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I still think the description of Trussonomics as "cargo cult Thatcherism" was inspired.

They watched Thatcher pull economic and social levers to do things. They don't understand what those levers DO. They think they're just magic. So they're pulling them, too.

So on the money.

Actually now you say that that does ring a bell

Shell just made an announcement saying they will not be paying any windfall tax this year because the monetary value of their North Sea investment offsets any tax that was due despite doubling their profits.

From memory, I think the Tories made the new tax so that investment money counts as double when offsetting with profits.

I think the Tories made the new tax so that investment money counts as double when offsetting with profits

Not restricting the tax credit to investments in renewables is pretty criminal.

Maybe this is why I couldn't be a [Tory] politician. If my principle led to record-setting profits accompanied by record-setting borrowing to stop people freezing I might reconsider it.

I can’t begin to understand this trait. I think I’d love the simplicity of being unwaveringly certain I’m right about things, against any evidence or discussion. I imagine people like that sleep really well going to be every night all like ‘another great day of me being great at everything’.

Pretty sure I've read/listened to a few articles/podcasts which discuss the certainty of the right.

Pretty sure I've read/listened to a few articles/podcasts which discuss the certainty of the right.

A good example of this is the pearl clutching over Trevor Noah's comments about Rishi Sunak.

Loads of right wing commentators saying that Sunak doesn't face significant racism in the UK.

However, those who pay attention to these sorts of things will know that the Great Replacement Theory is gaining traction in the UK and is popping up all over Twitter and Facebook. You only have to look at the comments/replies to any tweet about Diane Abbot and Sadiq Khan to see examples.

Anyway, my point is, that journalists like Tom Harwood and various right wing grifters are all like "this is a lie and isn't a thing in the UK!" when in actual fact, they are just certain they are right because they actually haven't bothered to look. Or maybe don't want to believe its true. Or know its true and want to pretend its not. Pick one.

I don't think the Right has a monopoly on believing that it alone is correct and that anyone that disagrees is either stupid or acting in bad faith.

Anyway, my point is, that journalists like Tom Harwood and various right wing grifters are all like "this is a lie and isn't a thing in the UK!" when in actual fact, they are just certain they are right because they actually haven't bothered to look. Or maybe don't want to believe its true. Or know its true and want to pretend its not. Pick one.

Reminds me of my home-counties dwelling Dad who scoffed when I mentioned children living in poverty in the UK - "There ARE no children in poverty in the UK!"

Pretty sure I've read/listened to a few articles/podcasts which discuss the certainty of the right.

You haven't. You definitely have not.

“No one is talking about child poverty or racism in the UK except people on lfgss.

How do I know this? Because lfgss is the only place I have seen it and I haven’t looked anywhere else.” Appears to be the line of reasoning.

I was talking to someone I know about gender neutral pronouns who was convinced that the use of gendered pronouns wasn’t an issue for non binary people because no one has complained to him. But he doesn’t actually know any non binary people. It’s only something discussed by woke people to make like difficult for everyone else.

Hah

But there’s no such thing as a nice Tory though, right? Padme.jif

Have you seen the fat people on telly complaining they can’t afford food?! Have you?!?!!!

Heard someone from Leeds on AQA the other week, and they flat out refused to believe that poverty existed as there were loads of new blocks of flats going up in Leeds City centre.

I mean I guess the two are directly correlated, right?

I like their thinking
https://news.sky.com/video/just-stop-oil-protesters-spray-paint-over-rolex-shop-in-london-12732403

Page not found :(

https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1585909798905724929

Are you saying that poverty will reduce obesity and therefore diabetes?

Ta

Sorry, have mended the link

Ta.

I read it as them putting forward a serious and totally not sarcastic argument for starving people to death.

I read this as serious and totally not sarcastic.

Are we both wrong?

Definitely not.