Sunak or Truss

[SydneyRover]

that rhymes hound

[SydneyRover]

Sunak, Truss, or Keith in 2024.

Get your ringside tickets for the circus show. Chipperfields will have nothing on any of these 3.

Whoa there SS.
Starmer isn’t guaranteed a place in that show yet.

What, do you mean his own party might go for the juggler and get rid?

A better comedy act would be Diane Abbott balancing the books.

I seem to remember you telling us all that you couldn't balance the books in your own business hound? is that funny?

Everyone likes a bit of banter it would seem hound ......

[SydneyRover]

back on topic

the Guardian

''Truss says the attempt to rewrite parliamentary rules to try and support Owen Paterson was a mistake and she wouldn’t do it again, if similar circumstances repeated themelves. She adds that there needs to be more support for MPs''

hmmm

[SydneyRover]

It's sounding like a Truss gov't will be even better than brexit

busadvertising ............. Better than Brexit


Vote truss vote tory

[RobTheRover]

Truss doubled down in hustings yesterday on her commitment from 2014 to curb solar farms.

Exactly what we need right now, Liz. Exactly.

She's clueless. Mind, Rishi is too. Both out of their depth.

[BillyStubbsTears]

So that's the end of levelling up as a means of helping the post-industrial North catch up.

https://mobile.twitter.com/trussliz/status/1554173127025893380

Truss interprets it as broadband for farming villages. Plus she said last night that she'll pay for her tax cuts by slashing wages for civil servants outside London. So that should help other areas level up.

[Ldr]

Differing pay already happens in the NHS where London workers get an enhanced salary to reflect living costs, it’s not particularly new

[SydneyRover]

Not speaking for bst here but I thought it is the absurdity of what levelling up appears to mean to truss and the tories her target audience which is risible.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Differing pay already happens in the NHS where London workers get an enhanced salary to reflect living costs, it’s not particularly new

Yes but she's not talking about the London allowance. She's talking about cutting the basic pay of public sector workers outside London.

[wilts rover]

Differing pay already happens in the NHS where London workers get an enhanced salary to reflect living costs, it’s not particularly new

Yes but she's not talking about the London allowance. She's talking about cutting the basic pay of public sector workers outside London.

She wanted to save £8.8 billion from the pay of all public sector workers outside of London. That would be a big pay cut for somebody.

Just announced she has scrapped it tho.

[SydneyRover]

In a matter of around 24hrs truss has gone from an 11bn cost saving plan to a 2.2bn plan, unnamed sources in her campaign are saying that she may opt to bring forward the plastic bottle deposit scheme and use it to make up the shortfall.

[Ldr]

Is that a record for a u turn?

[SydneyRover]

Surprised she's not being treated for whiplash

[DonnyOsmond]

How the f*ck is Rishi not ahead out of the two?

[drfchound]

Polls can’t be relied upon DO.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Sorry. My mistake. Of COURSE I should have known that when Truss said she wanted to cut public sector workers' wages outside London, she didn't mean she wanted to cut public sector workers' wages outside London.

How very stupid of me.

[wilts rover]

Sunak, Truss or nobody!!!

The people who run the country and want to change GE voting regulations can't even organise their own leadership ballot!

Voting delayed after GCHQ warn plan to allow Tory members to vote, or change their vote, online is at risk of hacking. Paper ballots due to be posted yesterday have still not been sent out:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/02/tory-leadership-voting-delayed-gchq-hacking-warning/

[Colin C No.3]

A sports injury?

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've been saying for over a year now that whoever was Tory PM in the run up to the General Election faced a shocking economic situation.

The BoE has said today that inflation is predicted to peak at 13% (!!!) and that we will be in recession from October this year until Xmas 2023.

This is a 1970s style economic catastrophe. Whoever is PM is going to be very, very unpopular in 18 months time.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Meanwhile Truss said last night that this incoming recession "is not inevitable if bold action is taken".

I think that's what is technically known as a "hostage to fortune".

[drfchound]

I've been saying for over a year now that whoever was Tory PM in the run up to the General Election faced a shocking economic situation.

The BoE has said today that inflation is predicted to peak at 13% (!!!) and that we will be in recession from October this year until Xmas 2023.

This is a 1970s style economic catastrophe. Whoever is PM is going to be very, very unpopular in 18 months time.

The BoE governor also said that the two biggest contributors to the rate rise are the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, but let’s not mention that.

[tommy toes]

The Tory members in the Home Counties will love him for this

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62436193.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16597253269463&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

I think he's a tw*t

[SydneyRover]

I said the tories aren't for sharing and wouldn't like levelling up one bit

fishy rishy?

“We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas

Straight from the horses arse, labour were doing more than 12 years ago

[tommy toes]

All those working class people up here who voted for this lot need to listen to Sunak and hold their heads in shame.

[wilts rover]

Project Fear. They knew what they voted for and really wanted to see new flower beds and stone sets along the High Street in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Vote Tory.

[BillyStubbsTears]

By far the most surprising thing about this is that anyone should be surprised at it.

They are Tories. This is what they believe in. This is what they do.

One day, the people from round here who voted them in will realise what the point of Brexit was. To chuck them a bit of red meat while the Tories got on with doing what they do.

[grayx]

How the f*ck is Rishi not ahead out of the two?

Perhaps folk are not keen on millionaire tax dodgers.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Going to be great having Truss as PM int it? There'll be a massive job boom because of the need to employ an army of people to interpret what the f**k she means every time she opens her mouth.

Last week she was saying she wanted to cut public sector wages outside London when she actually meant she didn't want to cut public sector wages outside London.

Last night she said she wasn't going to give "handouts" to help people survive the cost of living crisis.
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-08-05/truss-promises-tax-cuts-not-handouts-to-tackle-cost-of-living-crisis

But of course today, a colleague has clarified that Truss didn't say what she said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62453813

I really thought that Cameron, May and Johnson whereas bad as it could get as PM. Truss is going to blow that claim out the water.

[drfchound]

#allthesame.

[River Don]

Yeah, I don't the the all the same hashtag is fair.

The problem we have here is, I don't think there are any good solutions. The nature of the problem is the UK cannot control these economic matters. We're getting poorer and it's a question of how to handle it.

Protecting the most vulnerable is the right thing to do. Explaining to the wider population that times are getting tough and there's nowt we can do about it. That is difficult.