UK Conservative Party Leadership Election

[ChopleyIOM]

UK inflation now at 10.1%, the highest for 40 years.

Real wages also falling at fastest rate for 20 years.

Truss and Sunak have absolutely nothing to offer.

This winter is going to be brutal, when people start getting cold and hungry, civil disorder is not very far away.

 

[goatwack]

Gotta admit, seeing Supertanskiii's 'heartfelt' appeal for donations to get rid of the Conservatives in various ways was fairly droll, even if the satire's rather one-sided. Didn't think I'd like her shtick, yet surprisingly, did!

Special shout-out to her usage of the term 'classholes', that's one to add to the glossary

 

[Webzcas]

Let's put this into some context. Below is the current inflation rates across Europe:


With the table below showing all G20 countries:

 

[Webzcas]

This winter is going to be brutal, when people start getting cold and hungry, civil disorder is not very far away.

Oh on this we completely are in agreement. The 1970’s what a decade! We are about to return to it.

Major industrial strike actions planned. Out of control inflation, oh and war in continental Europe still a raging.

Happy days!

 

[Webzcas]

Inflation likely to jump even higher if the information with regards the energy price cap in the Mail is to be believed. Absolutely frightening!

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[ChopleyIOM]

Cartoon in the current Private Eye gave me a chuckle.

 

[mack341]

 

[goatwack]

It's true, Sunak's odds are diminishing rapidly, ever since he knocked himself out on that baggage handling conveyor belt

 

[justdoit]

Has Rishi even done a big tory conference speech, passed me by if he has. I think the members might choose him to prove they're not racist, plus Truss comes across as though she's not plugged in, winging it far too much.

Rishi's explanation re his wife's tax situation is not acceptable and she's received lockdown handouts for some of her failing businesses [something like that] not good optics. So either way we, or conservatives, are *****d.

Bring back Boris I say, for all his faults he's better than these two put together.

they got nothing prove 70% of parliament are foreigners is not many real Brits left in parliament, soon you see some Nigeria dud UK PM,same time he will send scam emails Prince died we need to transfer $100000000
nothing agains Nigeria but UK should run by Brits not foreigners or have some Rules like to be UK PM they need to have 4-5 UK generation in UK, not from illegal channel crossings jump in Parliament run all UK

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well let's see how that pans out....

Cutting taxes means bugger all to a lot of people, and it won't help them one jot with the appalling crisis that is going to descend on the UK this winter.

 

[mack341]

Well let's see how that pans out....

Cutting taxes means bugger all to a lot of people, and it won't help them one jot with the appalling crisis that is going to descend on the UK this winter.

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Lower tax still means a lot in the uk, we're not sweden or denmark happy to trust the govt will and can spend the money well and provide top services in return.

But also 'no nonsense conservatism' is the 2nd part of the Vulcan's message.

 

[slot_zombie]

I'd be happy to pay high taxes if in return we got top notch services. But in this country, we pay high taxes and get knob all, relatively speaking.

The Tories need to get their arses in gear because Labour's "freeze energy bills" message is bloody seductive, even if it's being delivered by a charmless, left wing lawyer-politician.

I actually agree they should simply say the cap isn't going up this winter, end of. The energy companies pleading poverty are mostly raking it in upstream at the point of extraction/generation, so they could and should well afford to take a hit at the retail end.

 

[goatwack]

The only crisis is the manufactured one foisted unto unsuspecting populations, if going by food prices alone - lest we talk about the world's worst-kept secret of how many tonnes of food are destroyed daily to control prices.

Or how energy companies are busting a cap in caps because they can, as politicians meekly watch on. And what was the point of their presence at Downing St, other than to gloat at their record quarterly profits? Pardon me if I don't do leaps of joy at politicians' apathy and pledges to 'freeze' supposed price caps that slide around more than Torvill & Dean.

Much like this 'Cost of Living Crisis' brought about by the Media's drumming up yet another alarmist, doomsday scenario to keep people in constant fear. So what happens? Well, companies seize this opportunity to take the piss of course!

So up go the prices, much like earlier, when upon returning from my pseudo- gym workout, I scoured the Tesco Direct shelves for the ever-reliable £5 Daz washing powder, only to have to do a double-take as the price now read '£5.05'. No great shakes you might say, but an obvious, cynical price-hike without merit. What, has the price of phosphonates risen in the last few days? Zeolites? Wankers

Short of griefing the till lady, who'd seemingly already got jip from the customer before me, I chose to forego the pleasure and vowed to direct my ire at the politicians that choose to let everyone run amok, and so laugh at their condescending attempts to quell discontent with promises of 'freezing' caps.

