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Too tired to read it myself but someone at work told me about this:
https://institute.global/policy/all-pain-little-gain-economic-and-fiscal-forecast-growth-plan

I think the link is correct

I wonder why he doesn't put "Tony Blair" before "institute" in the domain name. Maybe he knows people wouldn't click on the link if he did.

If we all follow this link it will show up on their website's 'how people got here' back end stats:
https://institute.global/mr/tony/blair/you/lusty/weeble/

On the back of more polls showing 20%+ leads, yougov survey that 51% think Truss should resign inc 36% of Con voters. For Kwarteng it's 54% and 42% of Con voters.
It's quite extraordinary and can't go on for much longer without change, but I've no idea what will happen.
If you were an average Tory MP what can you do - majority of them didn't want Truss and can see that she's heading them for losing their seat. But if you oust her the whole party is going to look even more deranged. And they've got to work out how to do that, without an election.
If it wasn't fucking the country so badly I could really enjoy this.

Conference is going to be total popcorn this weekend.

It would be a mockery of the concept of what a democracy should look like for this government to continue. Resign and call an election alright.

If you were an average Tory MP what can you do

Defection is the only option really. Or start looking for a new job and resign before you get booted

Replacing the leader again makes you look utterly incompetent. Supporting Truss is suicide.

At 30-point leads some of the seat calculators predict single digit numbers of Tory MPs with the SNP being the opposition!

They don't work with these kind of vote shares but fuck me it's enjoyable reading

This is pretty damning - and from Conservative Home, not exactly the lefty woke remoaners.

For if the polls don’t change, the choice may crystallise, in least in their minds, to putting in someone else, and enduring nothing worse than a 1997-style defenestration, or sticking with Truss, and going down to a 1993 Canada-style wipeout – the one that saw the termination of that country’s Progressive Conservatives.
Nothing that this Government has done to date suggests that it is up to the job. Instead of seeking to project herself as a national leader, offering a fresh start, Truss is coming over as out of her depth, with a plan she can’t really explain: relaxed before Party members but robotic before the voters, and distinctly light on emphathy.

With what has been revealed about the way this party operates they should disappear. In a way it's too kind, there should be a price to pay.

Is there a statute of limitations on the report into Russian funding of the Tory party that Johnson refused to publish?

Is there a statute of limitations on the report into Russian funding of the Tory party that Johnson refused to publish?

This one? Or is there another Russia report?

https://isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20200721_HC632_CCS001_CCS1019402408-001_ISC_Russia_Report_Web_Accessible.pdf

A quick scan of the link you kindly offered shows little text for political donations.

I wasn't aware that there was any sort of official report into Russian donations.

Maybe this? https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9472/

Shambles, Tory MP's working with Labour to over-turn the mini budget, Kwasi will be happy it was only a fiscal event and not a full budget leading to VONC
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1575894055636160515

Interesting chart on why the polls are shifting

https://twitter.com/ProfTimBale/status/1575756143401394176

Replacing the leader again makes you look utterly incompetent

They've been utterly incompetent for a while.

Petition to debate for calling of a general election already at 229k HERE

The fuck is that graph. How is libertarian in the same direction as progressive

Do what you want Vs do what you're told, although it misses a lot of the thinking about yourself Vs thinking about other people side of things.

Libertarian favours personal freedom above all else, where else would you place it on a social scale?

Libertarian is anti-govt intervention. Socially progressive is for govt intervention. They're kinda opposites.

Guess sticking a 3rd statist axis on there would of made it too hard to interpret

Have the Tories really got less authoritarian and less 'traditional values' in the last 3 years? I don't see it.

They've gone more libertarian, but the axes are all fucked up so it's all a bit weird.