UK Conservative Party Leadership Election

[ChopleyIOM]

This is what the privatised water companies think of the UK, this footage is taken from a Lincolnshire beach yesterday. Or should I say Lincolnshite....

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[mack341]

This is what the privatised water companies think of the UK, this footage is taken from a Lincolnshire beach yesterday. Or should I say Lincolnshite....

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I'm not a great expert on sewage, but if you've got 70 million people it must be a nightmare to do something with it. Maybe we can turn it into energy, interesting:

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[mcgameboy]

This is what the privatised water companies think of the UK, this footage is taken from a Lincolnshire beach yesterday. Or should I say Lincolnshite....

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You could even call it Stincolnshire. Or Stincolnshite.

 

[dunover]

This is what the privatised water companies think of the UK, this footage is taken from a Lincolnshire beach yesterday. Or should I say Lincolnshite....

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So despite obviously noticing effluent and filming that as opposed to the kids, she lets them run about in it for a while to make an effect....?

I think I'd have got the kids out before filming it. Still, I'm sure it earned her a few more shares and likes.

I tell you what - why doesn't she find a damaged fence by a high speed railway track, let her kids through it and make a 'shock' video about that?

 

[ChopleyIOM]

So despite obviously noticing effluent and filming that as opposed to the kids, she lets them run about in it for a while to make an effect....?

I think I'd have got the kids out before filming it. Still, I'm sure it earned her a few more shares and likes.

I tell you what - why doesn't she find a damaged fence by a high speed railway track, let her kids through it and make a 'shock' video about that?

Victim blaming at its finest. Well done on identifying the villain of the piece dunover!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

EU is getting the energy companies to pay a chunk of their profits towards keeping bills down via massive windfall taxes.

Truss has chosen to load £150bn of fresh debt onto the UK taxpayer.

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[interlog]

Who gives a flying fuck what Ursula thinks or says

 

[interlog]

In the meantime, Europe appears to have similar problems with sewage entering rivers:

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[pinnit2014]

Britains reputation on pollution has never been great - was it not, under nationalisation, known as the Dirty Man of Europe?

As for ladening the tax payer with 'costs' - well there are many current schemes that do just that eg. in Scotland, I Pads for kids in each household etc. Tabs picked up somewhere.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Who gives a flying fuck what Ursula thinks or says

Well yes it is more pertinent what Truss thinks or says, unfortunately she seems to think that the answer here is to let the energy companies keep all of their projected £170bn profits over the next two years for themselves and their shareholders, whilst saddling the UK taxpayer with £150bn of fresh government debt.

And remember, they're selling stuff that belongs to the UK, out on the international markets at huge benefit to themselves, and then the UK taxpayer gives them billions upon billions to buy it back.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

A decent article detailing the blunders that it looks like Truss and Kwarteng are making, or likely to make, that could lead to a full-on currency crisis for the pound.

In essence Mason is arguing that there are six key economic indicators, and the UK is doing badly on all of them. Inflation, investment, trade, debt, sterling and the current account - the numbers aren't good.

Truss and Kwarteng are waxing lyrical about economic growth, which they are prioritising above everything else, the problem is their plan isn't going to work, not least because it ignores two of the main things that are required for that growth to happen, investment and redistribution.

Yes Paul Mason is a left wing commentator, but a lot of prominent economists agree with his assessment. If they're right, the UK and its currency are heading into very dangerous waters.

It's a decent article, with clearly laid out arguments, and it's not that long either.

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[ChopleyIOM]

All looking fine so far.

Outside of ERG/hard-right headbanger circles, there's scarcely a single notable economist who doesn't think the current Truss plans are anything other than economically incoherent and liable to cause great damage to the UK's position.

I will say one thing for Truss, she certainly believes in what she's saying and isn't afraid to say it, absolutely brazening out raising the cap on bankers' bonuses whilst admitting it will increase inequality in the UK, insisting that the benefits will 'trickle down'. (They won't.)

If you're not already financially comfortable, things are about to get considerably worse.

In addition to this, Jacob Rees-Mogg has decided that he's now a seismologist and is increasing the threshold for what counts as an earthquake following fracking, saying that the current limit of 0.5 is 'too low'. (Spoiler alert - a lot of the proposed fracking sites are up in Northern 'Red Wall' areas.)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Backbench Tory MPs kicking off about fracking, I think this is a serious misstep by Truss, and very early on too.

