Mini Budget aka Fiscal Statement

[SueEllen]

Labour 33 points ahead.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/29/labou...ster-17476900/

The Labour party has jumped ahead of the Conservatives in the latest polls with the biggest lead since the late 90s when Blair came to power.
According to a YouGov poll Sir Keir Starmer’s party is 33 points ahead.

It is thought to be the largest poll lead enjoyed by any party with any pollster since the late 1990s.

Data shows just 37 percent of 2019 Conservative voters said they were planning to stick with the party.

[SueEllen]

That was the case with 50% tax rate in place - none of of the above requires more than a modest amount of council tax, which has gone up a lot too

Council tax pays for education and social care of local people. These two things cost a lot. Or haven't you ever looked at the paper that comes with your council tax demand?

[AtW]

When you are emptying your own refuse bins, dodging rubbish and dog tulip on the pavement

That was the case with 50% tax rate in place - none of of the above requires more than a modest amount of council tax, which has gone up a lot too

[SueEllen]

I thought it was the opposite? They said they would rob us a tiny bit less.

When you are emptying your own refuse bins, dodging rubbish and dog tulip on the pavement, having to change your car to an SUV, and can't stop at traffic lights, then yep you will feel richer behind your gated home with security guards.

[hugebrain]

It's not a mistake. It's a smash and grab robbery while the pubic stand and watch. Any other country's citizens would be out on the streets protesting.

I thought it was the opposite? They said they would rob us a tiny bit less.

[SueEllen]

We seek him here, we seek him there and he's finally come out of hiding. Apparently we are having a "conversation" about growth with this fiscal statement.

Truss came out earlier today to speak to about 20 local radio stations as she didn't want a grilling. She failed to reaiise that local radio is a stepping stone to national radio.

[vetran]

Boris has long been a party favourite, biding his time so I think it's likely he would have had a chance.

We could have had the dregs of the Labour party instead - oh sorry not enough voters were that stupid.

I wonder how Comrade Magic Grandpa would have dealt with Russian aggression oh yes

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...arming-ukraine

Jeremy Corbyn has urged western countries to stop arming Ukraine, and claimed he was criticised over antisemitism because of his stance on Palestine, in a TV interview likely to underscore Keir Starmer’s determination not to readmit him to the Labour party.

“Pouring arms in isn’t going to bring about a solution, it’s only going to prolong and exaggerate this war,” Corbyn said. “We might be in for years and years of a war in Ukraine.”

Corbyn gave the interview on Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based TV channel that has carried pro-Russia reporting since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“What I find disappointing is that hardly any of the world’s leaders use the word peace; they always use the language of more war, and more bellicose war.”

Against that Camermoron, Maybot and Bojo look plausible.

[d000hg]

If the vote in 2016 had gone the other way, it's very unlikely the dregs of the Tory party would have risen to the top.

Boris has long been a party favourite, biding his time so I think it's likely he would have had a chance.

[quackhandle]

It's not a mistake. It's a smash and grab robbery while the pubic stand and watch. Any other country's citizens would be out on the streets protesting.

No, we save our anger for twitter when a celebrity says a nawtee word.

qh

[Paddy]

I personally can't believe they managed to feck it all up this badly with one statement. I mean they have what like 50 financial / economic advisers in the government, so surely they were all against this "mini" feck up. How could you be so stupid to then go ahead anyway and crash the market, then go and hide in some hole for a week? anyone doing this anywhere in a normal job would get sacked immediately and here we are with the effects now most likely propagating into the property market and causing all sorts of feckery, yet those two muppets responsible are still in power.

It's not a mistake. It's a smash and grab robbery while the pubic stand and watch. Any other country's citizens would be out on the streets protesting.