The Conservative Party

[bluejon]

her style of taking long pauses before answering really makes it sound worse

it's almost as if she doesn't have a fucking scooby as to what she's talking about

 

[threespires]

There is a long established correlation between rising rates of mental distress and illness and neoliberal economics as practised in the UK, USA and Australia. For example, in Britain, apparently depression is the condition that is most treated by the NHS.

Even putting aside the human cost which they don't give a toss about, apparently the cost to the economy of mental health issues is estimated as at least 5% of GDP but is probably higher and is rising.

Depending on whose figures you take, NHS spending is about 8% of GDP, of which depending on the location anywhere between 10% to maybe 18% is spent on mental health, so let's say a generous avg of 15%. Which means that just over 1% of GDP is being spent on addressing something that is costing us a minimum of 5% GDP.

Someone make it make sense please. As you say there's evidence to show what can be done to avoid/address quite a lot of mental health issues, but its at odds with the ideology.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

If there is a change of course it will be because of lefty something or other.

Or Putin, who apparently is in charge of our economy.

 

[somapop]

Lefty Putin marxalamic ray guns are of course to blame....

 

[Elbow beards]

This and the other clips played this morning are shocking.
Sound like a Chris Morris radio edit (yes, including the dark humour only this time it's genuine).

I have to echo some of the comments above about mental well being.
I'd only started to really get myself back on track after a few tough years and I've genuinely been upbeat until quite recently. My tools and techniques for counteracting low moods are being stretched quite severely.

The utter fuck have we been led into.

I know what you mean, it's starting to get to me all this.

 

[threespires]

Unfortunately, Rory Stewart has been expelled from the party.

Can’t think of any others.

Great post, by the way.

Haven't done the maths but I assume it would take 12-15% of Tory MPs to start voting in the interest of the broader population by siding with the opposition to stop the most egregious activities. That this is a pipe dream shows you what a complete number they have managed to do on the Tory party.

 

[Bill]

I know a few well off, there mortgages paid off, all they have in life is to get angry about Migrants, Meghan and Transexuals

they will continue voting Tory

me that. except the Meghan and Trans bit, i don't care about either .

 

[Chippy_boy]

12 years in power.

Labour's mess inherited, public idiotically voting for Brexit, COVID, war in Ukraine amd 15x gas energy price crisis* Yep these things have sure taken their toll.

I suppose in your head, none of this counts.

(And yes the wholesale price has gone up 1,500% in the past year or so - I didn't believe it either)

 

[Brewster's millions]

You can almost here the marble dropping down .KerPlunk.

It’s truly horrifying listening to this. I still for the life of me can’t comprehend that this imbecile is our PM.

She’s been locked away for two days practicing all of this, her advisors no doubt doing their absolute best to bring her spiel up to a minimum standard that wouldn’t prove utterly embarrassing. But once she gets past the prepared glibness, she collapses like a sack of shit and runs out of ideas against a local radio presenter.

The classic giveaway is the redundant references to the Bank of England being independent and “setting interest rates”, simply parroting what little knowledge she possesses, rather what’s relevant. You can just imagine her being handed a few simple facts condensed onto the back of a post it note, with any attempts to absorb anything more meaningful proving well beyond her.

She could have referenced the temporary nature of the BoE’s actions, the success in bringing gilt yields down, the medium term strategy that will be laid out for the public finances. Moreover, it was important to make a commitment to fiscal prudence with the markets listening intently. But the best she can come up is this. I despair.

If the Tories keep her in power for more than a few weeks, it will be one of the biggest acts of political self-harm on record (even bigger than electing her in the first place, that is).

 

[Gogootz]

She's finally crawled out of her hole, after getting her arse handed to her 8 times in a row on local radio stations she shouldn't have bothered.