Kwasi Kwarteng blames ‘pressure’ of Queen’s death for botched mini-budget

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  1. That’s a fucking awful excuse, absolute arrogance to not accept responsibility and to use her maj as an excuse.

  2. > And he said the scrapping of the 45p tax rate for top earners has merely been “postponed”, before correcting himself to say: “We have decided not to proceed with it.”

    Oops, that was supposed to be a secret

  3. imagine thinking this would make you look better, lol

    “we really hadn’t planned anything and when we did the damn queen died and we threw together a bad plan because of it”

  4. Right, that makes a whole lot of sense. It wasn’t like *any* other country and government had to deal with the death of QEII as its head of state.

  5. If the King wasn’t angry enough with the PM over blocking him from attending COP27, he will be now at the Chancellor using his dead mum as an excuse.

  6. We have a co-worker who comes up with the most outrageous excuses for mistakes/absences, when the Queen died we were speculating if he’d use it as his latest defence but he never had the cheek to do it…. but here’s the Chancellor of this Country, a man who’s decision making effects millions of lives, using it as an excuse in a similar vein to a kid claiming the dog ate his homework.

  7. Putting aside the death of a Monarch distracted him, he is clearly stating he can’t act in a high pressure environment. During a huge cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine, and severe communication issues between the bank of England.

    It sounds like this job might be too much pressure for him and resign.

  8. I’m no Monarchist but what an absolute disgrace Kwarteng is. It’s a weak person that shifts blame, but to use the death of someone to justify your own failings is both weak and frankly pathetic.

    The support base of the Tory party should be outraged far more than I. The Queen’s death to me was the passing of an elderly person who lived a good life, but for those who place great value in the institution this is an incredible insult.

  9. These Tories are always blaming other things for their own incompetence. First it was the EU, then it was the Remainers, then it was covid-19, now it’s the Queen’s death, now it’s the Queen’s come back to life as a rotting zombie, then it’s the Queen is trying to eat their brains but is having trouble finding them… One excuse after another.

  10. “Balderick what was that popping noise just now?”

    “The Bullshit detector… it just… couldn’t handle the amount of bullshit”

    “Dear god…”

  11. What an absolute scumbag to bring the Queen’s passing up as an excuse for sheer stupidity. What a disgrace.

  12. Mate, just do us all a favor and put your big boy pants on and resign if you can’t handle it. Otherwise, own it like a man.

    Piss take these people

  13. If he can’t handle the pressure because some old dear died, he is gonna have a really hard time when winter rolls in.

    But really if he can’t handle the pressure he should probably do something less stressful.

  14. The party of personal responsibility blaming someone else…..again.

    You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh!

  15. Well that comments going to go down *really* well with the older generation

    You know the people who the tories rely on for votes above anyone else

  16. Until these lying subhuman sociopaths can be bought to account for their actions, they’ll not only keep fucking the country over (or at least, everyone poorer than them) for personal gain, they’ll do even worse things.

  17. I wish I had the figure for how much Kwazis mini budget cost this country, then compare it with the £600 million Nick Leeson pissed away at Barings bank that he got 6 years in prison for… then maybe draw a comparison or something?

  18. the “I didn’t have enough time” (to do a proper job) excuse is such bullshit. He’s the chancellor for fuck sake. If he’s not ready, just postpone it. It’s not as if the whole fucking economy for 60+million people isn’t important or anything.

    Fucking waste of oxygen the lot of them.

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