Gnasher

"Vintage"

Yep.

Oh dear,

Go girl, she's hitting an allnighter.

Couldn't have happened to a better cunt,

Johnson; phones mps from holiday to assure them he's a changed man and is no longer lazy, disinterested and disingenuous. Fly's home and starts telling lie after lie once landing on the tarmac.

Beat me to it Angry, just posted it in the other thread. It doesn't look that bad really imo I vaguely remember the day they unveiled it and some comedian open a stall selling eggs to chuck at it and the police came and closed it down. The fella said Thatcher would've loved his free enterprise.

Sunak has shown his, as has Mordaunt.

Nice to see some things never change. Heres the BBCs top political commentator following in the footsteps of his predecessor by spouting whatever bullshit the Boris Johnson camp tells him.

Zing.

Benefits for one. The health service for two.

I think they may have planned for Naddine Dorris to go to the Lords and Bonzo to take up her safe seat after she moves.

Agreed but they are now planning cuts which will go even deeper than Osbornes austerity blitz. As I've said pensions and benefits have risen with inflation, if they don't them devastation soon follows. A recent report (I've put it on here somewhere) said 2 million old people are living in poverty and 10,000 committed suicide last year. If someone gets old or loses his/her job they will need them payments to survive. High unemployment suits employers, the 3 million unemployed under Thatcher was a political choice. These cuts could also be felt more harshly because the country has so little left to cut.

I know the torys couldn't care about people who are at the bottom of the financial pile from a humanitarian angle. I am though suprised that they'll do something as contentious as attacking the triple lock etc politically I'd have thought the last thing they'd need is another Marcus Rashford type school dinner campaign over benefit/pension cuts. Remember the damage when Susanna Reid flagged up the pensioner taking buses to keep warm? It's a hellava battle to fight, especially as the social cost becomes more and more visible.

True but the pledge to rise benefits/pensions in line with inflation has up untill now been kept. Its beginning to look like they're softening us up for another period of Osbourne style deep austerity. In practical terms Tory manifesto pledges on pensions/benefits etc look soon to be broken, if not this year then next. The only logical reason is a political one (it makes zero sense for the country's financial wellbeing) which will result in higher employment so making labour costs cheaper whilst weakening union negotiating power. Similar to the disastrous trick Thatcher tried to pull in the early eighties.

Today's edition of economics for dummies brings a Whitehall warning cutting welfare payments by not increasing them in line with inflation will plunge the UK into deep recession. Why, why, why, are our politicians even thinking along these lines? Beside the financial hit, the cost, just in social terms will result in utter devastation for local buisnesses and communities. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/23/whitehall-fears-hunts-spending-cuts-could-tip-uk-into-deep-recession

More more can they ask for?

Could have done with a bit of that down Nottingham yesterday. Bit more peaceful at Chesterfield.

"Somewhere the party never ends and greedy hands rub together again, drinking on the profits that they've stolen"

Bore off.