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Both Truss and Kwarteng now have net approval ratings of MINUS 44% – politicalbetting.com
Both Truss and Kwarteng now have net approval ratings of MINUS 44% – politicalbetting.com
The latest from @RedfieldWilton All Net Approval Ratings(5 October):Keir Starmer: +7% (+1)Liz Truss: -44% (-11)Kwasi Kwarteng: -44% (-14)
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What happens now?
These things tend to take on a momentum of their own. All bad news is the government's fault (and there'll be plenty of it). Good news ignored.
Happened to Major and Brown.
https://twitter.com/BBCDanielS/status/1578050430650748928
Hamlins LLP said the "unlawful acts alleged to have taken place include:
1) The hiring of private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside people’s cars and homes
2) The commissioning of individuals to surreptitiously listen into and record people’s live, private telephone calls whilst they were taking place
3) The payment of police officials, with corrupt links to private investigators, for inside, sensitive information
4) The impersonation of individuals to obtain medical information from private hospitals, clinics, and treatment centres by deception
5) The accessing of bank accounts, credit histories and financial transactions through illicit means and manipulation.
Which require jail time.
https://twitter.com/DDDaughters/status/1578022800836939776?s=20&t=iTxC0ZgdDvxQmMv61D08xg
"The good news is, it's not a terror attack. And another piece of good news is the three victims of the stabbing are not in life-threatening situations, thank God. But it's just a reminder of the dangers of carrying the knife." - Sadiq Khan
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/06/bishopsgate-incident-multiple-people-injured-suspected-stabbing/
They're pretty screwed. Not about damage limitation and hoping the public shown uncharacteristic gratitude if the economy picks up, despite the horrendous winter we're about to experience.
Daily Mail
Mail on Sunday
Mail online
I think either they limp on with Truss in office but not in power, hoping something turns up, or we are heading towards a general election before next summer.
That's a pretty serious set of allegations. If subsequent investigation bears them out, then one might expect some individuals are likely to see the inside of a jail.
Interesting that now alleged they have more recently gone down that path of the tabloids worst behaviour.
When the crime moves from the gangland areas and the tourist areas, to the City, he’s got a big problem on his hands.
The kind of person who flies the Ukrainian flag from their house is the type who would have voted for Trump. Practically every property I see flying the blue and yellow right now is also flying the Butcher's Apron. We've got all Trump and no Hillary Clinton. What a wonderful time to be alive...
It only takes a handful of nutters to nominate a fellow nutter, and they might well win with the party at large.
Westminster Voting Intention (5 Oct.):
Labour 52% (–)
Conservative 24% (–)
Liberal Democrat 10% (–)
Green 5% (–)
SNP 4% (-1)
Reform UK 3% (–)
Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 2 Oct.
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1578052464024162304?s=20&t=nuwHsNZUEohnPYag9NRzrA
This morning the ONS 2021 baby names data was published. Guido’s been enjoying the annual tradition of seeing whether any politicians have inspired parents so much as to influence their birth certificate decisions. The main bad news comes for Sir Keir, whose name is now facing extinction levels. In 2019, there were 15 baby Keirs; in 2020 that fell to nine; in 2021, a year into his leadership of The Labour Party, that figure now stands at just six – a 60% drop. Will Labour’s poll lead this year do anything to improve the only statistic dropping quicker than the pound?
Meanwhile, Boris managed to cling onto popularity, with the number of babies named after the then-PM sticking to its 2019 figure of 39 – the 815th most popular boys’ name out of over 4,600. Rishi’s numbers, improved by forcing everyone to stay at home for three months while paying their wages, are remarkable. They leaped by 77% between 2019 and 2020, and now hold steady at 41 uses in 2021. It seems many Britons, if not Tory members, were #Ready4Rishi…
https://order-order.com/2022/10/06/keir-facing-extinction/
Of course by then the damage may already have been done.
There is however a problem with locating a compromise candidate as you say. The Boris-ites won’t want Rishi, the ERG won’t want May, a large chunk of the party don’t want Boris, and Wallace doesn’t want the job.