There just isn't any public support for these massive companies to start smacking the fuck out of England, polluting the water table, causing fucking earthquakes, and not even any promise of cheaper energy, since it'll all go on the international markets anyway.

It's also a clear breach of a crystal clear manifesto pledge at the last election, as a Tory MP points out to Rees-Mogg.

The way to fix this is for the UK to keep the energy it makes for itself right now, we have an abundance of it, adding fracking into the mix, several years down the line (because it will take a long time to become productive), to just go into the same speculative pot won't help anyone except the massive, very rich companies and their shareholders. (Ahhhh right, the riddle is solved......)

And by all accounts there isn't even that much gas down there, AND it'll be very hard to extract because of the geology of the UK.

 

[mcgameboy]

Backbench Tory MPs kicking off about fracking, I think this is a serious misstep by Truss, and very early on too.

There just isn't any public support for these massive companies to start smacking the fuck out of England, polluting the water table, causing fucking earthquakes, and not even any promise of cheaper energy, since it'll all go on the international markets anyway.

It's also a clear breach of a crystal clear manifesto pledge at the last election, as a Tory MP points out to Rees-Mogg.

The way to fix this is for the UK to keep the energy it makes for itself right now, we have an abundance of it, adding fracking into the mix, several years down the line (because it will take a long time to become productive), to just go into the same speculative pot won't help anyone except the massive, very rich companies and their shareholders. (Ahhhh right, the riddle is solved......)

And by all accounts there isn't even that much gas down there, AND it'll be very hard to extract because of the geology of the UK.

Maybe they should just smack/frack the fuck out of you then, given that you are an ABUNDANT source of gas and hot air.....

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Maybe they should just smack/frack the fuck out of you then, given that you are an ABUNDANT source of gas and hot air.....

Politics in the politics thread, whatever next!

Mr Kinnock awards your post 3/10.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

The blue bars are previous government borrowing estimates, the red bars are what Truss's plans are going to do. (And these are reckoned to be at the lower end.)

Brace for impact folks.

Pound is falling again, and the UK government is having to pay more interest on its debt, so this borrowing is more expensive than it would have been a year or two ago.

They are betting the ranch on massive economic growth, by making the rich richer.

 

[Kroffe]

Gotta love trickle-down economics.

But it obviously works, why else would the rich people tell us that it works.

 

[dunover]

Yay! Top rate lowered 5% and the basic rate 1% AND NI rise removed so more spends! Pound weakening and I'm paid mostly in Euros and a bit in Dollars so a good day all round! ? ?

Now I can afford Staryucks and Greggs again so help to keep people in work and premises open in the retail and leisure sector! Exactly how trickle-down is supposed to be. I know @ChopleyIOM will excusively read contrary posts on social media, treating their opinions as gospel but economically there is a good case for it, keeping money circulating.

I also realized last night that as we have a very energy-efficient household with bills annually well under £1500 that (according to that annoying, preaching Martyn Lewis's graph last night on ITV) that we are at a usage level which means with the price cap AND £400 discount we will actually pay LESS than before. Apparently low-users in the £500-£1500 range all will do.

And of course with the interest rates going up to 2.25% I can actually earn money on savings again.

So all-in-all Quasi Quartend and the BofE have directly or indirectly given a quintuple whammy in my direction so no complaints here. I'm not a rich man at all but will benefit like many, but I'm sure matey will predict doom and disaster.

 

[SpinUk]

4% 2 year fixed term cash saving account with Atom came out yesterday - highest guaranteed return we had for about ten years, about time savers had something back. Hopefully the green tax crap will also be abolished soon.

(And it’s covered by the £80k odd regulator guarantee)

 

[Webzcas]

Pound is falling again, and the UK government is having to pay more interest on its debt, so this borrowing is more expensive than it would have been a year or two ago.

Yes as is the Euro which has dropped over past few weeks more steeply than the pound against the dollar. You can't even get a full $1 for €1 now. So please keep things in context.

As for the 'Mini Budget' - This is massive!!! As in MASSIVE!!! One thing about Liz Truss, she didn't lie during her leadership campaign. Not only has she earlier this week at the UN in New York, double downed on her pledge to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030, she has now with this budget, reaffirmed all her pledges.

This is a serious punt and one can only hope it kick starts growth to another level. Inflation is the main worry though and by not nationalising the oil and fuel producers operating in the North Sea, we could see everything crashing around us in a few years time.

What this budget is though, is kick ass bold IMO. Like going all in on a game of poker, betting your house and not entirely confident you are going to win when the cards are turned over.

