The fall of the Tory party

Gordon Brown:

It’s all there in Britannia Unchained, co-authored by Liz Truss and Kwarteng: the pound can collapse, borrowing and mortgages can soar, pensioners can freeze, kids can go hungry, as long as the economy is ripe for venture capitalists freed from regulation and, ideally, tax.

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But even venture capitalists know they don’t get rich on their own. Public investment - in education, infrastructure, skills, health - is vital to create growth. It’s time this government remembered that age-old truth: when the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

But even venture capitalists know they don’t get rich on their own. Public investment - in education, infrastructure, skills, health - is vital to create growth. It’s time this government remembered that age-old truth: when the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

Which is why no other Conservative government in Europe are persuing such batshit and outdated policies. Because it doesn't work. You cannot drive growth from the top.

Doesn't the strength trickle down?

Just the desperation.

Heh!

https://twitter.com/MrJonDePlume/status/1577687992327671810

The top earners (I imagine) already have a reasonably lavish lifestyle and buy what the hell they want and eat where they choose, so ensuring they have even more money results in exactly what trickling down? Their tears of laughter at the rest of us struggling???

Only just watching the speech this evening and surprised there isn’t a moment where she actually says out loud “pause for laughter”.

Is she also on something? Much jaw grinding.

I think she's looking at her handlers and doing a metal countdown. You can see her seeking approval from someone off camera.

I’m wondering whether the end of Oct may be a decent bet for a leadership change. Maybe come up with some illness related reason to step down.

It’s certainly an innovative approach, bizarre and totally unengaging style of delivery turbocharged with utterly vacuous content.

That said, the Cabinet members present seemed to be experiencing The Rapture

The Rapture

Accurate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ytDCZS9oM

That ‘North London townhouse’ anti Semitic dog whistle…. What a cunt….

I always assumed it was a reference to Starmer and Corbyn and various left leaning lawyers who have sued the government who all live in Islington rather than an anti semitic dog whistle.

Really? I would never have made that link. I'd have thought it's a link to the "Islington dinner parties" rather than anti-semitism.

This is on the button. A skilled orator with charisma and focus - I've never voted Labour before, but I'd vote for Rachel as PM in place of Truss and in preference to Starmer.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rachel-reeves-chancellor-kwasi-kwarteng-minibudget-tax-cuts-b1027636.html

Her chairing of the Thomas Cook remuneration committee hearing was forceful too - no prisoners taken :-)

When you have reached the stage when even Nadine Dorries is accusing you of lurching to the right, you really ought to be taking a look at yourself...

She's just saying that to try and get Daddy J back

Jess Philips pointed out that the North London dig is shit as an attack line as most outside of London probably have no idea what is being implied. It's so London-centric.
Someone in the replies recalled a phone in that said they had "Dave from Camden, Peter from Manchester and Richard from Scotland on the line"

Was wondering whether this was an opportunity to point out how wide the gap is between rich and poor in North London. 15 year life expectancy diference on neighbouring streets in some cases.

Then it occured to me...they'd just respond by falsely blaming Sadiq Khan. An already widespread dogwhistle.

I found the anti growth coalition

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anti growth coalition

Anarcho-punk combo from Wiltshire, surely
I have one of their badges look

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buy what the hell they want and eat where they choose

Nah. They just have bigger mortgages and more debt.

Anarcho-punk combo from Wiltshire, surely
I have one of their badges look

Ohh, this is good. Perhaps @spellingmistakescostslives will get these into production

https://twitter.com/balconyshirts/status/1577628644310147074

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