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Like I said, this is my honest opinion of Buck and his arguments. If he is going to come on here with a perceived patronising and arrogant attitude, making out that anyone else is beneath him, then reactions may happen.
Maybe I can do better, but I am not going to lose too much sleep over it. If Bucks wants to treat everyone like an idiot and demeaning anyone else who thinks differently he might get disdain from those he derides.
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Downgradings of ratings, damages to gilts, mortgages and pensions at risk. However, it’s all ok because every single concerned body of high status is a full of it ‘expert,’ unlike Bucks, who we should trust, otherwise we’re Marxists, usual suspects, and disingenuous.
It’s not convincing, but part of me thinks carry on. This attitude is what got the Tories into the mess they’re in, in popularity, so be my guest and shoot yourself in the foot.
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Bore off with the usual suspects crap, as if anyone who disagrees with you is suspect. You bemoan anyone else, but have your own rigid ideas which are not up for question. And if they are, it’s because we’re left wing guttersnipes.
The only thing you have shown is your astounding arrogance and dismissals of everyone else as stupid, while whining if anyone dares to question your ‘expertise’. Just because someone disagrees with you, it doesn’t mean they’re ignorant or reliant on others.
The pound unsurprisingly reacted to BoE intervention, costing £65 billion in the process. If your economic ‘expertise’ involves BoE taking drastic measures, then I am alarmed and unlikely to trust your ‘expertise’. Instead of howling about how everyone else is disingenuous, try and deal with your own argument. We are not obliged to take this weak position as gospel, because your ego thinks of yourself as some great expert.
Of course there is the usual crap about critics being left wing. You’re just like the Corbynites. In your and their ideal world there would be no critique, just pandering to their ideological silliness. Corbynites see anyone to the right of Chavez as right wing, you see anyone to the left of Reagan as left wing. Hence the idiocy coming out that anyone critical of pensions, mortgages, loss of gilts are overreacting lefties. I never knew city traders were a secret hive of Che wannabes.
I eagerly await the howls of ‘abuse’ and ‘insults’ from someone because I haven’t played along with their nonsense.
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“Many of us have also been warning that Germany and others were heading for trouble if they continued to rely on gas supplied by a despot”.
Us??? Such pomposity. Wasn’t aware that German leaders were keen readers of the forum.
Also, those who are disagreeing with Bucks don’t unanimously think everything others have done has been great. Germany’s decision to cut back on nuclear has been disastrous.
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Also, I would say there is more to deciphering whether a leader is doing a good job than approval ratings. For example, the 30% of ardent Trump fans are hardly going to say Biden is doing a good job, from a place of reasoned argument, no matter what.
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Hallo hallo anybody in, earth calling Buck’s wake up and smell the coffee, come out of the darkness and read posts based on facts.
Partisan Tories are really grasping at straws to pretend this is normal. If it wasn’t for the fact many will now suffer because of their ideology I would be pleased, as it is electoral suicide.
One thing party supporters should bear in mind is that it’s never good when the opposite side rub their hands with glee. Tories understandably did it with Corbyn, now Tories should think why Labour are getting more optimistic with Truss. The more they delude themselves and double down, the more gleeful hands will be rubbed.
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Bucks battling against reality and acting like the this is fine meme. Suits me, if the Tories delude themselves along his thinking they’re not going to improve in ratings.
10 years ago we needed to reduce the deficit, reduce borrowing because we spent too much, so the poor need to have services cut back. Now we need to borrow to fund tax cuts for the rich. It’s transparent.
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Someone has taken a picture of Bucksiron mulling over his responses:
*This is meant to be a bit of tongue in cheek banter, not an attempt at bullying or insulting. We all have to laugh at ourselves. There’s plenty to laugh about me, after all.
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I’d love to know where the insults are in this thread. IA calling Truss St Liz, me sarcastically calling Lilico and Hannan geniuses?
That’s tame and the sort of thing most engage in. Maybe I should be woke and politically correct in future and not gently tease anyone who I think have made daft arguments. There are hardly death threats, grievous insults (like c**t) being used. I have seen Bucks language of a similar kind before, but it’s ok when he does it.
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“Actually, I didn’t say that anyone had insulted me,”
Literally the post before on this thread by you:
“No constructive argument, just insults.”
Also, doing nothing wouldn’t have caused a crash which has jeopardised mortgages and pensions. Not only that, made fuel costs worse. Other countries somehow managed not to short their currency and damage the economy with actions to mitigate the cost of living crisis.
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I have not insulted you. I have criticised your argument. Bore off with your martyr complex.
Net zero is not why the pound crashed. The point is that this has been caused by Kwarteng’s and Truss’s non-budget. The rising dollar shows that it’s not a global phenomena. You may be ok with mortgages becoming unaffordable and pension funds crashing, but the poorer aren’t.
You fumbling around just makes me trust your economic opinion less.
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I don’t think Starmer thinks it’s in the bag. A lot has been said over the last few days of avoiding complacency, but please forgive Labour supporters for being happy. We’re allowed to have some optimism. Gurny doesn’t represent the Labour party.
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