Short term though, this budget is a big boost to the self employed and those who employ people. Not so much those low earners, although they have been thrown a crumb in the form of a 1% reduction in the basic rate.

 

[Kroffe]

What this budget is though, is kick ass bold IMO. Like going all in on a game of poker, betting your house and not entirely confident you are going to win when the cards are turned over.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

What this budget is though, is kick ass bold IMO. Like going all in on a game of poker, betting your house and not entirely confident you are going to win when the cards are turned over.

There was a time a Conservative government would have considered betting an entire country's economy on a thoroughly debunked economic model (SPOILER ALERT - THIS ISN'T GOING TO WORK) was, dare I say, rather reckless.

Let's call it what it is, it's a budget by the wealthy, for the wealthy. The better off you already are, the better off you're going to be. Those towards the middle or the bottom are expected to be happy with any scraps that may (or may not....) fall off the table.

The markets certainly didn't like it, and I'm not surprised, considering this is a huge and uncosted increase in government borrowing, with no idea of how to pay for it except for 'Future growth which is definitely going to happen even though we have no idea where it's actually going to come from'.

Still, as I said the other day, at least we know where Truss stands, she's absolutely unapologetic about what she's doing and why she's doing it. Unlike Johnson who would say anything at all, to anyone, just to get through the next hour or day or week, Truss is driven by ideology and a belief that what she's doing will work, so at the next general election voters will have a clear choice.

I note dunover's ecstatic reaction above, which reminds me very much of his giddy delight at Johnson's amazing Brexit deal - (it's still in the Brexit thread, I'll spare his blushes and not exhume it here, but it's safe to say it hasn't stood the test of time very well) - and I am quite sure that this AMAZING MINI-MASSIVE BUDGET will also age like milk on a hot day, just as Johnson's Brexit deal did.

Anyway, time will tell, all we can really do is watch.

 

[dunover]

There was a time a Conservative government would have considered betting an entire country's economy on a thoroughly debunked economic model (SPOILER ALERT - THIS ISN'T GOING TO WORK) was, dare I say, rather reckless.

Let's call it what it is, it's a budget by the wealthy, for the wealthy. The better off you already are, the better off you're going to be. Those towards the middle or the bottom are expected to be happy with any scraps that may (or may not....) fall off the table.

The markets certainly didn't like it, and I'm not surprised, considering this is a huge and uncosted increase in government borrowing, with no idea of how to pay for it except for 'Future growth which is definitely going to happen even though we have no idea where it's actually going to come from'.

Still, as I said the other day, at least we know where Truss stands, she's absolutely unapologetic about what she's doing and why she's doing it. Unlike Johnson who would say anything at all, to anyone, just to get through the next hour or day or week, Truss is driven by ideology and a belief that what's she doing will work, so at the next general election voters will have a clear choice.

I note dunover's ecstatic reaction above, which reminds me very much of his giddy delight at Johnson's amazing Brexit deal - (it's still in the Brexit thread, I'll spare his blushes and not exhume it here, but it's safe to say it hasn't stood the test of time very well) - and I am quite sure that this AMAZING MINI-MASSIVE BUDGET will also age like milk on a hot day, just as Johnson's Brexit deal did.

Anyway, time will tell, all we can really do is watch.

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I have to laugh at your hypocrisy in using these one-day graphs. These arise as a result mainly of rich speculators/investors and money traders' activities which you usually bemoan (and you recently called out in context of wholesale energy prices.)

It does however endorse my purchase of gold which is always good to have in times of inflation and money devaluation, plus it's traded in USD so that's a sixth positive whammy I forgot to mention yesterday. Labour and some markets may not like it, but they never liked Thatcher's strategy which proved after time to be one which lifted the UK out of the socialist doldrums of the 1970's and raised us steadily up the league of richest nations. People under 40-50 would not be aware of that.

It has generally been well received among businesses and taxpayers and has certainly benfited me and I'd guess many others on here. Obviously in your tax haven IoM you won't benefit yourself from most of it, so no need to get crabby ol' chap!

 

[interlog]

The Euro dropped against the dollar too yesterday showing a graph similar to the one posted a few posts up.

Well at least the traders and speculators will be making some money on it, and will look forward to their bonus next year that will be a massive one because of the cap that is proposed to be lifted on said bonuses. They can then finally be proper rich and make all the poor people in the UK their servants.

I predict that in a few years time people will emigrate to North Korea because that is the better country to happily live in.

