Tory Leadership contest 2022
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Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Has anyone given any thought as to where she'll live once she's kissed Brenda's boney old fingers? Al Johnson refused to leave his offical residence when he was fired as FS for being lazy and incompetent, and I see no reason why things would be different this time.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Neither seem keen to say why we have to pay so much tax through our fuel costs at the pump or why our gas/electric bills cant be controlled and lowered (like other countries). And why our state pension is lower than just about everywhere.
Self serving cunts
Self serving cunts
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Sunak has really lurched right in his doomed bid to win the Surrey Golf Club Set hasn't he? Slash income tax, deport more immigrants, roll back human rights, anti-trans and anti-gay dog whistles.
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www.bloomberg.com
news.sky.com
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Tory leadership race: Rishi Sunak vows to stop 'woke nonsense and left-wing agitators' in latest pledge
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
johnson's next grace and favour home will be on coffin top
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
not the people who create the wealth then
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Again, a useful insight into the perception that the PCP have of their membership.
I guess that they can only win this vote by speaking to the very most rabid nutcases that this country can produce. Once in office, they’ll have to have somewhat more of an eye to addressing the other 48,800,000 of the total 48,900,000 UK voters.
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
yes, same policies but phrased in a more pleasing manner.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yes, the whole protracted, televised selection spectacle acts as yet another opportunity to shift that Overton window a bit further to the right.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Both Loopy Lizzie and Rishi Rich are making ever more ridiculous promises trying to win over the party membership, whichever one of them wins will have to tone it down once they get the job and have to deal with this difficult problem called reality.
I'm waiting for the frothing loonspuds to start complaining that Truss (probably) isn't doing anything she promised.
I'm waiting for the frothing loonspuds to start complaining that Truss (probably) isn't doing anything she promised.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Didnt she famously search out the most expensive restaurant food to feed herself and her office staff and then claim it all as expenses, I bet her snout is permanently twitching at the thought of troughs to come
Supine
Newt Member
Almost. She wanted to go for an expensive meal (£1300) but her staff / civil service advised her against it. She did it anyway.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Food for office during lockdown was the one I vaguely recall, cba to google
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Nor bus drivers, bin men, nurses, firefighters, railway workers, posties etc etc etc. They should do the right thing, by fucking off working to keep society running and just try and get into the 'appropriating surplus value' game instead.
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steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
What’s the point of having a vote? Everyone bar Larry the Cat & Barbara Cartland via ouija board has backed Truss.
William Hague has backed Sunak which all but guarantees he’ll lose. Looks like Rishi may have lots of time to count his money on the back benches soon.
William Hague has backed Sunak which all but guarantees he’ll lose. Looks like Rishi may have lots of time to count his money on the back benches soon.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Absolute insanity of cutting pay outside the south east as a policy.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Own goal surely? It's stuff like this that will hopefully sink the Tories.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The total civil service pay bill is £9Bn. Truss states that she can save £8.8Bn by imposing regional pay, where the poorer the area you work the lower the pay.
Leaving aside the fact that the next PM doesn't appear to be able to add up, the move to establish low pay zones is highly significant. The only way Truss can deliver £8.8Bn in savings (presumably to fund tax cuts) would be to attempt to impose regional pay on all public sector workers including the NHS, Local Government, education and government staff.
Leaving aside the practical and obvious flaws of the policy which is largely nonsensical in the real economy, as a political idea - when public sector unions are moving towards industrial action ballots over pay - it does appear that one effect of PM Truss would be to speed up the conditions necessary for some kind of general strike in the Autumn. A generalized attack on the pay of 6 million workers as the latest round of energy price increases takes effect would be interesting to put it mildly.
Again, the importance of the RMT winning its dispute is clear. The calculation was always to isolate and defeat the RMT first - a win for the RMT changes the dynamic for everyone else. Also clear is the need for a wave of disputes in the private sector to open up a second front against the Tories and to disrupt the flow of capital. Labour will no doubt oppose both the proposal to impose lower pay in poor areas and oppose any attempts to actually prevent it, so will be largely irrelevant to the battle lines being drawn.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
May be what she's hoping for - cue incessant headlines from the right wing rags on Unions being the Enemies of the People so we need to elect a tory government to counter it.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Liz Truss U-turns on plan to cut public sector pay outside London
Tory leadership frontrunner scraps plan for regional pay boards after outcry from Conservatives
That went well.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Truss might want to be Thatcher, but even Boris Johnson's ideas lasted a few days before crumbing on contact with reality and maths.Liz Truss U-turns on plan to cut public sector pay outside London
Tory leadership frontrunner scraps plan for regional pay boards after outcry from Conservatives
That went well.
As for her suggestion that her comments have been misrepresented:
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
Oh dear. The ballots go out today don't then?
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
A self-inflicted blow by Truss undoubtedly and further evidence that the Tories really have reached the shite stained bottom of the barrel in terms of 'ideas' (or more accurately old failed ideas repackaged). But, she's still going to win.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Looks like Truss has been taking PR lessons from Dorries.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
even boris johnson lies better than that
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