Anyone still of the belief that any one of those goons in Westminster are here to help ordinary people out, and lead them out of this situation we're facing, should consider giving their head a wobble

 

[dunover]

The only crisis is the manufactured one foisted unto unsuspecting populations, if going by food prices alone - lest we talk about the world's worst-kept secret of how many tonnes of food are destroyed daily to control prices.

Or how energy companies are busting a cap in caps because they can, as politicians meekly watch on. And what was the point of their presence at Downing St, other than to gloat at their record quarterly profits? Pardon me if I don't do leaps of joy at politicians' apathy and pledges to 'freeze' supposed price caps that slide around more than Torvill & Dean.

Much like this 'Cost of Living Crisis' brought about by the Media's drumming up yet another alarmist, doomsday scenario to keep people in constant fear. So what happens? Well, companies seize this opportunity to take the piss of course!

So up go the prices, much like earlier, when upon returning from my pseudo- gym workout, I scoured the Tesco Direct shelves for the ever-reliable £5 Daz washing powder, only to have to do a double-take as the price now read '£5.05'. No great shakes you might say, but an obvious, cynical price-hike without merit. What, has the price of phosphonates risen in the last few days? Zeolites? Wankers

Short of griefing the till lady, who'd seemingly already got jip from the customer before me, I chose to forego the pleasure and vowed to direct my ire at the politicians that choose to let everyone run amok, and so laugh at their condescending attempts to quell discontent with promises of 'freezing' caps.

Anyone still of the belief that any one of those goons in Westminster are here to help ordinary people out, and lead them out of this situation we're facing, should consider giving their head a wobble

Hmmmph....my Morrisons Blue Slime ice lollies boxes of 5 have gone from £1 to £1.20, as have the bubblegum ones. The only saving is if I buy 3 boxes, whereupon the price is £3.25 IIRC. I use Daz as it's nice to have my name in the kitchen always, and I have to say the price has been fixed at £8 for the 5200g box for nearly 2 years where I shop.

 

[satchnz]

5p and 20p price increases….pffft! The Beluga Royal caviar that I get delivered from Harrods has gone up from £1,750 to £1,995 per 250g tin. I’ve even had to cut back to one tin per month. Cost of living crises are not becoming.

 

[dunover]

Dread to think what my Fortnum and Mason Christmas hamper will cost this year...

 

[ChopleyIOM]

More fool me for making a political prediction, but I think that if Truss wins the leadership election (which she almost certainly will), the Tories will lose the next general election.

Her planned tax cuts will help the rich far more than middle and lower earners, and those on fixed incomes such as pensioners who don't pay tax anyway, if you're on £30K per year her tax cuts won't even touch the sides of the energy price rises, whereas Labour's pledge is to completely eliminate any further rises for at least six months, which would get everyone through the winter.

And then you've got shite like her pledge to have a bonfire of EU rules that are still on the statute books, which basically no one gives a fuck about now, they're far more concerned about the fact they can't go to the beach on a sunny day because the privatised water companies are pumping out millions of gallons of untreated shit into the sea and onto the beaches. Against that backdrop, regulation starts to look like quite a good idea.

The mood has turned IMO, there is decent public support for the strikers, for example, as working people are starting to realise that organised labour movements are the only defence they have against rampant neoliberal capitalism.

Truss has nothing the people of the UK want, she'll be in thrall to the ERG as well, so she'll make increasingly headbanging anti-EU noises as if there are still some votes in that, when everyone knows now that Brexit is a busted flush, they won't get a second election win out of it.

End of the line after twelve years of disastrous Tory rule, good riddance to bad rubbish, they'll be out at the next election. Hopefully the damage they've done can be repaired.

 

[mack341]

More fool me for making a political prediction, but I think that if Truss wins the leadership election (which she almost certainly will), the Tories will lose the next general election.

Do you believe if Rishi were to win instead the tories would succeed at the next GE?

I agree re the raw sewage issue, this is the modern tories weakest aspect when they kowtow to shareholder interests and appear to have an indifference to anything other than bottomline profit.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Do you believe if Rishi were to win instead the tories would succeed at the next GE?

I agree re the raw sewage issue, this is the modern tories weakest aspect when they kowtow to shareholder interests and appear to have an indifference to anything other than bottomline profit.

I think Sunak would fare better, but he's still got too many weak spots, not least his wife's Non-Dom status and the fact he had a Green Card for years (including when he was Chancellor), because that's how much he loves the UK..... Also being one of the richest men in the country whilst people freeze to death in winter (which absolutely will happen on the current trajectory) isn't a great look either.

The Tory philosophy works 'well' (I deliberately put the word 'well' in inverted apostrophes there) when the majority of normal people feel like they're doing OK too, so they don't care so much about the rich making out like bandits because things are going decently for them too - this breaks down when the rich continue to make out like bandits, but everyone else gets fucked - which is the state we're in now.

