“Sources close to Mr Kwarteng said he was….‘high on adrenaline’ throughout the night.” lol
They’re being kind. Most people would drop the “useful” part.
These Tories have run the country into the ground. We have the highest tax burden in years and yet living standards have plummeted to the point where it’s now commonplace to go to a food bank or avoid being home to avoid putting the heating on. Widespread blackouts expected despite higher bills on top of billions of £s given to energy companies. This guy sees what the average person is going through, shrugs it off and tries to impress bankers instead. They laugh behind his bank. He laughs behind ours. This is all just mortifying.
I wish I was a useful idiot instead of just an idiot. At least I’d be wealthier.
> he went to a financier’s Chelsea mansion where he is said to have been ‘egged on’ to commit to his £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts.
So it was just a bunch multi-millionaires shouting, ‘do it, do it, do it’.
Well they are talking about the guy who conflates productivity with number of hours worked.
He shouldn’t be trusted to run a bath let alone the country’s finances. What a fucked up country this has turned to since 2010.
Tories just having gotta spine between them snivelling little weasels
Poor Kwasi he wanted to be in the club with the cool kids, so he acts the fool so they will keep him around.
They are laughing at you, not with you.
Would certainly agree with the categorisation of “ useful idiot”. He’s proved himself to be an idiot in less than a few days as chancellor. He’s useful as an example of someone promoted well beyond their level of competence. This chap would make a good office junior somewhere making cups of tea for people who actually know their jobs and are good at it.
As Alistair Campbell says why isn’t anyone referring to him as KamiKwasi
Of course! He’s a greed driven, and power hungry useful idiot, and he’s in the Tory cabinet – universally recognised as the epicentre of useful idiots.
You just know Kwasi was the type of kid who hung around the popular folk and let them bully him just so he could feel ‘popular.’
Imagine being in a position of power and still being that insecure? Embarrassing.
Then what, they all spunked on a £20 note and he deposited it in his mouth?
I think Bert and Ernie would win an election against these two.
He was definitely the kid the tagged along with the popular kids and was shit on for doing so lol
Here we go. The briefings are starting its clear that Truss is about to sack him to protect herself
It’d be a real shame for Kwarteng if that nickname stuck. Useful idiot.
Nepotism: Check
Elitism: Check
Fascism: Check
Profiteer: Check
The perfect Tory.
Guy Fawkes was a flawed guy, but he did have one or two good points….
The interesting thing being that “useful idiot” is a phrase coined by Stalin iirc
This is just sad. It’s like a kid in school accepting bullying so he can hang out with the cool kids. Except… it’s not sad because he’s shorted the country and we’re paying for it.
So the narrative being that it wasn’t Liz Truss’s fault but Kwasi who tanked the economy?
So the one thing that I and the investment bankers agree on is that he’s an idiot
Yet people sit on Reddit and cry all day without doing fuck all. If you all cared so much do what the French do and fight. Riot with extreme violence. It’s been proven so many times that fear makes people act, scare them into acting.
I am not sure what is worse an actual idiot in charge or someone who at least is aware of what they are doing in the short term in hopes they know how to semi reverse it and not leave the country fucked.
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There is clearly a short term profit scheme going on.
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Frankly I think to intentionally short the pound and crash the markets to make a profit against your own economy should be considered treason. This is beyondpolitical ideology, this is criminal, this is insider trading, this is fucking grotesque.
I’m pretty sure he’ll be hung out to dry by those financiers who are quite happy reaping the benefits but certainly not with people knowing who they are.
Yes and Truss is his useful idiot. So she’s a double idiot.
The thing that pisses me off is that at least corrupt politicians in other countries know their place in the scam, and ensure they use their leverage.
Corrupt politicians in Russia, Sudan, Venezuela etc know that they’re a conduit to suck wealth from the public, and they ensure they get their fill. Millions to offshore bank accounts, private jets, fancy cars.
But the stupid fuckers in the UK allow the exact same asset stripping in return for a fucking open bar? What’s the point of fucking the nation if you barely personally benefit from it? At least hold out for a fucking Rolls Royce or something.
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Be corrupt properly or not at all. It honestly pisses me off that Kwarteng can’t even get that right.
It really sounds like he’s the nerd at school getting egged on to bully the fat kid.
There’s a few hedge fund managers who’ve made a fortune from the mini budget.
I really want to believe everything will work out and British democracy will come out of this rough patch stronger than ever, but with things like this going on, I honestly can’t.
What meaningful democracy can there be without accountability? And we have neither meaningful accountability in our political system nor the realistic scope for any.
The worst thing the electorate can do to a corrupt MP is to vote them out and thereby shunt them on to a consultancy non-job where they’re paid way more than they were as an MP just to point out the loopholes in the crooked legislation they wrote as MPs. That’ll show them…
Under Corbyn, for all his other faults, Labour was fierily anti-Tory enough that there was a realistic prospect of him holding corrupt Tories to account as PM. There is no such prospect under Starmer’s Labour, certainly not now that he’s let still-openly-ideologically-Tory Tories infiltrate the party.
IMHO, British democracy will never stop being in danger unless every single crooked Tory politician of the last 12 years, from councillor to PM, has a brutal example made of them (legally) for their corrupt practices. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time until another Tory government gets in and, emboldened by the lack of consequences for the brazen corruption of the last lot, pick up where they left off.
