An excellent point. To use a practical example - do I think Brown and Darling got everything right during/in the lead up to the GFC? Hell no. But I can appreciate that they both worked bloody hard to… (View Post)

And that is exactly why the Tories have nothing to lose by getting rid of Truss and writing the whole thing off as an embarrassing footnote (or trying to, anyway). If you’re staring down the barrel o… (View Post)

I’m not entirely sure what the difference is between a second new PM in a Parliament and the first as far as a mandate is concerned - if you’re worried about the lack of mandate from another PM, sure… (View Post)

I mean, I feel like “bet”, whilst I get the allusion, somehow doesn’t hit on the craziness of the problem. If I thought Truss was being so rational as to simply gamble on this, I’d think she was mere… (View Post)

You know, I still think that had she not blown her credibility up in her first 3 weeks, she would still be getting a fair hearing even in the face of the (inevitable) rise in interest rates and mortg… (View Post)