 

[goatwack]

Decent support for the strikers

Apart from the fact that this isn't he 1970s anymore, most can see their demands as unreasonable and greedy, and given many people's financial standing currently, relatively privileged. Nor are people as resentful or as inconvenienced as one might think, with many having adapted to WFH and even grateful for saving on the travel expenditure.

The only ones thinking their deployment has any real bearing in 2022 are Corbyn acolytes like Long-Bailey who still think flares rule the roost and ordinary workers cower at the sight on Union officials and their grandstanding , blackmailing methods. But yes, down with the fat cats! Raa!!

Unless what was being inferred had actually been the merits of using a 4-4-2 as opposed to a single striker, and whether Aguero had been getting the service a player of his calibre warranted, when compared to say Shearer, or whether the likes of Tevez were overrated. In which case, my bad

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Decent support for the strikers

Apart from the fact that this isn't he 1970s anymore, most can see their demands as unreasonable and greedy, and given many people's financial standing currently, relatively privileged. Nor are people as resentful or as inconvenienced as one might think, with many having adapted to WFH and even grateful for saving on the travel expenditure.

The only ones thinking their deployment has any real bearing in 2022 are Corbyn acolytes like Long-Bailey who still think flares rule the roost and ordinary workers cower at the sight on Union officials and their grandstanding , blackmailing methods. But yes, down with the fat cats! Raa!!

Unless what was being inferred had actually been the merits of using a 4-4-2 as opposed to a single striker, and whether Aguero had been getting the service a player of his calibre warranted, when compared to say Shearer, or whether the likes of Tevez were overrated. In which case, my bad

Goodness me Goaty, do you have a version of that post that actually makes any sense?

These are people on £20-£30K in the main, they're not living lives of luxury, they're pretty much just getting by, maybe able to pay a mortgage, therefore just about able to think about owning their own house eventually once they've finished giving the banks their pounds of flesh. They're struggling with their shopping bills, they're struggling with their energy bills, and this is before winter kicks in.

Why is there this constant race to the bottom amongst the working class? Why do we get annoyed with other working class people who've actually managed to secure themselves a reasonable wage and reasonable conditions? I see it so many times, 'Well that person has X, Y and/or Z', why don't I have that too, take that off them!'

The bad guys here aren't working class people who've managed to secure themselves decent working conditions and pay through unionisation and the willingness to exercise their power in the only meaningful way they have available to them, namely that there are far more of them than there are rich fuckers, and their ability to withdraw their labour in a co-ordinated and impactful manner.

Sheesh man, pick a side, the lass who's earning £20K per year and just wants to keep a roof over the heads of her family in the face of the highest taxes and inflation in decades, or the cunts heading up the privatised water companies, earning millions of pounds per year, whilst pumping endless gallons of literal fucking shit into our seas and onto our beaches - and they'll still get 'performance related bonuses' because their shareholders have made out like bandits.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I wish this wasn't still as relevant today as it was in 1940:

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Lower tax still means a lot in the uk, we're not sweden or denmark happy to trust the govt will and can spend the money well and provide top services in return.

But also 'no nonsense conservatism' is the 2nd part of the Vulcan's message.

So here are some numbers on the tax cut plans, what Truss is proposing will put one pound - (yes, one single pound) - back into lower income households, whereas the better off will be getting about £30 per week.

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These numbers are coming from the Tories, by the way. (Yes from Sunak's side, it's true to say, but the fact remains that Truss is peddling dangerous inflationary nonsense here.)

Labour's plans would save every household thousands of pounds.

 

[Webzcas]

I had the misfortune to meet John Redwood back in 1994 when I was working for the Welsh Office in Carmarthen, where in his role as then Secretary of State for Wales, he visited our outpost. Typical politician. Anyhow /EndOfThreadDerail

 

[mack341]

So here are some numbers on the tax cut plans, what Truss is proposing will put one pound - (yes, one single pound) - back into lower income households, whereas the better off will be getting about £30 per week.

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These numbers are coming from the Tories, by the way. (Yes from Sunak's side, it's true to say, but the fact remains that Truss is peddling dangerous inflationary nonsense here.)

Labour's plans would save every household thousands of pounds.

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Sunak has been guiding the ship, now the ship is heading towards rapids, his claim as best man to avert disaster is highly questionable.

Her idea is [I'm guessing] that families with £30 extra income a week will help prevent a deeper recession. But if it gets spent on amazon it will do bugger all to protect the high street jobs.

It is a very difficult situation, rising energy costs and interest rates etc... I still don't feel a groundswell reaction from the public of looking towards labour to solve the problems.

When you put the TV on, with all the adverts for electric cars and £800 mobile phones etc...you wouldn't think there was a big recession looming.