pledge.
It’s unlikely to change the political landscape overnight - but it might make some people think again about deserting to Reform, and some others to at least give the Tories a hearing.
Or it might do the square root of sod all. But at least they’ve come out with something that is eye catching, and at least Kemi has tried her best to carve out a differentiator here in terms of approach and policy.
The speech won’t have won any awards. But Badenoch deserves more time, IMHO.
I'm at work and can't listen to the speech but the preview on Today this morning said she was going to say that there would be significant cuts in government expenditure and half of this would go to deficit reduction whilst the other half went on tax cuts.
Which is pathetic. How can anyone even pretending to be grown up and responsible about our finances even mention tax cuts when we are borrowing £150bn a year except as a long term, blue sky aspiration?
Our finances are under massive structural pressure. As the ultra cheap loans taken out after the GFC are rolled over at current gilt rates the cost of our existing borrowing is going to sharply increase. For as long as those lunatics occupy both the Kremlin and the White House the pressure to increase our defence spending is immense. No party of any stripe are brave enough to tell our pensioners that the Triple lock has gone far enough. Care costs are not even close to being adequately funded at the moment and they are heading in 1 direction: up. No government is going to be able to stop a steady rise in public spending, no government. The real issues are what steps are we willing to take to moderate these increases and how are we going to pay for them?
It is utterly dishonest not to acknowledge that increased taxes and fewer tax breaks are going to be in that mix. Once again, the real issue is what proportion of that upward pressure is covered by taxes and what by offsetting cuts elsewhere. Tax cuts? Jeez.
Couldn't agree more. The debate on this on all sides is utterly pathetic.
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Pretty well essential for sharing family photos. Sadly.
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1975793415049941186
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coronate
BBC report: "We sent an ambulance crew to the scene and treated a man before taking him to a major trauma centre."
"Coronated" is what happens when a Bubble passes its Fizzical.
I’d just about got management to agree to my proposal on hiring. One technical interview, in person. One HR interview (min for compliance). The hire on probation. Get rid of the AI shit, 15 rounds, all that garbage.
You'll be triggering Lucky.
That irritating truth was a return of normality, a normality of ugly neologisms.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Manual_of_Conchology/D5oHAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq="coronated"&dq="coronated"&printsec=frontcover
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/coronated_adj?tl=true
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/coronate
"Kemi Badenoch: My children wish I still worked in McDonald’s" https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/kemi-badenoch-mcdonalds-t9935hs3l
Premier - fully employed workers. Nearly impossible to fire.
Secondary - legally employed, but using zero hour contracts etc to have little or no employment rights (worse than U.K.!!)
Tertiary - full on illegal employment.
We are not quite there yet. The big difference between the U.K. and them is the ratio of Primary to Secondary. We have a much higher proportion of Primary.
If we head down the route we are on, there will be golden rights for a few but *much less* for most.
Boris Johnson demanded (did he?) that candidates support Brexit; now Kemi is demanding that all candidates must support leaving the EHCR.
That matches my suggestion yesterday that there is a certain similarity of process to UKIP around the time Farage left.
* Like Garage ( autocorrect changed that so I left it) responded to Starmer's speech last week.
Now Hunt has more chance of succeeding Ed Davey as LD leader than Kemi as Conservative leader
Folk soon stop.
Plodding and a bit dialing-it-in so far.
Kinnock levels of oratory it 'aint.
Doubt anyone these days can do that anymore. It's a different world. They don't have the training through endless public meetings.
Wasn't he a Fabian?
or President Jenrick or
President Starmer. No, keep our King
Meanwhile I am hard at work having lunch in the sun:
Hopefully Jenrick hasn’t seen it, don’t want him getting ideas.
https://x.com/photomusicrock/status/1975577444800471187?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
I cannot imagine anything worse than watching conference speeches. Even Loose Women or Dickinsons Real Deal (which is ace) would be better.
She is a better speaker than Starmer; but that doesn’t take much.
Of course “decent enough” won’t be enough by itself to revive any fortunes.
What this means is that she's saying it's fine to cut taxes when there's still a large deficit. Surely the deficit should be cut first, and taxes cut later?
Many of them currently are sat on waiting lists for mental health services. Indeed, many have ended up worse and not working because they didn't get timely care in first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5TsUyPlvng
It's Kemi's tune:
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease release me, let me gooooooooooooo !!!!
10/10 genuinely delighted with that.
On the other hand, I have no problem running my own private chat server for this (soon to be banned by the government, no doubt).
Which is pathetic. How can anyone even pretending to be grown up and responsible about our finances even mention tax cuts when we are borrowing £150bn a year except as a long term, blue sky aspiration?
Our finances are under massive structural pressure. As the ultra cheap loans taken out after the GFC are rolled over at current gilt rates the cost of our existing borrowing is going to sharply increase. For as long as those lunatics occupy both the Kremlin and the White House the pressure to increase our defence spending is immense. No party of any stripe are brave enough to tell our pensioners that the Triple lock has gone far enough. Care costs are not even close to being adequately funded at the moment and they are heading in 1 direction: up. No government is going to be able to stop a steady rise in public spending, no government. The real issues are what steps are we willing to take to moderate these increases and how are we going to pay for them?
It is utterly dishonest not to acknowledge that increased taxes and fewer tax breaks are going to be in that mix. Once again, the real issue is what proportion of that upward pressure is covered by taxes and what by offsetting cuts elsewhere. Tax cuts? Jeez.
I wonder if they've got some intel out of the Treasury.
At least she would be remembered for something other than making granny freeze to death!
But, yeh, I doubt it too. She is too cautious.
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This is actually a good speech from Kemi Badenoch. She's buying herself some time.
And I need to know how Kemi is paying for it. She'd better not just be throwing more money at the demand side of the housing market with the overwhelming benefit for wealthy people - in that case it could reverse the long-term trend of house prices relatively moderating, and really screw things up.
They need £15-20bn a year from somewhere.
If it is Farage style flim-flam, then she has a long-term problem.
Also implications for Scotland. It's devolved but they will need to react.
A very conservative speech and should give the party a lift
I get around to checking WhatsApp about every couple of days.
Notifications turned off.
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@LukeTryl
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Good speech from Kemi - not because everything in it popular or risk free, but because (arguably for the first time since July 24) it tries to provide an answer to the fundamental question ‘What is the point of the Tories in a world where battle feels like Reform vs Labour?’
23-34 £11.6bn
22-23 £15.4bn
I don't disagree that Stamp Duty has negative effects on the housing market and mobility, but how will the tax be raised instead?
It’s unlikely to change the political landscape overnight - but it might make some people think again about deserting to Reform, and some others to at least give the Tories a hearing.
Or it might do the square root of sod all. But at least they’ve come out with something that is eye catching, and at least Kemi has tried her best to carve out a differentiator here in terms of approach and policy.
The speech won’t have won any awards. But Badenoch deserves more time, IMHO.