Westminster Politics

edgecutter said:
They explained that the didn't think it was agood idea for him to be on HIGNFY making jokes and than on the news later for serious subjects. It makes sense and I hate the BBC
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It was a pre recorded show and the BBC as usual running scared of the Tory Government. HIGNFY is meant to be a comedy show and if they don’t expect jokes to be made about the Boris situation then I don’t know what to say.
 
TheGame said:
It was a pre recorded show and the BBC as usual running scared of the Tory Government. HIGNFY is meant to be a comedy show and if they don’t expect jokes to be made about the Boris situation then I don’t know what to say.
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Just remember that is the side which call others snowflakes because they think the left can’t take a joke.
 
Buster15 said:
This is like austerity on steroids.
The BoE is now responsible for the biggest attack on living standards in decades. And not just for those buying or renting a house. All of us are being affected. And I say this as someone who lived through the significantly higher inflation of the 1970s.
And the BoE has chosen to become the prime cause of the inflation they are supposed to be curbing.
But it is not all the fault of the BoE.
The government has chosen to hide behind the BoE instead of taking the lead and being proactive on the cost of living crisis and especially inflation, instead of doing absolutely F All as they have been.
What is the chancellor doing, besides F All.
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Brown was widely praised for his somewhat unexpected creation of an independent monetary policy committee, but all these years later I do wonder how independent it actually is.

If the government could choose to have more pain now, even if more than necessary, in order to see inflation and interest rates moving down by the election I suspect they would do so.
 
When are we going to see the big pay-off that their years of austerity are most assuredly going to bring us? Or is it all fecking bollocks?
 
FireballXL5 said:
When are we going to see the big pay-off that their years of austerity are most assuredly going to bring us? Or is it all fecking bollocks?
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Austerity didn't go far enough or last long enough for it to actually bear fruit. But we have to stick to it and make it even purer, after all it's just non-ideological, incontrovertible economic science, isn't it?
 
FireballXL5 said:
When are we going to see the big pay-off that their years of austerity are most assuredly going to bring us? Or is it all fecking bollocks?
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Yeah, whatever they cut this time around will become the new normal just like last time.
 
I for one am happy to eat cardboard if it means our god the Economy gets to live on. Praise be to the Economy.
 
cafecillos said:
Austerity didn't go far enough or last long enough for it to actually bear fruit. But we have to stick to it and make it even purer, after all it's just non-ideological, incontrovertible economic science, isn't it?
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The Tories austerity policy of Osborne and Cameron lasted nearly 10 years...
 
slyadams said:
The fact that raising interest rates through the roof has barely touched inflation surely demonstrates this isn’t a case of tempering discretionary spending, the cause is rampant corporate opportunism. It’s going to come to the point where a large section of the population cannot afford basics. I’m not sure how this is going to end, it’s very worrying.
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Absolutely. It's obvious to anyone except those with Conservative ideology that corporate profit is driving inflation.
 
Watched the Rishi interview on Laura K this morning. Absolutely awful. The man has zero empathy and immediately gets on the defensive under any questioning.

Sticks robotically to the same pre-prepared soundbites and refuses to deviate. The level of evasion and repetition is worse than I think I have ever seen before.
 
Walrus said:
Watched the Rishi interview on Laura K this morning. Absolutely awful. The man has zero empathy and immediately gets on the defensive under any questioning.

Sticks robotically to the same pre-prepared soundbites and refuses to deviate. The level of evasion and repetition is worse than I think I have ever seen before.
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Yeah it's 3 for 3 in a row for terrible prime ministers for the Tories. The 2 before weren't much better either I guess.

They're quite clearly a party that needs to stand down and literally regroup.
 
Walrus said:
Watched the Rishi interview on Laura K this morning. Absolutely awful. The man has zero empathy and immediately gets on the defensive under any questioning.

Sticks robotically to the same pre-prepared soundbites and refuses to deviate. The level of evasion and repetition is worse than I think I have ever seen before.
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As I have said three times now, it's a changing situation, we're monitoring it and speaking to our allies, which is what people would expect us to do.
 
