The fall of the Tory party

And by @dubtap

Nothing happens in the Chilterns without being run past me first

The government’s own figures show that after Wednesday’s budget
taxation as a proportion of UK national income will be 37.1%. The last
time it was this high was in 1948, when we were still paying for the
War and starting to set up the Attlee government’s reforms like the
NHS.

https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1765951619751973123

PeoplePolling don't have the best rep, but with this and the ipsos poll last week having the tories on 20% the next poll of polls is going to be interesting.

If you fucking hate Tories....

He broke Theresa? I thought she was strong and stable.

A bit shit they didn’t include the greens. They actually have a sitting MP unlike Reform.

A little detail of the budget was the increase in the figure small business pay VAT at. Hunt told MP privately that he couldn't raise it higher as they needed it a lined with NI, so it's all the EUs fault.

Rees-Mogg is moaning that policy is being set in Brussels, setting off more tory infighting.

Good point Spindrift. Even Sunak must eventually see that he will bear ultimate responsibility for a potential extinction event for the Tories.
The local elections will be a real hammering for them in May.
Will Sunak retrieve his green card from the bedside cabinet and depart for California in July thus leaving the Tory party in an even greater pile of ordure than at present?

One can only hope so!

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Even Sunak must eventually see that he will bear ultimate responsibility for a potential extinction event for the Tories.

He could not give less of a shit. A few months more lining up the post-PM grifts and siphoning off cash into his wife's family businesses is all he and the rest of the feckless wankturds care about (Sunak, Mogg, Hunt, Gove et al). Apart from the thick-as-mince culture-warrior ones who are just after the GBnews gigs and dog-whistle grifting. (Truss, 30p Lee, Braverman, Gullis etc)
And Andrew Bridgen who is just batshit.

David Allen Green has written on this, which is illuminating as usual.

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-the-donelan-libel

the Chilterns

Ahem Maidenhead is Thames Valley

And Andrew Bridgen

he is no longer a Tory, was too insane even for them

As has been established ' We've had enough of experts'.

JO'B on LBC doing a solid job of don't let the media let you feel nostalgic for the Maybot and reminding everyone just how terrible she was as Home Secretary and PM

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The education secretary has told an audience of head teachers that she would have "probably punched” Ofsted inspectors who recently visited a school in her constituency.

If only we had a Prime Minister with a concern about mob rule.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds

I loved this little nugget:

In a sign that the controversy about the schemes might be largely generated by politicians and the media, 58% of people did not even know they lived in an LTN.

That's great.
We've just had the massively shit LTN in Steratham binned because of the carnage it caused everywhere else. While broadly in favour of them, this was the worst planned fiasco I've seen and made cycling and public transport 100x more shit during its brief existence.

See here:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/353238/

Can you say what aspects you thought were wrong with it specifically? I don't know the area all that well and can only assume the usual mistakes were made (that are made almost all the time when people try to filter areas who haven't thought about how), but it would be interesting to hear about specific issues.

I dont even think young people won't be getting it, I dont think well be getting it 30 and 40's never mind teens or folk in there 20's

I always thought the state pension would be means tested by the time I was old enough to receive it. I can't see that happening, even though I'm just over 12 years away from receiving it, as neither Labour or the Tories have the political motivation to build a consensus around that idea.

I wouldn't put it past both parties to raise the retirement age again.
Of course, this would be seen as 'necessary' as the nation can't afford it anymore! Which we all know is bulls*** of the worse kind. This is the kind of
neo- liberal nonsense which affects the thinking of both parties and fetishes th
insanity of 'fiscal rules'.