The Labour Party has said we shouldn't campaign during this period of mourning. Meanwhile the Tories have announced policies of allowing higher bankers' bonuses, allowing fracking and banning the Oxford comma.Would imagine that Starmer and Co. should be making hay with the fact that Truss is the only person remaining who sat in the Cameron cabinet, which means she can be easily tied to the last dozen years of decay. Labour, for me, have been far too slow to tie the economic mess directly to the Conservatives, perhaps because they are still embarrassed by the ‘no money left’ joke that backfired and don’t want to give the Conservatives a chance to recall it. The SNP have repeatedly used ‘a Tory Cost of Living Crisis’- Blackford does love that one, but Labour really ought now to be calling it a ’Conservative Living Crisis’ and pointing out that the Conservatives are unTRUSSworthy with the nation’s finances. These should be open goals, but, then again, Labour and open goals…
It didn't exhaust its talent pool. It cast the clever ones out for not being daft enough to think Brexit was a good thing.Not disagreeing with you, Mike. When a political party has been in power so long, it naturally exhausts its talent pool and runs out of new ideas, which is arguably where the U.K. finds itself.
That was probably a handover that was delayed too long, agreed. I still think that even if there hadn’t been the financial crisis, then Labour (like any long-serving government) would have struggled to reinvent and reenergise itself.I agree with you in part with the caveat that Brown was not the dog end of the Labour party and his demise was down to timing more than anything. Thank god we has him as PM during the financial crisis.
I was referring to before the ceasefire in hostilities.The Labour Party has said we shouldn't campaign during this period of mourning. Meanwhile the Tories have announced policies of allowing higher bankers' bonuses, allowing fracking and banning the Oxford comma.
(Now that's why you need the Oxford comma - did I mean they're allowing banning the Oxford comma? No. Nor that you are now allowed to frack the Oxford comma.)
To an extent, though some of the wiser ones opted out of their own accord. Parliament is poorer for their absence and the country (literally) is, too.It didn't exhaust its talent pool. It cast the clever ones out for not being daft enough to think Brexit was a good thing.
Because Truss is in the pockets of the ERG who are dictating this.EU has done a big windfall tax on the energy companies to pay for help for their people , meanwhile truss is running scared of them and we will pay for it later
Nope, these companies already pay a big chunk of tax on their profits. Truss wants to solve the energy crisis long term by encouraging them to invest, you don't do that by confiscating their profits.EU has done a big windfall tax on the energy companies to pay for help for their people , meanwhile truss is running scared of them and we will pay for it later
Two consecutive global crises, and one self-inflicted Brexit which has cut the growth they say they need. And they're borrowing to fund oil excess profits. The plan is clear all right. It's a Tory scorched earth policy. Not "there's no money left", but "we've borrowed all there is to borrow".So, the uncaring, hateful Tories do the right thing by protecting jobs and hard working families via the furlough scheme and price caps for energy bills, and now they're criticised for borrowing too much, can't really win can they? The plan is clear, protect the people of this country through two consecutive major global crisis events, and pay for it by growing the economy via tax cuts and providing incentives for businesses to locate here. Will it work? Fuck knows, but if the Tories are to lose at the next election they should do it after implementing Tory policies.