She may be gone but the Truss legacy still endures – politicalbetting.com
She may be gone but the Truss legacy still endures – politicalbetting.com
Chris Philp says Nigel Farage's spending plans are "Liz Truss on steroids".The only snag is he was No2 in the Treasury in her government and gave the mini-Budget "9.5 out of 10".www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-to…
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* at last, a proper bit of blue-on-turquoise attack action
* the huge benefit of being true
♡ best not to remind us all of the Truss weeks.
But the best effort for a while.
But he is right and while it might be embarrassing for him, he can at least argue that he saw the implosion first-hand so is well-placed to comment.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/04/would-reform-be-mad-to-accept-liz-truss
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/one-third-britons-say-they-would-view-reform-uk-more-negatively-if-liz-truss-were-join-party
Westminster Voting Intention [London]:
LAB: 30% (-13)
RFM: 19% (+10)
CON: 17% (-4)
LDM: 16% (+5)
GRN: 15% (+5)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 4-8 May.
Changes w/ GE2024.
(Apologies @Luckyguy1983 )
Deets of that Ipsos poll are:
34% say that former PM Liz Truss defecting to Reform would make them view the party more negatively. 13% say they would view the party more positively. 38% who wouldn't care- I wonder how many of those are because they can't view Reform more negatively than the currently do?
I was meaning in the UK, to clarify.
Don’t know why people knock london
Lots of good clothes shops. Pretty cafes. It’s v pleasant
Police investigating fire at Keir Starmer’s north London home
A fire damaged the door of the prime minister’s £2 million home early this morning. No one was injured
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/keir-starmer-fire-north-london-home-nsc7vk7sj
At 3 G&Ts the ranting will begin.
I think what they're going to find is the same institutional resistance the Tories faced, the same civil servants like our own @bondegezou who is clearly against this and I'm sure were he able to would frustrate all attempts by ministers to bring immigration down. These self satisfied lanyard wearers in the public sector will over reach, force the government to fail as they did with the Tories time and again then we'll end up with a Reform majority.
Labour will first need to deal with internal dissenters within the civil service and start purging these people or they, like the Tories, will be doomed to failure as they frustrate, delay and block ministers from implementing policies to bring immigration down, deport illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to stop the boats.
https://bsky.app/profile/ballotbox.scot/post/3loou6c7u622t
I don't share the feeling expressed here today that Labour's position is recoverable. But it is nice that they're trying - that's democracy.
I wonder though why you're being rude?
I would still say the best idea is to give Boris a thorough sheep shearing (and dip) and take a punt on the Bojo magic reminding people of the good times.
Balfour was still Leader of the Conservatives (or Unionists) at the time and remained so while out of parliament and through to the next two elections, which he also lost - though not before prompting a constitutional crisis by abusing the Tory majority in the Lords.
The civil service meme was disproven by Truss and Kwarteng. As long as you have the courage of your convictions, you can override them (and ignore the OBR) and enjoy the sunlit uplands.
https://x.com/trussliz/status/1921849325853745189?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
See my posts from earlier today.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5204502#Comment_5204502
It's a policy (assuming the courts don't just tell him to do one) which - along with the massive funding cuts to US health research - which is likely to do serious only term damage to the US pharmaceutical industry industry.
While doing little to decrease drug costs.
It also ignores the fact that generics (90% of the US market) are already cheaper in the US than in Europe, and the fact that 50% of the price of prescriptions is goes into the pockets of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (largely owned by the US health insurance companies), not the pharmaceutical companies.
Apart from all that, well done, Donald.
As MiC found in their poll last week only a Johnson led Conservatives would now lead Reform and Labour, a Badenoch, Jenrick, even Cameron led Tories would still trail and a Sunak led Tories at best tie with Reform
For whatever value I provided, my cost to the taxpayer was zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election
ETA - but do you wear a lanyard? I don't, but I'm probably in the minority at work; I'm not sure what the official policy is or whether there is one, but no one has ever told me off for it.
Boris failed to win in London even in 2019, nationally however MiC found last week a Johnson led Conservative Party would be on 26%, up 5% from where they are with Kemi. Reform would be on 23%, down 6% from their current 29%, with Labour unchanged on 22% and the LDs down 1% to 15%
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/media/rpahhzfk/more-in-common-post-election-briefing-3.pdf (p48)
Ant McPartlin would be noteworthy.
A mathematician Pope going up against a machine god superintelligence is the most cyberpunk thing ever.
https://x.com/WKCosmo/status/1921633591441703218
The Australian Liberals are officially part of the International Democracy Union of right-wing parties, with other members of this alliance being the UK Tories and the Canadian Conservatives/Tories.
If Poliviere is a Tory then Dutton is also a Tory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Democracy_Union
Liberal is not a leftwing term, even if its been embraced by many who abhor liberal economics.
(Although he may be out of the game anyway - he's not looking great)
Complete gap otherwise.
I wonder if I would work harder if I put my lanyard on when I'm WFH though...
You'll forgive me if I suggest that such narrowness is part of why I'm no longer a Tory party member. Once upon a time other matters mattered.