 

[slot_zombie]

Have to say (as a lifetime Tory voter) the horseshit emanating from the current Government - no more windfall taxes, ridiculous borrowing, shoving more money and tax cuts at already rich folk - is somewhat dispiriting. All very reckless, and against the national interest. Putting future unborn generations into crippling debt.

They won't get the "growth" they are looking for because the structure of the economy is moribund and the people tired, mostly broke and unmotivated. They'll just add fuel to inflation and pad some peoples' bank accounts.

But the answer isn't useless Labour. I'll die before I ever vote for a woke red rosette.

Officially politically homeless now.

 

[interlog]

Have to say (as a lifetime Tory voter) the horseshit emanating from the current Government - no more windfall taxes, ridiculous borrowing, shoving more money and tax cuts at already rich folk - is somewhat dispiriting. All very reckless, and against the national interest. Putting future unborn generations into crippling debt.

The opposite of that is to tax the rich more and then give it to the poorest. That has been tried before (during the Blair era) it only resulting in people being better off on benefits then working.

No easy answer to the current situation this country (and many others across the world) find themselves in.

 

[slot_zombie]

The opposite of that is to tax the rich more and then give it to the poorest. That has been tried before (during the Blair era) it only resulting in people being better off on benefits then working.

Agreed we don't want to go down the route of more handouts. How about tax the rich more and pay off some of our national debt instead of constantly adding to it. Thinking long-term instead of the next 12 months?

 

[interlog]

Agreed we don't want to go down the route of more handouts. How about tax the rich more and pay off some of our national debt instead of constantly adding to it. Thinking long-term instead of the next 12 months?

I guess that something needed to be done to give the population something so that they can pay their energy bills and soften the effect the inflation has. That something will create debt unless just like Gordon Brown did you start selling assets to fund this (the famous selling of gold when it was at its lowest price).

It naturally is going to benefit those that always paid more tax more than those that pay not as much tax. Some seem to have a problem with this.

You piss the rich too much off, and they will go elsewhere or find even more ways not to have to pay tax. Then what? Who is going to fill the gap of the taxes that they paid?

I certainly wouldn't want to be in the position this Government is in. Dammed if they do, dammed if they don't. You can't please everybody all of the time I guess.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

The whole thing is economically incoherent nonsense, it's going to be an absolute shitshow for most people, but you certainly can't accuse Truss of not appealing to her base, this is essentially a massive bribe to well-heeled Tory voters. Whether there are enough of them to carry her through the next general election as everything burns down around her remains to be seen.

I'm no fan of Thatcher but she did at least have an actual plan, albeit a lot of it relied on flogging off (on the cheap!) the UK's assets to rapacious capitalist interests, the problem there is you can only sell something once, and there's nothing left now, because the Tories have cleaned out the UK's cupboards.

There is no decent evidence at all that enriching those at the top (which is explicitly what Truss is doing) leads to any significant sort of 'trickle-down' effect. Moreover, in times of economic turbulence when the rich get more money they either save it or buy up assets with it, they don't do anything economically productive with it.

The small tax cuts that will feed through to those on more modest means will be gobbled up (and then some) by rampaging inflation and interest rate increases.

Even the energy price cap which allegedly 'helps everyone' is basically just an interest bearing loan that the UK taxpayer will have to pay back, so Truss is essentially just lending you your own money and charging you more for the privilege, whilst funnelling some £150bn straight into the pockets of the energy companies.

One thing I will say though, is that she has very clearly nailed her colours to the mast, everyone can see exactly who she is, what she wants to do, and how she wants to do it.

Unfortunately, many millions of people are going to suffer the consequences of that.

 

[Mr_Slot5]

The ideal scenario would have been to encourage wage increases (rather than explicitly say they’re bad for inflation and shouldn’t happen), and to attempt to cap the price of day to day living elsewhere so that inflation is negated somewhat.

It’s possible but you’d piss off some rich people…

What has been announced is awful. I read on the BBC site that someone earning £50,000 per annum would be better off over the YEAR by about £850. That’s going to have about as much effect as attempting to heat your home with a cigarette lighter.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Clues seem to be available.....

 

[interlog]

Clues seem to be available.....

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[ChopleyIOM]

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Yes I'm sure he's had nothing whatsoever to do with the hedge fund or anyone involved with it ever since.

Moreover, for the actual Chancellor Of The Exchequer to have been working for a hedge fund that routinely makes a killing betting against the UK, and not that long ago either, just seems, y'know, fundamentally wrong to me?

It's the same hedge fund that made a fortune betting against the UK over Brexit too.

