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Tory Leadership contest 2022

The Tory electorate is (I think) largely white old men residing in the South East so now that she's through the whole ordeal of getting the support of Tory MPs worried about their seats she obvs will be aiming her policies at that demographic.

Interestingly it's all a little vague about who these fuckwits are who are deciding our future for the next two years. I hope it's a fuckup but I suspect it won't affect anything.

So who are the Tory faithful? In contrast to the wider population, research indicates more than half are aged over 60, and they tend to be male residents of southern England. They are overwhelmingly white – at 97% – although ethnic minorities remain heavily underrepresented across all UK political parties.

 
Unsurprising that Coffey amplified those words. She herself has nothing but contempt for people who can't work, as we can see from her time as minister in charge of the DWP.
Good to know Truss is at least blatant about her own such contempt, even as she lies about caring for others.
yeh i've followed coffey's career with horrified fascination for some years and it's amazing how she can out-herod herod.
 
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.

It's not surprising Truss would come out with something as stupid as this. What is surprising is that, this late in the game, she still doesn't even have anyone working for her who will tell her how stupid it is.
 
It's not surprising Truss would come out with something as stupid as this. What is surprising is that, this late in the game, she still doesn't even have anyone working for her who will tell her how stupid it is.

The proposal has been directly lifted from a Tax Payers Alliance report that was put out earlier this week it appears. No fact checking, no sense checking either. Massive own goal by Truss and her team, but also revealing of where Truss is headed politically.

 
The proposal has been directly lifted from a Tax Payers Alliance report that was put out earlier this week it appears. No fact checking, no sense checking either. Massive own goal by Truss and her team, but also revealing of where Truss is headed politically.


Yeah, again someone should really be leaning over and explaining that the taxpayers alliance are a bunch of spittle-flecked cranks who may occasionally be useful as rent-free rent-a-gobs but who should not be used a source of actual policy.
 
Yeah, again someone should really be leaning over and explaining that the taxpayers alliance are a bunch of spittle-flecked cranks who may occasionally be useful as rent-free rent-a-gobs but who should not be used a source of actual policy.
to be fair they're nowhere as spittle-flecked as the unfortunate people who have the bad luck to meet them
 
The Tory electorate is (I think) largely white old men residing in the South East so now that she's through the whole ordeal of getting the support of Tory MPs worried about their seats she obvs will be aiming her policies at that demographic.

Interestingly it's all a little vague about who these fuckwits are who are deciding our future for the next two years. I hope it's a fuckup but I suspect it won't affect anything.



I think the one outcome of the tory leadership election about which we can be assured is that it will be a fuckup.
 
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when the alternative is sunak it's like a choice between treading in dogshit and catshit
You'd pick cat shit every time in that match-up. There's a lot less of it, they sort themselves out with it, bury it in whichever of their gardens they fancy and don't hang it in bags on trees for someone else to clear up.

So which one is which, re. Sunak and Truss in this simile?
 
You'd pick cat shit every time in that match-up. There's a lot less of it, they sort themselves out with it, bury it in whichever of their gardens they fancy and don't hang it in bags on trees for someone else to clear up.

So which one is which, re. Sunak and Truss in this simile?
I'm not sure, it changes from day to day
 
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