The Conservative Party

[shemnel]

To the you will not own anything thread!

yeah i saw that thread, but it was a bit all over the shop, but i suppose it does belong there!!

 

[Saddleworth2]

A year ago (more?), a fringe conspiracy theory did the rounds that the Conservative government wanted to destabilize the UK economy enough so that it could basically wipe the slate clean and start anew, with more idealised neolib ideals. Pesky hangers on from the welfare state (benefits seen as 'generous', human rights convention, the NHS etc) could be erased and blamed, and new systems put in place. The current system was just too hard to change. (Harder versions of this viewpoint exist, incorporating cashless societies in which centralised digital currencies can control what you spend money on, but that is getting a bit out there).

The disaster capitalism you see before you is merely the free-for-all capital grabbing during this period of 'collapse' (more like severe downturn, in reality) by opportunistic and greedy people.

So, when i look at the sheer mind-boggling incompetence of the incumbent govt, it makes me at first shake my head in disbelief but then secondly makes me suspicious. How can a set of educated people be so apparently dumb or non-reactive. Because they dont want to be? sadly, and this is on my head i know, the conspiracy theory outlined above lurches in from the fringes, even by just a little bit.

Brexit was the required framework in which to remove as much outside interference as possible as various insane fiscal choices are made. The IFS now think Britain's borrowing is unsustainable, the speed with which trade deals, or indeed much positive economic news at all, is happening has dried to a trickle. When you look at it all, you cant help but feel there might be a kernel of truth in the whole thing, that the Conservative Party would love to tear up the economic law book and start again, on pure Neolib terms. The desire to be more like the US system pervades UK politics (and has for years), so it should not come as a surprise.

I feel we have been frogs getting boiled for some years. However, it feels like the temperature has been turned up 5 degrees in the last few months. What will it take for the English electorate to say enough is more than fucking enough.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Don't think they'll find many lefty's on Fylde Coast.

Lots of NIMBYs though.

 

[mat]

yeah i saw that thread, but it was a bit all over the shop, but i suppose it does belong there!!

I read the shock doctrine when it came out. The predictions made about disaster capitalism now seem like they were used as a guide for doing it.

 

[bobmcfc]

So what are these tax cuts going to look like ? Breaks for anyone over £60k and fuck the rest of us ? Interest rates up, energy bills double than what they were last year, food prices through the roof

 

[joe123]

I'm curious as to how lifting the fracking ban is going to work out when there was only four sites. Most people in Fylde are opposed to it and even our local MP (conservative) Mark Menzies is speaking out against it today.

Nobody wants it.

My mum and dad live in Blackpool and it will be interesting to hear what that spineless bootlicker Scott Benton (their MP) has to say.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It’ll be interesting to see how the pledge of a same day GP appointment can be met without having extra GPs.

Am I missing something, or have GPs just decided to make people wait 6 weeks for an appointment for no reason?

 

[kaz7]

Absolute shit show she is , coffey that is , promised loads, some already happens , no new money

My surgery is several drs and nurses down , i dont have a gp as mine retired after nearly dying of covid , unless she can magic up lots of staff for my surgery alone she can fuck off with her empty promises

 

[bluejon]

It’ll be interesting to see how the pledge of a same day GP appointment can be met without having extra GPs.

Am I missing something, or have GPs just decided to make people wait 6 weeks for an appointment for no reason?

It's complete bullshit from Coffey. She doesn't know what she's doing, she just says things that sound good with zero substance or plan to back them. For starters, it might be a good idea to have a health secretary who isn't also deputy PM.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

I'm curious as to how lifting the fracking ban is going to work out when there was only four sites. Most people in Fylde are opposed to it and even our local MP (conservative) Mark Menzies is speaking out against it today.

Nobody wants it.

Hopefully that means that the blue rinse brigade that live in Lytham and the Fylde will hold it against the Tory Party at the next election .