The Conservative Party

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

The food banks should be state funded then they might get off their arses and help the lower end of their people , it is a disgrace that food banks have to exist at all

Dont know if you noticed from BBC this morning .... Food banks are now called Community Kitchens

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I for one am glad for the Tories. I'm starting a masters this year and their tanking of the economy means that my course is now gonna cost the equivalent of around 1200 quid less than it did when I applied.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Is said when kwasi was appointed my expectation was I would be living in a skip by christmas, now I feel more confident this may be true

That’s more like it!
Spending you tax-cut money on providing business to a skip-hire company.
Well done!

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

You can afford a skip ?

Luxury!

 

[Gabriel]

Not wrong though.

Not at all, I was just giving a little context. He’s been the MP there since 2010 and is young, 51, so less likely to be losing his seat. I wouldn’t say they’ll be breaking ranks in the coming days, as they’re hardly in ranks at the moment, but as the markets react and analysts pick holes in what’s been ‘delivered’, I would expect more like Smith to raise their concerns publicly.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Black Monday V2 coming after the weekend?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Not at all, I was just giving a little context. He’s been the MP there since 2010 and is young, 51, so less likely to be losing his seat. I wouldn’t say they’ll be breaking ranks in the coming days, as they’re hardly in ranks at the moment, but as the markets react and analysts pick holes in what’s been ‘delivered’, I would expect more like Smith to raise their concerns publicly.

To be honest - some disent would not suprise me. Reasons being

1 - most MPs did not back LT and for many (the new BJ intake) this will be there first experience of being shafted by the ERG + brexit lobby, for others its the latest in a long line of being done over by the loonies.

2 - many will see recent polling + this and think I have no chance of winning if this continues. Why not try to generate change. There is not much time and things look to be getting worse.

3 - the group that backed Sunak will be on whats app tonight - you can imagine the messages.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Is this all to make us move to Russia to replace their dead when our country runs out of money?

 

[threespires]

Other countries would have declared general strikes and took to the streets.

It's seem Stockholm syndrome has taken hold.

Was about to post pretty much this. France would have seen large scale riots well before now. You have to wonder where the tipping point here is.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Is this all to make us move to Russia to replace their dead when our country runs out of money?

No it's the chance for a couple of years for the extremely rich to make a killing, I await their windfall trickling down to me :-)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

No it's the chance for a couple of years for the extremely rich to make a killing, I await their windfall trickling down to me :-)

Will it be in rubble or roubles though? ;-)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Was about to post pretty much this. France would have seen large scale riots well before now. You have to wonder where the tipping point here is.

When ITV can‘t afford to make Love Island.

 

[A57 the snake]

Kwarteng being asked by a reporter regarding the fall of the pound , I don’t comment on the markets was his reply!!! WTAF fella your the chancellor for fooks sake !! What oh what have we got going on. I wouldn’t trust him to mark the board on a game of darts.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Was about to post pretty much this. France would have seen large scale riots well before now. You have to wonder where the tipping point here is.

I think it will be when Ant & Dec get taken off air for being too political.

 

[hilts]

That pay back to the Tory members who voted for her was certainly swift and handsome.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Will it be in rubble or roubles though? ;-)

By the time it arrives at my door probably that worthless it might as well be the Arminian Grote

 

[hilts]

Was about to post pretty much this. France would have seen large scale riots well before now. You have to wonder where the tipping point here is.

Us Brits have been known to vigorously tut on occasion though.

 

[Don Karleone]

Was about to post pretty much this. France would have seen large scale riots well before now. You have to wonder where the tipping point here is.

I just did a really loud "tut" AND shook my head.

 

[hilts]

Us Brits have been known to vigorously tut on occasion though.

I just did a really loud "tut" AND shook my head.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Yeah the benefit to me is in the NI change (circa £1k a year better off). I'm not in the additional rate bracket so no gravy there for me.

The thing is they claim that they are reducing tax to help grow the economy but surely if its that simple you can adjust any band and generate the same effect. The obvious question for them is what is it about people earning over £150k a year that made them want to target them, to reduce their tax, to help the economy. Why not tinker with the basic rate?

Income Tax rates and bands

Band	Taxable income	Tax rate
Personal Allowance	Up to £12,570	0%
Basic rate	£12,571 to £50,270	20%
Higher rate	£50,271 to £150,000	40%
Additional rate	over £150,000	45%

And don’t forget Sunak froze the rise in personal tax allowance until 2026, usually it went up by about £3-400 a year, so we are still fucked at the bottom.