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“Sources close to Mr Kwarteng said he was….‘high on adrenaline’ throughout the night.” lol
They’re being kind. Most people would drop the “useful” part.
These Tories have run the country into the ground. We have the highest tax burden in years and yet living standards have plummeted to the point where it’s now commonplace to go to a food bank or avoid being home to avoid putting the heating on. Widespread blackouts expected despite higher bills on top of billions of £s given to energy companies. This guy sees what the average person is going through, shrugs it off and tries to impress bankers instead. They laugh behind his bank. He laughs behind ours. This is all just mortifying.
I wish I was a useful idiot instead of just an idiot. At least I’d be wealthier.
> he went to a financier’s Chelsea mansion where he is said to have been ‘egged on’ to commit to his £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts.
So it was just a bunch multi-millionaires shouting, ‘do it, do it, do it’.
Well they are talking about the guy who conflates productivity with number of hours worked.
He shouldn’t be trusted to run a bath let alone the country’s finances. What a fucked up country this has turned to since 2010.
Tories just having gotta spine between them snivelling little weasels
Poor Kwasi he wanted to be in the club with the cool kids, so he acts the fool so they will keep him around.
They are laughing at you, not with you.
Would certainly agree with the categorisation of “ useful idiot”. He’s proved himself to be an idiot in less than a few days as chancellor. He’s useful as an example of someone promoted well beyond their level of competence. This chap would make a good office junior somewhere making cups of tea for people who actually know their jobs and are good at it.
As Alistair Campbell says why isn’t anyone referring to him as KamiKwasi
Of course! He’s a greed driven, and power hungry useful idiot, and he’s in the Tory cabinet – universally recognised as the epicentre of useful idiots.
You just know Kwasi was the type of kid who hung around the popular folk and let them bully him just so he could feel ‘popular.’
Imagine being in a position of power and still being that insecure? Embarrassing.
Then what, they all spunked on a £20 note and he deposited it in his mouth?
I think Bert and Ernie would win an election against these two.
He was definitely the kid the tagged along with the popular kids and was shit on for doing so lol
Here we go. The briefings are starting its clear that Truss is about to sack him to protect herself
It’d be a real shame for Kwarteng if that nickname stuck. Useful idiot.
Nepotism: Check
Elitism: Check
Fascism: Check
Profiteer: Check
The perfect Tory.
Guy Fawkes was a flawed guy, but he did have one or two good points….
The interesting thing being that “useful idiot” is a phrase coined by Stalin iirc
This is just sad. It’s like a kid in school accepting bullying so he can hang out with the cool kids. Except… it’s not sad because he’s shorted the country and we’re paying for it.
So the narrative being that it wasn’t Liz Truss’s fault but Kwasi who tanked the economy?
So the one thing that I and the investment bankers agree on is that he’s an idiot
Yet people sit on Reddit and cry all day without doing fuck all. If you all cared so much do what the French do and fight. Riot with extreme violence. It’s been proven so many times that fear makes people act, scare them into acting.
I am not sure what is worse an actual idiot in charge or someone who at least is aware of what they are doing in the short term in hopes they know how to semi reverse it and not leave the country fucked.
​
There is clearly a short term profit scheme going on.
​
Frankly I think to intentionally short the pound and crash the markets to make a profit against your own economy should be considered treason. This is beyondpolitical ideology, this is criminal, this is insider trading, this is fucking grotesque.
I’m pretty sure he’ll be hung out to dry by those financiers who are quite happy reaping the benefits but certainly not with people knowing who they are.
Yes and Truss is his useful idiot. So she’s a double idiot.
The thing that pisses me off is that at least corrupt politicians in other countries know their place in the scam, and ensure they use their leverage.
Corrupt politicians in Russia, Sudan, Venezuela etc know that they’re a conduit to suck wealth from the public, and they ensure they get their fill. Millions to offshore bank accounts, private jets, fancy cars.
But the stupid fuckers in the UK allow the exact same asset stripping in return for a fucking open bar? What’s the point of fucking the nation if you barely personally benefit from it? At least hold out for a fucking Rolls Royce or something.
​
Be corrupt properly or not at all. It honestly pisses me off that Kwarteng can’t even get that right.
It really sounds like he’s the nerd at school getting egged on to bully the fat kid.
There’s a few hedge fund managers who’ve made a fortune from the mini budget.
I really want to believe everything will work out and British democracy will come out of this rough patch stronger than ever, but with things like this going on, I honestly can’t.
What meaningful democracy can there be without accountability? And we have neither meaningful accountability in our political system nor the realistic scope for any.
The worst thing the electorate can do to a corrupt MP is to vote them out and thereby shunt them on to a consultancy non-job where they’re paid way more than they were as an MP just to point out the loopholes in the crooked legislation they wrote as MPs. That’ll show them…
Under Corbyn, for all his other faults, Labour was fierily anti-Tory enough that there was a realistic prospect of him holding corrupt Tories to account as PM. There is no such prospect under Starmer’s Labour, certainly not now that he’s let still-openly-ideologically-Tory Tories infiltrate the party.
IMHO, British democracy will never stop being in danger unless every single crooked Tory politician of the last 12 years, from councillor to PM, has a brutal example made of them (legally) for their corrupt practices. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time until another Tory government gets in and, emboldened by the lack of consequences for the brazen corruption of the last lot, pick up where they left off.