The unfortunate thing is that if they'd done it any time between 2010 and 2021 it would have been fine. They barely missed the one weird decade when governments could print money for free and nothing… (View Post)

So this is what you'd think from the last 6 months, but I don't think you'd get it from her career? Truss was a Liberal Democrat then a Cameron-esque liberal conservative and a remainer until the day… (View Post)

The thing is this isn't even neoliberal ideology. It's not any ideology. Huge tax cut when you have inflation running away and interest rates are going to have to go up? What, no. If neoliberal ideol… (View Post)

Just to say I was totally and utterly wrong about Truss, I assumed she was just telling the members what they wanted to hear and she'd pivot when she got the job. My general mental model of British p… (View Post)

She can get the best of both worlds. The people who supported her are mad and/or incompetent so she can reward them for their loyalty, then sack them when they do something mad and/or incompetent and… (View Post)