 

[interlog]

Yes I'm sure he's had nothing whatsoever to do with the hedge fund or anyone involved with it ever since.

Moreover, for the actual Chancellor Of The Exchequer to have been working for a hedge fund that routinely makes a killing betting against the UK, and not that long ago either, just seems, y'know, fundamentally wrong to me?

It's the same hedge fund that made a fortune betting against the UK over Brexit too.

Well unless he is not declaring it, the current score on the doors is that he has no financial interest whatsoever

"Not that long ago" - it is 11 years ago by my calculation, a long time in politics

You are just seeking some tenuous link, probably digged up from some "I do hate tories with a passion" lefty publication/twatter post

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well unless he is not declaring it, the current score on the doors is that he has no financial interest whatsoever

"Not that long ago" - it is 11 years ago by my calculation, a long time in politics

You are just seeking some tenuous link, probably digged up from some "I do hate tories with a passion" lefty publication/twatter post

There's also the fact that Crispin Odey donates shitloads of money to the Tories on a regular basis.

Whichever way you slice it, Kwarteng used to work for a hedge fund that routinely bets against the UK, now as Chancellor the pound lost 4% of its value in a day following his 'budget that isn't a budget', and the same hedge fund made yet another killing, betting against the UK. The owner of the hedge fund routinely donates large sums of money to the Tories.

All complete unconnected, I'm sure, nothing to see here!

 

[interlog]

All complete unconnected, I'm sure, nothing to see here!

Correct, let's move on (CLUE: you won't)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Correct, let's move on (CLUE: you won't)

As the old saying goes, 'There is none so blind as he who will not see'.

If I were a betting man (and I have been known to have the odd gamble here and there....), I'd say there's going to be a lot more of this stuff falling out of the woodwork in the weeks and months to come, Truss and Kwarteng are exercising disaster capitalism so that their friends and donors can swoop in afterwards to scoop up the remains on the cheap. They've got two years to ransack the UK before they most likely lose the next general election, so they've essentially just planted a big FOR SALE sign on the UK's front lawn.

Reports coming out in The Times now (so hardly a lefty pinko rag) of what we can expect to be seeing very much more of.

 

[dunover]

Unfortunately, many millions of people are going to suffer the consequences of that.

Makes you wonder why the invaders and bogus refugees are still swarming across the channel then......

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Makes you wonder why the invaders and bogus refugees are still swarming across the channel then......

Dunno man you tell me, Brexit fixed that stuff didn't it?

 

[dunover]

Dunno man you tell me, Brexit fixed that stuff didn't it?

Well who would flee the cheap-energy, low-inflation economically sound EU states to come to this UK disaster zone? We know it's not ignorance, as to a man they know the minutiae of our immigration/asylum system and how best to try and circumvent it, therefore surely they must be aware of how terrible things are here via their smart phones? I mean there's plenty of people like you on antisocial media to keep them informed, isn't there? I'm a bit confused here.....

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well who would flee the cheap-energy, low-inflation economically sound EU states to come to this UK disaster zone? We know it's not ignorance, as to a man they know the minutiae of our immigration/asylum system and how best to try and circumvent it, therefore surely they must be aware of how terrible things are here via their smart phones? I mean there's plenty of people like you on antisocial media to keep them informed, isn't there? I'm a bit confused here.....

Well I'm slightly confused as to how we've ended up with another BLOODY IMMIGRANTS polemic, when the topic of conversation was the increasingly obvious corruption in the new Truss administration and their massive siphoning of money from the poor to the rich, like the world's worst ever Robin Hood.

I know it must be very disappointing that Brexit has failed on every single level, up to and including its single headline advertised feature of stopping all those BLOODY IMMIGRANTS coming across the channel, but we've got a Brexit thread already, and I'm the one who's accused of making 'everything about Brexit'.

Here's a soothing image that will hopefully take the edge off things a bit, I trust you will find some solace in a man who was as right about Brexit as you were.

Next up on the playlist is how Truss and her disaster capitalists fucked the UK economy, plenty of time to work on the apologist rhetoric and how it would all have been far worse under Labour something something Corbyn something something dinghies.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Story breaking in The Times today, it's increasingly looking like a load of disaster capitalists and hedge fund types knew what was coming in Kwarteng's 'Not A Budget', i.e. they'd been tipped off, and many of them had adopted short positions on the pound ahead of the announcement.

