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Well, that BoE stabilisation went well. Pension funds are getting hammered and losing funds. Someone tell reality that it’s over-reacting*.
*And if not, it’s because of Starmer or woke IMF or the deep state remainers or the pound sterling is a communist!
Kwarteng had no choice to step in and come up with the bonkers plan he did, which achieves nothing and will (in all likelihood) achieve nothing? Even many Tories are aghast, because they know how daft it is.
Energy costs are rising. Yet other nations didn’t crash the pound with their plans. Oh, wait, that’s someone else’s fault. It always is.
Meanwhile, we’re left with the fantasy that cutting tax burdens for the rich will help those who really need it. If I wanted to write a budget which would lose support for the Tories, I couldn’t have done a better job.
You can make all the excuses you want, the fact is that your ideologues are in charge and all you have are excuses. As big a wrecker of the economy as Corbyn with theirs and your fantasy ideologies.
It’s all because of net zero, yet the dollar is rising (and was the excuse for the slump). Yet, somehow, this ultimate cause of our predicament isn’t having much of an effect in the USA.
The Conservatives: The party of zero personal responsibility.
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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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I am not having it that Shrewsbury, Birmingham or Hereford are northern! :-)
September 27, 2022 at 10:58 pm in reply to: The Tory, Oops, I mean Labour Conference is Going Well #245662God. 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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Wasn’t Spire a Torquay fan before Scunny?
Well, it’s a good job Scunny is further north than mouth of the Humber, eh? ;-)
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Yes. Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Michael Gove, Steve Baker, Jacob Rees-Mogg etc. Those well known campaigners for remain.
Southgate insists on playing Maguire when it’s clear he’s out of form and confidence shot. It’s mad.
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Now I will have to call you JustLes as penance! :-)
All this talk of triggering and cancelling because some air dislike for something is tedious.
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Rees-Mogg?
Many Tory backbenchers didn’t seem happy with the plan yesterday. No doubt they’re all part of the neo-Marxists BPG keeps warning us about. It’s handy when anyone who disagrees with you isn’t someone behaving in good faith, but an evil conspirator.
That didn’t seem to be your point; you specifically said it was the BBC’s headline, and was akin to the Guardian’s. Hence you weren’t saying they were wrong to highlight another headline, you thought it was their own.
No, they were quoting a media source to highlight a media reaction. They have done the same with right wing rags in the past. The fact you think the BBC would prefer the Morning Star shows how deluded you are on this.
I am not sure about that. He is an authoritarian conservative, but I am not quite sure he’d be a fascist. It would go against his sensibilities as some archaic idyll of what a gentlemen should be.
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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The same Sally Army which has sex abuse of minors in its past and allegations of unpaid labour. ;-) “One of the greats.”
A protest without inconvenience is unlikely to achieve anything.
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I am guessing there is a horse of Swann’s called Dreams of Thunder and Renee is relating it to the Iron. ;-)
Or maybe Harry Flashman, Rugby school. :-)
It’s telling of your morality if you don’t think animals should be treated with respect. It doesn’t exactly sell Christianity to me if you think being an animal means it’s acceptable to disrespect or abuse them.
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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