Energy bills: Liz Truss ‘rules out’ more direct help for all

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  1. Someone needs to take her back to the nursery she escaped from and let the adults do the talking, if the Tory party can find anyone that’d fit that qualification

  2. I have consulted my base and best advisors and decided the best I can offer is…. Burn your dead and eat your young.

    Liz Truss

  3. I’ve seen the other articles which have said targeted support is out of the question too as it will take too long, so really this article is “lizz truss will give no support, other than tax cuts which will increase inflation and knacker the working class even harder”

  4. I hate this country. I really do. And i’m taking the opportunity to say so now before they can detain me under Prevent for saying so.

  5. Inflation at about 13%, interest rates on mortgages looking at being up to 4% higher than a year ago and an 80% rise in fuel bills after a 50% rise earlier in the year and her big idea is to cut 5% of VAT. People have no discretionary spending. A VAT cut isn’t going to help.

    As for tax cuts, in order to cushion the blow of these rises she’d have to increase the tax and NI threshold to about £25k. That would cover more than half the workforce and leave public services absolutely decimated.

    This woman is a fucking moron.

  6. I really like Liz Truss

    Everything she says and does seems to be designed to make sure people don’t vote for the tories at the next opportunity

  7. > A report in the Sunday Telegraph suggests she is looking at a “nuclear” option to cut VAT by 5%, saying it could save the average household £1,300 a year.

    The average household spends £26K a year on goods and services that have VAT on them…?

  8. Fine. We’ll come get it ourselves if that’s how you want to play it. If you don’t support your citizens during a crisis you’re an enemy force.

  9. The hope is that she is just playing to the ‘state aid is communism’ morons during hustings and will become more pragmatic when reality of the job punches her in the face.

  10. If that’s the case , I’ll close my bank account ,this is going to suck your money dry & fuck any other direct debits you have ,so you default is on a payment &the bank fines you for not having enough funds to cover it. This whole thing is a fraud

  11. All the true conservatives are just waiting now. They will reboot the party after the GE loss

    I don’t think it will matter, unless Labour go all out Animal farm I think they will be alright for a few terms

  12. I don’t think I’m going to work next year because 1. no one will have money to buy my products and 2. I don’t think I’ll have any businesses left to supply too.

  13. Did I miss something? Is she PM now? Cause that’s certainly the way all the media are painting her.

  14. Get out and Protest! They’re not joking, they are not going to lift a finger. The time for hoping it will get better is over.

  15. I give it until mid September when the reality of the job sets in and we get some really drastic action and U turns in policy. Idiocy is one thing but you’d really need to be a certified halfwit to leave things the way they are.

    She’s just playing to the minority – as if she needs to. She’s already promised an emergency budget when she gets in.

    Lying Tories, what are you gonna do

  16. She’s confirmed that she’s incredibly dim many times, but not she’s making sure we know she’s evil as well.

  17. Of course because the Tory Party Members are the only one who get to vote for the new PM and this appeals to them.

  18. I love how they still keep blaming the war in Ukraine. Yes some gas prices will rise, but Centrica who sell the wholesale gas to British Gas and onto use have made so far this year £1.3bil. Compared to last year they made £948mil and year before that £450mil ish. Tell me this is greed, pure greed.

  19. The VAT cut is a great idea. You lot will get 6p off your packet of biscuits and I’ll get £2m off my next super yacht

    Lap it up, suckers

  20. The mad thing is this will be seen as a good thing by the knuckle draggers who are going to vote for her in the leadership election.

  21. Choosing to indirectly help the rich instead, as if them avoiding paying as much tax as possible is what is going to save the economy from ruin.

  22. Her idea of lowering Vat will be pointless. You lower it 5%, but the price of everything has increase WAY more than 5%, so it’ll just be a slight discount on current prices, but still significantly more than we were paying in January.

    Our weekly shop has gone from £90 to £115, buying the exact same items. A tank of fuel in my car was £80 in July last year, now it’s over £120.

  23. She’ll U-turn, she’ll have to. First day at the office is going to be a bit like that Mitchell and Webb sketch with Karl Doenitz, “Here is our economic situation summed up in one rude word.”

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