Rishi Sunak

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Also falling inflation does not mean the cost of living is reducing. Falling inflation means prices are still going up.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Also reducing inflation does not reduce the cost of living. Reducing inflation means prices are still going up.

yeah but he relies on people being stupid

 

[Brewster's millions]

yeah but he relies on people being stupid

Is there a person still walking the earth who doesn’t know that a low (lower) positive level of consumer price inflation means that prices are still rising?

Given how many people made the point in 2023 I’m not sure there is.

 

[BrianW]

I always worry about people who stress 'decisive action'. It was one of Adolf's favourite constructions.

What these people fail to recognise (and I'm not sure that Labour is that better) is that commands from the brain require all your nerves and muscles to work if they are to achieve anything. And we have been smashing those nerves and muscles for years, so they are all basically fucked. Any fool can promise to solve this and improve that. Getting it done is the hard bit - many of the mechanisms simply don't exist anymore, or have been slashed to a shadow of their former selves.

This is why, for example, Manchester Council has to pay stupid amounts of money to private sector consultants just to draw up a development plan for an area. Something which, in days gone by, their internal team would have done for peanuts. Still, never mind. Someone in the private sector is raking it in. See also school improvement.

 

[journolud]

Is there a person still walking the earth who doesn’t know that a low (lower) positive level of consumer price inflation means that prices are still rising?

Given how many people made the point in 2023 I’m not sure there is.

I imagine there are quite a lot

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Is there a person still walking the earth who doesn’t know that a low (lower) positive level of consumer price inflation means that prices are still rising?

Given how many people made the point in 2023 I’m not sure there is.

Thereby Sunak has said something in his New Year address which is plainly untrue and misleading.

Lying rat faced ****.

 

[BrianW]

To be quite honest, most people haven't a fucking clue about economics. Or indeed, many other things. So it's quite easy for politicians to give a varnished view.

Similarly, many people are absolutely fucking convinced we are 'better off' than Germany. This is something they have to believe, to justify their support of the ruinous Brexit. It's bollocks, as any reference to GDP/GDP per capita will prove, but they don't care.

People often believe what they want to believe. Not what is objectively true.

 

[Phil1]

Thereby Sunak has said something in his New Year address which is plainly untrue and misleading.

Lying rat faced ****.

Brewster doesn’t care one iota how much this government lies or treats the country with the contempt it does.
There is nothing that they can do, however bad that will make him hold them to account.
People are fucking weird.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Is there a person still walking the earth who doesn’t know that a low (lower) positive level of consumer price inflation means that prices are still rising?

Given how many people made the point in 2023 I’m not sure there is.

Sunak appears to be one of them - or a liar - take your pick

 

[bluethrunthru]

what sort of bellend claims that reducing the income to the education sector, reducing economic activity and isolating the country still further is an achievement worth boasting about

 

[kaz7]

what sort of bellend claims that reducing the income to the education sector, reducing economic activity and isolating the country still further is an achievement worth boasting about

Stopping kids bringing parents or their own families here to a new country is not a great policy , they just wont come and spend their money here

 

[Bodicoteblue]

what sort of bellend claims that reducing the income to the education sector, reducing economic activity and isolating the country still further is an achievement worth boasting about

Can’t wait for the day this human stick-insect is forced out of no.10.
This final act will finally see him comply with ‘the will of the British people’

 

[bluethrunthru]

Stopping kids bringing parents or their own families here to a new country is not a great policy , they just wont come and spend their money here

exactly - and from a man who says he wants to grow the economy - this is pure gammon wing populism in action.

 

[kaz7]

exactly - and from a man who says he wants to grow the economy - this is pure gammon wing populism in action.

I can only hope the country sees sense and votes this unelected twat out of office , i think my arse will be twitching on election day though !

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Rishi, tearing families apart, again.

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[Brewster's millions]

Thereby Sunak has said something in his New Year address which is plainly untrue and misleading.

Lying rat faced ****.

I would suggest that cost of living is a relative term, with inflation being set against your income growth. If not, the cost of living is practically always increasing, and the term loses meaning as a result.

Given that wages, benefits and pensions are now increasing in annual terms at a rate above inflation, then I don’t think it’s unreasonable to claim that the cost of living is declining or improving, even though it’s technically incorrect to say that. Apart from in January of course, when the CPI nearly always declines.

 

[bluenova]

I would suggest that cost of living is a relative term, with inflation being set against your income growth. If not, the cost of living is practically always increasing, and the term loses meaning as a result.

Given that wages, benefits and pensions are now increasing in annual terms at a rate above inflation, then I don’t think it’s unreasonable to claim that the cost of living is declining or improving, even though it’s technically incorrect to say that. Apart from in January of course, when the CPI nearly always declines.

Thank fuck for that.

I was looking at my energy bills, food costs, mortgage, and pension plan over the last couple of years and really starting to worry.

But your words have reassured me that everything is going to be ok :)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I would suggest that cost of living is a relative term, with inflation being set against your income growth. If not, the cost of living is practically always increasing, and the term loses meaning as a result.

Given that wages, benefits and pensions are now increasing in annual terms at a rate above inflation, then I don’t think it’s unreasonable to claim that the cost of living is declining or improving, even though it’s technically incorrect to say that. Apart from in January of course, when the CPI nearly always declines.

He was perfectly at liberty to use a form of words that accurately captured the position, which he did not. It’s not especially hard to achieve given the extensive resources at his disposal i.e. The UK Government.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Brewster doesn’t care one iota how much this government lies or treats the country with the contempt it does.
There is nothing that they can do, however bad that will make him hold them to account.
People are fucking weird.

That’s not quite true actually, as I was very critical of the mere concept of Truss being PM and I said at the time that Kwarteng’s behaviour around his mini-budget, and in particular who he was divulging details to, would have landed him in court if he was working in the private sector.

Personally I don’t have that many strong feelings around Sunak, chiefly because I don’t think he’s done a great deal since he’s been in office.

From what I can see on here, a large proportion of the shit that Sunak gets seems to be related to how he looks, which I think is unfortunate. Personally I think Starmer looks like a low to mid-ranking bank manager who has run off with his secretary (Rayner), but I tend not spend hours upon hours posting shit about him on his thread.