We already know for a fact Kwarteng used to work for a hedge fund that routinely bets against the UK to make money, but I'm sure he hasn't had anything to do with any of those people ever since honest guv'nor, they just happened to know what was in his announcement the other day before he made it.

There's a word for this, it starts with 'corr' and ends with 'uption'.

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[Kroffe]

Its impossible, there are rules against insider trading so it cant be happening.
To even suggest something shady could be going on without any hard evidence is crazy, its like saying the moon is made out of cheese.

Or at least that is what some people would say.
Welcome to team-cheese, Chopley, glad to have you.

 

[TheAddict]

Has any of the past 5 PMs, or US presidents for that matter, actually followed through with any significant promises they made which got them votes? (Obviously I'm referring to the public promises they made, not the ones that they would have made and kept to their largest campaign doners).

Vote left to accelerate the destruction of society, or vote right and take the scenic route.
Every year, it's everywhere. The left and right, blaming the current puppet of the other side for being full of shit, as if the past doesn't exist in that moment.


Democracy?

 

[dunover]

Labous show their true colours, the Corbynista element they are trying to hide, the marxist infiltrators waiting to emerge should Stormer win in 2024...

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[ChopleyIOM]

Labous show their true colours, the Corbynista element they are trying to hide, the marxist infiltrators waiting to emerge should Stormer win in 2024...

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Certainly grasping the bigger issues facing the country at the moment there dunover, please do keep your beady eye out for more important news.

If you hear of a Labour MP who once accidentally overstayed in a parking bay one time back in 2006, for example, we'd all like to know about it.

 

[dunover]

Certainly grasping the bigger issues facing the country at the moment there dunover, please do keep your beady eye out for more important news.

If you hear of a Labour MP who once accidentally overstayed in a parking bay one time back in 2006, for example, we'd all like to know about it.

Yes, there was one called Gordon Brown, parked up in 2008 at Westminster and overstayed by nearly 2 years. Had to pay an enormous fine for it, did it with discounted gold bars apparently.

 

[interlog]

Story breaking in The Times today, it's increasingly looking like a load of disaster capitalists and hedge fund types knew what was coming in Kwarteng's 'Not A Budget', i.e. they'd been tipped off, and many of them had adopted short positions on the pound ahead of the announcement.

We already know for a fact Kwarteng used to work for a hedge fund that routinely bets against the UK to make money, but I'm sure he hasn't had anything to do with any of those people ever since honest guv'nor, they just happened to know what was in his announcement the other day before he made it.

There's a word for this, it starts with 'corr' and ends with 'uption'.

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Even a lay person like me could see this coming. The windfall tax was never going to happen, borrowing was going to increase to put measures in place to attempt to kick start the economy and put money in peoples pockets.

Don't need to go to some swanky dinner with fancy food on my plate that will fly off if I were to sneeze to be part of that club

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Even a lay person like me could see this coming. The windfall tax was never going to happen, borrowing was going to increase to put measures in place to attempt to kick start the economy and put money in peoples pockets.

Don't need to go to some swanky dinner with fancy food on my plate that will fly off if I were to sneeze to be part of that club

Congratulations, you must have made a fortune then!

It's slightly amusing that the Tories were telling us for a decade of austerity that government spending had to be massively slashed and taking on debt would be hugely irresponsible and the type of thing only those crazy Socialists in the Labour party would do and they'd crash the economy as a result.

Now here we are with massive amounts of fresh government debt, largely uncosted and with no plan to pay it back (except with magical unicorn growth that no serious economist believes is going to happen), and all to give a huge bung to the rich.

So it turns out the Tories do have a magical money tree after all, but only when they're making their mates richer, if it's providing stuff for normal people, then the tree strangely stops bearing fruit.

Still, I'm sure it'll all trickle down.

 

[interlog]

Congratulations, you must have made a fortune then!

It's slightly amusing that the Tories were telling us for a decade of austerity that government spending had to be massively slashed and taking on debt would be hugely irresponsible and the type of thing only those crazy Socialists in the Labour party would do and they'd crash the economy as a result.

Now here we are with massive amounts of fresh government debt, largely uncosted and with no plan to pay it back (except with magical unicorn growth that no serious economist believes is going to happen), and all to give a huge bung to the rich.

So it turns out the Tories do have a magical money tree after all, but only when they're making their mates richer, if it's providing stuff for normal people, then the tree strangely stops bearing fruit.

Still, I'm sure it'll all trickle down.

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I don't do forex trading so nope....

The point I was making is that the £ was always going to tank. No corruption to be seen here