It’s amazing just how quickly that the collective memory is changing to “Boris wasn’t that bad really….” I wonder what odds you can get for his being the Tory leader at the next election?
She’s U-turned of the 45p rate. Can she now U-turn on banker’s bonuses, refusing a windfall tax, destruction of worker’s rights, and everything else I am forgetting because I’ve got had enough coffee yet.
Let’s just call it. She had her fun at our expense, let’s get her out and a general election in so we can get some sense into this 12 years of shitshow.
Was listening to James O’Brian earlier. I had no idea liz appointed that absolute dickhead to education minister.. 🤯 wtf! Gullis is education minister….WTF!!! Coffee as health and bravaman is Home Secretary…. Is this a fucking nightmare??? Someone punch me and wake me up please!
Between 2013 and April 2022 benefits were increased by a cumulative total of 8.6%.
Cumulative inflation over that time totals 38.5%.
Before 2013 the benefit increase was linked to inflation, so they’ve already effectively cut benefits by 22%.
Senior tories defending benefits and spending? Is that how bad Truss and her plans are?
The Conservatives have become completely detached from reality, one assumes because the people who still vote for them are detached from reality.
It’s down to the media of course.
She needs to go already, infact just junk the lot of them and start again.
Penny Mordaunt – In an interview with Times Radio, the cabinet minister said she had “always supported” keeping pace with inflation and it “makes sense to do so”.
*always*
“Penny Mordaunt voted to cap any increase in specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1%”
I think they will quit the tory party and go to labour or independent if around 40 to 50 do this mini budget will be defeated
It’s not a ‘benefits squeeze’ it’s a cut in transfer payments.
Your regular reminder that if you live in a Tory constituency, email your MP.
Kick her and the rest of the fucking narcissists the fuck out
Sad we can’t actually have a General Election. We’re a Pseudo Democracy at the moment with an unelected nutter as PM we can’t get rid of
She doesn’t care about the poor the helpless the destitute. A vampire irl
I’m waiting for BoJo to come swinging in from the back benches to offer to rescue the UK if only the 1922 committee re elect him
Those are my policies, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
That’s not very Tory, I wonder if she’s being led like a lamb to the slaughter house just to get a bump in polling. Tories don’t traditionally talk about benefits, they prefer to make benefit cheats the main talking issue.
Increase tax on the top 5%, close corporate tax loopholes and increase tax threshold to £14k. Increase Universal Credit by £20 per week as was the case during covid and boost state pension.
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The economy is dependent on people spending if you cut benefits people who are already having to drastically tighten the purse strings will have to cut their spending even more. The places they spend tend to be the places that employ the largest percentage of working class poor (Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco…ect. Inadiquate minimum wage is another argument). These companies will see a drop in revenue and respond with store closures and layoffs leading to more people on benefits unable to spend money and it just cascades from there.
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Its ok though im sure the MPs will vote themselves a nice pay rise.
lmao no she’s not… the tories have been doing that for years, it’s because the media is turning on them and the news media is what people use to vote for tories
Every decision this cabinet seems to make is actively against the best interests of the nation. How can we have a government who is sabotaging the foundations of society? I work in the public sector and I can assure you, it’s already on its arse after 12 years of austerity. This will kill people.
Even the Tories know that austerity & cuts won’t fly in 2022.
Makes you wonder what they can actually stand for anymore since they’ve lost the argument on the economy.
Culture war stuff, I guess.
As an outsider, I didn’t think anyone could be worse than Boris Johnson. I was wrong. The country that had the largest empire ever known to man is imploding before our very eyes.
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It’s amazing just how quickly that the collective memory is changing to “Boris wasn’t that bad really….” I wonder what odds you can get for his being the Tory leader at the next election?
She’s U-turned of the 45p rate. Can she now U-turn on banker’s bonuses, refusing a windfall tax, destruction of worker’s rights, and everything else I am forgetting because I’ve got had enough coffee yet.
Let’s just call it. She had her fun at our expense, let’s get her out and a general election in so we can get some sense into this 12 years of shitshow.
Was listening to James O’Brian earlier. I had no idea liz appointed that absolute dickhead to education minister.. 🤯 wtf! Gullis is education minister….WTF!!! Coffee as health and bravaman is Home Secretary…. Is this a fucking nightmare??? Someone punch me and wake me up please!
Between 2013 and April 2022 benefits were increased by a cumulative total of 8.6%.
Cumulative inflation over that time totals 38.5%.
Before 2013 the benefit increase was linked to inflation, so they’ve already effectively cut benefits by 22%.
Senior tories defending benefits and spending? Is that how bad Truss and her plans are?
The Conservatives have become completely detached from reality, one assumes because the people who still vote for them are detached from reality.
It’s down to the media of course.
She needs to go already, infact just junk the lot of them and start again.
Penny Mordaunt – In an interview with Times Radio, the cabinet minister said she had “always supported” keeping pace with inflation and it “makes sense to do so”.
*always*
“Penny Mordaunt voted to cap any increase in specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1%”
(https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24938/penny_mordaunt/portsmouth_north/divisions?policy=6674)
(https://news.sky.com/story/politics-news-live-kwarteng-u-turn-45p-tax-liz-truss-12593360?postid=4582528#liveblog-body)
I think they will quit the tory party and go to labour or independent if around 40 to 50 do this mini budget will be defeated
It’s not a ‘benefits squeeze’ it’s a cut in transfer payments.
Your regular reminder that if you live in a Tory constituency, email your MP.
Kick her and the rest of the fucking narcissists the fuck out
Sad we can’t actually have a General Election. We’re a Pseudo Democracy at the moment with an unelected nutter as PM we can’t get rid of
She doesn’t care about the poor the helpless the destitute. A vampire irl
I’m waiting for BoJo to come swinging in from the back benches to offer to rescue the UK if only the 1922 committee re elect him
Those are my policies, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
That’s not very Tory, I wonder if she’s being led like a lamb to the slaughter house just to get a bump in polling. Tories don’t traditionally talk about benefits, they prefer to make benefit cheats the main talking issue.
Increase tax on the top 5%, close corporate tax loopholes and increase tax threshold to £14k. Increase Universal Credit by £20 per week as was the case during covid and boost state pension.
​
The economy is dependent on people spending if you cut benefits people who are already having to drastically tighten the purse strings will have to cut their spending even more. The places they spend tend to be the places that employ the largest percentage of working class poor (Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco…ect. Inadiquate minimum wage is another argument). These companies will see a drop in revenue and respond with store closures and layoffs leading to more people on benefits unable to spend money and it just cascades from there.
​
Its ok though im sure the MPs will vote themselves a nice pay rise.
lmao no she’s not… the tories have been doing that for years, it’s because the media is turning on them and the news media is what people use to vote for tories
Every decision this cabinet seems to make is actively against the best interests of the nation. How can we have a government who is sabotaging the foundations of society? I work in the public sector and I can assure you, it’s already on its arse after 12 years of austerity. This will kill people.
Even the Tories know that austerity & cuts won’t fly in 2022.
Makes you wonder what they can actually stand for anymore since they’ve lost the argument on the economy.
Culture war stuff, I guess.
As an outsider, I didn’t think anyone could be worse than Boris Johnson. I was wrong. The country that had the largest empire ever known to man is imploding before our very eyes.