SalfordRed18 said:
Yeah it's 3 for 3 in a row for terrible prime ministers for the Tories. The 2 before weren't much better either I guess.

They're quite clearly a party that needs to stand down and literally regroup.
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Cameron was ignorant and driven by bad ideology. May was pathetically weak. Yet you're right, the last 3 have been worse.
 
Rishi reminds me of one of those candidates on the Apprentice that bluffs there way to near the end and gets absolutely slaughtered come the interview stage.

He's a blagger, a bad one at that.
 
I find this tactic of absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, ever answering a fecking question and instead regurgitating unrelated soundbites unbearably maddening. It's not just Rishi though, or the UK Conservatives, it's rather widespread and only getting worse and worse.
 
Adisa said:
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Click bait nonsense. Nobody in the Tory party likes Truss and nobody in the world let alone Tory party thinks she’s popular in any way shape or form.
 
calodo2003 said:
What does ‘not going on the roofs with anything’ even mean?
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She means the EU introduced safety legislation that only the UK ever stuck to (hence being at a disadvantage).

The claim is not true but it's not as silly as she makes it sound.
 
Abizzz said:
She means the EU introduced safety legislation that only the UK ever stuck to (hence being at a disadvantage).

The claim is not true but it's not as silly as she makes it sound.
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Basically she was saying us Brits just complied but the Germans and French ignored it and protested from their rooftops, element of truth re: the French but it's bollocks really
 
FireballXL5 said:
So, what's the point of pay review bodies again? Seems they only agree with them when it concerns MP's salaries.

UK government willing to ignore public sector pay review bodies, minister says
Chief secretary to the Treasury confirms some recommended rises could be blocked despite prospect of strikes

https://www.theguardian.com/society...public-sector-pay-review-bodies-minister-says
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They used the pay review bodies recommendations last year (made before inflation went through the roof) to argue that what public sector workers were asking for was unreasonable. All of a sudden they don't matter.

Guaranteed when questioned on it they'll say "They are just recommendations". It's Gospel when it's something that backs them up. Just opinion when it doesn't.
 
Walrus said:
Watched the Rishi interview on Laura K this morning. Absolutely awful. The man has zero empathy and immediately gets on the defensive under any questioning.

Sticks robotically to the same pre-prepared soundbites and refuses to deviate. The level of evasion and repetition is worse than I think I have ever seen before.
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I wish interviewers would call his robotic shite out and say to him you are just repeating the same soundbites. He is so out of touch with working people it's actually unreal. A life in the bubble of private schooling and rich circles will do that to you.
 
FireballXL5 said:
So, what's the point of pay review bodies again? Seems they only agree with them when it concerns MP's salaries.

UK government willing to ignore public sector pay review bodies, minister says
Chief secretary to the Treasury confirms some recommended rises could be blocked despite prospect of strikes

https://www.theguardian.com/society...public-sector-pay-review-bodies-minister-says
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Ah. So you spotted that minor confusion by the government.
When we said that we had to stick with the Pay Review Body recommendation, what we really meant was....we don't. Hopefully that is clear.
 
To be clear, Supertanskiii is an insufferable nob but what the feck? How brain dead do you have to be to think this is a good idea? Pure smooth brain.

 
Pexbo said:
To be clear, Supertanskiii is an insufferable nob but what the feck? How brain dead do you have to be to think this is a good idea? Pure smooth brain.

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yeah he’s a massive prick trying to leverage the usual toxic culture war bollocks…but also the next post in her thread blaming the Tories for having a mild panic at the front of the Pyramid stage at Glasto is in fairness a very funny reach for someone whose entire bit depends on grifting horny centrist dads. Almost admirable commitment tbf
 
Mockney said:
yeah he’s a massive prick trying to leverage the usual toxic culture war bollocks…but also the next post in her thread blaming the Tories for having a mild panic at the front of the Pyramid stage at Glasto is in fairness a very funny reach for someone whose entire bit depends on grifting horny centrist dads. Almost admirable commitment tbf
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Wait until RussInCheshire finds out about this
 
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