Daniel Hannan: No, the pound isn’t crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It’s because the markets are terrified of Starmer.
Daniel Hannan: No, the pound isn’t crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It’s because the markets are terrified of Starmer.
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Even the comments on Conservative Home don’t believe it. In fact many of them give very detailed rebuttals based on actual knowledge of the markets.
Nothing indicates ‘bad take ahead’ more than seeing Daniel Hannan’s name under a headline.
Fucking hell, can the conservatives stop blaming their ineptitude on bacon butty eaters, boring leaders, leaders from 12 – 20 years ago.
Never heard of him before, but he sounds like a right tosser.
Before the brexit referendum, he wrote an article about what life would be like if we leave
The opposite of every single one of his predictions have come true.
Politicians are wired to be buoyant rather than ground in reality
Holy shit. I’m pretty liberal, but it’s clearly time to regulate copium as Class A.
Ah so we’ve out of road on “the last Labour government” and now we’re onto pre-blaming the next Labour government.
The Tories are about to go full Trump aren’t they?
No longer is it enough to blame The Last Labour Government™, we must blame The Next Labour Government™ who are at least two years from power.
This is top, top comedy. Truly class.
Let me just see if I can unpack this.
1. Starmer is worse than the devil himself (apparently)
1. The Tories are so incompetent that people will vote Labour, despite the devil incarnate running them
1. This is all Starmer’s fault.
Still “The next Labour government…” is a welcome change from “The last Labour government…”
What I find really concerning about this narrative is how cynically effective it is. Whenever the Tories do something awful the polls will swing to labour, so the timing will always be there that they can blame a prospective labour government rather than the issues at hand. Re the economy a lot of people don’t understand things well enough to determine who is right out of the IMF spokesperson and the treasury spokesperson. This is also a little soundbite on a plate that people can easily repeat and tell their mates or family. It also aligns to everything the MSM have been telling us about Labour for some time (eg Corbyn is dangerous).
As fucking ludicrous as it is, I’m really concerned about this line taking hold.
This guy has always had terrible takes – remember when he went on Fox News to advocate privatising the NHS?
I think you could just listen to his advice and do the opposite and it’d always work out well.
One day I’d love to wake up and see a Tory take responsibility for their parties actions.
why is this down voted? its completely barmy but heck its not offensive and the more people who see this dross the better.
This clown probably believes he’s a genius coming up with this.
Anyone with even a modicum of critial thinking can safely conclude this gent is a complete fucking idiots idiot.
Not happy with blaming previous Labour governments, Hannan is blaming future governments for his lots’ ineptitude.
Can we please start some sort of a hashtag blaming random shit on Hannan like “Hannan made my lightblub break” and “Hannan made me trip spill coffee all over myself” to mock him for this? Perhaps #ItWasHannan ?
Fucking hate these titles. So obnoxious. Accelerate this shit, I’ve had enough
Screaming Lord Hannan must be really feeling the cost of living crisis if he has to write this stuff for money.
That’s another level of crazy , no wonder the markets have dwindling confidence if this is what Conservatives are thinking.