Someone will have to compromise somewhere.
Pensions are an issue, but shouldn't we talk about raising the pension age first?
Safest place in the building.
Had a fun one, yesterday - the local Corbynite chap with a table in the street. Palestine etc. He also had a poster up about the evils of slavery. And one about Begum.
He was spitting angry when I pointed out that Begum was, by her own words, a slaver.
I believe I may have even coined kamikwasi or kamiwazi? before you, but I can never figure out how search works on PB.
It's not about closing the schemes, although that is also necessary, it's restating the existing ones that are due to pay out after 2030 (which gives people time to plan) into DC and all of them to DC by 2040. Existing recipients will have to take a hit.
Macron is a friend 🧅 ❤️
If they can prove the links to the Mail for any of it, then surely prosecutions must follow?
Rod “swing back” Crosby would be running the numbers. But I think it is 90% a Labour majority now.
On the flying of flags, so few people fly them anyway (as opposed to somewhere like the USA) that it is probably hard to draw any conclusions from it.
It’s a complete cancer on British public life, is run by sociopaths, and owned by tax dodgers.
If you see a Ukraine flag, it’s safe to go and borrow some sugar.
If you see a “Let’s Go Brandon” placard, avoid like the plague.
One reason the phone hacking thing faded away was that too many people were coming into the frame - the police selling background checks to private detectives and phone hacking and email interception was extremely common, in and out of the press. I have knowledge of a case involving a sports club - a paranoid nutter who hired a private eye to dig on everyone on the committee, then tried blackmailing people. The stuff he got access to for a few hundred pounds was staggering.
Winter Is Coming. Winter clothing is not. So raise your posting game or you'll be freezing to death in a t shirt in donetsk oblast.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Go_Brandon
https://www.mynrpension.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NR-Pensions-Key-Features-April-2021.pdf
Could it possibly be (I don't particularly favour this theory - just asking - but then again the man in question does have a lot of resources) that Sunak staged all this? Let's say he is fully aware that given a choice between a white candidate and a non-white one the retired Powellites who make up the membership will always pick the white one. So who would he want to replace Johnson, as his own transitional person? Truss or Mordaunt? Well Truss of course! Watch her self-destruct as the biggest pile of cretinous insanity that has ever graced Number 10. Then sail in through the front door by acclamation.
But does anyone know by what right the Mail has the Royal coat of arms on its masthead? Can anyone do that or will they have been given permission at some stage in the recesses of history? If the latter, can such permission be revoked?
Multiply this to the nation at large and loads of big businesses across the country.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobite_broadside_-_Agreeable_Contrast.jpg
Total pigshit, from another one of Putin's pimps.
As I said before the only viable replacement for Truss before the next general election is Wallace, with maybe Sunak as Chancellor
I fancy a go on one of the ex Americas cup catamarans, but I can't see how it is possible. I'm guessing you can't get a crew together for a joy ride and even if you could it would cost a fortune to hire them. I seem to remember Top Gear did a race against one in New Zealand. Envious.
Any other suggestions for scaring myself. I don't like heights, but I'm ok if enclosed (hence can ski and pitts special and gliders)
DB pensions should never have been offered but the mistake was made and now it needs a course correction.
Cutting that DB pension liability would cut bond rates for the state and private sectors overnight.
And on what basis could the government legitimately force the conversion of "existing DB pensions to DC based on the asset levels within those DB pension schemes"?
For private companies it's entirely a matter for them. For public companies, well yes, HMG might decide it needs to close DB schemes for new entrants and stop the further accrual of DB rights but they cannot simply steal away the rights already accrued.
d they could choose to increase it further in later rounds. So what would stop them picking a much higher figure?
Secondly, if the committee doesn't have the power either to set a very high threshold or to suspend the membership vote entirely, who does? Would Tory MPs as a whole have the power to adopt a rule change (by what majority?) or would another body within the party have to do so? Either way it is at least conceivable that sufficient support for changing the rules could develop.