Rishi Sunak’s time is up!
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Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Clearly a troll, still there’s always the chance he becomes a nice snack for a Red Sea shark
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
On the plus side of the balance sheet it means we can rein in the runaway expenditure that the global rise in penguin feed costs led to
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Etiam magnus canis debet salire turpis una die
bimble
floofy
this country 
www.theguardian.com
they're going to win again at the next GE arent they.
Voters choose Sunak’s Tories over Labour to repair economy, new poll reveals
Rishi Sunak’s arrival in Downing Street is already helping to rebuild the party’s reputation for financial management
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
this country
they're going to win again at the next GE arent they.Voters choose Sunak’s Tories over Labour to repair economy, new poll reveals
Rishi Sunak’s arrival in Downing Street is already helping to rebuild the party’s reputation for financial management
It's an 'anyone but Truss' bounce and I doubt it will last. It's another cabinet of fuckwit no-hopers and the road to 2024 is strewn with landmines, most of them of the tories' own making.
ska invita
back on the other side
...while theres no opposition theres definitely a chance
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Don't like the phrase 'return to austerity' though, because it implies that austerity ended at some point, which I don't recall happening.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
The government response to COVID was crap, it was neoliberal, but it could hardly be described as an implementation of austerity - not unless you are just using austerity as a synonym for shit.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I'm thinking more about the Osbourne-era cuts to the NHS, schools, local authorities etc etc. None of those have been reversed.
ice-is-forming
I was born naked, shameless & fucking outrageous..
gosub
~#
Sweeper in football parlence
elbows
Well-Known Member
My big picture thinking on this stuff is dominated by a long, messy energy transition this century. It has many faces such as climate change, but it also involves periods where the action is to be found in energy prices, limits to growth, recessions and demand destruction. Austerity in this country is about how those periods are managed, about who is protected and who is left exposed, about where the heaviest demand destruction falls. The famous wave of austerity was in response to the high oil prices and the financial crisis which caused a recession and suppressed growth, keeping demand below the production ceiling and adjusting borrowing to be a slightly better fit for the future that would actually exist as opposed to the one that had previously been imagined.
Now we've had another wave of high energy prices, with the anticipation of recession looming large, and this time also the stuff with inflation and interest rates. Another austerity round will follow again in this country.
This wave probably wont be the last of these we see this century either. Some of these things are probably unavoidable, even with massive parallel action on the positive side of the transition (clean renewable sources of energy on the supply side). However that still leaves plenty of political choices as to how a country chooses to shield certain groups and sectors or leave them exposed to carry the heaviest burden during these periods. And so there are all sorts of ways we should criticise austerity and demand better, but even the idea there is actually a choice about the details of how we cope and adjust will likely be suppressed in this country due to the cold nature of our establishments calculations. Demand destruction is handled in a horrific way in this country.
gosub
~#
Do you not remember that bit where everyone had a roof over their head and most people got looked after? Cost a bit though , ended up paying heroes with culanary purcussion
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
This pisspoor Daily Express already claims Sunak is "in crisis" and that MPs are drafting letters of no confidence in him. Presumably wingnuts like Andrew Bridgen and Peter Bone on the hard right of the party.
No, I'm not linking to a far-right source but it's out there.
No, I'm not linking to a far-right source but it's out there.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Aaaaaaaaaand we're back to business as U-sual 
Rishi Sunak is now going to COP27 climate summit
Downing Street had argued the prime minister was too busy preparing for the budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
ska invita
back on the other side
Breaking: Man goes to meeting
...but now with less credibility. Everyone knows he'd rather be elsewhere, so every 'commitment' will be greenwash.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Presume he'll turn up late and spend most of the time on his phone. Probably sending government documents to his family WhatsApp group.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Hasn't taken long for it all start going to shit has it? Braverman and now the cop27 uturn. Both utterly avoidable fuck ups.
Not really the sure footed safe pair of hands he was being made out to be. Just not quite as chaoticly incompetant as the rocket powered loon in a shopping trolley that was liz truss.
Not really the sure footed safe pair of hands he was being made out to be. Just not quite as chaoticly incompetant as the rocket powered loon in a shopping trolley that was liz truss.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
The government u turns so often they're just going in circlesAaaaaaaaaand we're back to business as U-sual
Rishi Sunak is now going to COP27 climate summit
Downing Street had argued the prime minister was too busy preparing for the budget.www.bbc.co.uk
maomao
普費斯
Braverman wasn't avoidable because if he hadn't put her in charge of killing refugees the nutters would have backed custard face.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
With Cruella as dog-whistler in chief ...
And of course they can't be called racist because ....
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David Clapson
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He was always going to Cop. The dithering was stage-managed pitch-rolling for the the budget.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
About time.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
He won't answer the question about his wife's Russia connection.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
That is an answer to the question but it won't do him any favours
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