Westminster Politics
- Thread starter altodevil
- Start date
If it's any consolation, it might be fantastic for the decade or two they're trying to score political points. It'll be an absolute disaster after that, like water, energy, trains, etc.
Tory run Councils have already gone bust, Thurrock and Woking etc but the Tories and their fans continue to gaslight.
Some extra, very important context: Birmingham CC is in danger of bankruptcy because of difficulty paying off 14m/month in compensation for an equal pay court case ruling from 2011. Almost all claims were for the period 2004-2010 when Birmingham CC was under tory rule, under Mike Whitby.
https://www.ft.com/content/7b95e3d9-c5a1-42d5-84a8-921c9088ca1c
Some good news for a change, I think?
It turns out we (UK) are not an economic basket case but pretty much rubbing along like everyone else, we just didn't count our GDP correctly.
Some good news for a change, I think?
It turns out we (UK) are not an economic basket case but pretty much rubbing along like everyone else, we just didn't count our GDP correctly.
Meanwhile in a galaxy not so far from home:
Ghost written by Charles Koch
Apparently a pain in the arse to read, the prose is dry.
The deluded face of all Tory party ideology.
I just don’t understand who the feck is reading, yet alone buying it. Will be a classic case of reviewed by all, read by no one.
A real gaping hole of knowledge
I've heard different. Apparently it's so good you won't be able to sit down for hours after finishing
Meanwhile...
This is why I love the Caf
Like US baseball and the World Series...
As delusional as ever.
You only have to wait another seven months. Presumably that gives Liz enough time to colour in the pictures.
Ten years to save the west. You only have ten years left to export Liz and her cronies to the East.
I guess heads of those states and head of EU? So someone like Orban or Kaczyński couldn't feck it up, maybe?
Is very weird to separate and include at the same time on a multi country agreement involving the EU
I would guess that he named the three largest countries in the EU and should have included the words "and the rest of the EU" or "and the other EU countries"
Hasn't she got another book coming out already this year?
I think they'll all be connected. She's creating her very own PMU: Pork Markets Universe.
Interesting article about how utterly shite Kuenssberg is and how the BBC have fecked it::
https://x.com/simonubsdell/status/1701278719120146597?s=46&t=WhGXGkLzoZNbRG1J_k6vQQ
https://x.com/simonubsdell/status/1701278719120146597?s=46&t=WhGXGkLzoZNbRG1J_k6vQQ
She has. It is a Fairy Tale.
Once upon a time, there was a wicked lady called Liz Truss who came to power in a tiny offshore island.... the end.
Hopefully a house lands on her in the sequel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66785572
The UK economy contracted by 0.2% in July. Lots of excuses like the bad weather.
But the truth is that this is exactly what was supposed to happen. The BoE has been increasing the base rate like there was no tomorrow in order to reduce spending so as to try and bring down inflation as required by the government. Well done.
Edit. 0.5% contraction.
The UK economy contracted by 0.2% in July. Lots of excuses like the bad weather.
But the truth is that this is exactly what was supposed to happen. The BoE has been increasing the base rate like there was no tomorrow in order to reduce spending so as to try and bring down inflation as required by the government. Well done.
Edit. 0.5% contraction.
Last edited:
I know hate is a strong word, but I truly hate this fecking cnut.
Rishi Sunak blocked rebuild of hospitals riddled with crumbling concrete
Exclusive: Delay to work on five buildings in 2020 led to warnings of ‘catastrophic’ safety risk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-rebuild-of-hospitals-with-crumbling-concrete
Rishi Sunak blocked rebuild of hospitals riddled with crumbling concrete
Exclusive: Delay to work on five buildings in 2020 led to warnings of ‘catastrophic’ safety risk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-rebuild-of-hospitals-with-crumbling-concrete
Him and his Tory party. People thought he was wonderful during COVID when he was spraying money round like confetti. Especially to his friends for so called PPE, billions of pounds of which was actually useless. Now we are finding out what he was really like. A useless lying imposter.
This is a shock. Absolutely nobody saw this coming.
A project about "levelling up" the north shockingly turns out to be about building a white elephant in the south. And Starmer will be along to explain why this is bad in...oh? He won't? They've got to be prudent with public money you say? So it's a good idea to cancel the northern leg? Ok.
HS2 was designed to do one thing. Turn the south of Birmingham into a commuter zone for London, because house pricing is too high for so many in the capital and surroundings.
I doubt the intention was ever to go further.
I doubt the intention was ever to go further.
You’d continue with this absolute waste of public money?
No I'd scrap the Birmingham to London leg completely and connect up the north. Problem is because the thick cnuts have already started on that leg, chopping down the ancient forests and building the stations, it's the only one that's actually got a chance to be completed now. Incompetent, corrupt scum.
So you’re using it to beat Labour with…why?
Because they don't have a policy on it at all. At the moment they offer absolutely nothing and apparently they're geniuses for it.
So what would you suggest for them?
Like you said it’s a complete waste of money and purely linking the mid -> south, Labour don’t have access to a time machine so what else would you suggest? Carry on with this phenomenal waste of money, it’s r put the funds to something more useful?
There are plenty of issues to have a go at Labour for, this one is some serious straw-clutching.
Tbh I suspect it's too late to give it up but I would either give it up completely or find the money and do it properly i.e. link up e.g. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Liverpool, Birmingham.
Where would you find the money?
C’mon if you’re going to beat Labour with a stick about being quiet about this, at least have a fully fledged idea as to how they SHOULD do it!