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Don’t worry everyone. These geniuses have identified the true cause of the pound crash:
I still think the market reaction was mainly to what the mini-Budget said about the BoE decision, but I've thought of a potential secondary factor. The market may have felt that the mini-Budget implied a Labour victory in 2024/25 is more likely than they had previously thought.+
— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) September 26, 2022
From @DanielJHannan: No, the pound isn’t crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It’s because the markets are terrified of @Keir_Starmer. https://t.co/l06p3fdwkE
— ConservativeHome (@ConHome) September 28, 2022
That’s right, the market reacted so briskly to the possibility of a Labour government coming in when we don’t have knowledge of the outcome or even the date of the election. We can’t predict the financial outcomes of Brexit, but we can definitely state the financial impacts of election outcomes for times unspecified.
Their lack of personal responsibility is becoming impossible to satirise.
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God. Don’t you start with the claims that anything not Corbyn Labour is actually Tory. There is nothing Tory about singing the anthem and not being performatively socialist. It’s been that way since Attlee and before. It’s bad enough when Owen Jones and co groan on about it.
To be fair, pretty much anyone could have beaten Corbyn and I thought that Boris hadn’t achieved Brexit, given that the narrative from some is that we need to ensure it’s done after predictably reneging on triumphs of what a fantastic deal it was.
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Well, it’s a good job Scunny is further north than mouth of the Humber, eh? ;-)
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Southgate insists on playing Maguire when it’s clear he’s out of form and confidence shot. It’s mad.
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All this talk of triggering and cancelling because some air dislike for something is tedious.
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It doesn’t look good going into the World Cup, but can’t see the FA doing anything beforehand. There would be too much outrage after him getting us further than other coaches have. If we don’t do well, hopefully that will allow some critical analysis of his position. He’s a great man manager, but is tactically poor, as is evident when he has faced sides of equal or better quality.
I note you don’t mention that the BBC used quotation marks, because they were quoting the Guardian, not because it was their own choice of headline. It was in a page talking about media reaction. Fuss over nothing from someone who want to demonise anything which isn’t remotely right wing, as is evident with your comments against anything which doesn’t see this as being some great news for the economy.
Meanwhile, the pound plummets and adherents have nothing to back up their opinions. Just that anyone criticising must be some evil lefty. Such is the vacuum of their argument.
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Don’t tempt those who will say that the true poor wouldn’t be drinking whisky at all if times were tough, while they casually sip on their champagne.
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….the “elites” are the neo- Marxists. The “old school” communists ( give it another try,we will do it better this time) are missing the aims of the new ideology,that will lead to misery and chaos – starting with the working classes!!
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A protest without inconvenience is unlikely to achieve anything.
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I am not sure that he would have let that happen, but he was on the board when Broome was around, and that leaves a sour taste in my mouth, unless he was actually concerned about that.
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Speaking of his bar, the recent reviews look great! X-)
We have had several managers who think that the best way to win a game is to have the team defend, like it’s the Alamo, as soon as we take the lead. They never seem to learn as it continues to fail either.
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I think we all could detect the sarcasm. ;-)
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The latest news of the Ukrainian gains was the most read stories on BBC News, and that includes the Queen related news, yesterday for some time. I know this includes international views, but it shows interest still.
I don’t think it will. The British public have always prided ourselves in standing up to a fascist threat in Nazi Germany. While, there isn’t an appetite to actively join the war in support of Ukraine, there is a sympathy there because of this, where Russia is seen as an expansionist aggressor against a sovereign neighbour, I think. Some may try that line, but I don’t think the public will turn against Ukraine because of it. It might be said the quickest way to end the conflict now is to continue support Ukraine to defeat Russia, especially after yesterday showed they are more than capable of pushing back.
Polls from across Europe shows a willingness to support Ukraine despite costs. From Germany to France to Poland to Czech Republic and so on.
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IA – The Russian stance is that it’s a managed withdrawal to the Donbass. Which is why they have abandoned all their equipment!
It was bad in Syria when they tried to legitimise Russian propaganda for that campaign, including pouring doubt over chemical attacks. Unfortunately, that was easier to convince, due to the existence of bad elements in Syria besides Assad. It didn’t matter that the Russians and Assad were targeting civilians; they could play on anti-Muslim bigotry and associate victims as terrorists (which is ironic, given these people often cry about anti-Muslim bigotry back home and in the Israel-Palestine conflict, rightly or wrongly). They could label groups like the White Helmets as a terrorist front, with no evidence, because of this.
However, they have overplayed their hand here. They have tried with the assertions that Ukraine is riddled with Nazis and far-right, but it hasn’t stuck. The public can see who the aggressor is, who is committing the atrocities, and claims of the Nazi nature of Ukraine look ridiculous when they act like any other nation defending its sovereignty against a foe which uses neo-Nazi mercenaries for their cause.
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